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That is all from BBC News At Six, I will be back with more | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Our top story: Frontman of the Lostprophets, the rock star Ian | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Watkins, admits a series of child sex offences. This investigation has | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
uncovered the most shocking and harrowing child abuse evidence I've | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
ever seen. There's no doubt in my mind that Ian Watkins has exploited | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
his celebrity status in order to abuse young children Our other | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
headlines: Our other headlines: Our hospitals | :00:26. | :00:45. | |
should be reviewed to address our anxiety about the quality of care. | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
That's the call from the Royal College of Surgeons. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Big changes on the way for school teachers, pupils and parents. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
As the Scottish government outlines the case for independence I'll be | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
working out what it could mean for Wales. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Just in time. Back after that hairline fracture, Alex Cuthbert | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
returns to face the Wallabies. And a last song. The man who starred | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
in Morecambe and Wise, Crossroads and Coronation Street, Stan | :01:21. | :01:21. | |
Stennett, has died. Police say it's the most shocking | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
and harrowing child abuse they've ever seen. Today, rock singer Ian | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Watkins, from Pontypridd, pleaded guilty to a string of sex offences | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
including the attempted rape of baby. The former frontman with | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
multi-million selling band Lostprophets also admitted | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
possessing and making child sex abuse images. The officer in charge | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
of the investigation said the search for any other victims of the abuse | :01:55. | :02:08. | |
would go on. Since their formation, Lostprophets | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
from Pontypridd found success across the world. They sold three .5 | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
million albums and had a huge following regularly appearing on TV. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Ian Watkins was the vibrant front man of the band. Today, a different | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
Ian Watkins, impassive and supers -- sober suited, took centre stage at | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
Cardiff Crown Court. The charges he had denied. The baby 's mother | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
alongside them in the dark, also facing sexual abuse charge. Before | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
the jury were about to be sworn in, Ian Watkins tray -- change the | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
number of his pleas. He was guilty of attempted to rape the bees. | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
In addition he admitted taking and possessing indecent images. Another | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
of the victims are far too young to be able to understand what has | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
happened to them. The defendants for their own gratification. Watkins and | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
the mothers spend time in numerous hotels in Cardiff with a young | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
babies. One of the infants was 19 days short of his first state when | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
sexual images and videos were filmed. When police raided Ian | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
Watkins's home, they found pornographic material. This | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
investigation has uncovered the most shocking and harrowing child abuse | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
evidence I have ever seen. There is no doubt in my mind that Ian Watkins | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
has exploited his celebrity status in order to abuse young children. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
Today's outcome ensures that three people responsible have been brought | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
to justice. She is an that this woman | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
it is likely the offender would have targeted vulnerable adults who have | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
access to young people and have groom them through a variety of | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
techniques and different types of manipulation. If that person has | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
rock star status, they are trying to flatter that person. It is likely | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
that somebody with celebrity status will try to use that in trying to | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
gain access to individuals and as a route into grooming behaviour. The | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
theme of the fenders are sometime partners of Ian Watkins and sexually | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
abuse their children at his behest. They also made their babies | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
available for him to abuse. The sexual abuse of babies is something | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
that is very difficult for all to comprehend. However, over the last | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
year with an increase in online child abuse imagery we have noted | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
along with other organisations that imagery has both increased in terms | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
of its severity but we have seen a decline in the age of those young | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
people. Ian Watkins is behind bars while psychological reports are | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
being prepared on him and the two mothers. In court, he was described | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
as a committed paedophile and police say his guilty pleas do not mark the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
end of the investigation. They say they will work tirelessly to in -- | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
identify the victims. The judge told the jury they had been saved from | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
having to watch extremely graphic and distressing material. All three | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
will be tempted -- sentenced in December. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
All hospitals in Wales should be reviewed to address "public anxiety" | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
about the quality of care they provide. That's the call from the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Royal College of Surgeons who want to see an improvement in how | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
