:00:02. > :00:05.Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story -
:00:05. > :00:10.Police name the mother, her daughter and her baby killed in a
:00:10. > :00:13.house fire in Cwmbran. A man is held on suspicicon of murder.
:00:13. > :00:23.Our other headlines tonight - The re-mark results in English
:00:23. > :00:33.
:00:33. > :00:35.papers are out - upgrades for thousands of GCSE students.
:00:35. > :00:40.Our other headlines tonight - The re-marked results in English
:00:40. > :00:43.papers are out - upgrades for thousands of GCSE students.
:00:43. > :00:48.Three-year-old Meg Burgess died when a wall collapsed on her - the
:00:48. > :00:57.builder denies manslaughter. The MP for Newport West, Paul Flynn,
:00:57. > :01:02.is suspended from the House of Commons.. There are brave soldier
:01:02. > :01:12.lions being led by ministerial donkey's. I must order the members
:01:12. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:24.to withdraw immediately from the Have you had any problems with
:01:24. > :01:27.decimalisation so far? Slightly. What in particular? I don't like
:01:27. > :01:34.the idea at all. Decimalisation, a drought and
:01:34. > :01:38.devolution - its the 1970s! 50 Good evening. Three generations of
:01:38. > :01:43.one family - a baby, her mother and her grandmother - have died in a
:01:43. > :01:46.fire at a house at Cwmbran. Kim Buckley, her daughter, Kayleigh,
:01:46. > :01:50.and six-month-old Kimberley were all found dead at the two-storey
:01:50. > :01:53.property in the early hours of this morning. A 27-year-old man from the
:01:53. > :02:02.Manchester area has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Our
:02:02. > :02:06.reporter, Jordan Davies, is in Cwmbran tonight. Jordan.
:02:06. > :02:13.Jamie, there is still a heavy police presence here as officers
:02:13. > :02:18.tried to unfold how this tragedy happened, one that has shaken this
:02:18. > :02:23.very tight-knit community. A grandmother, mother and her young
:02:23. > :02:30.baby, killed in a fierce blaze that took 30 firemen to put out. Kim
:02:30. > :02:34.Buckley, 46, her daughter, Kayleigh, 17, and Kimberley, just six months.
:02:34. > :02:39.She had only been allowed home from hospital yesterday after being born
:02:39. > :02:43.prematurely. Her twin sister died soon after birth. Two neighbours
:02:43. > :02:46.tried to enter through a window in an attempt to rescue the family but
:02:46. > :02:50.were beaten back by the intensity of the flames, and the house was
:02:50. > :02:55.well alight when crews arrived this morning. During the blaze, the
:02:55. > :03:00.bodies were found. Approximately 30 firefighters attended the scene,
:03:00. > :03:05.arriving very quickly to a developed fire. The firefighters
:03:05. > :03:08.worked extremely hard to extinguish the fire and locate the person
:03:08. > :03:12.strapped inside. Police have arrested a 27-year-old
:03:12. > :03:17.man from the Manchester area on suspicion of murder. He is
:03:17. > :03:21.currently being held in custody while forensics officers and fire
:03:21. > :03:24.investigators examine the scene for clues. So I know from personal
:03:24. > :03:28.experience that the residents in the Syria are very close-knit and
:03:28. > :03:31.support each other, and that was never more echoed just prior to the
:03:31. > :03:35.fire service coming to the scene when we were aware that local
:03:35. > :03:39.neighbourhood -- neighbours tried Valiant and bravely to enter the
:03:39. > :03:42.house to save the lives of the Berkeley family. Neighbours have
:03:42. > :03:47.been gathering at the police cordon all day, leaving flowers and
:03:47. > :03:52.tributes. Everybody is shocked, everybody's talking it, I am
:03:52. > :03:57.bumping into people on the way down, and everybody seems to... It has
:03:57. > :04:01.spread so fast about what has happened in the area. It is never a
:04:01. > :04:06.good thing when anybody loses their life but it is poignant when it is
:04:06. > :04:10.a young baby. Kelly Buckley had been a pupil at nearby fair water
:04:10. > :04:14.comprehensive. She is on the remembered. It was a tragedy today,
:04:14. > :04:18.not just for pupils and staff but the community, even people who
:04:19. > :04:22.don't know how well have been traumatised by it and offered
:04:22. > :04:26.counselling. The police will continue their investigations now
:04:26. > :04:30.into this tragic incident. It will take this close-knit community a
:04:30. > :04:35.long time to come to terms with the loss of three generations of the
:04:35. > :04:38.same family. Jordan, you have spent the day in
:04:38. > :04:43.the community, and another development tonight.
