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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top story: | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Their classroom doubles up as their canteen - �1.4 billion for new | :00:06. | :00:14. | |
school buildings, but the improvements will take year. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Here in Carmarthenshire, they're pleased with the cash, but have | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
councils really got the money to make the sums add up? | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Our other headlines tonight: They were all failed by the system | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
- tonight, why merging vulnerable children's services with adults' is | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
facing a barrage of criticism. Also tonight: | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
A bridge too far - how come a bog standard build like this over-ran | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
its budget by �1 million? Good evening. In tonight's sport: | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Gareth Bale won last year. Who'll be crowned this year's BBC Wales | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
Sports Personality of the Year? Meet the five contenders. They need | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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Good evening. Almost �1.4 billion will be spent on new school | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
building projects in Wales by 2020, the Welsh Government has announced | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
tonight. Half of that money will be supplied by councils. The Welsh | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Government says its plans are ambitious and realistic. But | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
concerns have been expressed tonight about councils finding | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
their share of the cost and the length of time it'll take to | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
refurbish schools. Our education correspondent Ciaran Jenkins has | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
more. For these pupils, for Welsh | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
Government's biggest ever school building programme can't come soon | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
enough. At Carreg Hirfaen School in Carmarthenshire, space is so short, | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
this classroom doubles up as the canteen. My hope is that we get the | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
funding from the Welsh Assembly and Carmarthenshire can invest it in a | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
new building for us with a hall, playground facilities, classrooms | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
which our modern. But good news for the school and the other schools | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
considered to be in a critical condition by councils across the | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
country. Six months later than planned, the Welsh Government | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
finally announced funding to back its 21st century schools programmes. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
�1.4 billion will be spent in total. �700 million will come from | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
councils are. The other half from the government itself out. But the | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
timetable is longer and are later than planned. They will get under | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
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way sometime between 2014 and 2020. Not 2012-the 20 15th as intended. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
It was always going to be a challenge and we recognise that | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
these are difficult circumstances with the capital available to the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Welsh Government which has been reduced. The plan is to build many | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
more schools like Ysgol y Felin in Llanelli. The man who ran the 21st | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
century schools programme until last year said the funding is to be | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
welcomed if councils can really find the money they have promised. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
I don't think that councils have all the money that is needed to | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
carry out this programme and fortunately because the original | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
plan that we conceived was that the local authorities would have to | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
find about 30 % of the costs of the projects, leaving 70 % to be funded | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
by the Welsh Government. I do fear when it comes to the presentation | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
of their business cases, which is needed to draw down funding, that | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
some of them will not be able to find that much money. We are | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
talking about a lot of money for new schools and refurbishment of | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
schools. This is not just about building new schools. Some schools | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
will also be shut. In some areas, those plans have been highly | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
controversial. A new super school for three-18-year-old in this area | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
will now be pushed through by Ceredigion council. While | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
reorganisation plans in Flintshire have also drawn protests. It is a | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
worry as a parent of a child going to school in Wales. They have got | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
to be up to scratch. There is not enough space for them all. Is the | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
school does not look appealing, the parents are not going to send their | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
children there. Meanwhile there has been opposition to Neath Port | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
Talbot Council's plans to amalgamate Cwrt Sart School on a | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
new site with two other schools are. Why is it necessary to close an | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
excellent school. It is not a failing school, it is a first-class | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
goal giving first class education opportunities. Ysgol y Felin has | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
only been officially open a week. The peoples are still getting to | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
grips with the new state-of-the-art facilities. Pupils in Carreg | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Hirfaen School now know their new school will be built sometimes -- | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
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sometimes Scone. This school, Ysgol y Felin, is a | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
brilliant example of a 21st century school. I am standing in a brand | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
new infants block and look at the sort of computers they are going to | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
be able to learn on. Something many of us would appreciate in our homes. | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
I am going to be talking to the head teacher, Helen Wynne, and | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
Councillor Gwynne Wooldridge who is from Carmarthenshire. How are you a | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
little bit different here to what schools have had in the past? | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
project started two years ago culminating in this fabulous | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
building. We have got an individual learning centre which also opens | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
its doors to the community so we feel we are providing the community | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
with an establishment they can bring their children in and we can | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
break -- build a relationship from an early age with the parents. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
difference does it make to have these kind of facilities? I can sue | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
have got a projector. We are very fortunate that every classroom has | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
the benefit of having an interactive white board and we also | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
have an IT suite. Looking to the future, we are looking at | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