hospitals here are inspected. The Welsh Government insists it's | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
already driving up standards. Here's our health correspondent, Owain | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Clarke. It has been a year when the NHS has | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
a time struggle to cope leading to a crescendo of concerns across the | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
country. You think you are going to be looked after and the outcome is | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
some people are dying from lack of care. My father is 90 years old, | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
suspected pneumonia, he has been sat in that ambulance there since half | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
past 12. Over an hour. They are getting good money to do a | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
professional job and they are not doing it right. I am only just 60 | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
years of age and they do actually want this operation because I want | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
to live a lot longer. Royal College of Surgeons is worried about the big | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
rise in the numbers of patients waiting too long for hospital | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
treatment and about high death rates in South Wales in patients waiting | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
for heart surgery. It has added its way to calls more should be done to | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
make sure patients are saved. The Royal College says there is merit | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
interviewing all hospitals to give the public urgent assurance about | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
standards of care. Whilst stopping short of the Mandingo full-scale | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
enquiry, it argues follicular system of inspection and external | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
challenges and suggest dedicated hospital inspected it should be set | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
up within health Inspectorate Wales. The boss of that organisation | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
admitted to an Assembly committed staff shortages meant she could not | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
give a strong assurance that the scandal similar to stuff it could | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
not happen here. Ann Clwyd who led the review of NHS complaints across | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
the border says the case for a wider investigation into the Welsh NHS is | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
now stronger than ever. Long waiting lists, long waits for diagnosis in | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
the first place compared to England, and a number of patients | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
particularly in cardiac surgery dying on waiting lists. Don't listen | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
to politicians, listen to these professionals. They are saying there | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
is great cause for concern. We have seen reports that the reports which | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
has demonstrated poor polities of care. -- quality of care. We need to | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
understand what is going wrong. The only way we're going to get to the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
bottom of this is through an enquiry. The Welsh Government is | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
adamant that sort of enquiry is not needed, stronger systems are in | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
place, it says, to intervene. Health boards have the publish annual | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
quality reports. It says the vast majority of patients are satisfied | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
with the care they get even in a year that has been particularly | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
challenging. A fire at a recycling unit in the | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Vale of Glamorgan is expected to burn for a few more days according | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
to South Wales and Fire and Rescue Service. More than 80 firefighters | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
were called to tackle the blaze which broke out on the Vale Business | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Park at Llandow near Cowbridge in the early hours of this morning. The | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
cause is not yet known. It is a large scale fire, it is a building | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
or 9000 square metres. It is a large fire to tackle. We deployed the | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
proper resources. As a result we have managed to surround the fire | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
ring is to a stage when it is not likely to spread any further. -- so | :09:39. | :09:51. | |
the fire is at a stage. There's a big change on the way for | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
school teachers, pupils and parents. The Education Minister Huw Lewis has | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
outlined far reaching plans for schools. He was responding to a | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
review into the structures of education. Our education | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
correspondent, Arwyn Jones is here. That review men 85 recommendations. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
None are earth-shattering. Those changes are quite wide-ranging. If I | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
turned to my whiteboard. One of the complaints made was that schools | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
would not operate, they don't help each other. There will be many | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
available for high performing schools to help the weaker schools. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
They will drive up standards. Responsibility has been taken away | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
from councils and there will be a national model for school | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
improvement. That is being worked out in terms of the details. One of | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
the recommendations not adopted by the Welsh Government was schools | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
inspections. A school will get 20 days notice of an inspection. Robert | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Hill says that is too much, you don't get a fairer reflection. They | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
should have no more than two or three days. The school gets a phone | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
call on Monday and the school inspectors will be there on the | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
Wednesday. The Welsh Government says they will not adopt there. -- that. | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
Another hint today that things are not looking so good for Wales when | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
it comes to those international schools rankings which it you | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
