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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories: | :00:08. | :00:08. | |
Steel workers, their pension offer and the future of Tata here. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
Politicians are told to let workers decide - | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
It's great for politicians who sit on the outside and want to make | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
political gain out of this but you're talking about people's | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
lives and the future of an industry we all love. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Down the pub for the dementia patients' social gathering. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Now a new strategy to listen to patients and their families. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
I didn't feel that there was a care plan in place. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
I don't think it was until much later on that those types | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The death of David James Kingsbury in Old Colwyn. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Police arrest three more people on suspicion of murder. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
As winds start to turn more northerly across Wales, | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
And in tonight's sport: Referees say no more of this... | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
But as stricter punishments for high tackles come into force, | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
will too many yellow cards spoil the game? | :01:05. | :01:23. | |
Politicians are being told not to interfere with Tata workers' vote | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
on whether to accept less generous pensions in return for | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
One of the biggest unions at the site, Unite, was reacting | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
to the Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson, Adam Price, who called | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Here's our business correspondent Brian Meechan. | :01:40. | :01:57. | |
Tata says it is explaining to the staff what the changes will mean to | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
them. If workers accept the deal, it will allow them to invest an extra | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
billion pounds over ten years in the Port Talbot plant, but only if other | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
savings can be made at the site. Tata has also pledged to keep the | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
two blast furnaces operating for five years and to try to avoid | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
compulsory redundancies over the same period. It is a huge about turn | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
by the company that had planned to sell all its Welsh operations. Adam | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Price accuses Tata of opportunism and brinkmanship and he is urging | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
workers to renegotiate on pensions. Workers that have contacted me have | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
real concerns about the lack of clarity over the guarantees that | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
have been offered in terms of future employment and investment and also | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
in terms of the current and future deficit in the existing pension | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
scheme. I think those concerns are well founded. But have conditions in | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the steel industry really improved? Well, the value of steel has risen | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
on the world market. It was $385 per tonne of hot rolled | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
coil last January when Tata announced over a thousand job losses | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
but, by August, when the company put the sale of its Welsh operations | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
on hold, it had gone up to $536 per tonne - an increase | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
of nearly 40%. China had been accused | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
of producing too much steel, driving down the price, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
but last summer the European Union continued imposing tariffs | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
on foreign imports, with up to 22% levied on cold rolled steel, | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
which is used in cars And the turnaround plan put in place | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
at Port Talbot saw the reported losses of a million pounds a day | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
at the site reduced. Adam Price says this means that | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
situation has been radically transformed from this | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
time last year. The local MP is calling for Adam | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
Price to apologise and withdraw his comments. If it is rejected, I think | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
there is no doubt that the industry will be plunged once again into | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
crisis and I think it is completely unacceptable for a politician to be | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
coming in and saying the things that Mr Price has said. Mark Durnan has | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
worked at Port Talbot for the last 15 years and he says staff should be | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
left to make their own decisions. Each person they will have their own | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
feelings, their own ways of looking at it, depending on age, where you | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
are in your career, there are lots of things you have to weigh up. I am | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
50 odd years of age, I was looking to retire at 55. Unfortunately this | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
is not a political issue so we would like the politicians to keep their | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
opinions to themselves. The union which represents the workers across | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Tata says it is vital that workers understand the proposals. Tata said | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
it would comment while it is still consulting workers. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Brian, there's been a lot of talk about this deal. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
When do workers at Port Talbot have their say? | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
We are expecting the ballots to go out to workers at the end of January | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
and to have the results by around mid-February. I think one of the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
issues about this is the level of trust that exists between the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
workers and Tata. A lot of workers are now questioning just what this | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
investment had been put forward by Tata actually amounts to. And these | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
people have been put through an incredibly difficult year last year. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
And they are now being asked to make an incredibly tough decision that | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
