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Welcome to Wales Today. The top story tonight: | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Remploy workers like Alex still fighting to save their jobs. The UK | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
government says it's open to ideas, but is it realistic to expect all | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
the 300 staff to find work with mainstream employers? | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
I would love to think he's going to be employed, I would love that. But | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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better still, I'd prefer him to Also tonight: | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
They've lost their herd to Bovine TB. The farming sisters accuse the | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
Environment Minister of cowardice. He should be watching this | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
happening. He should see the stressor he is putting the animals | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
and as under. Wales's poorest performing schools | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
are promised an extra �10,000 each to boost standards. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Getting patients back on their feet quicker after a hip replacement. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
The surgeon and his engineer brother work in partnership. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
And the cultural heart of Neath since Victorian times. Gwyn Hall | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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re-opens its doors after fire Good evening. The UK government has | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
said it's willing to listen to ideas on how to keep open seven | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Welsh factories employing nearly 300 people with disabilities. The | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Minister for Disabled People, Maria Miller, told Wales Today that she | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
would welcome proposals from the workers themselves or the Welsh | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Government. She's now due to meet her Welsh counterpart next week. | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
More from Caroline Evans. They will not give up their job without a | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
fight. That was the clear message from workers at Remploy in Swansea. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
I think we have been shafted, for want of a better word. They are | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
shutting the factories. I am disgusted. I am devastated. We all | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
laugh. -- we all are. I cannot say a lot in words. It has all been | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
said. The UK Government says the money it puts into factories like | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
this could be better spent helping disabled people into the mainstream | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
work place. But it will listen to ideas to save the factories. What | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
we want to do now as we move forward into the consultation | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
period is have conversations with anybody a whole has an idea which | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
has an idea behind it to be able to reduce the number of people who | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
might be subject to losing their jobs at the end of this process. Of | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
course, we want to speak to people who have got those ideas. We urge | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
anybody who wants to look at any of the factory is all part of the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
factory operations to come forward and talk to us about their ideas. | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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One idea is to turn them into social enterprises like this. Here, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
these men are part of a team offering Web-based services to | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
clients. I would take any job. I remember when I was looking for | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
work and I was frustrated and sitting at home, trying to find | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
work, I would literally just take anything. Everyone should be given | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
a choice in what they should do. If somebody is I cannot see a reason | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
why that person cannot do the job. The trust which runs the operation | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
says it is a more modern business model but it would not suit | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
everyone currently employed by company macro. If you are disabled, | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
you are nearly twice as just -- twice as likely to be unemployed. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
That means that you are already at a disadvantage when it comes to the | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
labour market. In areas like this where the labour market is weak | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
where you have hundreds, if not more, of people looking for one job, | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
what this might impact on is that people are being added to the back | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
of a long queue. This man has worked for company macro for 15 | :04:27. | :04:37. | |
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years. I'm very sad. I love my job. I love my work. But I cannot see | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
him being employed in mainstream. I would love to think that he will be | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
employed, I would love that, but better still, I would prefer him to | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
remain at company macro. That is where he is suited. | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
This underwear for use in Taliban - - tanning salons is made by a | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Remploy. The company has been fantastic helping to develop the | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
project. Would reply closing, we are going to have to find another | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
manufacturing facility. That will not necessarily be in Wales. We | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
have found Remploy to be really competitive. That is another good | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
reason why the stage year. Welsh Government says it needs more | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
details before it can step in to help the factories. A meeting is | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
being planned for the UK Government next week. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
Two sisters who run a farm in west Wales have accused the Environment | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Minister of cowardice for not announcing a decision on how to | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
control Bovine Tuberculosis. Helen and Angela Winsor have lost around | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
100 cows over the past two years, despite efforts to keep their | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
cattle free from TB. They blame the Welsh government for not taking | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
