:00:08. > :00:14.Welcome to Wales today, our top stories: destruction across the
:00:14. > :00:18.country as more than 35,000 public sector workers' strike. If they
:00:18. > :00:22.think this is destruction, there will be far more to come. Our
:00:22. > :00:26.belief is that other unions will be on board. By autumn it will be the
:00:26. > :00:30.biggest strike in this country for 30 years.
:00:30. > :00:35.More than 1000 schools are closed or disrupted as 17,000 teachers
:00:35. > :00:45.walkout. For a lot of teachers it is it -- parents it is a real
:00:45. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:00.nuisance. Lot of children are off Our other headlines: stabbed on the
:01:00. > :01:05.way to play skittles, a scathing report finds Gwen Poole's death
:01:05. > :01:09.could have been avoided. Cardiff Blues consider legal action
:01:09. > :01:19.after Dai Young moves to the Wasps. And saving the red squirrel, the
:01:19. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:23.campaign gets a funding boost as Good evening. A public sectors
:01:23. > :01:28.workers across Wales are joined in a one-day strike in a row over
:01:28. > :01:32.changes to their pensions. More than 35,000 people attended rallies
:01:32. > :01:38.and picket lines all over the country. More than 1000 schools had
:01:38. > :01:43.lessons disrupted, some were shot on to get there as 17,000 teachers
:01:43. > :01:46.walk out. Jobcentres, museums and the National Assembly were all
:01:46. > :01:50.affected by the action. Our Business correspondent is outside
:01:50. > :01:56.the main tax centre in Cardiff where many workers stayed away from
:01:56. > :02:00.their desks. Behind me the third biggest a tax
:02:00. > :02:05.office in the UK, one of the big employers in Wales affected by
:02:05. > :02:11.today's action. It was not just those directly employed here that
:02:11. > :02:16.were affected, parents where as well. In terms of the workers, this
:02:16. > :02:21.was a real point of principle today, the No the changes to their
:02:21. > :02:25.pensions will affect the rest of their lives. For the UK government,
:02:25. > :02:28.a point of economic necessity and claimed that the country cannot
:02:28. > :02:33.afford these pensions. What ever the truth, there was no doubting
:02:33. > :02:36.the strength of anger among the workers.
:02:36. > :02:39.They would normally be in classrooms and government offices,
:02:39. > :02:44.but around 500 of the civil servants and teachers marched
:02:44. > :02:47.through the streets of Cardiff this lunchtime. The UK Government says
:02:47. > :02:52.proposals for them to work longer and to contribute more to their
:02:52. > :02:56.pensions are fear. But more than 35,000 public sector workers in
:02:56. > :03:00.Wales today shows a disagreement by going on strike. At the rally in
:03:00. > :03:06.Cardiff, they were warned to prepare for the fight of their
:03:06. > :03:10.lives. I do not accept that working people, because they are living
:03:10. > :03:15.longer, should not get a good pension. Cameron and Clegg have a
:03:15. > :03:20.good pension. We are not going to give it up or I were welfare state.
:03:20. > :03:24.We will have a damn good fight. was not just the capital, lock it
:03:24. > :03:29.and rallies were staged his throughout Wales. Around 100 people,
:03:29. > :03:34.mainly teachers, took part in this rally in Wrexham. The PCS Union
:03:34. > :03:39.added DVLA in Swansea said that between 50 and 80% of staff stayed
:03:39. > :03:45.away. At the National Assembly in can -- Cardiff, as a Conservative a
:03:45. > :03:50.Ms turned up as normal, along with at least one Lib Dem, but Plaid
:03:50. > :03:56.Cymru and Labour members did not. PCS members were also on strike at
:03:56. > :04:02.the National Library in Aberystwyth. Here at the main tax office in
:04:02. > :04:09.Cardiff, picket line the gates. Among those striking was Steve
:04:09. > :04:13.Linton. He is a 42-year-old clerical worker who earns �19,500 a
:04:13. > :04:17.year. Under the current arrangement he will retire when he is 60, after
:04:17. > :04:21.40 years of service, and receive a final salary scheme worth roughly
:04:21. > :04:26.half his annual wages. Under the proposals he says he will have to
:04:26. > :04:31.work until he is at least 66 and will have to pay an extra �50 a
:04:31. > :04:35.month in pension contribute -- contributions in order to receive a
:04:35. > :04:41.pension which he hopes will be the same. The pension that we get at
:04:41. > :04:48.the end of it, it is the third page, that is why we except law were
:04:49. > :04:53.wages. It is almost an unwritten part of a wages. You should be
:04:54. > :04:57.rewarded at the end. Or at least be able to live once you retire.
