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The top stories: The country's best performing and was performing | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
secondary schools list will be published by the end of the year. - | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
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Our other headlines tonight: The biggest animal rescue since the Sea | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
Empress disaster: Hundreds of migrating birds blown off course in | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
storms. At the moment we have 400 Manx shearwaters and a couple of | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
gannets but they haven't made it. The Welsh supermarket brand Iceland | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
awards is 22,000 staff with record pay rises. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
It is a special night for Welsh football. Wales are at Wembley for | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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the first time in 28 years to take Secondary schools in Wales will | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
provisionally find out next week whether they are the top or the | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
bottom of a new banding scheme. Parents will be able to see the | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
results when the Welsh government publishes them online by the end of | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
this year. Schools are being graded as part of a drive to improve | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
standards, but tonight the National Union of Teachers warned banding of | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
schools is just a return of league tables. I will speak to the union | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
in a moment. First, Sian Lloyd reports. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
It is a big day for these year 7 pupils. They have made a move to | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
secondary school and are settling in at Barry Comprehensive. Next | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
week, the staff will discover where the school is likely to be placed | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
in a new national banding scheme. The data for each of the 221 | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
secondary schools in Wales will be published on the Welsh government's | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
website in the week starting 12th December. We are an unusual school, | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
one of only two that are all boys. Boys tend to under-achieve compared | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
to goals. We had a lot of value here and the boys that leave here | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
will leave successful, but they were also achieved beyond what was | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
expected when they were entering the school. I hope that is taken | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
into consideration. It is thought secondary schools will be placed | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
into one of five bands based on a wide-ranging factor -- wide range | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
of factors including exam performance, attendance and people | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
backgrounds. The plans have been in the pipelines for months, but we | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
understand the final model has only just been approved by the Welsh | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
government. Teaching unions recognise the aim of driving up | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
standards, but still have questions about the scheme. The whole purpose | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
of the banding is then to create a system that will help every school | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
in Wales get better. The banding judgment by itself is not going to | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
be terrifically useful, so unless we can be sure, and we hope they | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
can be certain that the support services are there, the entire | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
system looks increasingly suspect. One thing is for certain, sums | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
schools were inevitably be at the top of the list, and others | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
inevitably at the bottom. banding system will be just a click | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
away from parent so can do Samba, but the challenge now is to ensure | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
they understand the information. help, schools will send a letter | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
home over the coming weeks. League tables were abandoned here 10 years | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
ago, and banding will be the nearest Wales has come since then | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
to returning to a ranking system. We asked parents of pupils at | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Connah's Quay High School for their input. Schools are not just exams. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
We like to make sure the school is performing as well as it should do | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
for exams, but general school work as well. I just said to the | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
headmaster now that this school has a very good reputation. Would the | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
banding system change that in any way? Do know what I mean, they have | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
a good reputation now. I am concerned about that. Back in July | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
when the scheme first came to light, the Education Minister said banding | :04:16. | :04:26. | |
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was not about labelling schools. The system for banding primary | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
schools is also being developed. Let's be to the Welsh secretary of | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the National Union of Teachers, David Evans. There has been a | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
cautious welcome to the scheme. What your members make of it? | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
honest, we are concerned at the end of the day. Banding, grading as it | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
was called when it was first suggested in February, inevitably | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
will result in schools being at the top and bottom. Presumably schools | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
will be able to move up through the bands, and presumably they will | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
also be able to move down, but what we should be concentrating on is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
that all schools are good schools. What possible objection could you | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
have two parents transparently finding out how their children in a | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
local school are performing? What is wrong with that? Parents are | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
entitled to know how their schools are performing. It is not | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
necessarily all about that. What it should be about is improving those | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
schools, but you do not improve schools just by ranking them at the | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
top or the bottom. There is more to it. They should be additional | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
resources and support. We know that the Welsh Assembly Government has | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
indicated that they are not putting additional resources or funding | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
into the schools. The Welsh Assembly Government said tonight | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
that this is not the return of league tables. The banding will be | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
based on a variety of all sorts of criteria, not just exams. That must | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
surely reassure you. It is the primary method of assessing, exams. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Other things will come in, social and economic issues should come in, | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the communities the schools are based in should come into it. We | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
would welcome that and have no difficulty with that, but the way | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
