:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: They're doing well but
:00:08. > :00:12.elsewhere the latest banding results see fewer schools making it into the
:00:13. > :00:15.highest band. But what does it all mean?
:00:16. > :00:17.I don't think it actually gives parents a right view of the school
:00:18. > :00:35.and its performance. Our other headlines tonight: An
:00:36. > :00:39.investigation is underway after a 14-year-old boy is found hanged in
:00:40. > :00:42.school grounds in Pembrokeshire. Our entire air ambulance cover along
:00:43. > :00:47.with one of our police helicopters is grounded for checks.
:00:48. > :00:50.Housing benefit changes. The man behind the overhaul to welfare tells
:00:51. > :00:53.us why the shake-up is good for Wales.
:00:54. > :00:57.Should electronic cigarettes be banned in public places? Health
:00:58. > :01:02.watchdogs say they undermine efforts to quit smoking.
:01:03. > :01:12.And demolish Colwyn Bay Pier. Councillors say it's now the end of
:01:13. > :01:15.the road. Good evening. How well is your child's secondary school
:01:16. > :01:19.performing? The latest banding results have been released with
:01:20. > :01:23.schools being put into one of five groups. And we've seen fewer schools
:01:24. > :01:29.making it into the top band compared to last year. So let's take a look
:01:30. > :01:34.at some of results. Ysgol y Moelwyn in Gwynedd has the best score in
:01:35. > :01:37.Wales. At the other end of the scale with joint worst scores, Barry
:01:38. > :01:41.Comprehensive in the Vale of Glamorgan and Coleg Cymunedol y
:01:42. > :01:44.Dderwen in Bridgend. And for the first time one school, Ferndale
:01:45. > :01:47.Community School in Rhondda Cynon Taf, has bounced from Band 5 last
:01:48. > :01:52.year, to Band 1 this year prompting concerns that the system is too
:01:53. > :01:58.volatile. Our education correspondent, Arwyn Jones has more.
:01:59. > :02:04.Cowbridge comprehensive school has some of the best GCSE results in
:02:05. > :02:08.Wales. But it's not in the top band. This year, like last year, it's in
:02:09. > :02:12.Band 2. Bands are calculated according to the results at GCSE.
:02:13. > :02:16.The overall performance in English, Welsh and mathematics.
:02:17. > :02:24.The attendance record of pupils and how the school improves the
:02:25. > :02:27.performance of the poorest pupils. There are issues regarding the
:02:28. > :02:30.banding system. I don't feel it necessarily gives parents and
:02:31. > :02:37.accurate or appropriate view of schools in Wales. You will know for
:02:38. > :02:41.example some schools have been in Band 1 and the following year the
:02:42. > :02:49.Aryan band three of one and number four. What does that tell parents
:02:50. > :02:52.about the schools? There is, however, plenty of room to celebrate
:02:53. > :02:56.in this school. Ferndale Community School in the Rhondda have managed a
:02:57. > :03:02.first. No other school has ever managed to jump from Band 5 all the
:03:03. > :03:08.way up to Band 1. It could lead to a ghetto system where certain bad
:03:09. > :03:14.schools never get the opportunity to improve. Pupils have automatically
:03:15. > :03:18.gone to the natural choice of school where now they might make more
:03:19. > :03:22.informed about where they would like to send their children. But when
:03:23. > :03:25.they were in Band 5, there was a range of support available to them.
