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Our top stories: More than a billion pounds to spend on improving | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
transport and developing the economy of South East Wales. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The deal is signed to set up a Cardiff Capital Region. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
We are talking about a region which is half the population of Wales as a | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
whole so it's going to make a massive difference to a large them | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
of people. A double boost for the Cardiff | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
economy. This car loan company is more | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
than doubling its staff, Luke Grender, a rapist from Newport, | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
will spend three years in a young offenders' institution | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
after his previous sentence Heart patient Gareth Lewis Jones | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
might still be alive had he not Four changes to the team | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
and a new captain for Thomas Francis won't | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
be involved though. He's banned for eight weeks | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
after this clash More than a billion pounds to spend | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
on transport and developing The deal to set up | :01:05. | :01:26. | |
a Cardiff Capital Region, stretching from Monmouthshire | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
to Bridgend and to Merthyr Tydfil, The majority of the money will go | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
on a metro system, connecting The funding is coming | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
from the Treasury, Welsh Government They say improved transport | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
will make it easier for people to get into work and | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
help businesses grow. Our economics correspondent, | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Sarah Dickins, reports. Two governments, for ministers and | :01:52. | :02:03. | |
ten council leaders smile for the cameras as the Cardiff City deal is | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
signed. There has been determination to get this partnership formed to | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
deliver the metro, skills and jobs. I am confident the dynamism of this | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
deal will drive things forward, bring in additional investment and | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
make a difference to the whole region. The region is half the | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
population of Wales as a whole so it's going to make a massive | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
difference to a large number of people. If you look at transport we | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
know from a lot of people the real issues about accessing jobs, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
affordability, getting to work quickly, that is what the transport | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
scheme is designed to address. Not all the money is new. ?125 million | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
of UK Government cash had already been pledged for the ledge the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
valleys. As the Metro develops it goes under the city deal pot | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
bringing it to ?1.2 billion of 20 years. ?734 million for the Metro | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
and electrification of the Valley lines at ?495 million for other | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
projects. The area is not getting the money handed on a plate. The | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
cash from the UK Government will come in instalments and to get that | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
it has to prove it is making a difference but the whole economy has | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
got what power behind it and more money is going back to the UK | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Treasury and taxes and that there are fewer people of the work. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Involvement of the private sector is vital. There is talk of 25,000 jobs. | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
We have heard about new jobs in Cardiff today. Those jobs will come | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
from the private sector so does it make sense to have the private | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
sector there from day one? Cardiff University software Academy is | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
training students for a new colony. The deal plans to develop a new | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
generation of businesses and cyber security firms. The deal covers | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
councils from Chepstow to Maesteg but will some communities away from | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
the M4 be left behind? A number of people living in the valleys cannot | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
expect a larger Cardiff to fulfil their employment requirements. If | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
this doesn't create locations for employment across South Wales it | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
won't work. One of the driving forces behind the deal is adamant | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
that valleys communities will benefit. Cardiff as a capital city | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
is the fastest-growing capital city in the UK over the next ten years so | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
we have to make sure those opportunities which come to Cardiff | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
are filtered up into the valleys. The detail of whether stations will | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
be opened has not been decided that the plan is for work to begin within | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
a year. George Osborne's expected to say | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
more about the City Deal when he delivers his Budget to MPs | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
in Westminster tomorrow. Let's talk to our Parliamentary | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Correspondent, David Cornock. Let's look at the politics for a | :05:01. | :05:12. | |
start. You have got two governments have different political | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
persuasions, ten councils, all working together. That hasn't always | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
been the case over the last few years. So that is a political | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
development. When you look at the scale from Maesteg in the West | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
through the Chepstow in the east and taking in the heads of the valleys, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
it is a very big deal. Also per head in terms of spend it is the biggest | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
city deal yet. This is George Osborne's referred method of dealing | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
with urban regeneration and economic development and the Chancellor | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
believes this could be as transformational for Cardiff as the | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
