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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
The Lynette White murder inquiry sparked a police corruption trial. | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
Now missing documents which led to the collapse of the case have been | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
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Tonight's other headlines. The head of Wales' leading race | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
relations organisation under fire over allegations of financial | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
corruption and nepotism. The Welsh Government pulls the plug on its | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
funding. The Dyfed Powys Police helicopter | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
wins a two year reprieve despite plans for resources to be shared. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Luke Rowe is training hard to be part of the Olympic road race team, | :00:45. | :00:54. | |
aiming to deliver Gold for Team GB. From Steven Spielberg's latest | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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blockbuster, the four legged movie stars with a taste for Hollywood. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
saw myself quite a few times. Good evening. Breaking news tonight, | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
documents that were thought to be shredded and led to the collapse of | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
a multimillion-pound police corruption trial have been found, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
according to police watchdog The Independent Police Complaints | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Commission. In December last year, eight former officers who had been | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
accused of perverting the course of justice in the Lynette White murder | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
trail walked free from court after the judge said they couldn't get a | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
fair trial. Sian Lloyd can bring us the latest. Sian what's happened. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
The trial of eight former police officers on charges of perverting | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
the course of justice in the Lynette White murder trial was the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
biggest case of its kind in British legal history and it collapsed in | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
spectacular fashion last month. Today the Director of Public | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Prosecutions, Kier Starmer, ordered a review of prosecutions management | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
of the case. The documents found would have been evidence. It was | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
not known at the time what had happened to this evidence and the | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
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judge said they would not get a fair trial. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
December last year and eight former detectives walk free after a judge | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
ruled they couldn't get a fair trial. Bringing the case against | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
them on allegations of perverting the course of justice had cost some | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
�30 million. The officers had worked on the original | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
investigation into the murder of Lynette White, who's body was found | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
in the flat where she worked as a prostitute 20 years ago. Five | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
innocent men stood trial for her murder. Three were jailed before | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
being cleared on appeal. The detectives were accused of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
mismanaging that investigation. But during their trial it emerged files | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
had been destroyed, leaving the prosecution to decide to offer no | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
evidence. The Director of Public Prosecution announced today that | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
the independent body Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Inspectorate will carry out this review. It will centre on how the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
prosecution team carried out disclosure. Particularly whether it | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
was managed effectively and whether they followed relevant guidance and | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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policy. Disclosure is any information that undermines the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
prosecution case or assist the defendant in his opera case. This | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
was a very serious case. A grotesque murder. Without all the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
information being disclosed, there was every chance these defendants | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
would not get a fair trial. review will consider whether the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
existing legal guidance is appropriate for such complex cases | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
and if appropriate make recommendations. One of the men who | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
went on trial for the murder was John Actee. He was found not guilty. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
It is good news for the public, it will restore confidence. This has | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
been going on for 23 years. This is just a token to the public to show | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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we are trying to make it right. But they will never make it right. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
was an interview carried out before we had the startling news from the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
IPCC about the documents which have now turned up. The significance of | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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that will be digested tonight. Wales' leading race relations | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
organisation has had its funding suspended by the Welsh Government | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
because of accusations of financial corruption. An investigation by BBC | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Wales' Dragon's Eye programme also raises questions about how much the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Government knew about alleged wrongdoings at the All Wales Ethnic | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Minority Association. It is put to help the skills and abilities of | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
the diverse populations of the country. But there has been little | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
harmony at All Wales Ethnic Minority Association. It has a | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
budget of almost �18.5 million of public money. Following several | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
complaints about the chief executive, it has decided to | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
investigate some financial irregularities. The reporters | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds | :05:57. | :06:43. | |
reached several critical The report recommended that both | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
should be suspended immediately pending a disciplinary inquiry and | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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Turin. For the people running the organisation, they have not | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
adequately follow-through on recommendations. They have taken | :07:02. | :07:12. | |
certain measures are but as I understand it, what they do would | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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not be deemed by many to be credible. Further investigations | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
will take place. More than �3 million is being held back by the | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
Welsh Government. We tried to interview the chief executive but | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
he refused. He said it would not be appropriate to comment while the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
investigation was on going. You can see more on this story in | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
Dragon's Eye tonight at 7pm on BBC Administrators trying to sell the | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
collapsed retail chain Peacocks say they've had huge interest and are | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
now hopeful of finding a buyer for all of the business. Cardiff-based | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Peacocks went into administration last week putting ten thousand jobs | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
at risk. Our business correspondent Nick Servini is in the newsroom. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
