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Working here gave them cancer and breathing problems. Tonight, a | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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victory in the High Court for the the dust would be dropping off the | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
belts. The men would be in a in that, and also the toxic Hume -- | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
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toxic fumes coming off the oven at Our other headlines tonight: | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
The school closed by asbestos - what next for pupils? Tonight, a | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
public meeting of parents from Our reporter offered drugs in the | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
street - the use of mephedrone, or meow meow, has more than doubled in | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
Why wind farms and pylons are bitterly dividing the communities | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
And the nuts and bolts of manufacturing - why the Governor of | :01:04. | :01:13. | |
the Bank of England has come to see Good evening. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
They claimed that toxic fumes and dust at work gave them cancer and | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
respiratory disease. Today in a landmark case at the High Court, | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
the judge agreed. A group of former workers from the phurnacite coking | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
plant in Abercwmboi in the Cynon Valley were awarded compensation. | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Lawyers say the judgement could have implications for hundreds of | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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workers throughout the UK. Carwyn Back in the Sixties and Seventies, | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
it was dubbed one of the dirtiest industrial sites in Britain. The | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
plant at Abercwmboi was opened in 1942 to make smokeless fuel from | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
coal waste, briquettes to burn at home, but it was the process of | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
crashing, mixing and using the materials which the men who works | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
here said caused fumes and dust and lead to cancer and respiratory | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
disease. Fred Rich has worked there for 30 years and remembers the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
conditions at the plant only too well. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
The conditions at the phurnacite plant were terrible. Atrocious. As | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
it is, we had to put up with pitch Burns, the environment, the dust, | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
the gases, and the heat was overwhelming, because the | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
temperature in the ovens was 950 centigrade, near enough. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
For Red Ed now has chronic emphysema and is one of four X | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
workers are awarded compensation at the High Court today. He doesn't | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
know how much he will receive, but it will range from �4,500-�120,000. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
The claim was brought against the Department of Energy and climate | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
change which has responsibility for British Coal. The court found | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
convincing evidence that lung disease and respiratory Cup -- | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
problems could be caused by it the plant, but it said there was | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
insufficient evidence to support claims of bladder cancer and | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
certain skin cancers. These men have been fighting for | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
many, many years. There is a long- held ft -- view that problems at | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
the plant caused problems in the work force, so it has been a | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
vindication and should result in justice, I think, for the vast | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
majority in the group. This is where the phurnacite plant | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
used to stand. It closed in 1991, and the land has since been written | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
-- reclaimed, but at its peak it produced 1 million briquettes the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
year, and the effects of all that industry was felt by the community. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Malcolm Cook has lived in Abercwmboi all his life and raised | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
his family here. When the sulphur would be coming | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
over, it could fall on to washing on the line and half-a-dozen women | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
had to go down every day to see the manager to see what could be done | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
about the sulphur fall-out, and other materials as well, so it | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
ought ever the case may be. 84 more workers brought this test | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
case to the High Court -- 84 more workers. Only four was successful, | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Fred one of them, but lawyers say this could have implications for | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
coca than workers throughout the UK. Bleddyn Hancock is general | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
secretary of the NACODS union, which supported some of the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
claimants. This has been a long fight for many of the men who work | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
here, hasn't it? Yes, indeed. We have seen one of the gentleman | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
there, Malcolm Cook, from a group set up in 1995, so they have been | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
plugging away for a long time, and all credit to them. We got involved | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
five years ago and got a letter of claim to the government in 2008, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
and they decided to contest the cases, as did the coalition, and | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
finally it got into the High Court in Cardiff in 20th October 11. It | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
ended in the High Court in London nearly a year ago -- October at | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
2000 per 11. Today we have a very good judgment. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
It is this the last now of those big coal industry compensation | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
cases, the last in the line? There have been so many over the years. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
Yes indeed. We have fought several and one some of the biggest ones in | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
the world in NACODS, and this is likely to be the last great group | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
actions for individuals claiming as a result of the terrible action -- | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
damage the coal industry did. you watch the archive pictures from | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
a few decades ago, the one thing that strikes me is the lack of | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
health and safety, these men are not using facial production -- | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
protection, their eyes, mouths and noses are not covered, there | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
doesn't seem to be basic health and safety observed. The judge made | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
this comment in her judgment. She said these were appalling | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
