:00:03. > :00:06.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top story:
:00:06. > :00:13.The worst storm of winter wreaks widespread disruption. Roads closed
:00:13. > :00:18.and damaged power cables send people fleeing their homes.
:00:18. > :00:23.Somebody not on the door and said we had better get out because next
:00:23. > :00:27.door looks like it is on fire. Tonight, 10 flood alerts are in
:00:27. > :00:37.force. Bond with more rain on the way, the Environment Agency is
:00:37. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:47.Our other headlines tonight: Who wants to lead Plaid Cymru? The
:00:47. > :00:51.four candidates stake their claim as nominations open.
:00:51. > :00:55.Karen Arthur is one of the patients with faulty breast implants. The
:00:55. > :00:58.clinic tell her she'll have to pay to have them removed.
:00:58. > :01:08.And after this first away victory in the Premier League, Swansea
:01:08. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.start the new year on the right Good evening.
:01:12. > :01:15.Winds of almost 100mph and heavy rain have caused disruption across
:01:15. > :01:21.the country as people headed back to work after the Christmas
:01:21. > :01:24.holidays. Fallen trees led to road closures up and down Wales, while
:01:24. > :01:26.some train services were severely disrupted. There's a warning that
:01:26. > :01:31.heavy rainfall forecast for tomorrow might could lead to
:01:31. > :01:41.further flooding. Let's join our correspondent Colette Hume in the
:01:41. > :01:44.
:01:44. > :01:49.Neath Valley tonight. Behind me is the meeting point of the two rivers.
:01:50. > :01:56.Bill Elliott today, the water and they went across the aqueduct at
:01:56. > :01:59.around four ft higher than usually. Fortunately, it did not break. The
:01:59. > :02:05.Environment Agency is warning that with heavy rain tomorrow, they
:02:05. > :02:09.could be a risk of flooding. The weather today has brought parts of
:02:09. > :02:12.wares on was to a standstill. Rivers nearly overflowing after the
:02:12. > :02:16.worst storm of the winter so far hit the country. Torrential
:02:16. > :02:20.downpours have left the ground saturated and water levels rising.
:02:20. > :02:28.The River Conwy's spilling onto the road. One flood warning is still in
:02:28. > :02:34.place for the Lower Dee Valley, along with numerous flood alerts.
:02:34. > :02:39.There is no clear break in the weather. But the next few days, we
:02:39. > :02:42.are not going to get fairly frosty evenings. We will have a lot more
:02:42. > :02:45.wet weather. As people returned to work after
:02:45. > :02:47.the holidays, there was disruption on the roads and rails. This
:02:47. > :02:53.waterfall near Rhondda gushing its excess water right onto the nearby
:02:53. > :02:56.railway line. Services had to be halted for hours.
:02:56. > :03:00.But it wasn't just the rain. Stormforce winds have swept the
:03:00. > :03:03.country. No walkers were braving the gales on this Carmarthenshire
:03:03. > :03:08.beach. And in Bala, the winds were strong
:03:08. > :03:12.enough to lift this trampoline onto a car. At their worst, they reached
:03:12. > :03:17.93mph in Gwynedd overnight. Gusts that were simply too strong
:03:17. > :03:27.for the power cables on this street in Dolgellau. 12 people had to be
:03:27. > :03:28.
:03:28. > :03:34.evacuated from their homes after an electric box short-circuited.
:03:34. > :03:38.5:30am, there was a bigger bang. Then there was smoke and sparks.
:03:38. > :03:42.The street was alight. Somebody knocked on the door and told us to
:03:42. > :03:46.get out because next door and looked like it was on fire. When we
:03:46. > :03:49.got out, we saw that the electrical was sparking.
:03:49. > :03:52.Tonight, the Environment Agency is warning more heavy rain and strong
:03:52. > :04:01.winds are forecast for tomorrow, which could lead to further
:04:01. > :04:09.flooding. Phil Pickersgill is from
:04:09. > :04:13.Environment Agency Wales. Good evening. But let's just talk
:04:13. > :04:18.through the flood alerts. How many of enforced tonight? At the moment,
:04:18. > :04:24.we have got 10 flood alerts in place and one flood warning. This
:04:24. > :04:30.has come down from 29 flood alerts in total that we had earlier today.