The critical point about this business is whether it can be sold | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
off as a going concern or whether it will be broken up. There is a | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
strong indication from the administrators that it can be sold | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
as a going concern. This say about 50 companies have expressed an | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
interest in buying the company in its entirety of the substantial | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
part of it. That is good news for those in the headquarters and the | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
distribution centres in South Wales. The geographical spread of the | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
stores on the brand is attractive to investors. I am very positive we | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
would get a bidder for the business as a whole. Whether that hole is | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
wall of the 611 stores, we have to be open to that. An encouraging | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
sign for staff. It is the biggest business in Wales to have collapsed | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
in recent years. A number of reasons have been cited for the | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
failure. But the main ones are to do with the debts that were | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
incurred by a management buyout several years ago. The Whitaker | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
closer look to the deal which brought the company down. In the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
years leading up to 2006, the company was undergoing big | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
expansion. It was a plc, listed on the stock market. It had bought the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Yorkshire fashion chain. But the growth was not enough for the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
former chief executive. He felt the business was not being taken | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
seriously enough. He wanted to expand quicker. In 2006, he led a | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
management buyout in order to do that he had to borrow �460 million. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
The last official company accounts we have date from 2010. By then, | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
the overall debt had risen to �586 million. The administrators now say | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
the overall debt stands at seven �50 million. That is about the same | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
as the overall sales of the company. It means every pound they take is | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
ultimately owed to somebody else. The reason the debts have graced so | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
much is because part of its borrowings called payment in kind | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
and notes. They have a very high interest rates. Interest payments | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
are deferred and rolled up for payment later on. They allow | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
companies to expand quickly by putting off repayment. But | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
eventually, those debts have to be faced. At the time of the | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
management buyout, the company owed �150 million. That debt had raised | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
to �300 million. The company then went into administration. It all | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
became too much for the company which went into administration | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
after talks collapsed on the repayment of part of the debt. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Andrew Williams is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
He is the chair of the Financial Directors Forum in South Wales. I | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
went through the company accounts with him. His conclusion is that | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
the borrowing made the company an accident waiting to happen. It is | :11:42. | :11:52. | |
about only -- it is a bit like only paying the minimum balance on -- | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
minimum interest on your balance. What has happened is that the debt | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
is getting bigger and bigger. sad financial reality is that the | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
recent success of the company was reliant on a mountain of ever | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
increasing debt. How long before we can expect a deal to be completed? | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
We were given an indication today from the administrators that it is | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
likely to take a few weeks before a final buyer is singled out and | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
found. In the meantime, the stores are all open. Anyone who has been | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
to a store which a live about the heavy discounting that is going on. | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Senior management are still in place for the time being. News we | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
had today was that the chief executive has resigned. He was the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
man who masterminded the transformation of the company from | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
a traditional retailer into a fashion brand and he announced his | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Nominations for the leader of Plaid Cymru close tonight. Four | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
candidates are in the running to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones. Whoever | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
wins faces several challenges after disappointing results at last | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
year's Assembly election. Here's Mark Hannaby. | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
Who will succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones as leader of Plaid Cymru? Former rural | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
affairs minister Elin Jones learning to make cheese at a shock. | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
She has placed a Welsh independence at the centre of her leadership bid. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
I want to see us break out of our comfort zones, and talk to people | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
of Wales about how their lives can be improved by greater decisions | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
taken about the future of Wales taken in Wales, ultimately leading | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
to us being a successful independent country. Lord Dafydd | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Elis-Thomas was the presiding officer from the beginning of the | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
Assembly to last year. He says he is a pragmatist would be ready for | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
any opportunity to join Labour in coalition before the next Assembly | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
election. For Plaid Cymru to be able to express that democratic | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
will on behalf of the people of Wales, we would expect to be | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
affected, and that requires not talking about scenarios in 10 or 15 | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
years' time but what we are going to do to create sustainable jobs | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
and an effective form of government and public services we can live | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
with and protect. Leanne Wood, a non-Welsh speaker from the ballet | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
school is learning the language, believes she has the potential to | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
extend the party's appeal beyond its traditional heartlands. I think | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
it is essential that we break through in the industrial | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
heartlands in order to become the biggest party in the Assembly. I | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
think I am able to speak to people in order to do that. So Simon | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Thomas previously served as an MP for Ceredigion. He believes that to | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
win wider support for independence, they must first meet concerns about | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
the environment, jobs and the economy. A move to independence | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
need to be about more rich -- be more self-reliant and moving | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
forward as a nation. We have got to talk about the things people want | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
to hear this talk about rather than things that obsess the party | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
