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The battle begins to save 350 jobs at this meat processing | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Unions and workers claim it would be devastating for the town. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
You can't just take 350 people off work and not have any | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
History is made as Wales gets its first ever female bishop. | :00:17. | :00:36. | |
I sent Jo a one word e-mail this afternoon. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
I don't know when she gets to open it, but it just said, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
hallelujah and there were more exclaimation marks than letters. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
There've been protests in Wales against fracking. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Now a former head of Greenpeace say ministers | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Made in Wales, for audiences worldwide. | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
But the BBC Director General faces claims he's stalling on a promise | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
to fund more programmes like it. Good evening. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
In tonight's sport: He's irreplaceable, says | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Aaron Ramsey back playing last night and back in the Wales squad | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Bosses have been meeting staff and union representatives at the 2 | :01:09. | :01:34. | |
Sisters meat processing factory in Merthyr Tydfil, where more | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
than 350 workers are at risk of losing their jobs. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
The company employs 1,100 people at the site, but wants | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
to move its packaging operation to another factory in Cornwall. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
There's been a meat processing business on the site since 1999. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
The factory opened in 1999, but 2 Sisters took over | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
With the latest, our business correspondent, Brian Meechan | :01:50. | :02:07. | |
Business was continuing at two Sisters today but workers were left | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
wondering what the future would hold for them. The abattoir and cutting | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
operations continue as usual but packing for steaks and other meats | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
for retailers will move if the plan goes ahead. Ben Landers has been | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
doing agency work here for a few months in the packing sections. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
Agency staff are expected to be the first to go from the 350 jobs under | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
threat. Fairly worrying because there is nothing else around here | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
for us. It is what they are going to do to implement the changes made | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
there. It is very poor at the moment, there is hardly nothing | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
around here. The food industry can be notoriously difficult to operate | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
in and often profits are quite small. That is because when they are | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
negotiating with supermarkets, it is the supermarkets that have the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
power. This site for example sells the vast majority of its product to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
just one supermarket chain. Unions are confused over the company 's | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
decision to move the packing business to Cornwall and want to | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
know the reasons behind it. They were only informed yesterday. We | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
want to sit down and have a formal consultation with them. We will be | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
looking to safeguard as many jobs as we can not that plan. We will also | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
be looking at some counterproposals to safeguard all of the jobs. The | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
local Assembly Member raised an emergency question. If we talk about | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
350 people going, that is not just 350 people, that is the impact on | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
the families of those people. And of course, the impact on the local | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
economy. So you cannot just take 350 people out of work and that not have | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
any impact on the community and the economy. Merthyr has been doing well | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
in attracting businesses to the town. Major developments including | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
General dynamics are promising to create almost 900 jobs, requiring a | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
variety of skill levels. The unemployment rate has been falling. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
In the last five years, it has halved from 14% to just under 7%. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
But that is still higher than the Welsh average. But on the streets of | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
the town, people don't seem to be feeling the benefits. What is the | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
kind of job situation around here like at the moment? Hard. Hard. It | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
is all right for the Department for Work and Pensions to say you have | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
got to go out and get a job, but it is getting a job. People are out | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
there looking and you just cannot find anything. It is sad really. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Local farmers are worried about what the decision says about the state of | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
the food industry in general. This is going to sort of have an affect | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
on farm producers who are supplying the meat plant. It is scary in an | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
area where unemployment is high, it is the last thing we want to see is | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
a section of the economy being knocked again. The Welsh Government | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
invested ?1.2 million in this business six years ago. Ministers, | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
the company and the unions say they will work together now to try and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
minimise the impact of this decision and the number of redundancies. They | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
will be 45 days of consultation to see what if anything can be done to | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
save jobs. Wales has its first | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
ever woman Bishop. Canon Joanna Penberthy says she's | :05:35. | :05:35. | |
"immensely humbled" to take up the job of Bishop of St David's, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in what's been described as an "historic moment" | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
for the Church in Wales. A decision to allow women to become | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
bishops was taken in 2013. For the past 1500 years, prayers | :05:44. | :06:01. | |
have been said here at Saint Davids Cathedral but today, this ancient | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
site of Christianity saw history in the making. Wales had elected its | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
