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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
On a visit to Wales, the Prime Minister criticises Labour's record | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
on education. I make no apology whatsoever for coming to Wales | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
today and pointing out that when it comes to health care and education, | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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we are in real danger of falling Tonight's other headlines: | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
The salvage operation begins on the cargo ship off the coast at Colwyn | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Bay. Nancy Lane died after contracting | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
hepatitis B during heart surgery. A health board says lessons have been | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
learned. A Japanese car parts maker says it | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
hopes to create a 500-strong And it's the latest treasure from | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
the creators of Wallace and Gromit. Meet the Welsh illustrator who | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
designed the characters for the Good evening. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Wales' education system is in real danger of falling behind. That was | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
the warning from the Prime Minister today. David Cameron has been in | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Wales to launch the Welsh Conservative campaign for next | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
month's local elections. He visited businesses in Barry this afternoon, | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
before heading to Llandudno to speak to supporters there. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
He also spoke to our Welsh Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick, who began | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
by asking him whether the relationship between his government | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
and the Labour one in Cardiff Bay had deteriorated to a level where | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
it was all about point-scoring and finger-pointing between both sides. | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
I don't accept that very moment. We made some very clear policies to | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the people of Wales and to the Welsh Assembly Government. We said | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
we would hold a referendum on extra powers. We have held that | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
referendum and delivered those extra powers. We said we would | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
devolve law-making powers, we have fulfilled that promise. We said we | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
would look at the case for a letter fire in the Great Western rail line. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
We have found the money to make sure that goes ahead. We will also | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
go ahead to the electrification of the Valley's line. Can you confirm | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
that? Yes. It is in black and white. We have to determine the exact | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
breakdown of the finance, but that is something we want to do. | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
entire value line network? And set out in the draft budget. It does | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
appear though, and people in Wales feel it is somehow unbecoming that | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
they watched First Minister's Questions in Cardiff Bay and see | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Prime Minister's Questions with you when she was criticising the Welsh | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Government's record on to help -- on health. There's not much respect | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
either way. I respect the Welsh Assembly Government will he First | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Minister. But I make no apology whatsoever for coming to Wales | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Today and pointing out that when it comes to health care and education, | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
we are in real danger of Wales falling behind. Take education. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
Laughs than half of children and those of getting five A to C levels | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
at GCSE. Our parents watching this programme happy with that? Of | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
course not. It is not my job to say everything is fine. If I see a | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
problem, and there is a problem with education, I think it is my | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
job to point out and encourage politicians to do more, to have a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
more radical agenda. I'm very clear what works in education. You need | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
to publish results, test children regularly, make sure schools can be | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
compared with each other and challenge the system to rates those | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
standards. Five no question, six months ago, the Welsh Assembly on | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
all party bases introduced the 5p charge on backs. It is something | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
you have considered. 90% of that, a lot of money has gone to charity. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
We you take that on? I have always thought that is a issue we should | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
look at carefully and we are looking at it in Westminster. I am | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
not embarrassed about this. The Scots have gone for a minimum price | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
on our core. By think that is a good idea. That is why we are | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
looking at introducing it. Devolution means we can learn from | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
each other. We should respect each other and the different decisions | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
we make, but we should not hold back if we think we are making | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
mistakes. I think the plastic bag it moves that have been made are | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
interesting. We are looking at them carefully. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
The Prime Minister David Cameron talking to our Welsh Affairs Editor | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Vaughan Roderick. And Vaughan is with me in the studio. Talk of a | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
respect agenda, but how much respect is there between Downing | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
Street and Cardiff Bay? You can see there's not much respect for the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Welsh education system from David Cameron. He need to remember that | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
this was a political decision. He was here as the leader of the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Conservative Party. He was due to argue his case ahead of the local | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
elections. He was being a little bit more blunt and outspoken than | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
he would be if he was visiting in his prime ministerial role. You did | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
see a pretty blunt accusation that the Welsh Government is failing on | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