shortly. The league tables where pupils from 70 countries set the | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
same examples up three years ago, the last set of results came out. We | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
tumbled down the league tables and a lot of work has gone into improving | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
the situation. The Education Minister was reiterating what he | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
said before. There are other measures. I don't think it takes | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
much to read into that. We're going to investigate this in much more | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
detail in the coming days. Yes, starting tomorrow morning and for a | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
week we're looking at the state of education in Wales. We have been to | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
Finland. They do well in these league tables stop we have taken a | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
teacher over from Wales to see what he makes of their school system. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
Also we are looking at what the economy and business reacts to | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
education in Wales. The Prime Minister says the UK is | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
still the world leader in offshore wind power, despite an energy firm | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
shelving plans to build a wind farm in the Bristol channel. Atlantic | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Array would have been built about 14 miles off the south Wales coast. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Developer RWE Innology say the 240 turbine scheme, which would have | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
been double the size of any wind farm currently operating in Britain, | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
is no longer viable. The Wales Coast Path brought in more | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
than ?30 million to the Welsh economy and attracted nearly three | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
million visitors over the course of a year. That's according to a new | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
study which looked at the path's economic impact between October 2012 | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
and September 2013. The 870 mile long route, which stretches from the | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
River Dee in Flintshire all the way to Chepstow, is the first of its | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
kind anywhere in the world. We have had people travel from | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Germany and Spain and England and Scotland especially to do the | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
coastal path. They mean to the whole path in a year that they will do a | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
section, maybe from Port Talbot to hear and then another section later | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
on in the year. It gives them exercise. They learn more about the | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
environment and the wildlife around. It is a beautiful place. You have | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
got everything to see. You have the rock formations and it is all for | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
free. Earlier today, the Scottish | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
Government outlined its vision for an independent Scotland. The | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
document is a crucial part of the referendum campaign ahead of the | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
vote in September next year. But whatever the decision, what impact | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
could it have on us? Our political editor Nick Servini is outside the | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Here it is, 650 pages setting up the | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
case for independence. A crucial day in the campaign so far. Yes campaign | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
is behind in the polls. They will hope this will give them a boost. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
The critics say it is not answering all the questions. But this will | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
form the basis for all the debates over the next ten months ahead of | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
that referendum in September. That debate will be watched all over the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
world, particularly closely in Wales. It is a difficult question to | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
try to answer. What will be potential impact be in Wales? I have | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
been on a journey of the imagination to try to work through some of the | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
scenarios and look at the potential impact from a yes or a no vote in | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
the referendum. This is good morning Wales with | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
Felicity Evans. Scotland has said yes to independence. The First | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Minister said it was a proud day for a proud country that was truly a | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
nation once again. It is the morning of Friday the 19th of September 20 | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
14th and history in the making. Scotland has voted to leave the | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
union after hundreds of years. It will have full control over | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
taxation, the welfare state, even defence. Enormous implication for | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the people of Scotland but what about the rest of the UK? And here | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
in Wales. The Welsh Government already has new powers over some | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
taxes like stamp duty and borrowing on the way. Does this mean more will | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
be heading in the same direction after a yes vote? To try to answer | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
some of these questions, I have come to discuss the implications with | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Labour's former Welsh and Northern Irish secretary, Paul Murphy, who | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
believes in the union and the plot can remember of the European | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
Parliament, Jill Evans who believes in independence. -- and the Plaid | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
Cymru member. I don't think it will be at difference in what once people | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
think of independence. It will be a seismic change if Welsh people need | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
independence. All evidence says Welsh people believe in devolution. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
That is a far cry from the business of going independent. I don't think | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
people in Wales are going to be demanding independence because every | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
country has a unique path to follow. It certainly will make us look at | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