:04:43. > :04:46.Yes. Gwent Police have voluntarily referred this case to the
:04:46. > :04:50.Independent Police Complaints Commission, because the force says
:04:50. > :04:55.it is aware that officers have been to this address on previous
:04:55. > :05:00.occasions. This doesn't mean the IPCC are investigating this, it has
:05:00. > :05:06.only been referred to the IPCC postop police are still questioning
:05:06. > :05:08.the 27-year-old man on suspicion of murder. No doubt the flowers and
:05:08. > :05:11.tributes will continue into this evening, but it will take this
:05:11. > :05:14.community a long time to come to terms with the scale of this
:05:14. > :05:17.tragedy. Some of the pupils who sat the
:05:17. > :05:20.English language GCSE exam should know tonight whether their grades
:05:20. > :05:23.have improved. The vast majority of the 34,000 pupils won't find out
:05:23. > :05:26.until tomorrow. The paper was re- graded after the Welsh Education
:05:26. > :05:29.Minister Leighton Andrews said grade boundaries had been set in a
:05:29. > :05:32.way that was unfair to candidates. So let's take a look at the new
:05:32. > :05:35.results. Just over 2,000 pupils have had their grades increased.
:05:35. > :05:43.1,200 have improved their mark from a D to C, and almost 600 have gone
:05:43. > :05:47.from a C grade to B. This is when the controversy
:05:48. > :05:52.started so. On GCSE results day in August, heads and peoples across
:05:52. > :05:57.the country were disappointed that candidates expected to get C grades
:05:57. > :06:02.received D. The Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, decided use
:06:02. > :06:05.ministerial powers to force the WJEC to reach grade, saying the
:06:05. > :06:09.results were unjustifiable and almost certainly unfair due to a
:06:09. > :06:14.change in the marking a third between January and June. The
:06:14. > :06:20.results in the top grades were down nearly four per cent from 61.3 per
:06:20. > :06:24.cent in 2011-57.4 per cent this year. 34,000 Welsh pupils took the
:06:24. > :06:28.joke -- WJEC's English language exam but any a small proportion
:06:28. > :06:31.will C grades improve, and none will go down.
:06:31. > :06:35.Those children who will be regraded will only receive the grade they
:06:35. > :06:39.would have got last year if they sat the exams in similar
:06:40. > :06:43.circumstances. There has been too much pressure to tighten things up,
:06:43. > :06:48.and all that rhetoric, which has been misplaced. What we will see
:06:48. > :06:52.his youngsters rewarded far hard work and given a fair grade.
:06:52. > :06:57.that Flint High School, the regrading would affect their
:06:57. > :07:02.students, who sat the AQA board's exam, which has not been ordered to
:07:02. > :07:05.be regraded. Teachers say that is unfair on students. Lots of
:07:05. > :07:11.disappointment. Students have been coming back to school asking if
:07:11. > :07:15.they can resit, what can be Dylan - - done about it, and a lot can't go
:07:15. > :07:20.on to the next course either because they need a secret. We
:07:20. > :07:25.don't feel as if we can trust them. We don't know what they see is any
:07:25. > :07:32.more, but we are moving to WJEC exams. Tonight could be another
:07:32. > :07:38.sleepless night forced -- Mac for pupils.
:07:38. > :07:43.Let's get more on this from our political editor, Betsan Powys.
:07:43. > :07:50.Thank you, Jamie. A happy ending at least for some 2000 Welsh pupils,
:07:50. > :07:54.but what of those who hits -- sit exams in Wales in future? Education
:07:55. > :07:59.Minister, Leighton Andrews, is with me. Happy news for some 2000 Welsh
:07:59. > :08:03.pupils now, but in future, is it bad news for Welsh peoples whose
:08:03. > :08:08.grades will be regarded as not quite up to English standards?
:08:08. > :08:11.I don't think that. There are calls in England for regrading as well.
