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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Primary schools won't now be put into bands for another two years - | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
the education minister denies it's a U-turn. I'll be asking him why | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
he's changed his mind. Our other headlines tonight: 600 | :00:15. | :00:22. | |
American call centre jobs coming to Cardiff. This is where they'll be | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
based, but the news comes on the eve of reports expected to | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
criticise our inward investment performance. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Also tonight: They want to turn another empty building into an art | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
gallery - but who are these so- called squatters? | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Snowdon but not much snow - what rising temperatures and pollution | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
is doing to our highest mountain. In tonight's sport: The good and | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
the bad news - hooker Huw Bennett looks likely to miss out, but | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
George North AND Sam Warburton look set to be fit for Wales' bid for | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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Good evening. Plans to put Welsh primary schools into performance | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
bands have been delayed for two ideas. Schools were expected to be | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
banded this year, but the education minister says a delay is needed to | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
allow time for the introduction of new reading and numeracy tests. In | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
a moment, we will Turk -- talk to the minister. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Prime racecourse across Wales have been told they will know how they | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
will be ranked by Easter. Now they will not. This is not a U-turn, | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
says Leighton Andrews. Near Aberystwyth, that admission has | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
been welcomed. At the moment, I don't think that enough thought had | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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been put into the detail, and howled that will be used. In 2004, | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
testing for 11-year-olds was scrapped in Wales. The plan was to | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
rely on assessments carried by teachers. But the most recent | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
report found in half the primary schools inspected, aspect of those | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
assessments were weak. So, he plans to ban schools have been put on | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
hold. Next year, tests will be introduced, leading to more robust | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
evidence that will mean banding can be introduced by 2014. The policy | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
insists the government remained a key part of driving up standards. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
If I know how my child is performing, I can speak to the | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
headmaster. I am not against performance management. What is | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
important to me is the happiness of the children, and the fact they | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
will get a good education. I fill the good in that it. Teaching | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
unions had opposed the plans. This said Leighton Andrews was right to | :03:18. | :03:26. | |
stop and think again. I think he was over optimistic. But the key | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
thing now is he has listened to what others have been saying, taken | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
note of the difficulties, and decided to postpone the band in. He | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
is to be commended for that. the way the unions see it, it is a | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
hastily cobbled plan falling apart. This is a U-turn by the Welsh | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
government - they said a fortnight ago they were carrying on with the | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
national scheme for banding, and now we are seeing the scheme put | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
off for two years. They have serious problems with their banding | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
proposals. Today's announcement has bought the minister time. | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
Let us talk to the education minister now. Mr Andrews, good | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
evening. Why have you changed your mind? We need better data, as a | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
result of the report the Chief Inspector of education Wales | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
produced a week ago. Therefore, we will wait until we have the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
outcomes of the tests - that will give us our objective data for the | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
banding process. Why did you not see it coming? We have had the | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
report from the Chief Inspector, and she has made it clear there are | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
problems with teacher assessment in up to half the primary schools they | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
have surveyed. So, we need to ensure people have confidence in | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
the banding system. The most important thing is introducing the | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
tests, enabling us to ensure young people are getting the right level | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
of instruction, it so they are reading the reaching -- reading age | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
they should have. We will introduce banding from September, 2014. | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
does this leave pupils and parents in schools that are underperforming, | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
which might have welcomed banding? We will produce a performance broke | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
off all primary schools, but what people want to have confidence in | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
is the reliability of data. They also want to know we are giving | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
proper attention to the introduction of reading tests - | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
there is a critical if we are to ensure young people leaving primary | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
schools are at the right reading age. What about the fact the UK | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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have into the teaching unions? is ridiculous. We have had evidence | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
back to last, from teachers and teaching unions. The key thing is | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
we need accurate data, we will get that from the tests. That will | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
enable us to introduce the bans as we said we would in our manifesto. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Two years is a long time in politics. Anything did happen in | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
two years - you could just kicked us into the long grass and forget | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
