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pretty soggy. Thank you. That is all from the BBC. We | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Patients react furiously as the First Minister defends Hywel Dda | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Health Board's decision to postpone some winter operations. What is | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
happening is discrimination against people who live in West Wales. I | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
would say to the people in the rest of Wales at the same position as me, | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
watch out because this could be happening to you soon. | :00:30. | :00:42. | |
Our other headlines tonight - Former soldiers struggling with their | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
mental health are being put at risk from a therapy used by a Welsh | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
charity. They've protested about fracking | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
here but could a dash for gas really cut your energy bill? | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
A major health scare for captain of Cardiff Blues, Matthew Rees. Out of | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
the game for months. The forgotten Welsh scientist who | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
proposed the theory of evolution. It's not Charles Darwin. | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
Good evening. The First Minister has defended a health board's plans to | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
halt non-urgent orthopaedic operations over the winter. Carwyn | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Jones said it's sensible for Hywel Dda Health Board to plan for | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
increasing emergency demand. Opposition parties have accused the | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Welsh Government of being detached from reality and insisted patients | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
would be forced to wait longer in pain. Here's our Health | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
correspondent Owain Clarke. He is often in agony. For this man | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
just getting around the house is a challenge and where he is afraid his | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
hip will give away. He is waiting for operations have it replaced. He | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
was told today he will not get a final date any time soon. It's | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
because, he says, the decision by the health not to take on emergency | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
-- nonurgent orthopaedic operations over the winter. There is a lot of | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
plain, pain. Nobody is disappointed, seriously | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
disappointed, if the operation is cancelled because of emergencies but | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
to completely stand down all the surgical teams who do elective | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
surgery for six months, seems to me to be a dramatic oversimplification | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
of a problem. He uncertain where it leaves him but what about others? | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
The health board asks a series of specific questions about how many | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
patients will be affected. What with the likely effect on waiting times? | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Light-coloured hospitals open more beds? -- why can't hospitals open | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
more beds? It said it needed to play the operating theatres. It said it | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
spent ?6 million employing temporary staff last year to treat temporary | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
patents. This afternoon, the opposition parties were looking for | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
answers. People are stuck on waiting list in pain. When can the people of | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Wales expect to see you take responsibility? How many elective | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
operations are you assuming will have to be cancelled to make space | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
for winter pressures? How can you be so flip and in the face of such | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
proposals as for five months one of our major health boards will not be | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
undertaking such procedures? He is setting out to be disingenuous or he | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
has not listened to the answer I gave three times. I will say it | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
again. Hywel Dda health board is not cancelling all non-urgent elective | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
orthopaedic surgery, it is reducing the amount of work to better manage | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
the capacity over winter which is what his party has been calling for. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
There will also cause this afternoon for the Welsh Government to publish | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
the winter plans of other health boards. We contacted them all as | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
skiing how would they cope this winter. Cardiff and Vale told that | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
it plans to increase the number beds available. Swansea Bro Morgannwg | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
said they would do this. Nadine Bevan will recruit more staff and | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
another said it will work with ambulance services to make sure they | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
are not overstretched. Betsi Cadwaladr health board says why | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
little work with councils and ambulance services it will | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
concentrate on emergency care. Meanwhile, however health board said | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
its aim is to minimise the distress caused to patients by cancelling | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
operations as short notice. The First Minister said that a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
sensible. Philip Jones was watching. I find this amazing that he would so | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
lively -- but I usually back them. What is discrimination about -- | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
against people who live in West Wales. I would save to the people in | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
the rest of Wales will in the same position as me, watch out. What is | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
clear from all of this is managers at all of our health board don't | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
think they will be able to maintain the normal level of non-indigent | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
care this winter. What patients who faced living in pain for Monger is | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
asking, why not. Bash for longer. Let's talk to our political editor | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
Nick Servini. It has dominated First Minister 's | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
