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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight's headlines: As our biggest health board considers recruiting | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
new nurses from the Far East there are calls for more | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
training places to be made available in Wales. | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
I know that in the NHS in Wales we've got approximately 1,200 | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
vacancies and there are insufficient nurses coming out | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
Tonight a union warns selling council-owned farms could be | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Thousands lost their jobs when the steelworks in Redcar shut. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
With Port Talbot under threat, we look at how the Teeside | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
I honestly thought my family would struggle. | :00:44. | :01:00. | |
You're not getting a text back, you're not | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
And we'll be finding out why a landscape artist | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
is exhibiting his work out in the open air of the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Figures obtained by BBC Wales show that around one in five nursing | :01:13. | :01:30. | |
vacancies advertised by the NHS here last year | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
It comes as Wales' biggest health board today discussed plans | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
The Royal College of Nursing is calling for more training places. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Roger Pinney has tonight's top story. | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
It is a busy place. These workers are all from Barcelona today there | :01:54. | :02:06. | |
were more Catalan speakers amongst the nurses than Welsh speakers. All | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
recruited to fill the gaps left by a shortage. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
I came here because it is difficult to find a job at home and here it is | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
more easily. I expect the UK to be a country with | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
loads of nurses and students of everything and then I live tear and | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
they need loads of nurses. They are very skilled individuals | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
that have come here and they have wrought a lot with them. They have | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
done a lot of things our nurses here haven't done. | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
Today overseas recruitment was discussed by the pretty good holiday | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
health board. 1100 nursing vacancies were advertised last year and just | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
over 200 of those were filled from overseas. -- Betsi Cadwaladr | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
University health board. They have been changes over the last 20 years, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
not least the way nurses are trained. It used to be done on the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
wards and they got paid for it but now they go to university. It now | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
takes three years to train a nurse. Sickness is common to all nations... | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
Looking abroad for NHS staff is nothing new, it is why many | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
immigrants came in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Now Welsh health boards are | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
looking to places like the Philippines and India. 50 years ago, | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
shortages were caused by the speed at which the health service was | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
growing but now it is because there haven't been enough university | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
places. We have got between six and eight applications for every | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
training place for nurses in Wales and the system here means we haven't | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
got sufficient funding to be able to train the sufficient numbers that | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
each health board needs. Welsh Labour said they provided an ?85 | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
million training package and they are committed to training the right | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
number of NHS staff. The Welsh Conservatives promised a real terms | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
increase. Ukip in Wales say they will change the system so training | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
nurses will no longer have to go to university. Plaid Cymru want to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
train and recruit into the NHS an extra 5000 nurses. Whilst | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
prioritising investment, the Welsh Liberal Democrat say, would ensure | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
the shortage is tackled. Putting a fresh crop of home trained nurses on | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
the wards will take time. We need is now. | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
A farming union is warning that selling farms owned by Wales' | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Around 10% of farms owned by local authorities have been sold | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
in the last five years according to figures obtained by BBC Wales. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
The Farmers Union of Wales says it could hamper young people's chances | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
of gaining a foothold in the industry. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
Gwenno and her husband and their children | :04:55. | :05:07. | |
and Annie share their time between Talsarnau | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
where she currently keeps a handful of animals. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
The dream is to get their own place but so far they have | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
failed in their attempt to get their foot on a ladder. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
They have applied for a council farm twice and on both | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
I have tried a few times now and it has been unsuccessful so far. We | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
came near last time and had an interview, getting down to the final | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
three but we fell at the final hurdle and it was very | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
heartbreaking, to be honest. I am going to keep on trying and see | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
where we get. Figures compiled by BBC Wales show that 495 France are | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
now council owned and 56 have been sold in the last five years. Powys | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
has the most. In Flint, eight have been sold and there have been to | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
sales of farms on Anglesey and in Wrexham. A farming union has warned | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
this could be disastrous for the industry, especially for young | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
people trying to get involved in farming. This is significantly | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
worrying numbers. The union has worked for a long time with county | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
councils to make sure they keep county farms going. We are in a real | :06:17. | :06:28. | |
role -- frugal economy. We need to people to be able to stay in the | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
countryside. Most council say they have no | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
immediate plans to sell more farms but several are open to possible | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
opportunities if they arise. This will add to further frustration for | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
this family as they try to get their foot on the housing ladder. | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Former footballer Ched Evans will find out if his appeal | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