conditions, described as the filthiest factory in Europe. One of | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the experts described it as pretty appalling, and she agreed. The one | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
point she made was that management was reactive, not proactive, | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
instead of getting on with the job of protecting the men, they were | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
reacting to breakdowns or catastrophes at the plant. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
celebration for some families tonight but for others, this has | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
come too late. Yes. I think the politicians of the major parties | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
who have fought these cases need to look at themselves, because this | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
has been bad government, bad justice and bad value for the | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
taxpayer. These cases should have been settled in Lord Justice quite | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
some years ago, but I am delighted that at last we have got justice | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
for these families. Bleddyn Hancock, thank you. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
The man accused of a series of hit- and-runs in Cardiff last Friday has | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
appeared at Newport Crown Court today via video link. 31-year-old | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Matthew Tvrdon is charged with the murder of Karina Menzies and the | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
attempted murder of 13 others, plus four charges of assault and one of | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
dangerous driving. He has been remanded in custody. | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
People living in Ely have been organising events to raise money | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
for Karina Menzies's children. The fund's organisers are planning an | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
auction of sports memorabilia and other activities, and say they've | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
been astonished at the level of support so far. | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
The future of Cwmcarn High School is being discussed by Caerphilly | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Council tonight after asbestos was found in its main block. The school | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
has been closed for more than a week. Pupils in Years 10, 11, 12 | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
and 13 have returned to lessons in another part of the building. The | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
headteacher wants to move the whole school to a new location while the | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
issue is resolved, but the council has been advised to consider | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
demolishing the school. Our education correspondent, Gwenfair | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
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Griffith, is at the meeting. This was an emergency measure, so | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
this will only affect this academic year, but parents here were | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
delighted to tonight to hear that Cwmcarn High School will stay | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
together. One of the options considered was to disperse the | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
pupils to different schools in the Caerphilly Council area, but they | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
have been told tonight that pupils will be taking to the former Ebbw | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
Vale campus of the college in Gwent to be taught lessons there. It does | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
mean up to 40 minutes Ginnie for pupils but parents said it will be | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
worth it. -- 40 minutes' journey. Some parents are with me tonight, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
Nichola James, what did you think? It was positive that the children | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
will stay together. It still raises concerns over what will happen | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
after this academic Click -- academic year which I would like | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
the council to address in the short term, so it would be nice if we | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
heard in the next week or two what could happen. A so you still have | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
worries? Yes, over the long term of the school, but at least in the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
short term, there are guaranteed to stay together until the end of the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
academic year. What were your worries about the other options | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
considered? Some of the other options were dispersing children to | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
other schools in the area. Obviously that is a concern because | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
not only do we separate the children then but we also lose some | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
teaching staff which make the score as valuable as it is. Some of the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
pupils are here with us. They haven't been in school for 10 days. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
How has that affected you? Our work has gone down quite a bit. We have | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
been given a lot of work on Twitter and over Facebook, but it is a | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
problem and when we go back to school, I can't wait to get back | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
into the classroom and see my friends. How worried has the school | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
been about the asbestos? Quite worried, because lots of people | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
from different places have been worried about the effects of it and | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
whether we will be affected by it. What were your thoughts after the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
meeting tonight? We were really happy that we could all be together | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
again and go back to school. Thank you for talking to us. Happy pupils | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
and parents here. They will be moving to the new school by 5th | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
November. The jury at an inquest into the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
death of a 12-year-old boy who died when a set of goalposts fell on him | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
has reached a verdict of accidental death. Casey Breese was playing | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
football with friends in Caersws when the posts, which weighed more | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
than 17 stone, toppled over and landed on his back. The jury said | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
the accidental death was due to the inadequate and unsuitable equipment | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
being used. Afterwards, Casey's parents said they hope lessons have | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
been learnt. Having been present at the inquest | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
over the last two days has given us the opportunity to listen to the | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
full circumstances and all the evidence available. We hope that as | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
a result of this inquiry, lessons are learnt to prevent any such a | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
careers ever happening again. -- a Kerins. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
The family of four people who died in a house fire in Prestatyn say | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
