17/01/2014 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: 140 jobs will go at the

Kellogg's factory in Wrexham. Unions say it's a kick in the teeth for the

workforce and it's yet another blow for employment in the area.

Also tonight: An inquest into the death of Fred Pring hears how

ambulances were delayed and queuing outside hospitals, one for nearly

five hours, as he waited for help. Despite extensive searches around

Newport the whereabouts of Nida Naseer remains a mystery. Now a

charity appeals for her to contact them.

With council reorganisation high on the agenda, the community that's

taking services into their own hands. It is the kids future, the

end of the day. If everybody pulls together it

end of the day. If everybody pulls In tonight's sport: Watching rugby

on TV, why the dispute In tonight's sport: Watching rugby

Welsh Rugby Union and In tonight's sport: Watching rugby

could affect how and where we view matches in the

Good evening. There's been another blow for Wrexham tonight. The

breakfast cereals giant Kellogg's has announced its making 140 people

redundant at its plant there. The company says the move is part of a

global efficiency programme. Union leaders have described it as a "kick

in the teeth" for the 500 staff that work there. Roger Pinney reports.

Tonight at the plant news of the job losses was just beginning to sink

in. Word-mac is then the cornerstone of the business scene here for 35

years. The site employs around 500 workers. A global company with

household name products, Wrexham Council says the announcement

demonstrates how fragile its economy is at the moment. The Unite union

says it is a kick in the teeth. The company has been under a lot of

financial pressure. They spoke to them earlier today. They have

committed themselves to Wrexham, they will still be 380 jobs there.

He will be investing more in Wrexham. My heart goes out to the

hundred and 40 people who lose their jobs. Kellogg's isn't the first

multinational to announce job losses in Wrexham. Sharp will close its

plan -- factory there. If these and redundancies have come in 2009 when

Kellogg's first thought of making redundancies, I think the people

concerned would have had difficulty finding new jobs. The thing at the

moment is that is a lot of optimism is the economy is turning around

these people will soon be able to find re-employment. Looking ahead,

new jobs will be coming to Wrexham. The UK Government prisons Minister

was in the towns to trumpet that business opportunities which should

flow from building a new prison there. At Kellogg's tonight, those

workers facing redundancy will be wondering what the future holds for

them. An inquest into the death of a man,

who waited more than 40 minutes for an ambulance, has heard that

paramedics were delayed and stuck queuing outside hospitals as he

waited for help. One ambulance was waiting for nearly five hours to

drop off a patient at Wrexham Maelor hospital. Fred Pring from Mynydd

Isa, near Mold, died last March. Matthew Richards is outside Ruthin

Coroners Court. The head of the Welsh ambulance

trust was giving evidence today and he acknowledged this was a

long-standing issue of having paramedics tied up at a hospital

long-standing issue of having when they could be out saving sick

people. He said it wasn't a problem when they could be out saving sick

different people would need to play their part including asking the

health service. He said that changes and improvements were being made but

they will come too late for one Flintshire pensioner. Man-mac had

been an active man working as a guard until ill health forced him to

retire. -- as a gardener. He had been shopping before developing

chest pains. He needed urgent medical attention. The Welsh

Ambulance Service aims to hand patients over within 15 minutes. On

the 21st of March, five equals worth queueing up outside hospital for

more than an hour. Other local crews were taking mandatory rest breaks.

Joyce praying was trying to get an album is for her husband. She made

the first call at nine minutes past one in the morning saying her

husband was suffering from chest pains. The operator said helpers

being organised. She phoned again. Man-mac could be heard moaning in

the background. The third call was 20 minutes later, the operator told

the helpers on the way. On the fourth call us 1.51, told the

operator that husband has just died. The operator said she could

give advice on how she could help her husband. It is not I don't want

to help him, it is too late, he is gone. A manager at the Welsh

Ambulance Service said Fabbri, March and April last year had been a busy

time for the service with ambulances having to queue up outside all three

North Wales hospitals to off-load patients. The problems ambulance

services experience in accounting patients is not a problem of the

ambulance service and it is a problem of a flow through the

hospital. You have to move people through A Right across Wales this

winter we got very good evidence of hospitals doing much better in terms

of flow. We can't give a comment today because we haven't had a

verdict from the coroner. The chief executive of Welsh Ambulance Trust

acknowledged there had been instances in Wales where people had

died waiting for the late ambulances but they were rare. The kind of

pressure on those within the service, he said, was not unique. It

was working to try to improve the situation. The hearing a lot today

about the domino effect. When you have crews tied up at hospitals.

