:00:00. > :00:08.Welcome to Wales Today. Out top story.
:00:08. > :00:12.Lose weight if you need an NHS operation. The vast majority of us
:00:12. > :00:21.now think patients across Wales should diet to get surgery.
:00:21. > :00:25.If you don't put yourself in a position where that treatment will
:00:25. > :00:31.be effective, that treatment would be available to you. -- will not be
:00:31. > :00:41.available to you. Our other headlines tonight.
:00:41. > :00:44.This man was mayor of Denbigh, now he's on trial for setting off
:00:45. > :00:49.explosions. The court hears he blew up a car for a thrill.
:00:49. > :00:53.They're top of the class, but when it comes to maths, Wales just can't
:00:53. > :00:56.add up at GCSE. £500,000 of public money used for
:00:56. > :01:00.unlawful payments - the council at the centre of a police
:01:00. > :01:01.investigation. And hundreds of children offered the
:01:01. > :01:14.MMR jab after more measles cases. Good evening. The vast majority
:01:14. > :01:17.people in Wales believe the NHS should insist that overweight
:01:17. > :01:21.patients try to lose weight before having a non-urgent operation.
:01:21. > :01:24.That's already the policy at Cardiff and Vale Health Board, but a new
:01:24. > :01:31.poll for BBC Wales reveals that 82% of us believe health boards across
:01:31. > :01:34.Wales should adopt the policy. 66% agreed the NHS spends too much
:01:34. > :01:41.treating conditions that result from poor diet and a lack of exercise.
:01:41. > :01:46.But 73% didn't want the Government telling us what we should eat. The
:01:47. > :01:49.poll marks the start of a new season of documentaries called Live Longer
:01:50. > :01:59.Wales, designed to encourage us to think about living a healthier
:01:59. > :02:03.lifestyle. Nick Palit reports. Weight matters from the first moment
:02:03. > :02:09.of our lives. Our genes are important but in this age of cheap,
:02:09. > :02:13.abundant food, we face a lifetime of temptation. In Wales it is a battle
:02:13. > :02:19.we are losing. Following in the footsteps of the US, the culture is
:02:19. > :02:24.now having a detrimental affect on our health. According to one of the
:02:24. > :02:31.world's leading experts on obesity, that is the case. All these things
:02:31. > :02:37.form a perfect storm of fact those which makes it almost inevitable.
:02:37. > :02:43.The Welsh figures are very similar to what we are seeing in the United
:02:43. > :02:48.States. Berry high numbers in children, and certainly it is a
:02:48. > :02:52.crisis by any standard. And that crisis becomes all too clear when
:02:52. > :02:57.you see the figures. Obesity in Wales is worse than England and
:02:57. > :03:02.Scotland. Three out of five Welsh adults are either overweight or
:03:02. > :03:07.obese. And one in three children are overweight or seriously fat. Type
:03:07. > :03:10.two diabetes, heart disease, hip and knee replacements, or the result of
:03:10. > :03:17.burdening the body with too much weight and, in turn, burdening a
:03:17. > :03:24.struggling NHS. I am not in favour of penalising people but I am in
:03:24. > :03:27.favour, if you present yourself for an operation, and because of your
:03:27. > :03:31.weight you are less likely to benefit clinically from that
:03:31. > :03:36.operation, then before you offered that treatment, you will be expected
:03:36. > :03:40.to go on a weight management course provided for you, free for you to
:03:40. > :03:45.attend, convenient for you to get to, but if you don't put yourself in
:03:45. > :03:49.a position where that treatment will be effective, that treatment will
:03:49. > :03:58.not be available to you. But is obesity now pervasive that being fat
:03:58. > :04:03.is the new normal? Their seamstresses at this factory think
:04:03. > :04:08.so. It does not matter what size you are, it is your personality, how you
:04:08. > :04:16.treat people. I would not want to lose weight. I am happy as I am. And
:04:16. > :04:20.they are not unusual. Levels of obesity are more prevalent in the
:04:20. > :04:25.South Wales valleys area where a quarter of adults are obese. In
