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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight we are at the Scottish Parliament here | 0:00:03 | 0:00:07 | |
in Holyrood, asking what moves towards independence might mean for | 0:00:07 | 0:00:17 | |
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Today it became clear that the Scottish people will vote on | 0:00:26 | 0:00:31 | |
independence in just over two years time. Our First Minister says that | 0:00:31 | 0:00:36 | |
he would regret seeing Scotland leaving the United Kingdom. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
Scotland's future is a matter for Scotland but the constitutional | 0:00:40 | 0:00:44 | |
debate is a matter for everybody. We all have an interest in what | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
happens to the future of the UK. We will take a whistle-stop tour | 0:00:48 | 0:00:53 | |
around Britain's centres of power. As well as the Scottish Parliament, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
we will have the reaction from Welsh MPs in Westminster and | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
Assembly mentioned -- and Assembly Members. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:03 | |
Also tonight: Empty properties on run-down high streets. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:09 | |
A new report on saving our town centres from decline. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
And Wembley, here we come. Its penalty drama as Cardiff City wait | 0:01:14 | 0:01:23 | |
to hear who they will face in the Cup final. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
Good evening. It is the latest chapter in the history of the | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
United Kingdom. Scotland and whether its people want | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
independence. This afternoon in the parliament behind me, the First | 0:01:34 | 0:01:39 | |
Minister, Alex Salmond, revealed the question he wants to put to the | 0:01:39 | 0:01:43 | |
people of Scotland in over two years time. Beer answer will | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
certainly have profound implications for us in Wales. On | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
the day a Plaid Cymru politician suggested we might face our own | 0:01:52 | 0:01:57 | |
referendum on independent in around a decade's time. This beast does | 0:01:57 | 0:02:03 | |
contain flash photography. Where better than the Great Hall of | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Edinburgh Castle than to Laud the great debate? | 0:02:05 | 0:02:10 | |
Not a bad place to set out some grand ambitions. Alex Salmond set | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
out his plans for Scottish devolution. His plans but ones that | 0:02:14 | 0:02:18 | |
will have a profound event on the future shape of the UK. Where would | 0:02:18 | 0:02:25 | |
more devolution for Scotland leave Wales? Valerie was once Alex | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
Salmond's 8 in Westminster. She now lives in Cardiff and keeps a close | 0:02:28 | 0:02:34 | |
watch on Welsh politics. I think is maybe an indication that | 0:02:34 | 0:02:39 | |
devolution is, as is often said, a process, not an event. Devolution | 0:02:39 | 0:02:46 | |
has now been in place for almost 12 years and we are seeing that those | 0:02:46 | 0:02:52 | |
processes, the Kinks are being ironed out. The structures put in | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
at first word quite working and his time to revisit those. Does that | 0:02:56 | 0:03:01 | |
mean independence for Scotland? Further powers for Wales? | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
With Scottish independence now a possibility, some would like to | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
insulate Wales from creeping separatism, fearing change in | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
Scotland will change Wales's relationship with England. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
The implications for Wales are clear. The change in the balance of | 0:03:16 | 0:03:21 | |
power. Therefore, a question about representation. But what is the | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
relationship between Wales and England? Labour has delivered | 0:03:26 | 0:03:32 | |
majorities in the UK from Scotland as well as Wales. England has a | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
natural Tory majority. It will be quite an interesting political | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
balance. For better or worse, we have hung | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
together as the nation of Britain or the United Kingdom for a very | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
long time, hundreds of years. It has seen us through some very | 0:03:47 | 0:03:55 | |
difficult times. World wars, the defeat of fascism, and I think | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
anybody who knows anything about history must feel quite concerned | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
about that. Carwyn Jones has already sounded a | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
warning that this debate is, as he put it, to Scottish. A fundamental | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
change to the way Scotland is governed would mean Wales | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
relationships in the UK and its relationship to Westminster, how it | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
is funded, would also change. Rhodri Morgan told me it's a | 0:04:18 | 0:04:22 | |
Scottish road but not one that will affect Scotland alone. -- a | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
Scottish vote. Where would it leave Wales and | 0:04:25 | 0:04:31 | |
