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Good evening. In a major blow to the economy in Northeast Wales, the | :00:00. | :01:04. | |
electronics manufacturer Sharp is to end production of solar panels at | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
its factory near Wrexham. 250 workers are being made redundant. A | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
further 365 agency staff will lose their jobs. The company says it | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
can't continue to build solar panels at the site because of the costs | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
involved. Here's our business correspondent Brian Meechan. It has | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
been providing good well-paid jobs to the Wrexham area for almost 30 | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
years. They started off building microwaves. That business will | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
remain at the site. Next year would have been a decade since they began | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
producing solar panels. The company announced it would cease production | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
in February. Over 600 people will lose their jobs. They have been here | :01:50. | :01:57. | |
for almost four decades. It will have a huge impact on families and | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
Wrexham itself. Solar panels had been fitted in various locations | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
from council houses and Wrexham to the Eden Project in Cornwall. The | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
company says it can not continue to Manufacturer them in Wales for cost | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
reasons. We support the Welsh supply chain and if we install them | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
domestically on a house, Welsh homeowners will support panels made | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
in Wales. Most of what we do is tailored for the commercial market | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
and that is very sensitive. This is very location that a commercial | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
client with specified they will pay a premium for Welsh panels. The | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
company will be seeking voluntary redundancies. This is terrible news. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
650 families affected just before Christmas. At any time of year it | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
would be a huge blow, but it comes following the announcement by first | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
milk. We have to pull together. The Welsh Government will have to do | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
what it can to see whether we can all -- develop alternative lines for | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
production here. It could not be those names as workers face an | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
uncertain future. Let's talk to the MP for Wrexham, | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Ian Lucas. He joins us now from Westminster. Ian Lucas, your | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
reaction to this news. It is terrible news for Wrexham ethically | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
for those just before Christmas. It is a black day for the town. They | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
have worked so hard. Why has this happened? I think there are a number | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
of factors involved. There has been demand -- a deduction on demand | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
across Europe and there has been a deduction in domestic demand. You | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
mentioned that council houses and Wrexham are fitted with solar panels | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
put up with a grateful for this book for that. The extension across | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
social housing has been produced by the government. We also heard a lot | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
of loose talk about renewable energy policy which make it very difficult | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
when you are fighting for investment in a globalised economy to bring in | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
national companies to Britain. We have seen other companies go. We | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
fought very hard ten years ago for this production. The company will | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
disagree with your analysis. They say many of the panels are shipped | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
to Japan. Production is simply moving closer to where they are | :04:51. | :04:58. | |
sold. The reason they are being shipped to Japan is because of the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
collapse in the European market. The original investment was to feed the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
European market. This was a production line which was expanding | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
up until 2010. We have had a few thousand people working on the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
production line and Wrexham. The reduction in the workforce that has | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
taken place in the last two years is to to international factors but also | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
to domestic government policy as well. There is confusion about | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
renewable energy policy. It is a valuable resource for jobs. We are | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
desperately sad to be losing them today. What about the prospect for | :05:37. | :05:48. | |
hundreds of families? It is very difficult. I will do my utmost with | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
companies who are staying and Wrexham, they will be at retaining | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
their microwave production the top this day could have been even | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
blacker because they could have withdrawn from Wrexham entirely. We | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
will fight to bring new products to Wrexham. We got new products in | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
2004. We will try to do that again. The company have made a clear | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
statement tonight. This is quite simply about the product being sold | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
in greater numbers in Japan. Production is simply moving closer | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
to where it is sold in greater numbers because it is a cheaper way | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
of doing business. It is about the market isn't it? The company has | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
said to us that over the last year, almost all of these products have | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
been sold in Japan and it does not make economic sense to manufacture | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
solar panels relatively extensively in Wales when you are then sending | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
them over to Japan. There are various other places in Asia which | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
you could manufacture. China being the classic examples of you could do | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
it much cheaper and you would not have the transportation cost. It is | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
the rise in the Japanese market as well. These are hundreds of highly | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
skilled manufacturing jobs. What does it say about the state of the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Welsh economy? They are very well-paid jobs. The company has a 30 | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
year relationship with Wrexham. The global market is as it is. It is | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
cheaper in many ways to manufacture goods in some other countries and it | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
is difficult to compete with that unless you can upscale and provide | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
skills you cannot get anywhere else. Or you can manufacture goods that | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