questions since summer. It is dominating the debate since the | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
start of devolution. Particularly dominated First Minister 's | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
questions for the first time, all three opposition leaders putting | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
together a sustained attack against the Welsh Government over this | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
decision by Hywel Dda. The attacks were variations along the seam of | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the Welsh Government was out of touch with what is going on. There | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
was bad-tempered debates about the word, cancelled. First Minister | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
pointed out no scheduled operations are being cancelled by the board. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
But the reality is, as a result, there will be few worth nonemergency | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
operations during the course of the winter. Politically, as a result, | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
they will have to deal with people that all have to wait longer for | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
things like hip replacement treatment in West Wales. Did we get | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
on idea today of how well prepared the Welsh NHS is for winter? | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
Preparations have been going on for months. But Carwyn Jones admitted | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
the only found out about this decision by Hywel Dda light | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
yesterday. The significance of what has been announced is whereas in the | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
past hospitals have told this and the certain conditions in the winter | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
they may struggle to cope, here we have a plan that has been set out | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
which is an admission that under the current system and less different | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
arrangements are made this health board will struggle to cope this | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
winter. Veterans struggling to overcome | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
mental health issues, including post traumatic stress disorder are being | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
put at risk by a form of therapy used by a Welsh charity. That's the | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
finding of an undercover investigation by BBC Wales. It | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
reveals how the NHS has asked the Porthcawl based charity, Healing the | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Wounds, to stop the form of treatment called NLP. Tim Rogers | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
reports. For those who were there, the memory | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
of four is never forgotten and sometimes Coleridge comes at a | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
price. For men like this Welsh veteran, the consequent can be | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
post-traumatic stress disorder. She and others have turned for help to a | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Welsh charity called Everything Everything. The man who does not | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
want to be identified says the treatment he was offered left him | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
feeling suicidal. I did two whole days and on the third day I left. My | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
wife at the time came to collect me. It was such a relief. I was left | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
feeling worse than the four I started attending Healing the | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
Wounds. Healing the Wounds offers therapy called NLP. The aim of which | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
is to change patterns of mental and emotional behaviour. In ten nights | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
Week In Week Out, we asked a veteran to go undercover to investigate the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
treatment. Here, he is being cancelled by Caryl Richards, a | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
founder of Healing the Wounds who's a practitioner of NLP. In this | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
sequence she tells them how quickly the treatment can work. 20 minutes. | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
It was a guy who served in the regulars. He saw most of his | :09:23. | :09:36. | |
battalion wiped out. He did not need much at all. One of Britain's | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
leading psychiatrists tells the programme that the treatment that is | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
being offered is not appropriate. If this group, who are not medically | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
qualified and don't know a person's treatment history, that could cause | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
some real problems. It could be dangerous. The use of NLP is not | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
regulated and now that our cause for this to be tightened up. Because | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
that is no regulation, anybody can set up as an NLP practitioner. The | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
quality of their work is not monitored by anybody. That obviously | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
puts potential risks out in the field. What we need is some proper | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
arrangements for the oversight of the quality of the work that is | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
being done by any charity that is giving some support to veterans. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Healing the Wounds said it is collecting data to prove its | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
treatment is effective. It has helped more than one handed veterans | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
including 13 who asked them for help after exhausting other support from | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
the NHS. Ash 100 veterans. You can see more on this story on | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Week in Week Out here on BBC One Wales at 10:35pm tonight. | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
Health bosses have launched legal proceedings to move a group of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
French travellers from a car park at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
NHS officials had written to them asking them to take away the 13 | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
caravans by four o'clock this afternoon but the travellers who are | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
occupying around 65 spaces, remain there tonight. It's believed they | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
could move on tomorrow. On Gower, work has been carried out | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
to prevent people living in Oxwich from being cut off following the bad | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
weather. Sand from the beach had blocked a river which was | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
threatening to flood the main road leading to the village. Six flood | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
