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Welcome to Wales Today our top story, the police operation to | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
investigate child abuse in north Wales uncovers new claims involving | :00:06. | :00:16. | |
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children in care going back half a century. | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
76 people come forward for the first time. 18 homers were involved | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
and 140 allegations in all. To feel that we are being believe this time, | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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Our other headlines tonight, all change for our ambulances. The far | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
reaching review into the way the service is run. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
The man accused of murdering April Jones. The trial of Mark Bridger | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
could last seven weeks. They've constructed some of our | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
most iconic buildings, but the administrators tell us 430 jobs | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
will go at Rowecord Engineering in Newport. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
And in tonight's sport - it's an all Welsh Wembley final. Wrexham | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
and Newport County will face each other. It's hugs all round and a | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
party in the changing room. The winner will be back in the football | :01:19. | :01:27. | |
Good evening. The police operation to investigate historic allegations | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
of child abuse in north Wales has uncovered claims of systemic and | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
serious sexual and physical abuse of children in care, going back | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
half a century. Operation Pallial, which was set up by the Home | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Secretary last year, has received allegations from 76 men and women | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
who have never come forward before. Between them there are 140 | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
allegations of abuse naming 84 individuals. 16 of those have been | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
named by more than one person. 10 of them are now believed to have | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
died. Roger Pinney has the story. There will be those that have never | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
spoken about what happened to them. Others will have confided in family | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
and friends. For up to half a century, all have carried the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
corrosive burden of abuse. Then there is the abusers. Some of whom | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
will have thought they have got away with it. Opening old wounds is | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
a painful process but sometimes won't have to be opened to be | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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healed. Keith Gregory now a Wrexham councillor says he was abused when | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
he was in care. He now campaigns on behalf of other alleged victims. | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
is a lot better this time round. Last time, it was terrible. This | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
time, it still hurts. It is not easy to do. It is very hard. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
despite the difficulties, new people have come forward with | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
allegations. There is intense media interest in what is emerging as a | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
fresh scandal in North Wales children's homes. 18 care homes | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
across North Wales have been implicated. There is a large volume | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
of material to assess and analyse. We will deal with on an individual | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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basis. The big question has always been, was very paedophile ring? | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
do not know if there was a paedophile ring. But I am looking | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
at individual allegations. As far as victims are concerned, we do not | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
forget, any new information and allegations that are made will be | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
investigated thoroughly at we will pursue them. If there is any sense | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
among them that they need look -- not look over their shoulder, they | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
are wrong because they certainly need to. We now know the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
allegations date back to 1963. Earlier police investigations came | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
in a series of waves, starting in the 1970s. By 1985, men were | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
convicted of sex offences against children. Through the 1980s, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
another inquiry brought six men and a woman to justice. 1991 brought | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the start of another police investigation and seven men were | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
convicted of either physical or sexual abuse of children. In 1994, | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Clwyd Commission des report, a document that has never been | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
published. It was against this background in 1996 that William | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
Hague set up the Waterhouse Tribunal. It's report was published | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
in 2000. 16 men and one woman were convicted but despite that, the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
allegations did not go away. There were claims that he full truth that | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
it not come out. Last year, a victim of abuse in North Wales made | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
new claims on a BBC Newsnight programme. The allegations were | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
made against a former senior Conservative, claims that were | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
false and wholly withdrawn by the programme. But his assertion that | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
the abuse was not confined to the children's homes still stands. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
After he met the Secretary of State for Wales, the Home Secretary | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
announced two inquiries, one into the Waterhouse report, one in two | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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historic abuse and all those previous police inquiries. This man | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
now feel strong enough to come forward. These people need to be | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
brought to justice. Why I feel lucky, I feel lucky because I am | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
still here. Some of those victims are no longer with us. I am not | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
trying to be a martyr. I am not trying to be a saint, I am only | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
giving my vision of what happened to me. Justice needs to be served. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
The government needs to give serious consideration, if it is | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
serious about getting to do all it can to stop abuse going on, I think | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
they need to set up a Royal Commission and look at all the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
issues around it. For alleged victims of abuse and those who | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
campaigned on their behalf, the quest for justice has been long and | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