sometimes. Only one we have an opportunity to put his vision into | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
practice. The next leader will be announced on March 15th. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Still to come in the programme: Olympic hopeful Luke Rowe on the | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
tough competition for a place in the Olympic Road Race team. It is | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
not so many months until the names get selected so there are a lot of | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
us pushing for a place. And the stars from a Welsh stable | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
in Steven Spielburg's Oscar Today, the UK Government outlined | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
plans for a National Police Air Service, forcing forces to share | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
helicopters. Wales would be served by bases in Rhuddlan in | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
Denbighshire and St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan. It had seemed as | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
if Dyfed-Powys Police's helicopter would be scrapped, but it's now won | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
a reprieve for two years. Jenny Rees is at its base in Pembrey | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
tonight. April 2011, and a car plunged into | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
a reservoir near Llanidloes, killing four members of the same | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
family. It's times like this when the police helicopter is scrambled | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
as emergency services struggle to reach a remote part of mid Wales. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
The concern is that the helicopter based in Pembrey will be scrapped | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
after 2014 as a national police air service for England and Wales is | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
formed, Leaving Wales with two helicopters - one in the north, one | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
in the south - and a potential fixed-wing plane based in | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Haverfordwest. Today, the Police Minister in Westminster said he | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
would order forces to work together. I think it is important that we now | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
have the opportunity and the police authority has an opportunity to | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
argue the case and to prove how essential this service is in Dyfed- | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Powys. I don't think a plane would be able to carry out that kind of | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
work. A plane cannot land anywhere so this service has the opportunity | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
to argue the case and to prove its worth. Dyfed-Powys Police say that | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
today's announcement by the minister was unexpected and they'll | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
be seeking reassurances from the Government that the national scheme | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
won't reduce services to the area. In an age where we have to look at | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
saving every penny in every pound, we have got to make some tough | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
choices. The proposal does mean extra resources could be freed up | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
to save police officers' jobs. For me, that is a real priority and I | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
am pleased we can do that in a way that does not sacrifice the a | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
support service. At a time when budgets are under increasing | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
pressure, experts say we should expect more shake-ups in the future. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
For now, the service for Mid and West Wales remains. In the meantime, | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
a fixed-wing service will be trialled somewhere in the South | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Wales area as a potential alternative in the future. | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
This is all part of a wider attempt to save �15 million, with police | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
helicopters and bases being cut by a third around the UK. Those | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
expensive flights would only be made if they were necessary. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Wales' new football manager Chris Coleman has confirmed that former | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
team-mate Kit Simons will be joining his backroom staff. Symons | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
played with Coleman for Wales and Fulham, where he's currently a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
youth team coach. Coleman also confirmed he plans to hold talks | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
with Raymond Verheijen, who was assistant to the previous manager | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Gary Speed, next week. He could still be retained alongside Symons. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
The players will respect him and like him. He brings different | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
qualities. For me, as the manager, I need somebody that I know and I | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
have known him a long time. I have got tremendous trust in him. I will | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
be looking to bring him in in some capacity. But that does not mean we | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
are going to lose any body. Winning more and qualifying for | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
tournaments - some of the main aims of a football strategy for Wales | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
announced today. The Football Association of Wales has been | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
outlining what it wants to see happen in the game over the next | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
four years. It also wants to see women's and junior football develop. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
This is about all aspects of football, football throughout the | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
country. Getting more volunteers involved, getting more referees | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
involved, getting more coaches out there. We have been successful in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
many areas and we want to continue to be successful. A strategic plan, | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
a vision, is an integral part of making sure that is a reality. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Swansea City manager Brendan Rodgers says he'll sign a new | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
contract with the club in the next few days. Rodgers says he's agreed | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
the terms of the deal with chairman Huw Jenkins, which will keep him at | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
the Liberty Stadium until the summer of 2015. He's currently | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
employed on a rolling one-year contract. | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
He could have a key role in delivering Team GB's first gold | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
medal at the Olympic Games. Cyclist Luke Rowe from Cardiff is in | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
contention to be picked for the Road Race, over 150 miles, and help | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
deliver success just hours after the opening ceremony. Tomos Dafydd | :19:40. | :19:49. | |
caught up with him. On the streets where he started as | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
a toddler on a tandem, Luke Rowe's focus is now on reaching the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Olympic Games. We have had some tough camps in my yorker, getting | :19:58. | :20:08. | |
hard yards in, and it is not so many months away so there are a lot | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
of us pushing for a place. Of out of 15 contenders, only five will be | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
paid to represent Great Britain in the road race over more than 150 | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
miles. If selected, Luke Rowe will not be pursuing individual glory | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
but working in a team focused on giving the strongest rider the best | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
chance of winning. We already know that Mark Cavendish will be the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
main man in the road race. Every other rider that gets a place in | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
the squad will be looking after him and trying to get him to the finish | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
line. It is a lot about aerodynamics so if I can shelter | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
him from the wind and keeping hydrated and fuelled up throughout | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
