:00:00. > :00:00.from the west That is
:00:00. > :00:09.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines.
:00:10. > :00:12.More than 200 potential victims come forward as part of the investigation
:00:13. > :00:20.into historical child abuse in North Wales. Those individuals who have
:00:21. > :00:24.been through this and who have either not had their voices
:00:25. > :00:29.concerned or only now as adults feel they can release those concerns,
:00:30. > :00:30.have had to go through a lifetime of anguish and guilt about what has
:00:31. > :00:51.happened to them. Anglesey councillors tonight back a
:00:52. > :00:53.major new leisure and housing development.
:00:54. > :01:01.A major fire at a recycling plant, 45 fire-fighters were drafted in to
:01:02. > :01:05.bring it under control. They have not met a cancer target is 2008.
:01:06. > :01:08.Have not met in accident and emergency card -- target since
:01:09. > :01:16.2009. Tonight, fire crews are still
:01:17. > :01:19.working to make the area safe. The Prime Minister's stinging attack
:01:20. > :01:21.on Labour's record on health in Wales. The Labour leader says he
:01:22. > :01:25.doesn't know the facts. And offering vulnerable children a
:01:26. > :01:27.new home. Why there's a shortage of parents ready to adopt.
:01:28. > :01:29.Good evening. More than 200 potential victims have made
:01:30. > :01:32.allegations of historical abuse relating to children's homes across
:01:33. > :01:35.North Wales. The National Crime Agency, which launched Operation
:01:36. > :01:39.Pallial a year ago, says 100 alleged offenders have been named. 14 people
:01:40. > :01:45.have been arrested. Matthew Richards is at North Wales Police
:01:46. > :01:50.Headquarters. Thanks. It was Mark Polin, the Chief
:01:51. > :01:52.Constable of North Wales, who asked the National Crime Agency to
:01:53. > :01:58.investigate fresh allegations relating to the care system here
:01:59. > :02:01.dating back to the early '70s. Some of those identified as potential
:02:02. > :02:04.abusers have died, but the Agency says they will still be investigated
:02:05. > :02:10.so that victims can be kept informed of any developments.
:02:11. > :02:13.Back in April the man leading the investigation, Ian Mulcahey, joined
:02:14. > :02:18.the North Wales Chief Constable to give a progress report on Operation
:02:19. > :02:24.Pallial. Six months on, even more progress has been made. 235 people
:02:25. > :02:27.have now contacted the team. Full or partial names for 100 alleged
:02:28. > :02:32.offenders have been received. 14 arrests have been made, one man John
:02:33. > :02:35.Allen has been charged. The arrests relate to claims of sexual and
:02:36. > :02:40.physical abuse against children at a number of former care homes in North
:02:41. > :02:45.Wales. In the '70s and '80s these were the notorious institutions Bryn
:02:46. > :02:47.Estyn, Gatewen Hall and Bryn Alyn. The publicity generated from the
:02:48. > :02:50.revelations surrounding Jimmy Savile has encouraged many who have
:02:51. > :02:57.previously remained silent to speak out, often turning to groups like
:02:58. > :03:03.the NSPCC for help. The number of people are here now because of those
:03:04. > :03:07.abusive experiences. Those individuals who have lived through
:03:08. > :03:12.this have either had not their voices heard or only now as adults
:03:13. > :03:16.feel that they can raise those concerns have had to go through a
:03:17. > :03:18.lifetime of anguish and guilt about what has happened to them.
:03:19. > :03:22.The National Crime Agency says that a quarter of the 100 alleged abusers
:03:23. > :03:25.who've been named have died. Though they can't be prosecuted they will
:03:26. > :03:28.still be investigated so that prosecutors can assess whether they
:03:29. > :03:31.would have been charged if still alive. That's so that victims can
:03:32. > :03:37.feel that their claims have been listened to and acted on.
