24/10/2012 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight: The UK Government promises the

Welsh Government borrowing powers. We'll lend you the cash if you can

pay it back through taxes. It's A glimpse of the future? How

buildings could be turned into mini Are programmes like Strictly too

saucy? The Mothers' Union says they've had enough steam on screen.

The fashion for fur brought it to the UK. Now, moves to protect our

wildlife from the destructive mink. And the family row that's led to

the famous Clark's pie being sliced Good evening. The Welsh Government

will, in principle, get the power to borrow money to fund big

projects like motorways and railways in the future. But the

deal between the Welsh and UK governments is dependent on

Ministers here raising some money through taxes. The exact details

have yet to be ironed out. Plaid Cymru say there's so little detail

the deal is more half-baked than historic. Here's our political

editor, Betsan Powys. Is this a serious deal that marks a

major step forward for Wales or an agreement in principle for not very

much? For the defence, two governments and three political

parties to save the agreement means the Welsh Government will one day

get to borrow money to improve Wales's creaking infrastructure if

that only if it shows first how it can pay back the money. Today we

have reached the point where we can say we are going to get borrowing

powers. You may be getting borrowing powers. We are going to

get borrowing powers. This is the Treasury saying Wales will get

borrowing powers. They recognise we have been disadvantaged by the way

they have funded us. What you borrow you must repay, so the

agreement is this. If the commission recommends next month

that tax-raising powers should be devolved to Wales, that would bring

in revenue against which ministers can borrow. With so many questions

and so few certainties, was the chief secretary to the Treasury

wrong to use words like historic? Have you ever had a Treasury

minister at the Welsh Government building before saying there will

be borrowing powers for the Welsh Assembly? There will the revenue-

raising powers. We have put in place for the first time a joint

and Open collaborative process to assess the spending situation.

prosecution had a stern in the Assembly this afternoon. This

agreement did no more than tinker with a funding former that leaves

Wales short-change, said Plaid Cymru. I can't join if the

agreement on whether this is a good deal for Wales or not. I think this

is an awful deal for Wales. This has the pores of the Treasury

written all over it. Spending big money on building projects has

always been seen by governments as a tool to help them create jobs and

growth. That is what ministers want to achieve. But others see a deal

in principle over something fade- out is a good idea in the first

place. If you borrow, you have got to pay the interest. Where is the

money going to come from to pay the interest? You either have to cut

back on existing expenditure or you have to find a new revenue sources.

Most striking of all today, the sight of three politicians from

three different parties smiling together. Though one could not help

but make a final critical point. This is a more detailed, more

substantive agreement on these matters than you ever saw when it

A sign that political sensitivities are never far below the service

after all. How do you assess the significance

of this deal? You can look at it and see something that barely

tinkers with the way Wales will be funded in the future. It might make

sure that Wales loses out a little less as the economy starts to grow.

But you also confirming that the formal or is there to stay. If you

look at borrowing powers, you can see something that amounts to a

show of goodwill between two governments. On the other hand, you

can look at it and see a plan of kinds to make sure that in the

future Wales this get borrowing powers. It was very clear that the

UK government was keen that the commissioners who will be

recommending which taxes they think was to be devolved to Wales should

be ambitious. They should go pretty far. So where does that put the

focus? It puts on those Commissioners, what they say next

month, which taxes they think ought to be devolved, and also on Carwyn

Jones and his government. Do they want those devolved? Thank you very

much indeed. An investigation's underway after a

15-year-old boy was seriously injured when a wall collapsed on

him at Monmouth Leisure Centre. Daniel Morgan, who's a pupil at the

comprehensive school right beside the centre, was getting ready for a

games lesson when a concrete partition wall in the changing room

fell on him yesterday afternoon. Fire crews took an hour to free him.

He's currently in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

My thoughts are with Daniel and we wish him a speedy recovery. But

also, I want to understand what has happened.

This morning we had an Assembly with all this appears so that we

could all come together and share our thoughts and feelings and make

sure Daniel is at the forefront of our minds.

Sixty jobs are under threat at a paper-towel factory in Flint.

