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Welcome to Wales Today from the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd. The | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
sunshine has brought out the crowds. But away from the show ring, it's | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
been a day of tense discussions following farmers' protests. They | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
say they're not being paid enough for the price of milk. Tonight, it | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
looks like a deal has been reached. A whole range of difficult issues | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
have been addressed and they will be thrashed out in fine detail in | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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the negotiations which will take Tonight's other headlines: | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Two people are being questioned on suspicion of murder after a man | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
collapsed and died following a row "A fine actress who brought class | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
to any role she played" - tributes to actress Angharad Rees, who's | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
died from cancer. Good evening from the Olympic Park. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Only days to go until the opening ceremony here. Tonight we'll be | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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talking to the people playing a Good evening and welcome to the | :01:23. | :01:31. | |
Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd. The sunshine has brought out the crowds. | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
In the ring behind me, every county in Wales represented on horseback. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
But behind the action in the main ring, it's been a day of tense | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
negotiations. Farmers have been protesting about the price they get | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
for their milk. UK Government Ministers and supermarket | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
distributors have been meeting here to try to resolve the dispute. An | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
agreement they say has been reached, but the detail is sketchy. And | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
there's a warning tonight that the protests could continue. Here's our | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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environment correspondent Iolo ap How much do we make on a litre of | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
milk? A supermarket manager defending the | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
profit his company makes from milk. Farmers were not impressed with his | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
response. We can't exist on losing at 6p a litre on all the milk we | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
produce. There will be no dairy industry left. We still don't | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
understand why they can't increase the litre of milk by a couple of | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
pence in the shop and pass it down the chain so it comes back to the | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
farmer. No answers. They did not have answers for us. | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
supermarket insists it pays a fair price for milk. There are 13,000 | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
farms across the UK producing on average for 30p. We understand our | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
farmers are dedicated and they have a slightly lower cost of production. | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
This in Wales it is small farms like this one that are directly | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
affected by the price of milk. This man has 70 cows but feels he might | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
have to sell up because he receives less than a litre of milk now than | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
it cost him to produce. The parlour is 40 years old. It needs to be | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
updated. It is going to cost me half a million pounds. The way the | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
price of milk is at the moment, it is not viable to do it. After | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
lengthy meetings, farming unions are still hoping not to miss out on | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
price cuts. But there is a broad agreement on a voluntary code of | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
practice between farmers and other dairy industry. We have signed an | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
agreement on a range of issues affecting the transparency of | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
content, the period of notice farmers would get if the price | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
changes, the period of notice if they want to leave a contract. We | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
will work until the end of August to get the final form of the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
agreement but we have made a big step today. Farmers are hopeful | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
that the Welsh Government will consider legislating separately to | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the rest of Britain but businesses are sceptical that could make Welsh | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
dairy farmers less competitive within the UK. Anything that makes | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
major retailers think twice about buying Welsh products cannot be a | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
good thing but I have not seen the detail of what the Minister has | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
said. My first instinct would suggest we don't want anything from | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
Wales to be uncompetitive. enjoying the Royal Welsh was the | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
agriculture commissioner. He seemed impressed with Llanelwedd but also | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
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had a vote on the dairy industry. This guide for good practice will | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
not be enough if the farmers don't organise themselves and work | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
together because I can't see how are the bargaining power will | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
increase of the farmer if they still want to negotiate | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
individually with the big distribution. But even before the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
commissioner had left Mid-Wales, farmers and their representatives | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
said they will carry on protesting and target the Milk suppliers for | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
the Olympic Games. I've been speaking to Jim Paice, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
the UK Government's Farming Minister, and asked him what | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
exactly has been achieved at today's talks. The agreement does | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
cover some of the most contentious issues like how much notice a | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
farmer gets about price change, how much notice they have to give a if | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
they want to leave a contract, what they do with surplus milk if the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
