0:00:02 > 0:00:062012 saw the results of the latest Welsh national census.
0:00:06 > 0:00:10But that's just a set of dry statistics.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12It's not flesh and bones.
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Amazing.
0:00:13 > 0:00:19It doesn't show us how we really live, or who we really are.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21Our hopes...
0:00:21 > 0:00:22Our fears...
0:00:22 > 0:00:25I don't want her to die in a hospital environment.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26..Our dreams.
0:00:30 > 0:00:31Throughout 2012,
0:00:31 > 0:00:35we followed eight very different families, from all walks of life and
0:00:35 > 0:00:40from all over the country, to reveal the real Wales behind the numbers.
0:00:43 > 0:00:48The result is Wales In A Year, a unique and unfolding
0:00:48 > 0:00:51insight into the incredible daily dramas of all our lives.
0:00:55 > 0:01:01And tonight - Ty Carreg Farm's future is in the balance as Gruffydd goes under the knife...
0:01:04 > 0:01:07..There's more heartache in Merthyr.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10I'm so surprised she didn't break every bone in her body.
0:01:11 > 0:01:15And Jahan witnesses the dark side of the drinks industry.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Open your legs a bit, mate, so you don't get sick on your shoes.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32Wales, 2012, a land of 3.1 million people.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37At some point in all our lives, we're forced to confront
0:01:37 > 0:01:41the unexpected, and often daunting, challenges of serious illness.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48Life expectancy in Wales has never been higher.
0:01:48 > 0:01:54It's 78 for the average Welsh male and 82 for the average female.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58But greater longevity also means more wear and tear.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05It's high summer at Ty Carreg Farm in the foothills of Snowdonia.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09But it's been a stormy time for 81-year-old tenant farmer,
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Gruffydd Edwards.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15The weather's been grim and to make matters worse,
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Gruffydd is housebound.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22Three weeks yesterday, I had the replacement hip surgery.
0:02:25 > 0:02:34That's us handicapped quite a bit, but things are improving,
0:02:34 > 0:02:40I wouldn't be able to lift my leg up that much a week ago, so it's improving.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43This one's going all right, of course.
0:02:46 > 0:02:51Oh, good God, I'm looking forward for the next three weeks to go quick
0:02:51 > 0:02:55because I'm hoping I'll be back driving in another three weeks.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01As long as Gruffydd is off his feet, the family is losing money.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06His 31-year-old daughter, Carys, has had to give up her part-time
0:03:06 > 0:03:10job to look after the farm - something she can ill afford.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14And to make matters worse, another usual source of income,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17their beehives, are in a bad way.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22In a good year, the family is able to supplement its income with some honey money.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26But this summer's rains have meant a shortage of pollinating plants,
0:03:26 > 0:03:33very little honey and 300,000 starving bees that Carys needs to feed.
0:03:33 > 0:03:39I've been buying loads of sugar. Won't be far off, over actually, a ton, by the end of this year.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41So it'll be over a thousand pounds, easily.
0:03:43 > 0:03:44I have to keep them alive.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49It's been a bad season, that's why honey is so expensive.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Carys will melt all of this sugar into a syrup for her hungry bees.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58It hasn't been a good year at all so...
0:03:58 > 0:03:59But we still struggle on.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04TRANSLATED FROM WELSH: Terribly unusual to have to feed the bees now, isn't it?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12And whilst Carys takes care of the farm,
0:04:12 > 0:04:16it's down to 76-year-old Alwyn to keep the house going.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Try and keep the place as clean as I can.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28I know it isn't very clean today,
0:04:28 > 0:04:33but I haven't been able to do things that I used to like to do.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41In the hills above the farm,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Carys is preparing to feed the bees their syrup.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I would like to think that I'm like a bee.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Nobody works so hard than a bee or an ant.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00Those are the most busy creature that you can have.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Honey is the bees' food store.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09This hive, now, has got no honey at all, no stores.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14The honey yield, this year, has been exceedingly poor.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16Like this here now, five pound a hive.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22To compare, on a very good year, you are looking to
0:05:22 > 0:05:26get about hundred pound off the hive.
0:05:26 > 0:05:31They'll eat that pretty fast. Next week, all of that would have gone.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36Without bees, we people wouldn't survive.
0:05:36 > 0:05:41Fruit and veg wouldn't be able, without bees to pollinate,
0:05:41 > 0:05:43so somebody has to keep them alive.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47And I just enjoy working with them, learning their way of life.