:04:30. > :04:34.The -- the river has peaked at around 11am. We have been
:04:34. > :04:38.monitoring the situation ever since. Some good news that we have gone
:04:38. > :04:41.down to 10, but the Environment Agency is warning that there is
:04:41. > :04:45.more rain on the way tomorrow. Where are you most concerned about?
:04:46. > :04:49.Tomorrow, we have got a frontal system coming in tomorrow afternoon
:04:49. > :04:55.which will extend through till Thursday morning. We have been
:04:55. > :05:01.advised that the main areas will be made and the North Wales. People in
:05:01. > :05:05.those areas, be vigilant tomorrow. What should people do if we go from
:05:05. > :05:09.a flood alert to a flood warning and a live near an area at risk?
:05:09. > :05:13.The Environment Agency issued warnings. One of those is a flood
:05:13. > :05:17.warning. On the issue a flood warning, it means that somebody
:05:18. > :05:21.will be flooded. If you are on our flood warning service and you get
:05:21. > :05:28.that warning, please be prepared. Make sure your Obama bulls are
:05:28. > :05:36.upstairs, your pressures of possessions are put away with you.
:05:37. > :05:41.-- valuables. Keep an ear out for the year local radio for the latest
:05:41. > :05:46.news. But take those things that mean a lot, if you get a flood
:05:46. > :05:52.warning, just take those things to higher ground. Absolutely. The
:05:52. > :05:59.anything I would say is that you can ring hour direct line and you
:05:59. > :06:04.will get the latest information. have more rain coming tomorrow.
:06:04. > :06:09.People are being told that if they get a flood warning, to take it
:06:09. > :06:14.very seriously. If you live in a flood risk area, look after your
:06:14. > :06:17.possessions. You do not want to be mopping up those things so precious
:06:17. > :06:20.to you. Nominations have opened to become
:06:20. > :06:23.the new leader of Plaid Cymru to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones. So far,
:06:23. > :06:26.four Assembly Members have declared their intention to stand. The
:06:26. > :06:29.winner will be announced in March, a week before the party's spring
:06:29. > :06:33.conference. Whoever wins faces an uphill struggle, following
:06:33. > :06:36.disappointing results at last year's Assembly election. Here's
:06:36. > :06:39.our political reporter Aled ap Dafydd.
:06:39. > :06:44.Plaid Cymru kick off the new political year with a fixture they
:06:44. > :06:47.don't play very often. It's the game of picking a new leader. Ieuan
:06:47. > :06:49.Wyn Jones has held that position for over a decade, but after a
:06:49. > :06:55.disappointing showing at May's Assembly election, he's about to
:06:55. > :06:58.stand down. There are four Assembly Members
:06:58. > :07:00.currently in the race to succeed him. Elin Jones is the member for
:07:00. > :07:10.Ceredigion and former Agriculture Minister. She's the bookies'
:07:10. > :07:15.favourite to win. I want us to focus on the future and to ensure
:07:15. > :07:20.that as a party, that we are opening up our doors for every
:07:20. > :07:26.person to feel that if they are ambitious, then they cannot share
:07:26. > :07:29.that ambition with Plaid Cymru. If they have never voted Plaid Cymru
:07:29. > :07:31.in the past, they can vote in the future.
:07:31. > :07:34.Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas represents Dwyfor Meirionydd and has vast
:07:34. > :07:37.political experience as a Member of Parliament, House of Lords and as
:07:37. > :07:41.the Assembly's Presiding Officer until May of last year. He's
:07:41. > :07:44.waiting to be nominated formally by his local branch before commenting.
:07:44. > :07:52.Simon Thomas is also a former MP and was a Welsh Government advisor
:07:52. > :07:57.prior to winning a seat representing Mid and West Wales.