:03:26. > :03:28.Money as well as consultants to improve the school. It's clearly
:03:29. > :03:35.succeeded, but how sustainable is the improvement? We have had the
:03:36. > :03:40.support from the director and his team and the funding to ensure that
:03:41. > :03:43.the strategies we put in place to succeed as sustainable will stop the
:03:44. > :03:47.offending dependent. Schools have bounced up and down the
:03:48. > :03:55.bands over the last three years. As a result, unions say they're pretty
:03:56. > :04:00.much meaningless. People did take them as gospel, the measure of the
:04:01. > :04:06.school. That is potentially damaging. For schools that were put
:04:07. > :04:10.into a low band, that low with their standing in the community and made
:04:11. > :04:13.the staff feel bad. We know realise the banding isn't something we
:04:14. > :04:16.should be worrying about too much. We hope that the public has the
:04:17. > :04:22.wisdom to see through it. But they're here to stay. Although
:04:23. > :04:26.there may well be changes in future. Banding will be a permanent feature
:04:27. > :04:31.of the educational landscape in Wales. I am currently taking a look
:04:32. > :04:37.at whether the banding mechanism is sensitive enough to measure that
:04:38. > :04:43.attainment gap, that stubborn attainment gap between those
:04:44. > :04:49.children from poorer households and the rest, which is a feature of the
:04:50. > :04:53.Welsh education system. I am not quite sure if the form and we use at
:04:54. > :04:57.the moment emphasises that element of things in. I am taking a look at
:04:58. > :05:00.it. So today, some will celebrate, others will wonder what's gone
:05:01. > :05:03.wrong. But since banding is here to stay, for most schools, there's
:05:04. > :05:10.always room to improve next year. Arwyn joins me now.
:05:11. > :05:15.It is a fine line between improvement and failure for want of
:05:16. > :05:25.another world. One headteacher I spoke with today said just 12 of his
:05:26. > :05:28.pupils secured a grade higher in GCSE, that would've then the
:05:29. > :05:35.difference between band for an Antoine. That is why it is difficult
:05:36. > :05:41.to think of a single issue which so unites the teaching unions in their
:05:42. > :05:45.opposition more than school banding. A great debate tonight
:05:46. > :05:49.about what we actually really learn from banding. The Welsh Government
:05:50. > :05:54.is absolutely adamant that banding is here to stay. The Education
:05:55. > :06:07.Minister said today, he refuted any idea of volatility. He said give all
:06:08. > :06:12.take eight out of ten school, we remained in the same band. Most of
:06:13. > :06:15.the pupils I spoke to saw it as a spur. They wanted to improve their
:06:16. > :06:21.standing compare to live there near a school. That is a good thing. The
:06:22. > :06:25.Education Minister saying there will be changes but more about the issue
:06:26. > :06:33.of how the deal with poverty, they infuriate the teaching unions. For a
:06:34. > :06:41.full list of all the secondary schools in Wales and which band they
:06:42. > :06:44.are in, go to our website. An investigation is underway tonight
:06:45. > :06:49.into the death of a 14-year-old boy found dead at a secondary school in
:06:50. > :06:56.Pembrokeshire. Our reporter Jenny Rees is in our Carmarthen newsroom.
:06:57. > :07:01.What more do we know? It is understood the 14-year-old
:07:02. > :07:05.boy's body was found around two o'clock. That is nearly wooded area
:07:06. > :07:12.near the school, this is Pembroke School. An area has been cordoned
:07:13. > :07:14.off by police. The police have confirmed they are investigating the
:07:15. > :07:20.circumstances surrounding the pupil's. It was reported pupils were
:07:21. > :07:25.in tears when they heard the news. Wien on the eve of the Christmas
:07:26. > :07:31.holidays, there is only a week left in term. The boy 's family have been
:07:32. > :07:34.told of his death. The Pembrokeshire coroner has been informed. The
:07:35. > :07:42.police have described this as a tragic death. School liaison
:07:43. > :07:46.officers have been at the school just to support the pupils at this
:07:47. > :07:49.difficult time for them. Pembrokeshire county council and
:07:50. > :07:52.expected to release a statement about the boy's death tomorrow.
:07:53. > :07:56.Police investigating allegations of historic child abuse in care homes
:07:57. > :07:59.in north Wales have arrested a man from Old Colwyn on suspicion of a
:08:00. > :08:03.number of physical and sexual assaults. The offences are alleged
:08:04. > :08:07.to have taken place against seven boys when they were between eight
:08:08. > :08:13.and 16 years old in the late 1970s and early '80s. The 76-year-old is
:08:14. > :08:19.the 18th person arrested as part of Operation Pallial.