0:05:50 > 0:05:56But it's a way of life that Carys can ill afford to keep going.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00This land means a lot to me.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04Cos my father and his family,
0:06:04 > 0:06:10and his father before, came here over 100 years ago.
0:06:10 > 0:06:17We've just worked so hard. Even when I was small, I'd give my life for this farm.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21Never say never to see it end,
0:06:24 > 0:06:26but if that day would come, I'd be very sad.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46One in four Welsh people suffer from a life limiting illness.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50For many, the illness strikes late in life.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Others though, tragically born with serious illness and disability.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59In Newport, Gwent, three-year-old Alleysha Bullock was
0:06:59 > 0:07:03deprived of oxygen at birth, leaving her with cerebral palsy
0:07:03 > 0:07:07and brain damage that will severely limit her life expectancy.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10She's done really well so far.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13I, personally, think myself she'll last until about 17.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17It'd be a push, I think.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Alleysha will require 24-hour care for the rest of her short life.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23As part of that care,
0:07:23 > 0:07:27her home is being adapted to help improve her quality of life.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31So far patio doors, a ramp,
0:07:31 > 0:07:36an electric bed and a bathroom hoist have been installed.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Today, a stairlift is being fitted.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Something for which Alleysha's mum, Charlene, is particularly grateful.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46My back's absolutely buggered from carrying her all the time.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53Too heavy and bigger now, more awkward now.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56The work is being paid for with a disabled facilities grant
0:07:56 > 0:08:01from the Welsh Assembly Government and its costing around £15,000.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03If you just press it and let go.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07In 2012, the total spent by the Assembly on disabled
0:08:07 > 0:08:09facilities grants was £35m.
0:08:12 > 0:08:1748 hours later, the dust has settled on the building work.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19But there's still plenty of upheaval in the household
0:08:19 > 0:08:22for the Monday morning school rush hour.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Downstairs, six-year-old Elleyah and Gran, Hermione,
0:08:26 > 0:08:28are, pretty much, ready for their school run.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33But upstairs, like most three-year-olds,
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Alleysha's objecting to having her teeth brushed.
0:08:39 > 0:08:40For the past two months,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45Alleysha's been attending her local special needs school part-time.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48She started off, she just went an hour a day to see how
0:08:48 > 0:08:53she got on and now, at the moment, she does a session nine till one.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56'But she loves it.' You love going to school, don't you?
0:08:57 > 0:09:00You come back all happy.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02It's easier for me, as well, obviously, it gives me a break.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04It's nice, it gives me a break.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07She loves it, she loves being there with all the children,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09they've all got different major conditions.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17The school that Alleysha attends is Maes Ebbw in Newport,
0:09:17 > 0:09:20a special needs school for pupils aged three to nineteen.
0:09:24 > 0:09:29It's one of 44 dedicated special schools across Wales, and Alleysha
0:09:29 > 0:09:35is one of 14,000 Welsh pupils with special educational needs.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37And again, Evan, go on.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Alleysha's teacher is Sara Stafford.
0:09:39 > 0:09:45Alleysha's class is Foundation One, which is nursery-reception age equivalent.
0:09:45 > 0:09:50Her class is more of a sensory-based class, because of her needs.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52# Alleysha Bullock
0:09:52 > 0:09:54# Alleysha Bullock
0:09:54 > 0:09:55# Where are you? #
0:09:56 > 0:10:00It's the first stages of her school life, so it's important that she
0:10:00 > 0:10:06is confident and comfortable in school, you know, and she is happy.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Wow, fantastic noise.
0:10:08 > 0:10:12So far, Alleysha's doing well.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14Generally, she's got a good level of understanding.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17She recognises us, she's aware of what's happening
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and what she's supposed to be doing.