Once they have been at work for five hours they must have a mandatory

rest breaks and stop essentially, that happens even if it is serious

calls coming in. Other crews might have to do with it. It was something

the coroner said they might have to look at. He was told by

the coroner said they might have to trying to strike a better balance.

A paedophile trying to strike a better balance.

when he initially trying to strike a better balance.

judges prisons were full, has been told he's likely to go to prison now

judges prisons were full, has been Ffestiniog was eventually jailed

judges prisons were full, has been 2007 after he failed to register as

judges prisons were full, has been a sex offender. This time he'd

denied the charges at Caernarfon Crown Court. He'll be sentenced next

month. A mother from Ceredigion, charged

with the neglect of her teenage son, has appeared in court. Swansea Crown

Court heard the woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, fed him a

vegetable diet and that her son had to bath in cold water from a bucket

because there was no running water at their home. The case has been

adjourned until April. Pembrokeshire Council has been

accused of a "scandalous attitude" towards the Welsh language after it

issued an advert on its website saying applicants for social work

jobs need not "worry" if they were not bilingual. Language pressure

groups claim it is an insult to people living there. The council

admitted it was wrong to say Welsh was not prominent in social care and

has removed the article. BBC Wales understands that a report

being published on Monday will recommend that councils are

re-organised through a series of mergers, rather than by drawing new

boundaries from scratch. The Williams Commission is expected to

call for a cut in the number of councils as part of a wide-ranging

review into public services. Our political editor Nick Servini is

here. What more can you tell us? What we

understand is the existing structures will be used as the

building blocks for any new organisations so they won't be any

new lines being drawn on the map. If we look at an example in a county

like Conroy, what we are unlikely to see is a county carved in the

middle. -- Conwy. What we'll see is a series of mergers right around the

country. What we understand is that is another plausible the

Commissioner is following. For any new authority it will remain within

the existing boundaries of health boards. This could be significant

for a county borough like Bridgend. What it means is it will be unlikely

to measure the neighbouring authority like the Vale of

Glamorgan. You can see in the grave. Those two are covered by different

health boards. It's be more likely that Bridgend will move -- merge

with Neath Port Talbot. The other principle we understand the

following is the new organisations want crossed the boundaries that

dictate which Eddie is get EU aid. This could be significant for a

county like Blaenau Gwent because it is eligible for as much aid is

possible and as a result it will be unlikely to merge with the

neighbouring authority with Monmouthshire which isn't. A little

flavour and the picture emerging of some of the ramifications we're

likely to see. There is growing momentum for this change. What you

hear typically momentum for this change. What you

councils are too small. As a result they can't

councils are too small. As a result services. They were attempts to show

services in recent services. They were attempts to show

extent they have been unsuccessful. In an interview for this and the

politics, First Minister, Carwyn Jones, repeated his claim that 22

was too many and pointed to problems and local education authorities in

particular which have affected many of the smaller councils. We have six

local authorities who are in special measures. That is not sustainable in

the future so we need to have a hard, long and honest look at the

structure of public services in Wales to make sure that the

structure is far more sustainable and stronger in future. What would

say is the restructuring only go so far. Some of the big savings are to

be found in changing the way services are actually delivered by

the public sector and we can expect to hear a lot on that next week.

So as councils look to make savings, communities across the county are

looking for alternative ways to keep local facilities running. From

today, a group of volunteers in Glyncoch near Pontypridd is taking

over some bin collections from the council. It's just the latest move,

as they see it, to step away from dependency on the local authority

and to revitalise a deprived area. Caroline Evans has this report.

What was a council lorry has been repainted in Glynoch colours and

from now on it'll will be out and about here picking up rubbish for

recyling. All the bottles will be going in this compartment. It will

be separate from the rest of the waste.

It will be manned by volunteers like Tara Michael and Julian. It is to

help the community. It is the kid 's future at the end of the day. If

everybody pulls together, it'll make a better place. I haven't got a job

and when I walk into a job I wanted get tired. I want to know what to

do. It is really one big council estate

on the outskirts of Pontypridd where more than half are on benefits and

life can be challenging, but people here have come together in a way

that's they say is proving highly successful a way which some belief

should be a model for others in these times of council cuts. Their

community centre, once a rundown tin shack, is now shiny new building.

They raised money within the community but also turned to crowd

sourcing appealing online for donations. With the cuts that are

coming in, for whatever reason, unless community start doing things

for themselves unless community start doing things

lost. It is going back to what communities used to do in the past

where communities used to do in the past

and over the years communities used to do in the past

have been doing them for you. It is getting back to that

take ownership. Here in Glynoch, everything they do

they involve Changing the way a community thinks

demands this type of approach. The culture has to start here and I

believe by using this sort of project and rolling it out across

many communities, this change will bring about national change as well.

