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Rail passengers travelling across South Wales have faced | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
significant disruption throughout the day after planned | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Network Rail is currently carrying out major re-signalling work. | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
There were cancellations between Cardiff and Newport, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
with some valley lines also delayed or cancelled. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
A ?300 million resignalling project fully underway. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
But delays to the work today meant delays for passengers. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Some travelling to and from Cardiff Central waited | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Got outside Cardiff and eventually the train was delayed by over | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
an hour and now we are just trying to get back by getting | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
a bus to Newport and then a train from there. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Because my wife is breast-feeding our newborn baby, obviously we have | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
to carefully plan when we are able to feed her. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
My train was cancelled so we have had to make a phone call | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
We have to wait around in the cold now with the little one. | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Bus services replaced most journeys to Newport. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Some valleys' lines were also delayed and cancelled. | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
With works planned until the 2nd of January, some disruption | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
to services was expected here today at Cardiff Central, but with that | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
work running behind, the disruption was worse than hoped. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Network Rail say they are getting the work back on track, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
in time for the start of the first working week of the New Year. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
We were never going to open the lines until we were 100% | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
confident that everything had been tested and was fully | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
We will catch up now within the next few days over | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
We've got a huge amount of complex work left to go, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
but we are confident that on the first working day | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
of 2017, we will be open and ready for customers. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Great Western Railway say a points failure unrelated to the engineering | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
work contributed to delays between Swansea, Cardiff and Newport | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
by about 40 minutes, but with the resignalling work | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
continuing over the next few days, the advice for passengers | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
is to check their journey details before setting off. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
A health board says a new emergency pharmacy service has prevented more | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
than 8,000 unnecessary visits to GPs and hospitals in North Wales. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says the service, | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
which funds the emergency supply of prescription medication, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Police looking for a missing man from Monmouth say they're | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
Liam Stubbs has been missing for ten days. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
The 46-year-old teaching assistant was last seen in the town's | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Doctors and nurses at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
could be bussed into work from a nearby supermarket car park | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
The car park is often full with patients and visitors | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Hywel Dda Community Health Council says it's one option | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
being considered, but no firm decision has yet been made. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
A man hoping to build an 80-foot bronze sculpture of a dragon | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
on the Welsh borders near Chirk could be given another five years | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
Wrexham Councillors will vote on the extension next week. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Businessman Simon Wingett was given planning permission | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
for the statue in 2011 and wants to raise ?2.5 million. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
The funeral has taken place of a Welsh soldier who was captured | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
in France during World War Two, but saved from the firing squad | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
His remarkable story emerged when he brought a packet | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
of cigarettes given to him by Field Marshall Rommel along | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Afterwards, Roy Wooldridge pursued his life's | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
work teaching maths, but | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
at 95, he shared his story on the Antiques Road Show, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
revealing how he was captured while on a top-secret | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
I was taken to a French chateaux and shown into | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
a big room and standing there was Field Marshal Rommel and looking out | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of the window was Field Marshal von Rundstedt. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
They were two of the most powerful men in Germany. | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
It was Rommel he felt spared his life. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
He said, is there anything that you require? | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
So I said, yes, I'd like a pint of beer. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
I'd like a packet of cigarettes and I'd like a good meal, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
And I was served in his mess and on the table was a stein | :04:48. | :04:57. | |
of beer and there was a packet of cigarettes. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
His sons Ian and Peter say in later years he | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
He always regarded Rommel as a man of honour, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
who fought a clean war and despite the fact that Hitler had | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
ordered that anybody captured without | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
nametags and all that, which our father was, | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
was to be shot, Rommel didn't agree with that and so, Dad | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
always reckoned it was Rommel who saved his life. | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
His collection was valued at around ?10,000, but he told | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
the Antiques Road Show it was not for sale. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
It will now be donated to the Imperial War Museum. | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
Football, and Swansea City's caretaker boss Alan Curtis has said | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
the next manager should ideally be British and have experience | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
But it does now seem unlikely that either Ryan Giggs or Chris Coleman | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
will succeed American Bob Bradley who was sacked on Tuesday. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Curtis, who will be at the helm during Saturday's game | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
against Bournemouth, says he has no idea for how long | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
Whoever comes in has to be the right man. | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
I suppose ideally he would be British, knowing the Premier League, | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
but they have to be satisfied that he fills all the criteria for | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
We have had a real mixed today. Sunshine and frost. Fog and cloud | :06:20. | :06:43. | |
and a wide range of temperature. Tonight, most places are dry. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Freezing fog patches in the east. A lot of cloud around. Some frost | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
inland but milder on the coast and in the West. Tomorrow, fog patches | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
will slowly lift. A lot of cloud around with limited amounts of | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
sunshine. The odd spot of drizzle. Fairly mild, seven in Monmouth, 11 | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
in Bangor. Into new years eve, mostly dry, sunshine in places. Just | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
the odd spot of rain. Breezy in the north. Then on New Year's Day, rain | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
will clear southwards, then it will try and brighten up and turning | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
colder with showers in the north. Change on the way for the start of | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the New Year, turning quite cold with some sunshine and more frost. I | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
will be back tomorrow. We'll be back with the late | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
bulletin just after 11pm. From all of us on the programme, | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
hwyl fawr, goodbye. | :07:43. | :07:48. |