:00:00. > :00:11.struggled with an Australian barrage all tour. Let's hope this guy has a
:00:12. > :00:17.Good evening. Heavy rain has brought flooding to parts of south and west
:00:18. > :00:20.Wales and continued to cause travel disruption. Fire crews have been
:00:21. > :00:23.dealing with calls from Pembrokeshire right across to
:00:24. > :00:28.Monmouthshire and there are still a number of flood warnings in place.
:00:29. > :00:32.Paul Heaney reports. Much of the Monmouthshire
:00:33. > :00:35.countryside is underwater. This pub and restaurant in the village of
:00:36. > :00:46.Trelech are bailing themselves out to try to save their Christmas
:00:47. > :00:51.trade. You can see up to here, that is how high the water was when we
:00:52. > :00:56.came down. That went into the pub and filled the pub with water as
:00:57. > :01:04.well. What does it mean for the business? We have had to phone all
:01:05. > :01:08.our Christmas Eve bookings for food, Christmas Day bookings, we can't do
:01:09. > :01:12.anything at all now. Fire fighters may have been invaluable here last
:01:13. > :01:14.night, but industrial action is planned by the Fire Brigades Union
:01:15. > :01:22.between 7.00pm and midnight tonight in a dispute over pensions. The
:01:23. > :01:27.weather conditions over the last 24 hours have shown what a magnificent
:01:28. > :01:30.job our firefighters do. There are contingency plans with each service
:01:31. > :01:35.in Wales to deal with any issues and they will have a major incident
:01:36. > :01:39.plan. With scenes like this in Carmarthenshire, travel plans for
:01:40. > :01:41.many have also been disrupted. A landslip on the line between
:01:42. > :01:45.Machynlleth and Newtown stopped trains on the Cambrian Line. And
:01:46. > :01:48.staff at Chepstow racecourse are hoping the Welsh National on
:01:49. > :01:51.Saturday won't be affected despite two days of heavy rain, although
:01:52. > :01:56.Boxing Day's race at Ffos Las in Carmarthenshire is now off.
:01:57. > :02:01.A postmortem has been carried out on a woman whose body was recovered
:02:02. > :02:04.from a stream in Gwynedd. Police and rescue teams were called to Nant
:02:05. > :02:08.Ffrancon near Bethesda yesterday. It's believed the woman, thought to
:02:09. > :02:13.be in her 40s or 50s, was checking her water supply. An inquest is
:02:14. > :02:15.expected to open after Christmas. Police aren't treating it as
:02:16. > :02:18.suspicious. The Russian authorities have dropped
:02:19. > :02:21.criminal charges against an activist from Newport accused of taking part
:02:22. > :02:25.in a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic. Anthony Perrett is among 30
:02:26. > :02:28.people who were arrested in September as they staged a protest
:02:29. > :02:37.at a Russian offshore oil rig. They've now been granted amnesty.
:02:38. > :02:43.It is a great relief to have the criminal proceedings finally
:02:44. > :02:48.dropped. My partner is with me in St Petersburg and it is one of the most
:02:49. > :02:54.beautiful cities in the world so not too worried about getting back for
:02:55. > :02:57.Christmas. The Archbishop of Wales will use the
:02:58. > :02:59.example of Nelson Mandela's life to focus on forgiveness and
:03:00. > :03:03.reconciliation during his Christmas message. Dr Barry Morgan will say
:03:04. > :03:07.the former South African president refused to hate those who had
:03:08. > :03:15.imprisoned him. He also says his highlights of 2013 included a vote
:03:16. > :03:20.on women bishops. I think for the Church in Wales, it
:03:21. > :03:24.is the bill to make it possible for women to be ordained as bishops.
:03:25. > :03:30.Some people are asking when that is going to happen. They have missed
:03:31. > :03:34.the point. The fact is, what the bill made possible was that at least
:03:35. > :03:38.women could be considered as candidates and that is the really
:03:39. > :03:40.important thing. The rest will come later.
:03:41. > :03:44.Well, after a miserable few days, are things going to improve for the
:03:45. > :03:50.rest of the festive period? Derek has the Christmas forecast.
:03:51. > :03:57.We have had just about everything thrown at us today. Thankfully the
:03:58. > :04:02.wind will continue to ease tonight but Father Christmas will need to
:04:03. > :04:05.watch out for some showers. Heavy in places with hail and snow on higher
:04:06. > :04:13.ground, including the Brecon Beacons. Christmas Day promises to
:04:14. > :04:19.be calmer. There will be showers around, most in parts of Powys and
:04:20. > :04:24.the South. A little bit of snow on some hills and mountains. Some dry
:04:25. > :04:28.and bright weather tomorrow as well and the wind lighter than today.
:04:29. > :04:35.Tomorrow night, a few showers here and there. A cold night. And on
:04:36. > :04:40.Boxing Day, fog and frost will lift and a few showers dotted around.
:04:41. > :04:42.Otherwise dry with sunshine. There is more wet and windy weather
:04:43. > :04:48.arriving by Friday. Don't forget, there'll be full
:04:49. > :04:51.updates on the weather and any disruption that's causing on our
:04:52. > :04:55.website, but that's it from the Wales Today team. From all of us,
:04:56. > :05:02.happy Christmas. it from us - we are back on Boxing
:05:03. > :05:15.Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas. Hello. The weather has been a little
:05:16. > :05:20.kinder today to travellers and last-minute Christmas shoppers
:05:21. > :05:26.across England and Wales. Not as bad as we feared across Northern
:05:27. > :05:27.Ireland. We have a warning out across parts of Scott and