:08:20. > :08:23.At one time it had 25 stores across Wales, now the DVD rental chain,
:08:24. > :08:27.Blockbuster, is closing all of its remaining stores within days.
:08:28. > :08:31.Administrators were unable to find a buyer. The company went into
:08:32. > :08:35.administration for a second time in October.
:08:36. > :08:38.Welsh MPs have urged the car manufacturer Ford to pay former
:08:39. > :08:43.Visteon employees their full pensions in a debate in the Commons.
:08:44. > :08:46.Visteon UK, which had a plant in Swansea, went into administration in
:08:47. > :08:51.2009 with hundreds of job losses in Wales. The majority of workers
:08:52. > :08:56.transferred to Visteon from Ford and were promised their terms and
:08:57. > :08:58.conditions would be protected. The company says it was not their
:08:59. > :09:11.responsibility once Visteon was created. They promised us our
:09:12. > :09:14.pensions would be OK. When the company went into administration
:09:15. > :09:17.that is proved not to be the case. Our pensions have been reduced, they
:09:18. > :09:22.are under threat, we just want Ford to pay up and sort out the
:09:23. > :09:24.attainment for the hard-working people who worked for the company
:09:25. > :09:27.for decades. Wales' three air ambulances and one
:09:28. > :09:30.of our police helicopters were grounded earlier because of safety
:09:31. > :09:33.concerns. Bond Air Services suspended flights of all of its
:09:34. > :09:38.EC-135s after a fault was found on one air ambulance in England. Our
:09:39. > :09:45.reporter Natasha Llewellyn is at Swansea Airport tonight, where one
:09:46. > :09:49.of the air ambulances is based. Just behind me through those gates
:09:50. > :09:54.is the Swansea Wales air ambulance base. This site along with two
:09:55. > :09:59.others in Caernarfon and Welshpool usually provide around 13 or 14
:10:00. > :10:04.hours every day of cover that that is not been the case this afternoon.
:10:05. > :10:08.Their fleet of helicopters have been grounded. Tonight, in the last few
:10:09. > :10:15.hours we have been told to have the helicopters are back in action. It
:10:16. > :10:17.has meant disruption to services. Taking a patient at Cardiff
:10:18. > :10:24.University Hospital of Wales earlier this week. Just one of the 2000
:10:25. > :10:28.life-saving journeys Wales is air ambulance is make each year. Similar
:10:29. > :10:33.services have been stopped across the UK after a defect is found of
:10:34. > :10:38.the Northwest England air ambulance. It is now being investigated by
:10:39. > :10:45.engineers. These emergency service helicopters operate in very
:10:46. > :10:50.difficult environments. As we saw in Glasgow, they operate over city
:10:51. > :10:54.sentence. It is right for a sensible operator to be cautious and that the
:10:55. > :11:01.circumstances. The EC-135 is the same model that crashed in Glasgow
:11:02. > :11:05.two weeks ago. Ten people died after a police helicopter came down on a
:11:06. > :11:09.busy pub. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch says it has
:11:10. > :11:13.found the evidence of major mechanical perception. A helicopter
:11:14. > :11:19.used by Gwent and south Wales Police has also been grounded. They say
:11:20. > :11:24.their cover for the region is being provided by the sources and safety
:11:25. > :11:27.is the number one priority. Operator Bond Air Services said in a
:11:28. > :11:34.statement its decision to temporarily suspend operations was a
:11:35. > :11:38.precautionary measure. Tonight, Wales air ambulance says two of
:11:39. > :11:45.their fleet have returned to service both checks were continuing on a
:11:46. > :11:48.third aircraft. Bond Air Services says they hope
:11:49. > :11:52.those final maintenance checks will be carried out by tonight so all
:11:53. > :11:57.helicopters can be back up and running. As it stands, one air
:11:58. > :12:01.ambulance service remains grounded and south Wales and Gwent Police
:12:02. > :12:04.forces remain affected. Wales will see greater benefits from
:12:05. > :12:07.welfare reforms than anywhere else in the UK, that's according to the
:12:08. > :12:11.Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. He spoke to our
:12:12. > :12:14.political editor, Nick Servini at a community centre in Pontarddulais
:12:15. > :12:38.where 11% of the working age population have never had a job.