will hit them financially personally, but may guarantee the | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
future of the Port Talbot site. So it is not an easy solution, it is | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
not straightforward. I think the two questions it raises are, will Tata | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
be likely to come back with a better offer if this is rejected on | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
pensions? And if not and other bidders come in, are they likely to | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
keep the final salary scheme Western Mark thank you. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
People affected by dementia are being asked for their experiences | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
to help shape Wales' first ever national dementia plan. | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
Dementia, which affects memory and language, | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
is now the leading cause of death in Wales. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
It's thought between 40,000 to 50,000 people are living | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
And the experts fear this number could rise by 40% | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
Today, the Welsh Government launched a two-month consultation. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
It says improving the quality of life and care for people who have | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
or are at risk of dementia is a key priority. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
When was this taken? About 63, so not long before he had his | :06:31. | :06:51. | |
diagnosis. He was diagnosed with dementia when he was 65. He now | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
lives in a specialist facility for people who develop dementia at a | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
younger age but Kath says things were far from easy at the start. At | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
the date of diagnosis, we were just sent home. Therefore, what that | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
meant, as you can imagine, is that for a number of days, we were in | :07:11. | :07:20. | |
utter turmoil. I didn't feel that there was a care plan in place. I | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
don't think it was until much later on that those types of words were | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
used. Now the Welsh government aims to change that. It has worked over | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
the past five years to improve diagnosis rates in particular. But | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
over the next two months, people like Kath and John who are affected | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
by the condition are being asked for their imperious -- experiences to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
help inform a new dementia strategy for Wales that focuses on a number | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
of keys themes such as diagnosis, helping dementia patients to live | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
well and improve access to specialist care and support, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
particularly in the community. While more and more people have dementia, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
no two individuals are exactly the same. Their experiences will be | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
different and the impact will be different as well. But individual | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
understanding is really important and it really is about health and | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the wider sector joining up around those people. Conwy Council funds a | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
service called Trio provided by a charity which partners people in the | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
early stages of dementia with similar diagnosis. Every week they | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
meet for days out or a catcher over a coffee. We are unique in what we | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
do because we match the people to their needs. Their choices and what | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
they do. So it is individual based and it is individual focused. And | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
they say it is accessed -- exactly the kind of support that helps them | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
lead fuller lives. I would miss it if it wasn't there because my wife | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
takes me out motes of the time. It gives them a break as well. I enjoy | :09:03. | :09:16. | |
coming out once a week on this trip. A lot of places around Colwyn Bay I | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
never knew existed. The project is now being piloted in Denbighshire | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
but the Welsh Local Government Association says the financial | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
pressures on social care budgets are already unsustainable. There are | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
many good things appearing at their presently in terms of local | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
government, particularly in terms of dementia friendly communities, but | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
this will add massive pressures into the system which is already | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
struggling with some of the financial challenges we face. The | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
government's oscillation will close at the end of March. But the debate | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
about how best to care for dementia patients and how much it will cost | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
is sure to continue. Residents in Cwmfelinfach say | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
they're overjoyed that plans for a waste processing plant have | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
been rejected by Local people were concerned that any | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
emissions from the plant may be trapped in the valley | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
because of a weather phenomenon that can hold cloud | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
over the town for days. The local health board said | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
emissions from the plant A blanket of fog over the steep, | :10:12. | :10:26. | |
green Sirhowy Valley. Locals say it can linger for days. And they were | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
concerned that emissions from a planned new waste processing plant | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
to be built here would also be trapped. But today those plans were | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
rejected by the environment body Natural Resources Wales. We all | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
believe that this was in the wrong place and we have been vindicated. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
They told us that it was not going to be a problem. They told us we | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
were only going to have steam coming out of the chimney and it is not the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
case, it was going to be nitrogen dioxide. Locals fought from the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
outset to stop the development, worried about lorries and noise. And | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
this. It's called temperature inversion. Cold air is trapped in | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
