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The takeover from the terraces. Wrexham fans are set to get the | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
green light tonight. We're live at the Racecourse. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
The hospital sandwich protest. Volunteers threaten to quit as a | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
local supplier is ditched. I don't think they should take jobs away | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
from the vicinity where they are. And Cardiff see off Huddersfield, | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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but a shock for Swansea as they Good evening. Senior figures in | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Pembrokeshire council have been accused of playing down the | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
seriousness of reports criticising its child-protection record. Welsh | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
Government ministers said they should concentrate on looking after | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
the county's children rather than the council's reputation. Our Welsh | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick is at the Senedd. They sound like very | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
serious allegations. What are the Government claiming? | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
In all my years in this job, I have never seen a letter quite as blunt | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
as this one. It was sent to the leader of Pembrokeshire Council. It | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
was sent to him by Leighton Andrews and Gwenda Thomas. This goes back | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
to two reports. The first was triggered by the sickening case of | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
this man. You may remember him as the Pembrokeshire headmaster found | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
guilty of a series of sex assaults on children. That triggered a joint | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
report by the Education Inspectorate and the social | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
services inspectorate into Pembrokeshire Council's child- | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
protection measures. There was also a second report into education in | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Pembrokeshire. Both of which were highly critical of Pembrokeshire's | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
record on child protection. This letter says that Jon Davies and the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
council in general reacted to this report by a making misleading | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
statements and playing down the seriousness of the allegation and | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
possibly most seriously, by not survive -- supplying the police | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
with information they had asked for for some inquiries they were | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
carrying out. Put bluntly, the government says the council has | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
worried more about its reputation than about the children of the | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
county. You raze Leighton Andrews. If I was a parent in Pembrokeshire, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
I would want to be sure that the leader of Pembrokeshire Council was | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
sorting out his officers and to ensuring that all systems were | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
probably in place rather than worrying about the reputation of | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
the council. How has the council reacted? I think they were | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
initially stunned. They any got the letter the same time it was | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
released to the media. At the time, they said they would reply in full | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
tomorrow. But they did add that they thought there would | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
inaccuracies in the government's letters. The government said, come | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
back to us and tell us what the inaccuracies are. The council did | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
not do that. Later on in the afternoon, they decided they would | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
have to tackle it head on. Jon Davies agree to give interviews and | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
he was remarkably blunt and very angry. It is now becoming, for some | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
reason or other, very much a personal issue. In my view, this is | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
no way to run a country. It is no way to deal with issues. We have | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
got issues as far as safeguarding our children and what I have | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
witnessed in regard to the commitment of those working in | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
Pembrokeshire, we are very keen to put it right. Pembrokeshire is not | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
the only council under the cosh. Know. Today, the government | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
announced the names of the people who will be running education in a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
blind eye Gwent. Jon Davies is not the only one in local government to | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
think that it is becoming a bit politicised and a bit too close to | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission will look into the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
events which led to a man shooting his estranged wife at a | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
hairdressers in Newport on Friday. Darren Williams' body was found in | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
woods hours after he shot and injured Rachel Williams. Today, 92- | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
year-old great-grandmother Connie Evans, who was also injured at | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Carol-Anns Hair salon, has been telling our reporter Nick Palit | :05:14. | :05:22. | |
about her terrifying ordeal. Five days on and Connie Evans is | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
still in pain from the gunshot pellets that pierced her leg and | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
back. The events of Friday afternoon will be etched on her | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
mind forever, when a normal trip to the hairdresser saw her caught in | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
the crossfire of an angry gunman and his estranged wife. As I was | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
about to leave the shop, this big man came in. I said to myself, he | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
never once his haircut, surely. And with that, he grabbed hold of | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
Rachel and said, I love you, Rachel. Now, take this. He was punching her. | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
He was hitting her, kicking her. And then the game went off and she | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
fell to the floor. I was frightened, but I did not realise how quickly | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