against his rape conviction has been successful next week. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The 27-year-old was jailed in 2012 after being found guilty of raping | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
a 19-year-old teenager in a Rhuddlan hotel. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
The prosecution says it'll seek a retrial if Evans wins his appeal. | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Two South Wales policemen in their 30s will appear in court | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
in June over allegations relating to another officer. | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
PC Jeremy Fowler faces allegations of sexual assault and PC | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Matthew Davies faces charges of assault. | :07:13. | :07:13. | |
The alleged incidents are said to have happened two years ago. | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Tributes have been paid to the former National Poet | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
of Wales Professor Gwyn Thomos who has died at the age of 79. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, he translated many works, | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
including Shakespeare, into Welsh and the Mabiniogion into English. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
He also had 16 volumes of poetry to his name. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
That's what the Welsh Liberal Democrats promised today | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
as they published their Assembly election manifesto. | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
It includes key priorities, such as more nurses and smaller | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
class sizes, which they say reflect the public's desire for "good | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
schools, good hospitals and a vibrant economy." | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Our political reporter James Williams went to the launch. | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
With the assembly vote fast approaching, it is the Welsh Liberal | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
It is not the usual setting for a Liberal | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
manifesto launch but the | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Liberal Democrats say that they have chosen a GP's surgery for a reason- | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
to reflect the focus on improving public services. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
And they say this document, the manifesto, is a road | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
map for an ambitious, optimistic and pioneering Wales. | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
What would the Liberal Democrats do if they were in power? | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
They are promising more nurses on hospital wards, also | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
?42 million over five years would be spent on | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
ensuring there were normally no more than 25 pupils per infant class. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
The party would scrap tuition fees subsidies, | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
with students from Wales instead receiving a living support | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
They would build 20,000 affordable homes over | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
five years and would end the Anglesey-Cardiff air link. | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
We have been listening carefully to people in the run-up to these | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
elections and we have found that after 17 | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
years of devolution and the | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
Welsh Labour government dominating that government, people are | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
frustrated that the basics aren't getting done for them. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
That is why in this manifesto we are committed | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
on focusing on public service delivery. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Kirsty Williams says she can't get away | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
was the Party's terrible mistake of breaking | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
coalition with the Conservatives in Westminster. | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
She says she won't make those same mistakes. | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Recent elections haven't been kind to the | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
Lib Dems to say the least, they have suffered a series of devastating | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Party officials here are stressing the difference between the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Welsh Liberal Democrats and the Party colleagues in Westminster. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
But the Party has lost hundreds of | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
thousands of voters in Wales since 2010 | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
and opinion polls suggest they | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
could lose some, if not all, of their five AMs. | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
The party knows it is in | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Let's get a bit more now about those proposals to cut class sizes. | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
Our education correspondent Bethan Lewis is here. | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
Bethan, what exactly is the proposal? | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
At the moment there are rules on class sizes for the youngest | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
children, aged between four and seven which say - | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
apart from a few exceptions - there shouldn't be more than 30 | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
That's the aim but at the last count just over 7% of pupils | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Now the Lib Dems want to reduce the limit further to 25. | :10:37. | :10:49. | |
Now, how do they do that in practice? | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Well, it'll mean more teachers - and that would cost. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
The Lib Dems say they'd allocate ?42 million to do that over | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
The Lib Dems says fewer pupils in a class means teachers can focus | :11:00. | :11:13. | |
more on child's individual needs and that helps boost standards. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
For example let's look at what the OECD say. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
They're the international organisation which runs the PISA | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
test - tests which have shown that Wales' 15-year-olds perform worse | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
at reading, maths and science than other parts of the UK. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
What they say is with limited cash, spending on boosting skills | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
and status of teachers is probably more effective in raising standards | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Teaching unions have warned that bigger class sizes can impact | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
The Lib Dems think cutting infant class sizes is a good way to improve | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
childrens' education, others think there are more | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
effective ways to use scarce resources. | :12:00. | :12:17. | |
One of Ukip's most high profile candidates in next | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
month's Assembly election, Neil Hamilton, says the party | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
infighting in Wales is a squall rather than a storm. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
He was responding to comments by the party's leader Nathan Gill, | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
who said he wouldn't have chosen candidates from outside Wales | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
And on the campaign trail today the Welsh Conservatives have been | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
at a brewery in Barry highlighting their plans to abolish | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