about this. This is a manifesto commitment. We will introduce | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
banding the prime this calls. primary schools. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
A call centre company is creating 600 jobs in Cardiff before stop the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
announcement comes on the eve of a report expected to criticise the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
fall in it in would in assessment project. Our business correspondent | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
is outside Conduit's knew what this. Mika, what can you tell us about | :06:58. | :07:08. | |
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today's announcement. First of all, Conduit is an outsourcing operator. | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
It deals with clients such as Vodafone and Skype. It has been | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
working with British Gas for a while, and half of the people who | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
work are the offices behind meat will work on that account. Conduit | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
is a big operator, employing newly 800 people. The vast majority are | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
two sides in Cardiff. The point is the call centre industry employs | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
30,000 people in Wales. It has grown in recent years, and Conduit | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
has played a big part in that. It will play a big part in the future | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
as well. The timing is interesting. We get the announcement of 600 jobs | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
on the eve of a critical announcement about our success, or | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
lack a bit, when it comes to attracting jobs in Wales. Yes, this | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
import -- report is not a new company. It has been here for 12 | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
years, but is still a foreign owned company, looking to expand in Wales. | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
The ability of Wales to attract foreign companies and get them to | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
create jobs will come under scrutiny. Tomorrow, we will have a | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
report by a Welsh MPs into the issue of inward investment. The | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
expectation is it will be critical, and the ability of people in Wales | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
to create jobs on inward investment, after the golden period of the '80s | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
and Nineties - so many jobs were created them. Today's announcement | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
will come as a boost to the Welsh government, as it looks to defend | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
its record, and all tried to make big plays it is tried to change | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
things, and put things right. I am in one of the new enterprise zones. | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
There are seven in Wales. This comes a very real shot in the arm | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
for that. This enterprise zone is designed to attract companies | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
involved in financial services. These a call centre jobs, but in | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
the current climate, people would welcome any jobs. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
The police have praised a newsagent who fended off a man who tried to | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
rob the shop at knifepoint. The man was forced to flee their store | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
empty-handed. The police are appealing for information. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
A 60-year-old man has pleaded guilty to drink driving and failing | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
to stop after an accident in which a Paralympian cyclist was | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
critically injured. Simon Richardson was airlifted to | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
hospital with multiple injuries after the crash on the A48 near | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
Bridgend last August. Edward Howell Adams, from Cowbridge, denies | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
dangerous driving. A trial date has been set for May. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
The First Minister has again called for more powers to control | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
renewable energy projects here. Speaking after a meeting with the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
UK Government and ministers from Scotland and Northern Ireland, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Carwyn Jones said we're missing out on job opportunities because we're | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
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not in charge of developments. What I want to seek his control | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
over renewable energy projects to be devolved to Wales. Not | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
everything, but that will give us the power to do with Marine Energy. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Currently, we have great potential for generating Marine Energy and | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
creating jobs. A judge has become his summing up | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
of the killing of Nikitta Grender. He told the jury to use their heads | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
and not their hearts when reaching a decision. Carl Whant denies | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
murder, rape, child destruction and arson. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Described today as a pretty young woman, Nikitta Grender was just 19 | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
when she was murdered in her own home. She was just weeks away from | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
having a baby, a goal she had already named. She was attacked in | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
the bedroom of her flat, her bed set on fire by the killer to cover | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
his tracks. Carl Whant, had bought from's cousin, stands accused of | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
the crime. Summing up, the judge told the jury the defendant's case | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
is that he has an alibi - he did not go to her flat that night. That, | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
in fact, he visited his grandmother's home. The prosecution | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
case was that he drove to her flat, killed her and set her on fire to | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
make it look accidental. He had been out that night with his cousin, | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Nikitta Grender's cousin. They had been drinking and taking drugs | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
before food warehouse party. Carl Whant left a party in the early | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
hours, saying he was going for cigarettes. His defence team says | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
the evidence shows he could not have been at the flat. Police fail | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
to see CCTV which could prove his innocence. Detectives seized his | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
clothing and found Nikitta Grender's DNA. They also found | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
blood under the mat on his car. The prosecution claimed in must have | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