it was down. To make my senses work. I was not crying. I did not panic. | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
I think I was very brave. As the gunshots rang out in this | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
hairdressers, Connie fell to the ground hitting her head on a table, | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
her lower body peppered with lead shot. I was bruised everywhere. | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
Right at my back. It was so sharp. And then my head started bleeding | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
all over my clothes. 13 of these pellets were removed from Connie | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
and she's still in pain as some could not be located. She'll | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
eventually need to go back to hospital. They took a big one out | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
of year and they took two little ones from there. There are a few | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
more travelling around, but they have not come to the surface, where | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
I can have them taken out. One woman is still being treated in | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
hospital for gunshot wounds. estranged husband Darren Williams | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
was found dead in woods close to the scene of the shooting late on | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Friday night. An inquest into his death will open tomorrow. Meanwhile, | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Connie says she just feels lucky to be alive. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
It's a big day for both rugby and football based at the Racecourse | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
ground in Wrexham. Supporters of the rugby league side, the | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Crusaders, are bidding to keep the club alive. More on that later. But | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
first, it's decision day for fans of Wrexham Football Club. Let's | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
head live to the Racecourse now and join Matthew Richards | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
Thanks. In an hour's time, members of the Wrexham Supporters' Trust | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
will be asked to vote on a plan to buy the club. They've overtaken | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
rival bidders who they feared would sell off this ground, but now they | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
have to decide if they're willing to make the move from the stands to | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the boardroom. Members of the trust will decide | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
tonight if they're happy to go ahead with the purchase of Wrexham | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
FC and become custodians of one of the oldest teams in the football | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
league. It's a dream they've had for many years, but making that | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
dream a reality won't be easy. whole area, after the Troubles, | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
trials and tribulations we have suffered over the last few years, | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
we are crying out for something new, something different. That is | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
community ownership. We believe that can lead to a bright future. | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
new era is in sight, but it's been a turbulent year. Owners Geoff Moss | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
and Ian Roberts announced in January that they wanted to sell | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
the club saying they'd spent millions, but still suffered | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
personal abuse from some fans. In March, a number of interested | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
parties, including businesswoman Stephanie Booth, and solicitor | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Colin Poole bid for the club. The Revenue and Customs office issued a | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
winding up petition in April, saying Wrexham owed �200,000 in tax. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
That was paid by the club and loyal donors. In May, the Wrexham | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Supporters Trust were one of two bidders in the running until Colin | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Poole pulled out after a confrontation with fans. In July, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
players refused to play in two friendlies after not getting their | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
wages. Earlier this month, Glyndwr University stepped in to buy the | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
Racecourse, its next door neighbour. The supporters have to recognise | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
that a football club is a business and therefore, they will have to | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
wear a two hat in a new role. There will be out and out supporters will | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
be at absolutely delighted to be in charge of the club they have | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
supported for many years. But business is all about good | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
management. Fans have taken over clubs both big and small before. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
European Champions Barcelona are run by over 150,000 members who | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
elect a president and a board of directors to manage the club In the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Football League, both Exeter and AFC Wimbledon are owned by their | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
supporters trusts and the same is true at Merthyr Town. Fans took | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
over after Merthyr Tydfil folded last year. Proof that passion can | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
bring a club back from the brink. Supporters direct is an | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
organisation that helps fans who want to get involved more with | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
their local clubs. I am joined by a gentleman from supporters trust. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
has been a roller-coaster journey for Wrexham supporters. They have | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
been absolutely first class. In the early days, it was about | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
campaigning and making sure the Racecourse ground stayed where it | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
was. More recently, it has been about sharing some of the knowledge | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
of the 25 also a supporter going to collapse that once exactly what | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Wrexham went. What are the advantages of being a community | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
club? We have done some research on this in recent years and there are | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
some real benefits. If you get the model right. At Chester, the | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
attendance there, they have really got that community feel, people | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
realise they are the sole and joint owners of the football club and | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