first female bishop. Since yesterday morning, members of the Church of | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Wales electoral College had been meeting to discuss their choice. At | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
lunchtime, the Archbishop of Wales broke the news. The bishop elect of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
St Davids is Cameron Joanna Penberthy. Joanna Penberthy is 56 | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
years old and is one of the first women to be ordained as a priest in | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
Wales in 1997. She knows St Davids well. Having already spent 11 years | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
as a canon at the cathedral. She also worked in the dioceses of | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
Llandaff and St Asaph and served in Bath and Wells. It is an historic | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
moment but what is important to remember is that Joanna Penberthy is | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
an enormously gifted priest, she is intellectually able, she preaches | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
well, she engages the people, she is able to relate to all sections of | :07:07. | :07:07. | |
the community. It is a great excitement here today. | :07:08. | :07:23. | |
Of course, not everybody finds it easy to accept but most of all, I | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
think people know that she is the most remarkable person, she is the | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
most excellent piece. Women bishops in the Church in Wales remains a | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
highly sensitive issue. Churchill was only changed here three years | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
ago. I sent her a one word e-mail this afternoon. I don't know when | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
she will get time to open it but it just said hallelujah. I did not know | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
that I would still be in the active ministry of the church when we would | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
get a woman as a bishop. Today has made me very happy. Joanna Penberthy | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
will be bishop elect until her appointment is officially confirmed | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
by the Archbishop at a secret service on November 30. She will | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
then be consecrated as a bishop at Lambeth Cathedral. -- Llandaff | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
Cathedral. She will then be enthroned in St Davids the following | :08:21. | :08:21. | |
month. Four men have been charged | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
with the murder of Mark Mason. The 48-year-old from Rhyl died | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
after an incident at the Home Bargains car park | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
in the town on Thursday. The men, all from Liverpool, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
appeared in front of Llandudno There were more attacks on ambulance | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
staff here during the past year, Fire and police services in Newport | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
and Cardiff say they've been This mobile phone footage shows | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
an incident in the Pill area Meanwhile, fire crews in Cardiff | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
were attacked twice with fireworks, as they tried to put out a bonfire | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
in a Grangetown park. BBC Wales can reveal that the number | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
of people claiming the main long-term sickness benefit in many | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
former coal mining areas, has fallen by a fifth | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
in the past seven years. The communities in the south Wales | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
valleys have historically had some of the highest levels of claimants | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
in the UK. Our political editor, | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
Nick Servini, is here. There's an been intense debate | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
about Conservative-led welfare Now we have an indication | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
on what the real impact has been on the ground in one of the central | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
targets, to get those claiming long-term sickness | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
benefit back into work. Figures from the ONS | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
show that since 2008, the number of people claiming | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
employment support allowance. The main long term sickness benefit, | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
which replaced incapacity benefit, has dropped by just 4% | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
across the UK, despite huge But in Wales there's been | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
a 15% fall. And the reduction varies | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
depending where you are, so in Cardiff, the fall is 5%, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
but in Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent, | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
there's been a 20% drop. Changes to sickness | :09:58. | :10:09. | |
benefit were always likely to have the biggest impact in former | :10:10. | :10:10. | |
mining communities because of the legacy of industrial-related | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
illness and deprivation. But it's not exactly clear | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
why the fall has been proportionately steeper | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
here than in so many other places. It's not explained by the numbers | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
who have been found fit to work in the tests, | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
called work capability assessments, which are designed to establish | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
whether someone is capable of work. In Wales around a fifth of people | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
fell into that category, Earlier in the week the UK | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
government set out plans One likely factor is also that | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
many people have hit retirement age and are now | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
claiming pensions instead. Or they could be returning | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
to the workplace because of Unemployment levels in Wales | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
are currently lower than most Supporters of welfare reform | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
will celebrate these figures. They argue that work leads | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
to healthier, more fulfilling lives, and it's an issue which has been | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
at the heart of enormous political But critics say it's | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
not as simple as that. They claim in many cases people | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
are being shunted onto other benefits unfairly and the result | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
isn't fulfilment but hardship. Controlled explosions have been | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
carried out at a number of schools and colleges in Wales, | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
following concerns about how a potentially explosive chemical, | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
often used in A-level chemistry Army explosive teams have | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
carried out the blasts, similar action has taken | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