redevelopment of the docks were 25 years ago. If this works, you got | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Swansea waiting in the wings hoping for its own deal. What else can we | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
expect in the budget tomorrow? George Osborne will deliver his | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
eighth budget and MPs will be looking out for a number of things. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
There has been talk about the Severn bridge tolls being kept sooner than | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
expect it. I think we might get the name of the person who's going to | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
review the Swansea tidal lagoon project and there has been a lot of | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
talk about air passenger duty being devolved to Wales. The rumours have | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
been stronger in Wales than in Westminster. This budget affects all | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
of us, our taxes, benefits, pensions, even the price you pay at | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
the pub. Stay tuned tomorrow. A double boost for the South East | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Wales economy tonight, A car loan company is more | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
than doubling its staff, creating 580 new jobs, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
as it moves its headquarters MotoNovo's expansion has been backed | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
by a grant of ?3 million Here's our business | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
correspondent, Brian Meechan. The company provides finance to | :06:57. | :07:12. | |
people buying cars and motorbikes through dealerships. This company | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
has seen its business grow despite the recession and economic downturn. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
It provided car loans at the time when traditional banks were | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
withdrawing credit. Financial and professional services companies like | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
this have been targeted by the Welsh Government as key areas for growth. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
It has been operating for 40 years in Cardiff but it has gone through | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
changes of name and ownership. It was voted the sixth best UK company | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
to work for in a recent survey. It is going to be a big change for a | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
lot of people. A lot of people here live in the valleys but everyone has | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
been positive because of the way the companies dealing with it. It's | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
going to be more difficult but it is a great company to be in. The | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
economy minister was given at tour of the new headquarters. The Welsh | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
Government provided a ?3 million grant to the company. MotoNovo says | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
a ?100 million project could have gone elsewhere. Critics argue Mr 's | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
should be out of the Grants business providing loans instead of needed. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Can they criticise the rest of the UK? No. Some companies need some | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
help and assistance with the property infrastructure. They need | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
help with training. There is nothing wrong with that if I can get 1000 | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
employees here in a few years' time. The umbrella group for the industry | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
says 30,000 people now work on it. They forecast growth of 30% over the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
next three years with the creation of 10,000 new jobs. In terms of | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
salary opportunities it's going to be from entry level is at 15 to | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
?20,000 to the packages you would expect that the most senior levels | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
which will be six figures. Cheaper office space than London make | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
Cardiff attractive so too does education. The first thing that | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
inward investors want to know about is the quality of the people we have | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
in Wales and we can pay well if not better than any other region of the | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
UK. We have got three magnificent universities with a great supply | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
line of 70,000 students. The company plans to continue building is | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
business but also intends to move into personal loans, insurance and | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
lending to small firms. An example then avow Cardiff's financial sector | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
is on the up. A rapist from Newport will spend | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
three years in a young offenders' institution after his previous | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
sentence was ruled unduly lenient. Luke Grender was spared jail | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
because of the effect that the murder of his pregnant | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
sister had had on him. Nicky did render, pregnant and two | :10:00. | :10:16. | |
weeks away from her due date. Raped, murdered, her home set on fire. The | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
Newport suburb left in disbelief. Her brother, Luke Grender, was 13 at | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
the time. A few years later he raped a 12-year-old girl three times. In | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
January this year, Luke Grender appeared here in the dock at Newport | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Crown Court crying as a judge told him he would be speared a prison | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
sentence for his crime. Experts said he was left a psychological mess | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
after what happened to his sister. The judge said there were | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
exceptional circumstances and he believed it was the reality that a | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
two-year community sentence would give him more help and would better | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
protect the public more quickly than sending him to jail. But today the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
Court of Appeal cited the violence he used against somebody he knew was | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
underage. It ruled the previous suspended sentence was unduly | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
lenient. He was sentenced to three years in a young offenders | :11:21. | :11:30. | |
institution starting tomorrow. He will be able to access the necessary | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
support and have increased monitoring. Tonight the survivors | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
trust, a charity for the Thames, has welcomed the increased sentence but | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
warns it still would reflect the lifetime impact Luke Grender has had | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
on his victim. A coroner has called on the Ministry | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