their attendants has gone up immensely. Sponsors come on board | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
because they like the vibe of the club. Fans are generally more | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
resilient because they generally feared it is their club. Can clubs | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
be really successful owned by the fans? Completely. There is no magic | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
wand, but we have seen last season, Wimbledon went up sustainably. They | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
have not borrowed money to do that. Exeter City had the most successful | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
season in the history last season. From football fans to rugby league | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
fans. We found it stay that Crusaders will be bidding for a | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
place in the co-operative championship last season. The here | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
they would enable for financial reasons to take part in the | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Superleague, but now they have enough support to take the club | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
into the future. One of the concerns we had is that having | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
never paid -- played a championship that be the, we were not sure about | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
the level of support. We have had over 4,000 messages of support. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Today, we told them that we intend to apply for they place in the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
championship. The hard work now begins on preparing our business | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
plan. We are very excited. For the fans have jumped on board since we | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
lost our Super League licence. I think they have realised that we | :12:38. | :12:46. | |
have got something good and a to not one to lead -- to lose it. | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
A 25-year old man has appeared before magistrates in Caerphilly | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
charged with the murder of 60-year- old Jerzy Dubiniec. His body was | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
discovered in the Pill area of Newport in the early hours of | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
Saturday morning. The baker from Poland was visiting Wales. Gavin | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Mills will appear in court again tomorrow. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Britain's biggest motor insurer, Admiral, which is based in South | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Wales, has recorded record half year profits before tax of �160.6 | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
million. The company now has more than 4,000 staff in Cardiff and | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Newport, who'll be given a �1500 share bonus. Profits were boosted | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
by rising sales of car insurance and higher premiums. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
An RAF helicopter crew from Valley on Anglesey has been involved in a | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
dramatic rescue at Porth Dafarch near Trearddur Bay on the island. A | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
man got into difficulty whilst coasteering. Luckily for him, the | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
search and rescue crew were training just half a mile away. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
They were there in less than a minute before winching the casualty | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
The row over the supply of sandwiches to a North Wales | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
hospital he is Kal lated today when WRVS volunteers took their protest | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
to the streets. A charity-run tea bar has cancelled its contract with | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
the local Dell deli and is switching to a national supplier. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Some volunteers are threatening to quit. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
The charity is about helping people stay active in the community. But | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
the WVRS probably didn't have this activity in mind. Volunteers are | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
angry a change in supplier is putting jobs at risk. Some are | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
prepared to vote with their feet. I'm not going to work to support an | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
organisation which doesn't take any notice of volunteers which have | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
worked for them for 40 30 years. it is working locally, leave it | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
alone. Why change it.? Local people need jobs. The changes have been | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
brought in across 13 hospitals in Wales. The WVR say switching | :14:47. | :14:56. | |
supplies to Ginsters is more cost eefeblgtive. It means another six | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
people unemployed in this man's community. He's been amazed by the | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
support of the volunteers. These people come here for the social | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
side of it. They've lost partners. It is not just serves sandwiches | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
and cups of tea. It is the social side of it, somebody to confide in, | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
talk to. The WVR S says it will supply consist tenancy across share | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
shops. On patrol to protect a World Heritage Site blighted by fly- | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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First, universities need to be more a gresive in trying to attract top | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
academics to Wales. Wales chief scientists says we're missing out | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
on millions of pounds of research funding. This is the kind of | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
cutting edge research the Welsh Government wants to see more of. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
The Institute of Life Science? Swan sea university opened four years | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
ago. It hosts 30 hi-tech companies and has Cree iate the ed hi-tech | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
jobs. An extension is already being built it is so successful. The | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
scientists are working on new treatment for asthma. Securing | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
funding be can be difficult. Wales only receives about 3-4 % of what's | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
on offer. It is crucial. Within institutions it is very important. | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
We have very important collaborations with the college of | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
science and engineering here in Swansea university. Extern alley, | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
nationally and in ter nationally. An artificial pump for the heart. | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
