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Welcome to the programme. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
Tonight's headlines. | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
An inquest hears a police officer tasered Matthew Williams four times | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
as they were called to the Bed and Breakfast where | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
Cerys Yemm was killed. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
Labour tells the UK Government to 'get moving' | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
on Swansea's Tidal Lagoon. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
And holiday cottages set alight back in the 70s. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:18 | |
Now UK Government documents into events are revealed | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
for the first time. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:23 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
"I have never been more scared in my entire life", | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
the words of the police officer called to the Bed and Breakfast | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
where a 22-year-old women died. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
Cerys Yemm was killed by a resident, 34-year-old | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
Matthew Williams in November 2014. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:53 | |
He died shortly after his arrest in Argoed. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Today an officer said he tasered Williams four times. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
You may find parts of Caroline Evans' report disturbing. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:03 | |
Today the inquest heard from one of the first police | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
officers to enter the room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
PC Alan Cotterell told how, with the help of the owner's husband, | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
he pushed the bedroom door open. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:18 | |
Matthew Williams was on the floors snarling and growling. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:21 | |
He looked possessed, he said. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
His eyes almost black. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
He told the jury he'd never been more scared in his entire life, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:30 | |
and said this was by far the most a horrendous thing he'd ever seen. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
He said he used his Taser, praying it would work. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
He quickly realised from the severity of her injuries | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
that Cerys Yemm was dead. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
But felt Matthew Williams was such a threat he feared for his own life. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
He described how he tasered Williams once, and managed to get | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
the handcuffs on him. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
But as officers tried to hold him down, he was lifting them up | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
with such ease they had to use the Taser again. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
He told the court, "I feel if that Taser hadn't worked | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
I wouldn't be such today." | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
He used it three more times within a minute. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
Before Matthew Williams stopped trying to get up. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
At that point PC Cotterell told the court he formally | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
arrested him for murder. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
Around 20 minutes after being placed in the ambulance | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
Matthew Williams died. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:26 | |
The inquest into the deaths of Matthew Williams | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
on Cerys Yemm continues. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
Labour says the UK government should "get moving" and give the Swansea | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
tidal lagoon the go-ahead. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
A report commissioned by the government that backed | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
the technology was published two months ago. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
But ministers are yet to agree to guarantee how much money | 0:02:40 | 0:02:43 | |
the company will get for the electricity the lagoon | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
will feed into the National Grid, known as the strike price. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
With more, here's Paul Martin. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
Seven square miles of water that could generate enough energy | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
to power 150,000 homes a year. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
The Swansea Tidal Lagoon Project got the thumbs up in a report by former | 0:02:56 | 0:03:00 | |
energy minister Charles Hendry, two months ago. | 0:03:00 | 0:03:07 | |
The company wants to start building in one year's time. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
But the future is uncertain. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
The people behind this project started developing the idea | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
to harness the energy generated underwater here seven years ago. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
But with investors to keep happy, they are still waiting for confirmed | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
backing from the UK Government. | 0:03:25 | 0:03:29 | |
That backing boils down to a decision on how high a price | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
the UK Government will guarantee the company would get for energy. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
Trying to put pressure on the UK Government Labour's Shadow energy | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
secretary came to Swansea today to meet the company and see the site. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
She didn't say how high the price should be, | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
but she urged minsiters in Whitehall to get on board. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
We want them to get moving on this as quickly as possible. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:55 | |
Swansea needs to see benefits in terms of infrastructure, | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
long-term infrastructure that the project will leave | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
in Swansea after it's gone and the tourism it | 0:03:59 | 0:04:04 | |
will bring to Swansea. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
You can see how beautiful it is. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
The tidal lagoon will be located here, and the benefits | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
are going to be amazing. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:16 | |
The company didn't want to do an interview saying, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
perhaps diplomatically, they are looking forward to the UK | 0:04:20 | 0:04:22 | |
Government's decision. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
If the lagoon happens it could lead to a network of others | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
around Wales and the UK. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
Including in Cardiff. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