got there when he had the murder weapon, a knife which has never | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
been found. The judge is expected to finish summing up tomorrow. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Still to come tonight: Positive news on George North - the | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Wales camp say the ankle should be fine to face England. | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
And Craig Bellamy is named in the side to play in the Gary Speed | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
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Memorial next week - will it be his How much support is there for the | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
squatters in Swansea? Jordan Davies reports. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
It could be a family seen anywhere in Wales. In fact, "D" and her | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
grandchildren Eryn and Lucas are in a squat in the empty JT Morgan | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
department store in the centre of Swansea, a building they don't turn | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
or have a mission to be in. By day the group called Cwtch are office | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
managers, graphic designers, civil servants and students, and believe | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
in opening up empty buildings to the public. By night, they sleep | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
here. There will be people who will say | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
you as squatters. Can I dispel the notion that we are unemployed. I | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
would say 90 per cent of the people involved in Cwtch either self- | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
employed for time like myself or part-time. The rest are students, I | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
think there is one person who made the unemployed. We are improving | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
the building and offering things for nothing. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
By There are those who disagree. Last week they were ordered to | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
leave the city centre Dolphin Hotel after the owner took them to court. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
They plan to turn JT Morgan, which closed four years ago and has no | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
running water or electricity, into an impromptu art gallery. Emily | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
painted most of the pictures. Swansea is now, I think it could do | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
with a bit more colour in its life -- the way Swansea is now. | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Hopefully I can make Swansea more of a friendly place to be at times. | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
So some of the group were involved in last year's Occupy protest in | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Manchester before travelling to Swansea where they used Facebook to | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
publicise the squat. Say I push the store and it opens. I don't own the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
place and I am not renting it, but I am now a squatter. If the owner | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
does turn up he cannot remove me because I have not gained access | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
illegally. He needs a judge to order it. | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
The squatters say there is a need for what they are doing. The view | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
not shared by everyone. I basically think it is a prime | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
spot in the middle of the centre of town with a lot of people paying | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
extortionate prices around there. People are renting and buying | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
places down there. I don't think the art space they are putting | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
their is adding to the community. The blue rinse owners say they | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
don't want to comment. The police say they are keeping an eye on the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
situation -- the building's owners. The housing minister if you lowered | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
-- Huw Lewis has announced a �5 million scheme to renovate them to | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
run-down properties. The Houses to Homes Fund will enable local | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
authorities to offer interest-free loans to landlords and owners. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Wales has around 22,000 privately- owned empty properties. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
The beach race due to take place in Swansea next month has been | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
postponed so further environmental safeguards can be put in place. The | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
organisers, who have held similar events in Weston-super-Mare, will | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
now apply for a licence from the Marine Consents Unit. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
One of our few remaining Victorian piers faces a potential million | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
pound shortfall in funding needed for repair work. The changes to | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
Bangor's grade two listed pier could cost more than �2 million. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Its owner, the city council, says it cannot fund that amount but | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
hopes to receive a heritage grant to match the money it has already. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Rising temperatures, pollution and the way we use the land is all | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
changing our tallest mountain according to a 15 year study by the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Countryside Council for Wales, examining how changes to the | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
climate are affecting Snowdon. He is our Environment Correspondent, | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Iolo ap Dafydd. A of the 12 sites monitoring | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
environmental changes in Britain, this site on Snowdon is arguably | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
the most important in the UK. Scientists here have found changes | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
to the atmosphere and the land are being compounded by a wetter | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
winters and warmer springs. Since the 1960s, temperatures on average | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
have risen by 2.5 degrees during March. | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Scientists say one of the key elements making this meteorological | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
station significant on Snowdon is that we have here a wetter Atlantic | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
influence as well as the drier continental influence. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
The report, partly funded by the Welsh Government and the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
Countryside Council for Wales, depends on long-standing data. The | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
past 15 years of the scientists more information and in greater | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
detail. We need this course data that comes | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
from the site day-in day-out so we can understand the longer term | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
trends as well as the short-term episodes. They may affect political | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
