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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories: | 0:00:03 | 0:00:05 | |
Ten sites are in the running for a share | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
of almost ?30 million in a bid to boost tourism. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
After a meltdown in the price paid for recycled waste the councils that | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
claim it's cost them more than a million pounds. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:39 | |
Welcome to Wales - it's a phrase which greets visitors | 0:00:42 | 0:00:44 | |
from the UK and abroad every year. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
But where in Wales should tourists go and what can they do | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
when they arrive? | 0:00:49 | 0:00:50 | |
A multi million pound investment has been announced to help establish ten | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
so-called "must visit" destinations. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:54 | |
Caroline Evans reports. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:55 | |
In the sunshine there is, of course, nowhere | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
better than Wales. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
In Aberystwyth today tourists were full of | 0:00:58 | 0:00:59 | |
enthusiasm for what we offer. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
It's got everything. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:02 | |
Compared to England. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
It's brilliant to be fair. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
What brought us here today was the hope of a bit of sunshine | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
which we were lucky enough to find. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:11 | |
It is a relatively easy and very, very beautiful journey. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
We enjoy going down to Brecon and areas like the Gower. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
As much as anything else it is because we can actually go out | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
and about where we want to. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
And down in Pendine the minister agreed. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:27 | |
Edwina Hart believes this is among one of the places in Wales | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
which could become an iconic destination. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
I believe every place in Wales is a destination of the tourists | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
and that is important but sometimes people | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
get bogged down with what they think people want. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
But the world has changed a lot. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:43 | |
When you look at activity holidays for instance, | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
places in Wales we thought people would not be interested in 30 years | 0:01:45 | 0:01:49 | |
ago, it is going viral across the globe what we can do | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
in Welsh terms. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
In all, ten places are set to get a boost and include | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
Saundersfoot Harbour, an adventure climbing centre | 0:01:58 | 0:02:00 | |
near Merthyr Tydfil and a new railway museum in Aberystwyth. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
The man behind one of Wales' current main tourist | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
attractions, Dan yr Ogof caves, which is not on the list says | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
he welcomes the news that these other locations will get money | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
but says that is only a starting point | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
for building up tourism. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
We have got to do more. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
It's no good adding to the attractions' number | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
unless we get more people coming into Wales. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
From all the surveys we do at Dan yt Ogof, | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
not many people know us abroad. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
The reason is quite simply that we don't spend | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
enough on marketing and our marketing compared to other regions | 0:02:37 | 0:02:43 | |
of Britian is very, very poor. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
Back in Pendine a starting point is most welcome. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
They are looking to open a land speed museum, | 0:02:49 | 0:02:51 | |
a heritage art centre and an eco-holiday resort, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
among other plans. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
It is looking to the future and getting | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
people who had not thought about Pendine before to think | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
of it as a place, not to go for the day but | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
to stay as well. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
That's a part of the overall vision. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
While regeneration here is already under way, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
like all of the projects they will now be | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
individually assessed and if they get through the next | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
stage they say more work will begin here next year. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
A senior Ukip politician says the party's National Executive | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
Committee will consider the de-selection of an Assembly | 0:03:24 | 0:03:27 | |
candidate at the centre of a race row. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:29 | |
Gareth Bennett has linked immigration in Cardiff to rubbish | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
in the city road area of the capital. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:36 | |
He's threatened to sue for 300-thousand pounds | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
if he is deselected without due process. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:43 | |
All I can observe is the empirical evidence that 15 years ago | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
the rubbish problem in that area was not | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
as great as it is today. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
In the last 15 years, possibly in a shorter | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
space of time than that, we have had a large influx | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
of Eastern Europeansin particular. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
Therefore, there is clear empirical evidence that the two are connected. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
A former magician from Cardiff has been jailed for 14 years | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
for sexually abusing boys in the 1980s and 90s. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:10 | |
Cardiff Crown Court heard 55-year-old Mark Davis targeted boys | 0:04:10 | 0:04:15 | |
from single parent families, dazzling them with magic tricks | 0:04:15 | 0:04:19 | |
before abusing them. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
He was found guilty of 13 sex offences, including | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
three counts of rape. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
Some Welsh councils have lost more than a million pounds in income | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
because of a collapse in the global price paid for recycled waste. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
Six authorities have told BBC Wales that a meltdown in waste markets has | 0:04:34 | 0:04:39 | |
hit their budgets. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
George Herd has the details. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
It's bin day in Buckley and the weekly recycling | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
round is well under way. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
Nearly 60% of the rubbish picked up in Flintshire is now recycled, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
making it a record year for the county. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:58 | |