Northern Ireland if they vote for independence, I don't know. If | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Scotland those were independent, we are in an impossible situation. We | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
need to make sure that question is flashing along the consciousness of | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
the average voter before they get to the ballot box. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:47 | |
And today a time the -- a sign the debate is shifting again with their | 0:04:47 | 0:04:52 | |
plight Cymru candidate raising the possibility on a referendum for | 0:04:52 | 0:04:53 | |
independence in Wales within the decade. | 0:04:53 | 0:05:01 | |
Clearly, we have the vision for Wales to become an independent | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
country and the people of Wales will ultimately decide whether to | 0:05:04 | 0:05:11 | |
choose that past -- to is that part. How ready are the people of Wales | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
for change in the United Kingdom? I think it's very happy and healthy | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
for the UK. It's what we are all about. Scottish, Irish, English, | 0:05:19 | 0:05:24 | |
Welsh. I think I would start that -- I | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
would rather stay as part of the UK. Here in Scotland, there is a date. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
There will be a referendum in 2014. It is a long way off and | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
politicians except there is a number of questions to be asked | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
about what yes would mean or devolution would mean for the | 0:05:43 | 0:05:48 | |
United Kingdom, let alone any detailed answers. Those questions | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
will be about Scotland. Despite the answer is having a profound impact | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
on the people of Wales. Joining me now is a man who has not just been | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
watching events all day, he has been watching them in Scotland for | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
many years. The assistant editor of the Scotsman. Was there anything | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
unexpected? A lot of the detail, we knew was | 0:06:10 | 0:06:16 | |
coming. I thought what was profound is we now can foresee a date, a | 0:06:16 | 0:06:21 | |
month, anyway, when Scotland could potentially become independent. If | 0:06:21 | 0:06:28 | |
Scots vote Yes in the referendum, by 20th May 16, Scotland could be | 0:06:28 | 0:06:37 | |
leaving the United Kingdom -- by made 2016. | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
Not just be found in Scotland but in England, Northern Ireland and | 0:06:40 | 0:06:44 | |
Wales. The concern in Wales that the debate is too focused on | 0:06:44 | 0:06:49 | |
Scotland and an issue which had profound implications on us as well. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:54 | |
I understand that. I worked in Wales a long time ago but I | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
understand the feeling of nationalism being different in | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
Wales. I can't see that it won't have huge implications for Wales. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
The constitutional relationship between Wales and the rest of the | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
UK will be different. If Scotland does the road for full independence | 0:07:09 | 0:07:14 | |
but has far greater powers, but will also be the case. Wales has | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
just had extra powers but you can't imagine the Welsh and the Northern | 0:07:17 | 0:07:23 | |
Irish, possibly even the English regions wanting more power. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:27 | |
Scotland leading the way but we don't know where we are going yet. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
We know where we are going now, to the Assembly in Cardiff Bay and my | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
colleague, Vaughan Roderick. It won't surprise you to hear that | 0:07:37 | 0:07:44 | |
centuries of history has been mentioned here all day today. It's | 0:07:44 | 0:07:48 | |
a different story in Wales but is that important in this debate? | 0:07:48 | 0:07:55 | |
I think it is. It is too easy to see Wales as being Scott and light. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
-- Scotland. The history of Wales is different. The relationship with | 0:08:00 | 0:08:05 | |
different has always been closer and more complex. In Wales Today, a | 0:08:05 | 0:08:10 | |
huge number of people who live here were born in England and many of us | 0:08:10 | 0:08:15 | |
live within an easy drive of the English border. Any change in | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
Scotland will affect us. Earlier I spoke to the First Minister, Carwyn | 0:08:19 | 0:08:28 | |
Jones, about how he thought -- Ohio he saw things playing out. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
The polls suggest they wouldn't vote for independence. I would very | 0:08:33 | 0:08:39 | |
much regret seeing Scotland leave the UK. We regret -- the London | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
media sometimes see it as something between England and Scotland but | 0:08:43 | 0:08:47 | |
Wales and Northern Ireland are also involved and any change on the | 0:08:47 | 0:08:51 | |
status of Scotland is bound to have an effect not just in England but | 0:08:51 | 0:08:53 | |
on Wales and Northern Ireland as well. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:59 | |
Do you feel the UK government has been given -- have been giving due | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