you cannot manufacture elsewhere. We had the Federation of small | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
businesses this morning talking about household businesses taking on | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
workers and we had the biggest recruitment agency in with talking | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
about how workers are being taken on in the construction industry. A | :08:04. | :08:19. | |
quick statement tonight. It is they trigger the closure. It is of great | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
sadness to the company. That statement from DEC. Now the rest of | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
the names. -- news. Mark Bridger, the man convicted of | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
murdering April Jones, is seeking leave to appeal against the severity | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
of his sentence. In May a judge told him he'd spend the rest of his life | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
in prison after he was found guilty of abducting and murdering the five | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
year old. He's never said what happened to her body. April Jones | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
went missing from outside her home in Machynlleth in October last year. | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
The pink ribbon tied to railings at the centre of town for the second | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Christmas since her disappearance. The little girl has not been | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
forgotten here. In the months since the trial, the town is trying to | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
move on. I hope they do not grant him that. The tragedy still affect | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
everyone. They do not want to see him released. It is a horrendous | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
crime. He deserves to stay there for the full sentence. April Jones was | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
five when she went missing in October last year. Throughout his | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
trial, Mark Bridger denied murdering her that he said he did accidentally | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
kill her when he ran her over the top he never said what happened to | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
her body. In passing sentence the judge told him he was a glib liar | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
and a paedophile who have both sexual and morbid fantasies about | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
young girls. The judge jailed Mark Bridger for the rest of his life. | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
What the evidence show an act of pure evil was committed to stop only | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
backbencher knows the extent of that evil and he should look within | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
himself for continuing to cause this trauma for all the people of the | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
area but particularly the people most affected. Hull life sentences | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
and legally contentious. Others have successfully had their sentences | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
overturned on human rights grounds. He will be arguing that he should | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
have the right to appeal. The Mark Bridger, the start of another legal | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
process. We do not know how it will turn out. For the town, another | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
barrier to move on. A mine manager has pleaded not | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
guilty to manslaughter over the deaths of four miners at the | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Gleision Colliery. Malcolm Fyfield, on the left of your picture, was | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
manager of the drift mine in the Swansea Valley when it flooded in | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
September 2011. The company who operated it, MNS Mining, also | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
pleaded not guilty to corporate manslaughter charges at the hearing | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
at Swansea Crown Court. A woman who has admitted trafficking | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
crystal meth into Indonesia could be given a 16-year jail sentence. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
Andrea Waldeck, originally from Talgarth in Powys, had faced a | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
possible death sentence, but prosecutors have called for a jail | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
term and a 200,000-dollar fine. The former police community support | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
officer had been working for Gloucestershire Police until | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
February last year. The latest developments in Welsh | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
rugby now. Here's Claire. Good evening. It's been a busy day | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
at the home of welsh rugby with a series of meetings and one big | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
announcement. Wales coach Warren Gatland has signed a contract | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
extension that will keep him in charge of the national side until | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
the 2019 Rugby World Cup. But rumbling below the surface, the gap | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
between the Welsh Rugby Union and the regions seems to be wider than | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
ever. The regions have called for an independent public inquiry into | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
their funding. Gareth Lewis has been following the day's developments. | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
The award to keep coming from Warren Gatland. Coach of the year last | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
night and now he will become the first man to take Wales to three | :12:44. | :12:55. | |
world cups. For me, it was a big decision to want to continue but | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
hopefully what we have created. How many international players will be | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
playing in 2015 remains to be seen. Richard Hibbard became the latest to | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
leave. He will be at Gloucester next season. Warren Gatland said the | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
current uncertainty is affecting his players. A couple of performances in | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
the game against Australia were below par as a result of this was up | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
there was a lot going on in the players minds about their future and | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
the uncertainty over contracts. The legions called for an independent | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
enquiry into the way they are funded. They do not believe they get | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
a third and a slice of the cash. In private, the union pointed out the | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
legions have a seat on that board. The legions are still holding back | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
from training a new agreement with the Welsh Rugby union. They argue it | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
does not provide enough funding when wages are rising. If they do not | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
signed by New Year's Eve, the Welsh Rugby union could stop their | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
funding. In public, the union is saying very little. As you know, I | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
have always been an optimist. The glass is always half full and it | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
always solutions to be achieved. That has always been my position. It | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
is the battle for hearts and minds as the deadline approaches. The | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
union has been meeting fans groups this afternoon and is meeting the | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
players union this evening. Ashleigh Crowter is outside the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