action. You may find some of the pictures in Iolo ap Dafydd's report | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
distressing. It is a day like no other for a | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Helen Winsor and Angela Winsor. 24 of their cows have been slaughtered. | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
Some were shot on the farmyard. They have been tested for Bovine TB | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
and were classed as actress. The sisters are angry and upset. They | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
have lost 100 cows to Bovine TB in two years. I think you are a coward, | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Minister. You should be on the yard, watching this happen. You should | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
see the stress you are putting the animals and ascender. But this is a | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
lifetime's work that has been destroyed. Put your finger out and | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
do something. The problem is not confined to this farm. On these 300 | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
acres, they have tried to prevent Bovine TB from spreading by it | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
fencing cattle apart. Running an electric fence around outbuilding | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
needs and using the Bowater troughs. A few weeks on from a traumatic day, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
the shirts have been disinfected, this yard has been claimed. But the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
cows that have been lost will not be replaced. The question being | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
asked is, how can of farmers from cows commercially when Bovine TB, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
they believe, carried by infected badgers, continually infects their | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
herd? Badgers are blamed for infecting cattle with TB. But a few | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
miles away, another farmer please vaccinating rather than killing | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
badgers is the short-term answer. There is no need to have to kill a | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
wild animal because it is a career of a disease when we come back so | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
later. The same applies to our cows. We can vaccinate them. There is a | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
vaccine out there for them. All we need now is for the Government to | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
be able to lift the ban on our export market, which would be put | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
in place if we did vaccinate our cars. Last year, the newly elected | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Welsh Government instigated a scientific for the winter of Bovine | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
TB and whether culling badgers is the way to control the disease. The | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
findings of to to be published. longer this goes on, the more | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
credibility is given to the fact that this could be a political | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
cowardice. The Government need to make a strong decision. They need | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
to make what may not be an easy decision or even the most popular | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
decision, but it would be the right decision. Since last December, | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
farmers have been waiting for the Environment Minister to make a | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
statement. Today, he was opening a flood defence scheme. I will be | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
making a statement on Bovine TB this month. We have been doing | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
necessary work to work at our policy and I will make that clear | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
when I make that statement. Eradicating Bovine TB remains for | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
the -- one of the biggest and most important tasks for the Welsh | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
Government. The Government has also issued a statement saying it | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
recognises the devastating impact of Bovine TB on our farmers in | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Wales. It is too late for these sisters as they have decided not to | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
keep cattle any more. I am joined by a Robert Parry Jones | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
from the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Presumably, you | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
were against a can of badgers, but you must understand that the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
decision needs to be done sooner rather than later. Our position has | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
been that we are a Wildlife Trust and we manage our major issues. We | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
need farmers. We sympathise with farmers and what they're going | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
through. We are as committed as them to eradicating Bovine TB in | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
Wales. What we would say is that looking at the Science of that the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
whole issue, vaccination of badgers is the only long-term solution to | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
the problem. In the meantime, and we have seen a very devastating | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
impact on one particular farm, they are really desperate for a decision. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
They say that they have gone out of business. It is hard. The Welsh | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
Government has taken its time to do this. But what they have done is | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
look at the Science. We hope that by doing that and by bringing in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
all the issues, they can make the right decision for wildlife and | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
four Welsh farmers. Whatever decision the Welsh Government comes | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
to, it is going to be the wrong decision for one camp. We have sent | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
-- we have seen such strong and diverse decisions on this. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
science shows that culling does not have a meaningful contribution to | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
eradicating Bovine TB. But vaccination does. What we would | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
want from the Welsh Government is to announce a vaccination programme. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Farmers, while life trusts and other groups can meet and find out | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
how we best implement the vaccination. Thank you very much.. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
One of the UK's biggest loan brokers, Cwmbran-based Yes Loans, | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
could be put out of business after a regulator found it used deceitful | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
practices. The Office of Fair Trading has stopped the company | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
