:00:06. > :00:09.Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: Yvonne Briscoe from
:00:09. > :00:17.Flintshire has rented a flat in England so she can access the
:00:17. > :00:21.cancer drugs unavailable in Wales. I have paid my taxes for as many
:00:21. > :00:31.years as I can think of so why should some people get this drug
:00:31. > :00:39.
:00:39. > :00:41.Our other headlines tonight: Kate was brain damaged at birth after
:00:41. > :00:43.being misdiagnosed. The cost of medical negligence
:00:43. > :00:46.cases has doubled over the last three years.
:00:46. > :00:54.A tale of two head teachers working either side of the border and what
:00:54. > :00:58.An exhausted Matthew Maynard arrives at the Oval after cycling
:00:58. > :01:01.from Cardiff in memory of his son Tom. And 70 years ago tonight, the
:01:01. > :01:11.young Second World War pilot from Carmarthenshire who crashed in the
:01:11. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:17.Good evening. Does where you live affect the treatment you receive? A
:01:17. > :01:21.woman from Flintshire says she's become a health refugee in order to
:01:21. > :01:24.access a drug that could prolong her life. Bowel cancer patient
:01:24. > :01:27.Yvonne Briscoe has rented a flat in Stockport in Greater Manchester so
:01:27. > :01:37.she can receive the drug Cetuximab, which isn't routinely available in
:01:37. > :01:40.
:01:41. > :01:48.She is an unlikely looking refuge you but that is how Yvonne Briscoe
:01:48. > :01:53.says she feels. She has fled Wales on paper at least in order to get a
:01:53. > :01:57.drug that might hold her cancer at bay. They would rather be focusing
:01:57. > :02:01.on their dogs, getting them ready for shows, but she says that she is
:02:01. > :02:06.backing the system and so has the answer is renting a flat over the
:02:06. > :02:11.border in land -- in Manchester. They said the funding wasn't
:02:11. > :02:17.available for Cetuximab in Wales. How did you react to that?
:02:17. > :02:22.I thought, well I'm going to have to try and get this another way.
:02:22. > :02:28.Bristol the consultant at Christie's. He told me that I've
:02:28. > :02:34.got to get my MP on side to help me fight for funding in Wales. He said,
:02:34. > :02:38.you're only other alternative is to move to England. Ought to win the
:02:38. > :02:44.property in England and try and get the funding that way. -- or to rent
:02:44. > :02:50.a property. Christie is the largest cancer
:02:50. > :02:56.centre in the UK. Until now, Yvonne Briscoe's treatment has been done
:02:56. > :03:01.at the Ann Clwyd's much smaller centre. -- Ann Clwyd Hospital.
:03:01. > :03:05.Doctors they don't have access to the cancer drugs fund. It pays for
:03:05. > :03:09.treatments that are not fully approved by regulators.
:03:09. > :03:12.I want to prolong my life for as long as I possibly can.
:03:12. > :03:17.And you don't believe that without it, you will be able to?
:03:17. > :03:22.Probably not. Because it is a big step to take,
:03:22. > :03:27.is under it? Yes. It is a big step to take but
:03:27. > :03:30.anybody in my position, I think you would go all-out to fight. To
:03:30. > :03:37.prolong your life for as long as you possibly can.
:03:37. > :03:43.In a statement, the nine macros as regulators found the drug could
:03:43. > :03:53.potentially cost tens of thousands of pounds. The Welsh government
:03:53. > :03:57.
:03:57. > :04:03.All Yvonne Briscoe knows is that specialists in Manchester think it
:04:03. > :04:06.is worth a shot and there, unlike in Wales, they are able to try.
:04:06. > :04:10.Earlier I spoke to Andrew Wilson, the chief executive of the Rarer
:04:10. > :04:15.Cancers Foundation in London. I asked him if we really suffered
:04:15. > :04:20.from a postcode lottery in Wales when it comes to cancer.