processor does not want it, a whole range of difficult issues have been | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
addressed and they will be thrashed out in fine detail in the | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
negotiations which will take place before the end of August. The Welsh | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Government Minister is saying that if the UK government cannot achieve | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
solid progress on this, he is minded to legislate. I have had | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
long conversations with the Welsh Minister together with the Scottish | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Minister and we have discussed it again this morning. We agreed to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
things. Firstly, the code of practice is the best way forward. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
It can be more embracing than any legislation. Secondly, if it does | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
not work, we will all legislate together so it is across the whole | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
of Great Britain. But I have to emphasise that what we can do in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
legislation is severely constrained by a European law. And if this | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
voluntary system does not work, what then? In the agreement, there | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
is a quarterly review process and then at the end of the year, had a | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
full-scale review which will allow both processors and producers to | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
add -- decide whether they think it has been affected and properly | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
complied with. We as governments have all agreed, we have reserved | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
the right to legislate if this falls to pieces. Ultimately, you | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
can't fix the price of milk. government in Europe has the power | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
to fix the price of milk. Let's talk to Steve James, a farmer from | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
Pembrokeshire, and the deputy agriculture minister in Wales, Alun | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Davies. This is bad news for farmers but as shoppers, we like it, | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
don't we? If you want a sustainable dairy industry going forward, we | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
have to have a fair price, and there is enough money in the supply | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
chain that consumers don't have to pay any more because they are | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
people in the middle are taking a little bit more than they should be. | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
It is not because we are saying consumers should pay more. We just | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
want a better share of that supply chain. Farmers could do more to | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
work together. That was said earlier today. You should do more | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to work together and then your voice would be louder. I think we | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
have seen that in the last 10 days. We had a 3,000 people turn up in | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Westminster at the drop of a hat. They have been a number of peaceful | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
protest outside plants and some of the supermarkets so which shows | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
that we are coming together. It is a united voice that has brought us | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
to witnesses. That Minister, it was reported earlier on that you might | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
consider if the UK government did not do something, you might enact | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
some Welsh law for Welsh farmers. That is just kite-flying, isn't it? | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
We will be publishing legislating in the autumn but this has been an | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
enormous step forward. We have got a voluntary code of conduct, an | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
agreement between the producers and the processes about how we take | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
this forward. They still say they are going to be protesting. I think | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
that is fair enough. Farmers will still see a cut in the milk price | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
over the next couple of weeks, but we're trying to put in place | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
structures which will underpin furnace in the supply chain. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Consumers will pay a fair and realistic price for milk but | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
consumers do not want to see the Welsh dairy industry on its knees. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
It is important that fairness is hard-wired into the system. There | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
is no danger that you might start making Welsh milk more expensive | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
and be beaten by other providers in Scotland, Ireland, England and | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
elsewhere? We can produce milk cheaper in West Wales at than some | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of the other parts of the country but that does not mean the one to | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
lose money. We are just asking for that fair price, to maintain that | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
pint of milk that has been so popular in the British Household | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
for so many years. Do thank you very much for joining us this | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
evening. We'll be hearing how heavy rain for | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
so many weeks earlier this summer has given farmers a huge headache. | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
That's later in the programme. First, the rest of the day's news | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
from Garry Owen. Thank you, Jamie. Let's look at the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
rest of the news now. Two people have been arrested on | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
suspicion of murder after a 43- year-old man died in Denbighshire | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
at the weekend. It's alleged Jonathan Sillett collapsed and died | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
after a row with some people driving near the seafront in | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Prestatyn on Saturday evening. Matthew Richards is there for us | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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this evening. What more do we know? Police were called to this area | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
just before 10 o'clock on Saturday night by a member of the public | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
reporting that cars were driving in an erratic manner in roads up and | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
down this path of Prestatyn. It was also alleged that Jonathan Sillett, | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
who lived locally, had a remonstration with some of the | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
documents of those cars and shortly afterwards collapsed and was | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. A 21-year-old woman and | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
