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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight - hopes the new Hinkley nuclear plant in Somerset can | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
boost the beleaguered Welsh steel industry. | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
This is an opportunity not just for Welsh steel - | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
but for our construction and engineering firms too. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
But do we have enough skilled workers to win all that work? | :00:12. | :00:19. | |
We have been expecting this work for quite a while so we have been | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
gearing up but I have to say that we do also have a skills gap | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Helen Thompson needed a car to take her autistic son to college. | :00:27. | :00:40. | |
The previous owner had borrowed against it. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
The call for a change in the law on so-called logbook loans. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Ukip is about to pick a successor to Nigel Farage - | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
big figures in the party in Wales are split on who should take over. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Welsh football is on a high after success at the Euros. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Now talk of a Great Britain football team playing at the next Olympics | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
It's been billed as a good opportunity for the Welsh economy, | :01:05. | :01:27. | |
but there are concerns tonight that the new nuclear power plant | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
in Somerset will take the most specialist workers away from Wales. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
The Prime Minister gave the ?18 billion Hinkley C project | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Overlooking the Bristol channel, it's just 14 and a half | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Welsh firms are already lined up to provide 200,000 tonnes of steel, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
worth ?100 million, to build the plant. | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
There are up to 26,000 jobs on offer, but there are concerns | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
that Welsh people taking some of those roles will leave businesses | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is in Port Talbot. | :01:53. | :02:15. | |
And so many times when we are here at Port Talbot in the shadow of the | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
steelworks, we are talking about bad news, the fragility of the sector, | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
but today it is more about opportunities, the opportunities for | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
steel. Not however for Tata Steel, the plant here and be hotrolled coil | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
that it makes but through the steel industry is that we have in Wales | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
that actually supply the construction industry with | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
reinforced steel that will be so much needed for Hinkley point. There | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
are other opportunities to because around Port Talbot over the decades | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
many metal fabrication businesses have set up and there could be | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
opportunities for them to perhaps do some self-assembly work year and | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
then supply across the water to Hinkley point. Across the water, a | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
different country, a different economy, the challenge for Wales is | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
to grab the opportunities that lie with his ?18 billion and adjustment. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
If Wales can win business building the first nuclear power plant for 30 | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
years, it could help the Welsh economy for the long-term. After a | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
more of that after more of a year than... This time he focuses on Tata | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
Steel, but instead on salsa in Cardiff. It makes the steel that is | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
used for reinforcing concrete and it makes it from scratch steel that has | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
brought here on massive lorries. Already, 200,000 tonnes of that | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
reinforced recycled steel has been ordered for the Hinkley project. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Steel from here will go to express reinforcements in Neath. It is | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
already involved in the Crossrail project in London and will be | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
supplying Hinkley C, just one Welsh company already talking to those | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
running the nuclear project. We have been expecting this work for some | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
time so we have been gearing up but I have to say that we do also have a | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
skills gap of mammoth proportions. We lost 400,000 people in the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
construction industry in the last recession and they haven't come | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
back. And also our training needs to be moved up quite a few gears so we | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
need lots of Welsh Government help to do that. On the ground, there is | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
a real fear that the skills gap will only get bigger and that the most | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
specialist workers will be tempted to work on Hinkley C, pushing | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
smaller firms to the bottom of the food chain. I believe we will | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
struggle with subcontractors, addresses, plumbers, bricklayers, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Hinkley will be offering a higher salary than what Wales are paying. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
And we already have a shortage and Hinkley will be taking those people | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
away from us, making it worse in Wales. But today the first ministers | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
pledged ?16.5 million towards developing skills across North Wales | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
as they prepare for a new nuclear reactor at Wylfa Power Station. He | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
is confident we can seize the opportunities from the Hinkley | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
project. We know that we have the businesses in Wales that can offer | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
jobs to people with the right skills so we're not looking at a brain | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
drain. What we are looking at is an opportunity for businesses in Wales | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
to act as suppliers and contractors potentially for Hinkley and that is | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
a bit we want to explore. What is undeniable is that Hinkley C will | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
have a clear impact on the economy of South Wales in a number of Wales. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
But with wealth and know it on the drawing board, expertise learned | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
working on Hinkley but help Welsh firms winning projects and is the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
