:00:00. > :00:00.from the BBC News at Six. So it's goodbye from me, and
:00:00. > :00:16.Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. It sold of public land in
:00:17. > :00:17.controversial deals worth millions. The government investment fund
:00:18. > :00:35.responsible is to be shut down. They put lives and homes at risk.
:00:36. > :00:40.The damning assessment of the body tasked with preventing flooding of
:00:41. > :00:46.the Gwent levels. Also tonight, why you could be missing out on a fuel
:00:47. > :00:50.discount if you live in rural Wales. Paul Morris about 18,000 tonnes of
:00:51. > :00:57.waste is to be dumped on his land. A judge says he is appalled. In sport,
:00:58. > :01:00.a message from the manager to the fans. Malkin Kaya says sorry for the
:01:01. > :01:07.off field trouble and maintains he wasn't asked to leave Cardiff City.
:01:08. > :01:12.I wasn't asked to resign. At no time did I think of resigning from the
:01:13. > :01:12.football club. They stopped their village being submerged from
:01:13. > :01:28.underwater. Good evening. Tonight to the Welsh
:01:29. > :01:31.government has wound up the regeneration investment fund for
:01:32. > :01:36.Wales. It follows concerns the taxpayer lost out one parcels of
:01:37. > :01:40.land was sold to a private company without an open tendering process.
:01:41. > :01:43.The fund has been at the centre of investigations by the public
:01:44. > :01:50.spending watchdog and the police say they are considering looking at it
:01:51. > :01:55.activities. 16 parcels of land in Wales sold in
:01:56. > :02:00.a deal worth ?20 million. In terms of the number of sites, it was one
:02:01. > :02:05.of the biggest disposal is of public land for many years. The question
:02:06. > :02:09.is, did the taxpayer get value for money? The regeneration investment
:02:10. > :02:14.fund was set up to redevelop town centres like this one. Its funding
:02:15. > :02:18.came from the Welsh government and the EU. The Welsh government sold
:02:19. > :02:23.the parcels of land in order to raise its share of the money.
:02:24. > :02:28.Managers of the investment fund handled that sales of them. The
:02:29. > :02:33.sites were bought by a company in Guernsey and it is that sale process
:02:34. > :02:37.which has come under scrutiny. The land wasn't sold in an open
:02:38. > :02:42.tendering process. Instead, a number of agents and developers were
:02:43. > :02:49.approached. The conservative end that Mac AM first referred the
:02:50. > :02:55.matter to the audit office. We know very valuable land has been sold to
:02:56. > :03:01.preferred purchasers for a round about ?20 million. And I am
:03:02. > :03:05.concerned about that. I want to see transparency and accountability. At
:03:06. > :03:08.the moment, I am not happy with it. The Welsh government and the company
:03:09. > :03:14.which bought the land have both defended the deal, saying the sale
:03:15. > :03:17.price was above the market rate, and that after years of lying idle,
:03:18. > :03:24.there will now be economic activity there. So, the Welsh government
:03:25. > :03:29.hasn't waited for the result of this investigation. How significant is
:03:30. > :03:34.it? We've had this extended enquiry, to internal enquiries by
:03:35. > :03:37.the government and the possibility of a police investigation. And the
:03:38. > :03:42.Welsh government is saying it's not going to wait for any of the results
:03:43. > :03:46.but it is going to wind it up now. In a statement from the housing
:03:47. > :03:51.minister, he talks about his lack of confidence in the effectiveness of
:03:52. > :03:55.this fund because of all these investigations. And there is a
:03:56. > :04:00.practical element as well. The money is locked in. He wants to get it out
:04:01. > :04:04.to carry on with the original intention, which is to regenerate
:04:05. > :04:13.town centres and, in particular, we generation of beliefs -- Leith town
:04:14. > :04:17.centre. You've been following this story for months, what is going to
:04:18. > :04:21.happen next? I'm told the audit office will look to complete its
:04:22. > :04:25.investigation by the end of the year, but it is in the hands of what
:04:26. > :04:30.the detectives decide to do. They've looked at this case and they've got
:04:31. > :04:34.to make a decision whether to launch a formal investigation. In the heart
:04:35. > :04:40.of this is the sale of more than 100 acres of land on the edge of
:04:41. > :04:44.Cardiff. It was sold from the public to the private sector at an
:04:45. > :04:51.agricultural rate of about ?15,000 an acre, and it was sold for months
:04:52. > :04:54.before that land was designated for housing by Cardiff Council.