weight to Wales and Northern Ireland or have they been acting | 0:09:01 | 0:09:06 | |
like an English element? I think the debate has been driven | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
by Scotland and I think that is unfortunate because it is about the | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
whole of the UK. Scotland's future is a matter for Scotland but the | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
constitutional debate is a matter for everybody. We all have an | 0:09:18 | 0:09:24 | |
interest in the future of the UK. If Scotland leaves, how would you | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
seek the remaining United Kingdom, whatever you call it, working? | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
Would they have to be changes in the relationship? | 0:09:31 | 0:09:37 | |
Yes, there would. It can't carry on as it has in the past 90 years | 0:09:37 | 0:09:42 | |
since the Republic of Ireland left. We are a long way from that stage. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:47 | |
It seems to me the people of Scotland don't want independence. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
The Poles seem to suggest that. There is an appetite for more | 0:09:51 | 0:09:58 | |
devolution in Scotland but my focus will be on insuring the UK is kept | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
together for -- four different nations drawing strength from each | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
other for the common good. That was Carwyn Jones. Joining me | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
now is David Melding, Conservative am, and plied can reach their, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:21 | |
Helen Mary Jones. -- and plied country chair. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
I think it gives Britain a new chance to regenerate itself and to | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
really advance and insure that the nations of Britain succeed as well | 0:10:30 | 0:10:36 | |
as the state of Britain itself. What does that mean to you if it | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
doesn't mean independence? I think it will mean some form of | 0:10:40 | 0:10:44 | |
federal state but people can get the birth -- the best of both | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
worlds. They can be both Scottish and Welsh and British, they don't | 0:10:48 | 0:10:52 | |
need to choose their national Celtic identity or whether they | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
both want to be in Britain. Helen Mary Jones, we heard a call | 0:10:58 | 0:11:02 | |
for a referendum in 2020 on independence. Is that any more than | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
a foolish dream? I think it could possibly be sooner | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
than that. Who better than the people of Wales to decide what we | 0:11:09 | 0:11:14 | |
need to do to build a strong economy, the Ferrers society we | 0:11:14 | 0:11:20 | |
know we can have. -- the fairer society. I think the impetus for | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
the people of Wales to say, we want to be able to do that, will be much | 0:11:24 | 0:11:31 | |
stronger. We have always believed to at Plaid Cymru we can build a | 0:11:31 | 0:11:37 | |
stronger nation. I think this is an exciting time, the same as David | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
Melding. Nobody would have thought in March last year that we would be | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
debating these issues in Wales. Your colleague David Davies has | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
described Britain and the United Kingdom as the Titanic, a matter of | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
when, not if. Is he right? No, I have great confidence in the | 0:11:55 | 0:12:01 | |
future of Britain. We need a really expansive vision that the ancestors | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
who built Britain had. This is a challenge, no more than that. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
Thank you. That is it from Cardiff Bay. That's not the only place | 0:12:10 | 0:12:17 | |
politicians have been reacting. Let's go over to Westminster. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
While the Scottish government has been setting out his plans, the UK | 0:12:21 | 0:12:25 | |
government is stressing that the power to endorse the result of that | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
referendum lies in Westminster. I am joined by the Wales minister, | 0:12:29 | 0:12:36 | |
David Jones, Roger Williams. Carwyn Jones, there, stressing what | 0:12:36 | 0:12:42 | |
happens in Scotland has a profound effect on the rest of the UK. Are | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
you preparing for a life without Scotland? | 0:12:44 | 0:12:50 | |
No, we are preparing to fight to keep Scotland within the Union. The | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
people of Scotland should have a referendum which is legal, fair and | 0:12:53 | 0:12:58 | |
decisive. We are pleased to say that Alex Salmond today appeared to | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
recognise that he needs to work with the Westminster government in | 0:13:02 | 0:13:06 | |
order to deliver a legal and fair referendum. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
Is it time to make a case for the union in Wales as well as Scotland? | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
I think is time to make the case throughout the kingdom and I was | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
pleased to see that Carwyn Jones was stressing the other day that | 0:13:17 | 0:13:22 | |
