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Our top stories: The Welsh Conservatives and the EU referendum. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The leader of the party here, Andrew RT Davies, will campaign | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
He says he has given it a lot of thought. Now to make the man who | :00:09. | :00:27. | |
would be the Welsh Conservative First Minister says he has decided | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
to vote to leave. Llangollen welcomes musicians | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
from around the world. What do people who live there make | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
of remaining or leaving the EU? All I know about the no campaign | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
is Boris Johnson joined yesterday. That is all I really know | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
and I think everyone Pembrokeshire Council considers | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
charging owners of second homes They're doing well, but tonight | :00:42. | :00:57. | |
claims that thousands of children are at risk of leaving primary | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
school unable to read properly. With four days to go | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
until the Six Nations Wales check on the fitness | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
of key players. The good news, Jonathan Davies | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
is back in training. The leader of the Welsh | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
Conservatives Andrew RT Davies has tonight become the highest profile | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
politician from Wales to back the campaign for Britain | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
to leave the European Union in the forthcoming | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
referendum in June. Earlier, the Welsh Secretary, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Stephen Crabb, described a vote In a moment, we'll be getting | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
the view from Westminster. First to our political | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
correspondent Daniel Davies What are his reasons for wanting to | :01:49. | :02:06. | |
the? We asked his office this morning how he would be voting in a | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
referendum. I think a lot of people expected he would be voting to stay | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
in, the same as David Cameron. He kept us waiting, perhaps a little | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
bit like Boris Johnson, and then this evening, he said he would be | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
voting when the time comes in June for Britain to leave the European | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Union. He has leased a statement saying after a great year of | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
thought, I have decided I will be voting for Britain to leave the | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
European Union. It is my belief that our future will be best served as | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
part of a looser economic relationship with the European | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Union. That is despite David Cameron saying he would vote to stay in. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Welsh Secretary Stephen Dasher Stephen Crabb saying he would vote | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
to stay in. Andrew RT Davies clearly thinks the | :02:50. | :03:11. | |
opposite is true and he will be voting to leave the European Union. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
So a split in the Tory party on Europe just as the party is gearing | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
up for an assembly election. Yes, and their opponents tonight have | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
pounced on that. Plaid Cymru, Liberal Democrats and Labour | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
highlighting this difference of opinion in the Tory party. No secret | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
that there are differing views on Britain's membership of the European | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Union within the Conservative Party but coming as it does in the run-up | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
to the assembly election in May, you can expect their opponents to try | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
and make a yard of that. The Tories themselves would much rather | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
concentrate on that election in May. Mr Davies says that election will be | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the dip -- biggest assembly election since the assembly was founded in | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
1999 and it is an opportunity to kick Labour out. We have not had an | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
opportunity to speak to him tonight but I have spoken to notorious and | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
remember who will be voting to leave the European Union, Mark Isherwood, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
and I asked him what he made of those arguments that people said the | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
European Union has been good for Welsh farmers and the Welsh economy. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
There is a lot of scaremongering going along. There is a lot of smear | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
and sneer from some of the comments being made but it is vital that | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
whatever people's views are and whatever views they form, they are | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
based on facts rather than scaremongering. That is a simply | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
stick argument. I have heard it too often. I do not leave it will be the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
case if the people decide to come out of Europe. There we have it, the | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
view of one Tory semi-member. Most SME members here do not agree with | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
him. All the party leaders bar one would like to stay within the SME | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
members -- European Union. Well among Welsh Conservative MPs | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
in Westminster similar While the Prime Minister David | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Cameron was making his case to remain in the EU to the House | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
of Commons some of his backbenchers have explaining why they won't be | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
backing their leader. Here's our Parliamentary | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
Correspondent, David Cornock. This could be the biggest political | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
decision of our lifetime and the world wants to know. This patch of | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
grass opposite the Houses of Parliament has become a temporary | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
home to a media circus with reporters and TV crews from across | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
the probe trying to find out how Britain's politicians see this | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
country future. The dividing lines are becoming clearer. All 25 Welsh | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
Labour MPs back to remain calm. The European Union over 43 years has | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
delivered fantastic benefits for the British and the Welsh economy, a | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