of Defence to improve safety following a helicopter | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
crash in Afghanistan, which killed two Welshmen alongside | :11:52. | :11:52. | |
three other servicemen. Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas, | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
from Brecon, and Captain Thomas Clarke, from the Vale of Glamorgan, | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
died during training when an Army Air Corps | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
Lynx crashed in 2014. The MoD says it will study | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the coroner's findings carefully. A heart patient from the Afan Valley | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
might still be alive today had he not faced unacceptable | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
waiting times, according to the Public Services | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
Ombudsman for Wales. 57-year-old Gareth Lewis Jones died | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
in 2013, weeks before cardiac surgery that could | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
have saved his life. Sadie Jones has been fighting | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
for three years for an apology Her brother, Gareth, | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
who had a heart defect, died in 2013 weeks before he was due | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
to have heart surgery. He had waited 11 months to be put | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
on the waiting list and that is why Sadie complained about his treatment | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
to the Public Services Ombudsman for Nothing is going to compensate | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
for the fact that He was only 57 and I feel that | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
because he had coped with the difficulties he had | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
all his life and got on with life and worked for as long as he could, | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
I feel he deserved to have that treatment and the chance | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
of a longer life. The Ombudsman investigated the case | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
and found a lack of urgency about getting treatment for patients | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
with Gareth's condition. In his report, Nick Bennett also | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
said the health board should have been prompted to act | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
after several near misses. The ombudsman says the time | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
Gareth Lewis Jones spent waiting for surgery was unacceptable | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
and that his death was avoidable. The Welsh Government's guidance | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
for treatment targets of 26 weeks was missed and this patient had | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
to wait almost twice as long, 50 weeks, and unfortunately died | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
just before he was due Also, there is evidence | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
that the health failed to provide adequate information | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
about the symptoms, the worrying symptoms associated | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
with this disease. This is the hospital | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
where Gareth Lewis Jones died. The health board which runs it says | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
they have apologised to his family but insist several significant | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
changes have been made. They now employ specialist cardiac | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
nurses who monitor and track and keep patients informed of | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
the progress during their time here. But they do concede that more can be | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
done and they have asked for extra funding to ensure that no more | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
patients like Gareth die Apart from organ donation | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
legislation, what else has the Welsh Government achieved over | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
the last five years? And a pep talk from former Wales | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
captain Ryan Giggs ahead of Wales' first major football championships | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
in nearly six decades. A woman from Abergele wants the UK | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
Government to allow her elderly mother to come and live | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
with her here in Wales. Abeer Jones, who's originally | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
from Syria, has lived in Wales for 10 years and says she fears | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
for her mother's safety This is the reality of home on the | :14:57. | :15:13. | |
front line. Films by the women who live here they have survived the | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
blast from a mortar round. But they know that tomorrow the bombs might | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
fall again. This is how each day begins for this woman who lives with | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
her daughter in Syria's largest city. It is very cold and I am very | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
worried about my mother because it is very cold here and we don't have | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
electricity. Peace talks are under way but fighting continues in | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Aleppo. The family are desperate to get the mother who was badly injured | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
last year out of Syria and to safety here in Wales. She has been refused | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
the Visa to live with her daughter, Abeer Jones in Abergele and she has | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
started a petition calling on the Home Office to change its mind. I | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
don't want anything from the government. I have been here ten | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
years and have not claimed a penny. I will give my mother my bed. But | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
she is not the only Syrian in Wales trying to help family members trap | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
in the conflict. This woman settled in Cardiff last year after being | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
smuggled into the UK while she was five months pregnant. Her son was | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
born in Wales and she has been given refugee status which means she can | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
live here for five years. This was the moment when she was reunited | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
with her husband who she had to leave behind in Jordan. It's the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
first time he has seen their baby son. They now have visas which allow | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
them to work and they say they want to give that to the country that | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
took them in. I want to be a good woman and my husband wants to be a | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