they've been overwhelmed by the support of the community following | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
their deaths. Today, inquests were opened and adjourned into the | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
deaths of Lee-Anna Shiers, her 15- month-old son, Charlie, four-year- | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
old nephew, Bailey Allen, and two- year-old niece, Skye. A 45-year-old | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
man arrested at the weekend has been released without charge, and a | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
42 year old woman who was also arrested has been released on bail. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
It has similar effects to ecstasy and cocaine, and the use of | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
mephedrone, or meow meow, in Wales has more than doubled in a year. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Between April and June this year, there was a 165 per cent increase | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
in the number of mephedrone offences compared to the same | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
period last year, and schoolchildren are being offered | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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"tasters" of the drug for as little as 20p. Steffan Powell reports. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
This woman was addicted to mephedrone and at one point spent | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
up to �1,000 a week on her habit. She doesn't want to be identified. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
The lowest point for me it was when I thought I couldn't cope any more | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
with life, I couldn't pay bills, I couldn't keep my flat together, | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
little things of paying my car insurance, I couldn't focus on that, | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
so I thought the easiest way instead of causing shame for my | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
family with fraud was that I would kill myself. And they took two | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
tents on my life. Two years ago, mephedrone was | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
considered a legal height, but despite being made illegal in April | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
2010, the image hasn't changed, and this is a concern for the police. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
The real crucial step for us is the public perception, and to see this | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
as a dirty, dangerous drug. There's nothing glamourous about new | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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You don't know what you are putting in your system. | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Mephedrone is cheap to buy. A gram of meow meow typically costs | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
between �10-�20, less than half the average cost of cocaine. Mephedrone | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
tasters are being offered to children for as little as 20p. Come | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
to account like this one, and this is where police say meow meow is | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
becoming a significant problem -- to a town. They say West Wales as | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
an area we use is growing, but not just here. Across the country its | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
popularity has doubled this year alone. And to show just how | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
widespread the problem has become, whilst filming here in the middle | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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of the afternoon, I was offered In the past 12 months I have been | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
running the service, and I keep a record of the referrals were | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
different problematic drug use, and in the last 12 months, mephedrone | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
has gone from zero referrals to nearly half all my referrals, 48 | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
per cent in the last 12 months for problematic mephedrone use. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Mephedrone can cause psychosis, insomnia and potentially fatal | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
heart or breathing issues, and once you start using it, it is very | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
difficult to stop. I could never have dreamt of ever | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
trying to take my life, but meow meow just consumes you, it eats | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
away at you, when nothing else exists any more. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Much more to come before 7:00pm. Wind turbines and pylons bitterly | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
dividing communities in Mid Wales. And what the biggest change to | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
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policing here in 200 years means The Governor of the Bank of England, | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
Sir Mervyn King, is about to make a major speech in Cardiff this | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
evening. It's part of a two-day fact-finding visit to Wales by the | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
bank's Monetary Policy Committee, who, among other things, set | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
interest rates. It's the first time for 11 years that the nine-man | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
committee has visited Wales. Here's our economics correspondent, Sarah | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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Welsh business people meet the chief economist for the Bank of | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
England, telling him how our fragile economy is affecting them | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
on the ground. This is just one of a series of gatherings explaining | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
the Welsh economic experience to the Bank of England. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Consumers have been hit by one of the biggest falls in real income in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
the last 40 years, and consumer expenditure is two-thirds of | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
expenditure in the economy, so people on the High Street buying | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
consumer goods -- making consumer goods, are very concerned, also | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
people making big -- big-ticket products like cars and so on. | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
The man from the Bank of England committee are meeting business | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
leaders across all of Wales, large and small, and people from | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
different sectors. Of course they had to come here, because the car | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
components sector is so important to Wales. But speak to people in | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
that sector, and some who have weathered this -- the storm so far | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
are concerned about what is happening in Europe, particularly | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the Eurozone. Other people in other parts of the economy are more | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
optimistic. There is a strong sense of optimism in this company in | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Caerphilly, and they have told the Bank of England. They have expanded | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
their sight and taken the work falls from 25-40 workers making | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
valves for oil, gas, nuclear and defence industries. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
We have had a growth of over 25 per cent this year. We seem to be | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