Millennium for us tonight. A day of comings and goings and another | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
meeting just finished? Yes, a meeting has just finished and that | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
is a meeting taking place as we meet. That is a lot to lose if this | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
dispute cannot be sorted out. Over half an hour ago, we saw a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
delegation of regional rugby layers making their way in and among them | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
some senior internationals. I think the players feel they have not had | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
direct communication about the current dispute between the union | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
and the legions. They wanted to hear first-hand with things like. This | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
could have a major effect on their futures. Fans also had a meeting and | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
they have just left. They will go away and discuss between themselves | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
what happened tonight. We expect a statement tomorrow morning. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
I'll have more on the rest of the day's sport a little later. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Much more to come before seven o'clock. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
A discordant note for some Welsh musicians. They lose their royalties | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
battle for higher payment with the BBC. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
We're backstage on the set of the latest Hobbit film with one of | :16:10. | :16:10. | |
Hollywood's rising stars. Our supermarkets operate seven days | :16:11. | :16:23. | |
a week and now our top doctors may be called on to do the same. The | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
Welsh Government says it is looking at strengthening arrangements for | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
consultants to work at the weekend. The expert who's been tasked with | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
examining the idea for the Government says it is a radical | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
change with potential to help. Currently according to research | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
you're more likely to die if you are admitted to hospital on a Sunday | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
than in the week. They already have emergency care seven days a week in | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Newport. In other parts of Wales, who were consultants work at | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
weekends. It is because their contract that run up individually | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
and depend on their speciality and which has board employs them. | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Russell Hopkins has seen the issue from both sides and that the current | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
situation is endangering patients. A former consultant himself, when he | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
had a hip operation, congregations meant he was left with bladder and | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
nerve damage and he did not see a consultant for four days. On a big | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
case, I would pop in to see the patient and calm in the next day to | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
see that everything was well. The European working time directive has | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
changed things. Consultant contract have changed. The whole system has | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
changed that it has endangered patients by doing so. The latest | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
figures show why that is cause for concern. Hospital death rate on a | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
Wednesday are under 5.5% for the bed eyes and weekend and stand up more | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
than 6% at -- on Sunday. The government said some change will be | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
needed and it is looking to strengthen arrangements was up the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
British Medical Association believes the case has been made for change | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
but says it must be backed with money. We are talking about having | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
more consultant present at the weekend and the BMA is fully in | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
support of that. But without having more consultant, it will mean | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
consultant and not working during the week as much. If you view of | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
services in England has advised that senior doctors and key diagnostic | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
tests are available seven days a week. It is envisaged that these | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
plans could be applied to unscheduled care within the years. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
Anyways, that is growing that change must come. The Royal College of | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
physicians once what is happening here in Newport to be adopted across | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
the UK. An agency representing hundreds of | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Welsh language musicians has lost its bid to secure an annual payment | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
of ?1.5 million from the BBC. Eos has been in dispute with the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
Corporation over the amount of royalty fees that are paid when a | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
Welsh language artist is broadcast on radio and television. The | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
copyright tribunal has told the BBC to pay Eos ?100,000 a year. Our arts | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
and media correspondent Huw Thomas reports. | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
Just one of the hundreds of artists whose music is played on Roger | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Cumbria every week. The disagreement between the BBC and EOS has rumbled | :19:40. | :19:53. | |
on for more than a year for stop. ?100,000 is significantly lower than | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
what union members had hoped for. The legal team argued the music it | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
controls was worth more than ten times that and asked for ?1.5 | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
million a year. The BBC wanted to pay no more than ?100,000. At the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
beginning of this year as part of the dispute, EOS stopped the latest | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
edition from playing any of its music. We will fully comply to the | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
ruling and we will start negotiating again with the union to reach a full | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
and final settlement with them. Our focus will be providing a full | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
service for listeners. EOS said it will have to consult its members and | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
will hold an emergency meeting within weeks. Today's decision is | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
binding and this set until the end of 2015. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Denbighshire Council has hit back at the company which runs three of its | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
leisure facilities after it blamed the local authority for its poor | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
financial state. Clwyd Leisure said it may have to close swimming pools | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
in Rhyl and Prestatyn resulting in more than 70 job losses. But the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
council says none of its services are immune to cuts. Aber an leisure | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
services has been saving something in the region of ?100,000 per year | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