great amount of regional funding has come into Wales. Hundreds of | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
thousands of jobs rely on it but I'll is it is very important from | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
the point of view of security. This referendum will see the Liberal | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
Democrats and Plaid Cymru on the same side as the Prime Minister. | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Were we to leave, what would happen to measures such as convergence | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
funding which has provided large amounts of money for the poorer | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
areas in West Wales and the valleys quest in Mark I think the short | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
answer is if we were to leave the European Union, we would not be able | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
to get those funds which have made a big difference in parts of Wales. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
But David Cameron faces a bigot challenge persuading his own MPs. I | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
will be voting to leave in June because I feel that Britain needs to | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
take back control of its borders and it needs to regain powers that we | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
have over time given away to Brussels and that was the strong | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
view that I was getting when I campaigned in the run-up to the | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
general election. The issue has split the 11 Welsh Conservative MPs. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
He is the forth publicly to back the leave campaign but six now say they | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
want to stay in, including the Wales Office minister Alun Cairns and his | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
boss. It was a difficult decision. There is no perfect easy and serve. | :07:21. | :07:29. | |
But for me what clinched the argument is with the package that | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
the Prime Minister has secured last week there is at least now clarity | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
about what kind of reform membership we have got the European Union. Not | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
everyone it is fair to say is fighting at a difficult decision. We | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
must do what is best for the British people and the people here in Wales | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
and I believe passionately and strongly that we remaining a part of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
this failing superstate is not in our nation 's best interest. | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Politicians are taking the lead in framing the arguments but on | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
referendum day in June, your vote will be just as important as theirs. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
So that's the view from Westminster, but what about those of us who'll be | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
We've been to Llangollen to see whether people there have made | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Once a year, Llangollen is transformed into a cultural | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
European Union, as competitors from this continent and beyond take | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
part in the International Musical Eisteddfod. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
In 2002, it even became a temporary Eurozone where businesses accepted | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Llangollen is a town regularly extends a hand of friendship | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
So does that colour the way its inhabitants would vote | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Have they made their minds or are they still very much confused | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
There are many ways in which the EU affects our daily lives. | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Here are just a few voters will have to consider. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
Stephen Johnson's family has run a dairy and sheep farm | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
He says he's been helped by EU subsidies in leaner times, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
but even he's not sure if either the leave or remain camp has | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
We don't know really what we are voting for. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
In some ways, it is easier to vote yes because we know really | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
what is going to happen in Europe, we will probably stay similar | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Voting no, it is going into the unknown really. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
This European Language centre in the middle of Llangollen teaches | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
English and offers work placements to people from all over the EU. | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
It's one of hundreds of organisations in Wales which rely | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
on European funding to operate, though it's argued that that money | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
would be replaced by the UK Government. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
I don't think there is enough public information about it | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
what the European Union fund in Wales and I think | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
if there was more propaganda about it then there would be | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
a better understanding of how much money is actually invested in Wales. | :09:42. | :09:55. | |
The way Europe funds farming and a range of other areas can be | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
confusing but when it comes to who decides how our own money | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
is spent the issues seem more clear cut. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
For me, it is better that Britain come out from the European Union | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
because Britain has paid a lot of money to the European Union | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
but I don't think it gets that much help from the European Union. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
I would be worried about defence if we leave. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
I don't know why people think we can manage on our own. | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
I think we are harking back to a past that does | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
We have not got any industries our own any more. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
The next four months will be crucial for both sides of the debate | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
to explain their positions to the undecided. | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
But for others, who've already made a decision, | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
Hospitals around Wales have tonight said they are experiencing very high | :10:40. | :10:52. | |
demand and are urging people only to visit emergency | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
Health officials say they are extremely busy, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
and some say patients are having to wait a long time before | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
Are we doing enough to improve our children's reading? | :11:01. | :11:14. | |
One campaign group fears 26,000 children in Wales are at risk | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