:04:25. > :04:29.Merthyr Tydfil, it is even worse. That is why parents here are being
:04:29. > :04:33.invited to take part in publicly funded cookery classes, teaching
:04:33. > :04:38.them to prepare healthy meals to stop their children getting the same
:04:38. > :04:42.bad habits that they grew up with. My children are getting older now
:04:42. > :04:47.and I don't want them to be growing up and going for the cheap stuff
:04:47. > :04:53.when you make it yourself it is more healthy. In Wales, we are at the
:04:53. > :04:55.bottom of the British league for cycling and walking and we spend
:04:55. > :05:00.bottom of the British league for more time watching TV than anywhere
:05:00. > :05:05.else in Britain. Today's couch potatoes are tomorrow's hospital
:05:05. > :05:10.patients. At this rugby club, they have had problems recruiting young
:05:10. > :05:14.players. A lot of children like to watch sport but when it comes to
:05:14. > :05:19.doing something, they prefer to be in front of the computer. Baroness
:05:19. > :05:22.Finlay Grey Thomson was asked to chair a review by the government on
:05:22. > :05:30.how to get children more physically active. We want PE to be a core
:05:30. > :05:36.subject and we want teachers to be properly trained in how to deliver
:05:36. > :05:40.physical exercise. The health service was set up when hunger and
:05:40. > :05:46.being underweight was the big worry. Now it is the disease of abundance,
:05:46. > :05:50.obesity, that is the underlying cause of numerous health problems.
:05:50. > :05:52.If it is not tackled, it is the taxpayer will have to pick up the
:05:52. > :05:55.bill for the consequences. Dr Sharon Hopkins is from Cardiff
:05:55. > :06:03.and Vale Health board. What evidence is there that being thinner before
:06:03. > :06:12.an operation is a good thing? We have got a huge amount of everyday
:06:12. > :06:15.-- evidence that being overweight when you are undergoing surgery
:06:15. > :06:20.causes all sorts of increased risks. Problems with bleeding,
:06:20. > :06:23.problems with needing more anaesthetic, breathing problems,
:06:24. > :06:30.wound healing problems, and sometimes more infections after the
:06:30. > :06:35.operation. It is one thing to put out a message and tell people to go
:06:35. > :06:40.on a course, but is it working? Are people losing weight? The patients
:06:40. > :06:43.we have had through the weight management programme to date are
:06:43. > :06:48.losing weight but we know that losing weight is a difficult thing
:06:48. > :06:52.to do. It is very difficult for many people. What we are trying to do is
:06:52. > :06:55.support people and give them the opportunity to think about why
:06:55. > :06:59.losing weight might be good and most people want the best possible
:06:59. > :07:03.outcome if they are undergoing surgery. The start point is about
:07:03. > :07:07.asking them to think about their health, understand the risks, and
:07:07. > :07:12.get them on those courses thinking about their own weight. If combating
:07:12. > :07:17.obesity for pre-surgery patients is about their own weight. If combating
:07:17. > :07:24.such a good thing, why not say, give up smoking, give up drinking? We
:07:24. > :07:28.have done that with tobacco. Part of the policy we have introduced in
:07:28. > :07:32.Cardiff and the Vale also talks about smokers. Anybody who smokes
:07:33. > :07:37.and comes at two a planned operation, we have asked them to go
:07:37. > :07:42.on a smoking cessation course. Again, like weight, it is a very
:07:42. > :07:46.difficult thing to do, to quit smoking, and we understand that, so
:07:46. > :07:52.we are trying to encourage people to get onto this programme. For
:07:52. > :07:56.smoking, even stopping your smoking eight weeks before your operation
:07:56. > :08:00.makes a big difference. Thank you very much.
:08:00. > :08:03.You can see much more on this in the first episode of Live Longer Wales
:08:03. > :08:09.tonight at 10.35pm here on BBC One Wales. And online at
:08:09. > :08:12.bbc.co.uk/livelongerwales. A former mayor got a thrill from
:08:12. > :08:17.setting off dangerous explosives near his home, a court has heard.