in which the system is devised, as far as we can tell so far, does | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
mean that parents will say, hang on, this school is in band one or | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
League One, visit the school is in band four. I don't want to change - | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
- send my school to -- My child to band four. David Evans, thank you. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
! The RSPCA has rescued hundreds of seabirds off the coast of | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Pembrokeshire in its largest operation in Wales since the Sea | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
Empress tanker disaster 15 years ago. A huge flock of Manx | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
shearwaters were blown onto Newgale beach during their annual migration | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
to Argentina. Our correspondent is that the RSPCA rescue centre in | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Swansea. It is still blustery, and you can | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
see why. So many birds were blown inland last night, some 400-500 | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Manx shear waters were rescued from the sea this morning. Here with me | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
is the chief of staff at the RSPCA in Swansea. We can see the birds in | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
the van if we walk down. How big a rescue was this? It was all hands | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
on deck. Quite extraordinary, actually, we have never come across | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
this many Manx shearwaters in one day. Every year we have a problem | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
with blustery weather, and a number of Manx shearwaters, may be four or | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
fight, oral a busy day a dozen. Today about 500, it has been quite | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
extraordinary. How unusual is that? Yesterday we collected 19 birds and | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the whole team were astounded. It is usually just a handful, three or | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
four. 19 in a day is remarkable, but today 500 birds, it is quite | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
sad really, very distressing for the birds concerned. The good news, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
I suppose is that it should be a short rescue. We have collected all | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the birds from the beach. They are going to our wildlife hospitals | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
under the next couple of days hopefully they will be released. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
we look at these birds in the cage, these are going to Somerset, some | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
people will ask, should we interfere with nature, what would | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
have happened if we hadn't? suppose we are, but these birds | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
were exhausted, suffering from hypothermia and shock and would | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
surely have died if we hadn't intervened. Thank you very much | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
indeed. Now we can show you the pictures of the work of the RSPCA | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
this morning. When you realise the Shia number of Manx shearwaters on | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
Newgale beach in Pembrokeshire, it was extraordinary. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Hundreds were blown onto Newgale beach last night and today during | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
stormy weather. Most of them are fledglings straight out of nests | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
where they have been nestling alongside the Pembrokeshire | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
coastline and along the shore. Many of these birds tossed into the sea | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
by the storm are unlikely to survive. I have 70 per cent will | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
make it. In my initial assessment many are alert and active just | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
waterlogged. Some I have had to put down because they will not make it. | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
I hope 70 per cent will make it to fly to Argentina. The RSPCA said | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
they are trying to save as many Manx shearwaters as they can. They | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
say they are hopeful many will be released into the wild as soon as | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
possible so they can continue their migration for the winter, the 8000 | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
miles or so from west Wales to South America. The biggest colony | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
of Manx shearwaters in Wales are the 120,000 pairs nesting on scone | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Ireland. We need to get these birds out and back to see as quickly as | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
we can. My advice to anybody seeing a bird is to get it out to sea. | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
They need to be out at sea. They do better out at this -- at sea. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
weather has caused problems for many migrating birds. The satellite | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
image taken in the last 24 hours shows how the weather has blown | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
birds of course. There are reports of gannets, arctic skuas as well as | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
men she waters landing in several areas. -- Manx shearwaters. But the | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
numbers in Pembridge are today are unusual. This whether his son sees | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
the ball. There have been incidents like this with oil spills. The Sea | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
Empress was the last time we collected so many seabirds in one | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
go. There is no sign of oil or injuries on the birds. We can only | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
guess the weather conditions have contributed to them being washed | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
inshore. Here are some of the birds before they are taken from here in | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Swansea to Somerset. Some 350 Manx shearwaters have been checked here. | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
They are fine for travelling, and as soon as the weather allows the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
RSPCA to do so, they will be released back into the wild. They | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
will be taken on the short journey down to Somerset. That is all from | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
the RSPCA rescue centre. Heavy rain in the last 24 hours as | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
well as the wind has caused rivers to rise, especially in North and | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Mid Wales, where four flood alerts remain in force. These pictures of | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
the River Conwy at Llanrwst were taken by photographer Steve Allen. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Derek will be here with the full FA cost later in the programme. -- | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
forecast. The chief executive of hundred to | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
cancel Bryn Parry Jones has survived a vote of no confidence. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
County councillors met to debate two reports highly critical of | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
measures to protect children from abuse. Mark Hannaby was at the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
meeting and joins me now. The chief executive survived despite the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
highly critical reports about Pembridge a council. Remind us what | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
was in those reports. -- Pembrokeshire Council. There were | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
two critical reports, one from the education watchdog saying the | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
council's methodology for safeguarding children was not fit | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
for purpose. On top of that, there was another report also contributed | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
to by the education watchdog and the social services, looking at the | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