One of the many projects underway here. To get more research funding | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
flowing across Wales, it is said we need to poach top academics from | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
elsewhere. We take 3-4% of the council income. We're 5% of the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
population. It is a significant difference. It requires investment. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
The Welsh universities have been significantly underinvested | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
compared to their English and Scottish counterparts for some time. | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
If Wales is only getting 3% We're missing out on tens of millions of | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
pounds. Perhaps now there is a case to be made. It is the elephant in | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
the room for many universities and politicians, there's a case to be | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
made to go to the UK Government and say why can't we have research | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
council funding which would create hundreds of jobs in this sector? | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
Why not have that devolved to Wales as we've higher education funding? | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Repeating success stories like it this is vital to the economy's | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
future. But money's tight and the competition for the top talent is | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
intense. The pressure's now on the universities to attract big names | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and more big money. It was once an industrial landscape. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
Now, it's a World Heritage Site. But fly-tipping, off-road bikes and | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
grass fires are spoiling the countryside around Blaenavon. It is | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
quite a view, perhaps a rather daunting one for PC Rob Maddox. It | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
is his job to cut crime in one of Wales' most beautiful and | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
historically significant landscapes. For the past eight months, his | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
office has been his four wheel drive. The World Heritage Site and | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
the wildlife too here offering unrivalled view views from his | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
window. As Landscape Crime Officer, he's tackling everything from metal | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
they have, to fly-tipping. We're going to an area where we've had | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
trouble with fly tipping in the past. We're going to see if there | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
are any new fly-tip sites and found evidence if somebody's dumped stuff | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
there. We found this, mat rests, old carpets, children's toys, as | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
bests to, all dumped in the past few days. It is lazy ness. There's | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
no excuse for dumping here. It is ugly, spoils the beautiful views | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
around here. There's no need. Maddox is part the Forgotten | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
Landscapes project a scheme to help con serve the environment and on 80 | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
square kilometres of land. Since December, there's been ten | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
prosecutions for fly-tipping, more than 40 off-road bikes have been | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
seized. We stopped to see the damage those off-road bikes can do. | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
You've the lush Heather and moorland here. Here, you've the | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
scarring of the landscape. It scars and looks bad and alters the water | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
table on the landscape. Others used abandoneded mines as a quick source | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
of quash. Metal theft is big business. PC Maddox rely s on | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
people living nearby to help him out. We've set up an intelligence | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
system. A lot of farmers and landowners and residents in the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
area, if they see anything suspicious, they have mow mobile | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
and will alert me to it. It is that team work PC Maddox hopes the job | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
he's so passionate about will be a success. | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
It is a big night for Wrexham football fans. Now here's the sport | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
with Claire. Swansea City's manager described | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
last night's Carling Cup defeat as his most disappointing. Brendan | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Rodgers warns some players have played their way out of contention | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
for the weekend. Brendan Rodgers made nine changes | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
to the side which drew against Wigan on Saturday but still | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
expected his players to be too strong for Shrewsbury. They took a | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
fortunate lead early on but Shrewsbury rallied and were level | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
soon after. Mark Wright gave the home side a deserved lead. Despite | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
some Swansea pressure, Nicky wrapped up a memorable win for the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
League Two side. After the match, the Swansea manager did not hold | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
back in his criticism. We've lost games in the time I've been here | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
but they've normally come on the back of good performances. This has | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
been the most disappointing one. In the last week or so, there's a | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
history of making a couple of games. The players will never forget. I | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
also told them not a forget tonight. Make sure you tell your | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
grandchildren you played in this game. At the Cardiff City Stadium | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
there were goals galore. The League One outfit hit back in the second | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
half and with just two minutes to go, they led 3-2. But, deep into | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
injury time, done coyy levelled matters at 3-3. A goal in each half | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
of extra time, including a second for Cowie finally saw the Bluebirds | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
through. Still running freely and strongly to make sure we managed to | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
get the draw and take us into extra time. After that, making sure that | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
in extra time we kept a calm head. The draw for the third round of the | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
