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You're watching Wales Today. Our top story: He was the mayor of Denbigh. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Tonight, he's been jailed for 18 years for setting off explosions in | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
the town. If anybody had been walking past that main explosion in | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
maths -- March, they would have been killed. | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
Could Mike Phillips be on his way out of Bayonne? Reports in France | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
say he's facing the sack. Also tonight: The people committing | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
crimes and ending up in prison on purpose to jump the priority housing | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
list. A Welsh MP warns companies miss-sold | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
financial products by the banks are going bust as they wait for | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
compensation. And HS2 will deliver faster trains | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
but there's confusion whether Wales will get extra funding as a result. | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
Good evening. A judge said he subjected the people of Denbigh to a | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
"sustained campaign of deliberate terror". Tonight, the town's former | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
mayor has been jailed for 18 years for setting off a series of | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
explosions. Cars and buildings were peppered with shrapnel and residents | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
were kept awake through the night. John Larsen was told he could have | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
killed or seriously injured someone. Matthew Richards reports. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
Denbigh, 12:45am on the 24th of March this year. People living here | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
have already been terrorised by a series of night-time explosions over | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
the past month, some of which damaged cars and smashed windows. | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
And their peace is about to be shattered by the biggest blast yet, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
one which has earned its architect an 18 year prison sentence, | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
comparable with that of a terrorist or killer. Among those who reported | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
the explosions to police was John Larsen, the local town councillor. I | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
welcome the sentence. These were dangerous devices packed with | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
explosives and shrapnel. Had anybody been walking past that main | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
explosion in March, they would have been killed. He spoke to Wales Today | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
at the height of the campaign. We are terrified. We have got sheltered | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
accommodation around here and there are a lot of elderly people and | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
scared people. You don't know what's going to happen next. People can't | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
sleep. They are checking their cars out of the window all the time. But | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
he already knew more than anyone about the explosions. He was causing | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
them. The scorch marks have been covered up but it could be sometime | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
before the psychological of what happened here fades. The people here | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
were shocked and then devastated by the revelation of who was behind | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
them. John Larsen had been mayor of Denbigh in 1999 and now he | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
represented his ward on the community council and was a member | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
of the neighbourhood watch. Those who knew him never suspected he was | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
planting explosives. I was just amazed. I never put two and two | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
together that John had anything to do with it. When he was arrested, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
obviously I was amazed. It's claimed John Larsen was getting a thrill | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
from planting the explosives and the attention it was attracting. The | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
judge at Caernarfon Crown Court told him had he not been arrested, he | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
would have killed or caused someone very serious injury. Those subjected | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
to his sustained terror campaign can be reassured by his long sentence. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
BBC Wales has been told how some people may be committing minor | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
crimes in a bid to get "priority housing" when they're released from | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
prison. In Wales, all inmates are automatically put on a "priority | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
housing" list if they're homeless when released, regardless of how | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
long they spend behind bars. Now, the Housing Minister wants to change | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
the law. Jordan Davies has the story. | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
23-year-old Craig has spent time in prison in Gloucester and Cardiff for | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
assault, car theft and dangerous driving. With the help of friends | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
and family he now has a place to live and a full-time job. But like | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
many ex-prisoners, he is aware of the practice where people in | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
desperate situations commit my net crimes in a bid to jump the housing | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
queue. Repeat offenders usually offend so they can get on the | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
priority list. Seasonal offenders through the winter don't -- commit | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
offences to get a roof over their heads in prison. So if you can | :04:53. | :05:02. | |
demonstrate that you are homeless, you are put on a priority list? Yes. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
In 2001 the Welsh Government changed the law to allow homeless | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
ex-prisoners with friends or family in an area to access priority | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
housing in a bid to stop them reoffending. But the Welsh | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Government says this has not worked. Now it wants to change the law. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Recent figures show there is a larger proportion of ex-prisoners on | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
priority lists than people fleeing domestic violins, people with mental | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
illness or learning difficulty, and those leaving care for the Armed | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Forces. It now costs Welsh councils ?2 million a year to how is former | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
prisoners. When crime highlighted to us is shoplifting which often | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
doesn't end up in a custodial sentence. Knowing this, offenders | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
failed to turn up to court which is a more serious offence and often | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