Kimberly Clark is considering the closure of its Delyn Mill plant as

part of a restructuring process. It could cease production by the end

of next year. Workers at the company's other Flint factory, the

Coleshill mill, are unaffected. A former serviceman and miner has

been found guilty of sexually assaulting four young girls between

1949 and 1973. Reginald Davies, who's now 78, was found guilty of

13 offences, including two charges of rape. He committed the crimes in

South Wales over a 24 year period in what's believed to be one of the

oldest criminal cases in UK legal history. He was extradited from

Western Australia in September. Two men killed when a light plane

crashed near an airport in Powys died accidentally, an inquest jury

has ruled. 60-year-old Bob Jones, the founder of Mid Wales Airport,

and 55-year-old Steven Carr, from Ruthin, were killed when a twin-

engine plane crashed on Long Mountain near Welshpool. An

investigator said the accident could have been caused by cloud

obscuring trees or part of the controls jamming.

Turning buildings into mini power stations is the idea which could

revolutionise construction and how we use energy in buildings in

future. Well, a pilot manufacturing facility built by Swansea

University and Tata Steel is already in place. The invention is

to create a coating on metal and glass which can be used as cladding

on buildings, but could also store and generate electricity. More from

our environment correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd.

It is easy to see in Baglan how electricity and diesel are to be

drivers moving our economy. Both sources of power come at an

increasing costs and this facility host to provide a ground-breaking

development in generating energy and conserving it. The idea is to

capture and harness solar energy and you sit on metal and glass

cladding outside buildings. A special coating would store and

generate power inside offices, factories, schools and hospitals.

The first generation of Coatings we have already deployed at full-scale

on buildings. The results are very encouraging. They have cut the

energy consumption. They have her that I up to 50 % and that has

provided a very Economic attractive offer. Now comes the hard part. If

to expand the invention to an industrial scale. Swansea

University and its partners, including Tata Steel, have been

given �12 million to turn this into a commercial reality and to create

jobs. I would like to see a significant number of jobs being

created over the next five years. We know this is the technology of

the future and we know we are at the front in terms of developing it.

According to those behind the idea, this could develop into a billion-

pound industry and create around 10,000 jobs in South Wales. If all

this works, we are talking about a new industry complete with ideas

from business and academics working together. It will be a boost to the

manufacturing industry. It could turn over a billion pounds a year.

And, it is very important for energy conservation, helping with

the environment. Near the steelworks in Port Talbot, an

office block has an early form of tagging along one wall but it is

convincing businesses how it could cut energy costs that will

determine if this new industry really does make it big.

Still to come: Tracking the mink to protect Welsh

wildlife - fears they're spreading into new areas.

It is quite worrying that we have found a female because that could

be a sign that they are starting to establish themselves.

The Welsh branch of the Mothers' Union is launching a campaign

urging people to protest against sexual images and swearing which

they say is being broadcast before the watershed. As part of the

national Bye Buy Childhood campaign, they're asking people to contact

the regulator Ofcom if they see material which they consider

unsuitable for children. They've printed up thousands of postcards

to encourage people to put their complaints in writing. Caroline

It is family viewing for millions that shows like this one are some

of the programmes which, according to the Christian charity, Hugh

Mothers' Union, have overstepped the mark. Children copy them. They

imitate the adults and what they see on television. We don't think

it is appropriate. It does not have many -- very much to do with a

dancing to see their flesh. And it is swearing to which these members

say is so commonplace, if most people don't notice it any more.

Today, if they launched a postcard campaign. The idea is to encourage

people to complain if they see something a shame -- thing should

not have been on television before the watershed off by posting the

details Youth Ofcom. There are 9,000 members of the Mothers' Union

in Wales. We feel this is very important to everybody. To the

Mothers' Union in general but also to parents. Anyone who is concerned

at are the specialisation and commercialisation of children.

These students were analysing the morals of a bygone age in jade

Austin's pride and prejudice today. What do they think? The shock value

just to get that he was in. It is not really bad. They need to be

more careful. A lot of the cartoons to involve grotesque imagery. You

have blood and violence and they do show them to younger kids. I don't

think it is the adult programmes, it is the cartoons. The Mothers'

Union say they have already met lots of people across Wales who say

they are appalled by what they have seen on television before 9 o'clock.

They have printed 10,000 postcards for distribution.