over the last six years whereas the corresponding figure for Clwyd | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Leisure has been ?50,000 over the same period. They have not been | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
targeted in any way with the subsidy reduction. | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
The rest of the day's sport now and Swansea City will face Napoli in the | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
last 32 of the Europa League. The Italian side who are managed by | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
former Liverpool and Chelsea manager Rafa Benitez narrowly failed to | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
progress in the Champions League. The Swans will be at home in the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
first leg on February 20. Meanwhile, the club are waiting for an update | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
on Nathan Dyer's ankle injury. The 26-year-old scored in their 1-1 draw | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
with Norwich yesterday but left the pitch on a stretcher after injuring | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
his foot in a tackle. Initial scans have shown no obvious break. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Olympic Champion Jade Jones has won silver at the World Taekwondo Grand | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Prix in Manchester. The 20-year-old from Flint thought she had won the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
final with a late head-kick, but officials ignored her appeal. Jade | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
says after a tough year of injuries and falling out of love with the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
sport, it's good to have some more success. | :22:21. | :22:37. | |
She did say she was fully focused on real -- Andrea De Ginola in 2016. -- | :22:38. | :22:51. | |
aren't going to Brazil in 2016. And finally, congratulations to | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Wales full back Leigh Halfpenny. After winning the Welsh vote last | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
week, he finished second to Andy Murray last night in the race to be | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
named BBC Sports Personality of the Year. The Lions were also named team | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
of the year. He left home at the age of 16 to | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
persue an acting career. Now Luke Evans is one of Hollywood's rising | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
stars. His latest film, the second in director Peter Jackson's Hobbit | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
trilogy, looks set to be one the hits of the year. Today, the actor | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
returned to his old stomping ground of Bargoed near Caerphilly to share | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
his adventures in the movie business. Carwyn Jones went along. | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
It has already made 74 million dollars in the US box office and | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
that is just in the opening weekend. The second instalment in the Hobbit | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
trilogy has been one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
year. You must listen. Luke Evans plays a heroic archer and that is a | :23:50. | :23:59. | |
Welsh accent. You have no right to enter that mountain. The producers | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
heard an interview with me and they thought it would be interesting to | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
try the character with a Welsh accent. The Welsh accent has now | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
become part of the legacy. He left school at 16 to try his hand at | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
acting. He found himself back in the classroom today. He gave a | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
masterclass to pupils from the film club. Topics ranged from slaying | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
dragons to possible future roles. I would probably like to play James | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
Bond. That is the final instalment of the Hobbit trilogy. It has | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
provided a role of a lifetime. From Middle Earth to meteorology. | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
Here's Derek. There is more strong wind and heavy | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
rain on the way later this week but tomorrow the best day of the week! | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Most places dry. Sunshine and light winds but watch out for fog patches. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
This evening a little rain in the south and southeast. Elsewhere dry. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
The cloud clearing after midnight and turning quite cold. Temperatures | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
inland falling close to freezing with a widespread slight frost. Mist | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
and fog patches forming as well. Tomorrow, we're in between weather | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
fronts. One lying through the English Channel. These fronts over | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
the Atlantic will reach us on Wednesday. Here's the picture for | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
eight in the morning. Cold but a fine and bright start for most of us | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
but not everywhere. Watch out for fog patches if you're travelling. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
These could be dense in places. Showers are possible in Bridgend and | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
the Vale of Glamorgan. Otherwise dry. Sunshine in Haverfordwest and | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
Aberystwyth. During the day, fog will slowly lift into low cloud but | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
may linger in the Marches all afternoon. Elsewhere some lovely | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
weather. Bright and dry with sunny spells. Temperatures will reach five | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
to nine Celsius. Cold where the fog lingers. The wind light but breezier | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
in the north and west. In Ceredigion tomorrow, a nice day. Dry with a | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
good deal of sunshine. Ideal for a walk on the coast. The temperature | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
in New Quay rising to seven Celsius. Tomorrow night dry. Some mist, fog | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
and ground frost in parts of Mid, North and East Wales. Windier and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
less cold in the west with rain by the end of the night. On Wednesday, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
rain will spread across the whole country. Some heavy rain too with | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
brisk southerly winds. Up to gale force in the west. Thursday | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
brighter, colder and less windy with showers. The showers wintry on | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
higher ground with a little snow on the mountains. Friday will start dry | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
but it won't last. Turning wet and windy during the afternoon and | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
evening. Make the most of the dry weather tomorrow and watch out for | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
fog patches! The headlines from the BBC. David Cameron has said it will | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
be showing accomplished when British forces leave Afghanistan next year | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
by helping to prevent the country from becoming a haven for terrorists | :27:10. | :27:18. | |
again. The other headlines, Sharp Electronics is to end production of | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
solar panels in Wrexham. 250 workers are to be made redundant. Other | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
agency staff will lose their jobs. I'll have an update for you here at | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
eight o'clock and after the BBC News at ten. That's Wales Today. Thank | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
you for watching. From all of us on the programme, good evening. | :27:40. | :27:41. |