at times rocky. It is a road they are still travelling. Roger joins | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
me now from North Wales Police headquarters. Roger, you've | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
reported on this story for more than two decades. How do you judge | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
the significance of what has happened today? It is the scale of | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
it. We have had all those previous police investigations. We have had | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
trials and prosecutions, a judicial inquiry which lasted more than 200 | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
days. Report after report. Despite all of that, 76 people have come | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
forward who have never spoken out before. And it -- in itself is | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
astonishing. Over the years, I have sat the wife in six or seven trials | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
and the Waterhouse Tribunal and what sticks with me is the long | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
lasting effect of abuse on those who suffered it. These were small | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
children when they were abused. They are now middle-aged and they | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
have had to live with what has happened to them every single day | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
of their adult lives. We have had the details of the scale of what | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
went on and also the details of theseAllegations. Where does 10 | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
macro go from here? -- Operation Pallial. This was looking at the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
background and taking new evidence and now they are moving on to face | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
two that is looking if they can pursue them and there has already | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
been one arrest. A man was brought to North Wales for rest -- | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
questioning. I am struck by what is not industry support us what -- in | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
this report as what is in it. I have asked about several things. We | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
do not know, there is no mention in this report, whether a paedophile | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
ring was operating in North Wales. There have been certain allegations | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
of that. This is a work-in-progress for the Operation Pallial team. I | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
am also struck that we know that Operation Pallial is offering help | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
and support and counselling to those who have come forward. We can | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
only hope that those who need help will accept it. Big changes are | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
needed to the way the ambulance service in is run. That's one of | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
the key recommendations of a wide ranging review commissioned by the | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Welsh Government. The review also says paramedics to be given more | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
training to make decisions about patient care and calls for a revamp | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
performance targets amid concerns about staff morale. Our health | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
correspondent Owain Clarke joins us now. So the review calls for big | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
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changes. What are they? This is the report. It talks about fundamental | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
flaws in the way that the services currently run. It proposes three | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
models for example for the Welsh government to consider for the | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
future but more specifically, it says the service should released -- | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
concentrate on images he paced it - - patients. -- emergency patients. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
It also talks about training paramedics are so that they can | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
make more decisions on the ground. If somebody dares really need to go | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
to accident and emergency and it talks about a move away from the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
stringent response to a time target and quiet -- concentrating more on | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
the quality of care that patients have. The review notes some | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
concerns and complaints from staff at have been congratulated when | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
they have hit a target but the patients have died but they have | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
been criticised when they have not reached a target but saved | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
someone's life. How likely is it that the Welsh government will | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
accept these recommendations? will not really know that until | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
next week. The Welsh government have declined to comment until this | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
matter has been debated by the Assembly next week. The service has | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
not won two, before then either. That has not stopped the opposition | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
parties from having their say. cannot get patients into the busy | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
departments unless there are beds in the department. And | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
fundamentally, if we are going to see any improvement in the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
emergency care in the response times, we will have to see more in- | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
patient beds in hospitals in the short term. Other opposition | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
parties are also saying now is the time for action. This has been the | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
13th audit or a view of the service since 2006. -- review. The jury in | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
the trial of a woman accused of killing five members of the same | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
family has been sent home again. Lee-Anna Shiers and her partner | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Liam Timbrell died along with three young children in a fire at their | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
home in Prestatyn. Melanie Smith denies starting the blaze last | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
October. The jury will continue its deliberations in the morning. A | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
copyright tribunal has been held in London, over the level of royalties | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
paid by the BBC to Welsh language musicians. The BBC told the | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
tribunal it was currently paying musicians group AOS an interim | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
licence of �120,000 per year to broadcast songs controlled by the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
collection agency. EOS wants interim payments to almost triple | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
and a final settlement of �1.5 million. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
The National Library has released pictures of the damage caused by | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
the fire, which destroyed part of the roof on Friday. A small part of | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the collection will be dried by a salvage company in Oxford, after | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
suffering water damage. An investigation is under way into the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