Dozens of people have taken part in a protest against proposed changes

to health services at Withybush Hospital. It comes after Hywel Dda

Health Board said the hospital's special baby care unit does not

meet national standards and proposes centralising the service

at Carmarthen. While three wards have been closed at the hospital

following an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting, the acute coronary

unit and the coronary care unit are shut and visiting is restricted.

The Boundary Commission for Wales has announced more changes to

parliamentary constituencies. The UK Government wants to lower the

number of MPs here from 40 to 30 and asked the commission to redraw

the parliamentary map. It's made changes to its original proposals,

but they may not come into effect as the Liberal Democrats have said

they will block them at Westminster. Labour say the commission's work

could cost more than a million pounds and is a waste of money.

The Welsh Government has warned chewing gum manufacturers that they

have one last chance to deal with the litter problems caused by

discarded gum before the Government takes action. The warning came as

AMs rejected proposals that would have imposed a 5p litter levy on

sales of gum. This creature is usually bad news

for other wildlife. The Amercian mink is a huge problem in many

areas across Britain but, on Anglesey, they've managed to keep

it at bay. But that could be about to change. In the past, the

creature has been found close to the bridges linking the island to

the mainland, but the latest to be caught is causing a headache.

Here's Aled Hughes. This conservation team has one

simple aim. Stopping the American mink from breeding on Anglesey. The

first step is to find areas where they are. We are setting up a new

raft. We are going to put this in a basket on the top. So this is not

to track the mink? They like going through tunnels. They will sweep

the clay of here and leave footprints. This is why they are

here in the first place. 1930s Britain, high-society enjoined what

was seen as the finer things in life. Fur coats with the designer

item. But the Minx estate to many parts of the UK. They could be at

due 37,000 in the wild. Anglesey caught its first in 2005. But it is

one of the only places in Britain it has not colonised. But until

recently, the only mink caught on the island were found close to the

mainland. Recently though, a female American mink was found much

further north on the island than ever before and that could be a

problem. It means there is even more urgency in the works this team

does. We are fairly concerned that we found when so far north,

especially a female, because you would expect to get male's first

because they travel further. It is quite worrying that we found a

female because that could be a sign that they are starting to establish

themselves. All this is them to save the habitat and his native

creature. Once the mink sets up home, the funerals who manages --

vanishes. The work is vital to try and combat a problem that was

fuelled by the fashion for third over 80 years ago.

Well, we're now joined by Welsh wildlife expert, Dr Rhys Jones.

You've seen what minks can do to other animal colonies. Tell us how

damaging it can be? They are damaging because they are not

native to this country and the animals that have grown up here

have no natural defence to deal with a mink. If you can imagine, if

you have got he wrote and on a water tank and it sees a bird of

prey flyover, a nose to get into the water. But the problem we have

got is that the mink are better swimmers and they can follow the

creatures into their own tunnels and kill them. No defence

whatsoever. But it is not just the mink that is a troublemaker. Not at

all. You can imagine how many ferrets get released. So we have

got American crayfish, Japanese shrimps, we have got all sorts.

what about the plants? We have heard a lot about Japanese knotweed

in the past. It is a bit like a bamboo, if you like, in its

structure, but it can grow more efficiently than any other plants

around it so it eclipses all of our native species and you just get

this desert of Japanese knotweed. And a Himalayan species which has

just come into seed. Each plant grows to around three metres tall.

The seeds are produced in little explosive hence. If you and I were

walking in the countryside and we rushed past one of these capsules,

it would explode, and each one can produce around 800 seats and they

get scattered at 27 metres away from the plant. For so what chance

do the conservationists have question marks --? It cost the

British economy around �1.7 billion annually.

Cardiff City broke a new record last night. For the first time in

the club's history, they've won their opening six home league games

of a season. They came from behind to beat nine-man Watford.

Substitute Aaron Gunnarson scored the winner in stoppage time. The

three points keeps them second in the Championship table on goal

difference behind Leicester. My message at half-time was to be

calm, keep moving the ball quickly, and we had a chance after chance.

At one point, it seemed as if it was never going to going.