selling loans after customers were charged fees when they handed over | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
their credit card details for identity checks. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
An eco-centre in Powys says it will be cutting jobs following a review. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
The Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth blames | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
the economic downturn, and said it was seeking voluntary redundancies. | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
It hasn't revealed how many of its 90 fulltime staff would be losing | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
their jobs. A University of Wales partner | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
college in London has gone into liquidation. Rayat London College | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
was one of several colleges featured in a BBC Wales | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
investigation last year which exposed a scam in which overseas | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
students were being offered help to cheat their way to University of | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
Wales degrees in order to qualify for UK graduate work visas. At the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
time, Rayat London College denied any wrongdoing, said it had | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
suspended those of its staff allegedly involved and had referred | :12:01. | :12:08. | |
the matter to the police. The lowest-ranked secondary schools | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
in Wales have been promised more funding to improve standards. The | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Welsh government has set aside �10,000 for every school in the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
bottom two bands of a performance- grading system. Our Education | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Correspondant, Nicola Smith, is in the newsroom. Nicky, why this extra | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
cash, and why now? There are five school bans in Wales. Band one is | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
the high us, and five is the lowest. There are 75 secondary schools one | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
in those bans four or five. They are there because of a school's | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
exam performance, attendance levels, the number of pupils eligible for | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
free school meals. The Education Minister has always defended the | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
system. He says it deadened by schools which need extra support. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
But extra support needs extra cash. Local authorities are beginning to | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
group together in regional consortia to oversee the school | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
improvement and there has been Investment in that. But today, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Leighton Andrews said he has listened to the concerns of the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
profession regarding the additional support that is needed to make this | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
system work. So, for the centre via secondary schools, each of them | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
will get an extra �10,000 as long as they provide an action plan on | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
how they will improve. One of the ways to improve performance is to | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
ensure there is particular support for particular teachers in | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
particular subject areas. Some of the subject areas that matter most | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
will be English or Welsh first language of mathematics of got --. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
The schools could use that money to get support and of areas. | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
What has the reaction be? Teaching unions have broadly welcomed that. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
They say every penny will help. Opposition parties say the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
investment is inadequate, a drop in the ocean. Aside from the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
announcement on my money, the Minister reiterated his warning to | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
local authorities that they needed to demonstrate they were delivering | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
on school improvement. He also announced what he called a | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
practitioner panel. Headteachers and teachers meeting every couple | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
of months with the Welsh Government to advise them on best practice and | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
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Still to come on Wales Today. This was Neath's historic Gwyn Hall five | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
years ago, destroyed by fire during refurbishment work. Take a look | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
around as it prepares to re-open its doors to the public. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
As thousands gear up for the Sports Relief Mile we visit a project in | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Merthyr to see how your money makes a difference. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
A surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital and his engineer brother | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
have teamed up to come up with a unique way to improve hip | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
replacement operations. James Wootton is one of only a few | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
surgeons to use what's called the Direct Anterior Approach to hip | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
surgery. Although the technique gets patients back on their feet | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
more quickly it's more expensive and that's where his brother comes | :15:10. | :15:20. | |
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in as Roger Pinney explains. Every step is painful for this man. | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
83 roads getting ready for the most common operation, and a replacement | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
for his arthritic hip. Thousands of new hips are fitted in Wales each | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
year and surgeons like James Wootton at Wrexham Maelor Hospital | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
at constantly innovating. He asked his brother to help and eight | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
result is a piece of equipment to help replacing hip replacements | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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from at the side. It is a whole packet. It is reducing post | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
operative requirement for physiotherapy. There is no home | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
adoptions, very little occupational health required. When managers and | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
surges see this they are more likely to adopt it. It is growing. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
With other devise fitting a replacement from the funds would | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
mean more staff and time in the operating theatre. Overcoming those | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
