:00:18. > :00:21.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top story: Green shoots for this
:00:21. > :00:29.firm, as business leaders tell us they are surprised the economy has
:00:29. > :00:31.fallen back into recession. Our other headlines: An Assembly
:00:31. > :00:33.Member is being investigated by the Standards Committee after claims
:00:33. > :00:36.about his behaviour after a night out.
:00:36. > :00:46.Teenager Seren Barnard died in the care of social services. Her mother
:00:46. > :00:47.
:00:48. > :00:52.says lessons must be learnt. something has to change and I think
:00:52. > :00:59.my daughter will expose Pembrokeshire Council cancelled the
:00:59. > :01:04.system. -- County Council. On its way to Wales, so what's this
:01:04. > :01:07.jet got to do with the Olympics? And on the eve of the Queens
:01:07. > :01:17.Diamond Jubilee visit, we look back at how she's been welcomed here in
:01:17. > :01:21.Business groups across Wales say they are surprised by today's GDP
:01:21. > :01:23.figures, which has put the UK back into recession. Employers say the
:01:24. > :01:30.news could damage confidence and make recruitment over the coming
:01:30. > :01:32.year less likely. The construction industry was the worst performing
:01:32. > :01:40.part of the economy. Our business correspondent, Nick Servini, is in
:01:40. > :01:45.Llanharan near Bridgend for us this evening.
:01:45. > :01:48.There was a general acknowledgement that the construction industry was
:01:48. > :01:53.suffering and had been suffering in recent months but generally, people
:01:53. > :01:58.for the rest of the economy was holding up well. But people cannot
:01:58. > :02:01.be totally unprepared for the news that we had today. I have lost
:02:01. > :02:06.count of the number of times people say to me that we are not out of
:02:06. > :02:11.the woods yet. Those people today were proved right.
:02:11. > :02:14.There were hopes for green shoots but none came in the GDP figures
:02:14. > :02:20.this morning which showed the value of goods and services produced by
:02:20. > :02:27.the UK economy. Construction took the biggest hit, down 3%. Money fit
:02:27. > :02:30.-- manufacturing was down by 0.4 %. Most will tell you retailing is
:02:30. > :02:40.tough. The owner of this garden centre in Aberystwyth gave this
:02:40. > :02:47.
:02:47. > :02:57.reaction. Generally, it is not too bad. We learnt there was negative
:02:57. > :03:06.
:03:06. > :03:11.growth. There are areas within the market that a growing rapidly. If
:03:11. > :03:15.you are in export or trade and you are up in the international
:03:15. > :03:20.marketplace, you can pick up a significant amount of work. If not,
:03:20. > :03:28.you are in a position of swimming against the tide. Be it is going to
:03:28. > :03:32.be difficult for the next two Mackle three years. Companies have
:03:32. > :03:38.to pull in when necessary but generally keep going. I think there
:03:38. > :03:48.will be a slow climb out of where we are but I am positive. I have to
:03:48. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:54.be positive. The Institute of Directors in Wales is confident but
:03:54. > :03:57.says companies might be less likely to boost investment this year. The
:03:57. > :04:01.business minister says it is a more complicated picture than the
:04:02. > :04:10.figures suggest it acknowledges that confidence is a worry. You do
:04:10. > :04:20.have to concentrate on the good news. If you concentrate on the bad
:04:20. > :04:23.
:04:24. > :04:32.news, but it dares -- it does affect conference.
:04:32. > :04:35.Let's pick up on what is happening in the building trade. Were you
:04:35. > :04:43.surprised by how much the construction industry was
:04:43. > :04:47.struggling? I am very disappointed to see the results. What we're
:04:47. > :04:52.seeing is the culmination of a number of factors feeding into the
:04:52. > :04:56.construction industry, particularly the Government cuts on the bigger
:04:56. > :05:06.capital schemes. We are also seeing across the UK a number of planning
:05:06. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:10.delays which are preventing some of the larger schemes from starting.