:04:20. > :04:26.Absolutely. We produced a report earlier this year which shows that
:04:26. > :04:32.a patient in England is five times more likely to obtain the drug that
:04:32. > :04:36.there clinician wishes to prescribe than a patient in Wales.
:04:36. > :04:41.In a statement, the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board said that regulators,
:04:42. > :04:47.not just in Wales but in England and Scotland, found this stroke
:04:47. > :04:51.could potentially cost tens of thousands of pounds but then only
:04:51. > :04:56.delay the cancer by a matter of weeks. That's true, isn't it? We
:04:56. > :05:02.are buying a matter of a few weeks, here.
:05:02. > :05:05.We may be buying a few months or a few years. Real Life data is
:05:05. > :05:11.completely different in a lot of cases than trial data. This has
:05:11. > :05:17.actually been proven in a vast number of cases. Not specifically
:05:17. > :05:21.for bowel cancer but for other cancers. So it is a very difficult
:05:21. > :05:28.answer -- question to answer. In terms of cost, yes, the cost is
:05:28. > :05:32.high. We all really have the right, I suppose, to the best drugs that
:05:32. > :05:36.are available for our illness and the time.
:05:36. > :05:39.Which is like saying, let's write a blank cheque to the pharmaceutical
:05:39. > :05:46.companies? It's not because don't forget that
:05:46. > :05:50.again, we are talking about end of life drugs. These drugs are third
:05:50. > :05:56.line at the moment, they are used at the end of life, later on, if
:05:56. > :06:00.they are proven to be successful, would then be used in the second
:06:00. > :06:06.and first line. It is an improving situation which changes.
:06:06. > :06:12.This isn't a drug that is approved by the National Institute of
:06:12. > :06:16.Clinical excellence. It is approved for use but not
:06:16. > :06:25.approved by a nice, that is correct. In England we have the cancer drugs
:06:25. > :06:30.front. This was set up in 2010 with a budget of �200 million a year.
:06:30. > :06:34.This fund was set up exactly for this purpose, for goods which are
:06:35. > :06:38.being used which are either and licensed or used when a licence has
:06:38. > :06:42.been granted but baby used for a different indication.
:06:42. > :06:49.And this is the critical difference between England and Wales? We don't
:06:49. > :06:55.have that funding Wales? That is correct. It has helped over
:06:55. > :06:58.16,000 patients in England since it started. That is a lot of people.
:06:58. > :07:04.Thank you. The body of a soldier from
:07:04. > :07:06.Llanharan was one of three to be flown back to the UK today. 20-
:07:06. > :07:09.year-old Jamie Shadrake died from gunshot wounds while serving with
:07:09. > :07:19.1st Battalion Grenadier Guards in Helmand Province last week. His
:07:19. > :07:23.family described him as a Over 100,000 fewer passengers flew
:07:23. > :07:27.from Cardiff Airport in the first half of this year - compared to the
:07:27. > :07:36.same period last year. The airport says the drop in passenger numbers
:07:36. > :07:39.is down to the decision made by BMI The cost of medical negligence
:07:39. > :07:44.payouts by the NHS in Wales almost doubled over the past three years,
:07:44. > :07:46.rising by �18 million. Figures obtained by BBC Wales show failures
:07:46. > :07:55.such as botched operations and misdiagnoses cost taxpayers �38
:07:55. > :07:57.million in the 12 months to April 2012. The rise has led the Welsh
:07:58. > :08:07.government to put aside an extra �16 million to cover possible
:08:07. > :08:09.compensation claims. Nick Palit Kate Pierce was nine months old
:08:09. > :08:14.when she developed pneumococcal meningitis but was wrongly
:08:14. > :08:24.diagnosed. A junior doctor at Wrexham Maelor hospital said it was
:08:24. > :08:28.tonsilitis but that mistake left her severely brain damaged.