:12:39. > :12:43.I think Wales for too long, has been neglected and we want to help reform
:12:44. > :12:48.and change that so that more people in Wales can't get the skills they
:12:49. > :12:51.need and get access to work. You're far too many people who somehow
:12:52. > :12:54.slipped through the grid of education and now find it difficult
:12:55. > :12:59.to be able to make any application. You'd if you can't write with
:13:00. > :13:03.applicant -- confidence, you can't write an application. If you can't
:13:04. > :13:08.communicate your interview is going to be a disaster. That is where we
:13:09. > :13:13.have to focus before we try to get somebody back into work. The
:13:14. > :13:18.greatest impact, from a positive or negative sense, your political
:13:19. > :13:21.opponents as the net effect will be about ?1 billion will be removed
:13:22. > :13:31.from the Welsh economy as a result of these welfare reforms. The key
:13:32. > :13:35.form the key thing is this will give people a shot to get back to work.
:13:36. > :13:39.We have a real problem with people living in overcrowded accommodation.
:13:40. > :13:43.Councils and governments have turned a blind eye to the fact they have
:13:44. > :13:46.lots build enough housing, we have to build more housing. An awful lot
:13:47. > :13:51.of people have been living in housing where the act and occupying
:13:52. > :13:58.that house. We are subsidising that wayward -- while we have people in
:13:59. > :14:02.overcrowded accommodation. There is a cry coming from people, families,
:14:03. > :14:07.cool as squatting in one room and the need to move into digger
:14:08. > :14:11.housing. We need to get that rationalised the people in larger
:14:12. > :14:15.houses can move will stop all importantly, it is about restoring
:14:16. > :14:20.the sense that if you want to stay in places like that you need to take
:14:21. > :14:23.on a bit more work, you need to work longer so we can have more work
:14:24. > :14:29.incentive into some of those groups and families living in those houses.
:14:30. > :14:32.When we have looked at the housing benefits, changes on the programme,
:14:33. > :14:38.time and time again the issue that comes up is there is a real shortage
:14:39. > :14:42.of smaller properties for people to move into. This is where councils
:14:43. > :14:50.need to think about what they are building and how they can convert
:14:51. > :14:55.larger homes. I have been talking to people across Wales and England,
:14:56. > :15:01.then a big house swap organisations. The councils don't want to use them
:15:02. > :15:05.but they are not counselled rant that people need to look at those
:15:06. > :15:11.websites. There are hundreds and thousands of moves and swaps going
:15:12. > :15:12.on. We do need to think about the problem of those in overcrowded
:15:13. > :15:15.accommodation. Much more to come before seven
:15:16. > :15:18.o'clock. Should electronic cigarettes be banned in public
:15:19. > :15:25.places? Health watchdogs say they undermine efforts to quit smoking.
:15:26. > :15:28.And it's the end of the pier show. At least if councillors in Conwy
:15:29. > :15:38.have their way. They've voted to demolish the Grade II-listed
:15:39. > :15:41.structure. Crime figures in the Gwent area
:15:42. > :15:45.could be 8% higher than first thought. That's one of the findings
:15:46. > :15:48.of a report which the area's police and crime commissioner Ian Johnston
:15:49. > :15:50.has ordered to be carried out. Official statistics suggest the
:15:51. > :15:54.force had a larger reduction in crime than anywhere else in Wales or
:15:55. > :16:03.England last year. Our Gwent Valleys reporter Paul Heaney is here.