:04:55. > :05:00.Potentially increasing hugely the value of the land. There is a
:05:01. > :05:05.claw-back mechanism which means that the taxpayer could benefit from the
:05:06. > :05:10.uplift of that value of that land but it's no more than 15%. Any
:05:11. > :05:12.investigation, that is the heart of what is being looked at. Thank you
:05:13. > :05:16.very much. AMs say the lives and homes of
:05:17. > :05:19.thousands of people could have been at risk because of poor management
:05:20. > :05:22.at a public body. The Caldicot and Wentlooge Internal Drainage Board
:05:23. > :05:25.helps stop flooding on the Gwent Levels. Auditors have already
:05:26. > :05:27.accused it of misusing public money, and now the assembly's Public
:05:28. > :05:39.Accounts Committee has added its criticism, as Daniel Davies reports.
:05:40. > :05:42.The Gwent Levels, a drainage system defends this low-lying coast land
:05:43. > :05:47.between Cardiff and Chepstow from flooding. The Caldicot and Wentlooge
:05:48. > :05:50.Internal Drainage Board manages it but following criticism by auditors
:05:51. > :05:56.last year, AMs have waded in with their own damning report. These
:05:57. > :05:59.ditches are what has stopped this unique and -- landscape from
:06:00. > :06:04.flooding, protecting the livelihood of people who live here. The
:06:05. > :06:08.drainage board was managed so badly, that their properties and lives
:06:09. > :06:12.could have been at risk. It adds there is evidence of overseas trips
:06:13. > :06:17.that have little or no business case to justify them. In 2005, 37 people
:06:18. > :06:22.went on a three-day inspection visit to Venice costing more than ?4000.
:06:23. > :06:27.Another trip to Northern Ireland for 28 people which included a visit to
:06:28. > :06:32.the Giants Causeway and distillery cost nearly ?5,000. This is a prime
:06:33. > :06:37.example of how not to run a publicly funded organisation. It has been a
:06:38. > :06:40.disaster in the government's arrangement of the board, very
:06:41. > :06:44.little accountability, and we have to remember that this drainage board
:06:45. > :06:49.was responsible for protecting thousands of homes, businesses, and
:06:50. > :06:53.critical infrastructure in South Wales. Despite what was going on
:06:54. > :06:57.behind-the-scenes, some of those who live on the levels have no
:06:58. > :07:00.complaints about the work of the board does. Like John Evans who has
:07:01. > :07:06.lived here 50 years without being flooded. This used to be a farm. I'm
:07:07. > :07:14.not a farmer. Essentially, we had no problem at all. The board know when
:07:15. > :07:19.to do maintenance. They come to us, we don't go to them. It's been no
:07:20. > :07:23.problem to us. The government says changes have been made at the board
:07:24. > :07:29.but it's looking to transfer its powers and those of Wales' two other
:07:30. > :07:36.boards. The decision is expected next month. If ministers get their
:07:37. > :07:41.way, the board itself may very well be ditched.
:07:42. > :07:44.The MP for Brecon and Radnor says he'll be lobbying the Treasury to
:07:45. > :07:48.try and persuade them to include rural Powys as an area that should
:07:49. > :07:52.get cheaper petrol and diesel. Five remote areas of Wales had been put
:07:53. > :07:55.forward as needing cheaper fuel, but the British government has not
:07:56. > :07:59.included any of them in a list submitted to the EU for a fuel
:08:00. > :08:01.rebate of 5p per litre. Nick Palit reports.
:08:02. > :08:04.The roads of rural Powys are long, winding and beautiful, if you're a
:08:05. > :08:07.tourist. But for those who live and work in this area of Wales, the
:08:08. > :08:11.sheer distance between communities and vital services like doctors and
:08:12. > :08:14.supermarkets mean the car is vital. But the ever increasing cost of fuel
:08:15. > :08:17.is placing an unfair burden on people who live in places like this.
