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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Annual tests for seven to 14-year- olds for the first time in a major | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
change for schools. The government says it'll drive up low standards, | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
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unions say they'll strike over the Our other headlines tonight: | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Dumped in a corridor for all to read, the confidential medical | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
records left on top of a bin. Homes and busineses ruined as | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
flooding wreaks havok, with a warning of more bad weather to come. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Changes to our planning laws to make our houses cheaper to heat and | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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greener. And Wales get ready for the Six | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Nations. Good evening. Tests for 7 to 14- | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
year-old pupils in literacy and numeracy will be introduced next | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
year. They are part of plans announced by the Education Minister | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Leighton Andrews to drive up standards. Reading, writing and | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
arithmetic work will be included in all subjects. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Children will also be tested on an annual basis. One of Wales' largest | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
teaching unions say the new tests will increase the workload and is | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
warning they may go on strike. Here's Our Education Correspondent | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Arwyn Jones. You need to put it all together and | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
use these figures to create a problem, create aback story. That | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
is what the Welsh government wants to see across Wales, teachers | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
mixing in a bit of literacy while discussing maths. At this primary | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
school literacy and numeracy are incorporated into every aspect of | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
every lesson and they have seen improvements to results. These | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
children have not that any formal tests since they have been in | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
school, no child in Wales has since 2004 but as of next year that will | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
change. Next September every child in Wales between 7 and 14 will said | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
a national annual test. As well as the tests the Welsh government want | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
to see reading incorporated into every lesson along with writing and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
maths. By doing that the aim is to reverse the gap in results between | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Wales and England where they still set tests. The Welsh government has | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
set aside �7 million to run the programme. This is numeracy and it | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
is monitoring the amount of work that children are doing through the | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
school. Schools and Wales already keep track of the progress of their | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
pupils but there is not won successive -- consistent Test | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
throughout Wales. As for incorporating maths into every | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
lesson, the head says it just takes imagination. A might be recording | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
how far they jumped MP or some athletics activity or whether it is | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
to do with blood pressure or pulse. Children in Wales should and see | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
much difference but what do parents make of annual testing? I like to | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
know what standard my child is at and what age they are at and if | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
they have to improve when they have to improve the lot stop adding | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
tests would show that. It is important to know, you want to | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
build on that ability. One of mine is not good at reading so it would | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
be good for her. For teaching unions more tests mean a higher | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
workload for already overstretched teachers and they say the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Government has not discuss that with them. That is why Wales's | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
biggest union says they will go on strike if concerns are not | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
addressed. Our members are interested in raising standards and | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
improving the lot of pupils generally. There is no doubt as | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
regards to that. They are already overstretched in the work they have | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
to undertake so something has to give. We have to make sure that our | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
members are not overburdened and teachers are not overburdened and | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
as a result of this. Launching a scheme to promote reading at the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Senate today the education minister dismiss those claims. There has | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
been a full public consultation and five meetings in which the unions | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
are discussed these issues. I do believe of for a minute teachers | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
will want to strike over literacy and numeracy and I think parents | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
would think it ridiculous if they did. That is not going to happen. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Nobody would argue with a drive to push up standards of weighing up | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
how they go about it is always more tricky. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Professor David Reynolds is an education expert and advises the | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Welsh Government, Professor Reynolds, we know that standards | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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need to be improved in wales, but how will testing improve things? | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
think by having won a national test that replaces lot of the kind of it | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
to be detests that schools use, actually the amount of testing time | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
will be reduced and it will be easier for teachers with one Test | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
purring year in English and maths. The hope is that the tests will be | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
sufficiently good, better than many of the present ones, that they will | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
diagnose who needs help and schools will be able to see who needs the | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
help. If you are a parent or teacher or a pupil, a previous | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
minister scrapped testing so now it is akin, you pity the poor pupils | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
and one being fiddled around with in a guinea pig experiment to see | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