:03:38. > :03:40.This is still a very active and wide-ranging enquiry. The most
:03:41. > :03:45.recent arrest was just a couple of weeks ago. It is not just in North
:03:46. > :03:49.Wales, even though that are where most of the claims are centred. Many
:03:50. > :03:53.of these alleged victims and in their 40s and 50s and have moved on
:03:54. > :03:59.to other parts of the UK. Investigations and as far afield as
:04:00. > :04:05.Scotland. It is not just the police who are involved, many of the
:04:06. > :04:08.associated agencies like the NSPCC are working alongside the Crown
:04:09. > :04:12.Prosecution Service, who say they will investigate people even if
:04:13. > :04:19.these alleged abusers have died. Can we counsel -- Conwy council is
:04:20. > :04:22.working with local authorities to do with people who are coming forward
:04:23. > :04:27.with allegations. Why are we seeing so many potential
:04:28. > :04:33.victims coming forward now? The publicity has a lot to do with
:04:34. > :04:37.it. A lot of the poll had bottled these feelings for many years. Every
:04:38. > :04:43.person who comes forward stimulator another person I saying if they can
:04:44. > :04:47.do it is so can I. They feel that ultimately it is something that they
:04:48. > :04:51.should do. I think the CPS has said they have changed and attitudes are
:04:52. > :04:54.they looking at the specific allegations rather than the,
:04:55. > :05:01.perhaps, the stability of the person making the allegation.
:05:02. > :05:05.Anglesey council has given the green light to controversial plans which
:05:06. > :05:10.developers say could bring up to 600 jobs to Holyhead, a month after they
:05:11. > :05:13.rejected the same proposals. A company called Land and Lakes wants
:05:14. > :05:17.to build a massive leisure park and housing development on the outskirts
:05:18. > :05:24.of the town. As Roger Pinney reports it's an issue which has divided
:05:25. > :05:28.people who live there. A wet day in Holyhead, the streets
:05:29. > :05:34.are quiet. Speak to traders and that is often the case. Good jobs are
:05:35. > :05:38.hard to fight the top prospect of a massive development on the outskirts
:05:39. > :05:44.has split pin in -- opinion. Others are worried about the effect on the
:05:45. > :05:51.Welsh language. I found both sides of the debate here. Definitely,
:05:52. > :06:01.definitely. It is everything that will follow Everything Everything.
:06:02. > :06:05.-- land and lakes. I am for rate and against this because of the Welsh
:06:06. > :06:13.language. He pulled coming here from all over the place. It is the jobs
:06:14. > :06:16.you want. Everyone seems to have an opinion. This woman has worked at
:06:17. > :06:23.this bread shop for 18 years. We needed, not as, but for our
:06:24. > :06:30.children's generation. It will just bring, not just the jobs there,
:06:31. > :06:34.outside businesses is going to need to be supplying them. I think an
:06:35. > :06:42.awful lot more business will comment. That is what Land and Lakes
:06:43. > :06:48.has promised. It will employ 450 people with a further 150 jobs
:06:49. > :06:52.generated locally. Whole project is underpinned by housing. It is to be
:06:53. > :06:56.built on undeveloped land owned by Anglesey aluminium. The company
:06:57. > :07:01.closed four years ago. Holyhead's economy was in the poor state even
:07:02. > :07:07.before the closure of this plant. The loss of jobs made things much
:07:08. > :07:10.worse. When the company he pulled out there was much talk about
:07:11. > :07:14.legacy, they said they didn't want to leave the place with nothing. The
:07:15. > :07:19.Land and Lakes development is part of that. Today, both sides were out
:07:20. > :07:23.in force as Anglesey Council met for a second time to discuss the plan.
:07:24. > :07:31.The debate has been set. Councillors have spoken of being dammed if you
:07:32. > :07:37.do and dammed if you don't. The scepticism about the promised jobs.
:07:38. > :07:43.Local jobs can be anywhere, there is a 90 minute radius for local jobs.
:07:44. > :07:48.That could mean Liverpool. If they are Remploy from Liverpool, they are
:07:49. > :07:53.considered local. There is talk of it being time to heal the wounds.