business rates for small companies and help communities to take | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Welsh Labour ministers Ken Skates and Lesley Griffiths | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
were at a school in Wrexham to launch the Party's | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
pledge for an Attendance and Behaviour Taskforce. | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
And Plaid Cymru were in Aberystwyth highlighting their pledge to provide | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
free childcare to all children under three if they came to power. | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
And it's their leader Leanne Wood's turn to answer questions on our Ask | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
the Leader programme with Bethan Rhys Roberts tonight, | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
Much more to come on Wales Today: We report on how qualifications are | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
on the rise in Cardiff's Butetown, but jobs remain hard to find. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
And find out why this artist is planning to float his work | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
in the middle of a lake in Snowdonia. | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
The steel industry here has dominated the headlines in recent | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
weeks as Tata looks for a buyer for its Port Talbot plant | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
with the fate of thousands of jobs hanging in the balance. | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Just six months ago nearly 3,000 jobs were lost at the SSI steelworks | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
in Redcar, when the owners closed their Teeside base. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
Nick Palit has been finding out what impact the closure has on this | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
very similar community and has this special report. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Steel-making has dominated this part of the world for more than 150 | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
If you had a job here, you had a job for life. | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Last autumn, the industry was hit by a drop in prices and a | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
It meant that here in Redcar, where the site was | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
mothballed once before, production of slab steel | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
Like Tata in Port Talbot, SSI's giant steel | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
plant here in Redcar was | :14:24. | :14:24. | |
built next to a vast expanse of sandy coastline. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
But the similarities didn't end with this | :14:32. | :14:32. | |
As in Port Talbot, the steel industry was | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
dominant here and people here feared there was no future for the town | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
In the wake of the closure, a government-funded task | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
force was set up to help the steelworkers | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
Of the nearly 3,000 SSI or supply chain workers, | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
1,342 have now moved off benefits and are in full-time | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
work or training and 796 jobs have been created or safeguarded. | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
Amanda leads the local council and administers the ?43 million | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
She admits they still have a long way to | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
go but is particularly heartened by the number of new businesses they | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
About 280 people have come forward and asked for | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
advice and at the moment, 71 people have actually gone ahead | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
and set up their own business, which is great. | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
And they are really diverse businesses. | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
Some are based on hobbies and others on particular skills one such | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
Before we pull over, check your mirrors... | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Many steelworkers drove large vehicles on the work site but | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
need formal qualifications to transfer those skills to the public | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
Now in the shadow of the former steelworks, for former SSI | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
workers are employed here and they will be | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
training around 100 of their | :15:58. | :15:58. | |
Came up with the idea to start to become a training | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
provider specifically for the guys we have worked for in the steelworks | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
so we went out, knocked a few doors down, found out where we could get | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
funding from and from there we got a ?10,000 | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
funding from and from there we got a ?10,000 start-up grant | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
And that is the flip side of the situation. | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
Hundreds of men in | :16:33. | :16:33. | |
their 40s and 50s unable to find a job six months on. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Workers like Gary and Cameron Nielsen, who | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
between them have four decades in the steel industry. | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
You are not getting a text back, not getting a phone call, | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do. | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
And those sentiments are echoed by Robert Barnett. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
He worked for a decade in the coke ovens at SSI. | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Now he travels the north-east of England | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
looking for manual work a day at a time. | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
I just can't find a job around here because everything here is | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
I have worked all my life and certainly not working, it | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
puts a lot of pressure on me and my wife. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
But David has a more positive experience. | :17:17. | :17:35. | |
He was able to access ?8,500 of task force money to | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
I honestly thought the family were going to struggle and now we're not, | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
It is a better worklife balance and we are near | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
enough urging what we earned on that wage anyway so it is a fantastic | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
enough earning what we earned on that wage anyway | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
so it is a fantastic time. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
As the future of Port Talbot hands in the balance, they will be | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
watching here closely to see if this very similar community, | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
built on steel, can truly turn itself around. | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
This week the BBC is hearing what it's like to live on a tower | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
For many, the most pressing issue is finding work. | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
Back in 2001, around 40% of residents on the estate | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
That number has now risen to more than 60% yet unemployment rates | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Butetown's Zack Ahmed reports now on what could be done to help. | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
I am 17 and studying for my A-levels. I want to go to university | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
but I live in Butetown and it is hard to get a job. Unemployment is | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
twice the Welsh average. I volunteer. This man thinks it is | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
