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An inquest rules that Ashley Talbot, who was hit by a minibus | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
outside his school, was killed accidentally. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
No child should die in a road traffic accident on school premises. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
In schools, more than anywhere else, the safety of children should be | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
A recruitment crisis in the Welsh NHS, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
and failures to employ doctors and nurses are costing health | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
A recruitment crisis in the Welsh NHS, | :00:28. | :00:48. | |
and failures to employ doctors and nurses are costing health | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
The right to buy your council home was introduced my Margaret Thatcher. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
As another council plans to suspend the policy, | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
how it could soon be banned altogether. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
A new survey has some surprising results on how | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
And the modern masterpieces on public display, thanks | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
to one private collector's Welsh connection. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
When I hear my mother's accent, I say I am back in Wales. That was her | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
background and she never lost her love of Wales, which she passed on | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
to me. The coroner investigating the death | :01:30. | :01:30. | |
of a 15-year-old boy, who was run over in the grounds of his school | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
said the inquest has identified Ashley Talbot was struck by a school | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
minibus as he was leaving Maesteg Comprehensive | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
in December 2014. The jury returned a verdict | :01:41. | :01:41. | |
of accidental death and the coroner will now make a report | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
about the design and construction of the school, so that | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
lessons can be learnt. popular boy, and only son. | :01:47. | :02:05. | |
15-year-old Ashley was struck by a minibus as he ran for his bus home. | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Police say the driver, a PE teacher called Christopher Brooks will not | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
face prosecution. He was driving at 14 to 17 mph and would have had less | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
than a second to react. The inquest heard about wider safety concerns. A | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
boss Trevor said this was an accident waiting to happen. Several | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
children described near misses which they had witnessed. The coroner said | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
it revealed issues of grave concern and you will now be preparing a | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
report on the design, construction and operation of the school. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Reacting to the verdict, the solicitor of the family spelt out | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
their concerns. No child should die on the school premises in a road | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
traffic accident. In schools more than anywhere else, the safety of | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
children should be uppermost in everyone's minds. The school was | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
constructed through a PFI initiative. It is clear from the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
evidence that we have heard in court that the staff of the school were | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
never satisfied with the design and layout provided of that school. They | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
struggled, then, to provide a secure and safe environment, given the | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
design restrictions imposed upon them. Following the hearing, the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
local authority issued a statement saying improvements have already | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
been carried out the school and the review of safety in all schools in | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
the county borough has taken place. The chair of governors paid tribute | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
to Ashley at the popular pupil. The governor is satisfied the school is | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
now safe. We complied with all the health and safety recommendations | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
that were brought in following the terrible accidents. We believe now | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
that the school is certainly a very safe place. Ashley's mother has been | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
too ill to attend the inquest. His father left without speaking. The | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
family say they are broken. We have welcomed the ongoing health and | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
safety investigation and are planning further legal action. They | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
also plan to campaign for a school safety in memory of the sun. -- in | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Failures to recruit doctors and nurses are costing Welsh health | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
boards millions of pounds and today, Assembly Members were told | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
there's now a recruitment crisis in the Welsh NHS. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
In north Wales, the amount of money being spent | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
on agency staff this year matches the entire ?30 million | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
over-spend of Betsi Cadwaladr health board. | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
We are told our hospitals have rarely been busier, pressure is | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
rarely greater, the squeeze on cash rarely tighter. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
But at a time when the Welsh NHS need every penny it can | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
get, spending on agency staff to fill empty posts is spiralling. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
According to some critics, there is a recruitment crisis. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
In north Wales, as an example, there are 177 | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
There's a shortage of 79 health care assistants. | :05:02. | :05:19. | |
Ward rosters are going only 85% filled and that's despite | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
We asked to be allowed into the hospital here in | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Bangor today to speak to doctors and nurses | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
about recruitment, but that | :05:28. | :05:28. | |
One, an experienced sister, who didn't want | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
to be filmed, told me that recruitment problems were down to | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Places like this are extremely tough to | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Outside our cities, most Welsh hospitals struggle for staff. | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
Today at the Senate, Assembly Members were | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Why, for example, do many medical students leave Wales when they | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