:05:10. > :05:15.Vuillard in a conventional private- sector housebuilding project. What
:05:15. > :05:21.is happening on that front? It is not all bad news. We are finding
:05:21. > :05:28.the market is OK. The retro are experiencing our second year was so
:05:28. > :05:32.excessive growth in South Wales. -- of successive growth. The point
:05:32. > :05:37.about construction is the knock-on with the tradesmen and the
:05:37. > :05:42.companies that feed into this. every new house built, we generate
:05:42. > :05:47.one trade job directly and five indirect jobs. On the bigger
:05:47. > :05:50.capital projects like roads across South Wales, that is an awful lot
:05:50. > :05:56.of people that are not being put into employment right now. Thank
:05:56. > :05:59.you very much. Back to you in the studio.
:05:59. > :06:02.A Labour AM is under investigation by the Assembly's standards
:06:02. > :06:05.watchdog after claims about his behaviour at a five star hotel. 70-
:06:05. > :06:08.year-old Keith Davies, the member for Llanelli, was staying at the St
:06:08. > :06:11.David's Hotel in Cardiff Bay after a night out. It's believed he had
:06:11. > :06:13.an altercation with staff at the hotel in the early hours of
:06:13. > :06:23.yesterday morning. Our political correspondent, Tomos Livingstone,
:06:23. > :06:23.
:06:23. > :06:29.is in the Senedd this evening. What is Mr Davies alleged to have done?
:06:29. > :06:34.The story starts on Monday night when Mr Davies and other Assembly
:06:34. > :06:39.Members went to a birthday party in Cardiff Bay. Later on, Mr Davies
:06:39. > :06:47.went on to a bar in the centre of Cardiff and in the early hours of
:06:47. > :06:50.Tuesday morning he got back to the hotel. At some point, staff at the
:06:50. > :06:56.Hotel became concerned about his behaviour and contacted the
:06:56. > :07:01.Assembly of oddities. The Assembly arranges for Assembly men the --
:07:01. > :07:11.Assembly Members to stay in hotels near the Assembly while they are
:07:11. > :07:14.working here. It is all quite embarrassing for the Labour Party
:07:14. > :07:19.and Mr Davies. The Standards Commissioner has launched an
:07:19. > :07:22.investigation. What is likely to happen? The standards commissioner
:07:22. > :07:27.will look at the evidence and decide whether Mr Davies has a case
:07:27. > :07:33.to answer. If there is a case, he will prepare a report and that will
:07:33. > :07:36.go to the standards committee. It will be up to them to decide
:07:36. > :07:41.whether they should be any punishment. They could decide to
:07:41. > :07:48.suspend Mr Davies from the Assembly. These processes take quite a lot of
:07:48. > :07:54.time. Mr Davies is a well-liked and well respected member of the
:07:54. > :07:56.Assembly but things do not look good for him this evening.
:07:57. > :08:00.The inquest into the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams from
:08:00. > :08:04.Anglesey, whose body was found in a locked bag in his London flat two
:08:04. > :08:06.years ago, has been told he was once found tied to his bed. His
:08:07. > :08:09.former landlady at a flat in Cheltenham said he was dressed in
:08:10. > :08:13.boxer shorts and called for help when he could not untie himself.
:08:13. > :08:19.He'd explained to her that he'd wanted to see if he could get free
:08:19. > :08:21.himself. The mother of a teenage girl who
:08:21. > :08:25.died while in care has accused Pembrokeshire Social Services of
:08:25. > :08:28.being complacent. 14-year-old Seren Bernard was found dead earlier this
:08:28. > :08:32.month and is believed to have killed herself. Her mother claims
:08:32. > :08:37.it was not the first time she'd tried to take her own life. She's
:08:37. > :08:39.been speaking to Abigail Neal at her home in Haverfordwest.