does warrant prison time. There is no minimum on how long somebody has | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
to spend behind these walls so a person could be held on the mantle | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
week, the released and then a council has a duty to host them. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Should this policy be reviewed because they will be anger and great | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
concern amongst the public that local people who have been waiting | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
for a long time are being leapfrogged I people who've come out | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
of prison. The Welsh Government was to make the system fairer and harder | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
to abuse by introducing a stricter test for ex-prisoners. If you look | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
hard enough you'll find anything you wish to look for in terms of | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
loopholes in systems. They will be people like there that will have | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
committed a small crime to do that. The fact of the matter is, a person | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
in your local community has been waiting on the housing list and in | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
the current situation they are in the worst position than somebody was | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
just left prison. This kind of practice has had very little | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
scrutiny so it's hard to know how much is going on. Craig found his | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
feet after spending time behind bars but others are not as lucky. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Sometimes they resort to desperate and illegal measures to put a roof | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
over their heads. Health officials are again asking | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
parents to give their children two doses of the MMR vaccine, after | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
another rise in the number of cases of measles in South West Wales. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
There are now 13 cases linked to Cwmtawe School in Pontardawe, but a | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
suspected case with no apparent link to the school has also been reported | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
at a nursery in the Swansea area. We would plead for parents who have | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
still resisted all the offers that were made in the past for children | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to come forward to be vaccinated to not only consider their own | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
children's health but also to think of the children who for medical | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
reasons, for example following a bone marrow transplant, can be | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
vaccinated. -- cannot be vaccinated. Pupils at a comprehensive school in | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Carmarthenshire have been screened for tuberculosis after a member of | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
staff was diagnosed with the infection. 124 pupils were given a | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
blood test at Ysgol y Strade in Llanelli. Health officials say it's | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
unlikely the infection has spread to pupils. | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
The future of Wales rugby international Mike Phillips is in | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
doubt tonight after his French club suspended him indefinitely. Our | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter, is here. What do we know? | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Mike Phillips has been suspended indefinitely by his club Bayonne | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
where he's been playing for the past two seasons. He's been discplined | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
after turning up drunk to a video analysis session, after spending the | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
previous night celebrating a victory with team-mates. Two other Bayonne | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
players were hauled in by directors on similar charges, but they're now | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
back in the team for the club's next match tomorrow night. But the club | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
say Phillips won't be playing. He does of course have 'previous' in | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
this area. He was suspended by Bayonne last year for off-field | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
misconduct. And reports suggest tonight that Phillips will receive a | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
letter from the club on Saturday. Under French law, you can't legally | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
be considered sacked until 48 hours after notification and receipt of | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
written confirmation. So for now, he remains suspended, but we await | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
further developments. If this is the end of his time in Bayonne, how | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
might it affect his career and the Wales team? Well, Phillips is due to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
join up with the Wales team in ten days time for the Autrumn | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
internationals. Warren Gatland said earlier this week that events in | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
France wouldn't affect his participation in the Autumn games, | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
although he was planning to have an informal conversation with Phillips | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
to assess his state of mind. If he is forced to leave Bayonne, Phillips | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
will be looking for a new club. With the current salary caps in Welsh | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
rugby, and the current uncertainty about Europe, it's not clear whether | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
any of the Welsh regions could afford to take him on at the moment. | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
Stay with us. Later, we're in Dublin for the latest on the uncertainty | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
surrounding the future of European rugby. What we're talking here is | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
less about sport and more about and money. Below the international tier, | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
who runs European rugby? Welsh business owners have been | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
protesting in Westminster, claiming many are going-bust while they wait | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
for banks to compensate them for miss-sold products. On the day the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
issue was raised in Parliament by one Welsh MP, India Pollock has been | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
speaking to one family who have lost everything. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Three years ago, Jacqui Bartels and her husband, Adrian, owned this | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
20-bed hotel in Carmarthenshire. It's a far cry from their living | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
arrangements today - sleeping on airbeds in her mother's lounge. The | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
business was a successful one. At its peak, they were organising | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
around 100 weddings a year. But they lost their home and business after | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