cause of the fire. The library will reopen tomorrow. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
The process of selecting a jury for the trial of the man accused of | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
murdering April Jones has begun at Mold Crown Court. Mark Bridger also | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
faces counts of child abduction and attempting to pervert the course of | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
justice. He denies the accusations. Five-year-old April went missing | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
from near her home in Machynlleth last October. Our reporter Cemlyn | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
Davies is outside the court. What happened in court today? Well, as | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
you say, the process has begun of selecting a jury for this trial. We | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
started with a pool of around 50 potential jurors. That was then | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
eventually whittled down to a panel of 26 and the final 12 will be | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
chosen in the morning. April Jones' parents, Paul and Coral, were in | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
court today. They sat in the public gallery as events unfolded. Below | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
them, the man accused of murdering their daughter stood in the dock. | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Mark Bridger wore a blue short sleeved shirt and a tie. There's | :13:00. | :13:08. | |
been a strong media presence here throughout the day of course. The | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
press bench was full as it will be no doubt for the seven weeks the | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
judge said this trial could last. Remind us of the background. April | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
went missing on the 1st of October. She'd been playing with friends | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
near her home on the Bryn y Gog estate in Machynlleth. A few days | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
later Mark Bridger was charged with April's murder and abduction. He's | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
also accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice by | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
hiding her body. Mark Bridger has pleaded not guilty to all three | :13:34. | :13:42. | |
counts. The prosecution is expected to open its case here tomorrow. | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Administrators at Wales' largest steel contractor have confirmed | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
around 430 jobs will be lost. Rowecord Engineering in Newport was | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
behind some high profile projects around the UK such as the roof of | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
the aquatic centre at the Olympic Park. The general economic climate | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
and losses on some recent contracts have been blamed for its collapse. | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
Here's our business correspondent Nick Servini. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
An uncertain future. This group of welders and fabricators left the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Rowecord Engineering headquarters in Newport this morning not knowing | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
whether they will have a job to come back to. Never really saw it | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
coming. We knew they were in trouble weeks ago, maybe a couple | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
of months back, but we always thought they would get out of it. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
It has just got worse and worse. Could anything have been done? | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
without somebody injecting a lot of capital, probably. I have been here | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
17 years with the company. It will affect all the families. I asked | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
one of the workers what his chances are not getting another job. Slim, | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
at the moment. Saying that, a lot of work we used to do in the steel | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
works now will be shared out amongst the existing companies | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
within the steelworks. Maybe there is a chance of some employment with | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
them. The administrators are now exploring which part of the | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
business can be salvaged and whether any jobs can be saved. You | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
have probably never heard of Rowecord Engineering, you're more | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
likely to have seen the things it has built. This striking footbridge | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
in the centre of new board is a typical example of the kind of big | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
ticket Engineering project it has built its reputation on -- Newport. | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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On that list includes some of the UK's biggest sporting venues. It | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
also covers industry with a new blast furnace at the Port Talbot | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
steelworks and more recently, the British Museum. What went wrong | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
with such a successful company? The administrators say new orders had | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
dried up and also that a number of recent contracts had cost the | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
company millions. The most costly was building the new blast furnace | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
which had overrun by more than three months and led to a dispute | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
with the steel company. They insist it met all its commercial | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
obligations and it offered Rowecord Engineering future work. Beef -- | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
the problem is there will not be much of a future left for this 43- | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
year-old family run firm. Still to come before seven. Two clubs with | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the same dream. They're both in the Wembley final but will it be | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Newport County or Wrexham that get back into football league? Join me | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
in a few minutes. Figures obtained by BBC Wales show | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
that more than two-thirds of disabled employees who were made | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
redundant from Remploy factories here are not in work. The UK | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Government is standing by its decision to stop subsidising non- | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
viable Remploy factories, seven of which have closed in Wales. More | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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from our political reporter, James Williams. It is the daily rituals | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
which occupy most of this man's time these days. The partially | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
sighted 51-year-old work for Remploy his whole working life | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
until being made redundant last autumn. He has not found works is. | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
You were slightly get disheartened. I am stuck in every day. I have | :17:27. | :17:36. | |
gone to work every day for years. I did a day's work. To me, it is a | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
reality that I cannot get used to. It will be hard for disabled people | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
to get a job when they are fit people still looking for work. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
there are a few rays of hope. Henry is one of 75 former Remploy workers | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