developing the Education and computers is part of that. We feel | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the pleasures and the experience they have from these machines will | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
benefit them in their education. Councillor Gwynne Wooldridge, you | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
have got the money you wanted, but you have still got to find almost | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
�44 million to push this through. Where are you going to find that | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
money? The important thing is a child's health, well-being and | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
education. We will find the money. It is good news today and I am | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
delighted the Welsh Government has given the money. Will you have to | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
borrow more? We will have to look at potential borrowing, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
efficiencies and maybe selling some of the assets we have. But we will | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
have the money because the future of our children is very important. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Selling assets, it to you mean closing the schools? | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
necessarily, because obviously we will be looking over the next eight | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
years at building new schools but also bringing schools to get up. We | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
have got to look at the conditions of the schools. Half -- we will do | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
everything in the interests of the children and their parents. This | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
new funding takes us up to 2020 and all the councils across Wales have | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
got the money they wanted. But it will mean that they have got to | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
find that extra money and some schools will have to wait even | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
longer, perhaps until 2020, to get any funding they need. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
The Children's Commissioner and Older People's Commissioner have | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
criticised Welsh Government plans to combine the protection of | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
vulnerable children and adults. Local authorities say they are | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
unconvinced by the proposals to have six new boards ensuring the | :08:28. | :08:38. | |
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right care. Here's our political reporter Aled ap Dafydd. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Aaron Gilbert died of brain damage when he was 13 months old. He had | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
been beaten so badly he had 50 separate injuries to his head and | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
body. This 16-year-old girl had been exposed to drugs throughout | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
her short life. Her mother and half sister were jailed for manslaughter | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
in 2008 because they allowed her to die. Brian Dodd was 72 when he was | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
stabbed to death by a schizophrenic patient. All three cases have one | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
thing in common. The victim or the perpetrator was a vulnerable child | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
or adult. The last government and castles are at loggerheads over how | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
to safeguard vulnerable children and adults. The government | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
announced in October it was scrapping the current 22 local | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
safeguarding children boards. Now they will be merged into six and, | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
for the first time, they will have responsibility to protect the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
vulnerable adults as well. The First Minister and the Children's | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Commissioner were standing side by side today but not seeing eye to | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
eye. We have made lots of progress on child protection over the last | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
few years and I did raise an issue at the Forum at a time when we were | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
looking at this and I raised some doubts about whether you could have | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
a child and adult board combined. In terms of safeguarding children | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and the rapport adults, they are very different world indeed. Very | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
different processes. Whoever sits on that Newport, if they do have | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
responsibility for children and vulnerable adults, they have to | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
recognise there are two distinct systems in place. What I would not | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
want to see is the progress we have made with children and in people | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
being jeopardised by focus on vulnerable adults. His views are | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
shared by the older people's Commissioner who says protecting | :10:25. | :10:35. | |
adults is different to protecting children. What is important is that | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
both are afforded the level of support and the opportunity to | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
ensure that those protection mechanisms work. Welsh local | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
government representatives met the deputy minister for children and | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
social services this afternoon to voice concerns. They also want | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
separate provision for children and adults and eight or nine boards | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
rather than the six being proposed. Any change will need legislation. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
The Deputy Minister had to have it in place by 2013. In a statement, | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
she said only when there is sufficient evidence to support | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
their integration will steps be taken for the children and adult's | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
boards to merge. 75 jobs are going at an engineering | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
firm in Blackwood because of a downturn in sales. Hawker Siddley | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Switchgear manufactures circuit breaker technology for factories, | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
wind farms and rail companies like London Underground. 35 staff will | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
be made redundant and around 40 temporary workers will go before | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Christmas. Cardiff Airport will be laying on | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
direct flights to Orlando from next summer with tour operator Cosmos. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
The airport has had a mixed year after budget airline Vueling | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
announced it would introduce flights to Barcelona, but BMI Baby | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
pulled out of Cardiff. The airport has also faced criticism for its | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
fall in passenger numbers over the last four years. | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
A woman who claimed she could barely walk but was filmed speeding | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
down a water slide has been jailed for benefit fraud. Tina Attanasio, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
from Cardiff, was caught on holiday on family video walking normally | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
while claiming the highest rate of disability benefit. She was jailed | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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for ten weeks. I think this was a case where she odyssey wasn't as | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
disabled as she told us on her application form up. She was | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
claiming benefits for the more severely disabled people and I | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
think it does show how wrong this is today. These benefits should be | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
reserved for people who really deserve them. | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
A multi-million pound expansion to a hi-tech medical research centre | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
at Swansea University has been opened by the First Minister. The | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Institute of Life Science investigates a range of conditions | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
