08/05/2016 BBC Wales Today

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Labour and Plaid Cymru have two wins each,

in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Turnout was much higher than in 2012.

It is because voting took place on the same day as the Assembly

election. But there were tens

of thousands of spoiled or rejected ballot papers,

as Ben Price reports. This was only the second Police

and Crime Commissioner election to have been held

and, throughout the day, counting has taken place

in all four police force areas. Two new commissioners

were expected in North Wales and in Gwent after

independents, Winston Roddick and Ian Johnston,

stepped down. So, Alun Michael returns

for a second term in South Wales. electing former Assembly

member Jeff Cuthbert. In North Wales, Plaid Cymru's Arfon

Jones takes charge and Dyfed-Powys also welcomes a new face,

Dafydd Llywelyn was chosen, ousting former Conservative

PCC Christopher Salmon. It's a police service

that I served for 13.5 years, as their head

of intelligence analysis, and I am looking forward

to the challenges ahead. The turnout for this police

and crime commission election The turnout for this Police

and Crime Commissioner election was much higher than it was in 2012

and here, in the Dyfed-Powys area, it was more than 50%,

making it the highest But tens of thousands of ballot

papers were rejected, prompting calls for better

publicity in future. It's ridiculous that that happens

in Assembly elections, parliamentary elections,

and even European elections, but it doesn't happen in the Police

and Crime Commissioner elections, so those voters who wrote

a complaint on their ballot paper, that they didn't know enough,

they're quite right. The role of the PCC has

been questioned by many, but it will be up to the four

newly-elected Commissioners in Wales to prove their critics wrong

in the weeks and months ahead. Police are investigating

the unexplained death of a soldier found unconscious in Brecon town

centre early this morning. There's nothing to indicate

that the death was linked to extremism.

Nick Palit reports. Scenes of crime officers have been

conducting a fingertip search of a long stretch of Lion Street

in the centre of Brecon. A forensic tent covers the spot

where the soldier was found injured and unconscious at around

1 o'clock in the morning. He was taken to hospital,

but later died. Police are treating

his death as unexplained. It's understood he was not wearing

military uniform and there's nothing People in the town

are naturally shocked. I saw police cars down

there as I was leaving, but we didn't know anything

at the time, I didn't know anything Shocking, absolutely

shocking, yeah. Not very nice, isn't it?

In our town. You know, it's a peaceful

mid-Wales town. Police are appealing for any

witnesses who were in the Lion Street area last

night to come forward. In a statement, the Ministry

of Defence said, "We are aware of an incident involving the death

of a soldier in Brecon. Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating

and it would be inappropriate to comment any further

at the moment." Cardiff Council has denied claims

that one of the city's secondary schools has a problem

with Islamic extremism. A Sunday newspaper makes

the allegations in an article, which it says was written

by an unnamed former teacher Cardiff Council says the school

is fully committed to safeguarding pupils, and works pro-actively

on countering extremism. Labour will seek to form

a minority government after Thursdays' Assembly elections,

according to party Meanwhile, the Chairman

of the Conservatives in Wales says the party here should focus

on June's EU referendum, After 17 years in power

in Cardiff Bay, many Labour sources were expecting to lose seats in last

week's election, but as it turned out, the party successfully defended

all of its most vulnerable seats. While losing Rhondda

was clearly a blow, today Carwyn Jones said that,

with 29 AMs, he has a mandate We had effectively, in the last

Assembly, we had 36, -- We had effectively, in the last

Assembly, we had 30 seats, And Carwyn was able to deliver

a comprehensive, substantive programme of government by having

discussions with other parties. And that will obviously

need to continue. That cooperation will come

at a price, but for one of Plaid's new faces,

there is plenty of room to talk. We now should move forward

on the small business rates policy, for example,

where there is consensus across the board that we should be

cutting those business rates, and childcare is

another area as well. The Conservatives lost seats

for the first time in Assembly elections, and there have been

questions about the future of the party's leader

in Wales Andrew RT Davies. But with a review already set up

to look into what went wrong, and an EU referendum to fight,

the chair of the party says now is not the time for

a leadership contest. None of us wants to see a situation

however in which the Conservative Party in Wales spends that five-week

period arguing about who is leading Let's focus on dealing

with the referendum issue first. with Mr Davies' future almost

certain to be on the agenda. Well, after a day when Wales

was hotter than Portugal in places, all areas will hold

onto the sunshine at first tomorrow, but cloud will feed

in from the south later on, That's Wales Today,

I'll be back at 20 past 10.