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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today - our top stories: Intended | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to help our poorest families - Communities First, | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
the Welsh Government's flagship policy, is set to be closed down | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
of public money - our poorest communities | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Sgt Louise Lucas "did not turn and look at what was coming" | :00:21. | :00:39. | |
before being hit by a bus on Swansea's Kingsway, | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
The EU needs to learn to communicate with the people receiving EU money - | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Two brothers shot a drug-dealing taxman | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
in Rhondda Cynon Taff, a court has heard. | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
He sowed the seeds of Mrs Thatcher's downfall. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
The story of the Welshman caught between two strong women. | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
It funds hundreds of projects in the most deprived areas of Wales | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
- from parent-and-baby groups to credit unions - | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
but tonight, the Welsh Government says it's scrapping | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
It's spent ?300 million on the flagship anti-poverty policy | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
There's been a mixed response, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
with some saying it'll be a big loss, | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
while others claim it's failed to deliver. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Here's our political editor Nick Servini. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Across the generations across communities in Wales, economic | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
deprivation has blighted many. Communities First was one of the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
first high profile attempts by the Welsh Government to deal with that | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
since the start of devolution, with more than ?300 million spent on a | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
range of community schemes over the past 15 years. It now looks set to | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
have run its course. There won't be any direct replacement. Instead the | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Welsh Government thinks a range of policies like more free childcare | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
for working parents and more apprentices, no matter how old you | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
are, we'll do a better job. | :02:26. | :02:42. | |
The communities in children secretary, Carl Sargeant, told | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
members change won't be easy. A lot of this stuff is generational. We're | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
probably not seen the effects of our early intervention is growing for | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
ten years or so but we must start now and make that change and be | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
brave now because we don't then it is about a short-term political when | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
caught changing our communities for the better, for the future, and that | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
is what this new programme, I believe, will do. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
I agree with the plans personally. I know a lot of good people that work | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
for Communities First but it is so much money and it is changing to be | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
so target orientated and the things it is targeted towards is a waste of | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
money and something council services can provide better. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Opposition parties have been critical of Communities First over | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
the years and today was no exception. The Conservatives said it | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
wasn't fit for purpose and Plaid Cymru said there should be renewed | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
purpose. Over a 100 million has been spent | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
since the 2011 audit office report said it wasn't working and wasn't | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
effective at tackling the main aim, which was economic deprivation in | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
those areas. That is borne out by the fact that communities are still | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
the most deprived that were previously identified as such. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
It would appear that this is the first casualty of cuts. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
Let's talk to our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins. | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
This policy was designed to eradicate poverty | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
when it was established fifteen years ago - | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
?300 million gone on since 1989 and we still have the same level of | :04:16. | :04:30. | |
poverty we had then. Broadly, one in four households are in poverty. For | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
communities that have had money from Communities First to build things | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
like hubs or toddlers groups, they have felt that money coming in, but | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
looking across Wales it has not had the game changing effect that they | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
hoped it would have. What next? What about those people | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
who were being served by this scheme? | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
You can imagine a lot of work has been done all this time. Figures are | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
showing every year what we're trying to do about poverty and many people | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
working in the area say it is not realistic to look at 50 geographical | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
areas. Communities First was based on literally areas on a map and what | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
many people who really have long experience working in the field, | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
people like Oxfam and other groups, they say that poverty does not work | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
like that. There are deprived communities with people who aren't | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
deprived and there are people really struggling alongside people who are | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
struggling less. They would say or bespoke approach looking at | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
individual needs is what makes a difference. I think it is | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
interesting that Carl Sargeant is saying that what he is going to do | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
now is put extra money into early years, trying to give children who | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
perhaps their parents don't spend as much time talking to them and | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
reading to them, trying to get them more money for apprenticeships and | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
developing schools. What he is seen is the worth poverty is not things | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
like a skatepark but making sure people can get jobs and as good jobs | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
as possible. A collision between a bus | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
and a 41-year-old woman on Swansea's Kingsway - | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
was unavoidable - Sergeant Louise Lucas died | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
after stepping into the path of a bus which | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
hit her from behind Since her death, Swansea Council has | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
taken steps to change the layout Sgt Louise Lucas's family left today | :06:25. | :06:43. | |
having heard evidence from a number of key witnesses, including the bus | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
driver involved in the collision. Sgt Louise Lucas was taken to | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