:04:57. > :05:03.financial experts is changes are inevitable, mainly because people
:05:03. > :05:10.are living longer. The Government has known for a very long time that
:05:10. > :05:13.the UK taxpayer cannot afford to continue to fund the generous
:05:13. > :05:19.levels of pensions in the public sector compared to the private
:05:19. > :05:24.sector. In the private sector, the average pension for people retiring
:05:24. > :05:27.now will be much lower than those in the public sector. The UK
:05:27. > :05:30.coalition government claims that even under these new proposals,
:05:30. > :05:35.public sector pensions will still be better than those on offer in
:05:35. > :05:41.business. I think it is unreasonable for the unions to
:05:41. > :05:48.except ordinary taxpayer to work until the a 67 or 68 to allow
:05:48. > :05:52.public sectors to work in at 60, receiving better pensions. Union
:05:52. > :05:58.leaders claim to have the support of the public behind them, that may
:05:58. > :06:02.well be partly true, particularly in Wales without public sector is
:06:02. > :06:05.dominant in many communities, but that only goes so far. That
:06:05. > :06:13.goodwill may be tested to the limit if there are further strikes down
:06:13. > :06:17.the road. The biggest impact on the general public was the knock-on
:06:17. > :06:22.effect of those school closures. Around 1000 schools in Wales were
:06:22. > :06:31.shut completely or partially affected. He is our education
:06:31. > :06:35.correspondent. Morning assembly in Cardiff. The
:06:35. > :06:42.singing is still strong, even though numbers were well down.
:06:42. > :06:47.There is approximately 210 or 220 children not attending school today,
:06:47. > :06:51.being denied their education. The reaction I am having from parents
:06:51. > :06:56.is that they are supportive of what is actually being done today,
:06:56. > :07:02.because of their issue to do with a war pensions. Roughly one quarter
:07:02. > :07:06.of schools closed completely, this school in Bangor was among them.
:07:06. > :07:10.University and college lecturers were also on strike, along with
:07:10. > :07:14.17,000 teachers from their nut and NTL.
:07:14. > :07:19.Hundreds of teachers, lecturers and public sector workers have come out
:07:19. > :07:23.in Swansea today, a city in which the schools have been eagerly quiet.
:07:23. > :07:28.Almost every single one is close are partially closed. For what it
:07:28. > :07:31.is the teachers who are making the noise. Teachers do not want to be
:07:31. > :07:36.on strike today, we are here today making a stand because we are
:07:36. > :07:42.concerned about the future of our were children. The current
:07:42. > :07:48.proposals mean that we are going to have 68-year-old teachers teaching
:07:48. > :07:53.the year-old, it will be ridiculous. This skill in Bangor was open to
:07:53. > :07:57.all its classes, as were 50% of schools nationwide. There are
:07:57. > :08:03.knock-on effect to these strikes. People need to take time off, they
:08:03. > :08:06.can lose holiday, it is costing the economy a lot of money for the
:08:06. > :08:11.inconvenience to try and arrange childcare will these strikes
:08:11. > :08:16.continue. It is not really helping anybody. For those dupe -- for
:08:16. > :08:22.these children in Carmarthen, the strike met the day in the park.
:08:22. > :08:27.Dead parents mind the extra hassle? They do a marvellous job. They have
:08:27. > :08:31.the right to speak out in this way. Parents in our school this morning
:08:31. > :08:36.where quite confused due to the fact that some schools were Open
:08:36. > :08:43.and some were closed. Negotiations with the UK government are ongoing,
:08:43. > :08:47.but these teachers say, if necessary, they will strike again.
:08:47. > :08:51.Despite the disruption today, it is worth remembering that the majority
:08:51. > :08:55.of public sector workers across the UK were not on strike today. One of
:08:55. > :09:00.the big questions is what will happen, particularly with Unison,
:09:00. > :09:05.them the union which is in top with the UK government on this issue. If
:09:06. > :09:13.it goes on strike in Wales, around 90,000 workers will be affected.