:08:17. > :08:22.John Larsen denies six counts of possessing explosives, arson and
:08:22. > :08:32.causing an explosion. The blasts caused shrapnel to smash windows and
:08:32. > :08:35.damage cars. I interviewed John Larsen back in
:08:35. > :08:39.April as an eyewitness to the explosions which had been spreading
:08:39. > :08:43.fear among residents for weeks. He talked of his concern that simply
:08:43. > :08:46.could be injured but soon after he was arrested and charged with
:08:46. > :08:52.causing the debtor nations. The prosecution barrister says he used
:08:52. > :08:55.in cancer packed with parts of fireworks and metal ball bearings to
:08:55. > :08:58.cause the explosions. He told the court it was highly likely the
:08:58. > :09:01.defendant was getting a thrill out of what he was doing and the
:09:01. > :09:06.attention he was getting by speaking to the media. He also said he had an
:09:06. > :09:15.active interest in pyrotechnics. Police found files on his computer.
:09:15. > :09:21.The prosecution say police seized evidence from his home, including a
:09:21. > :09:25.book on pyrotechnics and a bag of ball bearings, fuse wire and
:09:25. > :09:29.chemicals. It is claimed he told police he owned flash powder and
:09:29. > :09:33.Flash paper which he bought legitimately from an online Magic
:09:33. > :09:38.store. The court also heard from a neighbour, Caroline Williams. She
:09:38. > :09:42.said her and her fellow kennels had grown fed up after months of
:09:42. > :09:45.sickness nights to do these explosions. She sat at one evening
:09:45. > :09:50.and saw John Larsen through the window come out of his house, bend
:09:50. > :09:55.down while looking at a car across the road, and then go back inside. A
:09:55. > :09:59.few minutes later, she said smoke started to come from one of the cars
:09:59. > :10:03.and she had a very loud bang. He denies six charges and the trial is
:10:03. > :10:07.expected to last two weeks. The MP for Caerphilly, Wayne David,
:10:07. > :10:09.has a new job. He's been appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to
:10:09. > :10:12.Ed Miliband, acting as the Labour leader's eyes and ears around the
:10:12. > :10:17.House of Commons. Mr Miliband reshuffled his Shadow Cabinet today.
:10:17. > :10:20.The Pontypridd MP, Owen Smith, keeps his job as Shadow Welsh Secretary,
:10:20. > :10:24.Labour's main spokesman on Wales at Westminster.
:10:24. > :10:26.A man who admitted posting offensive comments online about murdered
:10:26. > :10:30.five-year-old April Jones has been given 120 hours of community
:10:30. > :10:33.service. 25-year-old Liam Young from Ayrshire in Scotland sent messages
:10:33. > :10:41.on Facebook mocking the search for the schoolgirl, whose body has never
:10:41. > :10:46.been found. He was the boss of a charity that
:10:46. > :10:49.promoted race equality in Wales. Within the past hour, the Crown
:10:49. > :10:54.Prosecution Service has said there is sufficient evidence to charge Naz
:10:54. > :10:57.Malik with theft and fraud. The All Wales Ethnic Minority Association
:10:57. > :10:59.was wound up in March after its public funding was withdrawn
:10:59. > :11:09.following claims of financial mismanagement. Here's our political
:11:09. > :11:13.editor Nick Servini. Over in 11 years, AWEMA was given
:11:13. > :11:17.millions of pounds to Bruno -- promote the needs of people from
:11:17. > :11:20.ethnic minorities but ten years ago BBC Wales first raised questions
:11:20. > :11:29.about the charity which was run from Swansea. Naz Malik and finance
:11:29. > :11:34.directors were sacked by AWEMA in February 2012. A report found what
:11:34. > :11:39.they called a complete lack of oversight of the financial processes
:11:39. > :11:42.and controls. In March last year, public funding was withdrawn and the
:11:42. > :11:48.charity was wound up. There was criticism of the Welsh government.
:11:48. > :11:53.The Wales Audit Office says warnings were not heeded for a decade. Last
:11:53. > :11:57.February, South Wales Police was called in to investigate. Today we
:11:57. > :12:06.were told that Naz Malik will be charged with theft, and fraud by. As
:12:06. > :12:09.a age. The Crown Prosecution Service says there is sufficient evidence
:12:09. > :12:14.and it is in the public interest to charge Naz Malik with the offences.
