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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: An investigation is | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
underway following the death of a man, who it's thought became | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
trapped by a metal gate while making a delivery. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Also in the programme this evening: The leader and his deputy are among | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
three councillors being investigated for their conduct at | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
Swansea Council. We've been on the train to London. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
With electrification on the cards, is a billion pounds to save 17 | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
minutes value for money? In tonight's sport: It's over 40 | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
years since they last did it. Cardiff City reach the quarter | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
finals of the League Cup. We're looking for unsung sporting | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
heroes like Lisa. We catch up with last year's winner. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
And the Nutcracker like you've never seen it before. We go behind | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the scenes with the Welsh company making sets for productions around | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Good evening. A 42-year-old man has died after making an early morning | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
delivery to a wholesalers in Newport. It's thought the man, who | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
hasn't been named, became trapped under a heavy metal gate at the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
back of the premises, which are on Agincourt Street in the Crindau | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
area of the city. Police and the Health and Safety Executive are | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
investigating. Nicola Smith reports. At just after 5:00am this morning, | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
emergency services were called to this gateway just off a quiet | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
terraced street in Newport. This lorry had been making a delivery to | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
Blakemore Wholesalers. The trade entrance is through this metal gate. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Hours later, the gate was on the floor. Specialist officers were | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
checking the gate posts and the surrounding area for clues to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
explain how the man died. At this stage, police will only say that | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
his death "involved the movement of heavy gates". Sid Cloud lives just | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
a few hundred yards from where it happened. He told me that the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
street is always busy with early morning deliveries, but that today | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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was very different. They start coming in at around about 6:00am in | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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the morning. Sometimes its earlier. I got up at my normal time and it | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
seemed to be -- this seems to be more activity going on. I saw the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
police and there were three fire engines over there. There were also | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
ambulances as well. The man who died was 42-years-old and came from | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
the Merthyr Tydfil area. His family are now being supported by | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
specially trained police officers. In a statement, Blakemore | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Wholesalers say they are "assisting in the investigation" and pass | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
their condolences to his family. The Health and Safety Executive, as | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
well as Newport Council's health and safety department, are | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
investigating. A gynaecologist who worked in | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
hospitals across South Wales has been suspended for 12 months. Dr | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Priyantha Perera Kandanearachchi has been suspended with immediate | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
effect for inappropriate sexual behaviour towards a patient and a | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
colleague. People suffering major injuries in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
parts of Mid Wales will be treated closer to home. The Royal | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Shrewsbury Hospital is introducing a new trauma unit. At the moment, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
people living in north Powys have to travel to Stoke-on-Trent or | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
Birmingham for treatment. That can mean over an hour's drive. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
Welsh businesses who export to Europe are watching today's summit | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
in Brussels closely. Thousands of jobs here rely on exports and | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
there's concern that if the Euro crisis worsens, companies here | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
could be badly affected. I'm joined now by Russell Lawson, from the | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Wales International Business Council. Let's put this into | :04:06. | :04:16. | |
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context. How serious is the Euro crisis for Welsh businesses? It is | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
very serious. We do rely an awful lot on exporting and manufacturing | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
exporter and. In Wales, the average GDP we rely on for manufacturing is | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
24 % whereas in the rest of the UK it's only about 11 %. If we are | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
going to be hit with a whole market and we are not able to export, it | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
will hit Wales significantly harder than everywhere else in the UK. | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
it going to affect jobs? There will be lost orders for companies and | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
strict orders. They will have to look at the bottom line costs which | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
may lead to redundancies and as a knock-on impact, that has an effect | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
on the economy. What can be done to help businesses through this | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
difficult period? We have been asking for a lot more support, | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
especially for exporting businesses. We want to see the government put | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
more money in and help and advice to get businesses to look at their | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
goods and services to see if they are exportable. We also want more | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
help to export to the growing market. The euro-zone is an | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