:08:11. > :08:16.When we published a report we said we thought they should be regrading
:08:16. > :08:19.in England, and there we see Conservative councils in England,
:08:19. > :08:24.like Kent and Suffolk, calling for regrading there. That's what should
:08:24. > :08:27.happen, they should be fairness for students in England. We have
:08:27. > :08:32.delivered fairness in Wales. Haven't you just created another
:08:32. > :08:35.unfairness? The same paper in England and Wales, the same answers,
:08:35. > :08:40.different grades. What we have done is provided the
:08:40. > :08:43.grades that young people should have got on the basis of prior
:08:44. > :08:48.attainment and comparison with previous cohorts. We said they
:08:48. > :08:53.should be regrading in England, but that of course is a matter for
:08:53. > :08:56.Ofqual and Michael Gove. We cannot change that but we know people are
:08:56. > :09:01.lining up to consider court action to try to ensure regrading in
:09:01. > :09:04.England. The opposition parties here have united to point out that
:09:04. > :09:07.by improving these grades today, you are simply proving the
:09:07. > :09:11.regulation was not good enough in the summer, and you are the
:09:11. > :09:15.regulator. I don't think they understand either have the
:09:15. > :09:23.regulatory process works or the greys and -- grading process.
:09:23. > :09:27.you could have stopped it. I don't think so. These exams are graded on
:09:27. > :09:31.a three country basis with a consensus on the way they operate.
:09:31. > :09:37.If you look at the detail of the report, it is clear why we could
:09:37. > :09:39.not actually have. The reality is, our regulatory system has worked
:09:40. > :09:44.and has delivered their grades for students, and that is because we
:09:44. > :09:49.have a system allowing the Minister to intervene in extreme
:09:49. > :09:53.circumstances, and these were very exceptional circumstances. Briefly,
:09:53. > :09:57.Michael Gove talked yesterday in England about a new qualification,
:09:57. > :10:03.the English Baccalaureate. You tweeted this morning that this is
:10:03. > :10:08.like the back of a fag packet. Does that prove you have already decided
:10:08. > :10:12.it won't work in Wales? We already have a Welsh Baccalaureate. We have
:10:12. > :10:16.a proper qualifications review underway, taking evidence from
:10:16. > :10:19.across Wales and beyond our borders, talking to university admissions
:10:19. > :10:25.chiefs as well. We will do the right thing for Wales on the basis
:10:25. > :10:29.of evidence. Thank you. The story ends today, but is it over? I doubt
:10:29. > :10:32.The mother of Aamir Siddiqi, the 17-year-old from Cardiff who was
:10:32. > :10:35.stabbed to death at home wept as she paid tribute to her "beautiful
:10:35. > :10:38.son. In a taped interview played to Swansea Crown Court, Parveen Ahmad
:10:38. > :10:41.described him as "an extraordinary person," and said that after having
:10:41. > :10:48.three girls, he was a "gift." Jason Richards, on the left, and Ben Hope,
:10:49. > :10:51.deny murder and attempted murder, and the trial continues.
:10:52. > :10:54.Hundreds of people have gathered in Flint this evening to protest about
:10:54. > :10:56.the proposed closure of the town's community hospital. The Betsi
:10:56. > :11:04.Cadwaladr University Health Board is holding public consultations
:11:04. > :11:07.about the changes to health services in North Wales.
:11:07. > :11:10.The mother of a three-year-old girl killed when a garden wall collapsed
:11:10. > :11:15.on her has been describing the moment it fell. Meg Burgess from
:11:15. > :11:18.Meliden near Prestatyn died in July 2008. The builder who designed the
:11:18. > :11:23.wall denies manslaughter by gross negligence. Matthew Richards
:11:23. > :11:26.reports. Lindsay Burgess, arriving at court
:11:26. > :11:30.with her husband, Peter, had taken her daughter, Meg, and baby boy,
:11:30. > :11:32.Wilson, to the shops on a July morning in 2008. On their return,
:11:32. > :11:37.they passed Nightingale Cottage, where extensive construction work
:11:37. > :11:47.was being done. A 23-metre-long, 1.5-metre-high concrete wall
:11:47. > :11:47.
:11:47. > :11:51.collapsed just as Meg passed beneath it. Linsey Burgess
:11:51. > :11:55.described returning from the shops would make walking behind her. She
:11:55. > :11:59.said she turned around to look at her daughter, and she looked up at
:11:59. > :12:03.her and then the wall came down in one go and engulfed her. Despite
:12:03. > :12:06.her frantic attempts, Megs suffered fatal injuries.