a 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and are | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
being questioned by detectives. A major incident room has been set up | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
and a number of support offices are walking the area throughout the day | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
to give people information. Detectives have also been carrying | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
out door-to-door inquiries and they said there were a lot of cars in | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
the area at the time and they are hoping to speak to the occupants of | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
those cars over the next couple of days. We also understand a Home | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Office pathologist is carrying out a post-mortem on Jonathan Sillett's | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
body. A man who created a group on | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Facebook during the riots in England last summer has pleaded | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
guilty to inciting violent disorder. Anthony Gristock, who appeared at | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Cardiff Crown Court today, was told by the judge that he is facing a | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
substantial prison sentence for his actions. The case was adjourned for | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
pre-sentence reports until the middle of August. | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
"She threw herself into the part. She was wonderful to be with". The | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
words of Robin Ellis, star of the '70s BBC series, Poldark, paying | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
tribute to his co-star Angharad Rees. The Welsh actress has died of | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
cancer at the age of 63. She had a wide-ranging career, but is best | :12:33. | :12:43. | |
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remembered for the period drama set in Cornwall. Rhodri Lewis reports. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
Do you think I look pretty? Very pretty. The prettiest you have ever | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
known? It was the Sunday night drama which | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
had viewers glued to their seats. Poldark, a romantic tale set in | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Cornwall, catapulted Angharad Rees to fame. At its height in the late | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
'70s, 15 million people tuned in to watch the exploits of Ross Poldark | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
and his servant Demelza. Today, Robin Ellis, who played the title | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
role, said he would remember Angharad Rees with huge affection | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
during a special time in their careers. Raised in Cardiff, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Angharad Rees starred in a range of other television dramas and plays | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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in the West End during her career. But there was another side to her | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
talents too. Here on the Morecambe and Wise show in 1977 in a parody | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
of the drama that made her name. She was married to the actor | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Christopher Cazenove for more than 20 years, but a family tragedy led | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
to her giving up the stage. She withdrew from acting after her son | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
was killed in a car crash in 1999. In later years, she remarried David | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
McAlpine from the construction family, and devoted her time to a | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
jewellery business. She was also a fellow of the Royal Welsh College | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
of Music and Drama, which said today Angharad Rees always brought | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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delicacy, femininity and class to It's being described as a "Welsh | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
treasure" and, after 200 years on American soil, it's back here and | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
on display. The Laws of Hywel Dda is one of the first medieval | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
manuscripts written in Welsh. After being bought at auction by the | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
National Library of Wales for �500,000, it's now on display at | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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the library for just a week before Good evening and welcome to the | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
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Olympic Park in London. We are expecting around 50,000 people in | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
the stadium to sight to see a reversal of the opening ceremony. - | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
- tonight. The stadium has been transformed. No sign of the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
athletics track. It has been replaced by a snapshot of British | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
rural life, one of the themes of the opening ceremony. At the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
opening ceremony, the British team will be led out by cycling great | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
Sir Chris Hoy, who will carry the Union Flag. The announcement was | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
made in Newport earlier, where the Among them is Geraint Thomas, who | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
is aiming for gold for the second games in a row. More now from | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
Ashleigh Crowter. They are the most successful sport | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
in Great Britain Olympics history. Seven medals in Beijing and now | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
they are in Wales Planning for another Olympic gold rush. And this | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
is where the hard work is being done. Inside, Britain's track | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
cyclists, including Geraint Thomas, will be working hard to make sure | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
they arrive in London race ready. It is a fitting location because | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Wales has been central to Great Britain's cycling success. The | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
medal Mastermind is this man, 13's performance director, who was | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
brought up in Snowdonia. He is also in charge of the team for which | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Bradley Wiggins cycled in the Tour de France. Records seem to keep | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
tumbling on his watch and he is promising even more. This is just | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
the start. We have been working hard for 10 years in this sport and | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
I am, on a personal level, as hungry and as ambitious as ever. I | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
have got a lot to give to the sport yet. This is hopefully the start of | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
a period we can dominate. Sir Chris Hoy told me earlier that Bradley | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Wiggins's success was cheered on by his training group game at Newport. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