what powers we need to build our economy and create jobs and ensure | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
that we are not sidelined within the UK. | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
Radio Wales. This is good morning Wales. The main story this morning. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Scotland has spoken and it is a note independence. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
A fascinating campaign but the people of Scotland have decided to | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
stay in the United Kingdom. I wonder what all this means is Mike is it | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
the end of nationalism that further devolution for regeneration? Or is | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
this just the start of more powers going to Scotland and even, | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
potentially, for Wales in the future? Despite the fact that the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
people of Scotland have voted no in this referendum is up Jill Evans and | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
Paul Murphy both say even with a no vote things will still change. I | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
would not say it would not happen for another generation because I | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
think the debate is nonstop. Debate will carry on. But it has been | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
defeated. That vote was defeat did. That proposal was defeated, it does | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
not been the argument is finished. That is a feeling that devolution | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
first is here to stay big time. Probably, in Scotland, more powers | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
are likely to be devolved from evil Max -- evil Max -- DevoMax. There | :18:12. | :18:31. | |
will be some kind of impact on this place and the kind of powers it has. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
A kind of crystal wall gazing there. One final thought to bring you up to | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
date. A few days ago the First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones hit | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the headlines in Scotland when he indicated that Wales would be to an | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
independent Scotland if it wanted to keep the pound and stay in a | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
currency union. That is a huge issue today during the debates that took | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
place and it is one of the many debates that will be raging of the | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
course of the next ten months. Much more to come before seven | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
o'clock. He's recovered ahead of schedule after that hairline | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
fracture. Alex Cuthbert returns to face the Wallabies. | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
And the man who co-starred with Morecombe and Wise, the comedian and | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
entertainer Stan Stennett, has died. Its Europe's biggest construction | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
project and Welsh companies are being told to grab a slice of the | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
work on offer building a rail line across the south east of England. At | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
a cost of almost ?15 billion, Crossrail is entering its peak | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
construction phase and its bosses have been in Cardiff to talk to | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
firms about how they can win contracts. Here's our business | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
correspondent, Brian Meechan. It is a rail link the stretches from | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
Berkshire to Essex via Heathrow and Central London. This man travels the | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
M4 every week from his home in Carmarthenshire to work on a dash on | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
building the tunnels. I turn up on the Monday morning and turned back | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
on a Friday evening. I stay up there all week. The tunnels are reinforced | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
with Welsh steel. It comes from the Cardiff waste factory. 50,000 tonnes | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
of steel have already come from here and been used in the tunnels as part | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
of the crossrail project. The company says that is just the | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
beginning. There are further 75 business opportunities and the | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
equivalent of 55,000 full-time jobs available before the project is | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
completed. The Crossrail chairman spend a day in Cardiff urging Welsh | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
businesses to make the most of the chances Europe's weakest | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
construction project offers them. It is up to the business to show some | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
spirit and fight. It is there to be won. I am pleased to maximise UK | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
contest and that means working outside the south-east. Crossrail | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
will cost twice as much as the London Olympics. The recent | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
parliamentary report found there had been little economic benefits for | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Wales from the Olympics. I think the Olympics will harsh lesson for some | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
people. The bull assumed you could get but you have to go for things. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
-- people assumed. We work with companies who want to be part of the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
supply chain so that is our role and function. It was sad with the does | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
have more out of the Olympics. Parts company have learned from that | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
experience. The message from Crossrail is simple, it is open for | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
business. It is up to Welsh companies to turn those | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
opportunities into orders. He shared with stage with Morecambe | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
and Wise and man of the greats in British theatre. The Welsh comedian | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
and entertainer, Stan Stennett, has died. He was 88. He'd been a | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
performer on stage and screen for six decades. Our arts correspondent | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
Huw Thomas looks back at his life. A lifelong showman and entertainer, | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Stan Stennett shared the stage with some of the world's biggest stars. | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Over 60 years his variety acts brought friendly fun to theatres and | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