of leaving primary school unable to read properly. | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Save the Children says it's a national scandal an calling | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
What better way to start the afternoon van with some group | :11:22. | :11:39. | |
reading. From space adventures to Egyptian kings, pupils at this | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
school in Swansea are getting to grips with all kinds of topics. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Reading is fun. It is important to read because you can learn different | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
things that you do not even know. Because you can learn things | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
about... You can learn your words. The education watchdog said literacy | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
skills in Welsh primary schools have improved but those behind the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
campaign which aims to get everyone reading by the age of 11 are | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
concerned 26,000 children in Wales are at risk of leaving primary | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
school unable to read properly. The campaign group says children who | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
read well by the age of 11 are more likely to do better at school, | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
achieve more in exams and fare better in the workplace and is | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
calling for more to be done to ensure that all children in Wales | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
start secondary school as confident readers. It is not just saying the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
government needs to do this but we do in -- in four party leaders to | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
show they care about this and put this into their manifestos. We would | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
like the public to be behind that. And to build a sort of constituency | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
to say yes, this is a scandal and we all need to do something about it. | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
The Welsh Government says supporting literacy skills as a top priority. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Opposition parties say they also recognise big improvements are | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
needed. This school has many reading initiatives. It believes developing | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
a love of reading is key to improving standards. We try to | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
improve the -- involve these parents as well. The parents coming to learn | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
with their children. And we hold days such as world book Day where | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
homework tasks involve reading. We try to generate as much interest as | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
possible. For this young bunch, it is about getting through a paid at a | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
time. The challenge for everyone else is to make sure their next | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
chapter is even brighter. Ben Price reporting and if you want | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
to find out more about how Wales is different to the other nations | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
in the UK, including The "How Wales Works" series has | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
been running across BBC Wales TV and radio and online | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
at bbc.co.uk/walesnews. Just click on the "How | :13:55. | :13:55. | |
Wales Works" link. Still to come on the programme: | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Can Wales make it five wins in a row And in memory of those | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
who lost their lives at Verdun. The story of how trees from France | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
were planted in Wales. Wales Today has learned that every | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
council here with large numbers of holiday homes is considering | :14:15. | :14:26. | |
bringing in a special levy. A new act will allow up to a maximum | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
of double the council tax to be charged on second homes to try | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
and ease the problem of access But as Abigail Neal discovered | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
in Pembrokeshire, there are fears it As one of Pembrokeshire's | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
prettiest seaside towns, no surprise Tenby is a popular | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
choice for holiday homes, With home ownership increasingly out | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
of reach for those who live and work here, the council wants | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
to redress the balance. Matthew Bryant's family bought this | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
holiday home for their own private use 20 years ago but under | :14:57. | :14:58. | |
new plans, they could be charged We are contributing the same | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
as everybody else who owns a house If you are going to start doubling | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
it, well, you have got to say, you are using address, | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
we already contributing 100%, why are you trying to tax people | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
who are investing in this area? A new act coming in this April | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
allows authorities to charge up to an additional 100% council tax | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
on both second and empty homes. Figures seen by Wales Today show | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
there are more than 16,000 second homes across the country, | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
with a slightly less number Most second homes are in coastal | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
areas with Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire and Anglesey and Ceredigion having | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
the highest numbers. Gwynedd have said they are not sure | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
about this tax yet and want to wait to assess the impact, | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
so we asked the people of Pwllheli I would say it would probably put | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
people off because they would not come if they had to pay | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
twice what we pay. If they can afford to homes, | :15:58. | :16:09. | |
they can afford double the price. They have got beautiful hotels | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
and bed-and-breakfast. Just because they do not | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
have a house which is only used two weeks of the year, I do not think | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
that would stop anyone coming. Pembrokeshire Council say | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
they are not looking to damage the tourism industry | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
here because any second home which is officially let as a holiday | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
cottage would be exempt from this tax and at the moment, | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
that is roughly a third of them. With second home buyers also facing | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
a steep price in stamp duty this spring, some fear any extra tax | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
will deter investors. But with around 300 holiday | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
