03/01/2014 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today, our top story: People who live on Aberyswyth

seafront are told to leave their homes. Sea defences are simply

smashed as the storm surge. Elderly people rescued from their

ruined homes taking nothing with them but the clothes they're

wearing. The great storm washes away railway

lines bringing travel disruption to thousands of passengers.

Tonight's other headlines: Last seen taking out the rubbish. Police step

up their search for teenager Nida Ul-Naseer. Now her sister appeals

for help. We just want to tell her that she is

not in trouble. We all love her. We all love you, Nida. Just come home.

Margaret Thatcher's secret meeting with the miners' wives. Declassified

files tell the inside story of the strike.

Good evening. In tonight's sport, on the eve of his first game in charge,

the new man at Cardiff City enjoys a kick about with his players.

Good evening. Wales is still on weather watch tonight after high

tides and strong winds caused disruption across the country. Homes

flooded, trains cancelled, roads closed and sea defences ruined, all

this as high tides brought havoc along the coast. Tonight, people

living along the seafront in Aberystwyth and the Which? Are

advised to leave their homes. Our reporter Abigail Neal is in Cardigan

where houses had to be evacuated earlier today.

I am standing alongside the river here and you may be able to see in

the background the water is just creeping up. We had two hours away

from high tide and people are very nervously waiting here. You can see

some precautionary sandbags they have put in place. They weren't

enough this morning when the highly tide hit just after 9am. The water

gushed along this street. You can see people up ahead clearing out and

assessing the damage. It reached the Pope in the background, flooding 30

homes. You can see, the floodgates people have put in place. They are

keeping them there because they know the worst is not over. We are being

told tonight that the area of most concern is Aberystwyth and Borth.

People should be evacuated. High tide is expected around 9:20pm and

they are warning that high winds brings substantial risk of more

flooding. Dramatic, damaging and destructive.

The powerful tidal storm in a blistering brought misery to many.

Several hotels were flooded. Neighbours were standing behind the

plate glass window and it's just caved in. Nobody was injured. It

went straight through the building and at the back. We are expecting it

again tonight but this time around there is wind. This morning, there

wasn't. This wind will cause a lot of damage and fortunately. In

Carmarthenshire, this castle was surrounded by a giant moat. At a

high tide the STV water normally reaches that skip. Today it

overturned it and continued through the village. This is about the worst

we have seen for years. You are very lucky the rain water did not come

down the road as well. It meets and makes a huge mess. This time, it is

just the Tidewater. Just after 7am, the first high tide hit the south

west. Desperate attempts to protect property here failed as the flood

defences broke within minutes. This hotel owner says he did not have

enough floodgates to keep the water out. We put the floodgates up that

we were supplied with. We sandbagged this area because a new it was going

to flood. As you can see, we can't stop it. Further north in Barmouth

where severe flood warning was issued, an injured man was rescued

by boat. All morning people had been clearing and assessing the damage.

In Gwynedd, the RNLI saved for people from a flooded farmhouse. Two

more had to be evacuated in Kennedy gym. The river burst its banks

flooding 30 homes in Cardigan. The floodgates will hold for quite some

time to stop they have done a lot of good in if you properties. They have

reduced the amount of water going into a property. I don't think in

these circumstances anything will be one and percent effective. Even

though the floodgates have held, the water has found other ways into the

property such as through vents. This river in Carmarthen was similarly

high. No football matches here today as police cordoned off roads to stop

people getting too close. Prepared sea defences just about managed to

hold back the sea after they were breached last month. But in

Pembrokeshire, the wall and part of the road gave way under the force of

the waves. It is a warning tonight of more high tides to come. We may

not have weathered the storm just yet.

Let me show you again be seen from Cardigan here tonight. You can see

all the flood defences still in place. People are starting to mill

around, looking at that river nervously to see what is coming. We

are being told that Ceredigion Council warning their biggest areas

of concern are Aberystwyth and Borth. They are expecting six foot

waves above sea level termite at high tide. We're going to hear more

from there now. Flooding has also caused chaos for

rail services across Wales. Many services were cancelled this morning

and passengers forced to take buses with huge delays.

A railway line close to the sea. Part of the track washed away today

showing how devastating weather like this can be. The rain in Gwynedd was

stuck after being caught up in the storm. At Cardiff Central passages

were looking for a way home after many lame -- mainline routes were

cancelled this morning. The London Paddington rain is delayed because

of flights between Newport and Cardiff. We have been delayed a lot,

two hours now because the line is off. I started at half past eight

for Manchester, I think we have got two more bus journeys to go.