:07:54. > :07:56.The population of Wales could increase by 4% in less than a decade
:07:57. > :07:59.reaching almost 3.2 million. That's according to new figures from the
:08:00. > :08:02.Office for National Statistics which also predict a 50% increase in the
:08:03. > :08:08.number of people aged over 65 between 2012 and 2037. But
:08:09. > :08:13.population growth is still expected to be lower here than in other parts
:08:14. > :08:16.of the UK. Detectives are re-investigating the
:08:17. > :08:20.disappearance of a mother of two, who went missing more than 30 years
:08:21. > :08:23.ago. Susanne Llewellyn-Jones from Cardiff, pictured here as police
:08:24. > :08:29.think she may look today, has not been seen since going to catch a
:08:30. > :08:32.train in 1980. Police interviewed a 68-year-old man from the Vale of
:08:33. > :08:36.Glamorgan in connection with her disappearance on Monday.
:08:37. > :08:39.Nearly 19,000 people in Wales have had their job-seeker's Allowance
:08:40. > :08:44.stopped or suspended, in order to make sure they actively seek work.
:08:45. > :08:47.Since October 2012 claimants have faced sanctions ranging from
:08:48. > :08:54.suspension of their benefits to a three-year ban if they don't look
:08:55. > :08:57.for work. Firefighters remain at an industrial
:08:58. > :09:01.estate in the Vale of Glamorgan tonight after a huge fire broke out
:09:02. > :09:04.at a recycling plant. At one point people living close to the estate
:09:05. > :09:07.were urged to close their windows and doors. Our reporter Natasha
:09:08. > :09:17.Llewellyn is in Llandow for us tonight.
:09:18. > :09:25.What is the latest? It is almost 24 hours since the fire broke out at
:09:26. > :09:27.Llandow industrial estate behind me. Firefighters worked throughout the
:09:28. > :09:31.night and all day today to try to bring the blaze under control and
:09:32. > :09:34.that you can see they are still here. I have been here most of the
:09:35. > :09:40.day myself on the weather conditions are poorer, the wind is very strong
:09:41. > :09:44.and that means the smoke has spread around the estate and is causing
:09:45. > :09:49.disruption for many businesses. It did not take long for this fire
:09:50. > :09:54.to rip through the site. The building is full of general waste
:09:55. > :10:00.and recycling materials, the flames spread quickly. At its height 45
:10:01. > :10:03.firefighters tackling the blaze. When the first crews attended they
:10:04. > :10:08.could see the fire developed at the back of the building. When the got
:10:09. > :10:14.the water it had taken hold of the whole of the promises. -- premises.
:10:15. > :10:21.It is a big area and the whole of the building was ablaze. Crews
:10:22. > :10:24.managed to stop the fire spreading to other properties. There was
:10:25. > :10:27.disruption to the industrial estate, the high winds meant the smoke
:10:28. > :10:33.engulfed the site. By lunchtime workers are being sent home. It is
:10:34. > :10:43.very, very smoky. Our building was full of smoke. The cars are going to
:10:44. > :10:51.be smelling tomorrow. I have sent one lad home. It is going to be no
:10:52. > :10:55.work and no earnings. People living nearby were also affected. They will
:10:56. > :10:58.want to stay inside their homes and close all windows because there was
:10:59. > :11:06.a potential risk of asbestos burning from site so. -- from the site.
:11:07. > :11:09.Crews remain at the industrial estate to dampen down. The file
:11:10. > :11:16.expected to learn for two or three days. That the fire is expected to
:11:17. > :11:20.burn. The focus has been on the safety and bringing that blaze under
:11:21. > :11:24.control. The next few days the attention will turn to the
:11:25. > :11:28.investigation, find out what has happened and what caused the blaze.
:11:29. > :11:32.Fire crews tell me they are not going to rule out anything at the
:11:33. > :11:35.moment because it is in the early stages but they say the fact the
:11:36. > :11:40.bonfire night happened last night is not being linked. Where expected to
:11:41. > :11:43.find out over the next few days. Building new homes, recycling and
:11:44. > :11:47.meals on wheels - all services we'd associate with our councils. But new
:11:48. > :11:50.research shows housing associations are now providing them instead and
:11:51. > :11:54.that's pumping hundreds of millions of pounds into the Welsh economy.
