:00:46. > :00:50.The Westminster coalition's final before the general election has been
:00:50. > :00:53.11 measures were outlined in total, included changes to the pension
:00:53. > :00:56.system, help with childcare and a law that will make it easier for
:00:56. > :01:00.companies to drill for shale gas through the process of fracking.
:01:00. > :01:02.There will also be a measure that makes it easier to
:01:02. > :01:03.recall misbehaving MPs.
:01:03. > :01:04.The
:01:04. > :01:05.The government
:01:05. > :01:28.The government message
:01:28. > :01:39.I programme will continue to deliver on its long-term plan to build a
:01:39. > :01:46.stronger economy and stronger society. But what were the changes?
:01:46. > :01:57.There were changes to pensions, which gives pensioners more freedom
:01:57. > :02:05.to spend their savings. A new group pension concept was also introduced.
:02:05. > :02:09.It is interesting because there will no longer be a need to buy
:02:09. > :02:11.annuities. This will give the individual more flexibility. There
:02:11. > :02:17.is a debate over whether that is a good or bad thing. In a way,
:02:17. > :02:20.collective pensions will restrict the way people can take out their
:02:20. > :02:26.savings in future. More money is going to be released
:02:26. > :02:29.to help with childcare, and there was a measure to make it easier for
:02:29. > :02:31.companies to extract shale gas through fracking. Not everyone is
:02:31. > :02:33.happy. It is going backwards.
:02:33. > :02:34.There will also be a new move to make it easier to unseat this
:02:34. > :02:37.behaving MPs. I think the announcement in the
:02:37. > :02:40.Queens speech is a step in the right direction but what happens in
:02:40. > :02:42.America is far more wide reaching. I think we might see this measure
:02:42. > :02:52.strengthened as it goes through the two houses.
:02:52. > :02:58.England were also face a 5p charge on carrier bags. The government says
:02:58. > :03:02.this is a revolutionary plan. everyone agrees. I was quite
:03:02. > :03:11.disappointed by the Queen 's speech this year because it didn't include
:03:11. > :03:16.many new things. People are being faced with massive fuel bills at the
:03:16. > :03:21.moment and there is nothing in the speech to help them.
:03:21. > :03:27.I would have brought in a measure to make sure that investment is being
:03:27. > :03:30.targeted towards the weakest parts of the Welsh economy. That is done
:03:31. > :03:37.very effectively in Germany and elsewhere.
:03:37. > :03:45.This was a very short speech compared to previous years. The
:03:45. > :03:55.political message was that the coalition is still united and there
:03:55. > :04:00.is still plenty more to do in their Two members of the
:04:00. > :04:03.into a complaint that a 15-year-old boy was strip-searched.
:04:03. > :04:05.The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating
:04:05. > :04:08.the event that allegedly took place in Llandudno two years ago.
:04:08. > :04:11.The boy was one of four young people questioned by the police
:04:11. > :04:12.concerning suspected drug use.
:04:12. > :04:15.A man from Wrexham found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to
:04:15. > :04:18.horses has been given conditional release for two years by
:04:18. > :04:18.Caernarfon Crown Court.
:04:18. > :04:21.Iwan Pennant Williams from Garndolbenmaen will have to
:04:21. > :04:24.donate almost �3,000 towards the RSPCA for failing to alert vets
:04:24. > :04:30.that his horses were losing weight.
:04:30. > :04:33.The National Office for Statistics says Wales has seen an increase
:04:33. > :04:41.of almost 4% in disposable income.
:04:41. > :04:44.But Wales is still about �2,000 under the British average,
:04:44. > :04:46.which is just under �17,000 a year.
:04:46. > :04:50.UKIP's new Welsh MEP has been defending the fact that he has
:04:50. > :04:52.previously employed immigrants from east Europe and the Philippines
:04:52. > :04:54.at his family business.
:04:54. > :04:57.Nathan Gill says there is no inconsistency between his Party's
:04:57. > :04:59.position on immigration and his decision to employ
:04:59. > :05:01.the workers at a care home in Hull.
:05:01. > :05:11.Aled Huw reports.
:05:11. > :05:11.On
:05:11. > :05:11.On the
:05:11. > :05:20.On the streets
:05:20. > :05:23.campaigning for the recent European elections for UKIP. He was very
:05:23. > :05:28.confident about what was the central issue.
:05:28. > :05:34.It is all about EU and immigration, the people who control immigration
:05:35. > :05:47.to this country. For a time, he was director of a
:05:47. > :06:01.family business providing care. He said that he had employed dozens of
:06:01. > :06:03.immigrants. He paid slightly more than the minimum wage. He said the
:06:03. > :06:05.reason was that they couldn't find local workers to carry out the work.