booming, continuously obtaining grows, and next year we expect a | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
further 75-100 per cent gross and a turnover again. Are you optimistic | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
about the health of the economy? are optimistic that our business | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
and what we are gaining from the industry. We have managed to obtain | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
business from the oil and gas sector in Pembrokeshire, so there | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
are still contracts coming forward. The recession is affecting every | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
company different league, and the committee members at the Bank of | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
England will be told many different stories as they tore Wales. What | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
they hear will help to inform their future decisions. In the next hour, | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
businesses will gather in Cardiff for the Governor of the Bank of | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
England to make a major speech about how he sees our economy now. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
The Labour AM for Llanelli, Keith Davies, has been released from | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
hospital after being taken ill last month. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
An investigation by BBC Wales has found that plans for more wind | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
farms and pylons in mid Wales are dividing communities. Many people | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
who support these developments say they feel too intimidated to voice | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
their views in public. There are currently two dozen applications | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
for wind farms in Mid Wales, as well as 30 miles of new pylons. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Iolo ap Dafydd reports. Opposition to new wind farms has | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
strengthened during the past year- and-a-half, especially in Powys. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
With plans to treble the number of turbines and build new pylons in | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
mid-Wales, often noisy demonstrations are held outside | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
council meetings. So much so that some in Montgomeryshire say they | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
feel too intimidated to voice support for wind farms. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
There is certainly a feeling of intimidation for people who want to | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
know more about them. Coming from people who are stuck fast in | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
against them, there is public confrontation in these meetings and | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
I feel it is down to jealousy, and the feeling that money will | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
exchange hands, and one section of the committee will gain financially | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
while the other does not gain anything. | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
Since last year, protest groups have spearheaded the opposition to | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
the Energy plans. I think the people who are looking | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
to develop are doing so for their own reasons, I don't think it is | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
reasonable to allow people to engage in a dialogue -- and I think | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
it is reasonable. They shouldn't really feel too difficult, but -- | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
having that dialogue. Many blame the Welsh Government's | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
policy of establishing 7 areas to encourage wind energy development | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
in 2005. The part -- the policy was rushed through according to a | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
former planning officer. Because the Assembly at the time | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
wanted to meet international and national renewable energy targets, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
although there was a consultation, they perhaps took less notice of | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
the comments they received back because they wanted to give it | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
direction to meet the wind energy targets. Some people say that's why | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
it came out in the first place. Why on application for a large- | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
scale wind farm is near Lake Furno. The owner of the forest is the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Welsh Government. If permitted, some of these trees could be cut to | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
allow 35 turbines to be built here. Some of those could be as high as | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
185 metres, more than 600 ft, seven times the height of some of these | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
trees. The fight against turbines and pylons continues. Others say it | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
is creating ill-feeling and divisions in small rural | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
communities. More on that story on Taro Naw on | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
S4C at 9:00pm tonight - English subtitles are available. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Owen Roberts, the husband of the Cynon Valley MP, Ann Clwyd, and a | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
former executive at BBC Wales and ITV Wales, has died. Mr Roberts was | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
the head of news and current affairs at BBC Wales during the | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
1970s. He had been treated for multiple sclerosis. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Are the police where you live doing a good job? Do you want more | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
bobbies on the beat or more focus on anti-social behaviour? Next | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
month, for the first time, you'll get the chance to vote on a | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Commissioner to oversee the way the police work in your area. How much | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
power will they have and what will they do? Our political editor, | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
:21:00. | :21:04. | ||
Betsan Powys, explains. Welcome to the South Wales Police | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
Museum. It has been here since the 1950s. This will remind you of two | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
things, policing has a long history, and over the years an awful lot has | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
changed. We came about in the 1970s, 1980s, | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
when everything reflective, health and safety came in, but that was | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
how an officer would have walked round the beat for 100 years in | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
South Wales. But now we are on the brink of what | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
has been called the biggest change to policing since 1829. | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
You have to go with the change, whatever comes along. You have to | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
go with it. If I was told as a police officer that I had to do | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
something, I did it. And things are about to change again. It looks | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
like it, yes. On 15th November, you will get to choose a new Police and | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Crime Commissioner for your area, replacing police authorities are | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
currently oversee policing each force area. The idea is to make the | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