decisions to do with water and we need the data to understand the | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
long-term impact of the climate on the resources we have. Despite more | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
snow and ice in the past two years, winters are getting warmer and | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
wetter. Rainfall here and across northern Britain has increased, | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
while southern Britain is likely to face drought later this year. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
higher local rainfall at least we need to be aware and Pam for | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
periods of intense rate -- rainfall -- plan for intense rainfall. On a | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
UK-wide level it tells us that we need to manage our water resources | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
better. Predictions for certain areas in England, for instance, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
indicate that we will have less rainfall in the future. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Other changes according to the report, affect specific plants such | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
as purple and mossy saxifrage, holly fern and one of the most | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
iconic arctic alpine plants are founded -- and here, the Snowdon | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
lily. These plants benefit from less acid rain would lower sulphur | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
dioxide emissions now than in the past, so controlling pollution can | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
lead to a gradual recovery of ecosystems, but the speed of | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
increase in nitrogen oxide from the a club -- exhaust fumes may affect | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
parts and vegetation. A bull bred in Machynlleth in Powys | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
has sold for a record-breaking �126,000. The pedigree Limousin | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
beat the UK record for a bull by more than �20,000. Its breeder | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Glynn Vaughan said he had only expected to sell the animal for | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
�40,000. Good evening. With just five days | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
to go until their Triple Crown clash against England, Wales has | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
rugby coach Warren Gatland has had to strengthen his squad due to | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
injury concerns. He has called up Ospreys forwards Alun Wyn Jones and | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
Richard Hibbard ahead of the big match at Twickenham on Saturday, | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
but this is positive news on the wing, as Simon Davies reports. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
It may have been a perfect start to the six nations but for Wales it | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
has come at a price. Huw Bennett's early exit from the Scotland game | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
means he is likely to miss Saturday's match -- match and a | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
similar calf injury leaves Matthew Rees a doubt, so Warren Gatland has | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
called on Richard Hibbard as hooker. But the return of Alun Wyn Jones | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
hands Gatland his biggest boost, his return to regional action after | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
three months out not coming at a better time, especially with | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
Bradley Davies suspended. What makes Wales at the moment is | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
competition for places. We are continuing from the vein of the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Rugby World Cup and for Alun Wyn Jones to have had the experience he | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
has had an to come back into the game gives us options. And George | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
North appears to be on the men from his ankle injury, another positive | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
going into a game which sees Wales as many people's favourites. We are | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
under no illusions. A lot has been said and the press, obviously, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
about Wales being favourites and the last couple of Games, but you | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
can only -- you are only as good as your next game and we need to be as | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
clinical and accurate under pressure as we were in Ireland. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
England have won their opening two matches in the tournament as well. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
If Wales are to seal the Triple Crown at Twickenham they have to do | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
something they haven't done before. The build-up to the big match | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
certainly hasn't gone as smoothly as Wales would like, it never does, | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
but he is an air of real confidence within the camp at the moment, and | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
whisper it quietly, this is a feeling that this team could be on | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
the brink of something very special. The team to face England is | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
expected tomorrow and we will bring you all the details at 1:30pm. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
In football, Craig Bellamy has been included in the Wales squad for the | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Gary Speed Memorial match against Costa Rica next week. There is also | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
a recall for Bolton full-back Sam Ricketts who returns after a long | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
time out through injury, and it has been confirmed that Raymond | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Verheijen is staying with the Welsh set-up today. Craig Bellamy said it | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
could be his last appearance in a Wales shirt. Manager Chris Coleman | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
has encouraged the Liverpool striker to say it -- stay on, | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
something them management team echoed today. We have had | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
discussions with Chris today so hopefully that is positive. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Obviously we have to manage his injuries and his physical state and | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
be careful of that, but the form he has been in with a report has been | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
absolutely fantastic this year, and for us, it is his -- is imperative | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
that he is in the team and around the squad, because not only is he | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
influential on the pitch but extremely influential off the pitch. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Or all roads this week lead to Wembley for Cardiff City but it has | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
been frustrating for them. Malcolm McKay was dumbfounded that the | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Ipswich goalkeeper did not receive more than a yellow card for this. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