:06:05. > :06:11.He says that it is not a racist party.
:06:11. > :06:18.The argument is how can you want to restrict immigration when you
:06:18. > :06:25.actually promoted, perhaps with a view to keep your company costs
:06:25. > :06:40.down. That is going to have a negative effect on the local jobs
:06:40. > :06:50.The Taliban have released a video He had been kidnapped and held
:06:50. > :07:14.He was released on Saturday American Republicans are warning
:07:15. > :07:18.Just a quarter of children on the successfully matched with a family
:07:18. > :07:20.situation. The National Adoption Service will draw up a national
:07:20. > :07:24.register that could make it easier to match children with families from
:07:24. > :07:27.November. Owain Evans spoke to a woman from Cardiff about her
:07:27. > :07:28.experience of adopting her two children.
:07:28. > :07:29.These
:07:29. > :07:29.These children
:07:29. > :07:38.These children have
:07:38. > :07:43.lives of their parents in Cardiff. Adoption isn't child's play. I think
:07:43. > :07:49.we were quite fortunate in some ways because it took us nine months both
:07:49. > :07:59.times before we were approved to adopt. The process itself is quite
:07:59. > :08:04.difficult. You feel as though strangers are running your lives,
:08:04. > :08:08.asking you personal questions and asking you to fill out a lot of
:08:08. > :08:13.forms. You appreciate that social workers have an important role to
:08:13. > :08:21.carry out that sometimes you do have to question whether the process has
:08:21. > :08:27.to be so long and arduous. They are talking about speeding up the
:08:27. > :08:36.process but they need to make sure that doesn't happen at the cost of
:08:36. > :08:40.having to find an appropriate family for a child. There are children on
:08:40. > :08:49.the waiting list to be adopted. Our children, even though they had been
:08:49. > :08:52.with foster parents from the time they were born, it still took nine
:08:52. > :08:58.months for them to make their way through the system so they could be
:08:58. > :09:07.released for adoption. The longer children have to sit in the
:09:07. > :09:11.fostering system, the harder it is for them to be adopted. People want
:09:12. > :09:21.to adopt children as young as possible. How have adoption changed
:09:22. > :09:26.your life? It has totally changed our lives. It is hard to remember
:09:26. > :09:36.life before them. I don't know what we did with ourselves before we had
:09:36. > :09:44.them! It is hard to believe how much it has transformed our lives. We
:09:44. > :09:50.have never had so little sleep but From next year,
:09:50. > :09:53.The minister for natural resources, Alun Davies, has praised the
:09:53. > :09:54.company for using renewable energy.
:09:55. > :10:05.Mynydd Bwllfa near Hirwaun will exclusively supply BT.
:10:05. > :10:07.The people of Carmarthen have raised �40,000
:10:07. > :10:10.more than the target amount towards the National Eisteddfod, will be
:10:10. > :10:11.hosted in the county this year.
:10:11. > :10:14.The chair of the work committee Gethin Thomas added local committees
:10:14. > :10:16.had raised �360,000 in 16 months.
:10:16. > :10:19.Money for the festival at the Millennium Coastal Park in
:10:19. > :10:24.Llanelli is still being collected.
:10:25. > :10:27.To sport and Wales face the Netherlands in Amsterdam tonight.
:10:27. > :10:29.Manager Chris Coleman will be without two
:10:29. > :10:33.of his star players - Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey - but says he is
:10:33. > :10:36.still confident that it won't be a one-sided game against the home
:10:36. > :10:38.side preparing for the World Cup.
:10:38. > :10:44.The game is live tonight here on S4C.
:10:44. > :10:46.Glamorgan had to content themselves with a draw against Essex
:10:46. > :11:01.as rain stopped play.
:11:01. > :11:04.Former sprinter Christine Williams from Aberdare has been selected to
:11:04. > :11:06.represent Wales in weightlifting just one year after
:11:06. > :11:09.she started training for the sport.
:11:09. > :11:12.She will compete in the same category as her trainer,
:11:12. > :11:15.two-time gold medal winner Michaela Breeze, in Glasgow.
:11:15. > :11:22.She says she knows how to approach her first competition.
:11:22. > :11:24.Just go there and do my best.
:11:25. > :11:29.Try and concentrate on what I'm doing and not get carried away with
:11:29. > :11:33.the atmosphere and sidetracked.
:11:33. > :11:42.Just be straight minded and just do what it is I do.
:11:42. > :11:43.That's all from Wednesday's Newyddion.