This is where all the recycled waste collected in Flintshire ends up. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
The plastic is being sorted here. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
Then it will be bailed up and sold on and that is where | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
the problem lies. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
The amount of cash being received for recycled waste | 0:05:10 | 0:05:13 | |
across the world has collapsed. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
In fact, Flintshire Council estimates it has cost them more | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
than ?400,000 in lost income over the last year. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
We try to play the market as best we can but obviously we have got | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
to manage our budgets as we go on through the financial year so it | 0:05:27 | 0:05:31 | |
makes it difficult when we do have a drop in issues that we can't | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
control, such as the global price of oil or when larger countries | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
flood the European market with steel. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
It does affect the prices we get for our materials. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
Across Wales, six councils who sell on their own recycling waste have | 0:05:42 | 0:05:47 | |
told us that they have been feeling the pinch. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
Taking a hit of anything from just a few thousand pounds in Gwynedd | 0:05:50 | 0:05:54 | |
to six figure sums in places like Pembrokeshire. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
So what can councils do when the drop in recycling markets | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
are completely out of their hands? | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
The answer may be to aim for zero waste in the first place | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
and that is what this project in Bangor has been looking at under | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
the banner Love Your Clothes. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
What we really need to be doing is looking at how we prevent waste | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
in the first place. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:17 | |
You can't always rely on the fact you're going to have a | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
global market for your textiles. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
At the moment the global market for textile is a bit iffy so really | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
we need to be reusing more of it in the communities we live in. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
Finding a new home for an old piece of clothing might seem like a tiny | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
step forward when it comes to saving on waste but it's | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
something we might all have to consider in the future. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
By 2025 we need to recycle 70% of what we throw away. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
By 2050 that goes up to 100%. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
Of course, it's not all bad news for councils because it costs them | 0:06:47 | 0:06:51 | |
more than ?80 in landfill tax for every tonne of waste they bury | 0:06:51 | 0:06:55 | |
at a dump. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
So every scrap of rubbish sold on is money in the council coffers | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
at a time when they desperately need every penny they can find. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
There should be a single ticketing system for all bus, | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
rail and Metro services across Wales by 2018, | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
that's according to a committee of Assembly Members. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:14 | |
They say customers should be able to make contactless payments | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
for travel, through bank cards or smartphones, | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
similar to the Oyster system in London. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
A bible which a 15-year-old girl walked 26 miles barefoot to buy has | 0:07:24 | 0:07:30 | |
returned to the Gwynedd town she purchased it from more | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
than 200 years ago. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
Mary Jones made the journey to Bala in 1800. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:40 | |
Rugby. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:41 | |
Wales Under-20s have won their first ever Six Nations Grand Slam | 0:07:41 | 0:07:44 | |
by beating Italy at Eirias Park in Colwyn Bay 35-6. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:54 | |
What's the weekend weather got in store for us? | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
Derek has the latest. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
Hello, shwmae? | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
We have enjoyed some lovely weather this week. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
Blue sky, sunshine and frost but unfortunately it is a different | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
story for the weekend. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
A lot more cloud around, mostly dry bar the odd | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
spot of drizzle and it is going to feel on the chilly side. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
Tonight, low cloud will become more expensive, misty in places too. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
Some hill fog even the odd spot of drizzle. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:27 | |
Temperatures generally above freezing tonight so most | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
places frost free. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Tomorrow morning, much cloudier than today. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
The odd spot of drizzle, misty in places. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
Otherwise dry and hopefully there will be a few bright intervals. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Across the rest of the UK, it is a similar story really. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
Plenty of cloud. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
One of two spots of drizzle otherwise most places drive. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
Hopefully, some sunshine for parts of Scotland, maybe Cumbria. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
Temperatures on the cold side, eight Celsius in Liverpool | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
with a chilly breeze across the south-east of England. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
In Wales tomorrow afternoon, plenty of cloud around. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:03 | |
Still the spot of drizzle possible but mostly dry. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:07 | |
Maybe a little sunshine in parts of the west. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
Temperatures, only 6-8 Celsius, maybe ten Celsius | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
on the Carmarthenshire Coast with a light to moderate breeze. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
Grey and chilly in Cardiff tomorrow for the rugby but mostly dry. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:22 | |
Good luck to Wales. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
For Sunday, it is the spring equinox. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
The sun over the equator. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
Weather-wise, we still have high pressure in charge | 0:09:28 | 0:09:30 | |
and that is the reason for the settled spell of weather. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
Maybe the odd spot of light rain or drizzle on Sunday. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
Otherwise dry. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
Plenty of cloud but hopefully it will brighten up in places. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
Temperatures, nothing special but at least the wind will be light. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
Next day, more dry weather but we may see some | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
wind and rain arriving from the Atlantic by | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
Maundy Thursday. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:52 | |
Have a nice weekend. Mwynhewch y penwythnos. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:57 | |
That's Wales Today. | 0:09:57 | 0:09:59 |