good man. We will work and make everything good for this country. | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Amnesty International is calling on the UK Government to relax | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
immigration rules so that people fleeing war zones can enter the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
country more easily. If they have relatives here who can financially | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
support them. The choice not for Europe and for this country is not | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
too we want to see more refugees, the question is do we want to see | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
refugees in an audit, planned and managed away or do we prefer to see | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
refugees in a chaotic and uncoordinated way? A Home Office | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
spokesman said all these applications are considered on their | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
individual merits and pointed to a scheme bringing in 20,000 of the | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
most foldable Syrian refugees over five years. 1000 of whom are due to | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
come to Wales. With peace talks starting there may yet be hoped to | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Syria but for those caught in the crossfire daily life has yet to get | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
any easier. More on this story in | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
Week In Week Out tonight at 10.40pm Tomorrow, the Assembly meets | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
for the last time before So what's been achieved | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
in the last five years? The Welsh Government says new powers | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
have been used to make pioneering changes to the law | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
on organ donation. But critics say they've | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
ducked some big decisions. Made using powers granted by voters | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
at a referendum in 2011. You are having a party | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
with 20 friends this Emily had a life-saving | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
liver transplant. Now she is looking forward | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
to her sixth birthday. Her parents hope one of the laws | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
passed in Cardiff Bay could help The law that says everyone | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
is now an organ donor, For us, I think it | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
has been fantastic. I think the main thing really | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
is to get people talking. Beforehand, people didn't think | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
about organ donation, So certainly with the promotion | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
the Welsh Assembly have been doing for the last two to three years it | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
has made people far more aware. The organ donation legislation had | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
cross-party support, but not everything has been | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
so ambitious says a lobbyist who directed the campaign | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
for lawmaking powers. They have handled it pretty shrewdly | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
overall in terms of getting Whether it is the most dynamic | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
business that could have been But actually there is something | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
to be said for a government that has managed to get this | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
programme through. The Labour Government hasn't had | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
a majority in this chamber but has a divided opposition made | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
life easier for them? You could say it is also shows | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
what a success this legislative term has been for the Welsh Government | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
because we have got through policies into legislation with financial | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
backing at a time of austerity when our budgets are being cut | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
and our partners' budgets I think this is the mark | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
of a huge achievement. There has been legislation telling | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
councils to open more cycle paths. Businesses now have to display | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
food hygiene scores. And there have been laws meant | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
to crack down on rogue landlords. An end of term review | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
from the opposition. Basically, they have put off | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
all the tough decisions and there haven't been that many | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
really tough decisions in the Assembly chamber put forward | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
by the Government for the opposition Tomorrow, a vote on legislation that | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
stops e-cigarette users Part of the Government's 26th | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
and final bill before May's election, when voters decide | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
whether to hand the batton Rugby and football for you now. | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
Tomos has tonight's top stories. There are four changes to the Wales | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
side to face Italy on Saturday. But Prop Thomas Francis won't be | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
involved because he's A disciplinary panel ruled he should | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
have been sent off for making contact with the eyes | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
of England's Dan Cole. Dan Lydiate will captain the side | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
in place of the injured Scrum-half Rhys Webb will start | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
for the first time since September. Thomas Francis was in training | :21:07. | :21:24. | |
today, appearing in front of a disciplinary panel the proper has | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
received an eight-week ban. Guilty of making contact with the eyes of | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
Dan Cole. Before the hearing's had come the Wales head coach had this | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
to say. When you see it in slow motion, everything looks different. | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
When you play it in real-time the contact with the eyes is a third of | :21:44. | :21:52. | |
a second. So that's it. The fallout from Twickenham goes on. Joe Marla's | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
hearing the striking Rob Evans is scheduled for tomorrow with no | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
comment expected from the six Nations regarding his gypsy taunt to | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
Samlee before then. Dan Lydiate is preparing to Captain Wales for the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
first time in the six Nations. It is a massive honour for myself and my | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
family. I am looking forward to leading the boys out. I would not | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