medication, failing on health and that is a message the Conservatives | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
will be trying to drive home during the coming weeks, even though these | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
elections are fought local councils. It was a very blunt accusation. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
What has been the response from the Welsh Government? No official | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
response, again, because it is a political visit. But Labour would | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
be very dismissive. They say, Hoare is he to come Shia and to criticise | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
our health service when you see what he has done to the health | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
service in England. They say the voters of wires had a choice about | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
what they wanted to form the Welsh Government under a year ago when it | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
did not choose David Cameron or the Conservatives. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Work to remove diesel from the stricken cargo ship off the North | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Wales Coast has begun. The vessel was grounded on Tuesday night at | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Llanddulas near Colwyn Bay. Salvage workers are now onboard, although | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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the operation is expected to take a number of days. Sian Lloyd reports. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Two days on and the cargo ship remains in much the same position | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
on the beach at Llanddulas, close to the coastal barrier. Weather | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
conditions are very different to when this ship ran aground two days | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
ago in recipes when there were very high winds. Those charged with | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
carrying out the selvage say these improved conditions will play a | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
vital part in the operation. Worked to remove the 24,000 litres of | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
diesel from the ship's tanks is underway. Specialist equipment was | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
brought to the scene earlier this afternoon. It is all fully | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
contained in containers. The operation is to remove it from | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
those containers into containers on land so what can be taken away for | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
disposal. And the next stage of the operation is for the salvors to | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
come up with a plan to remove the ship. There will be some | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
inconvenience for drivers. Police say restrictions imposed will | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
remain in place. The expressway is expected to be busy with Easter | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
visitors, but police say public safety is paramount and to one lane | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
of the spine carriageway will remain closed for now. It's not | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
known how long the operation would take, but it is expected to be at | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
least days. Moving the stricken vessel could take substantially | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
longer. Meanwhile, an investigation is underway into what happened on | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Tuesday night. It is being co- ordinated by marine accident | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
investigators, who have already visited the scene. The union which | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
represents maritime workers is calling for a full inquiry on | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
safety grounds. Fewer than 100 homes in North Wales | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
are still without power after being cut off during yesterday's snow | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
storms. Manweb, part of Scottish Power, say engineers are working | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
flat out to restore supplies. Thousands of homes in Caernarfon, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Anglesey and on the coast were affected. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
A health board has apologised after a woman who went into Morriston | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Hospital in Swansea for heart surgery died after contracting | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
hepatitis B. It's thought the source was a probe used during her | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
surgery. 178 other people also had to be screened. A report into her | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
death found healthcare workers were not always clear on how to clean | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
items or which cleaning products to use. Caroline Evans reports. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
A mother and grandmother, Nancy Lane from Aberaman was 68 when she | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
went into hospital for heart surgery. She made a full recovery, | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
but during the operation, she was exposed to the hepatitis B virus | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
which later killed her. The hospital has been unable to | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
establish for certain the source of the infection, but it was probably | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
an electronic probe used during surgery. The board responsible for | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the running of this hospital admitted today there had been | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
failures and poor practice. According to this report, an audit | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
of theatre and the wards highlighted widespread blood | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
contamination in the environment. It is not clear, it says, how long | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
this situation existed. At special meeting of the health board at | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
lunchtime, executives apologised and pledged that lessons would be | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
learned. Afterwards, I asked the medical director what had gone | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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wrong. The processes we were using at the time were based on | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
manufacturer's guidelines. In retrospect, it was not a complete | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
end of the process. So we are now more complying with the National | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Guide turns, which has been developed since the incident. -- | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
guidance. In a statement, Mrs Lane's family | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
said no other family must go through what they've been through. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
We have grave concerns about the general level of hygiene and | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
infection control at the hospital at the time. | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
It is particularly distressing to learn that testing showed another | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
patient was also exposed to the virus. That other patient is said | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