The Bluebirds head to the Carling Cup final against Liverpool on | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Saturday on the back of their heaviest defeat of the season. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Cycling, and the Olympic Velodrome certainly put on a great show this | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
weekend at the Track World Cup. Wales's Geraint Thomas had to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
settle for silver in the Team Pursuit, and his Great Britain team | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
were well beaten by Australia, something he will hope to turn | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
around and if you took -- few months time. We were disappointed | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
because we want to win, you know? But we haven't done that well for | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
while and I haven't ridden with these boys much. There is a lot for | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
us to work on and we can be happy with that. The way we all got stuck | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
in, gave it everything, and the crowd was crazy, we have all been | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
treating about it. The atmosphere is unbelievable -- tweeting about | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
Ding Junhui won the Welsh Open snooker, beating Mark Selby from | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
England in the final in Newport last night. The 24-year-old from | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
China won by nine frames to six to claim his first ranking title of | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
the season. It is estimated almost 20 million Chinese viewers tuned in | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
to watch him take the title. Time for the weather. | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
You are a keen snooker player. I was when I was young. I belonged | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
to a snooker club in Barry. This was back in the Eighties. He is not | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
very impressed! That is another Winter returned over the weekend | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
with Frost and wintry showers and a light covering of snow in places. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Tomos Hughes sent in this picture taken at Llyn Brenig near | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Cerrigydrudion, while Val Jones from Rhuddlan in Denbighshire took | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
this picture of snow on Moel Famau. The cold snap is over, and the next | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
few days look more unsettled with rain and strong winds. It will also | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
turn milder, in fact in Mold in Thursday the temperature could | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
rocket to 15 Celsius, 59 Fahrenheit, and nearer 11 Celsius in Manorbier | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
in Pembrokeshire with wind of the sea, because the sea temperature at | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the moment is still only six-8 Celsius. Tonight, it is cloudy | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
picture, a little rain and drizzle about, mostly in the north-west, | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
and later at the west of Wales, elsewhere mostly dry with no frost | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
tonight, temperatures everywhere well above freezing, down to six | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Celsius in Mid Wales. Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday and the weather will | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
be ideal for making a few pancakes indoors. He is the picture for 8 am. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Cloudy and damp for most of the country, light rain and drizzle, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
cloud sitting on the hills and mountains. Drier in Monmouthshire | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
and the border, should be dry as well in Wrexham first thing, | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
temperatures in Llandudno 8 Celsius with a fresh wind in north-west | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
Wales. Plenty of cloud tomorrow, then, a little rain and drizzle, | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
dry weather as well, especially in the north and east, brightening up | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
in places on the north coast and in Flintshire. Top temperatures 9-12 | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Celsius with a south-westerly breeze, the strongest winds in the | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
north-west and on Anglesey. In the Swansea Valley tomorrow, cloudy and | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
damp at times, temperatures rising to nine or 10 Celsius, 10 is 50 | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Fahrenheit. Wednesday, a wetter and windy day across Wales with heavy | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
rain coming across, strong to heavy weighing -- gale force winds as | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
well. Thursday drier and less Wednesday, -- windy, very mild as | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
well, temperatures above average, 15 Celsius in Welshpool, 59 Haroun | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
hat -- Fahrenheit, call on the south-west coast with the breeze of | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
the sea. Parts of England are suffering from a drought but Wales | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
is a different story, reservoirs are full or nearly full at the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
moment but this could change if we have a very dry spring and summer. | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
As always, the advice is to use water wisely and not waste it. I | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
think we have seen the last of the frost for a while, the rest of the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
week milder with rain and drizzle at times and windy with a taste of | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
spring on Thursday, and Spencer the dog in Porthcawl is looking forward | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
to spring. Doesn't he look cute? If you want to get in touch, e-mail is | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
Did you mention the hosepipe ban in February? | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
No. No chance. You heard it here first. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
I must pay more attention. The top stories: This is to be a big shake | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
in the way Britain's borders are policed after revelations that | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
hundreds of thousands of people were let into the country without | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
appropriate checks. Plans to put Welsh primary schools | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
and the performance balance has been delayed for two years. The | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
Education Minister Leighton Andrews says more time is needed for the | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
introduction of new reading and numeracy test. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
X-Ray is coming up in half an hour. He is a preview. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Tonight we are investigating the building firm which charged and | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Iraq war veteran �34,000 to renovate his house and then never | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
finished the job. And we are in the Pontypridd area, where metal | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
thieves have left streets in darkness and football pitches | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
without goal posts. Join us at 7:30pm. | :27:54. | :27:57. |