to benefit from a support scheme. Despite finding work almost | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
immediately, leaving Remploy was a worrying prospect after 12 years of | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
service. The main fear for everybody that worked in Remploy | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
was that it was supposed to be a job for life. And obviously, with | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
different disabilities that people have got, you have the uncertainty | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
of, or will you ever work again? I was fortunate. This factory near | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
Blackwood shut last autumn. One of seven across Wales to close, | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
leaving 280 disabled people without work. Figures obtained by a BBC | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Wales show that 88 of those have found employment, 31 %. 192 people | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
I yet to find work. Remploy says those figures do not reflect those | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
people that have found employment but are yet to be given work but | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
even so, for the majority of former employees, it has been difficult | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
moving on from what was the end of any rough. They opened their doors | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
in 1946 to help disabled servicemen and miners into work. That was then | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
but last year the UK government decided it was time to stop | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
subsidising loss-making factories. It is a decision ministers are | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
sticking by. What we are doing actually is looking at how we | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
support all disabled people so that in factories in Wales, however | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
there are 400,000 people in Wales with disabilities and we have to | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
support all of those. But the Welsh government disagrees, having | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
opposed the factory closures from the outset. This recession and | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
these austerity measures of the UK government have meant many things, | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
but I have never seen a multi- millionaire banker reduced to tears | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
about the prospect for the future but I have seen disabled workers | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
having to go through that experience. A working for Remploy | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
is a thing of the past 40 and and Henry. But the future for 140 | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
employees remained uncertain. Commercial bids to run the Baglan | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
and Porth sites are currently being reviewed. A decision is expected | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
imminently. Unused churches across Wales could be knocked down or | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
converted into houses and flats for homeless people. Church leaders | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
have begun the process of identifying land and buildings | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
which could be used to provide affordable homes. Caroline Evans | :20:15. | :20:24. | |
has been to visit one church that's leading the way. It is modern, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
light and this church in Cardiff could now become a Template for | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
similar projects across Wales. is a picture of the original church | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
of St Michael's which was built in 1922 and it was only supposed to be | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
a temporary construction. It lasted 80 years. In the end, they got | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
their new church by selling part of the grounds. Today, 21 people live | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
here. People like John Morgan, the first tenant to move in and | :20:52. | :21:01. | |
obviously a big fan of the idea. You turn round and say, we can | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
afford to build a new church, we can have more up-to-date church to | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
go to, not that I go there mind. There is no obligation to go. But | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
the idea that the Church could step in to solve what many regard as a | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
crisis in housing is now firmly on the agenda. We estimate there are | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
20,000 homeless people in Wales at the moment and 73,000 people | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
waiting on waiting lists with housing associations. This people | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
are helping people to make a difference in their society. Just | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
as here in Cardiff, in some cases, the proposals could mean knocking | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
down so much treasured churches. But church leaders still believe it | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
is the right thing to do. If people begin to understand that the Church | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
is there actually to try and improve people's way of life, man | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
of life, standard of life, then people perhaps start to see the | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
potential of the building in a different way. It is estimated that | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Wales need to around 4,000 new affordable homes each year just to | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
meet current demand. Congregations will now be asked to come forward | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
with any spare space or surplus buildings they might have that | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
could make a home for someone. All roads lead to Wembley for two of | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
our Welsh sides. Here's Claire with tonight's sport. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Good evening. It's been a familiar trip for Welsh fans of late but for | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
the first time ever on Sunday, two Welsh teams will battle it out at | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Wembley Stadium. Newport County and Wrexham will go head to head for a | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
place in the football league. There were amazing scenes yesterday as | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
both sets of fans celebrated getting to the final but | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
unfortunately only one side will have a fairy-tale end to their | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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season. The pictures and my eyes and said | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
it all. Pitch invasions, kisses all round and utter jubilation. Newport | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
and Wrexham celebrated winning their respective semi-finals and | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
securing a place at Wembley. Both clubs are aware that there is still | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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a job to do. Newport's changing room was bouncing as the party got | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
into full swing. The Welsh connection is not the only common | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
denominator. These are two clubs who have known hard times over the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
years and now with the return to the Football League at stake for | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
one of them, they are both set for the big as 90 minutes of their | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