Services from Newport to Carmarthen were badly affected and replacement

buses were put in place. The disruption didn't stop there.

The Holyhead to Chester lines were also down. As well as Machynlleth to

Pwllheli. We apologise to passengers for the disruption today. Without

these signalling the trains can't go anywhere. The engineers are out

working hard to try to rectify the problem. Trains are back up and

running in Cardiff Central but station managers tell the deep

deception could continue into the weekend as the bad weather is

expected to continue. The advice to passengers is to check before you

travel to avoid delays. But delays were unavoidable today

even when services were back on track, they were very limited. After

a day of travel chaos, passengers hope the situation will improve.

So high tides and strong winds causing this flooding. It's the next

high tide that we now need to watch. So tonight high tide in Conwy is 19

minutes past midnight and 12.36pm tomorrow afternoon. In Aberystwyth,

9.17pm this evening and 9.40am in the morning. And Milford Haven,

7.45pm tonight and 8.07am tomorrow morning.

The family of a teenager, missing from her

the family of a teenager missing from her Newport home has made an

emotional appeal for her to come home. 18-year-old Nida Ul-Naseer

hasn't been seen since last Saturday. Her sister Naila Anwar

said, they missed her desperately and stressed she was not in any

trouble. Gwent Police say there had been an argument at home, which

could have upset her. Nick Palit reports.

Accompanied by the Assistant Chief Constable of Gwent, Nida's sister,

Naila, made an appeal on behalf of the family for her to come home. The

18-year-old hasn't been seen since last Saturday night and the family

are desperately worried. We all love you. Just come home. We want to tell

you, if anyone knows about her, tell the police. We are very worried

about, we are all worried about her condition. The most willing thing is

she has missed mums birthday which is not like her. Wearing blue jeans

and a black top she was last seen as she put the bins out. She had

neither her purse nor mobile phone with her. On the front door of the

family home there's a simple message they hope Nida will see.

We believe she may have had a verbal disagreement within the helm. It

could have upset her. It could have led to two leaving. Whilst we are of

course the doing in about lines of enquiry that is no information at

this stage to suggest she was picked up in a vehicle at all. Tomorrow

it'll be week since she went missing here. Despite extensive searches and

house-to-house enquiries please have drawn a blank. They say they are

concerned especially as she does not have her medication for anaemia

which she needs. They say anyone with any information should contact

them. Newly-released government papers

reveal how the prime minister Margaret Thatcher secretly met the

wives of working miners during the strike of 1984 to 1985. The meeting,

in Downing Street, was held at the request of the wife of a south Wales

miner who had defied the strike. Here's our parliamentary

correspondent, David Cornock. We will fight and die in the attempt.

It is a dispute that divided Britain. A defining moment for trade

unions and the government. 21,000 minus walkabout in South Wales in a

strike. It was then a nationalised industry. Documents from the Prime

Minister 's files released today gives an insight into the government

's thinking as a talk on the miners. Buried in the Prime Minister 's

papers, we find propaganda sheets from the South Wales NUM. You don't

need me to imagine Margaret Thatcher 's reaction when she read the

headline, strike breaker is a traitor above a photograph of a

police officer described as black flags. The papers reveal how

Margaret Thatcher held at private meeting with the wives of working

miners after receiving a letter from one whose husband defied the

strike. In a draft statement about the meeting, it was never issued,

Margaret Thatcher changed the word sympathy to understanding. She felt

she had a magic touch. Shoot would have wanted to meet them and

believed their determination would have been galvanised a tried to

persuade otherwise. A ministerial committee on Cole met regularly to

plan the government strategy but the Welsh Secretary's request to join it

was refused. He says his priority was to bring new industries to Wales

rather than focus on one in inevitable decline. It was agony for

the people involved. But in terms of impact on Welsh economy and Wales in

general, it has been exaggerated. The government maintained it had

enough coal stockpile to win the strike. Privately, it is less

confident. At one point we see the government is discussing procedures

for calling a state of emergency and that really shows us they were

talking about taking things to another level to try to ensure power

stations remained operational. But the government held its nerve and in

March 1985 the strike ended in defeat for the miners. Pit closures

followed a mother last deep mine in Wales closing six years ago. Back

now to our top story. People living on the seafront in Aberystwyth and

Borth are being advised to leave their homes or stop our reporter is

in Aberystwyth for rest. What is the latest on the evacuation?