hospital, fatally injured, having lost a lot of blood. Today they | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
heard that she had sided to go shopping in the city centre. Get | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
parked at this car park and made their way on food to the shops. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Having crossed the furthest carriageway were both lanes travel | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
in the same direction, Sgt Louise Lucas and her friend were walking to | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
the next designated crossing point. Then Qwest was shown CCTV footage of | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Sgt Louise Lucas stepping into the first line of the metro line which | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
at the time travelled in the opposite direction to the first | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
carriageway. Seconds later she was hit from behind by a bus. The | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
inquest was told Louise did not turn round to look at what was coming | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
towards her. They were told it happened very quickly. In the | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
moments leading up to the incident, the inquest was told by the driver | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
that the blonde female stepped out into the road and she did not look | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
back. He said how he braked and swerve to avoid her but was also | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
aware of a bus travelling towards him in the opposite lane. He | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
described the layout at the time as awkward. I knew when we system has | :08:11. | :08:21. | |
been introduced since the death. Christopher Street said that given | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
Mrs Lucas stepped out without looking then this accident was | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
unavoidable. The inquest is expected to last another three days. | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
The rape trial of the former Wales footballer Ched Evans | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
has been told that his alleged victim had no memory | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
of going home with another man on a different occasion. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Mr Evans is accused of raping the woman at a Denbighshire hotel | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
while she was too drunk to consent to sex. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
The striker denies raping the 19-year-old. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
A Welsh government-owned investment company has defended a decision | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
to compete for business as part of England's Northern powerhouse. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
FW Capital, a subsidiary of Finance Wales, wants to manage | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
part of a 400 million pounds fund for firms | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
Plaid Cymru said it could boost Welsh companies' rivals. | :09:12. | :09:20. | |
But FW Capital said any profit it makes in England | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
would help cover Finance Wales's overheads back home. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
Plans to develop a new facility in Cardiff to turn business | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
and industrial waste into energy have been announced. | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Global engineering firm Lockheed Martin and UK-based energy | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
company CoGen Limited say they will join forces | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
The intention, they say, is to convert waste into up to 15MW | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
of energy, enough to power approximately 15000 | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
After Brexit the EU must learn the lessons on how it tells people | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
about money being spent to help poorer areas like West Wales | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
and the Valleys - that's according to the EU | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
Corina Cretu been speaking to our business correspondent | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
The message very clear from her. She regrets but accepts the decision as | :10:01. | :10:15. | |
being made by the people of Wales. The whole issue of is in the news in | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
a daily basis in the UK but it is not being talked about in Brussels | :10:22. | :10:38. | |
quite so much. For them, they see Brexit as a distraction from other | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
issues. It is business as usual in Brussels. | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
This meeting brings people from across the region to look at how | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
cities can work together to become more prosperous. She says she | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
regrets that the majority of voters in Wales wanted to leave. | :11:04. | :11:16. | |
Many new activities have been opened but this speaks also about our | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
weaknesses for communicating what we are doing with the money. How the | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
European money is spent. ?4 billion has come from the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
European Union to Wales and structural funds in the last 15 | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
years. Three quarters of that went to the region known as West Wales | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
and the ballets, which recently qualified again for further funding | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
is one of the poorest parts of the EU. It is a must to grow the economy | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
and create jobs but critics say it was ineffective and used recycled UK | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
money. There is concern it may not be replaced after Brexit. Just as | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
the EU is moving on so will the UK. The Prime Minister will start formal | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
exit negotiations by March. They are keen to know which direction it will | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
be moving in. This company is expanding and moving to a new | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
facility. It was banking on exporting to the EU which is | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
currently 50% of its sales. Ideally we would like to maintain as | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
free trade as possible, so the status quo with Europe, if you like. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
I realise that is going to be tricky to achieve but that is what we need | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
to maintain a competitive position. Here at this brewery in Montgomery | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
they also want to sell more abroad. The boss wanted to leave and says he | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
has already received orders from Europe due to the drop in the Valley | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
of the pound after the referendum. I want to trade with Europe. It is | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
relatively easy to do at the moment but you have the other side of | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
things with migration and what have you. I can understand why it is | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
taking time for the government to make these decisions because they | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
have got a fine balance. Businesses hate uncertainty but they | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
will be watching closely to see if either side gives away. The European | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
government says it will curb immigration and give UK businesses | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
maximum freedom to trade with the single market. But the EU insists | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
that European citizens can't move freely over borders then neither can | :13:33. | :13:33. | |
goods and services. The comments from the commission | :13:34. | :13:45. | |
have drawn a fairly angry response from one of the leading Brexit ears | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
in Wales -- one of the leading advocates of Brexit. He says the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