:08:28. > :08:31.She has problems during a steep -- during her sleep which means that
:08:31. > :08:36.she stopped breathing so we need to be awake for watching her
:08:36. > :08:38.physically, 24 hours a day. It is a massive strain, seeing how poorly
:08:38. > :08:48.she is. At six-years-old, she needs round
:08:48. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:52.the clock care, both at home, and at school. Figures provided to the
:08:52. > :08:55.BBC for a Freedom of Information request showed cases settled by
:08:55. > :08:58.Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board more than doubled in the last three
:08:58. > :09:03.years and totalled �22.8 million - by far the largest of all Welsh
:09:03. > :09:06.health boards. But the increase is nationwide and across Wales more
:09:06. > :09:10.than 1,100 cases have been settled in the last three years by six out
:09:10. > :09:13.of our seven health boards. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg is still
:09:13. > :09:16.collating its statistics but more than �84 million was paid out by
:09:16. > :09:23.all the remaining health boards, that's a rise of more than �18
:09:23. > :09:26.million. I'm very concerned that the Welsh
:09:26. > :09:31.government's record-breaking budget cuts are having an impact on the
:09:31. > :09:35.increase in cases of these sort. It can't be a coincidence we have seen
:09:35. > :09:38.a doubling over the last few years over the amounts paid out whilst at
:09:38. > :09:41.the same time, these record- breaking budget cuts.
:09:41. > :09:46.The Welsh Government has had to set aside an extra �16 million for
:09:46. > :09:49.clinical negligence into a fund known as the risk pool. That works
:09:49. > :09:52.as insurance for health boards who are reimbursed for claims exceeding
:09:52. > :09:55.�25,000. They also say 'no win, no fee' solicitors have made claims
:09:55. > :10:03.larger. But one solicitor specialising in the field says
:10:03. > :10:06.costs have gone up for a variety of reasons.
:10:06. > :10:11.Life expectancies are changing and increasing significantly so
:10:11. > :10:15.obviously, these annual payments are made for longer. Added to that
:10:15. > :10:21.the cost of nursing and specialist care on a year-by-year basis. Those
:10:21. > :10:23.care costs have gone up and also the cost of specialist equipment,
:10:23. > :10:26.those costs have gone up. Meanwhile the amount of compensation Kate
:10:26. > :10:30.receives is still to be decided, but the family's solicitor said it
:10:30. > :10:37.is likely to be a seven figure sum. Clinical negligence costs the NHS
:10:37. > :10:40.dear but it's the victim that Patients needing emergency or
:10:40. > :10:43.unplanned medical care won't be able to get treatment at Neath Port
:10:44. > :10:47.Talbot hospital from midnight. People dialling 999 or those
:10:47. > :10:54.referred by their GP will instead be taken to hospitals in Swansea or
:10:54. > :10:55.Bridgend. The local Health Board says it's making the changes
:10:55. > :11:01.because there aren't enough sufficiently experienced doctors
:11:01. > :11:04.GCSE results are out on Thursday and all this week, we're taking an
:11:04. > :11:07.in depth look at the qualification system here and over the border.
:11:07. > :11:12.There's talk of scrapping GCSEs in England and discussions about
:11:12. > :11:15.whether Wales should go its own way. Our Education Correspondent, Nicola
:11:15. > :11:25.Smith has been to meet one couple with a unique perspective about
:11:25. > :11:27.
:11:27. > :11:31.what's on offer right now and what Meet Paula and Craig Dickson.
:11:31. > :11:37.They'll both headteachers but every morning, they leave home to run
:11:37. > :11:42.daily different secondary schools. Greg is in charge at a typical
:11:42. > :11:47.Welsh comprehensive, performing well with just under 1,000 pupils.
:11:47. > :11:53.Paula Dixon runs a girls' school on the Wirral. It is an academy and
:11:53. > :12:03.not controlled by a local authority. Different schools united by the
:12:03. > :12:06.fact that their pupils study GCSEs. Critics and's wary. Been --
:12:06. > :12:10.although he is clear he would rather be part of the Welsh
:12:10. > :12:13.education system, he is uncomfortable with the idea being
:12:13. > :12:17.discussed right no of Wales only qualifications.