:07:57. > :08:02.think we need to ensure that the next leader is somebody who can
:08:02. > :08:07.work with a wide range of opinions and bring people together. There
:08:07. > :08:11.are different signs of leadership. You can read from the front or you
:08:11. > :08:15.can Leeds in a different way. That is the style of leadership I am
:08:15. > :08:18.putting forward. South Wales Central AM Leanne Wood
:08:18. > :08:27.is the latest to join the contest. She's a staunch republican from the
:08:27. > :08:32.left wing of the party. We need to turn around the Welsh economy and
:08:32. > :08:37.put the economy at the forefront of our political agenda. I think that
:08:37. > :08:41.we have been less than clear as a party as to what we mean by
:08:41. > :08:44.independents, what we wanted for and how we would get there. I think
:08:44. > :08:47.now is Ieuan Wyn Jones' successor will
:08:47. > :08:50.begin a period of renewal for the party, armed with the findings of
:08:50. > :08:57.an internal review after falling to third place in the Assembly
:08:57. > :09:01.election. What I am seeing is a party and a membership quite
:09:01. > :09:06.excited about the future, seeing an opportunity to set the direction
:09:06. > :09:10.for the years ahead and provide that leadership. I think this is a
:09:10. > :09:13.really exciting time. The phones at Plaid HQ have been
:09:13. > :09:16.hot over the Christmas period. A membership drive has seen an
:09:16. > :09:26.increase of 10% and every new member has a vote in the upcoming
:09:26. > :09:31.election. Leadership contest have many of the elements you often see
:09:31. > :09:38.in a football match. Often a few own goals along the way. We will
:09:39. > :09:45.find out what will become the new leader on March 15th.
:09:45. > :09:52.Our political editor Betsan Powys joins us from the Senedd. Paul is
:09:52. > :09:57.the front-runner? There is a favourite, an early favourite, that
:09:57. > :10:02.is Elin Jones. The hot favourite it would be Leanne Wood, the favourite
:10:02. > :10:08.amongst those who want to see an experienced pair of hands at the
:10:08. > :10:12.helm would be Lord Dafydd Elis- Thomas. But it is not just about
:10:12. > :10:18.deciding on your favourite, you have to have a first and second
:10:18. > :10:22.preference. That sort of process and it is a difficult game to
:10:22. > :10:26.predict who will win. Is a change of personality really going to
:10:26. > :10:31.change the party's fortune at the polls? I think what you saw this
:10:31. > :10:34.morning was Plaid Cymru trying to tell you that alone, no, they are
:10:34. > :10:38.aware that by involving a team of party workers and supporters to
:10:38. > :10:44.decide on tactics that it is much more fundamental than that. They
:10:44. > :10:48.have some big decisions to make about party policy and the economy.
:10:48. > :10:53.What could Plaid Cymru do? And on independence, a key battleground,
:10:53. > :10:57.no doubt is they take on independence. Does the party
:10:57. > :11:00.supported? What we did look like? What we did cause to happen? Those
:11:00. > :11:04.are the sort of debate he would year of the coming weeks.
:11:04. > :11:10.Incidentally, that is not just Plaid Cymru who have had a busy
:11:10. > :11:14.start to the year. The Welsh Liberal Democrats have appointed a
:11:14. > :11:18.new chief executive. Their former chief executive has gone off to
:11:18. > :11:22.work in Downing Street. Their new chief executive is the former head
:11:22. > :11:26.of communications. No doubt, the other parties are already promising
:11:26. > :11:30.that they have a busy few weeks and next week, they will be kicking off
:11:30. > :11:34.with some ideas. The families of two women killed in
:11:34. > :11:36.a car crash on New Year's Day have paid tribute to them. Sasha Jarvis,
:11:36. > :11:40.who was 19 and from Llanberis, and 21-year-old Sian Gwenllian Lloyd
:11:40. > :11:44.Davies who lived near Bangor, were killed when their car hit a wall in
:11:44. > :11:46.Llanrug. Their families said Sasha was, funloving and warm, and Sian
:11:46. > :11:52.was delighted by her sister's engagement announcement only the
:11:52. > :11:56.day before. Two wards at Wrexham Maelor
:11:56. > :11:58.Hospital are still closed after an outbreak of Norovirus at Christmas.
:11:58. > :12:02.Seven patients are thought to currently have the winter vomiting
:12:02. > :12:08.bug. A ward at Mold Community Hospital in Flintshire has also
:12:09. > :12:11.been shut after patients showed symptoms of Norovirus.