We have recently run a survey of all of those trainees | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
coming to interview with us to find out exactly what are those key | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
And the vast majority have indicated that it's important that | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
they have got somewhere where their friends are, | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
I was talking to a number of students thinking of going into | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
medicine recently in my constituency. | :06:20. | :06:20. | |
They were all young, single, you know, young men and | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
women, 18, 19 years old, who couldn't wait to get out. | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
And said, you know, they've spent their whole | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
lives here, they wanted to go and see the big wide world. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
And the failure to recruit is costing money. | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
This year, the Ysbyty health board expects | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
to be in the red for more than ?30 million. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
And that's similar to the amount it was spent on agency staff | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
If you could fill posts, could you get rid | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
I think it would be a massive help if we could reduce the agency spend | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
and we are working towards that every day. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
We have some rigorous plans in place to control the spent | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
on agency staff, both from the medical point of view and the | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
We need to recognise that there will always | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
circumstances to employ agency clinical staff, to make sure that | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
A safe service, then, but also a cheaper service. | :07:15. | :07:26. | |
This has now become a major challenge for the Welsh NHS. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
The number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in accident | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
and emergency departments in Wales has risen by a quarter. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Just over 4,000 people spent 12 hours in A E last month, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
The Welsh Government said the rise is unacceptable and pledged | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
to work with NHS Wales to achieve improvements for patients. | :07:50. | :07:58. | |
A man from Tredegar has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
accused of downloading so-called Islamic State manuals. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
23-year-old Nathan Saunders is charged with five counts | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
of possessing a record likely to be useful to a person committing | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
A woman from Swansea, who claimed she'd been imprisoned | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
in her father's flat in Saudi Arabia, is still | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
waiting for a face-to-face meeting with her lawyer. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
21-year-old Amina Al-Jeffrey said her father locked her up | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
because she kissed a guy - an allegation he denies. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Last Summer, Mohammad Al-Jeffrey was ordered to facilitate | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
his daughter's return to the UK, but she remains in Saudi Arabia. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
A High Court judge has revealed her lawyer has yet to be | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Tenants in Cardiff could become the latest in Wales to LOSE | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
the right to buy their council houses, as the authority aims | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
to tackle the city's growing housing need. | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
The Council's decision to suspend the right-to-buy | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
policy for five years will need to be rubber-stamped | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
by the Welsh Government, who plan to introduce a law that | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
would amount to a Wales-wide ban on the policy. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
Hello. We are at the forts. In March, they will be married from us | :09:06. | :09:27. | |
40 years. They have lived for most of it in this council has. Are | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
making here, it wasn't anything like it is now and then we were here a | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
bout a month and we decided to buy it. We feel proud that we both came | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
from... I came from a council house, Harry is from the docks, and we are | :09:42. | :09:53. | |
out here owning our own houses. So, I'm quite pleased with both of us. | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Before it would have benefited from a discount of up to 50% when the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
policy was first introduced in the 1980s. These days, social housing | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
tenants in Wales can get up to a maximum of ?8,000 knocked off the | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
value of their property. Last year, 359 properties in Wales were bought | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
under the right to buy scheme. Out of a total of more than 200,000 in | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
the social housing sector. Had we not had the right to buy, we would | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
not have a waiting list today and people on that waiting list are in | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
significant housing needs. What we want to be able to do, we want to | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
protect a very important asset for families to come now and into the | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
future. The request will need to be accepted by the Welsh Government. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Anglesey and Swansea have already been given the permission to suspend | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
the right to buy policy in the area. Dembach and Flintshire's | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
applications are still being considered. Next month Government | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
ministers will propose a new law in the Assembly that would amount to a | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Wales wide ban on the policy. It would bring the curtain down on a | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
flagship wide policy driven by her desire to create a nation of | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
homeowners. This just reflects attention from huge national need to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
build more houses. It's completely the wrong priority. We should be | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
proud of the right to buy and encourage its use in the future. We | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
certainly need to build more homes, that's what the Welsh women should | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
be doing. We need to invest in new homes. Housing associations are | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