problem is not about PR or communication but about the fact | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
that the EU and its involvement failed to show any leadership in its | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
investment. Much more to come before seven | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
o'clock: How should the most Visiting teachers from Denmark have | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
been asking our schools. And caught between two strong women | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
- the story of Mrs Thatcher's downfall and the part Geoffrey Howe | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
and his wife played in her demise. Two brothers have gone on trial | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
for shooting a Valleys drug dealer - at point blank range - | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
as he sat in his car. The prosecution says | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Mark Jones, from Mountain Ash, was killed by another drug | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
dealer who owed him money. Edward and Stephen Bennett | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
both deny murder. From Cardiff Crown | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Court, Nick Palit. It was in this lay-by near Abercynon | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
that 43-year-old Mark Jones was shot in the driver seat | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
of his white Audi. The court heard that | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
as well as working as an evaluation officer | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, he was | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
also a drug dealer. Just after 7:30am on 26th July last | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
year, the prosecution say he was murdered by Edward Bennett | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
and his brother Stephen, who had been involved in the | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
drugs trade with him. Prosecution counsel Chris Clee | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
told the jury that Edward Bennett In the weeks leading up | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
to the murder, the court heard how he was desperately trying | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
to raise a large amount of cash, even applying for a ?60,000 mortgage | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
that was unsuccessful. Transcripts of internet | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
messages from Edward Bennett to his brother Stephen | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
were read to the jury, that says, "Have you | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
still got that thing? This, said Mr Clee, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
was reference to a gun. The prosecution say the brothers had | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
arranged to meet Mark Jones They parked nearby | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
and made their way on foot through woodland | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
along the river bank. During the course of this trial, | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
the court will hear evidence from many people who witnessed | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
the shooting, including an AA patrolman who was parked | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
behind the Audi. Mark Jones died in hospital | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
two months after the shooting. He'd had 15 operations | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
to try and save his life but was suffering from sepsis | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
and a bleed on the brain. He had gunshot wounds to the belly | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
and left upper arm. The prosecution say | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
the defendant shot Mark Jones at point-blank range, | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
which ultimately led to his death. The day after the shooting, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Edward Bennett was arrested in Station Terrace | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
in Penrhiwceiber. Two days later, his brother Stephen | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
was also arrested at his home in Masefield | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Way in Pontypridd. A gun cleaning kit | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
was found in his attic. On that was gun residue | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
which was at the same type The same residue was also | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
found on his shoes. Further examination revealed traces | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
of Mark Jones' blood Both Edward and Stephen Bennett | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
deny murder How should the most | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
gifted pupils be taught? That's the question a group | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
of teachers from Denmark They've been visiting Welsh | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
classrooms, finding out how our schools nurture | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
their most talented pupils. Our Education Correspondent | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
Colette Hume reports. Remember the ones that | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
we thought of before. It's an ordinary Tuesday afternoon | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
at Victoria Primary School in Penarth but the seven-year-old | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
pupils are anything but ordinary. From the moment they | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
arrive at the nursery, the teachers work hard | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
to spot the most able | :17:34. | :17:34. | |
and talented children. Teachers use a wide range | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
of assessment data. Data from internal and external | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
tests as well as asking parents their views as well, | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
in terms of questionnaires that are So when you've identified a talented | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
and able student, what happens next? Throughout the year there will be | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
bespoke workshops where talented children in particular areas can | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
work with like-minded children from other schools on | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
particular projects. We've used facilities in the local | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
comprehensive school. We've had a range of local bespoke | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
workshops from Mandarin, Chinese, Now teachers from Denmark | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
are here to learn from experiences of teachers | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
and pupils from Wales. They are here because Victoria | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Primary School is one of 48 Welsh schools recognised | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
by the National Association for Able Children in Education | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
for their work with the most able. Its leaders say stretching | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
the brightest pupils If you're coping and dealing | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
with the more able pupils then the others | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
see what they are doing and many of them | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
want to do the same. It is improving what is | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
going on for every child. The 31 teachers will spend two | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
days looking at the work going on in primary and secondary | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
schools here in Wales before returning to Denmark | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
in using their experiences here in their own | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
classrooms. We see youngsters who are being | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
challenged and we see how the schools have managed | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
to put it into their strategy, talent strategy | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
we would call it, That is what we hope the Danish | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
teachers will take with them. Here at Victoria Primary School | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