way the council deals with complaints of alleged child abuse | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
and saying there were long-standing problems with that. A lot for | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
councillors to get their teeth into, despite, as you mention, Bryn Parry | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Jones surviving that votes of confidence against him, 42 votes in | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
his favour and 10 against, nevertheless, the council itself | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
came in for quite a deal of criticism on a wide-ranging bases | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
from both Labour, plied country and the Lib Dems, saying there is an | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
anti- democratic culture. People being appointed on the basis of | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
patronage and such. The leader of one of the group's is far from | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
certain that Bryn Parry Jones should lead the council. I have not | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
had any confidence in him since 1990 it. I voted for him in 1996 | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
and consider that to be a mistake. He controls every element of this | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
authority. Managers here are unable to manage their own portfolios. His | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
influence is everywhere and it is not for the good. How does the | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
Council intend to put this right? They have a number of measures. We | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
should say Bryn Parry Jones declined an interview with us. The | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
council has promised a new Cabinet member specifically to deal with | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the interests of children and safeguarding children. The council | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
will hope that is enough for the assembly government to decide not | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
to intervene in marriage tick -- managing the authority. They have | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
done it elsewhere in Anglesey and Blaenau Gwent. They are adamant it | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
won't happen there. Yes, harsh words were spoken and I understand | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
why those words were said and their context. I responded to them by | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
saying, yes, there will have to be changed and we have to reflect | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
significantly upon what has been instilled upon us by these reports | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
and learn very quickly. Councillor John Davies from Pembridge a | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
council speaking to the BBC. Mark You are watching Wales Today. Still | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
ahead, all the day's sport. Join me later. With an hour before | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
kick-off, we'll be assessing Wales' chances as they take on England | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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Staff at the Welsh frozen food chain, Iceland, are to get a record | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
pay increase of 5%. It will cost the firm more than �14 million to | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
reward all 22,000 frontline workers, as well as the home delivery staff. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
A lower hourly rate for under 18s has also been scrapped. I've been | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
talking to Justin Urquhart Stewart from the London stock brokers, | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
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Seven Investment Management. This is a great story. Most people | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
are not getting pay rises. Here, as a result of the profits they are | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
making, it is very encouraging. You have to understand that the founder | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
of this company has always had an attitude of making sure staff are | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
treated well from the canteen to the deliveries. This is what he is | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
doing now. They have got rid of the under the rate hourly rate for | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
under 18. This is trying to make sure people have proper wages and | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
not trying to pay the lowest you can get away with. Unfortunately, | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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with the old management, that is what had happened with this company. | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
Now the founder is back and he has turned things around. How important | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
is the leader and the company's roots? The company grew from humble | :16:17. | :16:25. | |
beginnings in North Wales. It has indeed. He used to work part-time | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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as a manager and developed a business from selling vegetables. | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
The company then went on to buy out the rivals and was very dynamic. | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
But as time developed, the founder got eased out on the style of the | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
business got changed. This would be a model for many businesses in | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
future about how to treat staff. Wales are at Wembley to take on | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
England. Ashleigh Crowter is there. Dai Greene says he hopes to add the | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Olympic Gold Medal to his European, Commonwealth and World titles and | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
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complete the Athletics Grand Slam This is one of the oldest rivalry | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
is end or sport. A star-studded England team are a red hot | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
favourites. But a few people think Wales might be capable of pulling | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
off a shock tonight. There is something about Wembley that | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
excites even the most experienced player. It has put a spring in the | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
step of manager Gary Speed. The task in front of Wales this evening | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
is quite formidable. Perhaps they will have inspiration from their | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
hotel. Secret plans were made during the Second World War at this | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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location. It is a great occasion for the players. For a lot of them, | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
it will not be a new experience. But there is going to be a massive | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
game and hopefully we can give it our best shot. The Football | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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Association of Wales says it has sold only around 1,700 tickets. | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
Victories at Wembley are rare. You have to go back a long time for | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
their only victory here. The stadium has been rebuilt since then. | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
England failed to win their last four matches their. They are | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
expecting a serious test. It'll be a tough game. They played very well | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
against Montenegro. Aaron Ramsey is one of the few Welsh players with | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
Wembley experience. It was a disappointing experience in the FA | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
Cup final with Cardiff. Hopefully, we can take the belief from the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
last game and get a positive result there. Hopefully, it will be a | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
memorable day. There will be changes to the team. Qualification | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
may have already gone but the confidence they take from a draw | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