0:10:20 > 0:10:25In just two months, mum Charlene's already seeing progress.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28She doesn't say words, but she communicates a lot more,
0:10:28 > 0:10:32which I'm thinking very well may be that when she's in school, you know,
0:10:32 > 0:10:34she is communicating with the other children,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37because, obviously, children understand each other.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42And she seems to know what she's doing a lot more now.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Golly, you've got work really hard to get that head up, haven't you?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Good girl. Well done. Yeah.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Alleysha will never fully recover from the brain damage
0:10:55 > 0:10:57she suffered at birth.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00But her recent improvements have encouraged Charlene to
0:11:00 > 0:11:02hope for longer term progress.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Your speech, from what they've told me, there's nothing stopping
0:11:06 > 0:11:10her from talking, but I suppose it's just one of them things that,
0:11:10 > 0:11:12if she's going to talk one day, she'll just talk
0:11:12 > 0:11:14and I expect it'll just be off the spot, out of the blue.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19She's improved loads.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26In an ideal world, she'd go full time, but she'll go full time in September.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Whether Alleysha's health will be robust enough for full-time
0:11:32 > 0:11:34schooling remains to be seen.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39In the meantime, she is thoroughly enjoying her new surroundings.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49On the Penydarren estate in Merthyr Tydfil,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52the Foley family have more than their fair share of ill-health.
0:11:54 > 0:11:5710 years ago, 46-year-old Jason Foley was attacked with
0:11:57 > 0:12:00an iron bar that left him epileptic and unable to work.
0:12:00 > 0:12:05Whilst his mother-in-law, 77-year-old Gertie Sage,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07is blind and suffering from Alzheimer's,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10a disease that is slowly destroying her memory.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17It is left to Suzanne Foley to care for her mother and her husband,
0:12:17 > 0:12:22as well as their two teenage daughters, Savannah, 17 and Lowry, 15.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Recently, Gertie's health has deteriorated significantly,
0:12:28 > 0:12:30both physically and mentally,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33leaving Suzanne and the family struggling to cope.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Can't leave her here now because if I go for 5 minutes lately,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39she's screaming on the front door.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41She had kids phoning the police for her,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43to say she'd been dumped.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44No, gettin' the police onto me.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47No, she had the kids to phone the police, didn't she?
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- She called little kids in off the street.- Yup.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51And she just said she hopes you dies a horrible death.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Yeah, she told me that.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57She's getting really nasty. It's not her.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59# New York, New York
0:12:59 > 0:13:01# A wonderful time
0:13:01 > 0:13:04# Dee dee da dee doodle-ooo-dooo. #
0:13:04 > 0:13:05I took her up the doctors last week,
0:13:05 > 0:13:08they're going to refer her back to St Tydfil's
0:13:08 > 0:13:11to see whether they can give her any medication.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15She needs something now, because she's getting quite violent
0:13:15 > 0:13:18and nasty with the kids and Jason.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21She's been telling people that we stuck her in the wrong house,
0:13:21 > 0:13:26it's not her house and we're dumping her places.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31It's sad, it's cruel, it is, it don't seem like it's my mother any more.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34The nasty things she does say, my mother would never, ever have said
0:13:34 > 0:13:37that, especially what she says to the kids,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40like, she said to Savannah, "I hope you go blind".
0:13:40 > 0:13:44I don't take it to heart, because it's not, it's just not her speaking.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46It's the illness she's got.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48But she will be really cruel, like.
0:13:48 > 0:13:54If I try and help, I'll say to her, my mother's gone to town, she won't be too long now,
0:13:54 > 0:13:59she'll start shouting at me and saying, "I wish you were blind", and just cruel things.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02But it doesn't upset me, cos I know she doesn't mean it,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05because when you say to her later on what she said,
0:14:05 > 0:14:09she'll say, "Oh, sorry, I'd never say something like that to you."
0:14:09 > 0:14:12And she, like, can't remember herself saying it, so I don't take it to heart.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15Oh, they're marvellous.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19Can't fault any of them.
0:14:23 > 0:14:29Sometimes I can, you know, cope and then another day,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32I don't even know where I am.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40And it's very frustrating.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- You can't remember what you're saying, can you, Mum?- Huh?
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- You can't remember what you're saying.- What do you mean?
0:14:52 > 0:14:56When you have your funny moments and shout at everybody.
0:14:56 > 0:15:04- No, I don't, I don't shout at people. - Yeah, you do.- Oh, I don't. Do I?
0:15:04 > 0:15:09- Who'd you upset this week?- Oh, God, don't tell me. Who've I upset?
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Well, Jason, Savannah, Aileen, remember that day?
0:15:11 > 0:15:15You were out the front and you were shouting at them all.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17- I didn't shout at Aileen, did I?- You did shout at her,
0:15:17 > 0:15:18she shouts back, though.