:16:04. > :16:05.What concerns did he have? Crime figures error important to lots of
:16:06. > :16:15.people. We report on them every year. That is why this is it a big
:16:16. > :16:18.deal. Ian Johnston thinks there was a problem in Gwent Police with the
:16:19. > :16:21.way in which they were being recorded. It was one of the
:16:22. > :16:28.criticisms of one of the previous chief constables. If crime
:16:29. > :16:32.statistics were low last year and it takes a rise, he thinks there might
:16:33. > :16:38.be an issue here. What did the review look at? Id looked back to 50
:16:39. > :16:41.incidents in July and in more than half of those incidents he found
:16:42. > :16:49.things were not being recorded as crimes when they should've been. He
:16:50. > :16:53.asked the victims what they thought and 90% thought they had a very good
:16:54. > :17:01.service from Gwent Police. He talked to police officers and sat, looked
:17:02. > :17:05.at the Home Office report, guidance, and look at the incidents and tried
:17:06. > :17:10.to marry them up. That is where we get that 8% figure from. This report
:17:11. > :17:14.will be published tomorrow, officially. It will be handed over
:17:15. > :17:21.to the elected officials in the Gwent and crime panel. -- Gwent
:17:22. > :17:24.police and the panel. Ian Johnston will give us his reaction after the
:17:25. > :17:28.meeting tomorrow. Electronic cigarettes should be
:17:29. > :17:31.banned in public places. Public Health Wales says they undermine
:17:32. > :17:36.efforts to encourage people to quit smoking. It also says users can't
:17:37. > :17:39.tell if they're safe. But the industry, and many of those who've
:17:40. > :17:41.taken up so-called "vaping" disagree, and say e-cigarettes help
:17:42. > :17:49.people quit far more harmful tobacco products.
:17:50. > :17:51.Some look like the cigarettes they designed to replace, others not,
:17:52. > :17:56.festooned in fashionable colours filled with exotic flavoured
:17:57. > :17:59.liquids. It's a growing business helping those trying to quit smoking
:18:00. > :18:03.but also attracting many who have never smoked. Despite the
:18:04. > :18:05.significant health benefits over tobacco-based products, Public
:18:06. > :18:14.Health Wales wants them banned in public as they say it normalises
:18:15. > :18:19.smoking. We understand very little about the potential impact, we have
:18:20. > :18:23.a theoretical risk that the safest thing from us to do is to say they
:18:24. > :18:27.should not be allowed and should be regulated like any other tobacco
:18:28. > :18:28.product until we have real assurances they weren't any
:18:29. > :18:31.concerns. Those selling the vaporisers say
:18:32. > :18:34.they're proving very popular. This company in Cardiff has 16 branches
:18:35. > :18:39.across the country, and is expanding rapidly. They're in favour of
:18:40. > :18:42.industry regulation and believe that despite there being a small amount
:18:43. > :18:49.of nicotine in some electronic cigarettes, they're perfectly safe
:18:50. > :18:54.and a public ban is not necessary. I think it is crazy because as I
:18:55. > :18:57.say, when you inhale it than nicotine stays in your body and what
:18:58. > :19:06.comes out is the vapour. If they are going to and that what are they
:19:07. > :19:15.going to ban next? Coffey? T? This is an electronic cigarette. This end
:19:16. > :19:19.has liquid nicotine with a battery over here. They give the smoker then
:19:20. > :19:23.nicotine hit. Unlike normal cigarettes you don't get to heart
:19:24. > :19:25.and it is tar in normal cigarettes that kills.