their local bank mis-sold them a financial product when they took out | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
a loan. Like many businesses, Jacqui thought she was simply fixing the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
loan repayment rate. But when she signed up to the Interest Rate Swap | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Agreement, she didn't know the impact it would have on their lives. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Adrian had a serious heart attack. Our youngest daughter was ten at the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
time and because of the shock of his heart attack, she got what they call | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
reactive arthritis. When a child gets stressed it can attack, so she | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
got it from her hips down. She was seriously ill for around 18 months. | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
She's lost a lot of schooling and education. Adrian's father then had | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
a heart attack and my mum ended up in hospital due to stress and | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
sickness. So it had a detrimental affect right through the family. | :11:57. | :12:08. | |
These products worse -- work well for many businesses but this family | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
did not have the product explained to them. The Bartels are not alone. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Thousands of businesses signed up to the swap agreements. If interest | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
rates went up, the swaps would protect them from higher charges. | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
What the banks didn't explain was that if interest rates went down the | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
businesses had to compensate the banks, sometimes to the tune of | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds. Martin Barclay used to sell the | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
products. He has acted as with this in many cases and says Wales was | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
targeted. It was seen as a land of opportunity. They were high levels | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
of deaths and Wang managers were put under duress to introduce them to | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
the investment bank to sell these products. Business owners have been | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
protesting outside the House of Commons today, where the issue is | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
being debated. The Financial Conduct Authority is running a scheme to | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
make banks compensate those who've lost out, but so far only 32 of the | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
40,000 businesses affected in the UK have been paid. If we found that 93% | :13:04. | :13:15. | |
of mortgages had been mis-sold, we have allowed the situation in which | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
there has been nine months between those findings and the situation we | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
now face. The Financial Conduct Authority says that it hopes most | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
cases will be reviewed by the end of the year. But for Jacqui and Adrian, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
the damage has already been done. Will Wales be better-off thanks to | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
extra funding from the UK Government off-the-back of the High Speed two | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
rail project in England? It depends who you listen to. The Finance | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Minister Jane Hutt has insisted Wales is getting an extra ?35 | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
million pounds as a result but the Treasury says Wales won't be getting | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
any extra cash. We'll be live in Westminster in a moment. First, | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
here's our Political Editor, Nick Servini. | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
It is the biggest investment in the British rail network in a | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
generation. Costing an estimated ?40 billion. If high-speed two is given | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
the go-ahead, journey times between London and cities in the north of | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
England will be cut dramatically. Wales usually gets a share of the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
value of projects which affect England using the Barnett Formula | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
but that does not always apply. It did not with the Olympics because it | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
was felt to be a UK wide benefit anyway. The Treasury has always | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
insisted it will be the same with HS2. Until now it seems. The current | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
row revolves around spending for 2015, the finance minister insists | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
the Welsh Government will get around 35mm is extra as a result of HS2. | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
The Treasury insists that is not the case. The complex system of money | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
coming from Westminster the Cardiff has led to calls for it to be | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
changed. We do need reform. We have always said we need reform but the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
main thing is that we need more leaders on our finance in Wales so | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
we can boost the economy and the construction sector. This | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
demonstrates how difficult it is without that kind of reform. HS2 is | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
not coming to stations like this in Cardiff but its impact could be | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
felt. The importance of this is the president it could set. If Wales | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
does get a share of the overall spend on the HS2 project in England | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
it could amount to hundreds of millions of pounds and much of that | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
money could be spent on the transport infrastructure in Wales. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
There is a general sense of unhappiness in Cardiff that Wales is | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
not getting a fair share roughly handled from the UK government but | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
there is a feeling on the other side that Wales is complaining. This is | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
not a healthy relationship but the moment. This row was another example | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
of vocation of that. Whatever side of the track the reality is, there | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
are plenty of variables here including the big one, that HS2 is | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
so controversial it a not be given the go ahead anyway. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Our parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, is at Westminster. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
David, the Welsh Government and the Treasury are contradicting each | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
other .They can't both be right. No but they do agree on one thing, the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
former that was used to calculate the extra spending that has ended up | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
in the Welsh Government's budget. But the Treasury here is adamant and | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
says HS2 was excluded before that former was applied, giving the many | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
