30/12/2016 BBC Wales Today

Two men have been charged with attempted murder

following a stabbing near Pontypool on Tuesday.

A 47-year-old man remains in a critical but stable

condition in hospital following the incident

will appear before Newport Crown Court at the end of January.

Disruption on the rail network has continued for a second day

Services between Cardiff and Maesteg have been affected

as well as between Cardiff and Birmingham,

Yesterday, passengers faced delays and cancellations

Gwent Police say the disappearance of a Newbridge man, presumed

murdered, remains a mystery four years after he went missing.

Kyle Vaughan's car was found on the side of a

A murder inquiry was launched but he's never been found.

Eight people have been arrested over the course of the inquiry

but all were released without charge.

It's a year since the Wylfa nuclear power station closed down

bringing to an end more than 40 years of electricity generation.

Its operators say the decommissioning process

is on track despite some problems with equipment.

After two more years, it's expected all the most

radioactive material will have been removed from the site.

On its way off site, another flask of radioactive

material, spent fuel cells leaving Wylfa for Sellafield in Cumbria.

Ashley White heads up what is called safety case at the plant.

Typically, we ship around five of these a week

during the de-fuelling period and have around

500 sent of site before we actually finish de-fuelling here at Wylfa.

Before shutdown, Wylfa is being run from its control room.

Now it is the de-fuelling operation rather than electricity generation

But it is out on the floor of the massive reactor room

that the real work is being done.

Special equipment used to remove spent fuel elements from the

They were allowed to cool for 100 days before de-fuelling.

And there have been some problem since.

For the shutdown of thing went according

to plan, and through the 100 day outage.

The reliability of the defuelling machinery through the sort of period

up to now has not been what we would have liked

but we're working our way through that.

You can see the dedication of the people on site.

A lot of work has been done in the machines getting them ready,

there is also a maintenance schedule to make sure everything is safe

on that machine so they are doing a lot of the checks on there before

we hand it over from maintenance teams to the operation teams.

It is estimated it will be another ten years before enough radioactive

material is removed to put Wylfa into what is called,

Another 100 years before the site can be cleared.

Over time the buildings here will reduce in size but it

will be a long time before Wylfa disappears

Newly released papers show that Margaret Thatcher questioned

whether more money should be given to thousands of people affected

by severe flooding along the North Wales coast in 1990.

In a raft of previously secret documents

published by the National Archives, the former prime minister asks

if the ?50,000 Welsh Office donation seemed low.

They became known as the Towyn floods as the seaside resort

was most badly affected by a major breach of its sea wall.

But large stretches of coast across North Wales were also hit.

5,000 people had to leave their homes and caravan parks

A fund was established to offer relief to the worst hit.

For the first time it's been revealed that Margaret Thatcher

questioned whether the ?50,000 dontation from the

The National Archives have released cabinet minutes which show she urged

the then Welsh Secretary to ask the Treasury for more.

I dare say that within the Cabinet, different people had different views

but of course we had the Mayor of Colwyn's fund which amounted

to nearly ?1 million to which ordinary people

Although public donations helped raise around ?1 million,

Wyn Roberts was among the victims who felt

There were nearly 2,000 homes flooded.

I mean, the camps got a lot of money because their places were all upset.

But they did nothing for the people living here, nothing at all.

This area has flooded several more times since 1990

although there are many defences in place.

People whose homes were devastated 27 years ago are

speculating what difference, if any, might have made by the

attempted intervention of the then Prime Minister.

Seperate government documents from 1989 made

available today, show another row about money.

It's emerged that the then Welsh Secretary Peter Walker

rejected plans for his department to fund the

S4C television channel rather than the Home Office, fearing it

would bring the station too far into the political domain.

Paul Clement is understood to be the leading candidate to become

Swansea City's new manager but Gary Rowett remains in contention.

Clement is currently assistant manager at Bayern Munich,

while Rowett was recently sacked by Birmingham City.

Ryan Giggs and Wales manager Chris Coleman were among

the early favourites but it's understood

Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints will break

a 44-year-old world record tonight if they beat Cefn Druids

They equalled the record set by the Dutch side Ajax in 1972,

with a 4-0 victory over Cefn Druids on Boxing Day.

And Cardiff City's match against Brighton in the Championship

Let's get the weather, Derek's got the forecast.

Fogg has been causing problems in parts of the UK over the past couple

of days. The worst of it has passed. It will have done so by the time we

get to New Year's Day because by then we will have a cold air stream

coming in from the Arctic. Today, it has been milder in Wales with

temperatures as high as 13 Celsius in Milford Haven. It has been grey

and misty in Tonypandy as you can see. So this evening and tonight,

Misty and murky in parts of the south. Dry overnight and we should

escape a frost, lowers temperatures for Celsius in parts of mid-and east

Wales. For tomorrow, a grey starting places. A lots of dry weather

tomorrow. The cloud should break up. It will be mild, 11 degrees in

Wrexham with a south-westerly breeze. If you are heading out to

celebrate New Year, take an umbrella, that is rain in the wake

-- on the way. On New Year's Day, the rain will clear and it will try

and biting. A cold start to the New Year, some sunshine.

I'll be back with our next bulletin at 10.50pm.

That's Wales Today, thank you for watching.

From all of us on the programme, good evening.