:08:18. > :08:21.The government applied to the European Union for a fuel discount
:08:22. > :08:24.scheme of 5p per litre to be extended to rural communities across
:08:25. > :08:26.Britain, including five in Wales. Today came the news that Ceredigion,
:08:27. > :08:34.Gwynedd, Powys, Anglesey and Monmouthshire were not successful.
:08:35. > :08:38.It would have been nice to have a longer list but on the other hand
:08:39. > :08:40.what matters most is having something that we've got a
:08:41. > :08:44.reasonable chance of being agreed and make happen. MP Roger Williams
:08:45. > :08:46.drives about 20,000 miles a year on parliamentary business. His
:08:47. > :08:53.constituency is 1,000 square miles, and he's furious his area will miss
:08:54. > :08:58.out on the fuel rebate. We are profoundly disappointed that Powys
:08:59. > :09:03.isn't getting any subsidy and also that no part of Wales is as well.
:09:04. > :09:08.We've been making recommendations to the Treasury that they look at this
:09:09. > :09:10.again. It's got to take it into account that people in rural areas
:09:11. > :09:17.depend more on their cars than people in urban areas. This petrol
:09:18. > :09:22.station is the only place to get fuel for miles. The price is already
:09:23. > :09:31.much more expensive than in towns and cities. Local people just don't
:09:32. > :09:35.have a choice. A reduction of 5p a litre on petrol or diesel would save
:09:36. > :09:40.about ?3 50 on the average family car every time you fill up. It might
:09:41. > :09:43.not seem much but with the big distances involved in rural areas
:09:44. > :09:51.like this, those savings could add up. I think we pay far too much, to
:09:52. > :09:55.be honest. It is very expensive because we are rural. And it's a
:09:56. > :10:06.long way to get to the nearest supermarket etc? Yes. I know just
:10:07. > :10:09.how hard the independent struggle in those areas to be competitive
:10:10. > :10:20.against their nearest supermarket is. For now, prices remain high. The
:10:21. > :10:27.campaign to reduce them continues. A woman died in a fire. The roof
:10:28. > :10:29.caved in. The cause of the fire which started at 7am is under
:10:30. > :10:32.investigation. A woman who stole more than 900
:10:33. > :10:36.designer handbags over three years has been jailed for 18 months. Jayne
:10:37. > :10:39.Rand, who was eventually caught in a shopping centre in Cwmbran, admitted
:10:40. > :10:43.stealing from stores across the UK and then selling some of the bags on
:10:44. > :10:47.eBay. He allowed 80,000 tonnes of waste to
:10:48. > :10:52.be dumped on land near Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent. It left nearby
:10:53. > :10:59.woodland polluted and closed foot paths. Paul Morris from Ebbw Vale
:11:00. > :11:06.has been given a ten-month suspended sentence for his crime. .
:11:07. > :11:13.A familiar Greenland scape in Blaenau Gwent. Three years ago, this
:11:14. > :11:17.was turned into a dumping ground for 80,000 tonnes of decomposing waste,
:11:18. > :11:23.harmful pollutants seeping into the soil into nearby woods and closing
:11:24. > :11:27.foot paths. At the time, ammonia levels while quite high, probably
:11:28. > :11:33.heading towards the equivalent of sewage. This crime was purely
:11:34. > :11:38.financially driven. It undermined legitimate operators in the
:11:39. > :11:44.business. Just to give you an idea of scale, this time in holds ten
:11:45. > :11:49.tonnes of waste. It would take 8000 of these to retrieve all the waste
:11:50. > :11:54.that was dumped illegally. Paul Morris was paid ?283,000 for
:11:55. > :12:00.allowing the waste to be dumped on the land which he owned at the time.