Carling Cup which will feature the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
and Chelsea takes place on Saturday. The Wales football side shruched to | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
their lowest placing since the FIFA rankings were spro Decembered to | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
117 in the world just below Haiti and North Korea. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Wales fly to New Zealand a week today for the Rugby World Cup. The | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
first match is in wellington on September 11. Jonathan Thomas says | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
it is time to focus on his season with the Ospreys as he didn't make | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
the Wales team. There were a lot of disappointed guise. If there are | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
injuries, may get the call. We've trained hard this summer. Not to | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
make the squad is disappointing. Just look forward to having a good | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
season with the Ospreys. After the World Cup, Wales will play | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
Australia at the Millennium Stadium on December 3rd. One for the diary. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Archaeologists say it is a discovery which sheds new Lydon | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Wales' role in the Roman Empire. A team from Cardiff university | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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uncovered a 2000 -year-old hash our outside Caerleon. Where Romans once | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
reigne ed archaeologists now dig. The discoveries here have exceeded | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
all expectations. We can now place the fortress within its immediate | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
landscape. It had a series of large public buildings built on the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
south-western side of it which appears to suggest there were | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
marketplaces, temples and bath houses. We believe we've located | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
the port. It allows us to see Caerleon in a wider sense. This is | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
how the port could have looked with ships helping bring soldiers and | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
goods from the Roman world to Wales. This port is facilitating the | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
legion to bring their stocks and supplies up the river so they could | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
move into the administrative centres up the top and move grain, | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
goods, and whenever else is coming into the port. This is the largest | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
discovery in all of Roman Britain. The site is about the size of six | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
football pitches. Along with buildings, other objects have been | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
found shedding light on how the Romans lived. We can reconstruct | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
the animals they farmed around here and that they brought into Caerleon | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
in order to eat or get leather. They were found of oysters which | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
they may have got locally. Joining the dig today, Tony Robinson and | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
his Time Team. It is the only place in Britain where you can see a | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Roman barracks. There were three properly built Roman barracks. The | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
other two under present day York and Chester. This is a real | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
fantastic snapshot of what military life would have been like in Roman | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
times. They'll be digging here for another week. But the Roman secrets | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
unearthed here are to be buried. These fields will soon be farmland | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
once again. At the this are there for the next | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
week they'll pay particular attention to tonight's weather. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
is looking mixed. I'm hopeful by the time we reach the weekend it | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
the time we reach the weekend it will improve. | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Here's the extend of the rain. We'd heavy bursts, 12mm in three hours. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
This evening, a fine evening for many of us especially in the west. | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Lovely sunshine to end the day. Overnight, a few coastal showers. | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
The rainband just nudging parts of the border. In between, it will be | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
dry. Overnight temperatures between 8-11 Celsius. The winds should be | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
light. The pressure chart for tomorrow showing an area of low | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
pressure over Ireland. Another unsettled day. First thing in the | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
morning we'll see showers over parts of the south and west. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
They'll become heavy through the day and push north and eastwards. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
The winds are light tomorrow. If you get kautd under a shower, it | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
could last a while. Some areas getting away with a with a dry day. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Highs of 19 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, becoming dry. Showers | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
becoming confined to coastal areas. Further inland, dry but cloudy. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Overnight temperatures 8-11 Celsius. The winds again lithe into the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
early hours of Friday morning. A disappointing day on Friday. We'll | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
see longer spells of rain on Friday. The sunshine hard to find. Saturday | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
morning could be wet. As we go into Saturday afternoon and Sunday and | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
Monday, it is looking drier and brighter. Hopeful for the bank | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
holiday weekend. Thank you very much. A reminder of | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
our top story. The Education Minister Leighton Andrews hasn't | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
ruled out taking aex against Pembrokeshire Children's Services | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
after accusing them to -- the council's leader say John Davis | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
says the attack is politically motivated. | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Tomorrow, find out how pupils across Wales fared in their GCSEs. | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
We'll be out filming early as they get those all-important results. | :27:53. | :27:58. |