:09:13. > :09:17.Let us speak to dominate -- Dominic MacAskill from Unison. That is the
:09:18. > :09:21.big question, are you going to go on strike? Unison it fully supports
:09:22. > :09:27.action of the teachers and civil servants today, standing up for
:09:27. > :09:32.their pensions. Their fight is were fight. The only issue is around the
:09:32. > :09:35.timing. Unison decided it would exhaust the negotiations with the
:09:35. > :09:39.government, albeit we have been very unhappy with the public
:09:39. > :09:43.statements that have been made outside their negotiations, and
:09:43. > :09:47.also we have got 1.2 million members in the UK who will be
:09:47. > :09:52.prepared to ballot. That sounds like you are preparing for strike
:09:52. > :09:56.action? We are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. The
:09:56. > :10:01.noises coming through is that the Government is looking for windfall
:10:01. > :10:06.tax on public sector workers, rather than trying to make any
:10:06. > :10:08.sustainability for public sector pensions. The fact is that a Hutton
:10:08. > :10:13.report and it Tory-dominated Public Accounts Committee produced a
:10:13. > :10:16.report which demonstrates that public sector pensions are
:10:16. > :10:23.affordable and sustainable. The government is now changing its
:10:23. > :10:29.language. It is about fear and us. We will have to leave it there.
:10:29. > :10:35.Thank you very much. There are plenty of discussions and plenty of
:10:35. > :10:38.work left on this issue. A scathing report into the
:10:38. > :10:41.treatment of a paranoid schizophrenic who went on to stab a
:10:41. > :10:47.grandmother to death in a random street attack has found her death
:10:47. > :10:52.was preventable. 66-year-old Gwen Poole had not known Martin Davies
:10:52. > :10:56.when he stabbed to with a bread knife near her home in Llanbradach
:10:56. > :11:01.near Caerphilly two years ago. The healthcare inspectorate for Wales
:11:01. > :11:06.said there had been failings in the system.
:11:06. > :11:11.It was here in his quiet village that Gwen Poole met her death,
:11:11. > :11:16.stabbed by a kitchen knife as she waited for a lift to go to skittles.
:11:16. > :11:20.Martin D Davies pleaded not guilty to her murder, but guilty to
:11:20. > :11:22.manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was a
:11:22. > :11:26.violent paranoid schizophrenic who had been receiving treatment for
:11:26. > :11:29.mental health issues since childhood.
:11:29. > :11:34.He suffered from hallucinations, voices in his head telling him to
:11:34. > :11:37.kill somebody. On this street he did just that. He stab a
:11:37. > :11:42.grandmother who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong
:11:42. > :11:47.time. Now, this report by the healthcare inspectorate for Wales,
:11:47. > :11:53.has listed a catalogue of failings in his gear and has concluded that
:11:53. > :11:56.Gwen Poole's, site may have been preventable. In 2008 he was
:11:56. > :12:00.discharged from the Cygnett Hospital in Somerset and
:12:00. > :12:04.transferred closer to home to an acute psychiatric hospital in
:12:04. > :12:08.Blackwood. In December of that year a decision was taken to discharge
:12:08. > :12:12.him into the care of the community mental health team who found him a
:12:12. > :12:17.column -- accommodation in new treaty go. Just a week before he
:12:17. > :12:23.killed Gwen Poole he was moved to Llanbradach to stay with his
:12:23. > :12:26.brother. On 24th March 2009 he stabbed Gwen Poole. Earlier that
:12:27. > :12:31.day he being taken to the shops by a mental health worker to buy a
:12:31. > :12:36.bottle of of what cost. It is a catalogue of things that go back to
:12:36. > :12:40.when Martin Davies was a child. He was in crisis from the age of seven.
:12:40. > :12:45.There were many interventions we feel could have been brought to
:12:45. > :12:52.fruition at a more timely manner, we feel many of their actions were
:12:52. > :12:58.indefensible. He then went on to present himself to the and E
:12:58. > :13:04.departments asking for admission and help. He was not given the care
:13:04. > :13:08.and support he needed. Today, both local authority and health board
:13:08. > :13:16.excepted the floors are highlighted by the report. They were confident
:13:16. > :13:20.that changes they had endured would help. It is important to make sure
:13:20. > :13:24.that when people are in crisis, they should be able to pull on
:13:24. > :13:30.resources available. One of the changes we have made is to make
:13:30. > :13:34.sure that a crisis intervention team is in place seven days a week.