Two sides of a family who have been making Clark's Pies in Cardiff for

nearly a century are involved in a branding dispute which means one

half of the business has had to re- name its pies. The disagreement

involves the descendants of Mary Clark, who began making meat and

The they are part of the fabric of the city that the Clark's Pies

family business, at least as it has been known in Cardiff for decades,

is being carved up. In this bakery, the latest batches are put together.

If the process looks simple but the recipe has never been made public.

The day care in charge here is the great-great-grandson of the founder,

Mary Clarke. There are few places which have made the pies over the

years. Her in a gentleman's agreement, if you reverse drew a

line down the mark in the middle of the city to work out who supplied

which fit. This bakery opened in 1955. And on the other side of the

family, this is two miles away and it was opened in 1931. It was

called Clark's Pies for around 30 years. It is now called the

Victoria Park tie company and that rebranding is when the problem

started. In the other bakery, they say they rebrand has led to

confusion among customers and, to make matters worse, there has been

a breakdown of communication. deeply saddens us, we have always

felt the Clark's Pies have been a community high. To split Cardiff

like this is a shame. On this side of Cardiff, they say they rebranded

to differentiate themselves. She has been told by trading standards

she can't call her eyes Clark's Pies despite making them on the

same premises for 80 years. Reluctantly, I cannot use the brand

due to a trademark dispute. It has been a very difficult decision for

us to make their decision to rebrand. It was not taken lightly.

One thing both sides agree on, this is a rather sad chapter in the long

history of Clark's Pies. Most places have been grey and

gloomy again today but the northwest, the west coast and the

southwest were brighter with a southwest were brighter with a

little sunshine. Mumbles Head in Swansea was one of the warmest

places in Britain with a high of 17 degrees Celsius. Mind you, the mild

air is on its way out and cold air from the Arctic is going to filter

south by Friday, bringing a big drop in temperature. Tonight, still

mild. Cloudy for most. Spots of light rain and drizzle with hill

fog. Drier in the west. Lowest temperatures of nine to 13 degrees

Celsius. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure over Iceland with a

cold front moving south across Britain. So, tomorrow, another grey,

cloudy start for much of the country. Dry on the north coast but

further south dull and damp in places. Spots of light rain and

drizzle. Mist and hill fog as well. Dry on the west coast and breezy in

Cardigan. During the day it will remain mostly cloudy A little rain

or drizzle in the south and east. The north should become dry and

brighter. Perhaps a little sunshine in Meirionnydd. Temperatures a

little lower than today. 11 to 14 degrees Celsius. Breezier too, with

an east to north-easterly wind. On Anglesey tomorrow, it will be dry.

The cloud breaking with glimpses of sunshine. Breezy in Amlwch with

temperatures in Llanerchymedd rising to 12 degrees Celsius.

Tomorrow night, spots of light rain in the south will eventually clear.

Elsewhere it will be dry. The cloud breaking and turning colder. Friday

will be a colder day, but much drier and brighter. We'll all see

some sunshine for a change. Temperatures below average with a

noticeable wind chill. Jack Frost will be out and about on Friday

night. Saturday will be cold, bright and crisp with plenty of

sunshine. Sunday will be cloudier but less cold. Windier too with a

little rain. Our picture tonight is from Lance Tucker in the Brecon

Beacons. Thanks, Lance. If you're going walking on Friday or Saturday,

Horses straying onto busy roads or trespassing in private fields in

search of food has proved a major headache for the police and animal

welfare charities across South Wales. On tomorrow night's

programme, we'll be looking at the problem of so-called fly-grazing.

Tom Price, one of the largest breeders of gypsy horses in Wales,

defends the way he looks after his animals.

We have the skill of an adult horse which literally starve to death. It

is one of four in this field alone. How seriously do you take animal

welfare? I would feed those horses before I feed myself. There is no

animal I have got that I will not feed. Whether it is a chicken, a

dog, a cat. The Chief Constable of West

Yorkshire has resigned. She has been under pressure since an

independent report accused police of trying to cover up their

failings in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster. He was Chief

Inspector of South Yorkshire police at the time and has always denied

any wrongdoing. The Welsh Government will, in

principle, get the power to borrow money to fund major projects in the

future. But the deal before the Welsh and UK governments is

dependent on ministers here gracing some money through taxes. --

raising. We'll have a quick update at 8pm