whole of the Welsh economy. Ken Skates has said that the project | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
must use UK steel. He has also said that Welsh manufacturing must be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
involved. You could say that the genes of a politician but he might | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
actually be knocking on an open door because EDF, the French company | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
behind the project, they will be running the project in effect, they | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
have a buy local policy, if you like. Now, North Devon and North | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Somerset doesn't have much of a steel industry. We have much more of | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
one year round so we could well be in a good place, a good position, to | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
supply into that. There are big opportunities focused action, for | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
engineering and for steel for Wales but the companies in Wales will | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
really have to fight to get any bit of the action. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
The trial of a former senior police officer accused of the historical | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
sexual abuse of two boys has heard one of them describe being passed | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
Gordon Anglesea denies three charges of indecent assault and another | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
The jury at Mold Crown Court heard a police interview with one | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Gordon Anglesea was a former superintendent | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
Now aged 78, he was a police inspector based | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The prosecution say that during that time, he abused two teenagers, | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
one of them now in his 40s was interviewed by police | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
He was a resident at the Bryn Alyn children's home. | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
The head of the organisation was John Allen, jailed in 2014 | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
The witness claims he was taken by John Allen to different locations | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
to be abused by others over a period of months. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
During the interview, the witness said he was taken | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
to a property in Mold in Flintshire, where he was indecently | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
But he had a birthmark on his face and glasses. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
He was a really nasty, horrible piece of work. | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
I think he was something to do with the police. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
That, the prosecution say, was Gordon Anglesea. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
The witness then said that the man threatened him, saying he had | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
the authority to send him far, far away and he would never | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
Asked how he knew the man was something to do with the police, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
The trial is adjourned for the week and will resume on Monday | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
with the witness facing cross-examination by the defence. | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Gordon Anglesea denies two indecent assault charges and committing | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
a serious sexual offence against one complainant and an indecent assault | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
A drugs gang which ferried heroin and crack cocaine from Liverpool | :08:09. | :08:21. | |
into north east Wales has been jailed. | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
Mold Crown Court heard the gang brought class-A drugs | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
into Flintshire for distribution on the streets. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
The seven members of the gang were given jail terms ranging | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
BBC Wales has announced a major reorganisation aimed | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
A shake-up of senior management will see six senior posts scrapped | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
and three new ones created, with the commissioning | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
of TV, radio and online content brought together. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
The changes come against the background of the BBC's | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
"cash-flat" licence fee agreement, set in 2015. | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
Obviously, we have a flat licence fee, which means that in real terms, | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
we will need to find savings of about 2% every year | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
So a number of changes will need to be made there. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The new broadcast centre in Central Square in Cardiff city | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
centre will make a big contribution to those savings, | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
The second thing I announced, a number of management changes, | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
A reward of up to ?5,000 is being offered for information | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
about an arson attack on a school in Torfaen. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
A fire in January destroyed the nursery and infant classrooms | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
Seven people from the area have been arrested on suspicion of arson | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
with intent to endanger life and are currently on bail. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
A motorist from the Swansea Valley is backing calls for a change | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
in the law in relation to so-called "logbook-loans". | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
Helen Thompson from Ystalyfera bought a second-hand car last year, | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
but weeks later a finance company tried to re-possess it. | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
The previous owner had taken out a loan secured on the vehicle | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
The Law Commission says new legislation is needed to make | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
It's the biggest purchase most of us make after our home. | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
Our cars can be worth hundreds, thousands, even tens | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
And when hard times hit, it can be a valuable financial asset. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
Now some specialist companies are offering to lend you money | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
There are a whole host of companies on the Internet offering | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
to lend you cash against the value of your car. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
But they are only intended as a short-term loans and have | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
Now some unscrupulous motorists have been taking | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
the cash and selling the car on without settling the debt. | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
And that is having devastating consequences for the new owner. | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
Helen Thomson needed a cheap car to take her autistic son to college. | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