But where money is tight it can be a big driver for change so in the

future volunteers could be paid via a time bank helping them to get

luxuries like bowling tickets they would otherwise not afford.

Meanwhile all the rubbish collected will be weighed and sold and the

profits will be spent right here in Glyncoch. The council says there

won't be job losses but it does mean savings. It is engaging with the

community. It helps us with our budgets because it saves us a little

bit of money. The main thrust is it goes back to community, the many

they actually collect goes back to the community.

In the last two years they managed to get around ?2 million invested

here. They're now talking to a major supermarket hoping to get discount

cards for people who become part of the recycling scheme, the more

people who recycle, the more money they'll get to fund more projects

like the second phase of their community centre which got underway

just this week. Still to come in the programme:

Getting rugby onto your TV screens. The rights are worth millions to the

game in Wales so how could the Union and region row affect how you watch

your team? And the secrets of this 16th century portrait at the

National Museum of Wales. Experts uncover its links with Nazi Germany.

Police say they are no nearer to finding out what has happened to the

missing Newport teenager Nida Naseer. It's almost three weeks

since she was last seen near her home. Today a charity which works

within the Muslim community appealed for her contact them. Sachin

Krishnan reports. On December 20, Nida Naseer took the

rubbish out at her family home in the pale area of Newport. It is the

last time she has been seen or heard from. Despite appeals from her

family and extensive searches around the city, police say what has

happened to the 18-year-old remains a mystery. Today, they brought in

the charity Henna Foundation which works with families within the

Muslim community to appeal directly to the teenager should she not wish

to speak to her family or the police. We want to reassure her that

regardless of what might be troubling her we will be able to

support and help her and make sure that she is safe and contact her

family and tell her family she is that she is safe and contact her

safe. The family remain desperately information about what has happened.

Officers remain in the dark despite extensive resources being allocated

to the disappearance. Despite extensive resources being allocated

CCTV examinations, as well as liaising with and assistance from

local communities and partners, we still have yet to establish that

Nida Naseer is safe and well or to locate her. It was confirmed that

number of possible sightings have been reported to police but among

them they said there was nothing credible.

Tonight's sport now with Claire. Good evening. The future of Welsh

rugby has been in the spotlight for some time now and the Welsh Rugby

Union and representatives of Wales's four regional sides have been

meeting again this week, to try to settle the wide-ranging dispute over

how the game moves forward. Among the issues under consideration, is

the money generated from the sale of television rights, which is worth

millions of pounds to the game in Wales. Our arts and media

correspondent Huw Thomas reports. 1978, this game was amateur and your

television had three channels. Today's game is a much more polished

affair. At the moment the right are split between free to air

broadcasters like the BBC and S4 Sieg and pay TV services like sky

sports. The arrival of BT spot on the market has increased the

competition and contributed to the disputes between the WRU and the

readers. A competition on BT spot featuring Welsh regions would be

worth ?12 million to the Welsh side over three years. It is not

sanctioned by the WRU or the governing body, the IRB. It is added

pressure for increased TV money this time from France where several Welsh

players already get their games. This week the top 14 signed a deal

reportedly worth ?60 million a year, double the existing agreement. The

many broadcasters will pay for rugby right pales into comparison with

foot ball. But rugby remains an attractive prospect for those

channels and with an increasing competitive market in future it is

likely they will have to pay more for the rights to show some of the

most popular live games. One media expert at a law firm that advises

the Cardiff Blues region says the competition for TV coverage has

become intense. It is difficult for the BBC as well as ITV, S foresee to

maintain a place in the active market for live broadcasting

rights. The real value is in live matches as to oppose -- as opposed

to highlight. The terrestrial broadcasters

to highlight. The terrestrial highlight rather than

to highlight. The terrestrial fixtures. While high sums

to highlight. The terrestrial continue to be offered by pay-TV

to highlight. The terrestrial live games, they are unlikely to

attract the large audiences who attract the large audiences who

channels. It is a distinction that will need to be weighed in future

negotiations according to a tee -- TV sports executive. If you sell a

sport in its entirety to a subscription -based broadcaster then

you have two be very, very careful that you don't disenfranchise all

your viewing public. The public service broadcasters are still in a

very, very strong position because they will be able to reach the

widest possible audience. For the fans that are tough decisions about

which TV services they have at home. The key thing is the products, the

things you watching on the page is of significant quality. That comes

down to the quality of rugby that is being played but also the

opposition. A passion for the game in Wales has continued into the

professional era but as well as the fans support today's TV rights deals

remain one of rugby 's most important sources of income.