going to be helpful if we don't have to leave our postcode. | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
There is a stigma if you use the postcode or have a foreign sounding | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
name. There is a unconscious bias. If you have a foreign sounding names | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
you might not be able to speak English. Some people are moving | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
abroad because they can't find work in Cardiff or they move to places | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
like Saudi Arabia are like my friend. | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
It was about opportunity, I am not getting opportunities in Wales and | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
in Cardiff. There is no denying the reserve | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
language issue in Bhutan. Many households don't have the money and | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
who can speak Welsh or English. This woman has their own idea about what | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
could help. It does shock me there is so much wasted talent Butetown | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
in. We are surrounded by these companies and maybe before they | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
moved in, maybe a condition is if they can take a certain amount of | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
children coming out of schools. I think we need to push the blind to | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
see viz. A recruitment consultant isn't convinced. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
If somebody is going to be an idiot, you are never going to be able to | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
change that so the only thing you can do is change how you react. If | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
they are not going to interview me because of my name or postcode, why | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
am I going to go into the business and be as awesome as I am in the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
business. Should it be happening in the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
21st-century? Maybe. I come from foster care and I | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
didn't have any GCSEs. Do you think they would interview me? It doesn't | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
matter because there is always going to be someone out there who doesn't | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
have a British name. It is time for employers to start | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
seeing as is more than a postcode and a foreign sounding name. We are | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
trying to get employment but we could do for some help from them | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
could do for some help from them too. | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
Breathtaking - the beauty of Snowdonia has always attracted | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
those who wish to capture it on canvas. | :20:47. | :20:47. | |
But now one artist is taking the idea a step further, | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
exhibiting his work not in a gallery, but floating | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
a painting out into the middle of a lake. | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
The majesty of Snowdon. The highest peak in Wales and England and where | :20:55. | :21:09. | |
myth and legend are woven into the fabric of the landscape. This is a | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
freshwater lake 1000 feet below the summit of Snowdon. According to | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
folklore, it is here that King Arthur's sword Excalibur was | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
returned to the lady of the lake. Perhaps there is something magical | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
about this location and why it has attracted one of the foremost | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
landscape artists in Britain for a special project. Anthony wants us to | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
make a connection with our hidden industrial past. This was once the | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
site of copper mines were men lived, worked and died. This is half of an | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
installation. It is investigating the geology and history of the area, | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
and there is so much of it. A way of encouraging that and another excuse | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
to stop and look is a good thing. One of the premises of the project | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
was that we carried everything up by hand and it half replicates what the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
miners had to do with the equipment. It is physically demanding but it is | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
demanding because the weather dictates you, but that is a nice | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
message because we are continually reminded that the weather is | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
volatile and exciting. The second part of this project will | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
see the artist working underground in Blaenau Ffestiniog in a slate | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
cavern. For now he is concentrating on finishing this piece before it is | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
floated out onto the lake for all to see until autumn. | :22:37. | :22:37. | |
This picture shows sunny spells with a high of 17C in Usk. | :22:38. | :22:52. | |
The air unstable enough to produce some towering clouds. | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Showers, heavy in places with thunder. | :22:58. | :22:58. | |
Heavy in thundery in places will slowly die down. | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
Some rain in the south and Powys overnight. | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure over southern England. | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
A cold front over Northern Ireland and that is heading our way. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Here's the picture for 8:00am in the morning. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
Some patchy rain and showers in the south and Powys. | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
Drier in the north with a few showers on the coast. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
But the southwest may get away with a dry, brighter afternoon | :23:31. | :23:40. | |
Highest temperatures in the south 12 or 13 Celsius. | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
Only nine or 10C in mid and north Wales and on the west coast. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
Tomorrow night a cold front will move southeast, bringing showers. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
A slight frost in mid and north Wales by the end of the night. | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
The warm air in the south pushed away by colder air moving | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Saturday will feel chilly with a northerly breeze. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Wintry on high ground otherwise a lot of dry weather. | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
Saturday night cold with a widespread ground frost. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Some cloud but some bright spells and sunshine as well. | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
Most places dry apart from the odd light shower. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
The RHS Spring Flower is taking place in Cardiff this weekend. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
If you're going along, it will be chilly but mostly | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
Figures obtained by BBC Wales show that around one in five nursing | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
vacancies advertised by the NHS here last year - | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
As Wales' biggest health board today discussed plans to recruit | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
nurses from the Far East, the Royal College of | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
Nursing says more training places here are needed. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Ask the Leader is next on BBC One Wales. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
I'm back with an update for you at 8'o clock. | :25:09. | :25:11. |