:11:55. > :12:02.More from our business correspondent, Brian Meechan.
:12:03. > :12:05.It is the changing face of public services in Wales. How do we provide
:12:06. > :12:11.them as the squeeze on finances continues. House-building in the
:12:12. > :12:14.private sector has been badly hit by the economic downturn and councils
:12:15. > :12:17.are restricted in what they can do by budget and borrowing rules.
:12:18. > :12:22.Projects like this one near Haverfordwest show they are not for
:12:23. > :12:25.profit sector is continuing to build. Temperature Housing
:12:26. > :12:31.Association has used a new finance model to go work going on 12 new
:12:32. > :12:40.houses. Every time pounds we spend on housing the public purse was in
:12:41. > :12:47.?3. -- for every ?10 we spend. We can basically built more homes for
:12:48. > :12:52.less public money. It borrows from banks to fund the project well the
:12:53. > :12:54.Welsh Government contributes to the repayment of the mortgage and local
:12:55. > :13:02.contractors are used to love the houses. The supply chain is quite
:13:03. > :13:07.large. For Pembrokeshire, a lovely project. For every building
:13:08. > :13:11.contractor. New research shows building Association spent ?1
:13:12. > :13:20.billion in the last year and increase of 8.7% from the previous
:13:21. > :13:23.one. Most of that is being here. -- staying here. Housing associations
:13:24. > :13:30.are taking on additional community work. One in North Wales is
:13:31. > :13:37.providing meals on wheels service on Anglesey after the council withdrew
:13:38. > :13:45.its provision. I couldn't cock. I rely on the meals. I can't cook. It
:13:46. > :13:54.is affordable for us and sustainable. Not everyone is
:13:55. > :14:00.convinced by the not-for-profit model. Residents voted against
:14:01. > :14:05.transferring their homes to housing associations. Central and local
:14:06. > :14:10.government can borrow money cheaper to do the same work. Experts say
:14:11. > :14:15.more public borrowing is the last thing the government wants. Housing
:14:16. > :14:20.associations can borrow, in the private sector, it can borrow for
:14:21. > :14:26.social housing and it is and increase the national debt. It is
:14:27. > :14:30.privately owned in that sense. It is in that attractive for governments
:14:31. > :14:38.to off-load it, off-balance sheet in this way. What is less clear is how
:14:39. > :14:44.future plans of the affected by the UK Government's benefit changes
:14:45. > :14:46.which might affect the rents coming in.
:14:47. > :14:50.Still to come. Ann and Sally say they had trouble adopting five years
:14:51. > :14:58.ago. Now a drive to dispel the myths over who can adopt and make it
:14:59. > :15:03.easier. Adoption agencies and looking out for people of all sorts
:15:04. > :15:06.of agents and in all sorts of family situations because that is a
:15:07. > :15:11.shortage of parents out there. Did children. -- for adopted children.
:15:12. > :15:15.The Prime Minister has criticised the Welsh Government's record on the
:15:16. > :15:18.NHS. David Cameron told MPs at question time there was "a crisis
:15:19. > :15:22.every day of the week in Wales". He said the performance of the health
:15:23. > :15:30.service here was worse than in England. We don't have to remember
:15:31. > :15:35.the labour record of the past, we can look at the Labour record in
:15:36. > :15:41.Wales. They have been running the Welsh health service, they cut the
:15:42. > :15:49.budget by 8.5%, they have not met a cancer target since 2008, have not
:15:50. > :15:54.met a A target since 2009. He is too weak to stand up to the poor
:15:55. > :15:56.management of the NHS in Wales just as he is too weak to sack his Health
:15:57. > :15:59.Secretary. Our parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, is at
:16:00. > :16:05.Westminster. David, what prompted the Prime Minister's attack?
:16:06. > :16:18.David Cameron was responding to a question from the Labour -- leader.
