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Welcome to the programme. Tonight's headlines: | 0:00:11 | 0:00:12 | |
One hundred years on, services of commemoration in France | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
and at home to remember the Welsh soldiers who fell in | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
the battle of Mametz Wood. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
Workers at Tata Steel sites in Wales wait for confirmation | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
but the company is expected to hold off on the sale of most | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
of its UK business. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
And the Wales team who made history in France prepare for a heroes' | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
welcome home tomorrow. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
It lasted five days, left more than a thousand Welshmen | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
dead or missing, around 3,000 wounded. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
Today marks the centenary of the battle of Mametz Wood | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
in northern France, where soldiers from across Wales were told | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
to assault a German strongpoint. | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Today, services were held across Wales as well as | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
a special ceremony in France. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:02 | |
Roger Pinney reports. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
The music played by the band of the Royal Welsh would have been | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
familiar to those who fought here a hundred years ago. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
It included the marches of their regiments. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:16 | |
We are here today to remember but also to thank. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:20 | |
And today was a time to remember. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
Those who travelled to Mametz Wood for the ceremony came | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
from all aspects of Welsh life, just as the soldiers of 1916 did. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:32 | |
As wreaths were laid, there was a reminder of the terrible | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
toll of the battle for Mametz Wood. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
In 15 minutes, the losses were greater than the British Army's | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
15 years in Afghanistan. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
Anita Jordan's uncle, Oliver Loosemore from Penrhiwceiber, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
was among those who died. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
He came out here in May and he died of wounds as a result | 0:01:57 | 0:02:02 | |
of the battle on July the 11th. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:05 | |
You are standing here on his ground. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Yes, on his ground. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
That is a very emotional for me, as you can imagine. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
I think how proud my father would have been to stand | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
here in honour of his brother. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:20 | |
For those who were here, going through the mud, | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
walking over barbed wire, towards gunfire, | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
and yet still they did it. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
I think it is difficult for us to understand that and that is why | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
it is so important for us to remember it. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
For five days the Welsh fought here. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
Time and time again they threw themselves at the wood. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
By the time they were relieved, accounts of the time talk | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
of this valley strewn with the dead and wounded. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
4,000 lost - that's a third of the division's infantry strength. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:54 | |
And back home there were events to remember those from Wales | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
who lost their lives at Mametz Wood and throughout the First World War. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
From Cardiff to Caernarfon, hundreds attended ceremonies | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
to recall all those Welsh men and women who made | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
the ultimate sacrifice. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
We've become used now to the grainy black and white images of war. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
This remarkable film was recorded during the Battle of the Somme | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
and then shown to packed picture houses back home. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
And some still photographs survive of the aftermath at Mametz Wood. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
Here, a wounded soldier is returning through the trenches. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
Other pictures show damage caused by hours of shelling. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:38 | |
They give a flavour but can't fully convey the horror. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
30 years ago, BBC Wales interviewed men who lived through it. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
They included Albert Evans of the 16th Cardiff City battalion | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
of the Welch Regiment. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
Alf Jackson of the 14th Swansea Welch and Williams Davies | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
of the 11th South Wales Borderers. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
They did not have two shell us because they were mowing us down | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
with the rifle fire, the snipers and machine guns. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
I ran through, up to the edge of the wood. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
When I looked at the wood, it was all demolished. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
Branches down, trunks stripped, trunks lying down, | 0:04:12 | 0:04:18 | |
stumps on the ground. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
Two Welsh rugby internationals were killed at Mametz, | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
including Dick Thomas, a collier turned policeman | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
who played in two Grand Slam winning sides. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
The Welsh Rugby Union has put his shirt and caps on display. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
We have this remarkable account of his death. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
I remember this huge man down lying down in front of me. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
He got up on his knees and two hands on the ground, went down | 0:04:43 | 0:04:48 | |