important area but it could be affected so we need to looking -- | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
start looking at areas which are starting to grow like Brazil, India | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
and Vietnam. But money is tight as we know. How likely is it that the | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
government will put some money in? We are talking about small amounts | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
of money which can have greater benefits at the bottom end. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Teachers and lecturers from Wales have been in Westminster today to | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
lobby Parliament against pension cuts. They were part of a joint | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
campaign organised by seven education unions. They say the cuts | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
being imposed to their pensions are too severe. The UK Government says | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
changes are needed to ensure pensions remain sustainable. There | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
is plenty of money in the pensions fund. Just have a rethink on the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
extra contributions they expect us to pay towards the pensions because | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
they are sustainable at the moment. They have to make cuts and I | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
understand that. But they need to do a proper review of our pension | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
scheme. If that proves we need to pay more, that will be one thing, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
but they need to produce that review. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
A company which is taking over a third of the residential homes | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
formerly owned by Southern Cross says it will start running 17 homes | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
in South Wales from next month. HC- One says it's now ready to complete | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
the transfer of the homes. The company stepped in after Southern | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Cross got into financial difficulties. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
It'll mean faster, greener and more efficient trains but | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
electrification will come at a cost of over one billion pounds. It's | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
still over five years away but today a service ran from Cardiff to | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
London to demonstrate just how quick they'll be. It'll mean a | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
saving of 17 minutes off your journey but with such a large price | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
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tag, is it really worth it? Matt Murray was on board. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
Electric trains are the future of rail travel in the UK but today a | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
journey to demonstrate just how fast they will be was almost like | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
stepping back in time. With a three-course meal, business leaders | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
and politicians were here to taste not just the lamb but also high- | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
speed rail travel. No stops were made today to match the speed | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
electric trains will travel at and it will mean a journey time of 1 | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
hour and 43 minutes but it will cost �1 billion. This journey | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
between the soup -- Capital cities is an indication that Wales is very | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
well connected. Do you really think that 17 minutes is going to make | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
that much difference? I think good infrastructure is always going to | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
make a difference to people doing business. People may not realise | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
just how close Wales is. It business leaders and rail experts | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
on board believe it will go a long way to improving business links | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
between Wales and London. When you keep adding it up, what it means is | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
not just 17 minutes one way, it is 34 minutes in two directions. That | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
takes half-an-hour of the travel time between South Wales and London. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
That is the kind of saving we are looking for because that is the | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
kind of saving that will encourage inward investors to look at Wales. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
But the line will only be electrified as far as Cardiff, a | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
concern for commuters like this lady who works in Swansea. Her head | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
offices in London and she thinks she will fail to see any real | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
benefit. The electrification of the line is until Cardiff so it won't | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
make much difference because I still have to travel between | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
the amount of time that will be shaved off the time of the journey. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
A lot of the trains are already quite unreliable. Litigation is not | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
just about speeding up the service, it is also about making a -- making | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
it greener. These old diesel engines will be replaced and | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
instead there will be carriages her that will mean that more passengers | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
will be able to get on board, close to 20 % more. Today's train journey | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
from Cardiff to London was one of the fastest in over 20 years. It is | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
hoped that a letter vacation will make this a regular thing -- | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
electrification. Still to come tonight: Football | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
coach Lisa Jones was our Unsung Sporting Hero last year. Who will | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
you nominate to be this year's winner? | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
And I'm at a new company which makes sets for opera, ballet and | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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The two most senior councillors in Swansea are under investigation by | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
the Public Services Ombudsman. The leader, Chris Holley, and his | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
deputy, John Hague, are facing questions about their conduct. A | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
complaint against a third councillor is also being | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
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investigated. Carl Roberts reports. A clear view over Swansea this | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
morning and tonight, BBC Wales can reveal that the public services on | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