:08:39. > :08:48.Seren's mother believes her daughter felt rejected by her
:08:48. > :08:53.absent father and that's when the problems began. She wanted her
:08:53. > :08:56.father's love and that is what she was looking for. Aged 12, Seren
:08:56. > :08:59.told social services her mother was aggressive and she didn't want to
:08:59. > :09:01.live with her. Sarah Pollock denies this and says that against her
:09:01. > :09:11.wishes and without any investigation, she lost custody of
:09:11. > :09:19.her daughter. She manipulated the system. Social services actually
:09:19. > :09:29.phoned her father and said she did not want to live with her mother
:09:29. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:33.any more. For the next two years, Seren was passed between family and
:09:33. > :09:36.friends, but her behaviour just got worse. In September 2011, she went
:09:36. > :09:39.missing for 10 days whilst living with her grandmother. Sarah Pollock
:09:39. > :09:42.says Seren made an attempt on her life during that time and because
:09:42. > :09:48.of this she begged social services to put Seren in a secure unit, but
:09:48. > :09:52.they wouldn't. They were so complacent in their attitude. I
:09:52. > :09:56.have stated in a letter of complaint that I have always felt
:09:56. > :10:04.that social services have never worked in my daughter's best
:10:05. > :10:14.interest. They took the easy path. Placing my daughter with family was
:10:15. > :10:15.
:10:15. > :10:19.the easy option not the right option. I was unable to be heard
:10:19. > :10:24.and then -- unable to get through to anybody whilst my daughter was
:10:24. > :10:26.in a state and going downhill fast. The performance of social services
:10:26. > :10:29.in Pembrokeshire has been under the spotlight recently. Last year, the
:10:29. > :10:32.council was criticised in an investigation into the way it
:10:32. > :10:36.handled child abuse allegations in education. Since then, it says
:10:36. > :10:39.improvements have been made. The council wouldn't comment on Sarah
:10:39. > :10:44.Pollock's specific allegations, but told us, "The death of a child is
:10:44. > :10:47.obviously a matter of great concern and sadness. It has been referred
:10:47. > :10:51.to the Pembrokeshire Local Safeguarding Children's Board. The
:10:51. > :10:55.Board will examine all the issues surrounding the death". Seren's
:10:55. > :10:58.mother never wanted her daughter in care. She believes Seren's death
:10:58. > :11:05.shows there are serious flaws in the system, flaws she's determined
:11:05. > :11:08.to expose. Still to come in the programme: It
:11:08. > :11:18.was the shock of the World Championships so far. Jamie Jones
:11:18. > :11:28.from Neath tells us he's now ready for anything. Defiant -- if I have
:11:28. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:33.a good few days, I could be world champion in a few weeks.
:11:33. > :11:36.Now, the latest in our series looking at the issues which matter
:11:36. > :11:39.to you ahead of next week's council elections. Tonight, it's housing,
:11:39. > :11:42.and across Wales local authorities have been trying to earmark land
:11:42. > :11:44.for tens of thousands of new homes to meet planning targets. Not
:11:45. > :11:54.surprisingly, in many areas, this has become a major election issue,
:11:55. > :11:56.
:11:56. > :12:01.as Roger Pinney reports. It was so straightforward then. The
:12:02. > :12:05.nation needed new homes and our councils built them. In any era of
:12:05. > :12:10.post-war reconstruction, finding the land never seemed to be a
:12:10. > :12:15.problem. It is now and identifying where new housing can go may be one
:12:15. > :12:18.of the biggest headaches facing councillors after the election. All
:12:18. > :12:23.22 of our local authorities have been grappling with something
:12:23. > :12:26.called local development plans. There are planning blueprints for
:12:27. > :12:30.the next decade and so far, just three have managed to deliver. The
:12:30. > :12:34.ins and outs of planning may be a bit dry but there is nothing boring
:12:34. > :12:39.about waking up one morning to find thousands of new homes are planned
:12:39. > :12:46.for your doorstep. That is what happened in Denbighshire and across
:12:46. > :12:53.Wales they have been protest after protests. There's no inward
:12:54. > :12:56.migration from the Merseyside and Cheshire. Critics say the problems
:12:56. > :13:06.in Llandudno have been caused by housing targets set by the Welsh
:13:06. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:12.government. The protesters asking where will these new neighbours
:13:12. > :13:17.come from? If people want to come here from Manchester or Liverpool,
:13:17. > :13:21.it is up to them to find their own properties here that are for sale.