:12:14. > :12:18.South Wales Police said they were now be issuing a summons against him
:12:18. > :12:20.and he will be charged when he attends court at a date and venue to
:12:20. > :12:28.be confirmed. Nick, this developed into quite a
:12:28. > :12:33.political row didn't it? Big news tonight and a big political story
:12:33. > :12:37.over the years. This charity was wound up after receiving about £7
:12:37. > :12:41.million in public money over a 10-year period. That report from the
:12:41. > :12:44.audit office criticised the Welsh government for a lack of oversight
:12:44. > :12:51.for the money that went to this charity and the way it distributed
:12:51. > :12:54.to the other bodies. As a result, the opposition parties seized on it,
:12:54. > :13:00.accusing the Welsh government of ignoring repeatedly the warnings
:13:00. > :13:03.about this charity over the years. The first minister said the
:13:03. > :13:09.government had nothing to hide. Even the country's top civil servant told
:13:09. > :13:13.a committee of Assembly Members one of the reasons why ministers did not
:13:13. > :13:18.intervene more quickly was because of a keenness to promote race
:13:18. > :13:23.equality. There will be development of the police front as a result of
:13:23. > :13:26.the news tonight. Behind-the-scenes, we are told, work has gone on to
:13:26. > :13:29.improve the way grants go to charities like this.
:13:29. > :13:32.Much more to come before seven o'clock.
:13:32. > :13:37.Hundreds of children offered the MMR jab as the measles outbreak spreads.
:13:37. > :13:40.And the table tennis team-mates, beating Europe's finest, back home
:13:40. > :13:48.after going head-to-head for the European title.
:13:48. > :13:53.It's one of the essential skills school leavers are expected to have
:13:53. > :13:56.when applying for jobs, but the education watchdog has raised
:13:56. > :14:01.concerns about pupils' poor performance in GCSE maths. In a
:14:01. > :14:04.report out today, they say the proportion of our youngsters getting
:14:04. > :14:08.the very top grades is well behind their English counterparts. Here's
:14:08. > :14:18.our education correspondent Arwyn Jones.
:14:18. > :14:24.These pupils in Swansea are among the lucky ones. This is a school
:14:24. > :14:29.where they get maths right. We make sure there is a rigorous scheme of
:14:29. > :14:33.work which all teachers add here to. It is robust so that there is no
:14:33. > :14:41.doubt as to what teachers want to be teaching, what critical --
:14:41. > :14:43.curriculum ought to be covered. Also a robust assessment procedure where
:14:43. > :14:49.pupils are assessed on a readily basis. But throughout Wales it is a
:14:49. > :14:57.different picture. Maths is the low was performing core subject. We fall
:14:57. > :15:02.quite away behind England. Pupils are struggling with some of the key
:15:02. > :15:08.pupil blocks -- building blocks of mathematics. This is hampering their
:15:08. > :15:11.ability to solve problems. These are key building blocks of mathematics
:15:11. > :15:15.and they should be secured with them when they are in key stage three.
:15:15. > :15:19.Employers have already raised concern about the quality of maths
:15:19. > :15:24.when young people go to them looking for jobs. Nearly half have had to
:15:24. > :15:30.invest in extra maths lessons for school leavers. You hear stories of
:15:30. > :15:34.people who can't add up, they can't read and write, but it is not just
:15:34. > :15:38.about the basic end, it is about the new Morrissey skills you need for
:15:38. > :15:46.the high-end jobs such as engineering -- numeracy skills. This
:15:46. > :15:49.is one way the Welsh government is trying to tackle the situation,
:15:49. > :15:54.getting employers into schools to show why it maths matters. These
:15:54. > :15:58.pupils in Port Talbot are learning how to organise a music festival,
:15:58. > :16:04.sorting out the stage sizes as well as paying the artists, all using
:16:04. > :16:10.maths. We need an area for the venue. I want to do science and I
:16:10. > :16:16.know maths is important for everything. Teaching unions say more
:16:16. > :16:19.support like this is needed. The Education Minister was not available
:16:19. > :16:26.to speak today but accepted there were problems in the current system.