committed to that and to building houses up and down Wales. The right | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
to buy is part of that picture and stops of losing homes that we need, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
but the focus should be on new homes. It is a controversial policy. | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
As far as this couple are concerned, it afforded them the possibility to | :11:56. | :11:56. | |
Turner has into home. All AMs are allowed | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
to put staff in place, family or otherwise, | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
for six months after their But then a permanent post | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
has to be advertised - for which there's an open | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
recruitment process. And it's for one of those | :12:16. | :12:16. | |
permanent jobs that this discussion in November last | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
year was all about. A Ukip Assembly member discussed how | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
an advert for a job in her office could be changed to help her brother | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
with an Assembly official. Michelle Brown was told that | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
if she went ahead with an initial draft of the advert, | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
her brother would be sifted out She was also asked if she | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
wanted to check with him what qualifications he had before | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
finalising the advert. Well, our political reporter | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
Paul Martin is in Cardiff Bay. Paul, can you tell | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
us more about this? All AMs are allowed | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
to put staff in place, family or otherwise, | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
for six months after their But then a permanent post | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
has to be advertised - for which there's an open | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
recruitment process. And it's for one of those | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
permanent jobs that this discussion in November last | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
year was all about. Taking the stage as a new AM last | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
summer, Michelle Brown, one of seven new members but elected. She soon | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
recruited a team. She is allowed to employ a family member to work for | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
her. But what role should they play in the recruitment process was back | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
I asked the Assembly commission for e-mails sent between Michelle Brown | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
and officials regarding recruitment. Some were released, but other bits | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
withheld with the Assembly citing personal data, but I have now seen | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
full details of an exchange where an official and Michelle Brown | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
discussed finalising a job advert for a receptionist, personal | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
assistant job that made reference to Michelle Brown's brothers | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
qualifications. In the exchange, an Assembly official says, if we go | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
ahead with the qualification, an NVQ that is in the job description, | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Richard, that is Michelle Brown's brother, will be sifted out before | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
the interview stage. Do you want me to change it to grade C or above in | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
English? Michelle Brown required leg replied... | :13:51. | :14:05. | |
The official then told her, that is fine. My understanding is the job ad | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
went ahead without the NVQ requirement and her brother got an | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
interview. He did not get the job. The Assembly's recruitment panel has | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
recommended someone else who will meet Michelle Brown next week to | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
discuss the job. Michelle Brown says she has acted properly, a view | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
backed by you get's Assembly leader. All these jobs have to be publicly | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
advertised and in the case of somebody who is a family member who | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
is an applicant is covered in the appointment decision is taken by the | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Assembly itself, not by the individual AM. Book-mac the Assembly | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
commission says its recruitment process is fair and based on merit. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
And the employment of family members is only allowed with a member plays | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
no part in the assessment or interview. | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
So a clear argument there that an AM plays no part in the assessment | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
But as the email exchange pre-dates those bits of the process I asked | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
the Commission if they thought the discussion was appropriate | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
A spokeswoman said "It is entirely appropriate, and within the rules, | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
for officials to work with AMs to establish selection | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
criteria and arrangements for a particular appointment". | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
But a former standards watchdog - Sir Alistair Graham - | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
has tonight told BBC Wales the exchange looked unethical | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
and he would advocate a ban on the employment of relatives | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
No doubt of course the 12 AMs who employ relatives would argue | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
they're good value for money and go the extra mile. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
And argument that I'm sure would be made by the 12am who employ | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
relatives here. He's taken the snooker | :15:43. | :15:43. | |
world by storm this week. Jackson Page crashes | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
out of the Wales Open, but the teenager is right on cue | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
for a bright future. We hear from the world champion | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
tipping the teenager to conquer the snooker world. | :15:58. | :15:58. | |
And they're masterpieces by some of the UK's | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
most prominent 20th century artists - | :16:02. | :16:02. | |
why this private collection has gone on public display. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
Well a new survey has found that in the last full financial year, | :16:11. | :16:25. | |
families in Wales spend an average of ?447 a week. | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
That's ?80 less than the UK average, according to the latest figures | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