place in England too. Handling hazardous chemicals on a | :11:29. | :11:45. | |
practical basis is something that happens at schools and colleges | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
across the country. Here at Bridgend College it is no different but | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
earlier this week, concerns were raised following the discovery of a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
potentially explosive chemical known as DNP. It is a chemical that he | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
would find in any chemistry lab, anywhere up and down the country | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
really. We found it into the authorities and they gave us the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
guidance there was no need for evacuation and the authorities came | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
and dealt with it on evening. Also on Monday, 1500 students at our | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
college were evacuated as the bomb squad were called to safely dispose | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
of the skin chemical and similar incidents have taken place at | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
schools and colleges across Wales and in a number of English counties, | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
including one village in Shropshire where this controlled explosion | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
caused alarm. This action has been prompted after guidelines on how to | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
safely store certain chemicals were recently updated by the Department | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
for Education. It is only when the bulk of the material becomes dry, | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
that is when we need to become concerned because when it is dry, | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
this material can be explosive. Last week in a similar but unrelated | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
incident, part of a Swansea University campus was evacuated for | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
this to happen. The bomb squad were called in to deal with another | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
potentially dangerous chemical. The Health and Safety Executive is | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
investigating. Meanwhile, schools and colleges are being urged to | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
check their storerooms as the safeguarding of pupils remains a | :13:25. | :13:25. | |
priority. Think Gavin and Stacey or Hinterland | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
- programmes set in Wales, Two years ago, the BBC | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Director General, Lord Hall, promised there'd be more money | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
to make more of them. But appearing before | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
the Assembly's Culture Committee earlier, he was accused of stalling | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
over that promise, as no Lord Hall said he'd be making | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
an announcement in March. Here's our Arts and Media | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
correspondent, Huw Thomas. And following real-life | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
adventures on Anglesey. It's the kind of programming | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
the politicians want more of, ?22.5 million was last year's | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
budget, but by his own admission, the head of the BBC thinks | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
more needs to be spent. Lord Hall has set expectations high, | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
having warned two years ago that English-language TV programmes | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
about Wales had been But he began today's committee | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
appearance by saying any extra spending won't be | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
known until next March, setting the tone for a sometimes | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
fractious exchange. But we don't know what | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
you're going to deliver. We are working that throughout | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
you got to give us time The charter and the agreement | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
about the charter and the financial deal around the charter has been | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
settled this September. Showing Welsh life on screen isn't | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
just about finding local characters. The new series of Ordinary Lives | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
was filmed in south Wales, with Welsh accents, on a show | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
that could easily have A new charter for the BBC | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
means its priorities are set for the next 11 years and improving | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
the portrayal of communities TV producers who have been lobbying | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
the BBC hope it will help Wales and the people of Wales | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
shouldn't be invisible on the national television service | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
for Wales, they should not be inaudible on the radio services | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
and they shouldn't be inaccessible It's not that they are inaccessible, | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
inaudible and invisible yet, but if steps aren't taken to protect | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
the future of the media in Wales, who is to say how low down | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
the agenda it will slip? Whether it is stories about real | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
people from communities across Wales or the fictional characters that | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
bring compelling dramas to life, the BBC says it's committed | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
to making more of it, but it will be spring next | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
year until we know how It's already happening in America, | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
but ministers say fracking We hear from a former head of | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
Greenpeace who says, they're wrong. And manager Chris Coleman says | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
Ched Evans needs to play at the highest level, | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
if he's to be considered Public Services in Wales could "fall | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
off a cliff", unless more is done to try to prevent people | :16:12. | :16:26. | |
from falling ill. That's the warning from Sophie Howe, | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
the Future Generations Commissioner who says all public bodies need | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
to work more closely together Our health correspondent, | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Owain Clarke reports. Ambulances, A, GPs | :16:34. | :16:42. | |
and waiting times. Health is never far | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
from the headlines. An extra ?240 million for the NHS, | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
but cuts to some areas of local government, | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
education and community projects. But research suggests that actual | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
health care may contribute as little as 10% to the health and well-being | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
of the country's population, much more important arguably | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