to have survived with no ill effects. The equipment used in this | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
case is now being sterilised in a different solution and for longer. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
The hospital is committed to tackling healthcare-associated | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
infections as a top priority for the coming year. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
The health watchdog has condemned Cefn Coed hospital in Swansea as no | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
longer fit for purpose after a member of staff was convicted of | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
sexually assaulting a patient. Health Inspectorate Wales carried | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
out an investigation into standards at the hospital, which mainly cares | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
for mental health patients, following the incident in 2010. The | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
health board says it accepts the report's findings and has already | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
introduced what it calls substantial improvements. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
It's emerged that five universities in Wales will charge no more than | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
�7,500 in tuition fees next year. It follows a change in the way | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
undergraduate places are allocated to reward institutions prepared to | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
charge lower fees than the maximum charge of �9,000. Our education | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
correspondent, Nicola Smith, is in Newport tonight with the details. | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
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Nicky, what's behind this? Welcome to the University of Wales, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Newport. Students take courses in everything from fashion to business. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Come September, at first year students will be charged just shy | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
of �9,000 for their course fees. That is a very similar situation to | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
have a universities. The Welsh Government will help Welsh students | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
pay those higher fees. That is a very expensive undertaking. To | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
bring down the costs and make sure there is more money in the pot | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
available for core funding, things will be done a little differently | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
in 2013. The Higher Education Funding Council says it will report | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
universities who bring their fee levels down to seven and a half | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
�1,000. They will get extra places. There will also get extra places if | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
they meet targets on things like research, income and overseas | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
students. They say it is a better way of spending the money available. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
We need to be able to find a way to bring down the cost of the grants | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
that we will be paying over all too Welsh students. So that we can | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
afford, then, to meet the cost of high-cost subjects and also | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
continued to maintain levels of research. | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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While the winners and losers in It opted not to drop its fears. In | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
your pot, they plan to drop their fees but they still face losing | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
more than 300 students and they say they are deeply disappointed and | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
will be holding emergency discussions to discuss what impact | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
that will have on courses. The University of Glamorgan are set to | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
gain more than 800 places so it's a different picture across Wales but | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
one thing is certain -- one thing is certain, the pot is looking | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
smaller. Two people have been questioned by | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
police as part of an investigation into the financial accounts of | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
Treorchy Male Voice Choir. The choir contacted South Wales Police | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
after serious accounting discrepancies involving thousands | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
of pounds were found by members in a recent audit. | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
A Cwmbran based loan broker found to have conducted deceitful and | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
oppressive practices has decided not to appeal against the loss of | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
its credit licence. Yes Loans was stopped from selling loans in March | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
after an Office of Fair Trading investigation found it had misled | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
customers. The company says staff will be redeployed elsewhere. | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
A couple from Abergavenny have described how they fled their other | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
home in the West African state of Mali after being caught up in a | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
coup there. Neil Whitehead and Diane English divide their time | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
between Wales and a hotel they own in the city of Timbuktu. They've | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
now fled to neighbouring Mauritania, after the fighting intensified. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
We got on the road out of town and rather suddenly, we drove into a | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
gun battle. We didn't know who was firing at him. We couldn't see what | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
was happening but there was quite a lot of firing. Then it traces | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
started to fire across the road so we thought, we had better get out | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
of here. Still to come in the programme: A | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
former painter and decorator Gareth Evans will be hoping to put the | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
gloss on his weightlifting career as he takes a step closer to London | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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A Japanese car parts maker has told BBC Wales about its plans to create | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
a 500 strong workforce in Gorseinon. Toyoda Gosei bought a factory in | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the town last year, making it the last foreign-owned manufacturer to | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
come to Wales. Here's our business correspondent Nick Servini. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Dashboards for cars are put together at Toyoda Gosei's new | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
plant in Gorseinon. This factory was empty 15 months ago and it had | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
been that way for a decade after a French firm pulled out. Since | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
moving in, Toyoda Gosei has invested �10 million and taken on | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