television screens. He was raised by his grandmother near Bridgend. Only | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
after the Second World War did he make it on stage where he performed | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
with some of the world because stars. Over 60 years his variety | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
acts brought friendly phone to theatres and TV screens. His career | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
on screen blossomed in the '60s and he counted household names among his | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
friends and fellow performers - Laurel and Hardy, Ken Dodd and | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
Morecambe and Wise. And remember the first time ever saw him on stage was | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
in 1955 and that was in the Empire in Swansea. I always remember he | :23:04. | :23:13. | |
used to throw bits of cake into the audience and one hits me in the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
eye! I was eight years of age and I'd never seen a pantomime before. | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
Right at the bottom of the ill was Morecambe and wise. They were right | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
at the very bottom. In the early 50s I met my friends Eric and Ernie. We | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
met in pantomime and we hit it off right away. We have something in | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
common right from the start. There was something, there was some | :23:42. | :23:50. | |
chemistry about it. In his long showbiz career, he also | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
had straight acting roles in TV dramas and soaps but the stage | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
remained his first love. Well into his 80s, Stan Stennett was | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
a regular fixture on the Welsh panto circuit thrilling new audiences with | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
classic, family fun. For his dedication to the theatre | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
and tireless charity work he was awarded the MBE and was a fellow of | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
He died in Cardiff last night, his family paying tribute to a great | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
life making people happy and doing a job he adored. | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Stan Stennett who has died at the age of 88. | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
Tonight's sport now. I rugby, Lions wing Alex Cuthbert will return for | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
Wales ahead of schedule for Saturday's test against Australia. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
He fractured a bone in his ankle in October and was told he'd miss the | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
whole autumn series. But he's made a faster than expected recovery just | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
in time to face the Wallabies. 2013 has been an incredible year for Alex | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
Cuthbert. His tries won the six Nations, then he scored in a Lions | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
test setup the series victory. Now he can end the year on a high after | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
recovering from a hairline fracture in his ankle. I worked incredibly | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
hard with the medical staff will stop it has been a tough few weeks. | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
Last week, it has been really well and I am glad it has worked out | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
well. Fly half was the tightest call for Warren Gatland for the Australia | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
game. He has gone with Dan Biggar ahead of Rhys Priestland. Scott | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Williams has recovered from a toe injury to partner Owain Williams at | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
centre. There is a first choice back three of George North, Alex Cuthbert | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
and Leigh Halfpenny. For Dan Biggar in particular it is an important | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
selection. Rhys Priestland got the nod ahead of him for South Africa. I | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
spoke to Rhys Priestland and said it was a tight call. We are going with | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
the fly half with the form of playing with a little bit more | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
confidence. The forward selection was predictable. Rhodri Jones as | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
tight head. Ian Evans should step up to join Alun Wyn Jones at lock. Dan | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
Lydiate keeps Justin Tipuric out of the back row trio. Today's team | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
announcement was brought forward a 48 hours. The move designed to stop | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
is being leaked to the media before the official release. Australia | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
should name their side on Thursday. Let's get the weather forecast with | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
Sue. A quiet spell of weather at the | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
moment. High pressure has been keeping things settled over the past | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
few days but a warm front sinks southward into tomorrow. That brings | :26:51. | :26:57. | |
thicker cloud. Tonight is increasingly cloudy, dry in the west | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
and drizzle further east. Still a risk of fog and mist but less cold | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
than recent night will stop above freezing for most. Tomorrow, a few | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
spots of drizzle, rather murky and cloudy. Some brighter spells in the | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
south but otherwise dull. North-westerly winds remain light | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
and temperatures at nine or ten degrees. Tomorrow night is cloudy, | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
not as cold and high pressure begins to slip away by Thursday. Last | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
settled and a dull day with further light rain or drizzle especially for | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
parts of north Wales will stop plenty of cloud around. Some rain | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
with spread southward early on Friday. Some brighter spells later | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
on. A more changeable and to the week and then high pressure builds | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
back for the weekend turning try and brighter Saturday. Colder and the | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
wintry field this weekend and no real signs of snow. The lead singer | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
of the band lost profits -- Lostprophets has pleaded guilty to a | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
string of offences. Thank you for watching. From all others on the | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
programme, good evening. | :28:16. | :28:17. |