We stopped to watch the last couple of kilometres and to see the whole | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
team come together. Not just Bradley Wiggins's performance but | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
to see Mark Cavendish win the stage and all the guys working together | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
and the Union flags in Paris. but there is one man who might have | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
had mixed feelings. Last summer, Geraint Thomas was one of his team- | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
mates on the tour but this year he had a tough choice to make and | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
decided to go back to the track, the event where he won gold in | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
Beijing. The Home Olympics is massive and I wanted to go and have | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
a good chance of winning a gold medal and I just felt the track was | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
my best opportunity. Looking at the events, the team pursuit stood out | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
and that is what I went for. In 11 days' time, we will know whether | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Geraint Thomas was successful, but this should be another golden | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
summer for Wales's cycling stars. Apart from the 10,000 athletes | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
taking part at these Games, there will be 70,000 volunteers on hand. | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
From ticket checkers, drivers, to those helping competitors with | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
their costumes, they're here to ensure it all runs smoothly. Among | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
them, paramedic Richard Hook, who's used to big sporting events. Matt | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
Murray reports. They're known as "Games' makers" | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
because they're seen as making the Olympics happen. There are more | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
than 70,000 volunteers and most applied to be a part of the Games | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
two years ago. Richard Hook is one of those, a senior paramedic based | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
in Swansea. He'll have a new look and a new home for the Games. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
Richard will be camping out near Greenwich at night and then, in the | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
day, he'll be based at the equestrian centre. Horse Jumping | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
can be a dangerous business so Richard's skills are going to be | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
called on. When these people get off the ground, they are 18 feet | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
off the ground so coming down from that height, you can expect some | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
significant trauma which is the reason we were selected for that. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
Richard's son is Welsh rugby star James Hook, so he's used to the | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
pressure of big sporting events. is going to be training in France | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
but he says he will keep an eye out for me on the television. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Volunteers have already been playing their part for the past few | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
weeks, dealing with athletes arriving at Heathrow from right | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
across the world. They're also on hand to guide top officials at | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
events in build up to the Games. Roy Gutteridge's day job is as a | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
health care manager in Cardiff but, in just a few days' time, he'll be | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
on his motorbike at the cycling road race. Its an important role. | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Just like at the Tour de France - they make sure no spectators get in | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
the way. I am just a very small cog in a massive, monster of a wheel. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
But I am hoping, I am convincing myself I am helping towards the UK | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
getting a gold medal. Aside from the volunteers, it will be the job | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
of people like Sian Knott to ensure Team GB competitors are in top | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
shape for the Games. Today, the Sport Wales physio is dealing with | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
a young gymnast's ankle injury, but shortly it will be the stars of | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
team GB, making sure an injury can be overcome as quickly as possible. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
London has got the added pressure for all the athletes and the | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
support staff, the expectation is massive in terms of what people are | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
hoping Great Britain will deliver, and it is up to us to help in every | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
which way that we can to make sure that athletes are given the | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
opportunity to go out and do the best they can. But for the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
volunteers, they may feel it's a small part to play, but their | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
efforts will be vital to the success of these home Olympics. | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
An update on the Olympics security situation in Cardiff and. We are | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
hearing that 100 extra staff are being drafted in to help with | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
security at the Millennium Stadium from Wednesday. Successful | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
candidates will be handing a plastic bags to allow people to | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
place their belongings in before they pass through the security | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
scanners. Much more from the Olympic Park | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
throughout the week and, tomorrow, we'll be looking ahead to the games | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
at the Millennium Stadium. That's tomorrow. Back to Llanelwedd now | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
and Jamie. Welcome back to the Royal Welsh | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
Show at Llanelwedd. The crowds are still gathered around the main show | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
ring. The competition is still in full swing. Every county in Wales | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
is represented in that line up and they are waiting to find out who | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
has won. As soon as the horse riders are out of the way, it is | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the regimental band of the Royal Welsh. This show is about nothing | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
else but competition. Why do we give you some results and find out | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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The Texel ewe lambs proved a In the cattle ring earlier, crowds | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