staff. Production got under way at the start of the year. | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
We have the car business and in the summer, we will have the next model | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
in line as well. We also have a new car manufacturer coming in next | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
year and we plan to have more employees. | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
Japanese used to be a language familiar to Welsh factory workers. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
That was in the early 90s went 70,000 staff were employed by | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
foreign owned companies. More than 170 of their factories closed | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
between 1998 and 2008 and Wales success in attracting new companies | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
has deteriorated significantly. This is the last major foreign | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
manufacturer to come here but will there be any more? Recent reports | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
criticised the country's image overseas. Now there Welsh | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
government says its working on improving international branding | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
and managers here say changes in global supply chains means there | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
are opportunities, particularly in manufacture ring. | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
The disaster in Japan and the floods in Thailand had an impact on | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
our customer base. I would hope they are looking at more -- more | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
local supply chain rather than global suppliers because we don't | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
have the issues here that other parts in the world do and it's a | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
more stable environment. It's easy to be negative about | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
inward investment after closures but when you come to a factory like | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
this, you realise how beneficial it can be. It acts as a huge cash | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
injection to a local community and that's why so many people want | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Wales to reclaim its position as the top place in the UK to attract | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
All week we've been marking the 30th anniversary of the Falklands | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
War and speaking to those with memories of the conflict. But of | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
course there are still Welsh forces on the islands today. Jenny Rees | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
has been catching up with some of them and their relatives back home | :18:27. | :18:37. | |
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Nicola Morgan's house is a busy one. Her 13-year-old twin sons and their | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
10-year-old brother keep it that way. One person is missing. Big | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Brother Alex Jones is the way in the Falklands, serving with the RAF, | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
following in the footsteps of his uncle. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
He used to come home and tell Alex stories and Alex used to sit there | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
nice and quietly and from a very young age, he wanted to go into the | :19:02. | :19:10. | |
RAF. I do worry about him. I wish I could see him. I think about him | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
all the time but at the end of the day, it is his job. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
23-year-old Alex, seen in the middle, is one of a number of | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
forces personnel in Wales currently based in the Falklands. We arranged | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
for four of them to speak to us. He said he was part of the Joint | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Services police force, dealing with civilians. | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
If that a difficult role? It's a nice change. It's nice to | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
get out on the streets and talked to normal people and have decent | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
conversations on the civilian street. All the same sort of things, | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
we deal with the same problems out here. | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
8,000 miles away from home, life on the island can be quiet. There are | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
around 1,200 British forces at the garrison, 35 miles outside the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
capital. There is enough to do to keep us | :20:08. | :20:16. | |
busy. Plenty if you are an outdoor type. There is wildlife as well. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
I've got a wife and a son in Southampton. My mother and sisters | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
live in Wales. With my wife, I mean, I do get to speak to her on a daily | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
basis so that is quite good. The rest of my family, not quite as | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
much. The majority of the personnel who | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
live here are ex-military from many years ago. They just welcome the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
likes of us. Back home, Alex is will model to | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
his younger brothers. Josh and Jake want to follow him into the RAF. Is | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
his mum proud? Very proud. I burst into tears when | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
somebody asked me that the other day. It's because I miss him so | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
much and he is so far away. Three Welsh weightlifters will head | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
out to Turkey this weekend hoping to qualify for London 2012 Olympics. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
Among them Gareth Evans from Anglesey. He's now based in Leeds | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
with the GB squad but was back in his hometown of Holyhead today to | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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reopen his old club which has just Being a welterweight, Gareth Evans | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
has been waiting -- lifting weights since the age of 12. He has always | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
wanted to reach the Olympics and this weekend, he gets a step closer. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
They aim to reach qualifying standards for London 2012 at the | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
European Championships in Turkey. A weight lifter from Holyhead going | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
to the Olympic Games. It has never happened before. I have reached the | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games are the pinnacle of any | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
athlete's career. He now trains in Leeds with the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
rest of the GB squad but was back in his home town to open the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Holyhead and Anglesey weightlifting and fitness centre. The club has | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
undergone a �300,000 referred to and is hoping to attract the | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Albanians here to use it as a training base for the Olympics. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