:12:06. > :12:09.The builder whose company, Parcol Develpments, carried out the work
:12:09. > :12:12.and designed the wall was George Collier, wearing the purple tie.
:12:12. > :12:14.The jury heard that he had 30 years of experience in the construction
:12:14. > :12:17.industry as a groundworker and plant operator. But in desgining
:12:17. > :12:23.the wall, he hadn't consulted a structural engineer. He also
:12:23. > :12:27.operated an excavator, moving tonnes of earth close to the wall.
:12:27. > :12:31.The prosecution say he gambled with the safety of passers-by, and the
:12:31. > :12:35.retaining wall he designed was not properly secured two foundations by
:12:35. > :12:39.metal rods. Those foundations went deep enough and the more to use was
:12:39. > :12:46.not deep enough to support the wall. George collier denies manslaughter
:12:46. > :12:50.through gross negligence, and the trial continues. You're watching
:12:50. > :12:53.Wales Today from the BBC. Much more to come before 7:00pm -
:12:53. > :12:54.Hundreds of new jobs could be at risk in Llandeilo and Cross Hands
:12:55. > :12:57.in a row over supermarket development.
:12:57. > :12:59.And why the Ospreys are taking thousands of primary school pupils
:13:00. > :13:03.under their wing. The Labour MP for Newport West,
:13:03. > :13:05.Paul Flynn, has been ordered out of the House of Commons after accusing
:13:05. > :13:07.government ministers of lying over the war in Afghanistan. Our
:13:07. > :13:16.parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, is at Westminster. David,
:13:16. > :13:20.what happened? Jamie, Paul Flynn has been an
:13:21. > :13:26.outspoken opponent of the war in Afghanistan since the very
:13:26. > :13:30.beginning, and that opposition to it has hardened in recent weeks,
:13:30. > :13:35.months and days as more and more British servicemen have died in
:13:35. > :13:40.that conflict. Today, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, came to
:13:40. > :13:44.the Commons to update MPs on the situation. Paul Flynn left the
:13:44. > :13:48.minister in no doubt about his views.
:13:48. > :13:53.Isn't this very similar to the end of the First World War, when it was
:13:54. > :13:59.said that politicians lied and soldiers died, and the reality was,
:13:59. > :14:07.as it is now, that our brave soldier Lions are being led by
:14:07. > :14:11.ministerial donkey's? Order, can I just... Noted what he said, but can
:14:11. > :14:14.I ask the Member for Newport West to make it clear that he is not
:14:14. > :14:18.suggesting a minister it is lying to the House of Commons. It would
:14:18. > :14:22.be helpful to make that clear. is precisely what I am saying. I
:14:22. > :14:25.believe we have had lies from the minister and our soldiers are being
:14:25. > :14:30.let down. Any regrets from Paul Flynn, what
:14:30. > :14:35.happens next? Jamie, I spoke to Paul Flynn after
:14:35. > :14:39.he was kicked out of the chamber. He says, no regrets whatsoever. It
:14:39. > :14:43.wasn't planned or carefully contrived as a publicity stunt to
:14:43. > :14:48.get his point across. His anger just boiled over in there. He will
:14:48. > :14:51.have to pay a price, and that is not only been ordered head of the
:14:51. > :14:56.Commons today but been suspended for five sitting days, five days
:14:56. > :14:59.without pay, when MPs return from the break there are about to embark
:14:59. > :15:01.on for party conferences. Thank you.