:12:11. > :12:13.A mother from Pontypridd, one of thousands of women fitted with
:12:13. > :12:18.breast implants that used unauthorised silicone, has been
:12:18. > :12:21.speaking of her desperation to get them removed. Karen Arthur says
:12:21. > :12:26.she's had medical advice to get the implants, which have now ruptured,
:12:26. > :12:30.taken out. But the private clinic where she had the original surgery
:12:30. > :12:40.want to charge for the operation, which she says she can't afford.
:12:40. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:47.Karen Arthur and her son enjoy the last days of the school holiday,
:12:48. > :12:52.but she is in considerable pain. Over the past year she has
:12:53. > :12:56.developed lumps under her arms, an ultrasound showing her implants had
:12:56. > :13:02.ruptured. My surgeon said they should come out and be replaced. I
:13:02. > :13:07.spoke to the clinic manager who said, not into the pay �2,600, so
:13:07. > :13:10.we are back where we started. No one is prepared to take the fault.
:13:10. > :13:14.The breast implants in question were made by French company PIP,
:13:14. > :13:17.which has since gone into administration. The French
:13:17. > :13:21.government has recommended they be removed as a preventative measure,
:13:21. > :13:26.at the state will foot the bill, but today, the BBC has learned that
:13:26. > :13:30.the UK government is not preparing to change its advice to women. It
:13:30. > :13:34.has found no evidence to routinely remove the implants. I am prepared
:13:34. > :13:39.to take this all the way. I will not sit back and wait for someone
:13:39. > :13:43.to say it is the NHS's fault. In my eyes, I paid them the money and
:13:43. > :13:47.they should replace it so where am taking legal action. Her solicitor
:13:47. > :13:51.represents a hundreds of women across the UK suing over the
:13:52. > :13:55.implants. It has been a real roller-coaster ride for our clients.
:13:55. > :13:59.It began just before Christmas with cancer alerts and we have been
:13:59. > :14:02.clear there is no cancer riskier. We have always said the problem is
:14:02. > :14:09.the industrial grade so good -- silicone which is itself an
:14:09. > :14:12.irritant. The PIP insurers wont indemnify them. The clinics gave
:14:12. > :14:16.clear guarantees or induced the clients to purchase the implants,
:14:16. > :14:19.and now they have gone wrong, we said that pulls under the contract
:14:19. > :14:24.they have to honour. But taking cases through the courts will take
:14:24. > :14:28.time. For Karen Arthur, any delay only adds to the uncertainty and
:14:28. > :14:31.confusion she feels. You are watching Wales Today from
:14:31. > :14:35.the BBC. Much more to come before 7pm including giving hope to
:14:35. > :14:38.couples wanting a baby, the welsh scientists at the cutting edge of
:14:38. > :14:47.IVF. And after putting 3 past Reading,
:14:47. > :14:50.Cardiff City step up their promotion chase in the Championship.
:14:51. > :14:54.First, stop pouring Welsh Government money into Cardiff and
:14:54. > :14:58.spend it instead in the South Wales valleys, that is the call tonight
:14:58. > :15:02.from a leading charity. The Bevan Foundation says thanks to
:15:02. > :15:06.investment, Merthyr Tydfil has achieved an economic miracle in the
:15:06. > :15:09.last 10 years, with unemployment now at a level similar to Cardiff.
:15:09. > :15:13.The charity says it's a model for what could be achieved across the
:15:13. > :15:21.valleys. Caroline Evans reports on how the town is faring in the
:15:21. > :15:25.downturn. Have you got any fans? Feathered
:15:25. > :15:29.once? Times may be hard but here in the centre of Merthyr, this fancy
:15:29. > :15:33.dress and cosmetics company is doing very well. Capitalising on
:15:33. > :15:39.what they will tell you here is the town's new-found confidence, they
:15:39. > :15:44.have gone from market stall to shop. We started the business of with �80,
:15:44. > :15:51.that was nearly 80 -- nearly eight years ago. Just one member of staff
:15:51. > :15:56.at the time and now eight years on we are turning over half-a-million
:15:56. > :16:01.Pounds this year, and we employ it 14 people now., and in the shopping
:16:01. > :16:05.centre, there is not a single shop vacant. The manager says there are
:16:05. > :16:08.more -- more than �60 million is currently being invested in the
:16:08. > :16:15.town, and that, in turn, is attracting interest from private
:16:15. > :16:17.investors. There is an air of optimism about the future.