But the Golf she bought for ?1200 has cost her dear. | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
The man she bought it from had borrowed ?500 against it but hadn't | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
made the repayments before selling it on. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
I bought the car in June, then I received a letter saying | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
that they were coming to get the car because it had a logbook loan on it. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
And I contacted them saying that I didn't have the loan on the car. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
And it went on for weeks and weeks and weeks. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
He came at the door then, another one. | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
So I pulled the wheels off and I put it on the drive. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Now it is sitting there and I can't do nothing with it. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
And I've had to purchase this one now. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Helen has had to borrow from family for an alternative car | :11:28. | :11:39. | |
Citizens Advice say at least 100 people have been caught out like | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
The Law Commission say new legislation is needed. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
We're going to change the law so that people in Helen's position, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
they will be the owners of the vehicle. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
The lender can't come and repossess the vehicle any more. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
What the lender will then have to do is proceed to sue the borrower. | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
Helen's battle with the finance company has now lasted more | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
than a year and it's taken its toll on her health. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Couldn't sleep, couldn't sleep for months and months and still now, | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
you'd hear someone with a glory and you think, oh my God, | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
they're going to put it up on a high up or something and take it. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
So hopefully the law will change and the man who sold me the car can | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
If the government accept the Law Commission recommendation, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
the new law could be on the statutes sometime next year. | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
Still to come on the programme tonight, Welsh football is on a high | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Now talk of a Great Britain football team playing at the next Olympics | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
isn't scoring well with fans. And could a robot really do | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
Meet Emily who's going into service off the Gwynedd coast. | :12:49. | :13:04. | |
There's just under a week left of voting to choose the next | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Labour Leader and both candidates have been setting out their | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
industrial policies as the contest enters its final days. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
Jeremy Corbyn used a speech in London earlier to say | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
that he would insist on the use of British steel in | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Owen Smith will visit Port Talbot steelworks shortly. You will be | :13:17. | :13:33. | |
outlining how he will protect manufacturing jobs. Jobs and the | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
economy very much the focus today. That's right, as we enter the final | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
stages of this campaign that started off fairly gently at the beginning | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
of the summer but has got increasingly fractious as the weeks | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
and months have gone on. The accusation against the Jeremy Corbyn | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
camp is they will lead some kind of vendetta against Labour MPs that | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
have been rude towards Jeremy Corbyn. The accusation against the | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Owen Smith camp is that he is led an increasingly personalised campaign | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
against the character of Jeremy Corbyn but today an opportunity for | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
both men to lay out their industrial strategies. In central London, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Jeremy Corbyn talking about the need to borrow to invest in our | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
manufacturing base and Owen Smith as you say will come here tonight and | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
meets union and workers to set out one of his policies, which is again | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
linked to the need for the government to borrow to invest in | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
manufacturing but he will add a bit of spice to it by saying that it | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Jeremy Corbyn was in charge, he would put hundreds of thousands of | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
jobs in energy, oil and gas and manufacturing and the nuclear | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
industry at risk. Now of course, the public don't vote in this contest | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
but union members do. And that clearly is what both men's messages | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
have been directed that today. Thank you very much. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Labour aren't the only party in the midst of | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
Tomorrow, we'll learn who'll take over from Nigel Farage | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
So, after months of bitter infighting within Ukip Wales, | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
what impact will the new leader have on the party? | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
The two main figures in Ukip here differ on what they want | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
from the next chapter of the party's story. | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
And while Roald Dahl 's life will be celebrated in Cardiff this weekend, | :15:22. | :15:38. | |
the person who will take the big seat in Ukip will also be announced. | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
So what do the characters in the party look like? | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
They've made Ukip one of the stories of Welsh politics. | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
They now have a significant group of Assembly Members and won | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
what is to most members the equivalent of | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
Reflecting a deep split in the party, the story | :15:55. | :16:09. | |
of Ukip in Wales has become a struggle between two men, | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
Nathan Gill who led the assembly election campaign and is close | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
to Nigel Farage and the man who beat him in a vote | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
to become assembly group leader, Neil Hamilton, | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
seen as being on the anti Farage side of the party. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Since then, Nathan Gill has left the assembly group and now sits | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