:12:17. > :12:21.For Wales to go completely it's a way would be high risk. High risk
:12:21. > :12:27.for our learners, particularly in the context where we are. We have
:12:27. > :12:30.got to make sure that they leave us all they leave their Fe college
:12:30. > :12:33.with qualifications that are recognised and with the same value
:12:33. > :12:43.that other learners are requiring across the border so I would urge
:12:43. > :12:46.60 miles away, Prenton High School for girls is already in the middle
:12:46. > :12:56.of significant change. Since converting to academy status, it
:12:56. > :12:57.
:12:57. > :13:00.has more freedom to opt in or out of the national curriculum.
:13:00. > :13:05.Headteacher Paula Dixon welcomes the new freedoms but doesn't
:13:05. > :13:10.believe in changing GCSEs as well. She argues they are still the best
:13:10. > :13:13.judge of every child's ability and is uncomfortable with the idea of
:13:13. > :13:18.Michael Gove to scrap the and. At the moment, we are losing our
:13:18. > :13:25.way a little bit. We have to go back to what it used to be like
:13:25. > :13:28.with O-levels, perhaps, and sees it -- and CSC's. I think that was a
:13:28. > :13:32.soundbite that shouldn't have happened. Everybody is being led
:13:32. > :13:36.off down that path and maybe it won't happen. I think they are
:13:36. > :13:39.changing things quickly in the English system.
:13:39. > :13:48.The Department for Education says fundamental reform for GCSEs is
:13:48. > :13:53.needed so they match the best in Back in Wales, I meet this family.
:13:53. > :13:57.Chloe is doing her GCSEs, Sophie has just finished her first year.
:13:57. > :14:01.Lee and Helen are happy that the decisions the what government is
:14:01. > :14:06.making on qualifications and think it is right to keep modular
:14:06. > :14:10.assessment at GCSE. England is dropping it for courses starting in
:14:10. > :14:14.September. They welcome the policy to offer at least 30 subject to
:14:14. > :14:18.each pupil at GCSE. Despite that support, it is funding they really
:14:18. > :14:23.want to talk about. Very disappointed with the funding
:14:23. > :14:31.available to Welsh schools. It is quite a significant amount, over
:14:31. > :14:35.�600 per people. There is a lot of benefits for that extra money,
:14:35. > :14:38.facilities available to for the children and also to go to the
:14:38. > :14:42.school itself. The was government serves it is
:14:42. > :14:52.encouraged -- it has encouraged local authorities to dig -- to
:14:52. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :14:59.dedicate 85% of its budgets to School funding is a subject the
:14:59. > :15:03.Pierce family from Birkenhead have pretty strong views on, too. They
:15:03. > :15:08.are aware of the funding gap with Wales, describing the shortfall as
:15:08. > :15:12.grossly unfair. Holly has just finished her GCSEs but she could
:15:12. > :15:15.have gone to the local grammar school or comprehensives and Wales
:15:15. > :15:21.surprised Wales doesn't offer its peoples more choice of school.
:15:22. > :15:27.I think children should have a choice, not just to sort of plot
:15:27. > :15:33.along, thinking, I'm going to go to this or that school, when they
:15:33. > :15:37.should be saying, I could be going to that school but I'm going to
:15:37. > :15:40.look at going to another school. I think that motivates or might
:15:40. > :15:44.motivate the children. The Welsh government says it is
:15:44. > :15:47.committed to the developments of the comprehensive system, which it
:15:47. > :15:51.believes can ride -- provides for the needs of everyone. Two
:15:51. > :16:00.different governments and four viewpoints on the situation now in
:16:00. > :16:04.the future. Will GCSEs be part of Tomorrow night, I'll business
:16:04. > :16:08.correspondent will be finding out if GCSEs are preparing young people
:16:08. > :16:15.for the world of work. Back to tonight and much more to
:16:15. > :16:25.come. And 70 years ago tonight, the second world war pilot from
:16:25. > :16:30.