properties on their books, this agency thinks it | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
could actually increase numbers, as people try and avoid the charge | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
by turning their holiday home We have the rise of websites | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
like booking.com and they are taking a certain percentage of the business | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
away from us. What it might do is encourage people | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
to come to someone like us who can manage the property for them | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
and make them legitimise If that happens, it may | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
have the reverse effect for the Council, raising less, | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
not more, for affordable housing and that is a gamble they have | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
not yet decided upon. Senior managers at the BBC say | :17:19. | :17:32. | |
a representative from Wales should continue to be part | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
of its new management BBC Cymru Wales director | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
Rhodri Talfan Davies and BBC director of strategy and digital | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
James Purnell were giving evidence to the Commons' Welsh | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Affairs Committee. They were responding | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
to the recommendation of another group of MPs, which said | :17:45. | :17:45. | |
there should be no "specific" representative from Wales | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
on a proposed new BBC board. Wales' medical staff have been | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
assessing key players, with the game against France | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
in the Six Nations just After recovering from injury, | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
centre Jonathan Davies is back in training but wing George North | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
has been training in the centre, just in case Davies | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
isn't fit in time. But tonight, the biggest concern | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
is over Luke Charteris, The injury list for days before | :18:15. | :18:34. | |
Wales' Friday night showdown with the French. It may be a worrying | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
sight although medical staff are hopeful about the fitness of | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Jonathan Davies who won his 50th cap in the latest victory over Scotland. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
After missing this weekend 's game for Clermont Auvergne, the | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
experienced centre was back training this afternoon. He is an experienced | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
player. It will be great news when he comes through. The session this | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
afternoon, it is unfortunate the nature of an in dash weekend | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
Independent -- in between 6-nations games and it is the same for every | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
country. It is a difficult time and you hope and pray that the players | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
do not get injuries and unfortunately, we have, but little | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
bit short. Cory Allen would have been a ready replacement if needed | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
but was carried off with an ankle injury during Saturday's game | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
against Leinster. The medical team will be hoping for good news | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
following today's x-ray. But in the meantime, Rob Howley confirmed | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
George North was training at centre this morning. An option to play next | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
to Jamie Roberts if needed. Back to the injuries and there is still | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
doubt over Luke Charteris who continue his rehab from a knee | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
injury. Rhys Priestland took part in noncontact training earlier today, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
still recovering from a dead leg. As Warren Gatland and his squad in to | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
get their campaign going following one win and a draw. We were not | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
happy with the way we started against Ireland. Against Scotland, | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
we showed what we can do. We scored some decent tries and maybe still | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
left a few opportunities out there. Hopefully we can execute them a bit | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
better this week against France and hopefully come away with a good win. | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
France are unbeaten and seemed to have discovered some of that French | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
flair. Wales will be hoping for some good news on the injury front before | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Wednesday's team announcement as they aim to secure their fifth it | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
really roll over Friday night 's opponents. | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
Cardiff City go into their game against Middlesbrough tomorrow just | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
four points outside of the Championship play-off places. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
It's the first time they've done that in the league since 2012. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Manager Russell Slade described the win over Brighton as his side's | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
best performance since he joined the club 16 months ago. | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
Ronnie O'Sullivan is unsure whether he'll return to Wales next | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
month for Snooker's World Grand Prix in Llandudno. | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
He qualified by winning the Welsh Open last night, | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
but says he's already committed to an exhibition in Morocco. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
This is not what Welshman Bruce Tasker wanted at the weekend. | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
Despite skidding close to 70mph, his team mates emerged unscathed. | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
The crash ended their hopes of a first World Championships medal | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
for a British four-man bobsleigh team in 77 years. | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
They were 0.02 seconds off a bronze medal going into the final two runs. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Luckily they suffered just bumps and bruises. | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
They were the soldiers who died in the longest single battle | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
Now the Woodland Trust is looking for volunteers to trace the oak | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
trees from France planted here in memory of the fallen. | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
This week marks the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Verdun. | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
The Trust says, it's found some clues as to where the trees may have | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
German soldiers firing 2 million shells in the first eight hours | :22:05. | :22:18. | |