0:15:19 > 0:15:24See? She remembers she shouts at Aileen, and she doesn't feel bad for shouting at me daddy.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28- Who else have I upset? - Oh, everybody in street.- Have I?
0:15:31 > 0:15:35- Ooh, well, I'm sorry. - Don't worry about it.
0:15:36 > 0:15:44Well, I'd feel guilty for about 20 minutes.
0:15:44 > 0:15:50And then I'd go and do the same thing again.
0:15:50 > 0:15:55No, they know me by now, in any case. They know me.
0:15:55 > 0:16:02They know what I'm like. I can't help it, I don't do it on purpose.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06It's just that the words come out and I don't know what they are.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08They're all jumbled up.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21It's another fun-fuelled weekend in Cardiff city centre,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25and millionaire club and restaurant owner Jahan Abedi is
0:16:25 > 0:16:27heading for a night out of his own.
0:16:27 > 0:16:33It's a really good to see a very vibrant city centre -
0:16:33 > 0:16:37good restaurants, good bars, people having a good time.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Lovely.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Cardiff is the drinking capital of Wales, a nation that has
0:16:46 > 0:16:49the highest underage drinking levels in Europe, and where
0:16:49 > 0:16:5445% of adults consume more units of alcohol than the recommended limit.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Every weekend in Cardiff, 60% of ambulance callouts
0:16:59 > 0:17:04and A&E beds are used to treat alcohol-related incidents.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08Drinking is an issue and bar owner Jahan knows it.
0:17:09 > 0:17:14This is one of the places that does two pounds a drink.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18You know, it doesn't mean it's wrong, I just think that when you
0:17:18 > 0:17:24give something really cheaply, are you encouraging binge drinking?
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Whilst Jahan acknowledges the problems,
0:17:26 > 0:17:31he claims his upmarket bars don't attract the binge drinking crowds.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33But far from just washing his hands of the issue,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36he's at least prepared to try and do something about it.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41Every weekend, the Cardiff branch of the Christian charity,
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Street Pastors, can be found patrolling the city centre -
0:17:45 > 0:17:48working closely with the police and ambulance services,
0:17:48 > 0:17:53they hand out help, advice, water and even flip-flops to
0:17:53 > 0:17:57the over refreshed, the bewildered and the distressed.
0:17:57 > 0:17:58That's for Jahan.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Jahan supports the charity financially and, on occasions,
0:18:02 > 0:18:03practically as well.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06- Good to see you.- How are you? - I'm fine, mate, yeah.- Keeping well?
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Not too bad.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Father, we pray for a quiet night,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14for the peace of God to be on the city. In Jesus' name, Amen.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18Every Friday and Saturday from 9pm until the early hours,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21the Street Pastors patrol the city centre.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25What we're looking out for is mainly people on their own,
0:18:25 > 0:18:28particularly, if they are obviously drunk,
0:18:28 > 0:18:32just to make sure that they're safe, make sure they know how they're getting home.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Everybody is having a good time but in three hours,
0:18:34 > 0:18:38some of them are having too much of a good time, so they need water.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43This is Street Pastor one calling Street Pastor two.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47- Please respond, over.- Go ahead, Gary.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50The radio system is linked into the police CCTV room,
0:18:50 > 0:18:55all the door staff have a radio and the police as well and if we
0:18:55 > 0:18:59needed help, we could call for backup which would arrive straight away.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Lady absolutely flat out, think her drink's been spiked.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08So called the ambulance and they're going to cart her off.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12Mum and Dad are meeting them at the hospital,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15so that's our job finished - hand over to the professionals.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18Go and find somebody else, now.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21The street pastors will attend anything up to 60 incidents
0:19:21 > 0:19:27a night and after alcohol, the most common issue is girls' feet.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Non-stop.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31Girls walk around with high heeled shoes on,
0:19:31 > 0:19:33if they can't walk any further, their legs are hurting them
0:19:33 > 0:19:36and we get called to jobs where they're all split open,
0:19:36 > 0:19:39they're walking along on the pavement, so they do
0:19:39 > 0:19:41supply flip-flops for 'em so they don't cut their feet.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44- Thank you very much.- Have a good night.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Key thing for us is when somebody is vulnerable,
0:19:49 > 0:19:50got to get them home.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54Cos if they're out here, they're a potential victim of crime, they're
0:19:54 > 0:19:58a potential victim of hypothermia, you know, anything could happen to them.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02After witnessing six raucous hours on the streets of Cardiff
0:20:02 > 0:20:07city centre, what's bar owner Jahan's answer to binge drinking?