gathered to watch the Welsh Black cattle competitions. A bull from | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Harlech won the best yearling And over in the shearing centre, | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Meinir Evans won the All Nations Woolhandling competition final. The | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
prize goes to the fastest competitor to roll three newly- | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
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sheared fleeces. The sun has shone for the opening | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
day of the Royal Welsh Show but, until now, it's been a stinker of a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
wet summer. Farmers are weeks behind with their work, the fields | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
too wet, delaying or even ruining some crops. All of it impacts on us | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
as shoppers when we come to buy our food. Cemlyn Davies reports now on | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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what late summer means. Sunglasses and summer hats decorate | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
the Royal Welsh Showground and with the sun shining, these visitors | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
could enjoy some singing was not a drop of rain in sight. The whole | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
summer has been a washout but it is absolutely brilliant today. It has | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
been pouring down. It is lovely now. This is all very different to the | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
weather we have become used to over recent weeks. Last month was the | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
wettest June on record and July has also been soggier than normal. For | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
farmers, it has been a tough time. The heavy rain led to floods in | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
Aberystwyth last month. This land belongs to Rachel Rowlands who set | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
up an organic dairy business here. We have got 40 acres of grassland | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
which would have been cut a month ago had we not had the floods. We | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
are still not able to get on because it is completely | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
waterlogged. Staff at the wet weather means this farmer has | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
fallen behind with other sheering this year. It has not been possible | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
to get the courts dry enough to take off. Now there is a backlog. | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
It is a knock-on effect because we rely on contractors and they have | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
been stopped due to the weather so everybody has been pushed back. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
that is why, with the Senate now shining, it seems some farmers will | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
be staying away from the show this year. Many farmers will not let | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
this opportunity go by and they are at home cutting silage and so on. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
Make hay while the sun shines is certainly true. This could be their | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
only harvest and, let's face it, we understand and we applaud them for | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
looking after their own interests first. Her over at the main ring, | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
the crowds were wowed by the Ukrainian Cossacks. People coming | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
to the show over the next few days will be hoping the weather | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
continues to perform just as impressively. | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
The let's talk to the director of the show. You have been affected by | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
the weather. This was a close one for you. There were concerns a | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
couple of weeks ago the show would not go on. Her it was going to go | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
on. There were a lot of rumours going around but we have been | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
blessed with some fantastic weather. And the weather makes all the | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
difference. The numbers are up substantially. The numbers are up | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
5032 on the Monday last year. Over 53,000 people today, a fantastic | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
figure. We are thrilled. It just shows the support we have got. Even | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
though there are a lot of people making hay in this weather because | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
it is the first opportunity, they have still been a really good | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
turnout. Thank you very much and good luck this week. | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Pleasant weather here today for the first day of the Show. There's | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
plenty more dry and warm weather to Sunshine and toasty temperatures as | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
well, but not everywhere. Tomorrow is likely to be sunniest and | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
warmest day of the week in Llanelwedd. Generally, there will | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
be less cloud than today and more sunshine, although with a few | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
exceptions. Tonight, most of the country fine and clear. Cloudy in | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
the northwest with a little rain and drizzle. Low cloud, mist and | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
fog patches. Breezy in the northwest with lowest temperatures | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
around 11 degrees Celsius in Brecon. Tomorrow's chart shows a front | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
lying through northern England and southern Ireland. That is the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
dividing line between hot and humid air in the southeast and cooler, | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
fresher air in the northwest. So tomorrow will be a nice day for | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
most of the country. Dry and bright. Plenty of sunshine. The exception | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
the far northwest - much cloudier there with perhaps a little rain | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
and drizzle on Anglesey. Top temperatures around 26 degrees | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Celsius in Monmouth. Much cooler in the northwest. 17 degrees Celsius | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
on the Lleyn Peninsula and not as windy as today in Snowdonia. | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
Tomorrow night, most of the country will be dry but cloud will increase | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
with a little rain and drizzle in the north. As for the outlook, on | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Wednesday, generally cloudier. Spots of light rain or drizzle in | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
the north and west. Otherwise dry. Sunniest in the southeast. Hot and | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
humid in Cardiff for the Olympic women's football at the Millennium | :27:20. | :27:30. | |
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We'll have an update for you here at 8pm and after the BBC News at | :27:34. | :27:37. |