the Valley by warm air above. Locals were concerned about the impact that | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
it would have had on their health. They were concerned about the amount | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
of gases that may have been released. Wendy told me about her | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
concerns. I'm asthmatic, I have got two granddaughters, 13 and 14, and I | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
am worried about what they will breathe in while they grow up. On | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Sundays you can see really plain and it is thick and we don't want it. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
The plan would have seen thousands of tonnes of waste that would have | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
normally gone to landfill turned to fill. The company behind it says | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
it's extremely disappointed and that no air quality limits would have | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
been breached. They will be appealing as soon as possible. But | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Natural Resources Wales say they believe the plant could have had a | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
negative impact on people's health. So today a win for these locals and, | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
for now, clean air in their green valley. | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
A body found in the Talgarth area of Powys has been confirmed | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
He was last seen leaving his home for a run last Tuesday morning. | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Mountain rescue teams, firefighters, police and a drone | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Staff at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are being urged to take | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
Three wards have been closed at UHW in Cardiff to prevent the spread | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
less than half of the health board's staff had received the jab. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Labour support in Wales has reached new lows, | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
according to an opinion poll by YouGov for ITV Wales | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
It suggests that 31% of people would vote for Labour in Assembly | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
constituency elections - that's down three | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
That's the lowest rating since YouGov's first | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Both Tory and Plaid Cymru support rose by one point, | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
UKIP are down one to 12% and the Liberal Democrats up two, to 8%. | :13:15. | :13:24. | |
North Wales Police have arrested three more people on suspicion | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
of murder following the death of a man in Old Colwyn last week. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
A post mortem examination found David James Kingsbury died | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
The police say three men are in custody. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
A woman who was arrested earlier has been released on bail. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Roger Pinney joins us now from Old Colwyn. | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Roger, the police have issued a fairly lengthy statement. | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
Yes, and they have issued two statements and the most recent, | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
which came out around an hour and a half ago, the police confirmed that | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
the woman who had been arrested earlier in the investigation has now | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
been released on police bail. The police today have described this as | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
a fast moving enquiry in which there have been some significant | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
developments in the last day or so. They say they have now arrested | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
three men, two in their 30s, one in their 50s, on suspicion of murder. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
They are all said to be from the old Colwyn area. David James Kingsbury | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
died on Thursday evening and the police investigation then involved | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
sealing off much of the centre of old Colwyn. The police say they have | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
acted today because of information which has been brought to them by | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
members of the public. And tonight police are appealing for more | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
information? They are, and they are being specific about the information | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
they are after. They want to speak to anyone who saw a silver two dot | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
Vauxhall Corsa being driven around old Colwyn between 8:30pm and 9pm on | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Thursday evening and they also want to speak to anyone who was on the | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
number 12 bus in old Colwyn at around the same time. That is | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
between 8:30pm and 9pm on Thursday evening. As I say, the police say | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
this is a fast moving enquiry so I think we should be looking out for | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
some further developments. Much more to come before | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
seven o'clock No more But as stricter punishments for high | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
tackling come into force, will too many yellow cards | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
spoil the game? And that northerly front moving down | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
through Wales means a risk of snow Could Wales become the first part | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
of the UK to introduce an outright ban on parents | :15:41. | :15:55. | |
smacking their children? New powers heading to the Assembly | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
will make it possible. And tonight, the Children's | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
Commissioner has repeated her call More from our political | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
correspondent Daniel Davies. Perhaps once it was taken for | :16:02. | :16:16. | |
granted but attitudes change and now some say the law should change to. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
Recently there have been repeated calls for the Assembly to ban | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
smacking. Now powers will be devolved here to make that easier. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
It revolves around what is reasonable. In cases of assault | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
against children there is a defence of reasonable punishment and | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
campaigners want to scrap it. First and foremost, it is a human rights | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
issue. Children should have the right to not be heard in the same | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
way that adults do will stop at the moment, if you hit another addled, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
there is no defence in the law for why you have hit them. But if a | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