his own -- Ombudsman is looking into the conduct of the leader of | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Swansea Council and is the pity. The complaint made about -- against | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
Chris Holley and his deputy John Hague and the Conservative council | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
-- and a Conservative councillor is being investigated. The | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
investigation is believed to refer to alleged discussions between the | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
leader and deputy leader and some opposition councillors about | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Conservative support for the councils up rolling Lib-Dem | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
administration. In any male seen by BBC Wales, the deputy leader of | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
Swansea council confirms that he met with Councillor to discuss | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
possible projects. One of those projects included building a new | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
path where an old one had become overgrown. The man who says his | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
initial complaints sparked the investigation wants answers. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
think this is a very serious breach of the code of conduct and it could | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
always be a breach of the law in that there are lots of safeguards | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
about the spending of public money. All three councillors and Swansea | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
council declined to be individual and said they could not comment | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
because of the ongoing investigation. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Tonight marks the deadline for people bidding to buy a grade two | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
listed brewery chimney in the centre of Wrexham. Bids have | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
already reached �900 on the auction website eBay. The town's former MP | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
and Assembly Member, Dr John Marek, who put it up for sale, says the | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
money raised will go to charity. Yesterday, we reported on calls for | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
a law forcing councils to provide public toilets after many have been | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
closed in cost-cutting drives. Well, Wales Today viewer Dave Robinson | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
from Llandrillo in Denbighshire got in touch to tell us how he and his | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
neighbours re-opened their local lavatories and maintain them as a | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
community. Here in Llandrillo, they're proud | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
of their loos. They were closed by Denbighshire Council in 1998 and | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
the building eventually deteriorated. But after a long | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
running campaign and careful negotiations, new toilets were | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
officially opened in 2005. From a tourist point of view, if you don't | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
get people to enjoy their stay, they do not come back. Only last | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
week, I had an e-mail from a couple in West Sussex who said what a | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
fantastic facility you've got. We will definitely come back again. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
rota has been drawn up so that each week, different villagers take | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
responsibility for opening and closing the lavatories as well as | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
keeping them clean. It doesn't come cheap. The running costs are around | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
�1,300 a year but a �2 tax per household raises �900 and | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Denbighshire Council contributes �500, making an annual total of | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
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�1,400. Many of the visitors have done more than spend a penny here. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
In the last year, ramblers have given donations worth more than | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
�100 towards the upkeep of the tireless. It is really nice if | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
there is a public toilet there because you can go before you set | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
off on the walk. Most of our members are all the people so it's | :14:07. | :14:15. | |
more important for us to be relaxed before we start. Of course, it is | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
frustrating if we find a place which is there but is padlocked up. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
The lack of public toilets across Wales means plenty of people are | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
getting caught short, but this is one of the places where villagers | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
have stood firm, much to everyone's relief. | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
The day's sports news now. Here's The day's sports news now. Here's | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
Claire. Cardiff City are through to the | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
quarter finals of the Carling Cup. Their 1-0 win over Burnley sees the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Bluebirds into the last eight of the competition for the first time | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
in 46 years. Sachin Krishnan reports. | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
While their league form has been a bit up-and-down this season, | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Cardiff have shown great resilience during their car in Cup run until | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
last night's meeting with Burnley. Their previous matches had all been | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
won in extra time or on penalties. Early on, Joe Mason came close to | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
opening the scoring, grazing the post when clean through. But his | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
moment was to come. Both sides created good chances in the first | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
half. Both goalkeepers being brought into action. With half-time | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
approaching, Joe Mason showed composure on the edge of the box to | :15:21. | :15:31. | |
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The second half again saw chances go begging. The best for Cardiff | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
captain Mark Hudson who headed over from six yards out. I think whoever | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
was going to score first was probably going to win the game. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Since coming here are my main objective was to win a place in the | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
starting team. His gain intelligence belies his age. Again, | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
tonight, his movement was fantastic. He has good players around him who | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