On another boat in Cardiff Bay Welsh Conservative leader | 0:04:31 | 0:04:35 | |
Andrew RT Davis played down Rebecca Long-Bailey's demand. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
I wouldn't put a lot of stall by what she said today. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
The Conservatives are delivering many exciting | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
and dynamic proposals for Wales. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
This is virtually over the line. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:51 | |
There's still a little bit more work to do on it. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:54 | |
It's really important that the strike price for the energy | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
it generates is competitive. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:57 | |
Because jobs rely on a competitive energy price. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
It's the eve of the Conservative Spring conference which happens | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
to be in South Wales. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:04 | |
Executives from Tidal Lagoon Power are amongst business leaders meeting | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
the Business Secretary in Cardiff tonight. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
But speculation about a big splash announcement seems to be premature. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
The UK Government says it is considering the report, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:23 | |
but with the size of energy bill at stake it is unsurprising it's | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
not speeding towards a decision. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
The UK government's attempts to respond to the Meibion Glyndwr | 0:05:30 | 0:05:33 | |
holiday home arson campaign,which began in the late 1970s, have been | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
revealed for the first time. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
Secret papers obtained by BBC Wales have re-ignited claims that | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
elements of the security services were involved. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:49 | |
They also detail concerns that the police couldn't distinguish | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
between legitimate Welsh nationalists and extremists. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
Roger Pinney reports. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
It was a turbulent period in our history, a 12-year-long arson | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
campaign, and we still don't know who was behind it. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
To find out what the UK Government knew, or thought it knew, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
Radio Cymru's Manylu programme used a Freedom of information request | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
to see these documents. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
For a year that request was denied, the BBC made a string of appeals. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:20 | |
Then, finally, these documents, many marked secret, | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
and confidential, were released. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:26 | |
The papers are heavily redacted. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:27 | |
But they do give a unique insight into thinking at the highest | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
levels of government. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
One document suggests the police didn't understand the distinction | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
between legitimate political nationalists, and | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
criminal extremists. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
One Chief Constable it says, seemed to think the presence | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
of nationalists in positions of influence in broadcasting | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
and education was a matter for the police. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
The first attacks came on December 13th 1979. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:54 | |
Four in one night. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
The attacks intensified, by the end there had been almost 300. | 0:06:56 | 0:07:01 | |
The attacks intensified, by the end there had been almost 300. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:02 | |
And they seem to be a high level of organisation. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
On one night alone six estate agents in London were hit, | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
in Mayfair, Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:13 | |
There were arrests. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
The actor Bryn Fon was picked up at his home. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
He was later released without charge, and it's accepted | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
he was entirely innocent. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:21 | |
The secret papers reveal the Chief Constable of North Wales | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
was sent greeting cards, naming actors and musicians | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
as fire bombers. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
I turned out to be the reverse of what they expected. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
The fact that I hadn't been a member of Cymdeithas Yr Iaith, | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
I wasn't a card-carrying Welsh nationalist, Plaid Cymru. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:43 | |
But then they tried to turn that on its head by saying you've kept | 0:07:43 | 0:07:47 | |
clear of all that stuff. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
The attacks went on and army bomb disposal team was brought in to show | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
journalists the damage the incendiary devices | 0:07:52 | 0:07:57 | |
were capable of doing. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
But who was behind the campaign? | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
In the early 1990s Sean Aubrey Roberts was part of a self-styled | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
As a folk singer and politician Dafydd Iwan has been involved | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
in nationalist politics for more than half a century, | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
he's long believed the security services played a part. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:15 | |
It's been worrying me for many years. | 0:08:15 | 0:08:17 | |
Was it a genuine campaign by Welsh nationalist sympathisers, | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
or was it in fact engineered by agent provacateurs? | 0:08:23 | 0:08:30 | |
You know that you give the impression that Welsh | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
nationalism was going along a similar route to Northern Ireland | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
and to make people afraid. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:40 | |
There was a real concern about the potential loss of life. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
But the idea that the security forces were somehow complicit | 0:08:44 | 0:08:49 | |
in doing things which could have endangered life is so fanciful it's | 0:08:49 | 0:08:54 | |
frankly to be beyond any belief. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
We never had any hint of that, in the Welsh office, | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
and I do not give any credence to it whatsoever. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
And so the debate continues, the holiday home arson campaign | 0:09:05 | 0:09:07 | |