will be priceless as well as continued their climb back to | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
respectability on the world stage. Let us look ahead to the game now | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
with Iwan Roberts. How will the players be feeling? They will be a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
little bit nervous but they will be looking forward to the challenge. | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
It is one of the best sides in the world at an unbelievable stadium. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
They had a positive result against Montenegro on Friday. Most | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
observers say they can only four Celsius one result. If they do have | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
an Achilles heel, it is playing here at Wembley. They do feel the | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
pressure here and if we can keep them quiet, the thousands of people | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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walking past year will be on their backs. Could we is get a result? | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Gary Speed will probably pack the midfield. When a chance comes away | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
we have to take it. We have to keep our shape and defend. Do you think | :21:17. | :21:25. | |
this is the start of a revival for Wales? It is unbelievable what a | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
win and can do. You can sense that in the Welsh camp already. If we | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
can get a positive result, hopefully we can finish third in | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
the group. Wales have only won once in Wembley before and that was in | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
19 some dissent. Kick-off is at 7:45pm. You can hear the game on | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
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Dai Greene says he hopes to get the Olympic medal to add to his other | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
titles and complete the athletics Grand Slam at the London Games next | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
year. Arriving home from the World Championships in South Korea, where | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
he won the men's 400m hurdles, he says he is confident of more | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
success. We will change if you things ahead of next year's | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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Olympics. I hope to maintain the success and they have a great coach. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
The most important thing for him is to stay injury-free during the | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
winter. The more he can invest in himself and work hard, it will be | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
easier for him to go out into the Olympic Games. He will have to work | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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hard to do it. The BBC has been given end -- a unique insight into | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Ty Hafan. The hospice cares for children who are so unwell they are | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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not expected to live into adulthood. Children are referred to Ty Hafan | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
at a difficult time, a time of need when they are in search of care and | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
support. Since it opened it's doors 12 years ago the hospice, which | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
relies heavily on donations and it's own fund-raising, has helped | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
hundreds of children. Tonight, we meet one of them, Amy-Claire. A | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
brave teenager from Swansea who is determined to live life to the full | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
despite living through constant pain and illness. Amy Clare's | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
illness is a mystery. Nobody knows why her body systems are slowly | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
closing down. So, one by one she's ticking off a list of things she | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
wants to do with her life. And on that list, is planting a tree and | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
having a ceremony. Most people have to wait until they are dead. I do | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
not want to wait, I would rather have a party instead. The posh car | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
was another tick off a list, to arrive in Ty Hafan in style. For | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Amy-Claire's parents, while leaving her here for the first time will be | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
a worry, they know she'll be cared for, and that's a comfort. You have | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
confidence in the people looking after her. If she is not happy, we | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
would not be happy to leave her. Hafan is a hospice, not a hospital. | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
The emphasis here is on treating individuals, not illnesses. There | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
are butterflies dotted around the place. A metaphor of the short, but | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
beautiful life they help create for the children. You can see more on | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
that tonight at 10:35pm. It is fine and settled in New | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Zealand at the moment but the complete opposite here Derek! | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
Autumn arrived with a blast. Strong to severe gale force winds today | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
and heavy rain. Gwyneth McBurney sent in this picture of the flooded | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
rugby pitch in Dolgellau. While the wind brought down a few trees like | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
this oak at a school in Denbighshire. The windiest places | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
Mumbles Head in Swansea and Dyffryn Both recorded a gust of 69mph this | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
morning. While in the last 72 hours, 118mm, over 4 inches of rain, has | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
fallen at Capel Curig in Conwy. Over half the September average. So | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
The reason for the disturbed weather is nothing to do with | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
Hurricane Irene, but a normal Atlantic depression. Plus the jet | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
stream is right over us too which doesn't help. Tonight will continue | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
windy. Gusts 40 to 50mph. Some rain in places. And blustery showers. | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
Lowest temperatures 11 to 13 Tomorrow's chart shows lots of | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
isobars over Britain which means brisk and gusty winds. Fronts | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
approaching Ireland will bring more rain later. So tomorrow morning, | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the southeast may start dry and bright. Some sunshine. Further west, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
much cloudier. A few showers in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Breezy too. Strong winds on the coast. In the north, showers with | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
fresh to strong winds. So a few bright or sunny intervals tomorrow | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
but on the whole plenty of cloud. Some blustery showers as well. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
These merging into rain in Mid Wales and the north during the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
afternoon. Drier in the south. Windy but not as strong as today. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Top temperatures 17 Celsius. Tomorrow night, more rain and | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
drizzle will spread across the country. Heaviest on the mountains | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
in Mid Wales and the north. On Thursday outbreaks of rain and | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
drizzle. Friday will start damp but most places becoming dry and warmer | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
with southerly winds. The weekend very changeable and breezy but | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
there is a hint of better weather around the middle of September. If | :27:15. | :27:23. |