:13:21. > :13:27.We should not be providing houses for them. The housing element is
:13:27. > :13:33.wrong. It is totally wrong. much of an election issue is this?
:13:33. > :13:37.A major one. This is the election issue for here. It is the election
:13:38. > :13:43.issuing lots of areas and the politicians know that. The
:13:43. > :13:46.political parties have their views and the Labour Welsh government is
:13:46. > :13:51.being blamed. You have the local authorities saying these figures
:13:51. > :13:54.are being forced upon them and the Dutch government is saying they can
:13:54. > :13:58.decide their own figures but they have to be justified. There is a
:13:58. > :14:05.stalemate at the moment so there has to be some strategy. What you
:14:05. > :14:11.can't have is a massive democratic deficit and the planning system. --
:14:11. > :14:14.in the planning system. There is going to be a clash between what
:14:14. > :14:19.those new councils think they have been elected to do and what the
:14:19. > :14:23.government tells them they have to do. That is something which will
:14:23. > :14:29.have to be resolved. I think there needs to be a more regionalisation
:14:29. > :14:32.of the targets. If you don't have targets for homes, you run the
:14:32. > :14:41.risks of saying to our children and grandchildren, we are not planning
:14:41. > :14:49.for your future. That would have disastrous consequences. And so to
:14:49. > :14:54.the big question, should these housing targets go? Yes. Know.
:14:54. > :14:58.Some clear water between them but independent candidates and some
:14:58. > :15:01.party standard-bearers won't toe the line.
:15:01. > :15:04.Hundreds of bakers are preparing to march on Downing Street tomorrow in
:15:04. > :15:06.protest at the so-called "pasty tax". In the recent Budget, the
:15:06. > :15:09.Chancellor announced plans to charge VAT on freshly baked pies
:15:09. > :15:13.and pasties. Among those travelling to London to lobby MPs is the boss
:15:13. > :15:22.of a South Wales bakery that's been going for close to a century. Nick
:15:22. > :15:27.Palit reports. It is a bit more mechanised these
:15:27. > :15:37.days than when this bakery started in 1921 but the pies and passed
:15:37. > :15:37.
:15:37. > :15:40.these are as possible -- popular as ever. The business has a chain of
:15:41. > :15:46.25 shops but there is disquiet about the Chancellor's decision to
:15:46. > :15:52.add VAT to bakery products from October. They sell 50,000 of these
:15:52. > :16:00.corn beef parties across South Wales every single week. This VAT
:16:00. > :16:04.increase will raise the price from 95p to �1.14. The company believes
:16:04. > :16:10.that will result in fewer sales. A petition in every shop has been
:16:10. > :16:16.signed by hundreds of customers. There are other things they can put
:16:16. > :16:22.tax on. They don't have to tax the food we have. Armed with the
:16:22. > :16:27.petition, the baker is marching on Downing Street tomorrow. He will be
:16:27. > :16:34.joined by bakers from all over Britain. It is grossly unfair for
:16:34. > :16:39.the consumer to pay an extra 20 %. We live in a very difficult
:16:39. > :16:43.economic climate and a lot of our customers are on tight budgets.
:16:43. > :16:47.They can't be expected to pay the extra amount. The government has
:16:47. > :16:51.defended the move as a way of standardising VAT on all hot
:16:51. > :16:56.takeaway food but retailers say the system of deciding what constitutes
:16:56. > :17:00.hot and warming is unworkable. They have condemned the idea as half-
:17:00. > :17:03.baked. Claire's here now with news of how
:17:03. > :17:06.Wales is getting involved in the cultural side of the Olympics.
:17:06. > :17:09.Yes, Lucy. It's three months to the day until Cardiff hosts the first
:17:09. > :17:12.sporting event of London 2012 and today, these giant Olympic rings
:17:12. > :17:15.were unveiled in the capital. But the Games are not just a
:17:15. > :17:17.celebration of sport, they're also the inspiration for a host of
:17:17. > :17:23.artistic events taking place across Wales this summer and today the
:17:23. > :17:27.Cultural Olympiad was officially launched.