problems as part of the design brief. Using this device and method | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
of surgery, my brother's lengths of stay is two days. That is a | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
potential saving of tens of thousands of bed days in hospital. | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
With more than 400 operations under his belt, interest in his results | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
and those potential savings is growing. Car new hot bonnet? This | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
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man is eight weeks PO's operation. It is amazing. The early signs are | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
that this man will be following close behind. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
It's been a landmark in the centre of Neath since Victorian times but | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
five years ago Gwyn Hall was almost destroyed by fire. Tonight it gets | :17:16. | :17:25. | |
its grand reopening and our reporter Jordan Davies is there. | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
We are in the last frantic bar and bistro where Forman did his best of | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
the invited guests are making their way into the auditorium. -- glass | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
fronted. We are here to mark this iconic building. A building that | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
has ravaged by fire, five years ago. Now it has had a �9 million | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
transformation. This was the moment a cornerstone of Neath's committee | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
history went up in flames. The morning after the 125 year-old Gwyn | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Hall was a wreck of twisted metal and the roof had completely | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
collapsed. It was just weeks away from completing a brand new refit. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
But now, back dream is a reality. All the groups that used this in | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
the past will be queuing up to use it again. That will be fantastic | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
and they can -- I can only apologise to those people who have | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
been waiting in the wings to get back on the boards and do their bit. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
This new development boasts a 3 D digital cinema, a dance studio, a | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
bistro, and a theatre. Built in 1887 on land donated by local | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
businessman, a listed building was at the heart of the area. Then the | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
theatre was upstairs and now it is downstairs. There is based in the | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
roof for a professional dance floor and Neath's first cinema in 20 | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
years. Steve Jones is a manager and his phone has been red hot with | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
bookings. We want to work with the community. It is a fantastic studio | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
space so we can have as many classes as we can hear. We have | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
signed up a ballet school from the Swansea area who will be providing | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
ballet classes every Friday evening. We want to use this space and enjoy | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
the space. The ambition for the Gwyn Hall goes beyond its walls. It | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
is hoped this iconic building will provide the centrepiece for the | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
regeneration of Neath town centre. This has been the cultural heart of | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
the area for 120 years. It is going to be a springboard for | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
regeneration in the area. I am joined by three guests who have | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
connections with the building.The compere tonight. You perform the as | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
a child. Yes I did. I remember being a little six-year-old on that | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
massive state and for years and years to come I was there from six | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
to 17 performing. It is where my love of performing started. What | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
are your first impressions of the building. It is the first time I | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
have been in it and it is amazing. I was worried that the character of | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
the old building would be lost but it has not. It looks amazing. | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
at the start trialist tonight. You will be performing a solo.S star | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
cellist. He is completely different to what it used to be. Hopefully it | :20:48. | :20:57. | |
will make a lot of difference. are going to be running this | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
building when it is up and running.The Cabinet member for | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
regeneration. What are the ambitions for the future of this | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
place? This is the end of the 60th Jenny to poison iconic building | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
back in the centre of Neath. -- six two-year journey. The main part of | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
this is we can provide a cultural event of our young assistants, | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
young dancers and to bring through music and dance for her children. | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
think it is going to be entertaining. The people of Neath | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
can look forward to many entertaining of evenings to come. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
Football - Cardiff City failed to move back into the Championship's | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
top six after a 2-2 draw at Brighton. After a goalless first | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
half, striker Joe Mason gave the Bluebirds the lead. But that was | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
cancelled out as Brighton scored to put the match back on level terms. | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
More Cardiff pressure led to this fine goal from Peter Whittingham | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
which looked to have won the match for the visitors. But with one | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
minute of the 90 left, Wales international Sam Vokes equalised | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
for Brighton. The result means Cardiff stay in eightth place, one | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
point off the play-offs. I have to be delighted and the way | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
my team played. I felt they executed the game 0.2 80. They | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
played a good game against a tough team. I think we looked very | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
comfortable tonight. Time now for the full weather | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
The weather is settling down thanks to an eddy of high pressure. We | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