parent hits their child, they can say it was reasonable punishment. I | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
think children should have the same protection from assault as parents | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
do. Two years ago, the Welsh government saw off a call for a ban, | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
saying the time wasn't right. Now ministers want to build cross-party | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
support to outlaw smacking. But just like in the Assembly, there were | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
people for and against a ban at this play centre in Cardiff today. | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Smacking children years ago, it happened, and I had a smack from mum | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
and dad, but there are so many cases today where it has got out of hand | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
and parents to take it a dark -- too far, maybe it wouldn't be the third | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
worst thing in the world. I wouldn't say a ban because personal choice, | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
but for me, my son, I wouldn't smack him. If he sees other children in | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
the playground being naughty, I don't want him to think it is OK to | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
smack someone if they are bad. Campaigners say they don't expect a | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
wave of parents being prosecuted after a ban. Instead they hope it | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
will send a message about what is deemed acceptable. The Welsh | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
government tried to do something similar when it banned smoking in | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
cars carrying children. Now the children Commissioner hopes | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
ministers will use these powers and put an end to a debate which she | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
says has been going round in circles for years. | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
Days after stricter sanctions were brought-in around | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
high tackles in rugby, referees are spoiling | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
the game and fans could be turned-off the sport. | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
That's the warning tonight from the former Wales | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
It comes after players from the Scarlets, Ospreys | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
and Ulster were shown yellow cards in the Pro12 on the first | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
weekend since tougher punishments came into force. | :18:35. | :18:35. | |
Is that a high tackle? A new year and a new clamp-down on high | :18:36. | :18:50. | |
tackles. It is a high tackle, preventing a possible try. A yellow | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
card and a penalty try. A raft of yellow cards was handed out at the | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
weekend. He has gone again. Where are we going? Now the referees are | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
under scrutiny. Under the new directives, that is high. Is it | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
reckless? It is up to them to referee each incident on its | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
individual merits and then decide but sometimes it just spoils the | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
game. It is a contact sport and people like the big collisions. They | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
have got to be clean and fair and they have got to be kept in the | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
game. But if it's getting too sterile, people aren't going to want | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
to watch. A new tougher approach to reckless and accidental... While the | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
laws of the game haven't changed, the level of punishment players can | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
expect have. The game's governing body says player welfare is their | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
number one concern. One of the most respected referees, Nigel Owens, | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
says a degree of empathy and common sense is needed, but he says there | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
has been a greater clamp-down on reckless tackles some time. I come | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
in to tackle you, if I tackle you here and by hand slips up like this, | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
that has always been a high tackle and a penalty. But if I come in high | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
and I catch you here with force and it goes on to your head, that is | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
going to be a red card. But that was a red card six months ago. But we | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
could be seeing more cards being dished out on the rugby field. Does | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
that increase the pressure on the referee? I'm not quite sure if it | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
is, to be honest with you. What these directives have done is | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
refocusing everybody concerned that we as referees need to be strict | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
with this type of tackle. The changes are aimed at minimising | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
this, the treatment of concussion, which is high on the agenda, and | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
tonight World Rugby says the way George North's latest head injury | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
was handled during a game for Northampton last month was | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
disappointing. Some Pro12 coaches say the changes are making the game | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
impossible to referee. The challenge for those running the game is to | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
make a physical contact sport as safe as possible. Without alienating | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
fans and players. Wales international Liam Williams | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
will join Saracens next summer. The 25-year-old moves | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
to the English Premiership from the Scarlets on a three-year | :21:17. | :21:17. | |
deal at the end of the season. The move could limit his | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
international appearances. The senior selection policy only | :21:22. | :21:22. | |
allows three non-Wales based There's no Welsh interest | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
in the fourth round draw New Swansea City boss Paul Clement | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
lost his first game in charge 2-0 as they crashed out | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
of the competition at Hull. Cardiff City were the last Welsh | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
club to be knocked out, They lost 2-1 to Fulham in front | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
of a crowd of just over 5,000. Manager Neil Warnock said he didn't | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
blame the fans not turning up Not many athletes manage to move | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
successfully from one sport to another but Welsh 100m sprinter | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