:16:30. > :16:33.Carmarthenshire who lost his life in Scotland.
:16:34. > :16:36.Seven years ago Rob Davies broke his back during a rugby match in
:16:37. > :16:39.his home town of Brecon. The accident left him permanently in a
:16:39. > :16:42.wheelchair. While he was in hospital, he discovered table
:16:42. > :16:44.tennis and has gone on to represent Great Britain around the world,
:16:44. > :16:46.most recently at the European Championships where he won silver.
:16:47. > :16:50.This will be the 28-year-old's first Paralympic Games. Carwyn
:16:50. > :16:53.Jones went to see him in action. It requires speed and stamina and Rob
:16:53. > :16:55.Davies have them both in spades. Five days a week, every week, you
:16:55. > :17:00.will find in training at the table. He makes it look effortless but at
:17:00. > :17:06.every turn, Rob is pushing his body to the limit. He even has to stop
:17:06. > :17:09.the racket to his wrist. Sat at a table in the wheelchair,
:17:10. > :17:14.you have to control the wheel chair back and forth and you have the
:17:14. > :17:22.skill level to use your wrist, if you can. I can only use it a little
:17:22. > :17:25.bit. Just using what you can, really, to play the best you can.
:17:25. > :17:30.And it is that defiance and perseverance that has led to a
:17:30. > :17:33.glittering medal tally. He has competed in the world and European
:17:33. > :17:37.Championships but there is one trophy in the Cabinet that gives
:17:37. > :17:43.you a clue to where his sporting career could have led. In his teens,
:17:43. > :17:47.he played rugby for his home town of Brecon and it was during a home
:17:48. > :17:54.match in 2005 that his life was to change forever.
:17:54. > :17:58.I caught my neck on the other front row's neck and felt a tingling all
:17:58. > :18:03.down my body. I was still holding onto the shoulders of the front row
:18:03. > :18:07.when it happened and I was burnt -- about to go back down into the
:18:07. > :18:11.scrum but I was gasping for air. They thought, something isn't right.
:18:11. > :18:14.Rob had broken his neck and was airlifted to hospital. In a twist
:18:14. > :18:19.of fate, the air ambulance had already been called to his twin
:18:19. > :18:24.brother, Richard, who had had a car crash just half-an-hour earlier
:18:24. > :18:28.while on route to Brecon to watch Rob play. Richard made a full
:18:28. > :18:32.recovery but his brother spent nearly a year in hospital.
:18:32. > :18:40.It was bad the first few months. Intensive care and things like that.
:18:41. > :18:44.He was fighting for survival to start with. He did really well.
:18:44. > :18:49.At the time, I wasn't sure what the outcome would be. I probably
:18:49. > :18:53.thought I was going to walk again, to be honest. I probably thought
:18:53. > :18:59.that for months and months after. Probably when I left drivers still
:18:59. > :19:04.in hope that I would walk again. It is not the case.
:19:04. > :19:08.Rob was first introduced to table tennis through Welsh table tennis
:19:08. > :19:14.medal winner, Sarah head. He took some persuading.
:19:14. > :19:20.He laughed at me and was like, table tennis? I was like, OK, fair
:19:21. > :19:25.enough. Can you not stand losing to a girl? That was it.
:19:25. > :19:29.And there was no turning back. A robber is now at the top of his
:19:29. > :19:39.game and although this will be his first Paralympics, he says he have
:19:39. > :19:39.
:19:39. > :19:43.got the medal podium squarely in his sights.
:19:43. > :19:46.Yesterday they set off on a bike ride of a 150 miles from Cardiff to
:19:46. > :19:49.the Oval, a journey in memory of cricketer Tom Maynard. This
:19:49. > :19:54.afternoon his father Matthew led the 29 cyclists onto the field just
:19:54. > :19:59.ahead of a memorial match in honour of his son.