alone against the French but that was just the start. | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
The Battle of Verdun lasted ten months. | :22:22. | :22:22. | |
The single longest of the First World War, | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
up to 800,000 injured, missing or dead. | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
After the battle, someone thought of picking up a memento, | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Acorns like these and chestnuts brought back to Great Britain | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
by the likes of David Lloyd George, the Welsh Prime Minister | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
at the time, and now the hunt is on try and find some of the trees | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
that grew from little seeds like these. | :22:46. | :22:46. | |
Well, newspaper articles from the time suggests some good | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
year near the former home of Lloyd George in Gwynedd, | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
or in the Swansea area, but with parks full of oak | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
of roughly the right age, it is thought Abergavenny could also | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
be home to trees steeped in this particular chapter of history. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
These trees are some of the last living things from the First World | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
War and we want to hope that they go on by collecting their seeds | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
and then propagating them and planting them out again, | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
so they are a living bit of history, which is so important to our | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
landscape as well as the people who sacrificed their lives. | :23:16. | :23:27. | |
The Woodland Trust asking for volunteers to help them | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
carry out the research, especially as so many | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
old oaks were felled as part of the war effort. | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
This the last of its kind in Wentwood Forest on the outskirts | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
It is somewhere you can actually go and actually feel a piece | :23:39. | :23:51. | |
You can sit underneath the tree that was a seed during | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
the First World War and it will be there for your children | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
So they are an important part of the timeline for us. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
In the absence of so many of the fallen, trees like this have | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Time now for the weather forecast. Some good news. I think we have seen | :24:07. | :24:21. | |
the last of the wind and rain for a while. The next two days drier and | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
colder. Some wintry showers but sunshine and frost as well. Blue sky | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
in Penrhyn Bay today and the sunglasses will come in handy | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
tomorrow as well. This evening, most of the country dry but showers will | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
spread south overnight. Heavy in places. Colder than recent nights. | :24:41. | :24:50. | |
Temperatures inland falling close to freezing with a frost. For mid and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
North Wales, a warning of icy patches. Tomorrow's chart shows | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
high-pressure near Iceland. A cold front lying through France and | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Germany. Here is the picture for 8am. Some cloud likely in the south | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
and west. Showers in places but these will soon clear away. | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
Elsewhere, looking dry clear and bright. Some sunshine in mid and | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
North Wales with frost inland. A chill in the air tomorrow but it | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
will turn into a nice day. Sunnier than today with a few clouds in the | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
afternoon. Temperatures on the chilly side. But in the sunshine, it | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
will feel pleasant. In Conwy tomorrow, fresh and dry. Lots of | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
sunshine. Top temperature six Celsius. Eight Celsius in Briton | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
Ferry. Tomorrow night will continue dry and with the clear sky, there | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
will be a widespread and sharper frost. Minus five Celsius in mid | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
Wales. Wednesday, a frosty start. Most places dry with sunshine but | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
showers in places. Most of the showers in the north and west. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
Thursday, one or two light showers around. The best of the sunshine in | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
the south-east. Friday, more uncertain. There is a risk of some | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
rain, especially in the south and west. The weekend cold with | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
north-easterly winds. The leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Davies, has now become the highest profile politician from Wales to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
back the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. Earlier | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
the Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb described the vote to leave as a | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
leap into the dark. Let's get a final word with our political | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
correspondent, Daniel Davies. The leading politicians in Wales from | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
the Conservatives are on separate sides of the argument. Yes, it is no | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
secret that there are differences of opinion within the Conservative | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Party about Europe. Some may say that is the reason why David Cameron | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
wanted a referendum in the first places -- first place. The big fear | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
of politicians in the building behind me was this, if the | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
referendum was to happen in June, it would overshadow the assembly | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
elections in May. If you are going to be talking about your politics | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
with your friends and work, are you going to be talking about the | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
semi-election or are you going to be talking about this huge question | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
about Britain's future? Their fear was the latter would win out and the | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
assembly would not get a look in. The date has been set and once the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
date is set, one Tory semi-member told me today, people will want to | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
know how you are going to vote and today Andrew RT Davies has answered | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
that question. He will vote to leave. Thank you very much. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
I'll have an update for you here at 8pm and again after the BBC | :28:00. | :28:03. |