in the Family Spending Survey from the Office for National Statistics. | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Matt Murray has been to meet a family in Ceredigion to see how | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
Ben and partner Joe and I arrive home after the weekly shop. They | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
live in Newquay and have a two-year-old son. Then works as a | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
boat mechanic and Joanna works in admin. Since having their son, they | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
try to stick to a budget when they go shopping. Most of this offers | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
around the pound mark, some stuff is around 60p. Then to be what they | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
spend, but on average, its ?70 per week and that's just on essentials. | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
Since we have had Thomas, we noticed that the shop has gone up. It is | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
just the price of living, the price of the bare essentials, bread, milk, | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
butter, meals, chicken. It has gone up in price. In Wales, the average | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
weekly household spend is one of the lowest in Britain, at ?447, compared | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
to the UK average of just under 520 9p. This family's weekly spend of | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
?70 on food shopping is higher than the Welsh average which is ?53 20. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
For the majority of regions in this report from the Office of National | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Statistics, mortgages and rented the largest expenditures, along with | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
other housing costs, including energy bills, with 59.50 spend an | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
average of 37 day period. In ?63 30 cents a week on transport in Wales, | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
but that is nearly ?10 less than the UK average. Margherita Niehaus is | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
the mosts most outgoing. Electric is never getting cheaper. They are all | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
going up. Look like there is also a cleaner living picture reflected | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
throughout Wales, with average spent on alcohol and tobacco down by ?10 | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
70. Compare to the rest of the UK wages also down to just under ?12. | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
With a three rule to entertain, that is the same for Ben and Joanna has | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
they now focus on the essentials as they try to piece together their | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
household budget. He's had an incredible week, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
but the dream is over The teenager from Ebbw Vale lost | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
to world number four Judd Trump Jackson, who's taken | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
the snooker world by storm, was entered as a wild card and two | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
times world champion Mark Williams says it's vital | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
young players like him are given an opportunity | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
to break into the sport. global audience focuses on the man | :18:53. | :19:09. | |
of the moment, under pressure like never before. Not that you could | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
tell. COMMENTATOR: How about that. He made further progress than some | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
of the biggest names in World Snooker in reaching the third round, | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
world number four Judd Trump just too good in the end. COMMENTATOR: | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
They just had a first taste of life in the souk spotlight and hopefully | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
there will be many more to come. It has been great, I have loved every | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
minute of it. The support from friends and family, everyone, it has | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
been great. I cannot wait for next time. Commiserations? No chance. We | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
came down here just thinking, we have a couple of days off work now, | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
we will get through round one. My head was mostly down, because I | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
could not watch. To get around to as well was just, we didn't think that | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
would happen again. It was emotional. Even seeing him walk out | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
on the big stage like that, you get a lump in your throat. 33 | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
tournaments a year on Sundays, every day over to the snooker hall, back | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
at night. His friend had just passed his test, so he is driving him | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
around now. His snooker job of choice. -- snooker club. He says | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
practising here with the two-time world champion has certainly helped. | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
I suppose you have to say that, because he plays my club and if you | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
don't say nice things, they might chuck him out. I can remember when I | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
was playing back of my age and I know how hard it was. I don't think | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
there are many 15-year-olds in the world better than him. Probably a | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
view as good in China, but if he keeps going, you have to keep | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
improving, obviously, but he is on the right road and he will be helped | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
no end by this tournament. Williams has called for the wild card system | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
at the tournament to continue, it is what allowed some amateur players | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
like Jackson to be selected to play at this level. These youngsters are | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
inspired to become professionals, so why wouldn't you give them the Wales | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
card. But at the Chinese, they have been given the wild card for five | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
years and the turnout to be brilliant players. Opted for a | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
revival of the sport in Wales. In general, in this country, snooker is | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
slightly on the decline, so hopefully with Jackson doing so | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
well, this will inspire kids to come back to the snooker halls and take | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
up the sport. E have competed with the best on a big stage. Don't bet | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
against him turning professional any time soon. | :21:42. | :21:42. | |
So, Jackson's Wales Open is over, but one Welshman remains | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Lee Walker beat Graeme Dott to make it through to the last 16. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Rugby and there's a break from the Six Nations this weekend, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