:19:59. > :20:05.A clearly emotional and exhausted Matthew Maynard. After cycling 160
:20:05. > :20:09.miles, he received his son's county cap and show it. He and another --
:20:09. > :20:13.a number of other people from the cricketing community, joined him on
:20:13. > :20:17.the bike ride. They left Cardiff yesterday and arrived at the Oval
:20:17. > :20:22.this afternoon before a memorial match got under way.
:20:22. > :20:25.The reason we were doing this to create the Tom Maynard Trust,
:20:25. > :20:30.particularly in the last hour coming into the ground, the reality
:20:30. > :20:34.at home and the emotion was palpable. Matthew has found this
:20:34. > :20:39.very challenging. Done an incredible job. Most of the
:20:39. > :20:44.cyclists, none of us will really cyclists. Navigating our way
:20:44. > :20:48.through London was a bit hairy. The cyclist rate money for a trust
:20:48. > :20:54.set up in Tom Maynard's main, to help aspiring and disadvantage
:20:54. > :21:00.cricketers. The 23-year-old was found dead at a railway track in
:21:00. > :21:04.London's Wimbledon station in June. He started his career at Glamorgan
:21:04. > :21:10.and later joined Surrey. Today his former counties met. As a tribute,
:21:10. > :21:14.they both for shirts bearing his squad number and name.
:21:14. > :21:20.He was such a great lad, it was an opportunity to put something back
:21:20. > :21:30.and do something in his memory. Tattooed on his arm, Matthew
:21:30. > :21:35.Maynard now has his son's name and the words, forever in our hearts.
:21:35. > :21:45.Surrey have just finished they innings, scoring 219 for 9 after 40
:21:45. > :21:48.overs. Glamorgan have scored a run without loss.
:21:48. > :21:51.There will be no test cricket in Cardiff next year but the Swalec
:21:51. > :21:53.Stadium is to host the opening game of the prestigious Champions Trophy
:21:53. > :21:56.between holders India and South Africa. The limited-overs
:21:56. > :22:02.competition is being held in June 2013. Five matches will be played
:22:02. > :22:06.in Cardiff including England versus New Zealand.
:22:06. > :22:09.It is I it -- it is a high six- figure sum and coupled with the
:22:09. > :22:17.one-day international next year, six international days next year,
:22:17. > :22:20.it will be an important part of our projections.
:22:20. > :22:23.This weekend's race meeting in Tregaron is the latest casualty of
:22:23. > :22:25.the wet summer. The three day trotting event draws thousands to
:22:25. > :22:28.mid Wales every year. Friday's action has been cancelled
:22:28. > :22:33.altogether. Saturday and Sunday's races will take place in the Amman
:22:33. > :22:36.70 years ago today a group of Second World War airmen set out on
:22:36. > :22:39.a training flight that was to end in tragedy, their plane crashing in
:22:39. > :22:43.the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. At the controls was pilot Sergeant
:22:43. > :22:47.John Llewelyn from Carmarthenshire. Surprisingly, much of the wreckage
:22:47. > :22:57.is still on the mountain. Kevin Keane has been up Ben Macdui, the
:22:57. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:00.Uks second highest peak, to 4,000 ft high, on a windswept
:23:00. > :23:07.Cairngorms mountain-top and aircraft wreckage litters the
:23:07. > :23:14.landscape. Look at the bald. The thread is
:23:14. > :23:18.still there. It has been in these elements. That is incredible. This
:23:18. > :23:24.is an engine. There were two on the aircraft. There is another further
:23:24. > :23:28.up the hill. Amazing it is still here, still in the river.
:23:28. > :23:37.Over a large area, hundreds of small fragments from this crash
:23:37. > :23:42.remain where they fell, many of them still recognisable. It was an
:23:42. > :23:47.Avro Anson like this that crashed in the dark in 1942. Thousands were
:23:47. > :23:52.made and hundreds lost in similar circumstances. Many through pilot
:23:52. > :23:56.in experience and many through mechanical failure.