to Wales. It says the extra money was going to Wales not as a result | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
of spending on trains and infrastructure and railways, but as | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
a result of extra spending on road projects in England. The Welsh | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
Government looks at the figures and says, hang on, there is many here we | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
weren't expecting. This can only have come because of the extra | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
spending on HS2. The bottom line is having spent the last three is | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
complaining about being short-changed by the coalition here, | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
that the first time the Welsh Government now has a little bit more | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
money in one area than it was expecting. And when will we know for | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
sure about this many? It is a hugely controversial project and it's going | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
to take a long time to be sorted out. We know the spending plans | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
until 2015 but we don't know what will happen after the general | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
election then. We know that HS2 will take a long time to build. It will | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
be ten or more years before trains actually running on those new | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
high-speed rail lines. So there will be a lot of financial negotiations | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
and new formulas applied before then. It will be a long and slow | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
journey. But the stakes in terms of hundreds of millions of pounds or | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
more are huge. The National Eisteddfod should not | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
be based on a permanent site. That's the main conclusion from a report | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
presented to the Welsh Government. It does however say more public | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
money should be given to the week-long festival, as Nick Palit | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
reports. The National Eisteddfod is Wales' | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
leading annual festival. Organisers describe it as an eclectic mix of | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
the traditional and the modern. A celebration of Wales, its culture | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
and its language. It attracts up to 160,000 visitors over an eight day | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
period. Staged every year during the first week of August, this year it | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
was held in Denbigh. Next year, it will visit Llanelli. But whether it | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
should keep moving, or have a permanent base, has been one of the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
areas examined by a group tasked to modernise the festival. Chaired by | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
broadcaster Roy Noble, today they announced there would be no change. | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
When the nationally stepped vodka goes to assert nearly, it brings | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
colour, excitement and a profile of that particularly. Everyone we | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
talked to was of the same mind. They were all glad of the experience. The | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
group did however decide they needed to appoint a creative director to | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
make the visitor experience even better. They also called on the | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Welsh Government to increase its financial support. Times are tough | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
financially but clearly if we are able to see these recommendations | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
being taken forward, there might be an opportunity to look at providing | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
more resources for the Eisteddfod. The group also recommended a | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
marketing strategy to increase visitor numbers, and attract more | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
volunteers in the areas they visit. They also want closer collaboration | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
with the Youth Urdd Eisteddfod. The new radio listening figures show | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
that 474,000 people are tuning into BBC Radio Wales every week. That's | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
24,000 more than this time last year, according to the RAJAR survey, | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
but 25,000 down on the previous three months. BBC Radio Cymru is | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
maintaining its level of listeners. Radio 2 is still the most | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
listened-to station in Wales. A gala opening concert officially | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
welcomed WOMEX to Wales last night. The world music expo will feature | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
four days of concerts and trade meetings in Cardiff. The singer | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Cerys Matthews curated last night's concert, which featured traditional | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Welsh songs, a male voice choir and folk dancers. | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
The saga over the future of European rugby goes on. Ashleigh's here with | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
more. Yes. The WRU, as well as the other | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
five nation's governing bodies, have agreed to change the structure of | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
European club rugby. After meetings in Dublin, a change in revenue | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
distribution was also agreed. The top English and French clubs, who | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
have proposed a breakaway tournament, which has been backed by | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
the four Welsh regions, were not present at the meetings. From | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
Dublin, here's Roger Pinney. Dublin, capital of Ireland and home | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
to so much Heineken Cup success but over the last two days it's been the | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
centre of intrigue. They have been thrashing out the future of European | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
rugby. Behind closed doors, meetings in what used to be called | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
smoke-filled rooms, that's the stuff of rugby politics these days. But | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
what we're talking here is less sport and more about power and | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
money. In the tier below the International 's, who runs European | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
rugby? This afternoon, not so much a deal but the proposal emerged and it | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
appears to go a long way towards answering the concerns of English | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
and French clubs who have touted a new breakaway competition. Club | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
tournaments are proposed. They will be to have a qualification. Each | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
tournament will be made from each of the mission French leagues and seven | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