are things like the environment around us and the | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
quality of our homes. Tom Savary from Barry knows that | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
all too well. I did have a part-time job | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
for a while, but that just went out His problems began when he became | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
homeless when he was just 16, but what turned his life around | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
was not care from the NHS, but support from a housing charity | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
which found him a place to live. I sort of felt more confident | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
in myself, it got me back into looking for work and education, | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
it gave me hope that I didn't have If Megan is to succeed, | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
whatever her background circumstances, she will need to live | :17:40. | :17:53. | |
in a more equal Wales. She'll need to live in a community | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
that has everything she needs As this Welsh Government video | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
suggests, all public services have a part to play in trying | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
to make sure that we are healthy, happy and prosperous, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
but how do you get them Last year, a new law was passed | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
in Wales to try to do just that. And this is the person whose job | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
it is to deliver those goals. One of the most critical areas, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
I think, is focus on prevention. A shift really from just dealing | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
with the here and now. It would be like just | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
parking your ambulance at the bottom of a cliff and waiting for people | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
to fall over to actually getting on top of that cliff and making sure | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
that they don't fall It is something that we have got | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
to do because quite simply, if we carry on the way that we are, | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
our services are going The Welsh Local Government | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Association for example is worried that if the NHS continues to consume | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
an ever-increasing proportion of the Welsh budget, | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
services that help people stay healthy in the first | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
place will lose out, storing up more problems | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
in the future. They say there is a risk that public | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
services could end up becoming no But what is the shape | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
of things to come? Health experts from around the world | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
have been discussing just that at this conference in Cardiff | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
and some think Wales through the future generations act | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
has at least an opportunity If you do it right, | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
if you implement the act, I think you can make your vision | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
for a healthier, more prosperous, more resilient, more | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
equal Wales a reality. If you don't manage to do that, | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
then I think inequalities will increase and maybe also | :19:30. | :19:41. | |
life expectancy decrease. The NHS is under more pressure | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
than ever before yet that pressure is unlikely to ease, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
and less more can be done to prevent more of us from falling | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
ill in the first place and that is about more | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
than just a health service. The question is, where do | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
you strike the balance? Former head of Greenpeace says | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
the Welsh Government is wrong Stephen Tindale says it would allow | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
us to burn less coal and become less reliant on importing gas | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
from the Middle East. But protest groups here strongly | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
disagree and ministers have vowed Stephen Tindale says we should frack | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
for gas but many campaigners for the environment disagree | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
and the Welsh Government says its opposition | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
to fracking is unequivocal. I think the Welsh politicians, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
like many politicians in England and Scotland, | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
are reacting to that sort of society pressure and saying it is not worth | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
the politics of standing up I think that is a shame | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and it is important that people like me, who are in, I suppose, | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
the environmental community, who support fracking, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
to speak out, rather than just saying, well, | :20:50. | :20:50. | |
we've lost that one. We met in the Vale of Glamorgan | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
where applications to explore Local people who fought plans | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
to drill in this field don't agree that shale gas does less damage | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
than other fossil fuels. At the well, gas leaks | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
and when you move gas from A to B, And most of these leaks are methane, | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
which is 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
than carbon dioxide is. So shale gas might be greener | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
to burn, but getting it out of the ground does a lot | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
of damage too? Getting it out of the ground | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
and all the way to the There is a lot of emissions | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
involved in that. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
starts with chilling underground. Water and chemicals are prompted | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
to the shale rock at high pressure. That forces cracks to widen, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
releasing trapped gas, which is flushed back up | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
to the surface. Supporters say it's created | :21:53. | :21:53. | |
an economic boom in parts of the US, but at an environmental cost | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
as a others. The view of the UK Government, | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
fracking should happen. Plans to frack on this site | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
in Lancashire were In Wales, licenses to explore | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
for oil and gas have been issued, including | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
near Port Talbot, at Pontrhydyfen. But the Welsh Government says | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
it is using the planning system to stop fracking and soon it | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