:16:17. > :16:21.Currently we are going through difficult times just like everybody
:16:21. > :16:25.else, but definitely, a man's businesses there is a hope for the
:16:25. > :16:29.future and plans to regenerate the town. There are discussions about
:16:29. > :16:32.improving the facilities and the range of shops in the town, and the
:16:32. > :16:35.hope is that Merthyr Tydfil will become the regional capital and the
:16:36. > :16:39.heads of the valleys in future. Investments have bought a leisure
:16:39. > :16:42.park, cinema and restaurants are springing up, and the Bevan
:16:42. > :16:46.Foundation says this is evidence of how investing in the valleys is the
:16:46. > :16:50.best way forward. If you look around Cardiff you can see lots of
:16:50. > :16:55.examples of fairly large amounts of public money going into
:16:55. > :16:58.developments such as Cardiff Bay, many facilities, the development of
:16:58. > :17:02.the town centre and so on and so forth, and although there has been
:17:02. > :17:06.some money going into the heads of the Valley's area, there has been
:17:06. > :17:11.nothing like the same amount or the same intensity of effort gone in.
:17:11. > :17:14.We think it is time now to switch the focus a little bit. And the
:17:14. > :17:20.figures do look promising. The latest show unemployment in the
:17:20. > :17:24.town is up 18 per cent. The unemployment rate has fallen, and
:17:24. > :17:29.at 12.32 -- 12.3 per cent, is hovering at the same levels as
:17:29. > :17:33.Cardiff, where it is 9.8 per cent. Huw Lewis is the minister
:17:33. > :17:37.responsible for regeneration. He told me he agrees that investment
:17:37. > :17:41.like the �3 million which has gone into this chapel conversion in
:17:41. > :17:47.Bargoed is great value for money. But he says it is a mistake to
:17:47. > :17:51.think about choosing between Cardiff and the valleys. I don't
:17:51. > :17:57.think we should get into this argument about valleys this has
:17:57. > :18:00.Cardiff, and so on. I think we have to get to a point where we realise
:18:00. > :18:06.and accept that the valleys and Cardiff are joined together. Their
:18:06. > :18:14.futures are linked, and we have to think about that region has been a
:18:14. > :18:19.whole if we are to get a good outcome tomorrow investment in the
:18:19. > :18:22.communities. There was government has committed �114 million over 15
:18:22. > :18:26.years to regeneration and the heads of the valleys -- the Welsh
:18:26. > :18:30.Government. If the strategy pays up -- pays off, by 2020 that money
:18:30. > :18:34.should have attracted a further �360 million from the private
:18:34. > :18:39.sector, and ministers hope that the valleys will no longer be a poor
:18:39. > :18:42.relation but a thriving regional centre once again. Back in Merthyr,
:18:42. > :18:46.they are confident that they are already on the road to greater
:18:46. > :18:51.prosperity. They are just beginning what they say here is a watershed
:18:51. > :18:58.moment in the town's regeneration, restoring the historic town hall.
:18:58. > :19:03.The court, Council, nightclub and finely derelict, it reflects the
:19:03. > :19:06.fortunes of the town itself. After a �6 million facelift it will
:19:06. > :19:09.become a centre for cultural and creative industries.
:19:09. > :19:14.Fertility scientists at Cardiff University say they may have found
:19:14. > :19:18.a way of selecting the embryos most likely to result in pregnancy. The
:19:18. > :19:28.technique developed in mice looks at tiny movements inside the cells.
:19:28. > :19:30.They hope patients from Wales could be part of clinical trials.