0:20:07 > 0:20:10I think everyone has a social responsibility.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16In any industry, you have a moral code that you have to stick to.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19And if you are causing people to get wrecked in the middle
0:20:19 > 0:20:24of the streets, and, you know, with the street pastors, it really shows it.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26You know, why should they go out and, basically,
0:20:26 > 0:20:31take care of people who are, basically, wrecked beyond recognition.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35I mean, per unit alcohol, it's too cheap in this country.
0:20:35 > 0:20:40If you look at it, people can go and get wrecked on under five pounds.
0:20:40 > 0:20:45You know, I think a minimum price should be introduced
0:20:45 > 0:20:47to have an effect on this.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Wales is not only a dangerous place to drink,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56it's also a dangerous place to work.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00Because Wales has the UK's highest rate of fatal or major
0:21:00 > 0:21:02injuries in the workplace.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05And the most dangerous industry?
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Surprisingly, it's not coal or steel.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11With a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job, it is...
0:21:16 > 0:21:19..fishing.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Today in Milford Haven, it's the first day of the annual
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Pembrokeshire Fish Week, a celebration of Welsh seafood.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32Shawn Ryan is setting up stall at the Fish Festival.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35As the owner of Wales' last two deep-sea trawlers,
0:21:35 > 0:21:39the Mercurius and the Stephanie, Shawn is hoping to generate
0:21:39 > 0:21:42some good PR for his ailing industry.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44You know, you're not looking at making profit.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46It's showing people what's here on the doorstep,
0:21:46 > 0:21:49that's the big thing of today.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53And what's on Shawn's doorstep is escalating costs,
0:21:53 > 0:21:58smaller fishing quotas and heavy competition from bigger European boats.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01As a Welsh trawlermen,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Shawn has always had one advantage over the European crews
0:22:05 > 0:22:09only Welsh registered trawlers can fish as close as three miles
0:22:09 > 0:22:10off the Welsh coastline.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14All other boats must remain a minimum of six miles offshore,
0:22:14 > 0:22:18but newly proposed legislation could be about to change all that.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21We can't start fishing until we're three miles out,
0:22:21 > 0:22:23that's as close as we can start fishing.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26It's between the three and the six, that's what we're trying to change,
0:22:26 > 0:22:31and we've been fishing there since I was a boy and a generation before that.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33They're trying to actually stop us
0:22:33 > 0:22:34fishing there with the size of boats we got.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38You know, we're not always inside the six,
0:22:38 > 0:22:40a lot of the time were between the six and the 12,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43but when we go from the six to the 12,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46were competing with things like that.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52That's what we're competing against, a Belgian fishing vessel,
0:22:52 > 0:22:57which has got between seven and eight times more horsepower than us,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00we can't compete with them.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03They come in then and it goes straight in the back of a wagon
0:23:03 > 0:23:05and it goes straight to Belgium.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10Today, Shawn has been invited to lunch with one of the men
0:23:10 > 0:23:14behind the proposed new rules Alun Davies,
0:23:14 > 0:23:19the Welsh Government's Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.
0:23:19 > 0:23:20If you actually kick us out,
0:23:20 > 0:23:24we're last two trawlers in Wales that fish inside that limit.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26If you kick us out, there's no point
0:23:26 > 0:23:29in having any Welsh vessels, I might as well sell them tomorrow.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Well, you've got... It's only the six mile...
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Yeah, but you push us outside the six, yeah,
0:23:34 > 0:23:37and then we're competing with two big Belgian's.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41We can't compete with that. It's a total waste of time,
0:23:41 > 0:23:43and that'll be 30 jobs gone in Milford Haven.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47And it's not only that, it's all the rest that goes with it.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50I understand that, I understand that.
0:23:50 > 0:23:55But what we want to do is to create a statutory framework that enables
0:23:55 > 0:23:59you all not just to fish today, but carry on fishing into the future.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03And the work that we do, across, in Brussels
0:24:03 > 0:24:07and Luxembourg last week is all about creating that sort of
0:24:07 > 0:24:12policy framework, so that we can start investing in Welsh fisheries again.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15And, you now, if we can do that, then we will have succeeded.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I think it's fabulous...
