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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: The opening ceremony was | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
glitzy but Wales got very little economic benefit out of the 2012 | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Olympic Games according to a House of Lords report. | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
Our other headlines tonight: Is it now too expensive for the Welsh | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Government to subsidise students in university? | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
The family of a Natasha Scott Falber, who died after using a | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
tampon for the first time, try to raise awareness of toxic shock | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
syndrome. Your money. A clearer picture about | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
how much control the Welsh Government may have on the income | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
tax you pay. Airbus in Broughton celebrates after | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
landing deals for aircraft worth more than ?30 billion. | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
And empty pews and dwindling congregations. London's oldest Welsh | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
chapel is under threat. Good evening. It was billed as an | :01:09. | :01:21. | |
Olympics not just for London but for the whole of the UK. But a new | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
report suggests that Welsh economy didn't get much out of it, with most | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
of the benefits going to the south east of England. A House of Lords | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
committee found that fewer than 500 of the 30,000 jobs created by the | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Games were here in Wales. Here's our sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter. | :01:37. | :01:49. | |
It was a summer of success as athletes from all over the UK won a | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
record medal haul. The medals were spread around the country but the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
economic benefits were not. London and the south-east of England were | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
the big winners according to today's report. They got a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
disproportionate amount of the many compare to other regions. ?2.5 | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
billion was invested in the UK by foreign companies. But less than 1% | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
of that was invested here. Of the 31,000 jobs created across the UK, | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
less than 500 were here. That is just 1.5% of the total. Only the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
East Midlands and the north-east of England did worse. One of the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
challenges we've got in Wales is that so many of our companies are | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
micro companies. Very often it's difficult for them to get in on | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
contracts which have major combines. Scotland have more | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
companies in their own right based in Scotland and the challenge for | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
Wales is to break in. This company and Port Talbot was one of the Welsh | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
companies were won contracts in the run up to the games. They make | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
security doors for the athletes village. The connections being made | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
on the London Project have brought in other work. We were introduced to | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
companies you would never normally deal with. He got to know the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
architects and specifiers. They have trust in us so they are specifying | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
us for products in the rest of the country. Wales will always be able | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
to say that the first action of the 2012 games took place here. But the | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
11 football matches at the Millennium Stadium represents just a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
tiny chunk of last summer 's sporting showpiece. It is an obvious | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
point but most of London 2012 happened in London. Some people 's | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
expectations were too high. Especially around the business side. | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
It was never going to be a big cash cow. The big part is about | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
participation in Wales. The story is good. It is not the same in England. | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
In that way the games have had a massively important impact on young | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
people wanting to be sporty and healthy. One area where Wales has | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
done well is in participation and inspiration. Welsh gymnastics is one | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
of several sporting bodies who say they've had a being a -- big | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
increase in numbers since last summer. If we were going to see a | :04:27. | :04:38. | |
real legacy in Wales, we would be getting PE as a core subject in | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
schools and making sure there is a quality experience for you and | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
people, fun and enjoyable. Tonight a spokesman for the Welsh Government | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
say they were still considering the report but in a statement they noted | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
that Sebastian Cole had recently praised Wales' efforts to ensure a | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
sporting legacy. They say the successful bid to host the world | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
half Marathon Championships in 2016 is an example of the progress made. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
15 months on the Welsh Linda legacy is participation rather than pounds. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
Is it too expensive for the Welsh Government to subsidise students in | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
university? That's the question posed tonight as the Education | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Minister announces a review into higher education. Huw Lewis says he | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
wants to see a world class system in Wales supported by a sustainable | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
funding regime. Our political correspondent, Aled ap Dafydd, is at | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
Cardiff University where the minister is delivering his speech. | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
Why is he making this speech now? I suspect Huw Lewis felt he had to say | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
and do something now because he has been facing a lot of criticism by | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
those within the higher education sector over Welsh Government policy. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