:15:01. > :15:04.The Welsh Government is delaying and jeopardising the creation of
:15:04. > :15:06.more than 600 jobs - that's what the leader of Carmarthenshire
:15:06. > :15:08.Council claims tonight. Two supermarket proposals have both
:15:08. > :15:10.been called in for review by inspectors despite being
:15:10. > :15:20.overwhelmingly supported by councillors. Here's our business
:15:20. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:27.correspondent, Nick Servini. At a time when jobs are at a
:15:27. > :15:33.premium, new developments are under the spotlight more than ever. In
:15:33. > :15:37.Carmarthenshire, two proposals, won here for a Sainsbury's, and one for
:15:37. > :15:42.another Sainsbury's, as well as housing, a new medical centre and a
:15:42. > :15:46.care home on this land in nearby Cross Hands, are at the centre of a
:15:46. > :15:51.row. Carmarthenshire Council says they are worth around �60 million
:15:51. > :15:55.and will create around 600 jobs, with temporary construction work on
:15:55. > :16:00.top. But the Welsh Government has decided to review the approval
:16:00. > :16:03.given to the schemes by the council. The final decision isn't expected
:16:03. > :16:09.for around a year. I want to see these kind of jobs
:16:09. > :16:12.cumin pretty quickly. Not 18 months, two years down the line. We need
:16:12. > :16:16.the Investment now, the construction industry is crying out
:16:16. > :16:20.for jobs, so we can get is going and I am committed as
:16:20. > :16:24.administration to doing so. Welsh Government says it is unable
:16:24. > :16:28.to comment on planning matters. Officials will now look at the
:16:28. > :16:34.impact of existing retailers. Some businesses here have been against
:16:34. > :16:38.the proposed new supermarket on the edge of the town, including one
:16:38. > :16:42.local brewer, Simon Buckley. We are not talking about hundreds of jobs,
:16:42. > :16:48.let's be realistic. Sainsbury's are saying, we will bring a number of
:16:48. > :16:52.jobs to be areas. As has been proven from developments elsewhere,
:16:52. > :16:55.they bring a certain number of jobs and within a short period of time,
:16:55. > :16:59.those jobs are whittled back down to mostly part-time or casual
:16:59. > :17:03.labour. Sainsbury's says it wants to bring
:17:03. > :17:09.investment into the towns and its consultations with the local people
:17:09. > :17:13.have been overwhelmingly positive. Reform of the planning process is
:17:13. > :17:16.higher up the political agenda at the moment. Here, you get a very
:17:16. > :17:20.good example of the kinds of pressures on the ground to push
:17:20. > :17:24.through anything involved with job- creation quickly. Before the
:17:24. > :17:29.recession, any delays were accepted as part of the planning process.
:17:29. > :17:32.Now it is a sign of the times that they are considered unacceptable by
:17:32. > :17:35.many people. Primary school pupils in Bridgend,
:17:35. > :17:39.Swansea and Neath Port Talbot will have a new subject on the timetable
:17:39. > :17:41.this year. Local rugby region, the Ospreys, have designed an
:17:41. > :17:44.educational programme which aims to help children to improve their
:17:44. > :17:54.maths and language skills, while also make them fans for life. Our
:17:54. > :17:56.
:17:56. > :18:00.sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter, went along for a lesson.
:18:00. > :18:04.It's a place more used to rousing team talks and primary school
:18:04. > :18:09.lessons, but this year, the Ospreys dressing room will become a
:18:09. > :18:12.classroom for 3000 pupils from 60 local schools. What happens on
:18:13. > :18:16.match day is the subject of the final lesson of the Ospreys schools
:18:16. > :18:20.programme, developed by the region in partnership with two local
:18:20. > :18:24.companies and three local authorities. Pupils from this
:18:24. > :18:28.primary school in Neath were the first to try it out, with famous
:18:28. > :18:32.classroom assistants on hand to help. I thought the lesson was
:18:32. > :18:36.really good for teaching kids, not to waste energy and things. Some of
:18:36. > :18:40.the goals were think it is good, but is not my kind of thing. The
:18:40. > :18:44.boys like it and enjoy it. I am a sporty person and enjoy playing
:18:44. > :18:48.rugby and love the Ospreys, and seeing their shirts and everything.