:12:01. > :12:04.Delivering a ten month suspended sentence, the judge told Mr Morris
:12:05. > :12:07.that the only reason his offences came to light because the nearby
:12:08. > :12:11.woodland had become polluted as a result of the waste he allowed to be
:12:12. > :12:17.dumped on his land. Up until then, he said, he was getting away with it
:12:18. > :12:22.covering the waste with soil. The judge said he was appalled. Mr
:12:23. > :12:27.Morris will complete 300 hours of unpaid work. He could be forced to
:12:28. > :12:30.pay back much of the money he received for allowing further waste
:12:31. > :12:34.to be dumped under the proceeds of crime act. That'll resources Wales
:12:35. > :12:42.hope this prosecution may prevent others from breaking the law. --
:12:43. > :12:44.natural resources Wales. You're watching Wales Today, plenty
:12:45. > :12:47.still ahead. Cardiff's manager says sorry to fans
:12:48. > :12:50.for the recent turmoil at the club, and insists he was never asked to
:12:51. > :12:54.resign by owner Vincent Tan. And the small community's fight to
:12:55. > :12:58.stop their homes being lost under water half a century ago.
:12:59. > :13:04.The idea is to create a city region from the beaches of Pembrokeshire to
:13:05. > :13:08.the industrial heartland of Port Talbot. Today that vision, seen as a
:13:09. > :13:11.way of giving a boost to the economy, moved a step closer. Here's
:13:12. > :13:19.our Economics Correspondent, Sarah Dickins.
:13:20. > :13:25.Try the long and it might look like so many other new roads. -- drive
:13:26. > :13:28.along. It is the fourth in final stage around Port Talbot but it's
:13:29. > :13:34.hope it won't just be that travel but also make it easier for business
:13:35. > :13:37.to invest. In a nearby hotel, the people driving the idea of Swansea
:13:38. > :13:43.Bay city region are trying to get businesses involved and to convince
:13:44. > :13:47.them the whole area will benefit. It's not just the football the
:13:48. > :13:52.rugby. There is a reason to come here other than the national
:13:53. > :13:55.environment, because you can make money, you can do business, it is a
:13:56. > :14:01.great place to live and work and you can make money. As one as ideas, the
:14:02. > :14:06.whole city region concept is about practical change, physical change.
:14:07. > :14:12.This site is being developed for a new campus firth Swansea University.
:14:13. > :14:18.-- for Swansea University. It is about developing innovation. Along
:14:19. > :14:22.the coast, there is still some convincing to be done. To put
:14:23. > :14:27.sitting next to Pembrokeshire is wrong. It's one end of the stick,
:14:28. > :14:32.which is all about bourbon, and the other, which is all about a relaxed
:14:33. > :14:37.urban environment. I'm sorry, it's not appropriate. It would have a
:14:38. > :14:40.population of 700,000 people and it is argued that together the
:14:41. > :14:45.communities could achieve much more than working separately. And that
:14:46. > :14:49.they would also have a stronger voice bidding for European Union
:14:50. > :14:54.funds. There are lots of very lonely people out there in the rural areas
:14:55. > :14:58.that need transport to take them to various things because not every
:14:59. > :15:03.authority, not every town is going to be able to have all the
:15:04. > :15:08.facilities. There is a long journey ahead before the communities of
:15:09. > :15:12.South Wales actors one. Big companies are already firmly behind
:15:13. > :15:14.the project. It might be that smaller businesses might be harder
:15:15. > :15:17.to convince. A loan shark, who provided loans at
:15:18. > :15:20.an extortionate interest rate without a licence, has been given a
:15:21. > :15:23.ten month suspended prison sentence. Graeme Walker from Connah's Quay had
:15:24. > :15:25.already been jailed for selling sports memorabilia with fake
:15:26. > :15:30.signatures of Premier League footballers.
:15:31. > :15:33.Graeme Walker made his money from desperate people. He offered what a
:15:34. > :15:37.judge called astronomical interest rates on loans at an average of
:15:38. > :15:43.66,000% APR from shops like this one in Mold, now under new ownership.