:13:34. > :13:38.But in Llanbradach there is anger at the feelings of the mental
:13:38. > :13:44.health system. Marilyn Hyde were lives on the spot where Gwen Poole
:13:44. > :13:47.was killed. It is dreadful. If it was predictable it should have been
:13:47. > :13:52.stopped. We should not be put at risk because of other people not
:13:52. > :13:57.doing their job. It has affected the community very badly, it should
:13:57. > :14:07.not have happened. She was a lovely lady, just going about doing her
:14:07. > :14:09.
:14:09. > :14:12.Plenty still to come on the programme. Dai Young is confirmed
:14:12. > :14:19.as new coach at Wasps. Speculation grows about who will take over at
:14:19. > :14:26.the Blues. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching
:14:26. > :14:36.job. The talent in the squad, it his day-job that a lot of coaches
:14:36. > :14:46.would love. And Glamorgan have been stripped of the right to hold an
:14:46. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:50.England Test match at the Swalec Stadium next year. The trial of a
:14:50. > :14:57.man accused of murdering Karen Skipper in the 1990s has heard that
:14:57. > :15:03.her ex-husband, could have been the killer after all. The defence
:15:03. > :15:07.claims that Cardiff Labour John Pope is innocent.
:15:07. > :15:13.It is the second time that John Pope has stood trial for this
:15:13. > :15:17.murder. Last December, the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction and
:15:17. > :15:22.ordered a retrial. The murder happened when Karen Skipper had
:15:22. > :15:28.been out walking with her dogs late one Saturday night. Her partially
:15:28. > :15:33.clothed body was found in the river. Her hands were tied behind her back.
:15:33. > :15:38.Initially, her former husband became the prime suspect that at
:15:38. > :15:42.his trial in 1997, he was found not guilty. Today defence lawyers
:15:42. > :15:47.representing John Pope told the court there were any number of men
:15:47. > :15:51.who could have killed Karen Skipper, including the mystery man who has
:15:51. > :15:57.never been identified. But the main suspect, they say, remains her late
:15:57. > :16:03.husband. On the other hand, John Pope, they say is a man of limited
:16:03. > :16:08.At the time of the murder, John Pope told police he did not know
:16:08. > :16:13.Karen Skipper. When he was arrested, he said he had met her three weeks
:16:13. > :16:17.before her death, when he pulled a thorn from her dog's form. The dog
:16:17. > :16:21.had bitten him and that explained how his blood was later found on
:16:21. > :16:26.her trousers. Today, giving his evidence, you said he was not sure
:16:26. > :16:30.when the dog had bitten him. He may have said it was three weeks before
:16:30. > :16:33.the murder because of something the police had said. He told them that
:16:33. > :16:43.he had not know Karen Skipper because he did not realise she was
:16:43. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :16:58.the woman with the dogs. The case continues. The coroner in the
:16:58. > :17:01.inquest into the death of a fitness instructor, who was stabbed to
:17:01. > :17:04.death while on holiday in the United States, has recorded an open
:17:04. > :17:07.verdict. Lavern Ritch from Penarth was killed in New Jersey four years
:17:07. > :17:10.ago. In April, Robert Davies was jailed for more than 20 years for
:17:10. > :17:13.his manslaughter. Onto tonight's sport, and the news that Glamorgan
:17:13. > :17:16.has lost a Test match it was due to host next year. Our sports reporter
:17:16. > :17:18.Ashleigh Crowter's at the Swalec Stadium tonight. Ash, what
:17:18. > :17:21.happened? England were due to play the West
:17:21. > :17:24.Indies here in Cardiff next year, but now that match will take place
:17:24. > :17:28.somewhere else. The reason is financial. Glamorgan have been
:17:28. > :17:31.forced to ask for extra time to pay the fees, owed to the ECB, for
:17:31. > :17:34.staging the recent test match here against Sri Lanka. Tickets sales
:17:34. > :17:40.were poor and bad weather didn't help either and Glamorgan clearly
:17:40. > :17:43.failed to make the money they'd hoped. The ECB have agreed to that
:17:43. > :17:50.request, but as part of the deal, Glamorgan will now lose the Test
:17:50. > :17:53.next year. Other grounds will be free to bid for it. It's clearly
:17:53. > :17:57.quite embarrassing for Glamorgan to be given a match and then forced to
:17:57. > :17:59.hand it back but in a statement, the club say the deal with ECB has
:17:59. > :18:02.guaranteed the ground's future as a venue for international cricket,
:18:02. > :18:05.with a least one Test, probably in 2014, five one day internationals
:18:05. > :18:10.and T20 match guaranteed to be played here over the next five
:18:10. > :18:15.years. And of course, that includes September's one day international
:18:15. > :18:17.against India, which goes ahead as planned.