from the pro 12. The 20th slot will be filled by a play-off. One place | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
will be guaranteed to each country and many will be divided equally | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
between the English, French and pro 12 leagues. But that is no mention | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
of who would run the tournament or of TV deals. Both potential sticking | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
points. In Ireland as in Wales fans want this sorted. Our guys are going | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
to get to Moller eyes if they are only playing that standard of rugby. | :22:23. | :22:32. | |
-- get the moral life. I hope it is sorted out for rugby's sake. In | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
Wales the uncertainty over European competition has impacted on top | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
layers like Sam Warburton and Leigh Halfpenny. Signing autographs the | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
other night but unable to sign new deals with the regions. They are | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
both out of contract at the end of the season. Now the Welsh Rugby | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Union has offered but players on temporary centralised contracts, | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
paying the bills to keep leading players in Wales. I think that | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
showing unity in a position where that is so much uncertainty is a | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
good thing and for me they have to make a stand on this layered train | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
from Wales. But the regions have yet to agree to the offer and they might | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
not be entirely comfortable with it. So today new offers on the table | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
in Wales and renewed up but nothing signed yet. | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
Swansea City are in Europa League action later. They take on Russian | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
side Kuban Kraznodar at the Liberty Stadium. They'll be without | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
defenders Ashley Williams and Ben Davies, who are injured. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
There's disappointment for two of our best known Paralympic athletes. | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
The Great Britain Sledge Hockey team has failed to qualify for the Winter | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Paralympics in Russia next year. Nathan Stephens, who found fame with | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
the javelin, and three time Paralympic sailor Stephen Thomas, | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
were part of the team who suffered their third successive qualification | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
defeat in Turin last night. Tomorrow night we will be looking | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
ahead to the Rugby league World Cup which begins in Cardiff on Saturday. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Thanks, Ashleigh. On tomorrow night's programme, we'll be speaking | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
to the actor James Corden, who's playing the part of Welsh classical | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
singer Paul Potts in a new film about his life. It's six years since | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
the singer from Port Talbot won 'Britain's Got Talent'. The film, | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
called 'One Chance', tells the story of his route to stardom. Originally, | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
I said I would like to give it a shot and I might be able to sing | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
this. I had ten or 11 lessons and some of our producers heard me sing | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
and listen to half the song and said, no, I don't think you should | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
sing. The weather now. A pretty pleasant | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
day today but it's all change tonight. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
It is all downhill from this evening and over the next few days little | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
sign of any sunshine. That is a yellow warning in place this evening | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
for heavy rain. We could see a few problems with surface flooding first | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
thing tomorrow. The rain is patchy in nature but it will intensify as | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
it moved further north and eastwards. But it is mild with | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
temperatures in double figures. First thing tomorrow, it is not very | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
pleasant. We have got strong winds and the rain but the wind will help | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
to push through that ring pretty quickly and by the afternoon we hang | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
on to the wind but it is a case of showers and those showers will merge | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
into longer spells of rain by the end of the afternoon. There will be | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
limited amounts of brightness and temperatures not too bad for this | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
time of year. Tomorrow evening the showers will become fewer and | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
farther -- few and far between. Overnight the showers will merge it | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
again into longer spells of rain but we have that milder air over us. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
Temperatures remaining in double figures. As we going to Saturday | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
morning, a blustery morning with some showers but by the afternoon we | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
will see more organised rain making its way in from the West. The | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
afternoon is looking wet and windy. The south-east corner might get away | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
with drier conditions at first but the rain will reach you as we go | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
through the day. Temperatures on the cooler side as well. Sunday night we | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
are looking at this area of low pressure which is going to bring | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
with it some stormy weather on Sunday night into Monday morning. We | :26:43. | :26:50. | |
could see gusts of up to 80 mph. For the weekend, blustery showers on | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Saturday with rain later in the day and blustery showers on Sunday with | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
some sort -- stormy conditions to calm as we go into Monday morning. | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
A reminder of tonight's main stories: A former mayor has been | :27:06. | :27:17. | |
jailed for 18 years for setting off a series of explosions in Denbigh. | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
Cars and buildings were peppered with shrapnel. John Larsen was told | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
he could have killed or seriously injured someone. | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
The future of Mike Phillips is in doubt tonight after his French club | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Bayonne suspended him indefinitely. Reports in France say he is facing | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
the sack. I'll have an update for you at | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
8:00pm and there's more from the Wales Today newsroom at 10:25pm | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
tonight. From all of us here, have a good evening. | :27:44. | :27:45. |