Mica Moore is hoping to combine her love for athletics | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
with the huge challenge The 24-year-old from Newport | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
is determined not to pick between her winter and summer | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
sports, insisting her future could include success in both | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
and her dream is to represent Team If you'd asked Mica Moore | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
about the bobsleigh not long ago she would have talked about the 1993 | :22:09. | :22:28. | |
film Cool Runnings. She certainly didn't think | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
she would end up the brake woman I don't think I could ever pick | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
between them because they are both so much fun and they are perfect | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
sports alongside each other. One is a summer sport | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
and one is a winter sports As a sprinter, she competed | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games for Wales in the relay, | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
and that led to being asked She was a natural and for someone | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
who doesn't like roller-coasters, travelling at speeds of 125 mph | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
for the first time didn't phase her. I think I got out of the bobsleigh | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
and said, that was so much fun. I must be a little bit bonkers | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
because I wasn't too nervous. I think I rang my dad before | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
for some comforting words and he's my coach so he just manages | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
to calm me down really well. It's been an incredible | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
journey so far. Her dad is amazed at how | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
quickly she has adapted. I couldn't be prouder | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
as a dad, predominantly. And for somebody who is relatively | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
inexperienced in bobsleigh, the accelerated development | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
is really quite incredible actually. Next month she is hoping to get | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
into the GB squad and compete at There's a lot of work I need to do | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
before I can do that and I need to make sure I am running as fast | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
as I can and make sure But it would be a massive | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
dream to compete there. And I'm really excited | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
for the season ahead. If all goes to plan, | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
2018 could be busy. She knows it would be | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
a massive challenge. and a summer representing Wales | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
at the Commonwealth Games. That would be a perfect | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
year, I think. Snow is the big feature of this | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
week's weather charts. The Met Office has issued a yellow | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
warning for wind and snow as parts of Wales and the rest of the UK | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
looks set for an Arctic cold spell. The weather front is different | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
from the one hitting Snow has covered the Greek | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
islands and southern Italy, Temperatures in Russia | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
have plunged to -30. So let's get Sue Charles to flesh | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
out the detail in the forecast. Our weather has been quiet in | :24:47. | :24:59. | |
comparison but there is a change on the way. After a relatively mild but | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
unsettled start of the week, it will turn colder by the end of it with | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
wintry showers possible. The risk of snow for some but a completely | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
different scenario from the bitter easterly winds that brought the cold | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
weather across continental Europe. Later in the week, the air coming | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
from Iceland. And as the fronts moving from the west, they could | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
bring rain, sleet or possibly snow. But tonight, heavy rain and | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
scattered showers will continue on and off. Feeling colder in the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
strong winds. This front brought today's rain. A brief respite and | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
then another arrives from the west tomorrow. Some dry spells and just a | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
few early showers tomorrow. And then ploughed thickens as the fog pushes | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
through from the West. Our bricks -- outbreaks of rain. Temperatures | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
above average. Tomorrow night, some dry spells, just the odd shower on | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
and off. Some mist and hill fog developing. Still quite cold at six | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
to eight Celsius. The wind starts to turn more north-westerly on | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Wednesday. The isobars closer together signalling stronger winds | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
making it really feel colder for the end of the week. Wednesday it self, | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
some dry spells, just a few showers, but the Empress is really on these | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
winds. Very strong north-westerly winds could reach gale force along | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the coast. Highs of eight or 10 Celsius. But the wind chill will | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
make you feel colder. By Thursday we are into the colder air, very | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
blustery. Try and write for many but cold enough that any of these | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
showers could fall as sleet and snow by Thursday. | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
Northern Ireland is in political crisis tonight after the shock | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
resignation of Martin McGuinness. Under the power-sharing agreement, | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
this automatically means that the First Minister Arlene Foster of the | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
Democratic Unionist party, can no longer stay in her role. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
And politicians are being told not to interfere with Tata workers' vote | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
on whether to accept less generous pensions in exchange for better | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
investment in Port Talbot. Adam Price called for staff to reject the | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
deal. I'll have an update | :27:30. | :27:31. | |
for you here at 8pm and again From all of us on the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
programme, good evening. | :27:38. | :27:41. |