- cancer, obesity and diabetes. Today, Prime Minister David Cameron | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
said Britain could become a world leader in medical research. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
The new �28 million building today got the seal of approval. And even | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
a signature on the wall from First The Welsh Government has invested | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
�10 million along with cash from the European Union. We are standing | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
in a scanning room. There is also an MRI scanner and these will be | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
used for medical research. Looking into things like cancer trials | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
where the state of the art scanner here can look at the very finest | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
detail of tumours and so forth which will be very important in | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
monitoring the effects of a new cancer drugs. The new building will | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
also house a Centre for Nanohealth, where size is everything. Basically, | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the aim is to make technical equipment as small as possible and, | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
because it's more sensitive, it's better at picking up the early | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
signs of disease. This is an example of a hand-held prototype | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
device that can be used to measure prostate cancer for an individual. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
What somebody would do is, they would place a you are in sample on | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
this tiny chip here and then this read-out would tell them whether | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
the markets associated with prostate cancer in their body and | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
what concentration. Would this meet again in a hospital? No, this is | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
the benefit of this kind of technology. You can do this at home | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
or in a doctor's surgery. The patient can take control of their | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
healthcare. This is the second phase of The Institute of Life | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Science. The first opened four years ago with laboratories and a | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
supercomputer centre dedicated to medical research. This building | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
will not only be used for medical research, it will also offer space | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
for businesses within the health sector and the aim is to have the | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
university, the NHS and the business sector all working under | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
one roof and through that it is hoped it will create more than 650 | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
jobs within the next few years. That's all that's left is for the | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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final touches to be made before it Much more to come before 7 o'clock. | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
Swansea City came a cropper at Blackburn. We look back at the | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
weekend's football and we have a full weather forecast coming up. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
A new bridge in Llandudno has cost almost �1 million more than | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
intended. Maesdu Bridge provides one of the main routes into the | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
town. The old bridge needed replacing. A new one should have | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
cost just under �3 million. But the bill kept going up. | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
There's nothing particularly special about Maesdu Bridge. It | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
won't be winning any architectural or design awards. It's just a road | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
bridge over a railway line. But it does seem to have brought Conwy | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Council nothing but bother. There were problems with this bridge from | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
start to finish. The initial consultant's report wildly | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
underestimated the cost. The bridge deck had to be redesigned, the | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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foundations made stronger. It even opened late. It is a steel deck on | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
reinforced concrete. They obviously had problems with the foundations | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
with it being close to the sea so they had to redesign the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
foundations. As a construction consultant Gary Willetts soon | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
cottoned on that the project wasn't going according to plan. As a Conwy | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
council-tax payer, he was also concerned about how his money was | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
being spent. He asked the council for a breakdown of the bridge's | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
costs. The council only supplied them after the Information | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Commissioner intervened. Gary Willetts was horrified by what he | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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found. An overspend of �900,000. The one word you could use is a | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
shambles. The council tax payer has lost a lot of street lighting | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
improvements, road maintenance, and other work, to cover the cost of | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
this bridge. That the bridge cost more than it should have comes as | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
no surprise to local people. They've lived with the saga all | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
along. The size of the overspend does raise some eyebrows. Alison | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Kelly says the bridge is a major topic of conversation among her | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
customers. A lot of people come men and they are shocked by the vast | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
amount of money spent. It has changed several times. Everybody is | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
talking about it. When I first moved here, it was definitely the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
cost and how long it had been going on for. Conwy council says it can't | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
comment at the moment because the affair is in the hands of its | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
lawyers. The authority has already asked the design consultants to | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
repay some of their fees. It's also carried out an internal | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
investigation into what went wrong with Maesdu Bridge. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Swansea City captain Garry Monk says his side dominated the game, | :17:59. | :18:07. | |
at the Premier League strugglers Blackburn Rovers despite losing 4-2. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
They are still looking for their first away win. Meanwhile, Cardiff | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
City beat Birmingham to close the gap on the Championship top two. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Swansea City are still waiting for their first win away. They conceded | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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four goals against Blackburn. There was an equaliser from Swansea. Any | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
hope evaporated after the sending- off. Then there's tackle in the box | :18:40. | :18:49. | |
saw the referee pointing to the spot. Our disappointment was we | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
felt we let them off the hook. We were so good at times. We had | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
possession and we have the creativity so to concede those | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
goals was frustrating. With the top two sides both losing | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
in the championship, Cardiff City closed the gap on the promotion | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
places with a 1-0 win against Birmingham. The job was made easier | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