:19:30. > :19:33.Fertility science as a fast- changing and highly competitive
:19:33. > :19:37.field. Teams around the world are all trying to improve the success
:19:37. > :19:41.rate of treatments like IVF, and the team here in Cardiff think they
:19:41. > :19:47.have found a way of selecting the best entry of three years. I am
:19:47. > :19:51.pleased to say I am joined by a professor from the University. What
:19:51. > :19:56.we are looking for in mouse embryos? We are looking at the
:19:56. > :20:00.early events of fertilisation, when the sperm fertilises the egg. With
:20:00. > :20:04.the team from Oxford and Cambridge we have found pulses in the
:20:04. > :20:08.cytoplasm when the sperm fertilises the egg. So we are looking at a
:20:08. > :20:13.mouse embryo on the screen, but you can see similar movements in human
:20:13. > :20:17.ones as well. Yes, we have detected these movements in the human egg
:20:17. > :20:21.when it is fertilised or artificially stimulated, so we can
:20:21. > :20:25.see this movement pattern in mice also occurs in human. In mice, this
:20:25. > :20:29.correlates with which is the best embryo, so we think we can use this
:20:29. > :20:37.technique to predict the best embryo in human IVF. The next step
:20:37. > :20:42.will be to try it with humans. What are your thoughts on how this could
:20:42. > :20:46.help patients who you see? This is a major discovery in that it will
:20:46. > :20:50.enable us to choose the best embryo and implanted back into the woman
:20:50. > :20:58.and maximise the chances of getting pregnant, and that would enable us
:20:58. > :21:03.to avoid multiple pregnancy. has avoiding twins and triplets
:21:03. > :21:07.important? Multiple pregnancy is problematic in that pre-term
:21:07. > :21:12.deliveries are danger, and therefore babies are born at 30, 28
:21:12. > :21:18.weeks, and may be admitted to intensive care units and Arabic
:21:18. > :21:21.train on NHS resources, so the sooner we can get more information
:21:21. > :21:26.through collaboration with the IBS unit that -- unit at the University
:21:26. > :21:30.of Wales, the better -- IVF unit. That means that was patients could
:21:30. > :21:33.be part of a clinical trial. If they get funding the team hope they
:21:33. > :21:37.can move to that stage within 18 months-two years.
:21:37. > :21:41.In football, our top 3 clubs have made the perfect start to the new
:21:41. > :21:44.year. Cardiff and Wrexham were in free-scoring form as they stepped
:21:44. > :21:48.up their chase for promotion while Swansea collected their first away
:21:48. > :21:50.win in the Premier League at Aston Villa, as Ashleigh Crowter now
:21:51. > :21:54.reports. They arrived at Villa Park with the
:21:55. > :21:58.worst away record in the top four divisions, still looking for the
:21:58. > :22:02.first win on the road in the Premier League. But with the new
:22:02. > :22:06.year came the result, and Swansea grabbed the first game of 2012 by
:22:06. > :22:10.the scruff of the neck, Nathan Dyer capitalising early on a defensive
:22:10. > :22:14.mistake. And the result was put beyond doubt just after half-time,
:22:14. > :22:21.Wayne Routledge providing the inspiration, and eventually the
:22:21. > :22:25.finish, to wrap up a 2-0 wins. was just the experience, we have
:22:25. > :22:30.had some difficult games away from home, I feel, against all the big
:22:31. > :22:35.clubs, and we have gone to other grounds and been in front and
:22:35. > :22:41.thrown away the lead, so today was always going to be, we were 2-0 up
:22:41. > :22:45.again, and we can learn from the lessons. They are very honest group
:22:45. > :22:49.of players, this group. Swansea are now 11th and the Premier League,
:22:49. > :22:53.having just passed the halfway mark of the campaign. The gap between
:22:53. > :22:56.them and the bottom three is now eight points. Elsewhere, Cardiff
:22:56. > :23:00.City are right on the tails of the Championship leaders after a
:23:00. > :23:04.comprehensive 3-1 victory over Reading. The Bluebirds it will
:23:04. > :23:08.damage in the first half, scoring three times before the break, and
:23:08. > :23:14.are now third, just two points of the top. It has been a tough
:23:14. > :23:17.weekend, we have had duffed -- two tough games, and to come as a bit
:23:17. > :23:23.with six points is very pleasing. Today was always going to be tough
:23:23. > :23:28.and we have a team in form on fire who have won five of the last six.
:23:28. > :23:33.So we knew it would be a tough one if we didn't start well, but we did
:23:33. > :23:35.start well and they thought they were fantastic. Wrexham's red-hot
:23:36. > :23:39.form continues. The leaders consolidated their position with a
:23:39. > :23:43.win over Telford, and tonight, Newport County who are hovering
:23:43. > :23:46.above the relegation zone, face Bath City.