alerts remain in place across Wales this evening. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
The Ministry of Justice has been fined ?140,000 after personal | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
details of more than a thousand inmates at Cardiff prison were | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
emailed by mistake to the families of three prisoners. The error was | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
discovered when one of the families contacted the prison. They should | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
have been adequate supervision in place. I understand that the | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
processes were there, we weren't necessarily followed. Was no audit | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
trail of what was this member of staff had and what supervision she | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
did have. There were processes that that it seems they were not | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
followed. Its supporters say it could cut | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
bills and help keep the lights on. But today MPs have been told that | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
fracking, which involves extracting gas from shale rocks underground, | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
may not mean a cut in the cost of energy after all. An expert has told | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
the Welsh Affairs Committee that even if the technique can be used in | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Wales it would only have a marginal impact on bills. David Cornock's at | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Westminster for us. What exactly were the MPs told? | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Among those supporters of fracking, the Prime Minister. David Cameron | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
very keen on the technique and wants to see it expanded across the UK. | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
Very early days but it is very controversial. We have seen protests | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
at the Senedd, fears about earthquakes or contamination of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
water. That is part of the water MPs on the Welsh affairs committee have | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
launched an enquiry into its possibilities in Wales. They have | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
been looking at the economic arguments, talking to experts such | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
as a professor from the Tyndall Centre for climate change. His | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
argument that if ministers technique work, the technique might not mean | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
that girls do actually come down. -- that Bill is actually come down. The | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
only person who has said the bills will come down is our Prime | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Minister. Part of the European gas network, it might make some small | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
margin change to the Butler is no suggestion shale gas will | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
significantly reduce hills. Welsh Government has been criticised on | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
this approach to fracking. Very strong criticism from friends of the | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Earth. Their argument is that the Welsh Government needs to be better | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
prepared for when the planning applications comment to exploit this | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
technology. Friends of the Earth says they have been negligent on | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
this. The Welsh Government says the regulatory regime rests here with | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
the UK Government and not in Cardiff Bay. | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
Much more to come before seven o'clock. He proposed the theory of | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
evolution but this is not Charles Darwin. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
And there's more heavy rain on the way and risk of flooding in places. | :14:34. | :14:45. | |
Stay tuned for a full forecast. Some of the contracts are worth over | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
?200,000, so why are some Welsh businesses feeling left out when it | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
comes to bidding for certain Welsh Government contracts? Our business | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
correspondent, Brian Meechan, is here. What's the cause of this | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
frustration? Welsh research companies bid for the | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
Welsh Government in order to get contracts to evaluate their | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
policies. What we now know from Freedom of information request | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
released a Plaid Cymru is the vast majority of those companies have not | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
been able to read the thing of being prevented from bidding in certain | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
cases, albeit in a small number of cases. But they are certain pieces | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
of research. For example, the Welsh language, on the Welsh Government | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
's's flagship jobs programme and an initiative that the Welsh Government | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
was running to try to get public bodies to buy from Welsh companies. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
The reason why they have been locked down of these contracts is because | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
the was government decided to use a UK Government method and it is only | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
one Welsh company that was listed will be able to access that method | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
in order to do their bidding. What is the Welsh Government saying? It | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
says it is a small number of contracts that are involved and the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
contracts that were used provided good value for money. They say was | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
companies and organisations were said contracted to do a lot of this | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
work. The critics are arguing if these companies were subcontracted, | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
they could have do the work in the first place and kept the full fee. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
The Federation of Small Businessesd as saying this is an example of how | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
public contracts are badly held -- handled sometimes. The government | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
spends money through small businesses will stop it is important | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
that value is felt in the communities those companies are | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
based. It is a simple equation. It is a matter how big the contract | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
is, it can have an impact on small, local businesses. The critics are | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