lives. We have to have the belief. It will be a fantastic encounter, a | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
tough game. Nothing different to any game this season. But we have | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
to go their positive. And hopefully a positive outcome. One step closer | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
to promotion but we are not there. It is great to see the fans coming | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
out in their droves. They have been fantastic war season. Hopefully | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
they will have another good day. There is no point going there and | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
losing. We have another big game to go. Wrexham's place in the final | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
had been booked with a win over Kidderminster. Three goals on the | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
day put the FA Trophy winners on the road to Wembley again. A second | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
trip to Wembley for them in five weeks. Grimsby started brightly | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
against Newport but a first-half goal was enough to complete the win | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
and book their place. Whatever the outcome on Sunday, it promises to | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
be a very proud day. Wembley will be all Welsh, north versus south. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
It's also been a big weekend for Cardiff City. The players finally | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
got their hands on the Championship trophy in front of more than 26,000 | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
fans. They'll be joining Swansea City in the Premier League next | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
season. Michael Laudrup's team are currently ninth, with four games to | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
play, after losing 2-0 away at Chelsea. Goals from Oscar and a | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Frank Lampard penalty guaranteed all three points for the home side. | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Newly-crowned PFA Player of the Year Gareth Bale has dismissed talk | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
of a summer transfer from Spurs to Real Madrid as speculation. The | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Wales and Tottenham midfielder was voted the Player of the Year and | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Young Player of the Year by his fellow professionals. The 23-year- | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
old becomes only the third player to win both of the PFA's main | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
awards, only Cristiano Ronaldo and Andy Gray have done it before. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Tomorrow we find out who's been picked to be part of the Lions tour | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
to Australia this summer. Warren Gatland will announce his selection | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
tomorrow morning. Welsh players are expected to make up a big portion | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
of the squad with flanker Sam Warburton the bookies' favourite to | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
be named as captain. News of who's in, tomorrow on Wales Today. It's | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
an exciting week ahead. We'll have the announcement first in our | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
lunchtime programme, tomorrow at 1:30. Enjoy your evening. Jamie, | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
back to you. Earlier this month we told you | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
about a 1,200-year-old oak tree which was toppled by strong winds. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Today it's emerged it could be cloned. Twig and bud samples from | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
the Pontfadog Oak, near Chirk, have been sent to organisations, | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
including the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, which will try to extract | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
its DNA. If it works, the cloned tree could return to its original | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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Time now for the weather forecast. There is only one Derek! | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
Thank goodness! Good news. Plenty more dry weather to come this week | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
thanks to high pressure. More sunshine too but some chilly nights | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
so if you're gardener watch out for ground frost. This evening the odd | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
shower in the north for a time otherwise a dry night. The cloud | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
disappearing and with a clear sky turning cold. Temperatures falling | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
close to freezing inland with a widespread ground frost. A slight | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
frost air in rural spots. Tomorrow's chart shows a ridge of | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
high pressure extending from the Atlantic across Britain which means | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
good weather. Here's the picture then for 8:00am. A lovely start to | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
the day. A bit cool and fresh but clear and sunny. The wind lighter | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
than today as well. During the day a few cumulus cloud will build up | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
as temperatures rise. Small chance of a light shower but most places | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
dry. The north and west coast, Pembrokeshire and most of | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Ceredigion clear and sunny in the afternoon. Top temperatures 10 to | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
14 Celsius. The wind lighter than today so feel a little warmer and | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
very pleasant in the sunshine. On Anglesey, a lovely day tomorrow. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Dry and fairy sunny. Temperatures not that high. Nine in Amlwch but | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
the wind light. Dry in Torfaen as well tomorrow. Sunshine and a few | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
clouds. Temperatures in Cwmbran rising to 13 Celsius. Tomorrow | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
night dry and fairly clear so turning cold again. Another | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
widespread ground frost. A touch of air frost in rural mid Wales. On | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
Wednesday more dry weather and sunshine. Cloudier in the north | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
with perhaps a little rain by evening. Thursday generally | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
cloudier. The odd light shower otherwise dry. Bright in places | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
with a little sunshine and light winds. Beyond that, signs of a | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
change on Friday. Pressure will fall with some rain on the way. As | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
for the bank holiday weekend, not a great start but the signs are it | :28:41. | :28:51. | |
will get better. Tonight's headlines from the BBC, police | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
leading an inquiry into historic allegations of sexual abuse in | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
children's homes in North Wales, say they have fresh allegations and | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
evidence they it was more widespread than previously thought. | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
We do not forget. Any new information and allegations that | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
are made will be investigated thoroughly and we will pursue them. | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
If there is any sense among them that they need not look over their | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
shoulder, they are wrong. They certainly need to. We'll have an | :29:18. | :29:22. |