:15:44. > :15:52.But he wasn't licensed to offer such loans, meaning his customers had no
:15:53. > :15:55.legal protection. Vulnerable people generally, typically living on
:15:56. > :16:01.benefits, single mothers with young children, nowhere else to go with
:16:02. > :16:04.the banks not entertaining any application for loans. That is the
:16:05. > :16:08.reality these days, desperate times, desperate measures. An earlier brush
:16:09. > :16:11.with the law came five years ago when Graeme Walker was jailed for 30
:16:12. > :16:14.months for fraud. He'd been selling football memorabilia from a shop in
:16:15. > :16:17.Chester which had fake signatures claiming to be those of Steven
:16:18. > :16:23.Gerrard and Wayne Rooney among others. With legitimate payday loan
:16:24. > :16:27.companies springing up online and in the high street and more traditional
:16:28. > :16:31.methods like banks and credit unions like this one, it might seem like
:16:32. > :16:34.it's never been easier to borrow money sensibly but there are those
:16:35. > :16:36.who don't have any other alternative. The North Wales Credit
:16:37. > :16:39.Union has 12,000 customers who prefer its local, community-based
:16:40. > :16:42.approach to money lending. Though it doesn't only help those on low
:16:43. > :16:46.incomes, staff say it's often the poorest people in society who find
:16:47. > :16:54.themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and vulnerable to unscrupulous
:16:55. > :16:58.lenders. Let's use the analogy of a drug addict. If somebody wants
:16:59. > :17:03.credit, they are giving them a Kwik-Fit 's, not solving the
:17:04. > :17:07.problem. -- giving them a quick fix. We need to look at education in
:17:08. > :17:10.schools, education of credits. Graeme Walker was given a ten-month
:17:11. > :17:14.jail sentence, suspended for 18 months and told to pay back the
:17:15. > :17:17.?8,000 profit he made as well as ?5,000 in costs. His victims have
:17:18. > :17:19.been praised for their bravery in coming forward.
:17:20. > :17:22.Tonight's sport and some clarity from the Cardiff City manager today,
:17:23. > :17:27.here's Claire. Good evening. Cardiff City Manager,
:17:28. > :17:30.Malky Mackay has spoken for the first time since the departure of
:17:31. > :17:35.his close ally and head of recruitment, Iain Moody. He took the
:17:36. > :17:38.opportunity to offer fans a sincere apology and stressed he was never
:17:39. > :17:51.asked to resign by owner Vincent Tan. After all the recent turmoil,
:17:52. > :17:54.Malky MacKay facing the media for the first time and keen to draw a
:17:55. > :18:00.line under the matter but not before clearly stating he wasn't asked to
:18:01. > :18:05.leave the club. Under no circumstances was I asked to resign.
:18:06. > :18:10.And at no time did I think of resigning. I want to protect my
:18:11. > :18:17.players. Going forward I want to talk about football. To replace Ian
:18:18. > :18:20.Moody with an unknown 23-year-old left Malky MacKay in a vulnerable
:18:21. > :18:26.position. He insisted Moody's departure was not down to an
:18:27. > :18:29.overspend. Many fans had been outraged by the crisis brought on by
:18:30. > :18:32.the club itself, feeling its repetition has been damaged. The
:18:33. > :18:38.manager today had a clear message for supporters. I'm very sorry to
:18:39. > :18:42.the fans for what they've been through over the last couple of
:18:43. > :18:46.weeks. It's been a difficult time for them, where their club has been
:18:47. > :18:52.put under the spotlight from non-footballing matters. I feel
:18:53. > :18:57.where they are coming from. Someone else having their say on matters is
:18:58. > :19:02.life president of the club and former owner speaking via a WebCam
:19:03. > :19:08.from Lebanon. He defended the owner Vincent Tan insisting the moderation
:19:09. > :19:11.hadn't interfered with team matters. When you interfere, you are meddling
:19:12. > :19:16.with something you're not supposed to be doing. How can someone like
:19:17. > :19:20.Vincent Tan, who owns the whole dam thing, be interfering with something
:19:21. > :19:29.that belongs to him? Cardiff are keen to put this behind them and
:19:30. > :19:34.it'd half trip to Arsenal tomorrow. Swansea City are home to Sunderland.
:19:35. > :19:39.Michael Laudrup is still without Ashley Williams. He has confirmed he
:19:40. > :19:45.will continue to rest him while he recovers from an ankle problem. This
:19:46. > :19:50.is a huge week for us. We have three home games in eight days. Two good
:19:51. > :19:56.results in the league, we will go to a or 13 points. That would mean a
:19:57. > :20:01.lot for us. And that confidence it gives us to win. Christian Jolley
:20:02. > :20:06.will be back in training next week. York are the visitors have his team.