:23:46. > :23:49.Boxing, and Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBO world light-
:23:49. > :23:55.heavyweight title against the American Tommy Karpency in Cardiff
:23:55. > :23:59.next month. Cleverly's promoter Frank Warren says he made offers to
:23:59. > :24:03.WBC Champion Bernard Hopkins and also to be be a champion burbot
:24:03. > :24:06.shaman off. If he wins, Cleverly is looking for a fight against one or
:24:06. > :24:13.the other title holders. The weather is our top story
:24:13. > :24:17.tonight, let's see if the worst is I think the worst is over, but
:24:17. > :24:21.there is a sting in the tail. The north and west is at risk of severe
:24:21. > :24:26.gales for some time this evening. The height of today's storm saw the
:24:26. > :24:31.wind reaching force 11 on the Llyn peninsula with a gust of 93 mph
:24:31. > :24:35.recorded at Aberdaron, 71 mph at Mumbles Head in Swansea. Maggie
:24:35. > :24:40.Thomas from Porthcawl cent in this picture of a huge wave crashing
:24:40. > :24:45.over the harbour wall, while Steve Porter took this one, massive waves
:24:45. > :24:49.crashing on Bardsley -- Bardsey Island. River levels are smaller --
:24:49. > :24:52.falling but some remain swollen. There is one of flood warning in
:24:52. > :24:56.force in the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Chester and seven
:24:56. > :25:00.alerts. The reason for this weather is a deep area of low pressure
:25:00. > :25:04.which is now moving towards Scandinavia. So for this evening,
:25:04. > :25:09.very windy, still, especially on Irish Sea coasts, blustery showers
:25:09. > :25:14.as well and hailstorms in places, snow on the mountains, less windy
:25:14. > :25:18.and clearer after midnight. The lowest temperatures 2-6 Celsius, so
:25:18. > :25:24.no frost. Tomorrow morning, then, a better start compared to today. Not
:25:24. > :25:28.as windy and drier too bar a few showers, for example England have.
:25:29. > :25:32.Temperatures well above freezing at 8 am but it will feel cold with a
:25:32. > :25:35.strong westerly wind blowing. You may see a glimpse or two of
:25:35. > :25:39.sunshine tomorrow but make the most of it because the weather will go
:25:39. > :25:44.downhill during the afternoon. More rain spilling in, turning pretty
:25:44. > :25:49.wet, I think, in North West and Mid Wales. Highest temperatures around
:25:49. > :25:54.nine Celsius, 40 it Fahrenheit, and windy, the wind, if anything,
:25:54. > :25:58.increasing during the afternoon, forecast gusts of over 56 mph by
:25:58. > :26:03.the evening. Tomorrow night looks wet and windy, strong to severe
:26:03. > :26:08.gale force winds, and heavy rain, another 40-50 mm, 2 inches expected
:26:08. > :26:12.on high ground in Mid Wales and Snowdonia, and given the ground is
:26:12. > :26:16.already saturated, that brings a risk of more flooding. Beyond that,
:26:16. > :26:21.Thursday drier and brighter, some welcome sunshine, a few showers,
:26:21. > :26:25.strong to gale force winds slowly easing. Beyond that, Friday less
:26:25. > :26:28.windy after a dry and cold start, turning milder with a little rain.
:26:28. > :26:33.Still no sign of really cold weather and significant snow this
:26:33. > :26:42.winter so far. It has been driven by a strong jet stream bringing
:26:42. > :26:47.abounds of heavy rain and gales in Tonight's main story from the BBC,
:26:47. > :26:51.which contains flash photography. Two men, Gary Dobson and David
:26:51. > :26:55.Norris have been found guilty of the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18
:26:55. > :26:59.years ago. Today the Lawrence family led by his mother called the
:26:59. > :27:05.original police investigation a miserable failure. Despite these
:27:05. > :27:09.verdicts, today is not a cause for celebration. How can I celebrate
:27:09. > :27:14.when my son lies buried? Had the police done their job properly, I
:27:14. > :27:19.would have spent the last 18 years grieving for my son rather than
:27:19. > :27:23.Get his killers to court. Tonight's other headlines, heavy rain
:27:23. > :27:28.forecast for tomorrow might lead to further flooding, the Environment
:27:28. > :27:32.Agency has warned tonight. Winds of over 100 mph and heavy rain caused
:27:32. > :27:37.disruption across Wales. We will have an update for you here