Residents are being advised to leave their homes and this evening I have

seen quite a few residents walking along this old Victorian promenade

carrying luggage. They are heeding advice and spending the night at a

school. But there are quite a lot of students living here. They are not

as tempted to go and find safety in the school. Some are tempted to stay

and watch. It is a dangerous ones. We added affecting high tide to hit

at nine o'clock tonight. How much were are we expecting things to

get? We have seen pictures about the damage to those sea defences.

Earlier the high tide hit around nine o'clock this morning and some

of those pictures are terrible. Just further up the seafront is part of

this railing, about six metres of it, has been ripped away from the

promenade and it is lying on the ground. The road is littered with

debris. If anything -- if it is anything like it was this morning,

he waves could be high. I was speaking to a professional

photographer earlier and some of the ways reached as high as the 5-storey

buildings. There is a severe flood warning here and that means there is

a danger to life. It could be very serious. Thank you very much. We

will have more on this after our News at ten.

It's been a landmark week for immigration. Romanians and

Bulgarians have gained unrestricted rights to work across the European

Union. Last night we looked at how our schools and hospitals have been

shaped by a changing population. Tonight our reporter Charlotte

Dubenskij has been to Llanelli where a large number of Polish immigrants

came to live searching for work. This woman was born in Poland. She

has called Langley her home for the last five years. She is one of

thousands of migrants from Poland who came to the UK to find a better

life. I finished school in Poland and then my father invited me to

come to the UK to work for their holiday break. When I came I was

working and then I thought, I'm going to stay. It was a better life.

Though the influx hasn't always been this move process. There has only

been one negative in all the time we have had Polish people coming here

and that is streets drinking by single males. Not family people.

Just single males. In 2001 there were 62 people living in

Carmarthenshire born in Poland. In 2011 that increased to more than

2000. A jump of over 3000%. There have been concerns over people

migrating here to claim benefits. But the figures for Carmarthenshire

don't seem to act that up. In May 2004, there were around 22,000

benefit claimants in the county, nine News later that fell to just

over 19,000. -- nine years later. This weekend the borders open for

people from Romania and Bulgaria. No little bit of language to

communicate, what you want to do. This is the most important thing

when you come. That is it. To be honest, to know where you are going

and to who you are going. She works in the Polish Welsh centre in

Llanelli where she helps other polls find work or stop concerns were

raised that Polish people could take jobs from locals but a decade later

many say the influx has been positive. The amount of money that

has been earned by Polish people are brought into the community has been

quite considerable. They have bought in the shops. But workers have

offered Wales many opportunities. The fate of this talent is just as

important to her as someone who was born here. Tonight's top sport

stories now, here's Claire. Good evening. Cardiff City's new

manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was straight into work today as prepares

for his first game in charge. It's all about the FA Cup this weekend.

The Bluebirds are away to Newcastle tomorrow in the third round, while

Swansea City travel to Manchester United on Sunday.

Getting to know his players. Cardiff City's new man looked at ease this

morning as he enjoyed the kickabout tooling his first training session.

His first test is a trip to Newcastle tomorrow in the FA Cup.

Having observed the team play from the sidelines, he is keen to

implement his philosophy on them as soon as possible. Every time you

train, every time you go out onto the page, no matter if it is a

training session, league cup, the FA Cup or the Premier League, you put

pressure on yourself or stop that pride tells you to go out and do

your best. That is what we have to do. For the players it is time to

concentrate on a new chapter and impress the new boss. It is a new

quest for all of us. A young manager, wanting to achieve things.

He has got belief in himself, the way he plays for all. The way he was

brought up. He knows a lot about the game, obviously. It is a really

exciting time. Kansas City travel to Manchester United hoping to bounce

back from a slump in form. Michael Laudrup has admitted he would like

to add players during the transfer window after a mounting injury

list. Hernandez the latest casualty. Despite more wet weather forecast

over the weekend, Newport County's game against Northampton is set to

go ahead. Their last two matches have been postponed at Rodney Parade

but as things stand the page is playable. Wrexham, who are 15th in

the table, and at home. A welcome Aldershot.

As things settle down at Cardiff City, there's still no sign of any

resolution in Welsh rugby. The four regions are waiting to see the

latest proposals from the Welsh Rugby Union after they confirmed

plans to offer a new agreement for the future of the game here.

Tonight, the Ospreys welcome the Scarlets to the Liberty Stadium,

eight days after beating them in the Boxing Day derby. A little earlier I

spoke to former Wales captain Gwyn Jones and asked with the Scarlets

out for revenge, what kind of battle he was expecting?