:20:07. > :20:08.Wrexham are at home to Woking in the conference.
:20:09. > :20:12.And you can hear much more from Sam Hamman, Sport Wales is over on BBC
:20:13. > :20:15.Two Wales, straight after us, from 7pm.
:20:16. > :20:21.There's another fascinating weekend of European rugby ahead. The
:20:22. > :20:23.Scarlets led the way in round one, and tomorrow they host Racing Metro,
:20:24. > :20:27.who include Wales flanker Dan Lydiate in their side. The Ospreys
:20:28. > :20:30.desperately need something from their trip to Northampton on Sunday.
:20:31. > :20:35.And there's a big cross-border match in the Amlin, too, as the Dragons
:20:36. > :20:38.head to Bath. It's been a week of turmoil at the
:20:39. > :20:43.Blues, after their thrashing at Exeter. They sacked defence coach
:20:44. > :20:46.Rob Powell this week. Pontypridd chief Dale McIntosh is his
:20:47. > :20:49.replacement. The region face European Champions Toulon at the
:20:50. > :20:59.Arms Park tomorrow, a huge challenge after a week of stinging criticism.
:21:00. > :21:07.It was a difficult Monday morning, waking up. But we are professional
:21:08. > :21:10.players and we've got to take criticism on the chin. Sometimes
:21:11. > :21:14.that happens in sport, sometimes you do things you don't want to do in
:21:15. > :21:20.life, that's the way it happens. But we have been really good in the
:21:21. > :21:23.week, tough sessions, and it's been keeping us going.
:21:24. > :21:29.A massive game for them against the European champions. That's it from
:21:30. > :21:31.me, have a great weekend, Tomos. Thank you.
:21:32. > :21:35.50 years ago, a small rural community in Carmarthenshire found
:21:36. > :21:38.itself under threat. Swansea Water Corporation wanted to flood part of
:21:39. > :21:42.the Gwendraeth Valley to provide water for the city. Homes and
:21:43. > :21:50.livelihoods in Llangyndeyrn would've been lost forever. But, as Cemlyn
:21:51. > :21:53.Davies reports, there was no way the villagers were going to let that
:21:54. > :22:00.happen. In the centre of Llangyndeyrn, a stone monument
:22:01. > :22:04.stands tall and a proud, a symbol of the way this community stood up to
:22:05. > :22:08.the authorities half a century ago. There would have been an 80 foot
:22:09. > :22:13.down around us, right around, and in front of us, the file -- the whole
:22:14. > :22:16.valley would have been drowned. Huw Williams would have lost his home
:22:17. > :22:19.and livelihood had Swansea Water Corporation's plans gone ahead. But
:22:20. > :22:31.50 years on, Pantteg farm is still here. There was no weak link in the
:22:32. > :22:37.chain. We united. In unity we had strength. That is the secret of all
:22:38. > :22:40.of this. Yes, we all pull together. After a long legal battle, officials
:22:41. > :22:44.and engineers from the Swansea Corporation arrived in Llangyndeyrn
:22:45. > :22:48.on the 21st October 1963. But having been tipped off by a reporter, the
:22:49. > :22:51.villagers were ready for them and farmers had parked machinery behind
:22:52. > :23:01.chained gates to block access to their land. Well, they were taking
:23:02. > :23:08.our homes and livelihoods, and so forth. I personally and some of the
:23:09. > :23:14.others who had recently married and started farming, and so we had
:23:15. > :23:23.everything to fight for. Eventually the corporation admitted defeat. The
:23:24. > :23:27.people of Llangyndeyrn had one. In the meantime, of course, campaigners
:23:28. > :23:31.in North Wales were fighting a similar battle. That one would end
:23:32. > :23:34.very differently. Work on the Tryweryn dam near Bala was well
:23:35. > :23:37.under way in 1963 and, despite strong opposition, the village of
:23:38. > :23:49.Capel Celyn was flooded two years later. People are more acquainted
:23:50. > :23:53.with it. It received more attention. It became almost a national symbol
:23:54. > :24:04.for injustice to Welsh communities, and possibly, it fed into a sense of
:24:05. > :24:07.victimhood. There is more appetite for success stories in the next
:24:08. > :24:10.century. Over the next week, a series of events will be held in
:24:11. > :24:14.Llangyndeyrn to thank those who stood firm all those years ago to
:24:15. > :24:19.ensure the community is still here today.