:18:17. > :18:23.Meanwhile, on the field, Glamorgan lost their Championship match
:18:23. > :18:26.against Derbyshire on the final day's play here in Cardiff. The
:18:26. > :18:32.Welsh county were bowled out for 283 in their second innings,
:18:32. > :18:39.setting Derbyshire 130 to win. The visitors reached it fairly
:18:39. > :18:45.comfortably, winning by six wickets. Former Wales captain Dai Young is
:18:45. > :18:49.the new director of rugby at London Wasps. The 43-year-old has signed a
:18:49. > :18:52.four year contract with the English Premiership side. He resigned from
:18:52. > :18:56.the Cardiff Blues this morning where he'd been coach for nine
:18:56. > :19:06.years. The capital region is considering legal action after
:19:06. > :19:07.
:19:07. > :19:12.Wasps rejected their claim for compensation. It has been a badly
:19:13. > :19:17.kept secret. For weeks, he has been linked with Wasps, so there was no
:19:17. > :19:21.surprise when David Young was finally unveiled. After nine years
:19:21. > :19:26.at the Cardiff Blues, his departure has not been without controversy.
:19:26. > :19:31.Everyone is chucking stones at the minute. I feel quite proud of what
:19:31. > :19:34.I have do not be Cardiff Blues. It has not been enough for some people.
:19:35. > :19:40.I have certainly moved the club on every season since I have been
:19:40. > :19:43.there. You cannot coach one-club they ever. I had to move somewhere.
:19:43. > :19:49.If I was going to move somewhere, it had to be a club that I felt I
:19:49. > :19:52.could develop again as a coach. Storm clouds are gathering. A
:19:52. > :19:59.dispute over compensation could end up in the courts with the Cardiff
:19:59. > :20:02.Blues demanding �100,000. We do not believe we have acted improperly
:20:02. > :20:06.over appointing David Young. It is difficult to see where compensation
:20:06. > :20:14.is payable. I think we need to keep on talking and see where Cardiff
:20:14. > :20:20.won to take it. -- want to take it. David Young ones to take this job
:20:20. > :20:24.and this challenge. It has been his decision to do that. So David Young
:20:24. > :20:34.depart after nearly a decade with the Cardiff Blues. He guided them
:20:34. > :20:35.
:20:35. > :20:38.to two trophies in nine years. They became the first Welsh region to
:20:38. > :20:44.win and European competition. The hunt for his replacement has
:20:44. > :20:49.already started. Gareth Baber and Justin Burnell are tipped to take
:20:49. > :20:56.over. I doubt there will be a lack of applicants for the coaching job.
:20:56. > :20:59.The talent in the squad, I think there will be a lot of coaches in
:20:59. > :21:04.world rugby who would love to coach the calibre of squad that we have
:21:04. > :21:07.at the Cardiff Blues. replacement could be announced soon
:21:08. > :21:14.a possible legal wranglings over his departure could take longer to
:21:14. > :21:18.sort out. It is a very big night for the
:21:18. > :21:28.football club. They are playing their very first match in European
:21:28. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:41.competitions. They added MacShane - Lee Trundle had put Neath ahead but
:21:41. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:54.We will of course bring you the results of those matches in our
:21:54. > :21:56.
:21:56. > :21:59.bulletin at 10:25pm. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall
:21:59. > :22:02.stayed close to home on day four of their week-long tour of Wales. This
:22:02. > :22:04.morning they opened the newly- refurbished train station in
:22:04. > :22:06.Llandovery which closed in 1992. They then met volunteers and
:22:06. > :22:09.supporters before officially opening the new Myddfai Village
:22:09. > :22:13.Hall near their home in Llwynywermod.
:22:13. > :22:17.Once, red squirrels were relatively common across Wales. Now they only
:22:17. > :22:20.survive in three or four pockets. But efforts to protect one of their
:22:20. > :22:24.last strongholds have received a boost, with �300,000 of Heritage
:22:24. > :22:27.Lottery Funding. On Anglesey, the cash will be used to safeguard
:22:27. > :22:37.their habitat and encourage local people to get involved with
:22:37. > :22:38.