but news from the Wales camp is that lock Luke Charteris | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
The 33-year-old, who's been recovering from a hand fracture, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
will be considered for selection for the match against Scotland | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
As a boy, Ian Stout-sker was evacuated to his mum's hometown | :22:01. | :22:13. | |
Decades on, it's his links with Wales which sees an exhibition | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
of masterpieces he owns by some of the UK's most prominent | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
20th century artists going on display at the | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
It includes works by the likes of Francis Bacon, David Hockney | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Ian and his Mercedes have been speaking exclusively to our | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
arts and media correspondent, Huw Thomas. | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
A whole room filled with the finest examples of 20th-century art. | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
The figures and faces are by some of the | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
most familiar of artists and all collected by a couple passionate | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
They include some of the best examples of | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Francis Bacon's paintings and one of Anthony Gormley's standing | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
sculptures, cast in lead from the artist's own form. | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
Ian and Mercedes bought many of these works before the | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
artists were famous and well the collection is normally | :22:54. | :23:14. | |
behind closed doors, it was Ian's links with Wales | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
that encouraged him to loan them to the National Museum. | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
His mother was from Tredegar and he was evacuated | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
to the town from his London home during the war. | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
My mother was born in 1894 in Tredegar, lived there | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
for the first 25 years of her life and when I hear | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
my mother's accent, I say, "I am back in Wales." | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
Because that was my background and she never lost her | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
love of Wales which she passed on to me. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
He is vice president and a financial backer of Cardiff's Royal | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
Welsh College of Music and Drama, where the concert hall is named | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
It is Mercedes he was the art buyer, with | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
an eye for the up-and-coming painter, she bought early works by | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
Lowry and Bacon for hundreds, when now they go for millions. | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
I am happy for the artists that their prices | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
went up, but as far as | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
I'm concerned, I wish they never did, because I could on buying. | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
Mercedes will tell you that she believes | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
these should be shown and not hoarded for few. | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
So, I felt if this was feeling that it should shown, it | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
The couples' generosity means something | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
is artists are on display in Cardiff for the first time. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
We are here in the Museum to inspire our visitors | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
with the greatness of art and to show how | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
terms of giving life, joy and meaning and value and be able to | :24:37. | :24:49. | |
show such wonderful examples is really core | :24:50. | :24:50. | |
The private collection is open to the public from Saturday and it | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
will remain on show until January next year. | :24:56. | :24:57. | |
Time for Derek to paint us the weather picture. | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
A few places hit the dizzy heights 11 Celsius today. | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
Staying on the mild side over the next few days, with daytime | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Dry in Neath today, with a little blue sky and sunshine. | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Not so nice, though, in the north-west with some rain | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
Tonight, rain in parts of mid and north Wales will gradually ease. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
A few gaps in the cloud and remaining mild. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Temperatures not falling much - six to eight Celsius. | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure over France. | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
This cold front west of Ireland is heading our way. | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Here's the picture for 8am tomorrow morning. | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
Plenty of cloud, but bright in places and feeling mild. | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Eight Celsisu in Bala with light winds. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
So, some reasonable weather tomorrow. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
A little sunshine, but cloud will increase during the afternoon | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Ten to 12 Celsius with a light to moderate breeze. | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
In Flint and Deeside tomorrow - mostly cloudy and dry. | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
It will be 11 Celsius in Shotton with a light breeze. | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
A dry morning, turning damp in the afternoon. | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
Ten Celsius in Haverfordwest with a south south-easterly breeze. | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
Some mist and fog patches and another mild night. | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
The chart for Saturday shows high pressure over the continent, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
with a weak cold front lying through Wales. | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
Otherwise mostly dry and mild with a south | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
Spots of drizzle, otherwise a lot of dry weather. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
Next week - mild and becoming windy. | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
Turning colder later in the week with showers. | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
The coroner investigating the death of 15-year-old Ashley Talbot, | :27:00. | :27:16. | |
who was run over in the grounds of his school, said | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
the inquest has identified issues of "grave concern". | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
He will now make a report about the design and construction | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
of Maesteg Comprehensive, so that lessons can be learnt. | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
We'll be back after the BBC News at 10:30pm. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
From all of us on the programme, have a good evening. | :27:29. | :27:39. |