It is a Welsh derby over the Christmas period so it is going to

be a battle of the two forward packs a stock we can moan about the

weather but it is always this when the two teams meet. From that point

of view the Scarlets have improved considerably especially in the set

piece so they will be a tougher opposition. Whereas the ospreys have

swatted Welsh packs aside, we're not quite as dominant as they used to

be. I think their parties too strong and Dan Biggar will be controlling

the show. Given the uncertainty of where things will start next

season, these derbies have extra pressure. They want to finish as

high up on the table as possible. We have no idea how Europe will pan out

over the coming months. Teams were 1-2 finish in the top six. Bite

might be one of the criteria to competing in the European criteria

Vostok -- European competition. If there is any deal with a certain

number of Welsh teams available you need to finish as high as possible.

If we had a crystal ball, with the Welsh Rugby Union be saying they are

going to offer the region is new Deal? What kind of deal do you think

the readers want to see on the table? -- the regions wants to see

other table? The regions wants more money on the table. They say they

can't hold onto the star players they have got and they can't compete

with France and England. The union, they may offer a little bit more

money or may restructure the participation agreement to fund

individuals rather than the four regions themselves. It will start

the centrally contracting position in Welsh rugby. However, I think the

WRU are not going to offer significantly extra money. They have

had the stars for years, they have grossly underperformed, why should

they get more money for stars to underperform? Both sides are digging

in and until you read is decided we were not see an end to this

dispute. And you can watch the game live on

S4C tonight with English subtitles. Coverage starts from seven o'clock.

That's it from me, have a lovely weekend. Jamie.

It's a gritty police drama which has already attracted critical acclaim.

After being shown on S4C, the drama Hinterland will air on BBC One Wales

tomorrow night. It includes dialogue in both English and Welsh, the first

time both languages have played a prominent role in a drama series

broadcast by the BBC. Here's Tomos Dafydd.

A dark, criminal world set against the stunning backdrop of West Wales.

This is Hinterland. Keep to the left please sir. Daily conversation in

this part of the country often gets from Welsh to English and back again

and those behind the drama want it to reflect this. I think it is very

brave and play nearing in a way. It is how we live our lives. We don't

live in on the plot society. For me, it does reflect a more honest

picture of what it is like to live in Wales. You do speak Welsh and

English. Known as Y Gwyll in Welsh it focuses on Thomas fires who has

abandoned his life in London. The drama on as for seed proved popular

with more than a quarter of the orders from outside Wales. Whether

drama filmed in Cardigan is moving channels, some of the most dialogue

remains. There are certain characters in this drama who you

would not imagine any -- anything else that Welsh coming out of his

mouth. Hinterland has drawn comparisons with the hit series the

killing. The broadcaster behind the Danish drama has already bought the

Welsh production. It says the rugged mid Wales landscape and the darker

tone of the programme will appeal to a Scandinavian audience. But before

it goes international, viewers will be able to watch the drama unfold

tomorrow night at 9:30pm on BBC One Wales.

The weather has been pretty dramatic. Here's Behnaz with the

forecast. We're not done with Asti weather

just yet. The yellow warning for the wind and rain still in place. We

have the strong winds and the high tide as well. We have the showers

ruling in mixed with hail and thunder. A nastier night to come.

Overnight averages getting down to two Celsius.

If you are worried about flooding, you can call the flood line number

for further information. Tomorrow, the winds will ease. Still

noticeable. We have heavy showers in the morning. Falling snow in higher

levels that easing by the afternoon across parts of mid and north Wales

a stop heavy showers continuing in south-east Wales. It will feel

colder than today but at least we're done with much of the wind and rain.

As we go through tomorrow night, though showers will continue for a

time to stop it could be wintry and higher ground. Overnight, becoming

drive. We will see is clear skies, some mist and fog forming and

temperatures around freezing. The next area of low pressure heading

our way on Sunday, we will be keeping an eye on that. With that

comes the wind and rain but I don't think it'll be as bad as today.

Affecting Northern mostly. For S, it is a dry start. But as we go through

the day rain. Our top story again tonight. Another

massive winter storm has battered the entire west coast of the UK with

winds of up to 90mph. Homes have been flooded and roads closed across

Wales. Tonight, people living along the seafront in Aberystwyth and

Borth are being advised to leave their homes.

I'll have an update for you here after the BBC News at ten. That's

Wales Today. Thank you for watching. From all of us on the programme,

good evening.