:22:38. > :22:43.conservation work. Few of us have probably ever seen one in the wild
:22:43. > :22:47.but they are hanging on, just. On Anglesey, more than a decade of
:22:47. > :22:53.conversation -- conservation work is paying dividends. In other areas,
:22:53. > :22:58.numbers are still fragile but it -- on Anglesey the population is
:22:58. > :23:04.increasing. We take boxes like this and put them up of the trees. The
:23:05. > :23:08.squirrels will use them. It is a nest box for squirrels. One of the
:23:08. > :23:13.tools that the friends of the Anglesey red squirrels use.
:23:13. > :23:18.How important is it to give them a helping hand? It is really
:23:18. > :23:23.important. It benefits them and it benefits us. We can learn more
:23:23. > :23:29.about the behaviour and ecology and use that to fine-tune compers --
:23:30. > :23:35.conservation in the future. They are also doing their best to remove
:23:35. > :23:43.Grey squirrels. This lottery funding is a big boost.
:23:43. > :23:47.illustrates what you can achieve if you have community support. And
:23:48. > :23:51.also landowner's support. They have been behind us for all these years.
:23:51. > :23:57.This gives us an opportunity to have a new chapter and get red
:23:57. > :24:01.squirrels across the island for the first time. And this really has
:24:01. > :24:05.been a wildlife success story. 15 years ago, there were just 40 red
:24:05. > :24:09.squirrels left on Anglesey. Now there are more than 400. And they
:24:10. > :24:14.are spread out as well. They are beginning to turn up everywhere.
:24:14. > :24:20.There are even supports that some of them are crossing to the
:24:20. > :24:30.mainland. -- reports. If you want to see a red squirrel in the wild,
:24:30. > :24:35.Time now for the weather forecast. We have had mixed weather this
:24:35. > :24:39.month but it looks like getting off to a good start this month. I
:24:39. > :24:49.cannot promise clear blue skies. Clown is likely, but some sunshine
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:56.as well. Tonight, another thrash night. Temperatures dropping into
:24:56. > :25:01.single figures. The ridge of high pressure moving up across Britain
:25:01. > :25:07.and that means settled weather. Tomorrow, bright and sunny. As we
:25:07. > :25:13.head further north, we will have some cloud order. Some sunshine.
:25:13. > :25:17.Dry and fairly cloudy for the West Coast, into the south-west.
:25:17. > :25:23.Temperatures in Carmarthen starting off at ten Celsius. Tomorrow, the
:25:23. > :25:30.cloud will spread out. But still bright in places. Some showers
:25:30. > :25:36.possible but much of the country dry.
:25:36. > :25:46.In Flintshire tomorrow, rather cloudy. Temperatures rising to 60
:25:46. > :25:48.
:25:48. > :25:53.degrees Celsius. -- 16 Celsius. On the weekend, generally dry.
:25:53. > :26:00.Variable cloud. Some sunny spells, pleasantly warm. At the moment,
:26:00. > :26:10.Monday is looking warm. Lots going on this weekend. St
:26:10. > :26:14.
:26:14. > :26:21.Mary's Church is having a summer BBBC Wales roadshow will be in
:26:21. > :26:31.Llanelli on Sunday. I will be there with a few were the faces. Plenty
:26:31. > :26:36.
:26:36. > :26:41.Yes, there is plenty going on. A reminder of the top storey. Public
:26:41. > :26:46.sector workers had been on strike today over changes to pensions. At
:26:46. > :26:52.least 35,000 people attended rallies and picket lines. More than
:26:52. > :26:58.1,000 schools were disrupted. Let's go back to our Business
:26:58. > :27:04.correspondent, Nick Servini. Very strong words from union
:27:04. > :27:09.officials and a lot of disruption. 1,000 schools were closed or
:27:09. > :27:14.partially shut. But some big questions tonight. How much
:27:14. > :27:17.sympathy and support is there among the general public? And what has
:27:17. > :27:22.gone to happen to those negotiations with the UK
:27:22. > :27:26.government? Will we see the bigger public sector unions take straps --
:27:26. > :27:34.strike action in the autumn? A quick look ahead now to what's on