:18:48. > :18:52.It makes it interesting and adds value to the school experience,
:18:52. > :18:56.which is what children want and require, really. It can only be
:18:57. > :19:00.great for us as a club and a region. At this age, girls tend to
:19:00. > :19:04.outperform boys. Learning through rugby can help raise boys'
:19:04. > :19:09.achievement. Here, for example, grasping the Rugby scoring system
:19:09. > :19:13.will help with maths. For them to come into school and talk of it,
:19:13. > :19:17.and say yes, I have to do this and to the skills and read the
:19:17. > :19:21.programmes, and to the training plans... I think it is vitally
:19:21. > :19:25.important for boys if they want to create another Welsh hero in the
:19:25. > :19:30.future. Schools are right at the heart of Welsh rugby's efforts to
:19:30. > :19:34.engage with local communities. Today 1000 pupils from the rumba
:19:34. > :19:42.watch the Cardiff Blues Train. -- from the Rhondda. This will help
:19:42. > :19:44.grow support, but it could also be a legacy in the impression it gives
:19:44. > :19:47.to our children. Some cycling news. 18-year-old
:19:47. > :19:49.Elinor Barker, from Cardiff, has won the gold medal in the junior
:19:49. > :19:52.time trial at the World Road Championships in Holland. She's the
:19:52. > :19:57.first British rider to win gold in the event since former Olympic
:19:57. > :20:00.champion, Nicole Cooke, in 2001. Wales Today is 50 years old, and
:20:00. > :20:04.all this week we're bringing you a series of special reports looking
:20:04. > :20:07.back on five decades of news broadcasting in Wales. Tonight it's
:20:07. > :20:10.the 1970s, when we got to grips with decimalisation, enjoyed one of
:20:10. > :20:13.the hottest summers on record and delighted in the glory years of
:20:13. > :20:23.Welsh rugby. But as Carwyn Jones now reports, the decade got off to
:20:23. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:29.a fiery start. One of our most historic landmarks,
:20:29. > :20:34.burning beyond repair. 1970 was the year the Britannia Bridge went up
:20:34. > :20:40.in flames. The fire was started by five teenage boys, and effectively
:20:40. > :20:45.set -- severed Anglesey's only rail link with the mainland. A bridge
:20:45. > :20:51.standing 420 years was virtually destroyed in one night. 1970 also
:20:51. > :20:55.proved a memorable year for these pupils at a primary school in
:20:55. > :20:59.Cardiff. They saved up biscuit money to buy an ambulance, and to
:20:59. > :21:04.their charitable work attracted a special visitor. Today, Mother
:21:04. > :21:07.Teresa thanked them. This is the first group I have met where
:21:07. > :21:13.children are as small as they are with such a big heart and such a
:21:13. > :21:17.deep love. These children had saved their money in 1971 -- if they had,
:21:17. > :21:24.they would have to do mental arithmetic. It was the year of
:21:24. > :21:32.decimalisation. Have you had any problems with decimalisation so
:21:32. > :21:38.far? Slightly, yes. What in particular? Well, I just don't like
:21:38. > :21:42.the idea at all. By the 1970s, most homes had a television set, but the
:21:42. > :21:48.techniques of broadcasting daily news in Wales was still proving a
:21:48. > :21:52.challenge. We were using film, complex sound systems, and
:21:52. > :21:55.initially were in black and white, and when I was in North Wales we
:21:55. > :21:58.have to flip a coin to decide whether to filmed in black and
:21:58. > :22:04.white and bring it back to bangle for transmission from there, or if
:22:04. > :22:08.it was a huge, in Fort -- important event, raced down to Cardiff with
:22:09. > :22:13.it, because we could process colour in North Wales. But colour was
:22:13. > :22:17.becoming the norm when it came to filming sporting events, and what
:22:17. > :22:22.better to a gate and the Seventies to enjoy our Welsh rugby squad at
:22:22. > :22:26.the height of its powers? -- decade than the Seventies. It was
:22:26. > :22:31.undoubtedly the golden period. We have a good side now, but that
:22:31. > :22:36.Bunche was unbelievable, a bunch of legends. That's what they became.
:22:36. > :22:41.As a rugby team basked in sunshine, so did the rest of us, at least we
:22:41. > :22:45.did in 1976. It became known as the long, hot summer, and so changed
:22:45. > :22:49.the life of one young Wales Today the world. I was eight years old at
:22:49. > :22:54.a time, growing up in Paris. We had soaring temperatures, lots of
:22:54. > :22:59.sunshine, a big drought of course, water was turned off up to 17 hours
:22:59. > :23:04.a day, and I became fascinated by the weather as a young boy, and
:23:04. > :23:09.knew then that I wanted to be weather man when I left school.