will get new powers to issue those licenses, meaning companies trying | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
to reach the gas underground Let's get tonight's | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
sport now with Tomos. Good news for Wales | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
fans tonight, Nicky. Aaron Ramsey is back in the national | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
squad to face Serbia in their World Cup qualifier | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
a week on Saturday. Manager Chris Coleman | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
says he's irreplaceable, having missed Wales' opening three | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
games of the campaign. Well, Coleman has made a 10 man | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
shortlist for Fifa's coach of the year award, | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
after guiding Wales It was his first start | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
for Arsenal since August Aaron Ramsey said playing 75 minutes | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
last night was exactly what he needed after recovering | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
from a hamstring injury. He looks good, he looks fit and he's | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
a huge part of what Obviously, with the talent | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
that he possesses. When asked about Ched Evans, | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
who was found not guilty of rape after a retrial last month, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Chris Coleman did not rule out picking him in future but said | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
he would have to be playing The striker, who last played | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
for his country five years ago, is now at League 1 | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
side Chesterfield. The whole incident was | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
unsavoury, of course it was. But he's been freed, | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
so that's how we have to look at it. But from a football perspective, | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
what needs to happen is he has missed a lot of football | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
at the top level. The players will gather | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
here at their training base next week to prepare for a game | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
which this year falls on the eve Now, the players are still waiting | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
to find out whether they will be allowed to wear poppies | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
on their shirts. After requests from England | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
and Scotland were turned down by Fifa, the FA W will raise | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
the matter at a meeting The matter was brought | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
up in Parliament too. We want our players to be able | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
to wear those poppies and I have to say to Fifa, | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
before they start telling us what do, they jolly well ought to be | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
sorting their own house out. Wales played Serbia the last | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
time they were aiming to reach a World Cup, | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
but a humiliating heavy defeat the way nearly saw | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Chris Coleman quitting. I can't believe I'm still | :24:36. | :24:36. | |
sitting here after that The change in fortunes has seen | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
Wales lose only one of their last 15 qualifiers but Chris Coleman has | :24:40. | :24:50. | |
warned his players that taking on joint group leaders Serbia | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
will be a huge challenge. Lions coach Warren Gatland says prop | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Gethin Jenkins or flanker Dan Lydiate are the main candidates | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
to captain Wales against Skipper Sam Warbuton has returned | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
to the Blues. He's recovering from injury, | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
while another possible candidate, Alun Wyn Jones, will be missing | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
following the death of his father. We'll find out who's | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
in the team tomorrow at 11. The former world 400 metres hurdles | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
champion, Dai Greene, has been stripped of his | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
National Lottery funding. The athlete from Llanelli has been | :25:21. | :25:21. | |
left out of Britain's world-class Greene, who's 30, became world | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
champion in 2011 but has been Time now for the weather | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
forecast with Derek. Most of the country dry and pride | :25:29. | :25:46. | |
today. The sunshine showing off the beautiful autumn colours. This | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
picture taken in Chirk and how about this one from Neath? Tonight, most | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
places dry with one or two showers in the far north and west. Cold, | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
widespread ground frost. One or two mist and fog patches likely as well. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Here is the picture for eight o'clock in the morning. The south | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
and east will be cold and dry and bright. As we had further north and | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
west, it is a different story. Much cloudier with a few spots of rain, a | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
few showers. Some dry, bright weather tomorrow but cloudier than | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
today. That cloud thickener for some patchy rain and a few showers in the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
afternoon. The Southeast may well stay dry. In Monmouthshire tomorrow, | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
a bright morning. Cloudier in the afternoon but it should stay dry. | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
Gwynedd, not as nice as today with rain in places. And then tomorrow | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
evening, some rain and showers will spread across the country. It should | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
turn drier and clearer after midnight. Not as cold as tonight. On | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Friday, a mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. Some dry weather | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
in the mix. However it looks like some rain and heavy showers will | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
reach the North and west and parts of mid Wales later afternoon into | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the evening. Over the weekend, the wind will turn into the North, | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
dragging called a rare down from the Arctic. We are in for a cold weekend | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
with a few showers in parts of the north and west. Even a dusting of | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
snow on Snowdon. Otherwise, a lot of dry and sunny weather. Frost in | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
places. The bobble hat will come in handy. | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
I'll have a quick update at 8pm and a full round up | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
From all of us on the programme, have a lovely evening. | :27:41. | :27:46. |