Wales and the rest of the UK is much stronger with Scotland. We | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
need to make the argument for the union but we need to get the | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
process out of the way and get the issue of when and how the issue | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
will be fought separately. Roger Williams, the Liberal | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
Democrats have always been in favour of a federal United Kingdom | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
so you must be quite relaxed? Available Democrat in the coalition, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:45 | |
we support the right of the Scottish nation to have a | 0:13:45 | 0:13:49 | |
referendum on this important issue. Along with my little Democrat | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
colleagues in Scotland, we will be opposing the break-up of the United | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Kingdom because we believe nations are stronger when they are working | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
together. Briefly, the tide seems to be | 0:13:59 | 0:14:04 | |
flowing away from Westminster in terms of power. Is it going to be | 0:14:04 | 0:14:07 | |
harder for Welsh MPs like yourself to have your say? | 0:14:07 | 0:14:11 | |
There are many important things like defence, Farrant -- foreign | 0:14:11 | 0:14:19 | |
affairs and macro economic issues. Wales will have a major influence | 0:14:19 | 0:14:29 | |
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The debate is certainly alive in Cardiff, Westminster and in | 0:14:30 | 0:14:40 | |
Edinburgh. I enjoyed by Nicola McEwan from Edinburgh University. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:45 | |
The question is very blunt. certainly is. Why it was proposed a | 0:14:45 | 0:14:52 | |
couple of years ago, it was carefully crafted. This one today | 0:14:52 | 0:14:58 | |
is much clearer, less ambiguous. The UK government called for | 0:14:58 | 0:15:05 | |
clarity. It is difficult to challenge the clarity. But it will | 0:15:05 | 0:15:11 | |
require a transfer of competence to be able to ask that question. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:16 | |
Tonight, there is concern in Wales of the implications. To what extent | 0:15:16 | 0:15:22 | |
will the Scottish people even think twice about that? You have to be on | 0:15:22 | 0:15:32 | |
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us. I do not think it will pay a super than grown in the campaign -- | 0:15:34 | 0:15:40 | |
significant role in the campaign. I am sure it will have profound | 0:15:40 | 0:15:44 | |
implications in Wales but I do not think that will play a major part | 0:15:44 | 0:15:53 | |
in the campaign. But is it for now from the Scottish Parliament. -- | 0:15:53 | 0:15:57 | |
that is it. A clearer national strategy is needed to save our town | 0:15:57 | 0:16:03 | |
centres from decline. That's according to a report today from | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
the Assembly's Enterprise and Business Committee. It says many of | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
our high streets are blighted by empty properties and poor shopping | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
environments. In all, the committee makes 20 recommendations. Caroline | 0:16:12 | 0:16:19 | |
Evans reports. Lucy Jenkins is closing down on Saturday. She came | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
to Caerphilly two years ago, hoping to expand her flourishing business. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:29 | |
I cannot afford to stay here any longer. The town has died. It has | 0:16:29 | 0:16:36 | |
gone. There is nobody here. Business rates are horrendous. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:41 | |
Around the corner, Eddie Talbot feels equally aggrieved. When the | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
committee visited the town today, he wasted no town -- no time | 0:16:46 | 0:16:52 | |
telling them how things are. I went through the Times of Margaret | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
Thatcher and the miners' strike and that was bad but this isn't | 0:16:55 | 0:17:02 | |
entirely different. His words held no surprises. In Wrexham, | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
shopkeepers say trade has moved into the new shopping centres on | 0:17:06 | 0:17:13 | |
the edge of town. We have the cheap shops, shoe shops, there is nothing | 0:17:13 | 0:17:18 | |
much in the centre any more. Every business has been affected by an | 0:17:18 | 0:17:23 | |
outside shopping centre. problem facing our towns is big, | 0:17:23 | 0:17:30 | |
says the committee chairman. But it is not all doom and gloom. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
financial situation is difficult, it is tight. The Welsh government | 0:17:34 | 0:17:41 | |
has leavers adits depose will -- at its disposal. It could be just a | 0:17:41 | 0:17:47 | |
small change to the regime. That could make a difference. In Swansea, | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
they have already set up a book does business improvement districts, | 0:17:51 | 0:17:58 | |
improving measures and taking boarded-up shops and dressing the | 0:17:58 | 0:18:04 | |
windows to improve the city's image. Free parking has proved a hit. This | 0:18:04 | 0:18:10 | |
is a complex issue. Some believe we should be pushing cars out of the | 0:18:10 | 0:18:17 | |
town centre. Others argue what is needed is free parking. The Welsh | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
government says each town has unique issues that require | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
individual solutions delivered by local people. The government will | 0:18:26 | 0:18:30 | |
consider and respond to the report in due course. Police are | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