:23:09. > :23:16.1976 was also the birth of punk. And in Wales, the arrival of the
:23:16. > :23:26.sex Pistols in Caerphilly promote protests from Church goers. -- Sex
:23:26. > :23:31.Pistols. But the economy was also in flux. Steelworks were closed,
:23:31. > :23:36.and by the end of the decade, plants in defied -- Deeside will
:23:36. > :23:40.also close gates, leaving men without work. I remember watching
:23:40. > :23:44.thousands of people coming out of the gates of Shotton at the end of
:23:44. > :23:49.the last shift, and it suddenly occurred to me, my goodness, this
:23:49. > :23:54.is not just a handful of people out of work, but thousands in one fell
:23:54. > :24:02.swoop. It was dramatic. As the decade due to a close, Wales went
:24:02. > :24:07.to the polls. In a referendum on St David's Day, 1979, voters rejected
:24:07. > :24:11.devolution by an overwhelming majority of four: 1. Plans for an
:24:11. > :24:14.elected Welsh Assembly would have to wait. That same year, a new
:24:14. > :24:21.Prime Minister entered Downing Street, heralding a new era of
:24:21. > :24:24.politics and a decade of sweeping change. In tomorrow night
:24:24. > :24:27.Tomorrow night, it's the 1980s, when we took to the streets to
:24:27. > :24:30.celebrate the wedding of Charles and Diana, and watched as Britain
:24:30. > :24:33.went to war with Argentina. It was also the decade of the miners'
:24:33. > :24:36.strike, while in Merthyr Tyfil, a new mode of transport came off the
:24:36. > :24:42.production line. Those stories and more tomorrow night at 6:30pm.
:24:42. > :24:45.Back to tonight - no chance The summer of '76 was the hottest
:24:45. > :24:49.for over 300 years. And it was followed by a very wet autumn. So
:24:49. > :24:52.far, this September has been drier than average, but there is rain on
:24:52. > :24:55.the way. Some lovely sunshine today but showers as well. Heavy in the
:24:55. > :24:58.north this afternoon, with hail in Llandudno. Tonight a few more
:24:58. > :25:00.showers, mainly in parts of Powys and the north. Otherwise a dry,
:25:00. > :25:04.clear night. The wind easing and chilly. Temperatures on the north
:25:04. > :25:07.and west coast not falling too low with a breeze off the sea, but
:25:07. > :25:09.colder inland. Locally down to three Celsius in some rural spots,
:25:09. > :25:12.with a ground frost. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure near
:25:12. > :25:18.Cornwall. This low will bring rain to Ireland, while this low near the
:25:18. > :25:24.Azores is Tropical Storm Nadine. Here in Wales, not a bad start
:25:24. > :25:30.tomorrow. One or two showers in the north, otherwise much of the
:25:30. > :25:40.country dry. Some places bright and sunny. Feeling cool, but the wind
:25:40. > :25:40.
:25:40. > :25:44.lighter than today. So plenty of dry weather tomorrow. Some sunshine,
:25:44. > :25:48.but not dry everywhere. Cloud will increase during the afternoon with
:25:48. > :25:55.a few showers. Top temperatures 13- 15 Celsius with a west to north-
:25:55. > :26:02.westerly breeze. In the Vale of Clwyd tomorrow, I wouldn't rule out
:26:02. > :26:06.a shower, but most of the day dry. Some sunshine - temperatures in
:26:06. > :26:11.Ruthin rising to 14 Celsius. Tomorrow night, a few showers and
:26:11. > :26:17.some rain in the north. Dry in Monmouthshire. On Thursday, the
:26:17. > :26:22.north and parts of Mid Wales can expect rain. Further south, mostly
:26:22. > :26:28.dry. On Friday, the rain will spread south, followed by dry and
:26:28. > :26:31.brighter weather. Some sunshine to end the day in the north. As for
:26:31. > :26:36.the weekend, it should start dry and bright, but the signs are that
:26:36. > :26:41.it won't last. Low pressure heading our way, bringing a spell of wet
:26:41. > :26:45.and windy weather. Mind you, things are not set in stone, so it would
:26:45. > :26:49.be worth keeping an eye on the forecast over the next few days.
:26:49. > :26:52.Now, we've had more dry than wet weather so far this September, but
:26:52. > :27:01.next week looks much more unsettled, with showers or longer spells of
:27:01. > :27:05.Tonight's headlines from the BBC: two police officers have been
:27:05. > :27:10.killed in Greater Manchester after responding what turned out to be a
:27:10. > :27:14.bonus 9 -- bogus 999 call. They were attacked with a gun and
:27:14. > :27:18.grenade shortly after Dale Cregan, already a wanted man, handed
:27:18. > :27:22.himself in to police. Three generations of one family, a
:27:22. > :27:28.baby, her mother and grandmother, have died in a fire at as in
:27:29. > :27:33.Cwmbran. Kim Buckley, her teenage daughter, Katie, and six but Matt -
:27:33. > :27:40.- month-old Kimberley were banned this morning. The 27-year-old man