So where do the pictures go next in the Ukip block? | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
Well, Nigel Farage's successor will be drawn from a cast | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
The favourite is Nigel Farage's ally, Diane James. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
So what's the mood on the story here? | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
Unsurprisingly, the big characters disagree. | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
Nathan Gill says he thinks Diane James will try to change | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
If you were the leader of the new party and you had people | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
in the party who were kicking against what you were trying | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
to achieve, you would have two stamp your authority on those people. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
So could that mean trying to destabilise Neil Hamilton's role | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
There is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to change | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
the leadership of the group in the assembly because that is | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
entirely in the hands of our Assembly Members. | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
They elected me rather than Nathan Gill, hence | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
Because he can't cope with the democratic | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
They may not yet be giants on the political scene, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
but whoever takes the hot seat for Ukip tomorrow is likely | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
to have a big say on how the story develops for the party in Wales. | :17:36. | :17:51. | |
Doctors at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor say there's been a dramatic drop | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
in the number of diabetic people having legs or feet amputated. | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
They say better co-ordination between different medical | :17:58. | :17:58. | |
and nursing staff has helped them to act quickly and prevent | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
A checkup at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
69-year-old Jenny Glover has type two diabetes. | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Last December, her foot became infected and she was brought | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
She says it is only thanks to staff here that she didn't lose her foot. | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
They are wonderful but I live on my own. | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
If I didn't have some kind of mobility, I don't want to go | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
into care or anything like that, or have care is coming round, | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Jenny Glover has lost toes in the past, having limbs | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
amputated is a known risk for people with diabetes. | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
They lose sensation in their limbs and don't realise if they have been | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
hurt by something as simple as a shoe rubbing. | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
In England, figures for the start of this decade show that as many | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
as 135 people a week had to have an amputation | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
The charity Diabetes UK says it is a serious problem and diabetic | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
people don't always get the care they need to avoid it | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
But at Ysbyty Gwynedd, things are a bit different. | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
Ten years ago, managers reorganise the way staff care for diabetic | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
Different specialists started working together | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
I find amputating limbs always very disappointing, | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
But to get people back from the brink of losing a limb | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
or even life, getting back to a real good quality | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
of life is a real thrill, not just for me, but for all | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
the staff and the staff keep going because they see results. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
And those results are reflected in the figures. | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
In 2014, staff at Ysbyty Gwynedd did no major amputations at all. | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
They say they are working hard to carry on in the same way, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Let's get tonight's sport now with Tomos. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
A Great Britain football team which could include players | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
like Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey playing at the next Olympics. | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
That's what the England manager wants but the Football Association | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
of Wales has reiterated its opposition to the idea. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
It fears it could damage its independence and it's | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
an issue which always generates strong opinions. | :20:04. | :20:13. | |
Weeks after Wales exceeded all expectations and went further | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
in Euro 2016 than any other home nation, the thorny issue of fielding | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
The home nations got together over breakfast yesterday. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland do not. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Along with the Football Association of Wales. | :20:26. | :20:26. | |
And some of the national side 's prominent supporters. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
I just find the whole persistent agenda quite | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
For years, we were kind of left alone, no one really cared | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
about Welsh football, and now it is fully | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
2012 and a British football side in action | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
Now the British Olympic Association would love to see it return in 2020. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
It argues when else would young footballers and the women's senior | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
footballers have the chance to get significant tournament experience? | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
11 football games were held here at the Olympics in 2012. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
As for Wales, it enjoys something of a unique position | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
While not an independent country, it has a special place | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
within Fifa which allows it to compete independently | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
at European Championships and the World Cup. | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
The same goes for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
Is there a threat to their existence as separate footballing entities? | :21:20. | :21:33. | |
Fifa top brass can give all the assurances they want | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
but basically world governing is football body is run | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
by its member countries and therefore if three quarters | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