what works. In fairness to the minister who abolished the tests, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
it may well have been the training in their terms of quantity and | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
quality may not have been appropriate. Maybe we expected to | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
much too quickly of teachers. Having said all that if things are | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
not working you have to acknowledge it and move on. The problem is the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
currency of the current test is not high so a lot of secondary schools | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
are spending the first few years testing primary pupils because they | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
don't believe the teacher ratings that they gave. Parents will be | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
concerned of the News tonight of the possibility of strike action. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
That will affect a lot of children's education of the goes | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
ahead. I cannot believe that when are they look at what is being | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
proposed they will want to strike. The testing is not the most | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
important part of this. The most important part is that for the | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
first time Welsh teachers will have access to a knowledge base of how | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
to teach literacy and numeracy. The best teachers will have the chance | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
of being bought out of their schools to take their wares to | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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other schools. Thank you very much. BBC Wales has been told that bag | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
full of confidential patients' records was dumped in a corridor at | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Wales' biggest hospital and left there for four days. The problem at | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
the University Hospital of Wales was brought to light by a worker | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
there. The hospital says it investigating. Caroline Evans has | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
more. We know about this because a number | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
of staff -- a member of staff was so concerned they contacted us to | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
tell us about it. According to that person, who wants to remain | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
anonymous, these documents were left in a public corridor and they | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
included confidential patient reports, details of medical history, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
and treatment plants. That person says they should have been shed -- | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
they should have been taken away and shredded. I spoke to the | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
medical director responsible for the University Hospital of Wales. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
We need to look at this and do an investigation to see whether Bailey | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
has occurred. We admit this should not have happened. We should be | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
looking to make sure that personal data is a Jew and when it needs to | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
be disposed of it is disposed of in and have paid -- a -- an | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
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appropriate way. -- data should be secured. There is no excuse for | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
this. Organisations need to have the policies and procedures in | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
place and have staff trained so people know what to do. It is the | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
basic things that go wrong sometimes so there is no excuse. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
The Community Health Council for the area says they are disappointed | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
by this. They too are waiting for a report from the hospital. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Thank you very much. A drug addict, who murdered a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
disabled pensioner on his doorstep in Cardiff, has been told he'll | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
serve at least 22 years in jail. Peter Lewis was killed after | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
answering the front door of his flat in Roath in the early hours of | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
the morning last April. Today the judge told his killer, 32-year-old | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
William Jones, that this was an unprovoked attack for which he had | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
shown no remorse. A British Airways jet made an | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
emergency landing at Cardiff Airport this morning, after the | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
pilot noticed a potential problem with the cockpit controls. The | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Boeing 747 was checked by engineers and all 138 passengers moved to the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
terminal after the pilot was forced to divert. Fire crews were | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
scrambled to meet the aircraft, which was travelling from Houston | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
in Texas to Heathrow, and other aircraft were put in a holding | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
pattern while it landed. No fault was found with the plane and it | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
continued its journey three hours later. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Wherever you live in Wales big changes are planned for health care. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
The Betsi Cadawaladr University Health Board which covers north | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
Wales was among the first to come up with proposals. As we've | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
reported, they haven't gone down well with some patients. Today the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
board even faced the prospect of a no-confidence vote by councillors | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
in Conwy and tonight in Blaenau Ffestiniog campaigners there are | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
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gathering. Roger Pinney is there. When it via Betsi Cadawaladr board | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
announced their proposals for the future 10 days ago one of the | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
headlines was a plan to close for community hospitals including the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
one here. A defence committee is already up and running and you can | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
see it is meeting here tonight to plot the way ahead and how it can | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
overturn the that proposal. Overall this probably wasn't much of the | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
day the members of the health board were looking forward to. There was | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
a proposal for a vote of no confidence and also the community | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
health council was looking at the plans. They have the power to refer | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
them to put the Welsh government in Cardiff. As it turned out they took | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
pause for thought and will not reach decisions for a couple of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
weeks. Tonight this meeting is going on and one of the members has | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
come out. Are you going to let them off the hook? No, I think there are | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