:19:26. > :19:27.Many ex-smokers have found electronic cigarettes have helped
:19:28. > :19:37.them quit smoking in favour of so-called "vaping" and they feel
:19:38. > :19:42.healthier for it. My loan capacity has improved. I work out and my
:19:43. > :19:49.cardio has improved. I know of for five people who have used it have
:19:50. > :19:52.never smoked again. It is two months now I have been on this and I
:19:53. > :19:55.haven't touched a cigarette. But Prestatyn GP, Dr Eamonn Jessup,
:19:56. > :19:58.who's also a spokesman for the British Medical Association, says
:19:59. > :20:01.there's a danger users could become addicted to nicotine which brings
:20:02. > :20:07.its own health problems. Many have got nicotine, many have chemicals
:20:08. > :20:11.in. I would feel uncomfortable in a lift as somebody who was smoking one
:20:12. > :20:17.of these cigarettes. Having said all of that, perhaps in some patients
:20:18. > :20:23.when it is critically important they stop smoking it can be used as an
:20:24. > :20:28.aid. The day -- despite today's call, the recent poll for the BBC
:20:29. > :20:31.reported the majority of people questioned supported the use of
:20:32. > :20:35.electronic cigarette in public places.
:20:36. > :20:39.Knock it down. That was the verdict today on Colwyn Bay's ailing century
:20:40. > :20:43.old pier. It's been closed for five years and is falling into disrepair.
:20:44. > :20:47.There had been plans to restore the pier at a cost of up to ?15 million
:20:48. > :20:54.but Conwy councillors have been told there's now doubt over hoped-for
:20:55. > :20:58.grant aid. Here's Roger Pinney. They were putting up signs today,
:20:59. > :21:02.nothing to do with the planned demolition, just warning people to
:21:03. > :21:05.keep away from a structure now in a pretty sorry state. The ?50 million
:21:06. > :21:10.restoration was planned today councillors were told they were
:21:11. > :21:14.unlikely to get the grounds they needed to pay for it. There was a
:21:15. > :21:19.prospect the authority would have to pick up the tab. It is a major risk
:21:20. > :21:25.and we take -- can't take it in this day and age. We don't know what kind
:21:26. > :21:31.of funding is going to come through. As a council it is a common-sense
:21:32. > :21:39.approach. There is a shortfall of ?6 million. In its heyday the pier was
:21:40. > :21:44.Colwyn Bay's main attraction. In truth it had been in decline for
:21:45. > :21:49.decades. A string of private owners fail to deliver a restoration. The
:21:50. > :21:54.council took over last year but its ownership is the subject of legal
:21:55. > :21:59.action. The man behind that action warned it could ramble on through
:22:00. > :22:03.the courts for months if not years. Campaigners insist they will
:22:04. > :22:06.challenge attempts to remove the peer's listed status. It would have
:22:07. > :22:16.to happen before demolition. The fight goes on. Pier Even to demolish
:22:17. > :22:23.the pier there are significant challenges ahead. We are urging the
:22:24. > :22:29.public to get behind and lobby their councillors to get this decision
:22:30. > :22:33.reversed. The decision of the current investigation won't come
:22:34. > :22:37.through until next June, assuming that decision comes fully in my
:22:38. > :22:41.favour. If it doesn't, I will appear at again to the High Court which
:22:42. > :22:47.will take until the end of the year to get a resolution. This seems set
:22:48. > :22:53.to ramble on and on. The reserve prominence of a challenge to the
:22:54. > :22:57.list the pier. The peer has been standing here for more than 100
:22:58. > :23:02.years, my guess is it'll be standing for a few years yet.
:23:03. > :23:07.Swansea City are on the brink of qualifying to the next stage of the
:23:08. > :23:14.Europa League. They're currently in action in a foggy Switzerland. The
:23:15. > :23:23.Swans need a point tonight and they will be comfortably through to the
:23:24. > :23:26.knockout stages of the tournament. Leigh Halfpenny is the latest Wales
:23:27. > :23:30.star being linked with a move to France with both Toulon and Clermont
:23:31. > :23:33.appearing to be interested in the full-back. The publication, The
:23:34. > :23:36.Rugby Paper, is claiming the British and Irish Lions full-back has
:23:37. > :23:41.decided he'll leave Wales when his contract expires at the end of the
:23:42. > :23:45.season. The 24-year-old won the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of
:23:46. > :23:48.the year on Monday. The Dragons will be looking for
:23:49. > :23:52.their second straight win over Bordeaux. The Dragons currently sit
:23:53. > :23:55.three points behind pool leaders Bath after recording an impressive
:23:56. > :24:00.win over the French side at Rodney Parade last Friday.