They have a long history in the sport but so does the club. It has | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
produced medal winners including gold medallist Ray Williams who now | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
runs the centre. For a town of 7,000, it is a huge | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
achievement and Gareth Evans is on the list of champions in the past | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
and he has taken it to another level. | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
A medal might be an outside chance for Gareth as he's only been doing | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
this on a professional level for over a year. A former painter and | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
decorator, he has had to move away from his family and give up | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
everything to follow his Olympic dream. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
The new cricket season couldn't have begun much better for | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Glamorgan this morning. The Welsh county won the toss at | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Leicestershire and bowler Huw Waters took two wickets with the | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
first two balls. But the pace slowed down after that great start, | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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and Leicestershire recovered well. A children's author and illustrator | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
from Flintshire is celebrating a double success after designing | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
characters for the latest animated film from Aardman, the creators of | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
Wallace & Gromit. Jonny Duddle spent the past week attending the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
premiere of Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, and | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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collecting two awards for his latest book. | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
Some of you are as ugly as a sea cucumber. Some of you are closer to | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
a chair than a pirate. Some of you are fish I have dressed up in a hat. | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
In Cinemas this week, The Pirates took years of painstaking work to | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
put together, Jonny Duddle who doodles on a computer rather than | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
paper, was there at the beginning. You do a lot of these and then the | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
director will say, I like the head off, I like the body. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
The film's directors had seen one of his sketches and decided he | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
would be perfect to help create the characters in their film. After | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
four years of making and refining hundreds of drawings he's finally | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
seen his creations on the big screen. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
I would be looking at a clay model in meetings so I've seen them | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
revolve. The puppets, you could dissemble some of them and they | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
become fully articulated so I had seen them before the film but to | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
see them with a good actor's boys behind it, they really come to life | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
and it's great. At the same time as working on the | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
film Jonny has published two successful children's books, also | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
with a pirate theme. The latest won two prizes at a major awards show | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
last week. His adventures with pirates are over for the time being | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
but he is now sketching for his next book, set in space. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
They call me the pirate captain. While he is preoccupied with | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
spaceships, cinema-goers are still enjoying the sea-going version. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Much better weather today but still a bit chilly. Warming up over | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
It will turn a little milder but no chance of a heat wave. The Easter | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
bunny will be pleased. The north and west enjoyed lots of sunshine | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
today but over the Easter weekend there will be more cloud than | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
sunshine. Some dry weather but not completely dry. It looks like we'll | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
all see some rain on Monday. Tonight dry. The sky becoming clear | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
everywhere for a time and turning cold. A widespread frost. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Temperatures in Powys falling as low as minus four in the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
countryside. Less cold on the coast. Tomorrow morning a promising start | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
in the south-east. Cold but bright. Some frost and sunshine but make | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
the most of it. The rest of the country cloudy but dry. Now during | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
the day, it will cloud over everywhere. The cloud bringing a | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
few spots of light rain otherwise dry. Top temperatures nine to 12 | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
Celsius with a north-westerly breeze. Tomorrow night cloudy. A | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
little rain or drizzle. Some hill fog but the cloud will keep the | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
frost away. Temperatures staying well above freezing. Saturday | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
plenty of cloud. A few spots of rain. The odd shower. Some dry | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
weather as well. It may brighten-up in places. Temperatures around | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
average with light winds. Easter Day largely cloudy and damp at | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
times. Again some dry weather and a little milder. Temperatures 10 to | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
13 Celsius with light to moderate winds. So not brilliant weather | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
over the Easter weekend. Some dry weather but not completely dry. In | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
fact on Monday it looks like we'll all see some rain. Not to everyone | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
liking but a decent drop of rain for the garden. Last April was the | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
warmest on record but it's a different story this year. Next | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
week will bring a mixture of sunshine and April showers. And | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
cold enough at night for a touch frost. By the way, Aberystwyth Cats | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
Protection are holding a Grand Easter Fayre in Borth on Saturday. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
It should be dry. While Penllergaer Scouts are having an Easter Duck | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Race in Pontlliw on Monday. Plenty of fun is forecast and it will be | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
And that is Wales Today. A quick update for you at 8:00pm, more | :27:28. | :27:31. |