:17:27. > :17:29.Three tonnes of aluminium and 18 metres long. These giant Olympic
:17:29. > :17:34.rings, unveiled today, will be the backdrop for Cardiff's sporting
:17:34. > :17:36.celebrations this summer. But today was also about kick starting an
:17:36. > :17:42.ambitious programme of cultural events, bringing leading artists
:17:42. > :17:45.from around the world to Wales. As part of the London 2012 Festival,
:17:45. > :17:47.you'll find an aeroplane transformed into a mobile art space,
:17:47. > :17:50.a world record attempt for the largest Bollywood dance performance
:17:50. > :18:00.and a drama set against the backdrop of the film Zulu, using
:18:00. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:06.actors from South Africa and the South Wales Valleys. The great
:18:06. > :18:11.thing about this summer is we have 40,000 journalists coming from all
:18:11. > :18:17.over the world and we want to show them a how great our creative
:18:17. > :18:20.industry is. There is something for everyone all over the UK. Running
:18:20. > :18:23.from the 21st of June, the festival will feature 19 different events in
:18:23. > :18:26.12 areas across Wales. On the Anglesey Coast, actress Fiona Shaw
:18:26. > :18:32.will be encouraging us to recite love poetry and Newport will host a
:18:32. > :18:35.free music festival - Busk on the Usk. Meanwhile on cinema screens,
:18:35. > :18:45.these twins from Caerphilly will be starring in a special film made by
:18:45. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:49.Oscar nominated director, Mike Leigh. We got a call from our agent
:18:49. > :18:54.saying, he would like a meeting with you for an exciting new
:18:54. > :18:58.project. It is one of those things that you don't expect to happen to
:18:58. > :19:01.you but we're thrilled to be part of it. When it comes to creativity,
:19:01. > :19:04.there are no boundaries and that goes for language too. The writer
:19:04. > :19:06.Gwyneth Lewis has produced a new Welsh translation of Shakespeare's
:19:06. > :19:13.'The Tempest', which will premiere at the National Eisteddfod in
:19:13. > :19:20.August. Shakespeare is one of the world's favoured playwrights. This
:19:20. > :19:23.opportunity to present it in the Welsh language will make people
:19:23. > :19:26.realise that Welsh language culture and Welsh Language Theatre has
:19:26. > :19:29.something to offer. Most of the events in the London 2012 Festival
:19:29. > :19:33.are free and organisers hope that this summer, art and sport will
:19:33. > :19:37.share centre stage. At the World Snooker Championships,
:19:37. > :19:40.another Welsh player has pulled off a big shock. Ryan Day from
:19:40. > :19:45.Pontycymmer came back from 9-6 down to beat world number 10 Ding Junhui
:19:45. > :19:47.10-9 in the first round. But Dominic Dale from Penarth couldn't
:19:47. > :19:54.quite match his heroics. He ran bookies favourite Judd Trump close,
:19:54. > :19:58.but ended up losing 10-7. The first Welshman to make an
:19:58. > :20:01.impact in Sheffield this week was Jamie Jones from Cimla near Neath.
:20:01. > :20:04.He caused a major upset on his Crucible debut, beating former
:20:04. > :20:07.world champion Shaun Murphy. His next match in Sheffield is on
:20:07. > :20:14.Sunday, so he's taken the chance to come home to Wales between matches
:20:14. > :20:19.and I caught up with him a little bit earlier.
:20:19. > :20:22.The moment Jamie Jones knew he had caused one of the biggest shocks in
:20:22. > :20:28.world snooker, knocking out former world champion Sean Murphy in round
:20:28. > :20:33.one. Today, practising, he was keeping one eye on the Crucible and
:20:33. > :20:38.he'll be back playing on Sunday. But for now, he is still relishing
:20:38. > :20:42.in that win. During the game, I was getting moments where I was
:20:43. > :20:50.thinking, I am in the Crucible. Then I would get back into it and
:20:50. > :20:55.place to be. I looked pretty calm but I wasn't. I was going there to
:20:55. > :21:00.enjoy the experience but as the match went on, I thought, I good a
:21:00. > :21:04.chance to win. He has made headlines before. At 14, he was the
:21:04. > :21:10.end this ever player to make a one for seven break in an official
:21:10. > :21:13.event. He was working in his local bar two years ago but now he's in
:21:13. > :21:18.the last 16 of the world championships. He has been
:21:18. > :21:28.overwhelmed by the support back home. He is also making his gran
:21:28. > :21:29.