As things stand Welsh students wherever they study in the UK are | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
subsidised to the tune of about ?3500 by the Welsh Government but | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
there are some within the sector who say that policy is unsustainable. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Why are some in the education sector saying they are losing out? A lot of | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
this debate revolves around the funding and subsidising of Welsh | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
students who choose to study in universities over the border. The | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Welsh Conservatives have said that this is a gimmick on part of the | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
Welsh Government. They say that five English universities have benefited | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
to the tune of ?15 million of Welsh Government funding which has gone to | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
subsidising Welsh students who choose to study there. They now want | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
to CNN to that policy. This review group and all-party review will now | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
be looking into whether this is a sustainable model for the future. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
When might we hear any recommendations? Nothing will happen | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
in the short term because the current policy is a commit by the | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
Welsh Labour government until the next election and this review will | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
not purport back until after then by having cross-party membership on | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
this group they will be a degree of political cover for the next Welsh | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Government if they decide to make any changes. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
The family of a teenage girl, who died after using a tampon for the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
first time, have launched a campaign to raise awareness of Toxic Shock | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Syndrome. Natasha Scott Falber, from Caerwent in Monmouthshire, didn't | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
know why she was ill and thought she was recovering from the sickness bug | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
norovirus. She later died in her sleep. Natasha's mother has been | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
speaking to our reporter, Caroline Evans. | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
Ten pack was just 14 and was dreaming of starring in the West | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
End. -- Natasha Scott Falber. But after using tampons the first time | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
she fell ill and died. The night she died we were having a laugh about | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
things and I said I know you are going to hate me that you have taken | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
that tampon ad haven't you? She said I'm fine and I'm feeling better. She | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
was feeling better and many of his symptoms were better. I said OK, I | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
will never mention it again. Then of course, the following morning she | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
died. Natasha developed toxic shock syndrome. One in three people in the | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
UK carry the bacteria which causes it. 40 people a year go on to | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
develop toxic shock syndrome and 23 people die every year. It is | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
extremely rare but Natasha's mother says people must be made aware of | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
the symptoms like high temperature and vomiting. It has happened and we | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
can't do anything about it but to stop it happening to somebody | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
else... No family should have to go through this. If we can stop it and | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
it's hard, it's difficult for us to speak out, but we want to because it | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
is such a simple thing. Many companies already warned about toxic | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
shock syndrome but the family wanted to be given a higher profile and a | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
meeting with Public Health Wales next week. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
The family of a couple killed in an aircraft crash say Gary Vickers was | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
an experienced pilot. He was flying his partner home from Paris when the | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
plane came down on Friday afternoon. An enquiry has been launched into | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
what happened. Gary was an experienced pilot. He would not have | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
considered going out if he knew there was something wrong. They were | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
devoted to each other. A search at the former Cardiff home | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
of a woman who's been missing for more than thirty years has ended. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
Police have been at the house in Llandaff, where Susanne | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Llewellyn-Jones lived, since the end of last week. Ms Llewellyn Jones | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
went missing in 1980 after being taken to a train station by her | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
husband. A coroner has recorded a verdict of | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
accidental death in the inquest of a 14-year=old school girl who drowned | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
off Barry Island. Hollie McClymont from Glasgow was on holiday with her | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
family when she disappeared while swimming at Whitmore Bay in July. | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Her body was found two days later. We've been given a clearer picture | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
today about the level of control the Welsh Government may have on income | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
tax in the future. Some powers over the tax could be on their way to | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Cardiff Bay if a decision is made to hold a referendum. But the Treasury | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
now says the Government here will not get the powers to vary income | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
tax bands individually. Our political editor, Nick Servini, is | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
here. Earlier this month, David Cameron | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
and the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, were in Cardiff to announce | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
that the Welsh Government will for the first time get the power to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
borrow and to vary some taxes like stamp duty and landfill tax. If it | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