have got cloudy conditions but at least it will be mild. It is thick | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
enough for some light rain or drizzle as Bessie on the hills. For | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
:22:58. | :22:59. | ||
It should be a frost-free night and day morning. The reason for that is | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
we have high pressure building up from the south unsettling things | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
down in time for the weekend. First thing tomorrow morning, it is a | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
cloudy start for many of us. Some light rain or drizzle on the hills | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
but most of us getting away with a dry day and there will be some | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
holes in the cloud. The best of the brightness in Pembrokeshire and the | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
South East. Highs of 13 degrees Celsius. It will be breezy | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
especially along the coast. The winds easing as we go into tomorrow | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
night. Tomorrow night, similar to tonight. Some cloud but the subtle | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
differences we have so mist and hill fog. Visibility poor. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Temperatures tomorrow night ranging between 8-9 degrees Celsius. If you | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
are going to the match on Saturday and the Millennium Stadium in | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
should be a dry day, rather cloudy with highs a 14 degrees Celsius. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
You should be all right with just an extra layer. For the rest of the | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
country on Saturday, there is a risk of some rain for part of | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
flints share, Gwynedd and Cardigan Bay but the rest of the country | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
should be dry with highs of 13 degrees Celsius. The best day of | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
the weekend is likely to be on Sunday when we're going to see some | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
In just a few weeks time, thousands of us will be taking to the streets | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
to run the Sport Relief Mile raising money to change lives | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
around the world and closer to home. Someone who'll be doing his bit | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
this year is Welsh rugby international turned adventurer, | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
Richard Parks. Before setting off on his latest challenge, he paid a | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
visit to a young person's project in Merthyr Tydfil to see how your | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
money can make a difference. Richard Parks is no pushover. He's | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
faced some pretty tough competition on the pitch and even tougher | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
conditions during last year's record breaking challenge to | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
conquer the highest summits on every continent. But he may have | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
just met his match. Go easy on the! | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Here in Merthyr, there's plenty of fresh faces ready to take him on. | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Each week, around 70 young people come to this converted engine house | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
to play football. It's all about getting the community engaged in | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
sport and exercise. But it's also a way of getting these young people | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
off the streets and out of trouble. Money raised by Sport Relief covers | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the running costs of the project, as well as paying for staff and | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
equipment. Sometimes young kids can get this | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
far and with their future. Process like this not only bring kids | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
together where they can engage with each other but to give them | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
something positive to channel their energies into. It's a landscape 16- | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
year-old Callum Williams knows only too well. Coming here isn't just | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
about playing football. I used to be on the streets creating mischief | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
scum I used to be in the parks drinking. I started coming year. I | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
got out of trouble with their police and I met nicer people. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
think that his 6-14 M! Meanwhile back in goal, Richard | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Parks is probably wishing he was back scaling the heights and | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Everest and Kilimanjaro. Mind you, his days of adventure aren't | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
entirely over. He's about to embark on one more challenge for Sport | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
Relief. Is a 1,000 mile race around the UK. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
It is the first time that sports people and celebrities have gone | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
head-to-head to find out which nation will be first home. I will | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
have a warm bed and somebody to talk to on this one. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Last Sport Relief, people of Wales raised and donated more than �1 | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
million and since then nearly �2 million has been spent on projects | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
across Wales. And this year, it's hoped we'll raise even more money | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
to change even more lives. If you want to get involved in | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Sport Relief, then go to sportrelief.com. Fundraising will | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
be held across the country, including the Sports Relief Mile on | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
the 23rd to 25th March. A reminder of tonight's top stories | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
from the BBC - The six soldiers killed in Afghanistan are named, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
victims of the deadliest single attack on British troops since 2001. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Five of them were 21 or under. Their Sergeant was 33. They'd been | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
in Helmand for less than a month. The UK Government has said it's | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
willing to listen to ideas on how to keep open seven Welsh Remploy | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
factories. They employ nearly 300 people with disabilities. The | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
Minister for Disabled People, Maria Miller, says would welcome | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
proposals from the workers themselves or the Welsh Government. | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
That's Wales Today. Here's a reminder of our details on Twitter | :27:31. | :27:35. |