and in classrooms across Wales, the work goes on, nurturing | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
a new generation They hadn't invented | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
cyber-bullying and online Childline has had to | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
change its approach That's according to the helpline's | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
founder, Dame Esther Rantzen, Rosie Stone house is a student at | :19:35. | :19:52. | |
Cardiff University. She first contacted ChildLine when she was 14 | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
and says it helped her cope with things throughout her teenage years. | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
Initially it was just having somewhere that you could open up and | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
having someone to listen. I think that support was a massive thing for | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
me to be able to think that I could change my life around with support. | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
She talked about her experiences today. Dame Esther Rantzen, the | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
founder of the helpline, is touring to celebrate the anniversary of the | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
helpline. It has cancelled 4 million children. There were more than 7500 | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
contacts from youngsters from Wales last year alone. Their concerns have | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
changed. We ask what is making our children | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
are unhappy and often they say to me is social media. These pressures are | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
coming into us from their phones and their tablets and I can only see two | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
families, be aware. Whilst the Internet can be a source | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
of concern, more children are using those gadgets to call for help. | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
Last year, 71% of the children who got in touch with ChildLine did so | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
via the Internet and this office deals solely with those online | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
contacts. Since the office opened the volunteers have conducted over | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
16,000 online counselling sessions. In the first year the figure was | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
around 1200 but by last year it had increased to around 4500. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
I can see how it helps and I want to do something about it. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
Rosey is no herself an online counsellor and hopes her own | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
experiences can help children who need someone to listen. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
It is regarded by many as the speech that brought Margaret Thatcher's | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Now, the late Sir Geoffrey Howe's speech in the House | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
of Commons in 1990 is the subject of of a new play | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
called "The Dead Sheep", which beings a run in | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
Our political reporter James Williams had a sneak preview. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
His was a political career spanning over half a century. But Sir | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
Geoffrey Howe, the man from Port Talbot, is a man famous for one | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
thing, his speech in November 1990 that led to her own downfall. | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to decrease only to | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
find the moment the first balls are appalled that their bats have been | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
broken before the game by the team captain. | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
It was a brutal rebuke from a man who was previously likened to being | :22:53. | :23:06. | |
savaged by a dead sheep. It is that court and that | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
resignation speech that form the basis of a new play visiting Cardiff | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
this week. It is a fantastic Everyman story about a guy who is | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
caught between two really strong woman. That is his wife and his | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
boss. It is about a fantastic conflict of loyalties and I thought | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
it was impressive the way he finally thought, I'm not going to go | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
quietly, I'm going to stand up in the House of Commons and destroy the | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Prime Minister and possibly my party because it is the right thing to do. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Until his resignation, Geoffrey Howe served on Margaret Thatcher's | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
cabinet from the outset, as Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
We Tsui Hark potentially angry and spiteful. I did it on spitting image | :23:52. | :24:03. | |
for 16 years or so and the voice was much more caricatured but here it is | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
much more real. Geoffrey Howe was indispensable for | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
the Thatcher revolution, one which continues to divide opinion. | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
Many economists wrote in to the Times newspaper to see his budget | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
was wrong. It is a fantastic discussion point. Was he a source of | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
good or bad for this country? Discuss. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
That is a debate should continue after the curtain falls. | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
Glamorgan Cricket Club would be well placed to host one of the eight, | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
city-based teams if plans for a new T20 competition are put | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
into place, according to chief executive Hugh Morris. | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
The three-week event could start in the 2018 season, | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
with all counties getting an extra one. | :24:54. | :25:05. | |
Mr Morris said the tournament is needed to improve | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Sunshine for many today - what about the next couple of days? | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
lots of sunshine further south this afternoon. Most places are dry | :25:16. | :25:32. | |
tonight. Just one or two showers here and there. Not as cold as last | :25:33. | :25:44. | |
night. A big high pressure over Scandinavia tomorrow and that means | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
winds from the East for the UK. They will bring a few showers. Cloudy and | :25:50. | :26:04. | |
misty in parts of Paris. Otherwise dry -- in parts of Powys. Any mist | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
Wil left in the morning. One or two showers likely but otherwise dry | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
with the best of the sunshine in the West and south-west. There will be a | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
cool north-easterly breeze. Out of the wind and in the sunshine it will | :26:26. | :26:40. | |
feel pleasant. It will be breezy and cool on Thursday with one or two | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
showers. Sunniest in the West. Temperatures are little lower. Still | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
high pressure over Scandinavia on Thursday but low pressure over | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
France will start to influence our weather so it looks to be more | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
unsettled later in the week with some more showers but dry spells as | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
well. But we can't complain because it has been a dry month so far. | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
The programme that funds community schemes in Wales is set to be | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
scrapped with the government saying it is not the best way to tackle | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
poverty. Some say it is a big loss wealth others claim it has failed to | :27:35. | :27:35. | |
deliver. I'll have an update for you here | :27:36. | :27:36. | |
at eight o'clock and again That's Wales Today, thank | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
you for watching from all of us | :27:43. | :27:47. |