never escalated as some of the secret papers suggest UK | 0:09:07 | 0:09:14 | |
Government officials feared. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:15 | |
It ended as quickly as it started. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Even with these newly released documents, key questions remain. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:23 | |
And you can hear more on this story on BBC Radio Cymru's Manylu | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
programme which is available on iPlayer radio. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
Young journalists from 44 schools across Wales have been taking part | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
in the BBC School Report Project - learning how to make | 0:09:34 | 0:09:38 | |
news programmes. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:39 | |
With social media a big part of modern life, school reporters | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
from Porth County Community School, have looked at the effect it's | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
having on teenagers' mental health. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:47 | |
The Children's Commissioner for Wales told them, it's something | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
she's concerned about. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
I think it undoubtedly has an impact on mental health. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
I've heard that directly from children. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
But we also know statistically it has an impact | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
according to how much you use social media, for example. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:11 | |
I mean, what some young people have told me is | 0:10:12 | 0:10:18 | |
that they often feel quite worried, both when they are on social media, | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
but also when they are offered. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
When they are on worry about some of the | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
things that are said, and that they see. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
But when they are off it they worry that they are missing out. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:30 | |
And if you'd like to see more on those school reports | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
head to our website. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
He's not a household name yet but teenager Ben Woodburn's | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
international football career is about to lift off. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
The 17-year-old, who plays for Liverpool, has been named | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
in the Wales squad for the first time ahead of their crucial | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
World Cup qualifier against Republic of Ireland. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:46 | |
Manager Chris Coleman has rejected any suggestions the call-up | 0:10:46 | 0:10:48 | |
is designed to keep the teenager out of England's clutches. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:54 | |
It makes me laugh, you know. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
Don't tell me about this kid I've been looking out for five years. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
He's been in our system. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
We know about Ben. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
We know he's a good player. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
If I thought it was too early we wouldn't call him up, | 0:11:04 | 0:11:09 | |
because this game is massive for us. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
I'm not thinking about Ben, I'm thinking about what the best | 0:11:11 | 0:11:18 | |
squad I can get together to meet this next challenge. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
It's a big one. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
And he's done enough. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:23 | |
He's earned his place with us. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
Now for a look at the weather forecast, here's Derek Brockway. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
Henffych, greetings. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
It's turning colder tonight. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
Tomorrow some wind and rain on the way. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
Patchy light rain will clear this evening, most places dry overnight. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
Bar the odd shoulder in the north. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
Turning colder, temperatures falling as low as one, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
two or three Celsius. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
With a touch of low frost in the countryside by dawn. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:51 | |
A chilly tomorrow morning, but dry and bright for a while. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
Make the most of the sunshine. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
Cloud will increase later in the morning. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
A few spots of rain in Gwynedd and Conwy. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Across the rest of the UK tomorrow wet and windy, | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
across Northern Ireland spreading into Scotland and further south | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
into northern England and Wales in the afternoon. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
Some snow for the Highlands. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
Southern England mainly dry and bright. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
11 Celsius in London, colder in Glasgow. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
Now, in Wales the weather will go downhill. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
Rain moving in. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
Heavy rain in the West, wind increasing as well. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
That will make it feel cool. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
Tomorrow night will continue breezy, further outbreaks of rain. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:36 | |
Heavy persistent rain in the West and north-west, | 0:12:36 | 0:12:38 | |
and on the Cambrian Mountains. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:42 | |
Saturday not great, cloudy and breezy. | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
Further rain and drizzle at times. | 0:12:45 | 0:12:46 | |
Low cloud until fog. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
Drier in the Marches. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Sunday, not much better, windy, more rain and drizzle. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
Part of the North and east should be dry and brighter times. | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
Sheltered from these moist south-westerly winds. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
So much more unsettled band recently over the next few days, | 0:13:03 | 0:13:07 | |
rain at times, about 50 millimetres, two inches of rain | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
likely on Snowdonia. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
Stronger winds as well. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
So not feeling very springlike over the next few days. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
Bye for now. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:18 | |
And that's it from Wales Today. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
We are back with updates from 6:30am tomorrow. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
From all of us on the team, good night. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 |