:24:01. > :24:03.The short list for the Artes Mundi prize has been announced. Artists
:24:04. > :24:08.from eight countries have made the list. The award is the UK's biggest
:24:09. > :24:11.cash prize in the Visual Arts and happens every two years. An
:24:12. > :24:14.exhibition of the short listed works opens in October next year before
:24:15. > :24:16.the winners is announced in January 2015.
:24:17. > :24:29.Let's get the weather picture now. It is still fairly mild for December
:24:30. > :24:36.is with highs of 13 Celsius today and it will remain mired tonight.
:24:37. > :24:41.But it will bring in cloud and rain. We had a lot of cloud around this
:24:42. > :24:44.afternoon. There will push through quickly thanks to the wind but the
:24:45. > :24:50.temperature is not shifting very much from the daytime values. At
:24:51. > :24:53.lowest around 10 Celsius. We have got another cold fronts bringing in
:24:54. > :24:57.more rain tomorrow and a ridge of high pressure settling things down
:24:58. > :25:01.tomorrow night. It is very brief as we will see another weather front
:25:02. > :25:05.bringing in wet and windy conditions through Saturday. First thing
:25:06. > :25:10.tomorrow morning, strong winds from the south. The good news, by the
:25:11. > :25:15.afternoon we will see brighter conditions especially parts of
:25:16. > :25:22.Pembrokeshire writer to Anglesey. Temperatures reaching a high of 13
:25:23. > :25:27.Celsius. Tomorrow night, fairly quiet night to come. It will feel
:25:28. > :25:30.cold compared with the night. We have clear skies, light winds.
:25:31. > :25:37.Temperatures will lead to single figures. Three Celsius along the
:25:38. > :25:41.border. The wind will pick up again as you go through Saturday but first
:25:42. > :25:46.thing on Saturday morning, it is a bright start. Fairly quiet and quite
:25:47. > :25:52.quickly we will see the next weather system making its way in from the
:25:53. > :25:55.west. We will have rain for the afternoon across parts of Anglesey
:25:56. > :26:00.to Pembrokeshire. It is still fairly mild with highs of 10 Celsius in the
:26:01. > :26:06.Brecon Beacons, 12 Celsius in north-east Wales. Saturday night
:26:07. > :26:11.will see the rain band pushing eastwards. It will clear by Sunday.
:26:12. > :26:16.On Sunday and Monday to be quiet. It will be cloudy with outbreaks of
:26:17. > :26:26.rain at times. Breezy as well through the start of early next
:26:27. > :26:33.week. We would love to see more of your pictures. Please send them in.
:26:34. > :26:37.The forecast for next week it will become unsettled, rain times, some
:26:38. > :26:44.brightness but still remaining mild for December. The average
:26:45. > :26:46.temperatures for December is seven degrees but we will stick -- hold on
:26:47. > :26:51.to the double figures. degrees but we will stick -- hold on
:26:52. > :26:55.to the She was secondary schools in Wales have achieved the highest band
:26:56. > :27:00.rating compared to last year. That is according to performance ratings.
:27:01. > :27:06.20 secondary schools have been placed in Band 1 compared to 28 in
:27:07. > :27:11.2012. The Education Minister has rejected criticism that the system
:27:12. > :27:14.is volatile. An investigation is underway into
:27:15. > :27:19.the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found hanged at a secondary
:27:20. > :27:24.school in Pembrokeshire. Dyfed Powys Police discovered the boy this
:27:25. > :27:26.afternoon in woodland near Pembroke conference of school reception. His
:27:27. > :27:33.family and the coroner have then informed.
:27:34. > :27:37.I'll have an update for you here at eight o'clock and again after the
:27:38. > :27:40.BBC News at ten. That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching from all of
:27:41. > :27:42.us on the programme, good evening.