after Kenny Miller was brought down outside the box. Cardiff City are | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
unbeaten in ten games. We have had a lot of games recently | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
but we are still up there. It is very well done by the boys. We have | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
a bit of time off. So we can focus on Saturday. Wrexham produced an | :19:43. | :19:51. | |
upset in the FA Cup beating a side two weeks above them. A tougher | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
trip a weight in the third round when they play Brighton. Swansea | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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will pay Barnsley. Newport County leapfrogs Lincoln City in the Blue | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
Square Premier League after winning 1-0. | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
And one week after Gary Speed's death, his father joined several | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
team mates at Goodison Park for a minute uproars to remember his son. | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
At Elland Road, where he won the title in 1982, Gary Speed's widow | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
and her two sons joined thousands of Leeds players to celebrate a | :20:37. | :20:47. | |
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life cut short. There could be a new member of | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
Wales squad to land a French deal. Of the Dragons say that | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
negotiations are ongoing. Shane Williams says he's been offered a | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
one-year extension to his current contract at the Ospreys. The winger, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
who played his final international game for Wales at the weekend, has | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
18 months left at the Region. A week today, this year's BBC Cymru | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Wales Sports Personality of the year will be announced. Today, the | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
five contenders in the running have been unveiled. They're all World | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Champions in their sport. Boxer Nathan Cleverly, motorcyclist Chaz | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
Davies, 400-metre hurdler Dai Greene, triathlete Helen Jenkins, | :21:26. | :21:35. | |
and Paralympic athlete Nathan Details on how to vote coming up. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
All this week on Wales Today, we'll be taking a closer look at the five | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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Adding it all up, 2011 has been a landmark year for Nathan Cleverly. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
The new world light heavyweight boxing champion. He made two | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
successful defences during the year. First in May, in London, and then | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
beating this man in Liverpool on his home turf. Next year, a talent | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
is a weight. Nathan will have his eyes on top defences of his title | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
on both sides of the Atlantic. 2012 could be just as successful. | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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To vote for your favourite sports Calls cost 15p from a BT landline. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Other networks may baby and calls from mobiles will cost considerably | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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more. You can text the surname of We have had the first sprinkling of | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
toast -- of snow. This was Snowdonia this morning after a | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
light dusting of the white stuff overnight. But can we expect more | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
snow this month? There's no sign of any heavy snow | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
like we had in December last year or another big freeze. Mind you, | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
there is more chilly weather to come. Temperatures today reached 8 | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Celsius in Milford Haven. Colder on high ground with a significant | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
wind-chill. Tonight some dry, clear weather but showers as well. The | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
showers falling as rain, hail, sleet and snow. The snow on high | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
ground above 500 metres or 1600 feet. Lowest temperatures inland, | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
close to freezing with a frost in places sheltered from the wind. The | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
odd icy patch likely as well. So tomorrow morning, a cold start. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
Some places dry, but not everywhere. There will be a few showers around. | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
Wintry on high ground but mainly of rain or hail. Windy on the coast | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
with a temperature of 7 Celsius in Cardigan. During the day, more | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
showers coming along. Heavy and prolonged in in places. Snow | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
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confined to the Snowdonia mountains. Temperatures 68 Celcius with the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
westerly wind easing during the afternoon. More sunshine and fewer | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
showers on Wednesday. Those showers in the North will fall as snow on | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the mountain tops. A big change for Thursday with some heavy rain and | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
gale-force winds. Back to square one on Friday and Saturday where it | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
is cold and again but brighter with some sunshine, frost and wintry | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
showers. St Patrick's Church in Pembroke Dock are holding a | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
festival this week. If he were going on, you will need that jumper. | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
A dusting of snow in this picture. Thank you. Winter has arrived. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
There is more snow in Scotland at the moment ban on the Alps. Now it | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
is time for the first of the children's pictures starting with a | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
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Thank you for your pictures. The headlines again, almost �1.4 | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
billion will be spent on new school building projects in Wales by 2020. | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
Half of that money will be supplied by councils. The Welsh government | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
says its plans are ambitious and realistic. We will get a final word | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
with our education correspondent. For those children being taught in | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
leaky classrooms, will today's announcement transform our school | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
buildings. Perhaps. By 2020. This was the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Welsh government's biggest ever school building programme and it is | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
no exaggeration to say it is not going to plan. Nothing involving | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
vast sums of money is not going to plan, public-sector pensions, and | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Greece are examples. The Greek other -- the Welsh government feels | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
it has done his best today though. Our concern is that it is too | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
little, over too long a period. School pupils today will miss out | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
on the refurbishment of schools that is so badly needed. Teachers | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
will still be expected to work in the poorest of environments, and | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
whole communities will be affected by this. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
A I think realistically we can see that the Welsh government, if it | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
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gets these schools built by 2020, Tonight, dozens of complaints about | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
tickets effort -- issued by a new company running a car park in a | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
town centre. And Christmas shopping offers. Do | :27:45. | :27:50. |