to the ground, killed like that. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
Just in front of you? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Just in front of me, and I hid behind him all day. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:00 | |
Many of those who died at Mametz Wood are buried at this | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
ceremony, near to where they fell. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:06 | |
Today, they were all remembered. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
The 38th Welsh Division - men from north, south, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
east and west Wales who fought together and died together here. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:17 | |
To other news. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
A 29-year-old man from Cardiff has been found guilty of causing | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
the deaths of a father and his unborn baby by dangerous driving. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:27 | |
Kyle Kennedy crashed into a car on Lamby Way on New Year's Eve. | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
33-year-old Simon Lewis died at the scene. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
His son was delivered three days after the collision | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
but died later that day. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
A nurse has been sacked for looking at patients' | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
private hospital records. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:46 | |
Hywel Dda University Health Board, which runs services | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, says no | 0:05:48 | 0:05:50 | |
changes were made to any of the records and has apologised | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
to everyone affected. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
Tata Steel is expected to announce that it will hold off on the sale | 0:05:55 | 0:05:59 | |
of most of its UK business, including its site at Port Talbot, | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
which employs around 4,000 people. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
But the company says it will proceed with the sale of its speciality | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
steel-making operations at sites in England. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
Tata's board is due to meet at its headquarters in Mumbai tomorrow, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
from where our correspondent Yogita Limaye reports. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
It is inside this building, the headquarters of the Tata Group | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
in Mumbai, that the Tata Steel board meets and the meeting on Friday | 0:06:21 | 0:06:25 | |
is particularly significant because it is the first time | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
the board will be coming together after the UK voted | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
to leave the European Union. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
That has huge implications for Tata Steel's business in Europe. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:39 | |
In March, the company had announced it wants to sell off its entire | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
British business and in May it said that at least seven potential buyers | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
had expressed an interest. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
About a quarter of the steel that Tata produces in the UK is sold | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
to Europe and potential buyers are likely to worry about future | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
access to such a key market. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
It is just another complication in what is already | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
a complex sale negotiation. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
There is speculation that Tata Steel might decide to put the entire sale | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
process on hold until there is some clarity on what the Brexit vote | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
really means for businesses. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
Tata Steel employs about 11,000 workers in the UK. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
About 4,000 in Port Talbot. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
The British government has been desperate to save face | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
and save jobs. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:29 | |
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has been here several times to meet | 0:07:29 | 0:07:33 | |
with Tata Steel's management and he is on another visit now. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
Despite the Brexit vote, the government has said | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
it maintains its offer to take a 25% stake in whatever deal is struck to | 0:07:40 | 0:07:45 | |
buy Tata Steel's British operations. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
But the company has said it has been losing ?1 million a day for more | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
than a year in the UK and finally it will be up to the board in that | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
building to decide how long the company can afford to keep | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
losing that kind of money. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
A parade and concert to welcome the Wales football team home | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
from Euro 2016 will be held in Cardiff tomorrow. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:11 | |
Thousands are expected to line the streets | 0:08:11 | 0:08:14 | |
of the capital to celebrate the team's achievements. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
It was an historic few weeks for Chris Coleman's side, | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
who reached the semifinal of the tournament. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
From Lyon, Tomos Dafydd reports. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:21 | |
Heading home after a football adventure which has lasted longer | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
than anyone could have imagined. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:28 | |
This morning, some were still celebrating what they had achieved | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
and, for the manager, a chance to spend time with the family. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:35 | |
In Lyon, the mass exodus of Wales fans started early. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
They are going home after a memorable summer. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
All lines lead to Cardiff and after four weeks in France, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
the fans can leave with their heads held high. | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
As for the players, they will return as heroes. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:54 | |
"Together stronger" has been the motto throughout. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
In victory and defeat. | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
Players and fans have been united. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:03 | |