:16:26. > :16:29.I think there is work to be done, particularly in terms of direct
:16:29. > :16:37.relationship to the everyday world of work and those practical
:16:37. > :16:41.elements. All employers, almost unanimously, are telling us maths is
:16:41. > :16:46.something that needs attention. Schemes like this are a comeback for
:16:46. > :16:50.when people say, why is maths important to me? Today's report
:16:50. > :16:52.shows why an answer to that question is so important.
:16:52. > :16:57.£500,000 of taxpayers' money paid out unlawfully. Caerphilly Council
:16:57. > :17:00.is at the centre of a police investigation into pay rises for
:17:00. > :17:04.senior staff. Tonight, the amounts involved have come to light.
:17:04. > :17:06.Detectives have questioned the local authority's chief executive, Anthony
:17:06. > :17:09.O'Sullivan, who's been suspended from his post. Our reporter Brian
:17:09. > :17:18.Meechan is at the council's headquarters. Brian, these payments
:17:18. > :17:24.are higher than first thought? That is right. We now know that £488,000
:17:24. > :17:29.was spent on these unlawful payments over the last financial year. That
:17:29. > :17:34.is roughly twice what we had initially thought was the figure. We
:17:34. > :17:39.also know that around £94,000 has been spent unlawfully on salaries of
:17:39. > :17:43.five senior figures, including the chief executive and the deputy chief
:17:43. > :17:47.executive, both of whom have been suspended and have been interviewed
:17:47. > :17:54.by the police over these payments. The reason why they were judged to
:17:54. > :17:56.be unlawful was because the chief executive was giving advice on
:17:56. > :17:58.something that he would actually benefit financially from. It also
:17:58. > :18:02.came to light that many senior officials were sitting in on
:18:02. > :18:07.meetings when this was being discussed and the decisions were
:18:07. > :18:10.being taken, even though they were also financial beneficiaries. What
:18:10. > :18:15.has come to light today is that they were extra payments, unlawful
:18:15. > :18:24.payments, that were paid for things like driving allowances and also for
:18:24. > :18:30.additional annual pay. And what has been the reaction to these details
:18:30. > :18:35.tonight? Of course, there is still police investigation under way and
:18:35. > :18:40.also we have the audit office that is investigating further the
:18:40. > :18:45.council, so there is some sheep business about coming forward --
:18:45. > :18:53.sheepish less. This is what Plaid Cymru had to say. This is the latest
:18:53. > :18:57.in a long line of issues which has cast reputational damage on the
:18:57. > :19:00.authority. I think the public will be outraged that almost half £1
:19:00. > :19:05.million of unlawful payments have been made. The council will have two
:19:05. > :19:12.seriously consider whether or not that many will have to be paid back.
:19:12. > :19:17.Now we do know that the council has already said that it has voluntarily
:19:17. > :19:21.passed this matter on to its auditors and they will be
:19:21. > :19:25.investigating it further. But the issue is the concerns that have been
:19:25. > :19:28.raised in terms of the management decisions that were being made here
:19:29. > :19:32.and the scrutiny of those decisions and, particularly, in light of the
:19:32. > :19:35.fact the council budgets are having to be cut and services are also
:19:36. > :19:39.having to be cut. Three months after the measles
:19:39. > :19:43.epidemic ended, a new case of the virus have been confirmed in the
:19:43. > :19:46.Swansea area. Parents of pupils at Cwmtawe School in Pontardawe are
:19:46. > :19:49.being urged to keep their children home if they're showing flu-like
:19:49. > :19:53.symptoms and haven't had the MMR jab. One pupil at Cwmtawe School is
:19:53. > :19:57.known to have caught measles and there are four more suspected cases,
:19:57. > :20:02.which include a member of staff. Cemlyn Davies reports.