continuing to question a 26-year- old man over the murder of a woman | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
in Carmarthenshire. The body of 67- year-old Irene Lawless was found at | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
her home in Llanllwni on Monday. She's been described by her family | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
as a peaceful person and loving mother. Two other men arrested on | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
suspicion of assisting an offender have been released on police bail. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:50 | |
All three were arrested in the Kent area, where Ms Lawless' car was | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
also recovered. Opponents of a plan for a new super | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
dairy in Welshpool have welcomed the Welsh Government's decision to | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
call in the application for review. In November, Powys council's | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
planning committee said they were minded to approve the �3.5 million | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
scheme to more than double capacity at Lower Leighton farm to 1,000 | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
cattle. The farmer behind the project says | 0:19:11 | 0:19:19 | |
he's confident it will eventually go ahead. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:25 | |
I just feel that obviously they have got tight protocol to follow | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
and they have called it in for those reasons but I do feel that | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
once they see the true fact, they will see the benefits of this | 0:19:34 | 0:19:38 | |
application. The Chief Executive of the Wales Millennium Centre in | 0:19:38 | 0:19:43 | |
Cardiff is to leave his post after less than 18 months in the job. | 0:19:43 | 0:19:45 | |
Mark Taylor, who was previously the commercial director at London's | 0:19:45 | 0:19:48 | |
Barbican Centre, says he's leaving to concentrate on business and | 0:19:48 | 0:19:50 | |
leisure events. A controversial housing development | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
on the site of the former Stradey Park rugby ground has been given | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
the final go-ahead after a High Court ruling. Planning permission | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
for more than 350 homes on the Llanelli site was granted back in | 0:20:00 | 0:20:02 | |
2007. But campaigners, concerned about environmental damage and the | 0:20:02 | 0:20:05 | |
risk of flooding, had taken legal action to try and stop the | 0:20:05 | 0:20:15 | |
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development. It has been a long battle and it has been going on for | 0:20:16 | 0:20:21 | |
almost six years, involving a public inquiry and a number of | 0:20:21 | 0:20:27 | |
legal Tangiers. The judgment will hopefully bring an end to it -- | 0:20:27 | 0:20:31 | |
legal challenges. Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay will head to | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
Anfield tonight to find out whether his side will play Liverpool or | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
Manchester City in next month's Carling Cup Final. The Bluebirds | 0:20:36 | 0:20:40 | |
booked their place at Wembley in a dramatic penalty shoot-out. It's | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
the first time the club has ever reached the League Cup final and | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
their fourth trip to Wembley in as many years. Here's our sports | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
reporter, Ashleigh Crowter. Penalties is a tough way to lose a | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
football match but it sure feels good when you win. Goalkeeper Tom | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
Heaton couldn't contain himself after Cardiff won last night's | 0:20:55 | 0:20:59 | |
semi-final shootout. His mistake in the first leg more than made up for | 0:21:00 | 0:21:09 | |
in the second, with two great stops that sent the Bluebirds to Wembley. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:14 | |
We have done a great job. We put a list together and at the end -- on | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
the night, I had that at the back of my mind and I just went for it. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:24 | |
It went our way. To be frank, the match should never had to got to | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
that point. Cardiff had levelled the tie after only six minutes. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:30 | |
Crystal Palace goal scorer from the first leg Anthony Gardner heading | 0:21:31 | 0:21:35 | |
into his own net. From that point there was only one team in it. But | 0:21:35 | 0:21:39 | |
somehow Palace survived. Even when their captain paddy McCarthy was | 0:21:39 | 0:21:42 | |
sent off, Cardiff still couldn't score, hitting the woodwork twice | 0:21:42 | 0:21:50 | |
in extra time and doing everything BUT finding the back of the net. No | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
wonder manager Malky Mackay cut a tense and animated figure on the | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
touchline. It had looked as if it just wasn't going to be Cardiff's | 0:21:57 | 0:22:05 | |
night. It goes through your mind but I have so much believe in them. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
There is great character in the team. There is resilience and they | 0:22:10 | 0:22:15 | |
do not know when to lie down. The crowd tonight played their part and | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