:16:19. > :16:23.As you have heard, the Prime Minister chose to respond by talking
:16:24. > :16:27.about the NHS in Wales because he believes that Labour are formidable
:16:28. > :16:32.over their records and the fact that in Wales, until now, Labour has
:16:33. > :16:37.tended to freeze spending on the NHS whereas in England it has sort of,
:16:38. > :16:41.in line with inflation. What has the Welsh Government had to say? The
:16:42. > :16:45.Welsh Government has issued a statement. It says are faced with
:16:46. > :16:50.serious questions about redundancies and the NHS in England, it is
:16:51. > :16:53.regrettable that the Prime Minister chose to launch an inaccurate attack
:16:54. > :16:59.on the NHS in Wales. The last government says that the Welsh
:17:00. > :17:04.Government says it has been meeting its cancer targets. Question Time in
:17:05. > :17:09.the Assembly, First Minister 's questions, Carwyn Jones was using
:17:10. > :17:14.question Time to launch an attack on the coalition government's record on
:17:15. > :17:17.the NHS in England. It looks as if the First Minister was getting his
:17:18. > :17:20.retaliation in first. Next year, the American president
:17:21. > :17:25.will be arriving in Newport for the NATO summit. It's thought to be the
:17:26. > :17:28.first time that a sitting US president will have come to Wales in
:17:29. > :17:32.an official capacity. Today, the new American Ambassador to the UK came
:17:33. > :17:40.to get the lay og the and during an official visit. Nick Servini went to
:17:41. > :17:44.meet him. 1990, Margaret Thatcher was prime
:17:45. > :17:49.minister and it was the last time a NATO summit was held in Britain.
:17:50. > :17:52.Fast forward 22 years and this was Chicago last year, a summit which
:17:53. > :17:59.was said to have generated millions for the local economy. Wales has
:18:00. > :18:09.never welcomed an American president formula -- formerly. Today, Wales
:18:10. > :18:14.welcomed the American ambassador, Matthew Barzun on his first official
:18:15. > :18:18.visit here. He is in no doubt about the potential benefits for the
:18:19. > :18:24.country. I think this NATO summit is going to be a major moment as in the
:18:25. > :18:28.future we will reflect back on this moment. It puts it in the
:18:29. > :18:34.international spotlight, all these Americans are going to be looking at
:18:35. > :18:38.Newport, at Cardiff and all of Wales. It is a wonderful opportunity
:18:39. > :18:43.to showcase what is happening here. The Celtic Manor reportedly beat off
:18:44. > :18:47.competition from 80 other venues to host the summit. In marks a Triumph
:18:48. > :18:55.for Sir Terry Matthews after the Celtic Manor hosted the Ryder Cup
:18:56. > :18:58.three years ago. This will feel very different from other sporting events
:18:59. > :19:02.that has happened in the past because the subject for this one
:19:03. > :19:07.will the international politics. Next year, the withdrawal of troops
:19:08. > :19:11.from Afghanistan. Most of the discussions surrounding this event
:19:12. > :19:16.will take place in places like this, the University of South Wales which
:19:17. > :19:21.the ambassador is visiting today. He gave the student and mini
:19:22. > :19:26.presentation as President Obama's election campaign. I asked some of
:19:27. > :19:30.them how they felt about major the dramatic events being held on their
:19:31. > :19:34.doorstep. I like the fact that something so big is coming to Wales
:19:35. > :19:38.because I feel Wales is sometimes ignored. We have a lot of passionate
:19:39. > :19:42.people here. You have got the American bass into here today you
:19:43. > :19:47.have got the American president here next year. What are the big issues
:19:48. > :19:53.you will be looking out for? I guess it will be privacy, how far you can
:19:54. > :19:58.go with tapping phones and so on. There is a fine balance between how
:19:59. > :20:07.far you should go when is enough enough? This'll be his job next year
:20:08. > :20:10.when he has to tell the most powerful man in the world, the
:20:11. > :20:13.American president, about the country he is about to visit.