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are helping him. I thought he led It was in the 1965-S66 season that | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Cardiff last reached the last eight of the League Cup. They eventually | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
lost in the semi-finals to West Ham who at the time featured the likes | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
of Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst just months before they won the World | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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The likes of Manchester United and Arsenal are already in the quarter- | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
finals with Cardiff. The draw takes place on Saturday. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
The hunt is on to find this year's BBC Wales Unsung Sporting Hero. The | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
award was won last year by football coach Lisa Jones who trains girls | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
and boys at Penydarren Club in Merthyr. Well, with the closing | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
date for this year's entries fast approaching, we've been back to see | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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what life is like for Lisa almost Let's make some space and make the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
passing much easier. Lisa Jones is a lady in demand. Apart from her | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
day job as a sports development officer, she coaches as a volunteer | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
three football team's five nights a week. This single mum of three | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
pours her energy into helping develop youngsters and it is that | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
selfless devotion that saw her win that and some Hero award last year. | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
I said I would love to rewind it back just for one moment to | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
remember what it was like. I was so mixed with emotions, I don't know | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
how I felt. I felt overwhelmed, I was happy, I wanted to cry. My | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
mother was sitting there. She was absolutely sobbing. She was | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
overwhelmed. It was a tremendous thing to win and I wish anybody | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
looked to win it this year because it is an amazing feeling. For the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
club in a Merthyr, the recognition Lisa has achieved has also brought | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
huge benefits. She was absolutely chest and I think it is recognition | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
of what she has done and is a good advertisement for our club. A big | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
club with around 250 playing members, it is nice for people to | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
know that we exist. I think we are getting well known throughout the | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
principality now. One very proud member is at least a's son, Jordan. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
She has been brilliant with the children. When she came in and said | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
she had won the award, I was very shocked and very pleased that she | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
had won because she is a fabulous coach and she is the best in the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
club. Lisa is the pinnacle of what the award is all about. She goes | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
out of her way to help others in Sport and expects nothing in return. | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
12 months on, it is still nice to be recognised. You can imagine what | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
it was like for months a. Even people now recognise me. Now we are | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
looking for this year's winner. Maybe there is someone you feel | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
deserves recognition to. So is there someone you know who | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
deserves to be recognised? Someone who goes out of their way to help | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
others in sport? The person has to be 16-years-old or over and not get | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
any financial reward for their efforts. Nominations close soon on | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
October 30th. You'll find all the details on these websites. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Well, from sport to the arts, and a new company in Cardiff is making | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
stage sets for opera, ballet and musical theatre companies around | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
the world. Yes, it started trading just four | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
months ago and employs 40 people. It's currently refurbishing the set | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
for Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker ballet which comes to Cardiff next | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
month as part of its UK tour. Rebecca John has been taking a look | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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around and she's there this evening. They are busy here tonight. This is | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
their cake and these columns have got to be ready for the English | :20:07. | :20:16. | |
National Opera. They have got to be In the corner of a Cardiff | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
industrial estate stand some giant lips and a cake which weighs a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
tonne. They're in for refurbishment ahead of Matthew Bourne's | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Nutcracker tour which starts in 10 days time. The deadlines are tight | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
- the Nutcracker props have to be ready by Friday. As does the set | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
for the English National Opera's production of Eugene Onegin. It | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
includes a mirrored floor and walls as well as nine ballroom columns | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
which are eight metres high. There's also a barn wall which | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
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weighs 2.5 tonnes. Scenic artists are given models like this to go on. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
We get given from the welders, they put the frame, and then carpenters | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
plier, and we build it up with this foam. We cut in the group's and put | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
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skin ply on and then texture that. Painting is the last process. | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
company also employs carpenters, draughtsmen and metal fabricators | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
who work off detailed drawings and models. Many are graduates of the | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with degrees in theatre | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
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design and stage management. When did you graduate? In May. This must | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