:21:29. > :21:32.very proud. She was just very happy. She could not really watch. I put a
:21:33. > :21:42.new tip on my cue yesterday and I was getting stopped for pictures in
:21:43. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:53.my local town. I am not used to it. I do get a bit nervous, watching. I
:21:53. > :21:57.can't wait to go back and watch him play on Sunday. I am playing well
:21:57. > :22:03.enough to beat anybody on my day. If I have a good few days, I might
:22:03. > :22:07.be well champion in a few weeks. Wrexham won last night's Welsh
:22:07. > :22:10.derby in the Conference. They beat Newport County 1-0 at Spytty Park,
:22:10. > :22:14.with a goal from Adrian Chizlevitch. Wrexham are already guaranteed a
:22:14. > :22:17.spot in the play-offs. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
:22:17. > :22:19.start their two day tour of South Wales tomorrow to celebrate the
:22:19. > :22:21.Queen's Diamond Jubilee. They'll visit Cardiff, Margam Park and
:22:21. > :22:24.Merthyr Tydfil tomorrow, before going to Aberfan, Ebbw Vale and
:22:24. > :22:33.Glanusk Park near Crickhowell on Friday. The visit starts with a
:22:33. > :22:43.service of thanksgiving at Llandaff Cathedral for 600 people. The
:22:43. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:52.Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, will give the sermon.
:22:52. > :22:56.visit like this means an enormous amount of work for a lot of people.
:22:56. > :23:00.The cathedral looks immaculate. It is a joy to behold. It doesn't
:23:00. > :23:04.matter -- it does not matter who you preach in front of, there are
:23:04. > :23:07.always butterflies. Well, the Queen has visited Wales
:23:07. > :23:17.many times before, starting from when she was still Princess
:23:17. > :23:28.
:23:28. > :23:32.Elizabeth. Rebecca John has been looking through the archive.
:23:32. > :23:37.1946 at the National Eisteddfod in Mountain Ash. A 20-year-old
:23:37. > :23:41.Princess Elizabeth is made a member of the Gorsedd, the bardic circle.
:23:41. > :23:51.It was a year after war ended and a year before her wedding to the then
:23:51. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :24:00.Prince Philip of Greece. In 1948, the year of Prince Charles' birth,
:24:00. > :24:07.the young future Queen is given the freedom of the city of Cardiff.
:24:07. > :24:12.am always glad I have an opportunity to visit Wales. It is
:24:12. > :24:22.with special pleasure that I come to Cardiff today to receive the
:24:22. > :24:23.
:24:23. > :24:25.freedom of your famous city. After her coronation in 1952, the new
:24:25. > :24:35.Queen and her growing family visited many parts of Wales and
:24:35. > :24:42.
:24:42. > :24:44.always drew large crowds. This week, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
:24:44. > :24:50.will revisit several places they first visited towards the start of
:24:50. > :24:53.the Queen's reign, including Llandaff Cathedral and Aberfan. In
:24:53. > :25:02.the 1960s, the tone of the Pathe news commentary changes slightly,
:25:02. > :25:06.acknowledging the existence of tensions towards the monarchy.
:25:07. > :25:15.Cardiff. The Queen and Prince Charles enjoyed one of the happiest
:25:15. > :25:25.of visits to Wales on the day when her Majesty opened a new building.
:25:25. > :25:29.
:25:29. > :25:34.The visit went off without a hitch. The police took no chances. The man
:25:34. > :25:44.involved in the nation's money matters sore the Queen strike the
:25:44. > :25:47.