:20:14. > :20:15.The Welsh Field of Remembrance has been unveiled in the grounds of
:20:16. > :20:19.Cardiff Castle. 15,000 wooden crosses, each with its own poppy and
:20:20. > :20:27.message, remember the men and women who've lost their lives while
:20:28. > :20:31.serving in the armed forces. Some of our most vulnerable children
:20:32. > :20:35.are being let down because of a "significant shortage" of people
:20:36. > :20:40.coming forward to adopt. That's the warning from the British Association
:20:41. > :20:45.of Adoption and Fostering. There are nearly 6,000 children in care in
:20:46. > :20:48.Wales. Confusion over the way the adoption process works means there
:20:49. > :20:52.aren't enough people coming forward to offer children a new home. Carwyn
:20:53. > :20:55.Jones reports. Sally and Anne from Swansea have
:20:56. > :21:01.been in a same sex relationship for 30 years. They're also the adoptive
:21:02. > :21:04.parents of six-year-old Nathan. Being a gay couple in their fifties
:21:05. > :21:11.means they were just as eligible to adopt a little boy as anyone else.
:21:12. > :21:17.Things have changed in the last five years. Adoption agencies actively
:21:18. > :21:21.looking out for people of all sorts of ages and in all sorts of family
:21:22. > :21:24.situations. There is a real shortage of parents out there.
:21:25. > :21:28.Age and sexuality aren't barriers in the way of adoption, but plenty of
:21:29. > :21:31.us still seem to think so. Figures show that one in two of use believe
:21:32. > :21:35.that being overweight, unemployed or over the age of 40 means that we
:21:36. > :21:40.can't adopt. And those misconceptions are leading to a
:21:41. > :21:43.shortage of adopters here. There are currently more than 5,700
:21:44. > :21:47.children in the care system in Wales, that figure's risen by nearly
:21:48. > :21:51.a quarter over the last five years. Around 300 of those children will
:21:52. > :21:54.need to be placed in adoptive homes each year but with fewer people
:21:55. > :22:00.coming forward, there are fears that some of our most vulnerable children
:22:01. > :22:07.are being let down. Penny Jeffreys from Cardiff has gone through the
:22:08. > :22:10.adoption process. She adopted her son as a single 43-year-old and
:22:11. > :22:17.found that her circumstances weren't an issue. A family is a family
:22:18. > :22:20.whether it has got one parent or two parents. As long as you can provide
:22:21. > :22:24.a good, loving and stable home you are the perfect choice for some
:22:25. > :22:27.children. In England there's been a huge push
:22:28. > :22:30.by Westminster for the adoption process to be made easier. By next
:22:31. > :22:34.year Wales will have a National Adoption service, which will aim to
:22:35. > :22:37.streamline the process and make it more consistent, no matter where in
:22:38. > :22:40.the country you live. But with many of us harbouring outdated
:22:41. > :22:44.misconceptions of who can adopt and how there are fears that hundreds of
:22:45. > :22:47.children will be stuck in the care system instead of finding a long
:22:48. > :22:50.term home. I'm joined by Wendy Keidan, who's
:22:51. > :22:59.Director of the British Association of Adoption and Fostering in Wales.
:23:00. > :23:02.We heard about some of the misconceptions surrounding adoption.
:23:03. > :23:08.Why do you think this seems to be this confusion? I think
:23:09. > :23:11.misconceptions grow up over time I get embedded into society. Even
:23:12. > :23:17.though adoption agencies have in saying that there are very few legal
:23:18. > :23:23.requirements to adopting, you have to be over 21, you have to be
:23:24. > :23:27.resident in the UK for a year before you are eligible to apply to adopt
:23:28. > :23:31.and criminal convictions against children with event April from
:23:32. > :23:38.adopting. There are few legal requirements. People get confused
:23:39. > :23:42.and if they don't approach adoption agencies that is where we get the
:23:43. > :23:48.problems and those myths get in bed it. What this research has
:23:49. > :23:52.demonstrated is those misconceptions, despite a lot of
:23:53. > :23:59.work winning out there to dispel the myths, they still exist today. This
:24:00. > :24:03.must be a real worry for you with that big increase in children in
:24:04. > :24:08.care in the last five years alone. Not enough people are coming forward
:24:09. > :24:12.to adopt. You must be worried. We are really concerned, there has been
:24:13. > :24:21.a rise over the last five years. About a quarter rise in children
:24:22. > :24:25.entering the care system. We ever understanding more about what
:24:26. > :24:31.happens to children and their development. If they remain in
:24:32. > :24:35.families where they are not being appropriately looked after. There is
:24:36. > :24:45.an imbalance of the number of people requiring. Sharon and the number of
:24:46. > :24:49.doctors coming forward. -- number of children requiring adoption.