not arguing for preferential treatment, that'll be against EU | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
rules. They are saying was companies should be unlevel playing field. -- | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
should be on a level playing field. 35 rugby players are celebrating | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
their inclusion in the Wales squad for next month's autumn | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
internationals. But one man who was expected to be there, faces a very | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
different challenge over the coming weeks. Our sports reporter Ashleigh | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
is at the Wales Rugby HQ in the Vale of Glamorgan. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
We are at an event tonight where hundreds of Welsh rugby fans who've | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
recently bought a Wales rugby shirt at getting the chance to pick it up | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
from the start of the Wales team in person. The likes of Sam Warburton | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
and Leigh Halfpenny are colleagues for club and country. They play with | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Matthew Rees who is away from the game who told he needs text the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
killer surgery. He would have been in the Wales squad. -- testicular | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
surgery. It'll be the first time Warren Gatland has called the squad | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
together since the Lions squad. Jamie Roberts and Alex Cuthbert are | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
both injured. Others have forced their way in. Especially the three | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
uncapped players, Rhodri Williams, Corey Allen and ospreys wing, Eli | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
Walker. Rhys Patchell has also -- is also retained. The returning Rhys | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Priestland is expected to battle it out with Dan Biggar for the | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
non-detention against South Africa. I think we have a settled squad. We | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
have youngsters. We have picked the largest squad. We are trying to put | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
out very strong side against South Africa and Australia and Argentina | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
and perhaps give one or two of those least experienced players an | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
opportunity in the Tonga game. James Hook will provide cover but that is | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
no place for another France -based player, Lee Byrne, who said he was | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
addicted to be overlooked. He added that in his view, the squad had been | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
picked on blood that were being players for the world cup. But | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
today's news about Matthew Rees put everything into perspective. The | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Cardiff Blues skipper faces an enforced break from the game after a | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
testicular surgery. His club and country said they hoped he would be | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
back on a rugby pitch very soon. We persuaded Wales captain somewhat | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
button to take a few minutes away from talking to the fans and having | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
his photo taken to talk to us. -- Sam Warburton. A few words on | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Matthew Rees, it must've been a sharp to all of you. We only found | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
out this morning. We wish him all the best and it'll be a tough time | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
for him. What we have heard it he is going to have some surgery and hope | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
things to return to the game in six weeks. We wish him all the best. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
With the likes of Matthew being away, you can count on plenty of | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
experience in your squad. You have 13 Lions. How much confidence has | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
what happened in Australia over the summer given new? It'll have a | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
positive effect. The last six times we played costs -- Australia, they | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
have been split the close. I think this year is going to be the year | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
for us. To be on the winning side against Australia would be massive | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
for us. It is the most eagerly anticipated match of the autumn | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
series. But you are missing Jamie Roberts. If anybody has seen Scott | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
Williams play lately, he has been on fire, he is brilliant. We have got | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
plenty of experience to fall upon. Losing Alex Cuthbert is | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
disappointing. When you look at the back three players we have selected | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
anyway, that is a lot of talent there. We are fortunate to have | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
great players behind them. All the best for the autumn internationals. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
You can watch all the games on the BBC. One final word tonight, Warren | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Gatland paid tribute to Stuart Williams, the Pontypridd prop who | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
died at the age of 33. All of the Wales squad sent their condolences | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
and their players and best wishes to his family. Very sad news. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
When the theory of evolution was published in 1858 it rocked the | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
scientific establishment. It suggested that humans evolved from | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
apes and that in nature, it was survival of the fittest. The idea | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
was proposed by two men, Charles Darwin, who became a household name, | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
and a Welshman, Alfred Russel Wallace, who has been largely | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
forgotten. Now it's hoped a series of events throughout the UK marking | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
the centenary of Wallace's death, will rebuild his reputation. Carwyn | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Jones reports His theories changed how we understand the natural world | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
and ourselves. Born in Usk in 1823, Alfred Russel | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Wallace was an outsider without wealth or connections who became a | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
globe trotting naturalist. It was during these far flung expeditions | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