many unanswered questions still for this community, especially the | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
services that are to take place. I don't feel negotiations are mature | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
enough for that to happen yet. were a member of the county council, | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
it would be unprecedented if another local authority took a vote | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
of no confidence? Last Thursday I put a motion to the council in | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Caernarfon that the council should go into a negotiation with a Betsi | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Cadawaladr as to how it is going to affect them financially and what is | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
needed from the Test side of the Council and also to refer the | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
matter up for Leslie Griffiths thoughts. They have to make tough | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
decisions, things cannot stay the same. No, I appreciate about from | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
my point of view any change has to be for the better and it has to be | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
a change for changing needs of the population and is a involves care | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
and him of help and -- health and those negotiations on a late yet | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
the -- are not yet mature enough. You get a sense of the feeling here | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
in North Wales that people know things have to change and the | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
financial constraints but the story does not go away. Tomorrow the | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Royal College of Nurses and the Royal College of Midwives will be | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
say what they think of another part of this land which is to refer the | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
neonatal care for newborn babies to a hospital on the May -- and | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
hospital on the Wirral. We may not have seen the worst of | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
the flooding, that's the warning tonight from the Environment Agency | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
as more heavy rain is expected tomorrow. Many homes and businesses | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
in west Wales are still clearing up from the weekend. Abigail Neal | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
reports. It's business as usual today, but | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Josh Phillips knows there could be more to come. On Friday night five | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
feet of water swept down Solva's main street and flooded his pub on | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
all sides. It is the worst I have ever seen it and it, as my dad said, | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
he has been here for 40 years and that is the worst the Athenian. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
This time it was the road and a reverse so we were Pinsent in | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
between them both. On just one night, fire crews in | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
west wales received 300 calls for help. This village of Llandowror in | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
Carmarthenshire was one of the worst affected villages. More heavy | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
rain is expected tomorrow and rescue crews say flood call outs | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
are now becoming more common. weather fronts seem to come in and | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
stay longer over a certain area and we are getting a lot of water in | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
specific areas. It is getting more prevalent for art's to attend | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
floods and flood rescues. As well as torrential rain, the | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
weekend's weather brought unusual cloud formations and heavy | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
thunderstorms. Then came hail the size of marbles causing a four car | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
pile up on the M4. Tonight the environment agency | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
issued an amber warning, this time for the east and north of wales, | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
and warned there's more to come. This is not the heaviest rain we | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
will experience. This will charge our rivers again but we are more | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
worried about tomorrow's rain and the extent that it will cover the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
whole of Wales and it will last all day. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
The flood defences in Solva remain tonight, with high winds and high | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
tides, coastal areas are also being told to stay alert. | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Two Welsh RNLI volunteers will receive gallantry medals for | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
helping to rescue a woman who was clinging to a tree in fast flowing | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
flood water. These dramatic pictures show the moment Vanessa | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Glover was pulled out of the water in Devon just before Christmas. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Paul Eastment and Chris Missen, from Porthcawl RNLI, were in the | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
rescue boat. Penarth volunteer Jason Dunlop, who was part of the | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
shore crew team, will also be recognised. | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
Much more to come before 7:00pm: Why, when it comes to access to the | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
arts, there's not much to sing about if you live in a rural area. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
And many more happy landings for the air ambulance and the Welsh | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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rugby union. If yours -- if you fuel bills have been sky-high there | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
are changes to planning laws on the horizon to allow more homeowners to | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
insulate the outside of their houses in a UK wide scheme to | :15:13. | :15:22. | |
encourage energy efficiency. It has been a hard few weeks and | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
the cold weather means we have all needed extra heating. The UK | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
government's Green Deal launch today means loans and a cashback | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
scheme for improving your home and reducing energy bills. The purpose | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
of the Green Deal is to encourage businesses and householders to | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
improve energy efficiency and cut costs. That can be done through | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
external insulation on outside walls, it could be new boilers and | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
possibly windows and even insulation inside houses, and all | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
of that with no upfront costs. those that private finance does not | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
make sense for there is �1.3 billion of subsidy every year over | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
the next decade to help people who are either in fuel poverty or who | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
have hard to treat homes, and many of those homes are in Wales. This | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
company installs insulation, boilers and solar panels. It also | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
