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Judie Thomas owes tax and she owes wages to some of her | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Questions tonight over why she got thousands of pounds | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
And the call for children who have free school meals - | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
not to be allowed to go hungry in the holidays. | :00:21. | :00:34. | |
Questions are being asked tonight about the Welsh Government's support | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
for a businesswoman who's being pursued by former employees | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs for unpaid | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Judie Thomas runs companies with links to the fashion industry. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
But a BBC Wales investigation has found that she was awarded funding | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
despite leaving a trail of debt from previous business ventures. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Helena was an apprentice at Project WT, a clothes factory in | :00:52. | :01:07. | |
Helena was an apprentice at Project WD, a clothes factory in | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
She was employed under the Welsh government's flagship | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
skills programme for young people, Jobs Growth Wales. | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
But she left the company in February as she wasn't | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
It is an added stress that I don't need at the moment. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
I thought that with Project WD, it | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
I thought it would be too good to be true. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
So I was left feeling confused and very, very angry. | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
Helena is just one of a number of people who say they weren't paid | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
properly for their time at Project WD. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Judie Thomas is the owner of the company. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
In 2010, a BBC Wales Week In Week Out investigation revealed a | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
trail of debt and broken promises surrounding events she promoted | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Three years after the programme, Judie | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
Thomas is still involved in the world of fashion, making | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
The Welsh government gave her ?9,000 of | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
funding in a scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
But some of her staff are now pursuing court action | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
Judie Thomas didn't respond to our questions so | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Firstly, Mrs Thomas, I'm just wondering why you haven't | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
I'm not really willing to discuss it. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Do you think the Welsh government should be giving you | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
money, Mrs Thomas, considering your business background? | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
But it is not only employees of Project | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Chris Price runs a civil engineering firm in | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
For the past two years, he has been pursuing a debt of | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
?33,000 from another company of which Judie Thomas was a director | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
after his firm did a sub contracting job for them. | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
He was shocked that she had received government funding. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
It doesn't take a lot of digging to find previous | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
companies have gone through being wound up. | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
I would have thought a bit more due diligence would have been | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
The company that owed Chris money was forced into | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
It is understood that Judie Thomas owes | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
The Welsh government says it is investigating its involvement | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
with Judie Thomas and cannot comment well that is ongoing. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
with Judie Thomas and cannot comment while that is ongoing. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Although it did say that companies participating in its schemes must | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
provide evidence of wages being paid before they receive funding. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
Helena says her wages have recently been | :03:40. | :03:40. | |
An investigation has begun into a fire at a disused school | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
in Cardiff which the fire service says was probably | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
Emergency services were called to Glyn Derw High School at around | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
At its peak 54 firefighters and seven engines were on site. | :03:53. | :04:05. | |
Two RAF jets were scrambled to escort a civilian aircraft | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
These pictures, filmed by a viewer, show the plane | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
landing and the Typhoons, which were launched | :04:13. | :04:13. | |
They were brought in as a precautionary measure when | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
It's believed the privately-owned plane lost radio contact. | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
During term-time many children across Wales benefit | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
And tonight there are calls for something similar to be provided | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
The Church in Wales says that it's too often left to the voluntary | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
sector and the service can be patchy. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
From Wrexham, Teleri Glyn Jones reports. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Every morning during the school holidays, these volunteers prepare | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
This food is delivered to children in some of the most | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
This team at St Marks Church provides food | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
for three playschemes during the school holiday. | :05:01. | :05:01. | |
Now, that doesn't come cheap and although much of this | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
food is donated, it costs around ?350 per week. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
That's money that comes straight from the Church in | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
The Church in Wales say that because there is no | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
place to support children during the holidays, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
feeding the most needy in | :05:24. | :05:24. | |
our society has been left to the voluntary sector | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
The provision is there during school term time and then suddenly | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
there is a gap and while it is perhaps not so bad during half term, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
when it comes to the long school summer holidays, some children can | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
seriously lose food over a long period of time. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
I certainly think that they should be doing some more | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
if they have the resources and are able to do it because it is | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
certainly true that for some families, their budgets are so | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
The relationship between eating well and doing well at school | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
is well established but research by Bangor University suggests not | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
having enough food during the holidays can | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
Teachers noticed that the children aren't performing as well, | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
not learning as well and it takes a month or longer for them | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
to actually catch up with where they were before | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
There is an argument that this will be a logical | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
step for the government to step in because we already have three school | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
to be provided when children are on holiday. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
This children's centre is one of the schemes that benefits | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
Gareth, one of the play leaders here, says the food | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
A lot of these kids spend hours down here. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
We are open eight hours during the | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
So they spend a lot of time down here, obviously, burning | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
up a lot of energy doing what they are doing. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
They are getting engrossed in things and they forget | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
they have not had a butty or something like that so giving our | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
It is back to school next week for these | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
The situation here and across Wales will no doubt give | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
The disused Grade II listed Coal Exchange building | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
in Cardiff Bay is to be converted into a luxury 200-suite hotel. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
The developer says the ?40 million project will create 100 construction | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
jobs and employ 60 staff members once it's open. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
There have been several failed attempts to regenerate the building | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
where the first ever million pound cheque was signed. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
One campaign group has raised concerns over | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Golf and Ian Woosnam says he's played his final Masters, | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
25 years after winning the Green Jacket, | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
After finishing 19 over par he said it would be his last go | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
at Augusta because he was in pain all the way round. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
He's the only Welshman to win one of golf's major championships. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Time for the weekend weather forecast now with Derek. | :07:52. | :08:03. | |
A variety of spring weather this weekend. Gardeners, look out for | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
some frost and wind on Sunday. Tonight we have a band of rain | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
moving eastwards, clearing and followed by dry weather overnight. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Showers reaching the south-west later on and by the end of the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
night, cold enough inland for a touch of frost. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The northeast dry and sunny for a time. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Elsewhere showers heavy in places with hail and sleet. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
You may even hear a rumble of thunder! | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
So it's a case of dodging the showers tomorrow. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
But in between the showers some blue sky and sunshine with fewer showers | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Only six to nine Celsius with a light to moderate breeze. | :08:43. | :08:54. | |
The temperature dropping sharply during a shower. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
If you're heading into the hills and mountains, the thermals | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Freezing on Pen y Fan with a mixture of sunshine, | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
Tomorrow evening one or two showers otherwise a dry night. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Some frost, especially in mid and north Wales. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Low-pressure centre to the south of the British Isles so a breezy day on | :09:15. | :09:28. | |
Sunday with the strongest winds in the south-west. A couple of showers | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
but otherwise a lot of dry weather. The best of the sunshine in the | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
North. However, some rain may reach south | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
later in the afternoon. So a mixed bag this weekend | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
but not a total write-off. Next week, changeable | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
and turning a bit warmer. We're back with our next update at 6 | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
o'clock tomorrow evening. | :09:46. | :09:49. |