that he conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection. | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
By chance, Charles Darwin was developing a theory of his own | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
although Wallace was very much his own man. He was working on the same | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
things as Charles Darwin at the same time. All the evidence points to the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
fact he sorted this thing out at the same time and it was an independent | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
observation. This year marks the centenary of | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Wallace's death, and here at Swansea Museum an exhibition of his life and | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
work reveals an obsession with the natural world. He discovered 5,000 | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
new species, 200 of which still bear his name, like the Wallace flying | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
frog. When he and Charles Darwin jointly announced to the world their | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
theory of evolution in 1858, it was known as the Darwin-Wallace theory. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
But it's now Darwin's name and achievements that are remembered, | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
while Wallace has been largely forgotten. This leading academic | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
believes that although Darwin was a more prolific and productive writer, | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
the two men were viewed very differently by Victorian Britain. | :23:33. | :23:42. | |
They came from different class and Darwin was a well-established | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
reddish sized gentleman connected to everyone and Wallace was just | :23:48. | :23:48. | |
Wallace. But there are signs that Wallace is | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
finally being seen as the missing link in the story of evolution. This | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
theatre group is dramatising the scientist's life, and they'll be | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
touring their production across the country and overseas, where Wallace | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
is held in far higher regard. The recognition of his talent, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
ironically, is there globally. We don't have it in the UK in the same | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
way. There is a tremendous risk act for him in Brazil. We will be | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
tooling Singapore in November. They idolise the man. This exhibition is | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
one of the series of events taking part throughout the UK to mark the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
centenary of Wallace's death. It seems this was high and ears finally | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
getting the recognition he deserves. A new bridge across Rhyl harbour has | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
been officially opened today. Hundreds of people turned up to | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
watch the event. The bridge, which lights up at night, has been named | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Pont y Ddraig after a competition involving schoolchildren in the | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
area. It's hoped it'll regenerate the area. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Over now to Derek for the weather forecast. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
We've had more than our fare share of rain recently. There is more to | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
come this week but I can promise some dry weather as well. As far as | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
heavy rain is concerned there is a yellow warning in force for southern | :25:16. | :25:17. | |
counties tonight until 6am tomorrow. And another warning for Friday. Some | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
rivers are swollen with six flood alerts currently in force. Tonight, | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
further rain and showers will spread across the country. Heavy downpours | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
in places with thunder, squally winds and localised flooding. | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Another mild night. Temperatures not falling below 12 to 14 Celsius. The | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
reason for all the rain is low pressure. A wet start for some of | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
us. Showers or longer spells of rain. Heavy in places. Some strong | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
and gusty winds as well. The southwest drier bar the odd shower. | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
During the day, the weather will improve. Still a few lighter showers | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
in the north but generally becoming dry and brighter with some sunshine. | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
The wind easing and feeling a little cooler. Top temperatures 12 to 15 | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Celsius with a west to south-westerly breeze. In the Vale | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
of Clwyd tomorrow, showers in the morning, better in the afternoon. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Breezy with a high of 13 in Rhuddlan. Tomorrow night much of the | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
country dry. A clear, calmer and chilly night too. Some ground frost | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
in the north. Thursday the best day of the week. Morning and fog patches | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
will lift. Most of the day dry and bright but more rain and freshening | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
winds are expected by the end of the day. On Friday a wet start with a | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
risk of flooding in places. The heavy rain will clear northwards | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
followed by heavy, thundery showers. As for the weekend, drier on | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Saturday apart from a few showers. More rain later. Sunday windy with | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
sunshine and blustery showers. Our picture tonight is from Mark Hughes. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
A rainbow on Great Orme. Thanks. More rain and heavy showers tonight | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
into tomorrow morning but improving with some sunshine. | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
Tonight headlines. The former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Major has called for a one-off tax on the profits of the big energy | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
companies. Tonight at the headlines, the First Minister has defended | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
whole of our health board's plans to hold non-urgent orthopaedic | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
operations of a cope with emergency demand. Opposition parties have said | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
patients will be forced to wait longer in pain. . | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
I'll have an update for you here at eight o'clock and after the BBC News | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
at Ten. Good evening. | :27:43. | :27:44. |