wants it, the Welsh Government could also be given control over part of | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
income tax, which is the biggest revenue raiser after a referendum. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
This morning we were given further details and the most significant | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
development related to income tax. All of this followed a report called | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the Silk Commission, which said it was essential that the Welsh | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
Government is given flexibility on income tax. So if it wanted to raise | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
or lower the higher rate, it could do so without the basic rate | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
changing. But today we found out the Treasury won't allow that to happen. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
It says any rise or fall will have to take place in tandem across all | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
the different bands, so there'll be no scope to isolate a higher or | :12:08. | :12:20. | |
lower rate. It's what's happening in Scotland. And the chief secretary to | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
the Treasury, Danny Alexander, explained why. I think the idea that | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
you can change the level of income tax, that half of the rate of income | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
tax is now set in Wales, it is something which is powerful and it's | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
a new lever to be used in Wales. But I think the issue about what level | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
different bands are set, that is about the labour market across the | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
whole of the UK and that power should stay at UK level. On this | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
issue of income tax, the Welsh Government's Finance Minister, Jane | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Hutt, said it was a missed opportunity and said the focus now | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
would be on the other taxes first. We look forward now to what we can | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
do with the smaller taxes that are being devolved now like landfill tax | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
and stamp duty. The people of Wales want to know what we can do now and | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
I'm going to be working to ensure that we get the income stream and we | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
have early access to borrowing which is such good news. Now the First | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
Minister, Carwyn Jones, has already said he doesn't want income tax | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
powers for Wales as things stand now for a number of reasons. This | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
announcement is unlikely to change his mind. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
??WHIT Much more to come before 7:00pm: Another night sleeping on | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
the floor. Now new plans to make more homes available to ease the | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
squeeze. And the first cold snap. Some of us | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
are in for a dusting of snow and a warning of ice in the next 24 hours. | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
The full forecast in a few minutes. Management and workers at the Airbus | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
wings plant at Broughton in Flintshire have told Wales Today | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
they are confident about the future after the company secured major | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
orders at a Middle East air show. Airbus, which employs 6,500 people | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
at Broughton has struck deals worth more than ?30 billion, apparently | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
securing thousands of jobs here. The new orders come amidst fierce | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
competition in the industry, as Roger Pinney reports. | :14:21. | :14:34. | |
It is quite a stage on which to sell your goods and deals done here can | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
have a big impact on Welsh companies and their families. The pitch for | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
customers is so important and even the prime minister turned up to | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
trumpet a string of orders. They are very exciting deals. Every second a | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
plane takes off somewhere in the world with wings made in Britain and | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
landing gear made in Britain. This is a real area of expertise. This is | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
the aircraft which is turning heads. It is so new it only flew the first | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
time during the summer. 53 of them have been ordered in Dubai along | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
with 50 of its big sister. On the wing production line in Broughton | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
fjord of book should secure five to seven years of work. The A350 is a | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
new aircraft and what is special about it is that it is 25% more fuel | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
efficient than the competition. This wing will be flying in the colours | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
of Qatar airlines in just over a year. The orders we have achieved in | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
the last 48 hours, it is really strong. The competition is strong | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
but our product is strong. We are confident that we will continue to | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
sell. Every order is a Wellcome order. Significant orders like this | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
guarantees more work in the future. But that broaden both management and | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
workforce will tell you they are not complacent. In commercial aircraft | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
building the competition is fierce and in Dubai Boeing has had some | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
major successes as well. It is a cut-throat affair with thousands of | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
jobs on both sides of the Atlantic dependent on the outcome. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
The mother of April Jones has welcomed the move by Internet | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
companies to make it harder to find child abuse images online. The | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
five-year old was killed by Mark Bridger in October last year after | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
he had viewed child sex abuse images on his computer. Our daughter had to | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
be killed before this came to light. Richard of been done ages | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
ago. We are trying to fight for this tells of other families don't go | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
through what we went through. Burton's biscuits, which employs | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