really push the team on. The spirit there tonight, a ferret -- a | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
thoroughly deserved it. Afterwards, Mackay was quick to celebrate with | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
the club's Malaysian owners who now expect interest in Cardiff City to | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
soar in their home country. The club's first League Cup final on | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
February 26th will be televised around the world where they'll play | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
the winner of tonight's semi-final between Liverpool and Manchester | 0:22:36 | 0:22:46 | |
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City. Time now for the weather forecast | 0:22:49 | 0:22:54 | |
It was mild in Scotland and Wales today. Temperatures in Cardiff and | 0:22:54 | 0:22:58 | |
Edinburgh up to 11 Celsius. 52 Fahrenheit. But there is a change | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
on the way. A cold front over Ireland is heading our way. That'll | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
bring rain and introduce colder air. So this evening a spell of heavy | 0:23:06 | 0:23:15 | |
rain. Lasting a couple of hours. Clearer weather following with a | 0:23:15 | 0:23:22 | |
few showers. The wind easing once the rain clears and turning colder. | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
Lowest temperatures around 2 Celsius with a risk of icy patches. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
Tomorrow's chart shows a trough of low pressure over us and that means | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
unstable air, towering clouds and showers. Tomorrow morning you will | 0:23:34 | 0:23:39 | |
notice the drop in temperature. It will feel noticeably colder. Some | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
places will start dry and bright but not everywhere. There will be | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
showers around for example in Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and | 0:23:45 | 0:23:53 | |
Swansea. The showers will have a wintry flavour. So a mixture of | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
sunshine and showers tomorrow. Some heavy showers with hail, thunder | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
and sleet. Snow on the hills and mountains above 400 metres. Feeling | 0:24:01 | 0:24:06 | |
chilly. Temperatures lower than today and breezy, especially along | 0:24:06 | 0:24:12 | |
the south and west coast. Tomorrow night further wintry showers. Most | 0:24:12 | 0:24:22 | |
of them in Mid Wales and the north. Friday a few showers. Mainly in the | 0:24:22 | 0:24:28 | |
north and dying away during the afternoon. As for the weekend. Some | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
uncertainty. On Saturday, there is a risk of rain. Sunday may become | 0:24:32 | 0:24:36 | |
dry and colder. Next week, we could be in for a spell of cold easterly | 0:24:36 | 0:24:45 | |
That's it from us in Cardiff. Now back to our main story tonight, the | 0:24:45 | 0:24:47 | |
implications for Wales of Scotland's planned referendum on | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
independence. Betsan Powys is at the Scottish Parliament for us | 0:24:50 | 0:25:00 | |
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tonight. Yes, we've heard a lot from our | 0:25:02 | 0:25:12 | |
politicians tonight, but what do we all make of this in Wales? Alex | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
Salmon says he is not surprised there is interest in Wales. -- Alex | 0:25:16 | 0:25:24 | |
Salmond. One of the arguments being used in favour of legislative | 0:25:24 | 0:25:30 | |
powers was that the loss last Assembly wanted to get equivalence | 0:25:30 | 0:25:40 | |
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with the current powers in Scotland -- National Assembly. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:58 | |
What do the people of Wales make of all of this? We sent Matthew | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
Richards to get a snapshot of opinions in a typical Welsh village | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
with a typically English name. Just a few miles from Abergele, St | 0:26:04 | 0:26:14 | |
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George has a church, a restaurant and a school. Does this St George | 0:26:15 | 0:26:20 | |
think the Welsh Dragon should seek independence for? Do the residents | 0:26:20 | 0:26:27 | |
think these children could or should grow up in a separate state? | 0:26:27 | 0:26:32 | |
We have a Welsh Assembly, people of Wales have their own voice and | 0:26:32 | 0:26:38 | |
representation. We have not got so much money as opposed to Scotland. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:42 | |
They are a larger country. By being linked to the UK government still, | 0:26:42 | 0:26:46 | |
we will still reap the benefits and we would have the best of both | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
words -- world. The man in the street also thinks we're better off | 0:26:50 | 0:26:57 | |
as we are. We are quite happy being part of the British Isles. I do not | 0:26:57 | 0:27:00 | |
see any massive benefit of leaving England. But the idea of | 0:27:00 | 0:27:04 | |
independence has given one villager food for thought. My mum and dad | 0:27:04 | 0:27:10 | |
have lived here all their lives. I would like Independence personally | 0:27:10 | 0:27:15 | |
but I think we do not have enough money really to sustain it. I liked | 0:27:15 | 0:27:19 | |
the way they are trying to do it but I think we should stay as we | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
are. St George it appears isn't ready to cut its ties just yet. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:28 |