ask somebody to do something I wouldn't do myself. I would throw | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
myself in front of the bus. The front row remains unchanged. Locke | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Alun Wyn Jones might need up to six weeks rest to recover from a | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
lingering foot injury so Luke Charteris steps up from the bench. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
In the back row Justin Tipuric gets the nod as Sam Warburton is rested. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
He won't be rushed through the concussion photocalls following | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Saturday's injury. Rhys Webb will start his first game for Wales in | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
six months, dropping Gareth Davies to the bench. Dan Biggar and the | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
centres hold onto their shirts but because of a heel injury Alex | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Cuthbert is out. Hallam Amos gets an opportunity to impress. Every game | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
is massive for Wales and I can't wait to get that out there. It has | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
been a long six Nations. I have been back and forth with the Dragons but | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
I can't wait to get out there. Following a dismal first-half | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
performance at Twickenham Sun might have expected more changes for the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
final game against Italy but the head coach says it's a chance for | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
some players to redeem themselves. Welsh fans expect a win on Saturday. | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
The Welsh squad needs one before the daunting three test summer tour | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
against world champions New Zealand in June. | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Football and former captain Ryan Giggs says Wales are a team | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
every nation will hope to avoid at this summer's | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Giggs, who won 64 caps, says England will be favourites | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
when they play Wales in Group B but with Slovakia and Russia also | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
in their group, Giggs says Chris Coleman's men | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
They surprised many in qualifying, now Ryan Giggs believes Wales | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
will be a success at their first major finals in almost six decades. | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Giggs, who scored 12 goals for Wales, believes the current crop | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
of players are a closer-knit group than their English counterparts. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
I think Wales are probably more settled. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
They have got a lot of players, seven or eight, who have come | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
through the under 21 system together, through the | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Of course England will be favourites with the players they have got | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Wales are a proper team, they play as a team and obviously | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
with the added bonus of having Gareth Bale in the team. | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Wales have just three friendlies to fine tune their team | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Next Thursday Northern Ireland will be the opponents | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
Then it is a trip to Kiev to face Ukraine on Easter Monday. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Wales' final friendly will be against Sweden at the start of June, | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
just six days before Wales' opening Euro 2016 game against Slovakia. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Ryan Giggs is in no doubt a lot will depend on the opening games | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
in Group B for Wales and for England. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
If they both win the first game they can be pretty relaxed, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
as much as you can be relaxed in an England Wales game. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
But if they win that first game, I think they are more | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
If they lose or if they don't get a good result, the pressure is on. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Chris Coleman will name his squad for the forthcoming friendlies this | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Friday, but it looks likely Newcastle's Paul Dummett | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
and Leicester City's Andy King won't be available because of injury. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
We'll be speaking to Chris Coleman about his preparations this Friday. | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Back to tonight and the weather forecast with Derek. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
There is more dry weather to come this week. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
Some sunshine but cloudy at times and not completely dry. | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
More cloud around today compared to yesterday | :25:55. | :25:55. | |
This picture was taken by one of our weather watchers in Blaenau | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
The satellite picture shows a bank of cloud | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
That's all tied to a warm front and it's heading our way. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Most places dry but a little drizzle in Powys late in the night. | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure over Scotland but there | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
This weak cold front will bring cloud and it | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
So here's the picture for 8.00am in the morning. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
A little sunshine in western Gwynedd. | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
So cloudy for a while tomorrow but during the afternoon it | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
The cloud clearing to blue sky and sunshine. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Temperatures a little lower than today. | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
11C in the south west with a chilly breeze. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
In Torfaen tomorrow, a cloudy morning. | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
Dry and brightening-up in the afternoon. | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
And brightening-up in Bala with a sunny end to the day. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
Tomorrow night will start clear but cloud will spread from the east | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
A few spots of drizzle but otherwise dry. | :27:20. | :27:31. | |
And most places should brighten-up with some sunshine. | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
I'll have an update for you here at 8.00pm | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
and again after the BBC news at 10.00pm. | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
From all of us on the programme, good evening. | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
On Easter week 1916, a band of Irish rebels seized control of Dublin. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
For six days they held out against the might of the British Empire. | :28:00. | :28:03. |