around 700 people at its factory in Torfaen, has been sold to a Canadian | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
pension fund. The manufacturer, which makes Jammie Dodgers and | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Wagons, was put up for sale earlier this year by its current owner, a | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Canadian investment bank. Drivers across Wales are being urged | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
not to multi-task behind the wheel to prevent crashes, causing by | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
people using their mobile phones and other devices. The campaign by the | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
charity Brake comes at the start of Road Safety Week. Research shows | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
37,000 drivers here have points on their license for driving while | :17:32. | :17:44. | |
distracted. It is now ten years since mobile phone use at the wheel | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
was banned so a decade on we still have a huge adult drivers taking | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
this risk. In a dash in a high number of the serious collisions we | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
have we are finding that people have been using a mobile phone at the | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
time of the collision or just before. Those people are committing | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
serious offences and causing death by dangerous driving. I would advise | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
people, don't use a mobile phone whilst driving. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Private landlords and letting agents will need a licence to operate if | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
the Welsh Government's housing bill becomes law. It will also give more | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
power to tax empty homes which it's hoped will prevent homelessness and | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
boost the supply of housing. Daniel Davies reports. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
Ian and Dawn McGregor and SN are squeezed into his mother 's | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
one-bedroom bungalow. They have been relying on relatives after he fell | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
ill and the family fell behind with the mortgage. To be put in that | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
situation, it is hard to explain to people. The situation we are in now, | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
I would not wish it on anyone. Ministers want to stop the same | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
thing happening to more families. At this homeless charity in Cardiff the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
housing minister met young people who have been helped back on their | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
feet. In future councils will be able to act sooner when somebody is | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
at risk of losing their home. The housing bill will also create a | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
register of pilot sector landlords. We are trying to read late the | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
system and make sure we have place -- safe places for people to live in | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
Wales. We have some fantastic landlords in Wales but not all of | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
them. Any landlord who does not sign up will not be a bit let flats or | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
houses in Wales. We fully support this and we have to educate | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
landlords who are not aware of the responsibilities. The costs involved | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
-- involved mean the cost will be borne by the good landlords. This | :20:00. | :20:16. | |
bill also lets councils charge 150% council tax on properties that have | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
been empty free year. Plaid Cymru is trying to convince the Welsh | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Government to go further and double council tax on second homes. Last | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
week the Conservatives called for a revamp of the right to buy with the | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
money raised spent on more social housing. The politicians are trying | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
to outbid each other with ways of keeping our roofs -- keeping roofs | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
above our heads but the supply of new homes is not keeping up with | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
demand. The government is hoping this latest offer will be the key to | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
unlock that. Rugby, and Wales are still hoping | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Scott Williams could be fit to face Tonga on Friday despite a toe | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
injury. It would ease the centre injury crisis which has already | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
claimed Jamie Roberts, Jonathan Davies and newcomer Cory Allen. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
Wales will also rest their British and Irish Lions, but defence coach | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Shaun Edwards is keen to keep the momentum going. It was a very high | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
standard game against South Africa and the momentum is building and | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
hopefully we can keep that going against Tonga on Friday. Hopefully | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
we can place attacking rugby and some solid defence. -- play. | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
Football, and Wales manager Chris Coleman says he's prepared to rest | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Gareth Bale for Wales' friendlies in the future. Coleman says he | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
understands the need protect the 24-year-old, who signed for Real | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Madrid in the summer for a record fee of ?85 million. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
It's the oldest Welsh chapel in London, dating back to the 1770's. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Hundreds of parishioners once worshiped at the Jewin Presbyterian | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
Church every Sunday, but over the past 50 years the number of members | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
has fallen dramatically. Now, BBC presenter Huw Edwards is leading a | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
campaign to save the building and keep the traditions of the London | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
Welsh community alive. Carwyn Jones has more. | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
A small but loyal congregation keeps the faith that the oldest surviving | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Welsh church in London. The hymns are heartfelt and the worshippers | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
are devout but BP was a largely empty. Jewin Presbyterian Church can | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
trace its history back to 1774 that it is facing a 21st-century problem. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Numbers are falling and maintenance costs are rising. Hugh Edwards is | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