trains its staff to fit insulation panels on outside walls -- outside | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
walls. In Wales this type of word usually needs the agreement of | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
planning officers. One of the issues, particularly for external | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
wall insulation which goes outside the house, is planning permission. | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
In the last couple of weeks it was permitted development in England | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
but in Wales we are not there yet. We have a disadvantage. This rented | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
terrace house has just had five inches of insulation placed on the | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
outside. It has made a noticeable difference. It is a really big | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
difference because our heaters are on at most for six years whereas | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
before they won for 11 hours in the winter. In the summer in actually | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
wasn't a lot. It is a vast improvement. Roof insulation and | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
draught-proofing can be installed without planning permission and | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
some changes have been made to allow solar panels and wind | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
turbines as well that outside insulation still requires some | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
consent. We are looking to tweak our planning laws in the spring of | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
this year and next year but at the moment most external wall cladding | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
cannot take place without planning permission. We will look at it | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
reached -- tweaking it as necessary. England has -- in contrast to | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
England planning consent is currently still needed here. | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
Budget cuts and our rural landscape are limiting the opportunities for | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
people to get involved with the arts in Wales, according to a | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
committee of Assembly members. They want the Welsh government to create | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
an action plan that will increase participation in things like | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
theatre and dance groups. Our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
reports. Only kids allowed has given young | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
people from across Wales the chance to sing and be seen. It is those | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
kinds of opportunities that need to increase according to assembly | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
members. Organisations that receive public money are often obliged to | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
do more to get the public involved in the work that they do. Opera | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
companies and theatre groups stage workshops for budding professionals, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
or take their shows to places and people that would not normally | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
consider it their kind of fame. Just as businesses and individuals | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
have had to tighten their belts in recent years, the money available | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
to these arts organisations has fallen as well. A number of | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
organisations has lost significant funding and finding funding from | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
other directions has proved a difficult so we are calling on the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Welsh government to work with the Arts Council to help these groups | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
and ensure that everybody in Wales has the opportunity to participate | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
in the arts. This theatre group provides opportunities for people | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
with learning disabilities to gain new skills and confidence. Funding | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
cuts mean it is run on a skeleton staff but there has also been an | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
impact on the tour as they made to other parts of Wales. We talk to | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
real -- rural venues and many of them are finding it very difficult | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
and we are seeing closures all over the country, Wales and England | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
included, and that has an air immediate effect on our touring | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
income and a knock-on to our income as a company as a whole. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Government cannot print more cash to fund the arts but it is being | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
urged to draw up an action plan to increase participation and monitor | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
how many of us get involved. Responding to the report the Arts | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
Council said it welcomed the emphasis on ensuring the widest | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
possible audience can enjoy and take part in the arts. The Welsh | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
government said it would study the findings and respond in due course. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
A woman who's originally from Cardiff has become the second ever | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
black woman to be appointed as a US Marshall. Louise Kelton was | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
nominated by President Obama personally and was sworn in last | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
week. Back home in Butetown her relatives say they're proud of her | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
achievements over the decades. Nashville, Tennessee, in the | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Southern States of the US. Unusually the commander of this | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
city's tough Police department is a woman, even more unusual for the | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
deep south is that she's black, but most unusual of all is that she | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
hails from Cardiff. But last week Louise Kelton handed in hers cop's | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
uniform as she was promoted once more. Nominated by President Obama | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
she's just been appointed the US Marshall for Tennessee. Louise I | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
was brought and brought up her -- and Louise was born and brought up | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
here but in 1978 when she was 23 she gave up her job as a | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
physiotherapist and decided to four sec -- for safe the south of | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Cardiff for the deep south of the USA and live with her father's | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
family. He had been a GI stationed here during the war. My dad is an | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
American citizen and I just wanted to see where he was from. Basically | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
my idea was to come over here for a year and, round and then come back | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
home and I ran out of money in National so I got a job. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Her brother and mother still live in the home she grew up in and are | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
in constant touch. They're immensely proud her achievements | :21:36. | :21:44. | |
over the decades. I think she is the second black female US marshal | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