:24:20. > :24:21.That was on the struggle to save Llangyndeyrn.
:24:22. > :24:23.Let's get the weather forecast for the weekend, Behnaz is here.
:24:24. > :24:28.Let's get the weather forecast for We've got a bit of everything in a
:24:29. > :24:33.forecast for this weekend. And it was rain, a little bit of sun, it is
:24:34. > :24:37.going to be windy at times, but plenty of dry weather as well. This
:24:38. > :24:43.evening, a cloudy night with some torrential downpours. Not for all of
:24:44. > :24:46.us but for many of us. This is the pressure chart showing the warm
:24:47. > :24:51.front that brought the rain through. Behind this, a cold front bringing
:24:52. > :24:56.some cloud and heavy downpours through this evening. It's not very
:24:57. > :25:02.pleasant especially in the north and west. Further south and east, it is
:25:03. > :25:07.patchy and it will intensify through the evening. On the plus side, we've
:25:08. > :25:13.got mild air sitting across us and temperatures not lower than 12 in
:25:14. > :25:20.the Brecon Beacons, 14 in Newport. Quite a breezy might as well. Strong
:25:21. > :25:23.to gale force winds. The pressure chart shows low pressure through
:25:24. > :25:28.tomorrow for the rest of the weekend and for the start of next week. With
:25:29. > :25:32.that, strong winds and also some showers. First thing tomorrow,
:25:33. > :25:39.strong winds coming in from the south. You will notice them. Showers
:25:40. > :25:44.by the afternoon. And they could be thundery. It will, some brightness
:25:45. > :25:52.in between those showers. Highs of 15-17. That breeze easing as we go
:25:53. > :25:57.into tomorrow afternoon and evening. The rain and showers ease off
:25:58. > :26:01.tomorrow night. Just a few scattered showers, and then overnight, they
:26:02. > :26:06.picked up again and we hang on to the cloud and it'll be another mild
:26:07. > :26:12.night with temperatures 12-14. We hang on to the breeze again into
:26:13. > :26:15.Sunday morning. Blustery showers to come on Sunday, equally some
:26:16. > :26:18.brightness in between. I'm hopeful that those showers will fizzle out
:26:19. > :26:23.by the afternoon and we will see more in the way of sunshine with
:26:24. > :26:30.highs of 40-16. Considering the average is 13, we're not doing too
:26:31. > :26:35.badly at all. It will feel pleasant in the sunshine. Monday morning, wet
:26:36. > :26:40.and windy conditions spelling up from the south, so another wet data
:26:41. > :26:49.come. It will clear through by Tuesday. Today's picture is a stormy
:26:50. > :26:52.scene taken in Pembrokeshire. Thank you very much for sending that in
:26:53. > :27:02.and we would love to see more of your pictures. Back to you.
:27:03. > :27:06.It's coming up to 7pm. The main news again. A coroner has ruled that
:27:07. > :27:11.neglect contributed to the deaths of five elderly residents at a care
:27:12. > :27:14.home in Sussex. She said there was institutionalised abuse throughout
:27:15. > :27:19.orchid few care home and nobody did anything about it. The Welsh
:27:20. > :27:24.government has wound up the regeneration investment fund
:27:25. > :27:28.designed to invest in town centres across the country because the
:27:29. > :27:30.taxpayer lost out when land was sold to private companies without an open
:27:31. > :27:37.tendering process. That's it for now. They will be more
:27:38. > :27:42.at 8pm and 10:25pm. Don't forget about our updates throughout the
:27:43. > :27:44.weekend, starting just after 1pm tomorrow afternoon. From all of us,
:27:45. > :27:46.goodbye for now.