:20:02. > :20:07.Pupils of Cwmtawe School were among thousands of children vaccinated at
:20:07. > :20:11.the height of the measles outbreak. But a minority still haven't had the
:20:11. > :20:16.MMR jab and so these scenes will be repeated tomorrow. That's after
:20:16. > :20:21.laboratory tests confirmed one of the students here has caught
:20:21. > :20:24.measles. Two members of the pupil's family, a member of staff and a
:20:24. > :20:39.second student are suspected of having contracted the virus. All
:20:39. > :20:43.parents are being informed and any questions they have we have dealt
:20:43. > :20:48.with, but everything that we can do, we are doing at the moment. We are
:20:48. > :20:51.liaising with Public Health Wales and the local authority to make sure
:20:51. > :20:56.that we give all children the opportunity to get the innocuous.
:20:56. > :20:59.It's just three months since Wales' worst ever measles epidemic was
:20:59. > :21:03.declared officially over. The outbreak centred on the Swansea area
:21:03. > :21:07.and led to one man's death. Gareth Colfer-Williams was 25-years-old. In
:21:07. > :21:11.total, more than 1,200 cases of measles were diagnosed. Long queues
:21:11. > :21:16.formed at emergency drop-in clinics as worried parents sought to get
:21:16. > :21:19.their children immunised. 75,000 people were vaccinated across Wales
:21:19. > :21:32.and yet some 30,000 ten to 18-year-olds still haven't been
:21:32. > :21:38.inoculated. It does surprise and disappointed that after six months
:21:38. > :21:42.of onslaught of media reporting, dozens and dozens of children being
:21:42. > :21:46.admitted to hospital with measles related complications and even a
:21:46. > :21:55.death in the Swansea area, that so many children remain without a
:21:55. > :22:01.vaccination. 62 pupils at the school have not had the jab while 142 have
:22:01. > :22:06.only had one dose. Tomorrow, they will all be offered the full
:22:06. > :22:10.vaccine. Meanwhile, parents whose children have not been vaccinated
:22:10. > :22:13.and displaying flu-like symptoms are being urged to keep them away from
:22:13. > :22:17.the school and the children's events.
:22:17. > :22:20.Problems are mounting for Wales football manager Chris Coleman as
:22:20. > :22:22.his injury list keeps growing ahead of Friday's World Cup qualifier
:22:22. > :22:25.against Macedonia. Defenders Adam Matthews, Sam Ricketts and Danny
:22:25. > :22:28.Gabbidon are all unavailable, as is full-back Ben Davies, who injured a
:22:28. > :22:35.hamstring in Swansea's 2-0 defeat at Southampton. Some better news though
:22:35. > :22:38.for his club team-mate Michu. He's been called up by world champions
:22:38. > :22:42.Spain for the first time, ahead of their games against Belarus and
:22:42. > :22:44.Georgia. After a successful European
:22:44. > :22:47.Championships, two Welsh table tennis stars are back home
:22:47. > :22:51.celebrating after picking up four medals between them. Rob and Paul
:22:51. > :22:55.Davies normally train together, but had to go head-to-head for the
:22:55. > :23:04.European title. Tomos Dafydd went to meet them.
:23:04. > :23:07.Back in Brecon after a successful championships in Italy. They had
:23:08. > :23:12.already worked together to win the team event and then both Rob and
:23:12. > :23:16.Paul swept aside some of Europe's finest to go head-to-head for the
:23:16. > :23:21.singles title. Training partners for six years, now opponents. Rob got
:23:21. > :23:27.gold and Paul had to settle for silver. It was a bit surreal playing
:23:27. > :23:32.each other because we both know each other's games inside out. I think we
:23:32. > :23:36.are just both glad to be there. I will take it easy for a couple of
:23:36. > :23:42.days, recover and give him a bit of stick after that is probably best.
:23:42. > :23:49.But it is all good. He could beat me next week. Rob first picked up a bat
:23:49. > :23:53.after breaking his neck playing rugby eight years ago. He was
:23:53. > :23:59.persuaded to take up table tennis by disability sport Wales, while Paul
:23:59. > :24:06.is no stranger to the big-time. Bronze at the Paralympics. Have
:24:06. > :24:11.things changed since London 2012? I get a lot more respect than I used
:24:11. > :24:16.to have before but I think about it as inspiring the future generation
:24:16. > :24:22.like this young man next to me. It shows that we are on the right path.