of those nations wanted Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
and England to become Great Britain then they could force it through no | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
matter what the assurances that come from the hierarchy. | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
It is expected football bosses from the four home nations | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
Part of the process towards considering the reintroduction | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Fifa say it would need the agreement of the ruling bodies in Scotland, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
So it seems the impasse will continue with Wales wary of any | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
revival which could threaten its footballing independence. | :22:21. | :22:35. | |
Staying with football, Wales have climbed to 10th | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
They're now above former world champions Spain. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
Worth remembering, just five years ago, Wales were ranked 117th. | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
Swansea City's Nathan Dyer will be out of action for two months. | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
The winger, who won the Premier League while on loan | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
at Leicester last season, has what's described as an "extra | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
Machines have been replacing people for years, but could a robot really | :22:58. | :23:10. | |
Well, one has gone into service off the Gwynedd coast today, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
to help if someone gets into difficulty in the sea. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
The robot lifeguard known as E.M.I.L.Y, or the Emergency | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, will be used by campsite | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
Launched on the California beaches of Malibu, this is Emily, | :23:21. | :23:41. | |
or the Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard. | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
It can reach speeds of up to 22 mph to reach distressed swimmers faster | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
And now from the beaches of Baywatch to this Gwynedd Council campsite. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
It will be used by staff on this site where this year alone they have | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
rescued three adults and three children from the waters. | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
In the UK this year, we have seen a lot of riptides | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
being formed and people given the information. | :24:02. | :24:02. | |
It's basically a life ring with a control that you can get away | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
casualty straightaway, once it's in the water. | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
A life ring, you can only throw ten metres, | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
whereas this, it can get out to 100 metres victory | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
It has been a busy summer for the rescue services on the Welsh | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
coast with several lives being lost, including two teenage boys | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
from Birmingham who died after being swept out | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
When every second counts in a rescue, Emily is | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
I have been told this is idiot proof so I have been allowed to go | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
It is just a simple remote control with a trigger and a wheel | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
where you can turn her left or right and she is now going at full speed, | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
just over 20 mph and it will go as far as the eye can see, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
around four or five miles out to sea. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
It costs around ?8,000 and models in the United States have been | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
fitted with on-board speakers and cameras so the lifeguard can see | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
It can also be fitted with sonar systems to help | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
There is no replacement for a lifeguard, there is no | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
This is an idea that has been with to get buoyancy to people. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
The rescue services to a cracking job around the country | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
It has been designed to keep people above the water whilst they are | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
waiting for the professionals from the RNLI and the Coast Guard. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
It has been in use for several years in America but this is thought to be | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
a UK first and if it proves to be a life-saver we could see | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Time for the latest weather forecast now with Sue. | :25:31. | :25:46. | |
Thank you very much. Today the last of the unseasonably warm days. Some | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
heavy downpours denied and then feeling fresher tomorrow with some | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
bright spells. The change comes as this front which brought thunder on | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Tuesday and then stored in the Atlantic eventually moves eastwards | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
tonight. That could trigger thundery downpours. A warning for the risk of | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
those in south-east Wales. Otherwise turning increasingly cloudy with | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
outbreaks of showery rain overnight. Heavy at times. Temperatures holding | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
up in the teens. Tomorrow, any early rain clears to the east. Cloud and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
missed lifting, allowing sunny spells to develop. A much fresher | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
day with sunny spells. Just the odd isolated shower. Brisk | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
north-westerly winds and feeling noticeably cooler. 16 Celsius in | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Gwynedd. Temperatures back where they should be for September. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Tonight, much quieter. The odd shower. Otherwise dry spells. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Slightly cooler overnight with north-westerly winds. High pressure | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
builds from the South west into the weekend. We swap the humidity for | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
settled fresher weather on Saturday. But this low pressure could head in | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
on Sunday. A chilly start on Saturday. Cooler in the -- | :27:07. | :27:16. | |
north-westerly winds. Sunday, the threat of rain heading in from the | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
west later in the day. We lose the humidity. A chance of some heavy | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
downpours denied and then a fresher day tomorrow, similar into the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
weekend with more autumnal conditions to come next week. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
We'll have a quick update at 8, there's more after | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
But that is Wales Today, thanks for watching, | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
from all of us here, have a good evening. | :27:39. | :27:47. | |
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