the race, it is going to help. having been a part of the Olympic | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
development programme, he now trains with the British Cycling's | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
elite at team sky, and his success, he says, is down to good genes. | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
has been in the generations for many years. Both my parents cycled, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
both sets of my grandparents are cycled. At the age of eight I got | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
into it but I got to Ian to go on my own so my dad bought two tandems. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
I went on one with my dad and my brother went on with my mum. We | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
went around the lanes of South Wales. From then I just got hooked | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
and it has gone from strength to strength. Rest days at home are | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
rare. His family are happy to have him back before he returns to | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
training in Portugal in a few days. There was a huge gap because he | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
lived away from home. But it is back to normal now. A fall at linen | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
basket most days. By what macro admits he has got a huge challenge | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
if he is going to compete at the Games but if he is picked he could | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
ensure a vital part that the first medal at the Games will be awarded | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
to Great Britain. And we'll be out on the lake at | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Team GB's rowing headquarters tomorrow, assessing Welsh athletes' | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
chances of making it to the Games. It's the number one film at the box | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
office with six Oscar nominations, but most of its stars prefer a | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
muddy field to a red carpet. War Horse, directed by Steven Spielberg, | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
tells the story of a horse during the First World War. The cast was | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
boosted by animal actors from Llanberis in Gwynedd. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
If any of these faces look familiar, then it's because they're movie | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
stars. And Diablo is riding high after performing in the blockbuster | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
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War Horse, being ridden by his Dylan's spent the last 15 years | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
hiring out equine actors to film- makers and teaching his charges all | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
kinds of impressive tricks which he learned as part of this stunt show. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
He provided 15 horses for Steven Spielberg's epic movie and, though | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
filming was completed 18 months ago, he's only just had a glimpse of his | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
handy-work. He was on set all day and every day and he was a | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
wonderful guy to work with. He knew exactly what he needed. I went to | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
watch it last week and I saw myself quite a few times. I was a British | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
cavalry man and then I saw myself as a German soldier quite a few | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
times I. It was quite funny because a couple of my staff were going, | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
there is you. Dylan's father started working on films in the | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
'70s and now Dylan offers specially trained horses which can cope with | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
battle recreations or even fire. As well as the new series of the BBC | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Wales drama Merlin, he's also worked on the sequel to Clash of | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
the Titans and a version of Snow White for major Hollywood studios, | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
and both are due to be released this year. His four-legged film | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
stars have had a busy couple of years on the big and small screen | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
and new editions are rising all the time, being trained, and will | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
eventually see more staff from this stable. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Time for the weather forecast, and some areas hit by snow this evening, | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
It has turned colder. Some sunshine but also some heavy downpours. Hail, | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
thunder, sleet and snow, especially in the south. Ian James sent this | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
picture, stuck in traffic. Don't go near Dowlais top A465. Snow causing | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
big delays. Rachel Mathias sent this picture of hail covering her | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
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car in Hakin. Now, there's more showers to come tonight. Some heavy | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
with hail. Snow in places but mainly on the Cambrian mountains. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
After midnight, more of the country will become dry. The sky clearing | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
and it will be cold. Temperatures falling close to freezing with a | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
ground frost in places sheltered from the breeze. Tomorrow's chart | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
shows low pressure over Britain and that means unstable air and more | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
showers. So, tomorrow morning, a cold start. A slight frost in | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
places inland. Most of the country will start dry, but there will be a | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
few showers around. Windy on the north and west coast. Now, I can | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
promise a little sunshine tomorrow but, like today, the air will be | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
unstable with showers. Most of the showers in the north and west. Snow | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
mainly on high ground above 300 metres or 1,000 feet. Top | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
temperatures around 6 or 7 degrees Celsius with a chilly breeze. The | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
wind brisk and gusty on the north and west coast. Tomorrow night, it | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
will become dry. Clear skies and cold. Temperatures falling close to | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
freezing or below with a widespread frost. As for the weekend, some | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
uncertainty. It now looks as if Saturday will be the best day. Dry | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
with sunshine and light winds. On Sunday, though, there is a risk of | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
rain. This may turn to snow on high ground. Beyond that, knowing what | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
is going to happen next week is giving forecasters a headache. | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Britain will be in a battleground between cold air to the east and | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
mild air to the west. It's hard to say which one will win. Our final | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
picture tonight is from Iona Rees. A dusting of snow on Bwlch y Groes | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
near Dinas Mawddwy. Thanks, Iona. There are more showers to come | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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It is coming up to 7pm, the main headlines from the BBC. It's a | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
school in north Somerset has been accused of failing to protect its | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
pupils from a sexually abusive teacher. He was jailed last year | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
after admitting 36 offences. An inquiry found senior staff did not | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
act on repeated warnings from a fellow teachers. | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Documents from the original Lynett White murder inquiry that were | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
thought to be shredded leading to the collapse of a multi-million- | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
pound police corruption trial have been found still in South Wales | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Police's possession. Eight former officers who worked on the case | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
walked free from court last year after the judge said they could not | :27:24. | :27:28. |