:24:22. > :24:26.And now the new European champion is being tipped to win the World
:24:27. > :24:30.Championships next year. He is going to do the treble. I think he is
:24:30. > :24:37.going to win the World Championships and the Paralympics. No pressure. No
:24:37. > :24:42.pressure at all! That is my dream will stop I don't know whether it
:24:42. > :24:49.will happen consecutively. I think so. Plenty of encouragement, then.
:24:49. > :24:52.Who would bet against a Welshman being crowned world champion in
:24:52. > :24:53.China next autumn? Lets see what the weather has in
:24:53. > :25:00.store. Here's Sue. After a mild start to October, all
:25:00. > :25:05.change this week, turning colder by the end of the week. And noticeably
:25:05. > :25:09.colder. Typical October temperatures are about 13 to 15 Celsius, so
:25:09. > :25:14.they've been above average this month. A high of 19 Celsius today in
:25:14. > :25:19.Welshpool. By Thursday, a drop of ten degrees. A maximum temperature
:25:19. > :25:24.of more like nine Celsius. More on that in a moment, but still quite
:25:24. > :25:27.mild tonight. Drier in the south and east, but a fairly weak weather
:25:27. > :25:30.front pushes in to Anglesey and Gwynedd, so a band of patchy rain
:25:30. > :25:34.slowly spreads south-eastwards through the night. Some mist and fog
:25:34. > :25:37.patches forming too. Temperatures falling no lower than 14 Celsius for
:25:37. > :25:40.towns and cities. Tomorrow, a misty, murky start. Some drizzle continuing
:25:40. > :25:43.to move south-eastwards. The rain will clear through the day. Some
:25:44. > :25:46.cloud around. Then brightening up later with sunny spells developing,
:25:47. > :25:49.especially to the shelter of high ground in the east thanks to
:25:50. > :25:54.westerly winds and temperatures down slightly on today. Feeling fresher.
:25:54. > :25:59.This colder air mass arrives from the north, pushed in behind these
:25:59. > :26:02.cold fronts. High pressure develops to the north-west of the UK and the
:26:02. > :26:05.change in wind direction is significant. These isobars
:26:05. > :26:07.straighten out, moving from a westerly to a more northerly
:26:07. > :26:12.direction, introducing that colder air. So Wednesday will be a
:26:12. > :26:16.transition day. A scattering of showers. Winds gradually strengthen
:26:16. > :26:20.from the north-west. Some cloud, bright spells and temperatures begin
:26:20. > :26:23.to drop off. The wind picks up overnight into Thursday - those
:26:23. > :26:26.northerly winds introduce more arctic air so noticeably colder, but
:26:26. > :26:31.a drier and brighter end to the week with the return of overnight frosts
:26:31. > :26:36.in rural areas. Today's picture is from Rob Vaughan. He caught the
:26:36. > :26:40.early mist in Glynneath looking over the Neath Valley. An autumnal scene,
:26:40. > :26:45.but we're likely to see more crisp and frosty mornings by the end of
:26:45. > :26:48.the week. You can send your pictures to us by e-mail or Twitter,
:26:48. > :26:54.particularly good if they help to tell the weather story. And keep up
:26:54. > :26:57.to date with what's happening at bbc.co.uk/weather and by downloading
:26:57. > :27:04.the new free BBC weather app for smartphones.
:27:04. > :27:10.Tomorrow, your money and how it'll be spent next year. The First
:27:10. > :27:14.Minister will reveal how his Government plans to spend £15
:27:14. > :27:18.billion in next year's budget. It'll set out how much will be spent on
:27:18. > :27:22.hospitals, schools and council services. The lowdown tomorrow at
:27:22. > :27:29.6.30pm. The headlines again from the BBC.
:27:29. > :27:38.X-Ray is back in half an hour. We will be tackling the issues that
:27:38. > :27:41.matter to you. A company boss who promised free bowlers but took
:27:41. > :27:46.hundreds of pounds from potential customers. And we are helping you
:27:46. > :27:52.live longer, taking a look at the secret sugar in your diet.
:27:52. > :27:56.We'll have an update for you here at 8.00pm and I'll be back after the
:27:56. > :27:58.BBC News at 10.00pm. That's Wales Today. From all of us on the
:27:58. > :28:01.programme, good evening.