They are now national heroes. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
The players say this is just the start of something special. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
We don't want to just turn up to one tournament, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
we want to start qualifying on a regular basis | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
and it is about the bigger picture as well. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
We are disappointed now but we will pick ourselves back up. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
We have got loads of confidence. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:24 | |
A defeat does not damage this bunch | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
and we will pick ourselves up for the next trip and go again. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
What a performance from the team in the tournament. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
And as a country as well, we have added to the tournament. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
It has been a great experience. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
# Gwlad, gwlad... | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
They cheered in Lyon well into the night. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:45 | |
And back home, the support just as passionate. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
Tomorrow these fans will have a chance to say thank you. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
An open top bus parade through Cardiff is planned. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
The celebrations culminating in a concert at the Cardiff City Stadium. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
Wales leave the stage having excited, delighted and surprised | 0:09:59 | 0:10:04 | |
a proud nation. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
The summer of 2016 forever remembered | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
for this football fairy tale. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
As Tomos mentioned in his report, the Wales team will have | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
a homecoming to remember in the capital tomorrow. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
Some details now on what they and the fans can expect. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:24 | |
The celebrations get underway at Cardiff Castle. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:30 | |
This is where, at four o clock, the team will board an open-top bus. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:35 | |
They'll travel along High Street and St Mary's Street, | 0:10:35 | 0:10:39 | |
then on to Wood Street. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
Next it's a right on to Westgate Street, before turning left | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
and crossing the River Taff. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
The bus will carry on along Wellington Street | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
before turning onto Leckwith Road. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:53 | |
The final stop, Cardiff City Stadium. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:57 | |
Here, from 5:15pm, at the home of Welsh football, there will be | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
a homecoming concert with special guests the Manic Street Preachers, | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
before the players and the staff take their place on the stage | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
for a question and answer session. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
Preparations are already underway but if you can't make it | 0:11:11 | 0:11:15 | |
you can follow every twist and turn on BBC Wales services. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:21 | |
A look at the weather now with Benny. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:30 | |
Not much sign of summer today by things improving a little bit | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
as we go through tomorrow. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
By the afternoon, it is looking dry and brighter. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Tonight, we have this front which will push back northwards | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
through the overnight period. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
Heavy rain likely across the south-east. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
A very muggy night. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
Temperatures getting down to 12 Celsius. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
Tomorrow, that front will clear, but we do have an area of low | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
pressure coming in by the time we get to Saturday which will bring | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
some wet and windy conditions. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
First thing tomorrow, a wet and windy start, | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
but by the afternoon we can look forward to dry | 0:12:04 | 0:12:08 | |
and brighter conditions. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
Feeling warm and humid out and about across the British Isles | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
with that rain clearing parts of the south-east. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Behind it, just a few showers. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
Highs of 23 Celsius. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
In Wales tomorrow afternoon it is looking promising. | 0:12:21 | 0:12:24 | |
You can look forward to bright or sunny spells, | 0:12:24 | 0:12:27 | |
just the odd isolated shower. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Good news if you are going to the Wales homecoming parade | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
to take some sunscreen with you. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
Highs of 17 to 21 Celsius. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
Tomorrow night, dry at first but overnight that next weather | 0:12:37 | 0:12:41 | |
system pushing in from the south-west, bringing more rain. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
Another very humid night. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
It will be uncomfortable for sleeping. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:50 | |
Temperatures no lower than 14 Celsius. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
The winds light to moderate. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:55 | |
On Saturday, it is looking like a wet and windy day. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:58 | |
Some heavy pulses of rain likely as well. | 0:12:58 | 0:13:01 | |
Not a nice day to be out and about but it is feeling warm | 0:13:01 | 0:13:04 | |
with highs of 20 Celsius. | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
Sunday, blustery showers, sunny spells and a better day | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
in comparison with Saturday. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
As we go into the start of next week, it will remain unsettled | 0:13:13 | 0:13:16 | |
but feeling less humid. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
And don't forget to join us for that special programme | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
celebrating their homecoming between 4pm and 6pm tomorrow. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
For now though, from everyone here, good evening. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:27 |