be a great experience for you. is, I didn't expect it. I have | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
definitely landed on my feet here. Two of the three company directors | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
worked for Cardiff Theatrical Services for many years, a | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
subsidiary of the Welsh National Opera. They set up their own | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
company four months ago and haven't looked back. The Nutcracker and | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
English National Opera's production goes on Friday and then we are | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
straight into Oliver for Cameron Mackintosh which goes into the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Wales Millennium Centre in December. Then we have got other productions | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
coming up straight after that for English National Opera and for | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
festivals. There is a lot of work. Beset has got to be ready by Friday. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
It will be loaded on to 80 trailers on Friday and driven to the | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Coliseum Theatre in London where dress-rehearsal start on Tuesday. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
The hours get longer as the deadlines approach, but the people | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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here know, without them, the show won't go on. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
Rhys Griffiths is the workshop manager. The deadlines are looming, | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
how is it going? It is going well. We know we're going to have | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
everything done and ready for Friday. What will happen on Friday? | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
We will have a train is coming in on Friday and we will know these | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
out and then transport them up to London. How do you do it without | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
damaging them? It takes a lot of preparation, thinking and planning | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
but everything is flat-packed. All this is taken into account at the | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
drawing stage. What about the columns themselves? They are all | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
packed strategically and put into position. What do you do then? Do | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
you go with them? Myself and a few of the employees will go up to | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
London and work with the stage technicians in London to assemble | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
them and take them through the build process and handing our | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
product over to them. If there are teething problems, you have got | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
people who can fix it? Yes, that is my job, but there are very few. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Thank you very much. Good luck. Derek is over here and I tried to | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
get him to jump out of the cake but he is not playing ball. How is the | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
weather looking? This would take ages to eat it. Lots of icing sugar | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
on this cake. There is some ground There was some dramatic weather | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
earlier this week with flooding in Pembrokeshire. Today, a mixture of | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
sunshine and heavy showers across Wales but more trouble is brewing | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
down to the south. The satellite picture shows a mass of cloud over | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
the Bay of Biscay and some of that is heading our way. So, this | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
evening, showers will die down. Dry and clear for a time but rain will | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
spread across the country during the early hours. Not as cold as | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
last night. Lowest temperatures in Mid Wales around four or five | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
degrees Celsius. Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure over the Bay of | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
Biscay, pushing a warm front into Britain. So, tomorrow, cloudy with | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
outbreaks of rain. The rain heaviest in the south and east but | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
the risk of flooding is considered low. The rain lighter in the north | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
and west and here it should stay dry and brighten up a little during | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
the afternoon. Temperatures on the cool side - around 10 to 13 degrees | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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Celsius with mainly light winds. In Monmouthshire, cloudy and wet | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
tomorrow. Temperatures in Abergavenny rising to 11 degrees | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
Celsius with a light easterly breeze. Tomorrow evening, light | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
rain in the south and east will move away, leaving a dry night. A | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
few mist and fog patches forming with some ground frost inland. | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
Friday, a misty start in places with some fog. This will slowly | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
lift mid to late morning, leaving a dry and settled day. Some sunshine. | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
Temperatures after a cold start rising to around average with | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
mainly light winds. As for the weekend, much cloudier. A little | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
rain but some dry weather as well. A few bright or sunny intervals. | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
The breeze picking up and turning milder with no frost expected. By | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the way, there's a charity concert at All Saints Church, Porthcawl, on | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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Saturday evening. If you're going along, it should be dry. So some | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
rain on the way later tonight and tomorrow but the weather should put | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
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on a fine performance on Friday. It's coming up to seven o'clock. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
The headlines from the BBC: EU leaders have begun an emergency | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
summit in Brussels aimed at tackling the eurozone debt crisis. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Their aim is to protect the single currency against the risks posed by | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Greece and other countries, including Italy, which have | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
struggled to contain their deficits. An investigation is underway after | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
the death of a delivery man in Newport. It's thought the 42-year- | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
old from Merthyr Tydfil became trapped under a heavy metal gate in | :27:29. | :27:33. |