in the history of the States so she is a very high achiever. I have | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
always been proud of my sister, she is my big sister and I am the baby! | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Bo Jackson's a former FBI agent living in Cardiff. He was a special | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
agent for 24 years and says the Marshalls are America's oldest | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
federal law enforcers. I have, on occasion, worked with the US | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
marshals services for fugitive apprehension and court protection. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
It is, indeed, an honour for her to receive a nomination from the | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
President and to be appointed as a US marshal. This is a photograph of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
a wheeze when we performed a play Mary Poppins in the school. She | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
must have been 10 years old. Betty Campbell taught Louise in | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
Junior School, but is also a friend and neighbour of her family here in | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Cardiff. She has made us feel really, really proud. She has | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
always been proud of her Welsh ancestry but also proud of her | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
American ancestry as well. Now 57, Louise begins her new role this | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
week. The once glamorous Cardiff teenager now one of the most | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
powerful law enforcers in America. Rugby, and it's just five days to | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
the start of this year's Six Nations championship, with Wales, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
of course, going in as defending Grand Slam champions. With fitness | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
doubts still over certain key players, the Welsh team to face | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Ireland in Saturday's opening game is still up in the air, which is | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
quite apt given a special visit to the team's training base in the | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
Vale today. More from our rugby correspondent Gareth Charles. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Given the incredible number of injuries Wales have suffered | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
recently, they could have been excused for thinking the new air | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
ambulance was exclusively at their disposal. In fact it was at the | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
base to note a new partnership with other Welsh Rugby Union. We need at | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
least 250 landing sites so the partnership is to reach out to | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
clubs and communities to identify rugby clubs around Wales as safe | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
landing sites for us. Also on show today the entire squad, assembled | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
for the pre-tournament photo, including the latest edition. Wales | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
hope they could be good news with Ryan Jones and Ian Evans both | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
training today. The next 24 hours will be vital to see if they are | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
fit or not. No one will be looking forward to facing Ireland more than | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
John Davies whose two tries last year put Wales on the road to the | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
Grand Slam. We are defending champions and we want to defend | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Akram. We have confidence in our own ability and we want to make | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
sure we go out there and put the performance that we know can put | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
together. There is no Georgette of repeating the Grand Slam success, | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
especially in light of the poor autumn performances. It took us two | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
and a half games to get going in the autumn, to get up to the speed | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
of international rugby. In all- action -- in all aspects of the | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
game, the scrum, the defence, we cannot afford to do that this time. | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
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One thing is for sure, Wales have to get off to a flying start on | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
Saturday. The scores on the doors weatherwise, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
more bad weather to come Derek? more bad weather to come Derek? | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
That is right. The snow and ice have gone but the wind is back with | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
a vengeance. Look how fast the wind has been a today. There is more | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
heavy rain and gales to come tomorrow. It brings warnings of | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
more disruption. Met Office warnings are in force with a yellow | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
warning covering most of the country and in amber warning for | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
parts of the South. Up to 30 mm of rain expected. There are two flood | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
warnings in force and nine flood alerts. There is also a risk of | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
flooding on parts of the coast. This evening very windy but dry. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
The strong wind will ease after midnight with more rain moving into | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
the south and south-west towards the end of the night. The lowest | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
temperatures around five Celsius. No frost tonight. A deep area of | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
low pressure over the Atlantic with fronts moving towards the UK with a | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
lot of isobars. They could be gale- force winds. The farm North East | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
stars of dry that it will not last. Much of the country looks damp, if | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
not wet. Not to Wendy at this stage but that will change. During the | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
day tomorrow further outbreaks of rain and drizzle heading away with | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
low cloud and mist and hill fog. Most of the rain in the south and | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
west and it's a Viana eye ground. The air tomorrow is coming from the | :26:38. | :26:48. | |
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tropics so it will be mild. Gales on many coasts and hills and | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
mountains. Tomorrow windy with more rain, eventually clearing to | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
showers. When state promises to be a better day, windy but dry and | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
writer with shops and was mixed in with some sunshine. -- dry and | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
brighter with sharp showers mixed in. The cold snap at the end of the | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
week will be short lived. In the meantime unsettled with heavy rain | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
and gales and the risk of more flooding and travel disruption. The | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
thunderstorms and hail we had over the weekend can happen at any time | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
of the year and you can read more about them on my latest blot on our | :27:30. | :27:32. |