police more accountable via one directly elected high-profile | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
individual. So how will the new system work? There are four police | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
force areas in Wales, North Wales, Dyfed Powys, South Wales and Gwent, | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
and each one will now have a commissioner. The road will include | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
appointing a chief constable, setting out a five-year plan, and | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
setting the Annual force budget. For that, they will be paid | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
�65,000-�100,000. It's a major change, so will it work. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
The biggest element of the change we are talking about in Police and | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Crime Commissioner has is the fact that you have a single individual | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
holding the chief gunned -- chief constable to account. It is | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
condensing it down to a single individual holding the chief | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
constable to account to deliver on their priorities. That is the big | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
change we are seeing. So how will the new system work? | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
Think rugby club. The commissioner would be the club chairman, sitting | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
above day-to-day operations, setting the general direction and | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
the budget. But the chief constable would be | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the manager, picking the team, deciding on the tactics and making | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
sure things work on the ground. But as most fans will tell you from | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
experience, it is rarely that simple. What if Commissioner and | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Chief Constable just don't get on? The operational independence still | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
remains with the Chief Constable, so it is not for the commissioner | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
to direct day-to-day policing activities. That will remain | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
fundamentally with the chief constable. That is the model in | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
which the democratic policing model, it must maintain through this | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
period of change. There are fears that turnout in the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
election next month Mo -- will be low, but there are 15 candidates | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
out to win your vote with four knowing they will start a new | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
chapter in history -- the history of policing in Wales. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
You can't find a full list of candidates on our website. -- but | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
you can find. Football, and Cardiff City could | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
return to the top of the Championship table if they beat | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Watford at home tonight. Craig Bellamy could feature - the striker | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
has been recovering from a knee problem. Newport County take on | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Yate Town, and the winner will make it through to the first round | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
proper of the FA Cup. We'll bring you the results in our late | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
bulletin. If you're off to the footy, you'll | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
need a woolly hat. It's getting need a woolly hat. It's getting | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
Mild at the moment, but football fans will need their scarves by the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
end of the week - it is going to turn colder. Most of Wales grey and | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
gloomy today, but a few lucky places saw the sun. Alex Birtwistle | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
took this picture of blue sky in Ystradgynlais, while Porthmadog in | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Gwynedd was one of the warmest places in the UK with a temperature | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
of 17 Celsius. Tonight mild and cloudy, with a few spots of light | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
rain or drizzle. Misty in places - less fog than last night but still | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
some poor visibility, especially on high ground. Tomorrow's chart shows | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
low pressure to the west of Portugal, high pressure near | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Iceland and a cold front which is heading our way. So tomorrow | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
morning another grey, cloudy start. Quite mild - 12 Celsius in | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Dolgellau. Breezy on Anglesey, misty in the north-east, with fog | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
on the Denbigh Moors. Damp and misty in the Marches, and fog and | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
drizzle on the hills of Powys and the Brecon Beacons. During the day, | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the fog will lift. Plenty of cloud, grey in the east with drizzle, dry | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
and brighter in the west and south- west downwind of the mountains, | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
with a little sunshine on the Cardigan Bay coast. Top temperature | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
16 Celsius, with a light to moderate north-easterly breeze. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Tomorrow night generally cloudy. Spots of drizzle in the east with | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
mist and hill fog. Thursday mostly cloudy, with the odd spot of rain | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
or drizzle in Powys and the north- east. Brighter in the south-west, | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
north-west Gwynedd and on the west coast. On Thursday night into | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Friday, cold air will seep down from the north, bringing a drop in | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
temperature. So 16 Celsius in places tomorrow, but half that on | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Saturday. A cold end to the week, but clearer with some sunshine and | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
frost. At the moment, Saturday looks like the best day of the | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
:26:33. | :26:39. | ||
weekend. Sunday, though, may turn wet and windy. So a change on the | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
way. And it looks like November will start chilly and unsettled | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
:26:58. | :26:59. | ||
with some snow likely on the Derek, thank you. The headlines | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
again: The head -- Director-General of the BBC faced questions today | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
over the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. He admitted the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
corporation's handling of the affair has raised questions of | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
trust in the BBC. He also said the Newsnight investigation should not | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
have been dropped. Former workers at the phurnacite | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
coking plant in Abercwmboi in the Cynon Valley have won claims that | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
toxic fumes and dust damage their health. A High Court judge ruled | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
that working editions left to spirit -- respiratory diseases and | :27:34. | :27:40. |