:24:50. > :24:53.Football. John Hartson has stood down as Wales' Assistant Coach to
:24:54. > :24:56.spend more time with his family. He was part of Chris Coleman's backroom
:24:57. > :24:59.staff during the recent World Cup qualifying campaign. The former
:25:00. > :25:02.striker, who was diagnosed with cancer four years ago, has announced
:25:03. > :25:02.he'll become a father again next year.
:25:03. > :25:09.Rugby. Time for the weather now and how's
:25:10. > :25:11.it shaping up for the match on Saturday, Derek?
:25:12. > :25:16.It will be a case of dodging the showers but some sunshine as well.
:25:17. > :25:20.Sadly, no sunshine today. Just more rain and drizzle. Strong to gale
:25:21. > :25:26.force winds on the Bristol channel coast this afternoon with a gust of
:25:27. > :25:28.51mph at Mumbles Head. And a range in temperatures today. 14 Celsius in
:25:29. > :25:32.Saundersfoot. Only 9C in Llanfairfechan. This evening, a wet
:25:33. > :25:36.start. Some heavy rain and mist but gradually clearing. So drying up
:25:37. > :25:41.after midnight. The wind in the south easing. Lowest temperatures in
:25:42. > :25:46.the north. Dropping to 4C inland. Tomorrow promises to be a better
:25:47. > :25:51.day. Drier and brighter with just a few showers. Here's the picture for
:25:52. > :25:55.8am in the morning. Much clearer compared to today. Fresh and cool
:25:56. > :26:04.but most places dry and bright with sunshine. Good visibility as well.
:26:05. > :26:09.More cloud in Pembrokeshire with a few showers. During the day a few
:26:10. > :26:13.showers will spread across the country. If you catch one it could
:26:14. > :26:16.be quite sharp but hit and miss. Some places will miss them and stay
:26:17. > :26:20.dry. Top temperatures nine to 12 Celsius with a south west breeze.
:26:21. > :26:23.The wind becoming strong in the northwest with gusts around 45mph.
:26:24. > :26:26.In south west Wales tomorrow. Much better day than today. Drier with
:26:27. > :26:30.sunny spells. A few showers and breezy, especially on the coast with
:26:31. > :26:34.a high of 11 in Newcastle Emlyn. Tomorrow evening most places dry and
:26:35. > :26:37.clear. Just a few a showers near the coast. After midnight, though, a
:26:38. > :26:40.trough will bring showery rain. Heavy in places. Friday breezy.
:26:41. > :26:43.Further showers. Heavy in places with hail and thunder but some dry
:26:44. > :26:47.weather and sunshine as well. On Saturday it's a similar story. A
:26:48. > :26:54.mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. Again the showers heavy in
:26:55. > :26:57.places with thunder and hail. On Sunday, it's all change. A warm
:26:58. > :26:58.front bringing cloud, rain and drizzle. Turning milder and misty
:26:59. > :27:11.with hill fog. The main news from the BBC. More
:27:12. > :27:15.than 500 years of ship will be will come to an end in Portsmouth next
:27:16. > :27:24.year after the defence giants, BAE Systems, announced job cuts. Almost
:27:25. > :27:28.1800 jobs will go in total. It has been revealed that more than
:27:29. > :27:31.200 potential victims have made allegations of historical abuse
:27:32. > :27:34.relating to children's homes across North Wales.
:27:35. > :27:38.And that is Wales Today. We'll have a quick update at 8pm with more news
:27:39. > :27:40.at 10.25pm. For now though from all of us on the programme, have a good
:27:41. > :27:42.evening.