one of the parishioners and we should sit with his family every | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Sunday. He is campaigning to save this building. The Welsh churches in | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
London I like the Welsh churches in Wales. They are facing a tough time. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
They represent something good in my view and they represent something | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
that is worth keeping and fighting for. They were once 30 Welsh chapels | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
in London. This one was the first. These were important centres of | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
faith when collective worship was the norm. It stood for 160 years | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
before being destroyed during one of the worst nights of the Blitz. It | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
then reopened 20 years later and the building was packed to the rafters. | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
A far cry from today. It is getting harder because we are getting fewer | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
members and fewer people prepared to take on the burden. We are an ageing | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
congregation. Jewin Presbyterian Church has a special status and is | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
in the heart of the city of London. The history of the building is | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
intertwined with the history of the capital. If this church closed it | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
would be a very dark moment not just for Christian communities in London | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
but for the London Welsh and the traditions of the London Welsh. That | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
reason lots of us think it's worth saving. Nobody here believes numbers | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
will rise dramatically overnight. This building will still have empty | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
pews on any given Sunday but this appeal hopes to connect with the | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
60,000 strong London Welsh community to ensure this iconic church has a | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
future. There is a cold snap heading our | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
way. Here is Derek. Time to dig out the warm coat and | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
bobble hat. It is turning colder with some frost and wintry showers. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
I'm not expecting much snow. There will be a dusting in places but not | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
everywhere. Most of it on higher ground, the hills and mountains. Ice | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
will be the main hazard if you're travelling. So a cold front moved | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
southeast through Wales today bringing rain, followed by clearer | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
and colder air from the Arctic. Tonight, scattered showers. Most of | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
them in the north and west. Heavy in places with hail and falling as snow | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
on higher ground, or example in Snowdonia and on the Cambrian | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
Mountains. Some dry, clear weather as well, especially in the | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
southeast. Colder than recent nights with a frost in places. And the Met | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
Office has issued a warning of ice covering most of North and Mid | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Wales, west Powys and north Carmarthenshire. So here's the | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
picture for 8:00am in the morning. A cold wind and wintry showers in the | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
north and west. Some of the showers heavy with hail and thunder. Sleet | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
and snow as well. A dusting of snow in places, mainly on higher ground | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
above 200m or 800 feet. Strong winds on the west coast. The southeast dry | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and bright with sunshine and lighter winds. So mixed fortunes tomorrow. | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
Most of the showers in the west and south-west. The best of the dry | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
weather and sunshine in the northeast, eastern Powys, and the | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
southeast. Top temperatures only 4C to 7C, but feeling colder in he | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
north to north-westerly wind. The wind easing during the afternoon. On | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
Cadair Idris tomorrow, occasional snow and hail showers. And feeling | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
bitterly cold with a wind-chill temperature of -13C. Tomorrow | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
evening, dry with some frost for a while. However, cloud and rain will | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
spread from the northwest overnight. The wind increasing as well. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Wednesday will be windy with strong to gale force winds. Some rain and | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
snow on the mountains clearing to sunshine and a few showers. | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Thursday, cold and breezy. Scattered showers and bright spells. Friday | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
and the weekend will be mostly dry. Some frost and a chilly breeze. So | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
cold tomorrow with sunshine and wintry showers. Watch out for icy | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
patches if you're travelling first thing in the morning. | :26:33. | :26:49. | |
You can keep up to date with the forecast on the website. Wrap up | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
warm. Tonight 's headlines. A new report | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
suggests the Welsh economy did not get much out of the London Olympics. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
House of Lords committee found fewer than 500 of the 30,000 jobs created | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
by the games were here in Wales. The education minister has announced | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
that future financial support for Welsh students will be reviewed by | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
an independent cross-party commission. | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
X-Ray is on in half an hour. Here's Lucy and Rhodri with a preview. We | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
all hate nuisance calls so a company offering to block them have ?40 | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
seems like a tempting offer. But our investigation into a Llanelli | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
company and covers a lot of false promises. With Christmas around the | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
corner, we putting public gifts to the test. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
We'll have an update for you at 8:00pm and I'll be back after the | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
BBC News at 10:00pm. From all of us on the programme, good evening. | :27:56. | :28:01. |