:23:56. > :24:03.There is literally hundreds of aircraft crashes or over Scotland,
:24:03. > :24:08.from the borders to Sky, to the far north. We lost so many a true, it
:24:08. > :24:12.was incredible. These were young plants, joining the air force and
:24:13. > :24:18.learning to fly. They had to fly very quickly.
:24:18. > :24:23.Piloting the plane was a young man from Carmarthen. John Llewelyn had
:24:23. > :24:27.been a successful fighter pilot but was on a training flight. His
:24:27. > :24:31.nephew, who studied the crash, believes many of the planes were
:24:32. > :24:37.not sufficiently maintained. The priority were frontline
:24:37. > :24:42.aircraft. Training aircraft were used a lot. They had a lot of
:24:42. > :24:45.accidents with them. That is the irony. It was a training accident
:24:45. > :24:50.that cost him his life. This is one of the few flights --
:24:50. > :24:54.sites in Scotland with a memorial to mark what happened here. Five
:24:54. > :24:58.people died in this crash alone. All that was recovered with the
:24:58. > :25:02.bodies. All across the UK, there are hundreds of sites just like
:25:02. > :25:12.this one, each with their own unique story to tell but each being
:25:12. > :25:14.
:25:14. > :25:21.Sue Charles is down by the river Sue Charles is down by the river
:25:21. > :25:25.It is a lovely evening to be by the river. River levels quite high
:25:25. > :25:29.across Wales because we have had so much rain fall over the past couple
:25:29. > :25:33.of days. Today was a day of sunshine and showers and bravely it
:25:33. > :25:37.is more of the same tomorrow. If we take a look at the radar picture,
:25:37. > :25:42.we can see the showers today. Running diagonally from
:25:42. > :25:46.Pembrokeshire to Wrexham. Some sharp showers was thunder. Some of
:25:46. > :25:50.us avoided the showers completely. This evening, the showers should
:25:51. > :25:55.peter out. Just a few lingering. It will remain cloudy overnight and
:25:55. > :25:59.the clout acts like a blanket, holding up the temperatures.
:25:59. > :26:04.Staying in double figures right across Wales. A muddy night to come
:26:04. > :26:07.but not as muddy as recent night. Tomorrow morning, it's the story of
:26:07. > :26:11.sunshine and showers developing through the day but fewer shares
:26:11. > :26:15.than today and they will be lighter as well with more in the way of
:26:15. > :26:20.sunshine in between the showers. Quite a breezy day, particularly
:26:20. > :26:25.blustery along the coast. Strong south-westerly winds along Cardigan
:26:26. > :26:33.Bay. Top temperatures between 17 Celsius on Anglesey and 20 selfless
:26:33. > :26:36.in Cardiff. -- 20 Celsius. Thursday, another dry start to the day. It
:26:36. > :26:40.should stay fairly bright for much of the day but cloud encroaches
:26:40. > :26:44.from the West through Thursday and that is a sign of what is to come
:26:44. > :26:48.because if we take a look at the pressure charge for Friday, we see
:26:48. > :26:53.an angry area of low pressure pushing in from the Atlantic. That
:26:53. > :26:57.is holding wet and windy weather for the start of the bank holiday
:26:57. > :27:01.weekend. Wet and windy at times in the outlook for the weekend. Not
:27:01. > :27:05.looking particularly promising for Friday and Saturday. It is not
:27:05. > :27:08.looking like a complete washout for the bank holiday weekend but
:27:08. > :27:13.certainly worth making the most of any sunshine over the next couple
:27:13. > :27:23.of days for rowing or any other outdoor activities because it is
:27:23. > :27:23.
:27:23. > :27:27.There is further pressure on the Chancellor George Osborne after new
:27:27. > :27:32.figures show a surprise increase in government borrowing this July.
:27:32. > :27:38.There was a deficit of �600 million at a time of year when there is