0:24:17 > 0:24:20The Minister seems to be making all the right noises,
0:24:20 > 0:24:22but what does Shawn think?
0:24:22 > 0:24:25They always seem to listen when you're talking to 'em, but we'll wait and see.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28That's all you can say about him.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32You know, I've seen it so many times where they say one thing
0:24:32 > 0:24:34and it's only to keep you happy.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Realistically, I don't think he'll listen.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40I think he's got too much political pressure on him.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43That's my own feeling.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46And it will only be a matter of weeks before Shawn finds out
0:24:46 > 0:24:48whether his gut instincts are right.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58In Merthyr, just three weeks after we last filmed with Gertie
0:24:58 > 0:25:03and the Foley family, there's been a devastating turn of events.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Gertie has suffered a very serious fall.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10It's lucky we had those monitors on in there.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13- It was me, my mate, Alan, was by there.- Savannah.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Savannah, you, weren't it? Lowry was here.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20We could hear the bump, she must have hit every step,
0:25:20 > 0:25:24every stair coming down. It's 13 stairs in these houses.
0:25:24 > 0:25:28I thought she'd broke her neck, she was just laying at an angle on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31She was trying to, just blowing in her face and I was calling her,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34"Mam, Mam, Mam", but she was losing consciousness all the time.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37She fell from top to bottom, and when we came in here,
0:25:37 > 0:25:43she was lying, her head was more or less under the shelf.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48How she survived it, I don't know, because if she come from top to
0:25:48 > 0:25:51bottom, and that's what it sounded like when we heard her on the baby monitor,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I'm so surprised she didn't break every bone in her body.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58Gertie broke her shoulder and several ribs in the fall,
0:25:58 > 0:26:01and has multiple bruising over her body,
0:26:01 > 0:26:06but she is conscious and in a stable condition at Mountain Ash Hospital.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09It is sad, just like a bag of bones being chucked in a bed,
0:26:09 > 0:26:11there's nothing there of her.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15And the bruising all down there, she broke that. No.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19I have been blaming myself, because I wanted to put a baby gate
0:26:19 > 0:26:20there to stop her.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24But people said, "Knowing her, if she's so determined,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26"she'll climb over the top of it."
0:26:26 > 0:26:31You seem to, well, you can't exactly blame yourself, but I always think that
0:26:31 > 0:26:34if it had been a baby gate there, she wouldn't have wandered up the stairs.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37But there's always ifs, there's always a big if, like.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Savannah's been quite strong,
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I thought she would have been the one who'd have been the worst,
0:26:44 > 0:26:48but she's quite level-headed, you know,
0:26:48 > 0:26:52she's making plans now for when she comes home and
0:26:52 > 0:26:56she'll go in there and she'll sleep in there every night to look after her.
0:26:57 > 0:27:02Lowry's just been crying all the time, Lowry have.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04She's not very good with it.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08And more worrying for Sue is Jason's reaction.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10My mother and Jason have always been,
0:27:10 > 0:27:12they've always got on really, really well.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15He went over to see her the other night and he just
0:27:15 > 0:27:18walked in the room and, more or less, walked straight back out.
0:27:18 > 0:27:20And he hasn't been right ever since.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Cos he lost his father a couple of years ago,
0:27:25 > 0:27:28and it brought back so many memories of his father,
0:27:28 > 0:27:32he hasn't been eating, he hasn't been drinking, oh he's...
0:27:33 > 0:27:36So I've got to look out for him now and my mother,
0:27:36 > 0:27:39because when he goes like this, he usually lands up having a fit.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44Gertie will remain in hospital for the foreseeable future.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47The family can but hope that she will make a full recovery.
0:27:49 > 0:27:50It's a waiting game now, isn't it?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53That's all it is now, just make sure she gets better.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58It's always going to happen one day, but you know, for my mother,
0:27:58 > 0:28:03if anything happened to her now through falling down the stairs,
0:28:03 > 0:28:06I don't know how I would cope.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07She's always been there.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15Every day of my life I've seen my mother, I've been with her,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18you know, don't bear thinking about.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Next time in Wales In A Year - there's a christening...
0:28:29 > 0:28:33- I baptise you in the name of the Father...- ..A wedding...
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- Yr wyf fi, Anita.- Yr wyf fi Anita...
0:28:36 > 0:28:38..And an engagement.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40Knotted at last.
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