:25:47. > :25:50.first decimal coin. The monarchy and the economy have faced testing
:25:50. > :25:53.times since, and there have been huge changes in society. But the
:25:53. > :25:56.Queen has remained constant. And, aged 86 and 90 respectively, the
:25:56. > :25:58.Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are still travelling, meeting many
:25:58. > :26:01.thousands of people across the country.
:26:01. > :26:04.We'll bring you full coverage of the Queen and the Duke of
:26:04. > :26:07.Edinburgh's two day visit. I'll be at Margam Park on Wales Today
:26:07. > :26:12.tomorrow lunchtime at 1:30pm and at Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil
:26:12. > :26:15.tomorrow evening at 6:30pm. Bad weather and flash flooding has
:26:15. > :26:18.affected many parts of Wales. Allotment holders at Bettws near
:26:18. > :26:22.Newport say a tornado swept through their plots leaving a trail of
:26:22. > :26:25.damage. The twister smashed green house windows and uprooted plants
:26:25. > :26:27.as well as some structures. A trampoline from a nearby garden was
:26:27. > :26:33.also lifted in the air before ending up in a neighbouring
:26:34. > :26:43.property. So miserable weather. Any sign of
:26:44. > :26:44.
:26:44. > :26:48.There is a Met Office warning in force covering the next 24 hours.
:26:48. > :26:52.Heavy downpours in places with hail, thunder and a risk of flooding. The
:26:52. > :26:56.radar shows today's rain spilling northwards. Over an inch of rain in
:26:56. > :27:00.Tredegar. Strong winds too. The highest gust was 55mph at Mumbles
:27:00. > :27:03.Head in Swansea. It did dry and brighten-up for a time, but then
:27:03. > :27:07.more downpours moved up from the south. Tonight, heavy showers or
:27:07. > :27:10.longer spells of rain. A few places dry. Breezy on the coast. Lighter
:27:10. > :27:14.winds inland with lowest temperatures around 6C. Tomorrow's
:27:14. > :27:17.chart shows a huge trough of low pressure over Britain. And that
:27:17. > :27:21.means more unstable air. So tomorrow morning should be better
:27:21. > :27:25.than today. The wind will be lighter. Some places will start dry
:27:25. > :27:29.and bright. Others wet with rain and showers. The showers could be
:27:29. > :27:32.heavy. Temperatures in Carmarthen around 9C. During the day, more
:27:32. > :27:36.showers will break out. Torrential downpours with a risk of hail,
:27:36. > :27:40.thunder and gusty winds. Mind you, some places will be drier and
:27:40. > :27:44.brighter than others. Pembrokeshire and the west coast may become dry.
:27:44. > :27:48.Top temperatures, 10C to 12C. The wind lighter than today but any
:27:48. > :27:51.storms will suddenly pick-up with strong gusts. So not the best of
:27:51. > :27:54.weather for the Queen's visit tomorrow. The umbrella will come in
:27:54. > :27:57.handy. Tomorrow evening some places dry, but rain and showers will
:27:57. > :27:59.become more widespread overnight, spreading from the north. Friday
:27:59. > :28:02.will continue unsettled. Cloudy and damp with rain or showers. The
:28:02. > :28:05.showers heavy in places and feeling cool, especially along the north
:28:05. > :28:08.and west coast. There might even be a little snow on Snowdon. What
:28:08. > :28:11.about the weekend? Saturday should be drier and warmer. Still a few
:28:11. > :28:14.showers, but more wet and windy weather may spread from the south
:28:14. > :28:23.overnight into Sunday. Longer term, there are signs that May will bring
:28:23. > :28:32.us some better and warmer weather us some better and warmer weather
:28:32. > :28:36.but still changeable. Tonight's headlines. Britain is
:28:37. > :28:42.back in recession. The latest figures show the economy shrank by
:28:42. > :28:45.0.2 % in the last three months. Business leaders say the news could
:28:45. > :28:48.damage confidence and job recruitment.
:28:48. > :28:51.And that is Wales Today. Don't forget, tomorrow we'll be following