With the Welsh Rugby Union and the regions locked in dispute, there's a

special debate on the future of the game in Wales, this Sunday. Gareth

Lewis will be hosting a Scrum V Special with representatives from

both sides round the table. Catch it at a 6.15pm on Sunday.

Tonight, former Wales captain Ryan Jones, returns to the Ospreys

starting line-up. They're away to Leinster. Here are the other

Heineken Cup fixtures. The Blues and Scarlets are both targeting an Amlin

quarterfinal spot. The Blues are out for revenge against the Exeter

Chiefs tomorrow and on Sunday, the Scarlets face Harlequins.

Cardiff City and Swansea City are both chasing points this weekend

against stern opposition. It's very tight at the bottom of the table.

Cardiff are in the bottom three and Swansea are just three points off

the relegation zone. The Bluebirds travel to Manchester City tomorrow,

who are in incredible form, having the best home record in all of

Europe's top leagues. Swansea face Tottenham on Sunday at the Liberty

Stadium, both managers desperate to ease the pressure. We have the

mindset of having a go. I am not here to try to do anything else. Our

aim, as I have said before, we want to be a top ten club. Then you have

got to go to these places and take things. This next month and a half

is crucial to the rest of our season. If we come

is crucial to the rest of our don't, then we probably will have to

admit we will be in the battle for the rest of the season.

On behind the leader after ten stages

After the challenge of the snowy mountain range

After the challenge of the snowy have headed through the

heading south to Monaco. The Welsh Open Snooker will be held

in Newport for the last time next month. The chairman of World Snooker

says it's time to look at other venues, potentially Cardiff. Barry

Hearne said he was not criticising Newport but after many years there

it was time to make the tournament a major event. In response Newport

Council acknowledged that in order to develop, a larger venue may be

required. That's it from me, have a lovely

weekend. Lucy, back to you. It's a 16th century portrait once

owned by one of the most infamous figures of Nazi Germany. Catrin of

Berain was a Welsh noblewoman in Tudor times. Her portrait has been

held at National Museum Wales for years but now experts have

discovered it was bought by Hitler's right hand man and founder of the

Gestapo. Tomos Dafydd has the story. Painted in 1568, it's only now we're

learning of its remarkable secret past. Woman-mac's portrait was as --

was on display until 1939 when it was offered to the National Museum.

It was too costly to the painting was sold at auction and ended up

bought. Now, as part of a documentary for S4C, this man has

uncovered paperwork roofing it was eventually bought for Herman Goering

by his art collector in Amsterdam. The hated all forms of modern art

whereas this, which is a classic 16th century portrait of a

noblewoman from grated Germany, is just the sort of thing that would

have appealed to him. A leading figure of the Nazi regime, and the

close confident of Adolf Hitler Herman Goering amassed a vast

collection. In a mountain cave, Herman Goering's... 16,000 pieces

were stolen by the Nazis. By 1957, it had been bought by National

Museum of Wales. Woman-mac was a Welsh icon, certainly one of the

most influential in Tudor times. In a colourful life, she married four

times. She became known as the mother of Wales. So many families in

North Wales can trace their descent to her marriages. It is a very early

portrait of a Welsh know of many of the policies of

Welsh women earlier than this one. A rare insight into the dash

Welsh women earlier than this one. A ever. Let's have a full weather

forecast. There is more rain on the way.

Saturday will be the wettest day of the weekend. The Met office has

issued a yellow warning which covers parts of south Wales. That rain will

top up rivers and bring a risk of some surface water flooding. For

this evening, driver most of those with one or two showers. Then after

midnight rain was spread that from the south. Temperatures staying

above freezing. He is the picture for eight o'clock in the morning. It

is not a pretty one, tall and west for most of us with heavy rain

likely in parts of Powys, the Brecon Beacons and Carmarthenshire.

Temperatures around six degrees in Lampeter. During the day further

outbreaks of rain will spread across the country, some of the rain will

be heavy at times. Loss of surface water and spray. It should try out

in Pembrokeshire late in the afternoon. Temperatures, up to nine

Celsius. In Rhondda Cynon Taff tomorrow, wet at times with heavy

rain and a high of eight degrees. In Denbighshire, nine Celsius. Tomorrow

evening, the rain will clearly way northwards of drying up overnight.

Missed and freezing fog patches forming and also some icy patches. A

cold start on Sunday, slippery in places. Fog patches were left but

some sunshine at times. Have a nice weekend.

The main news again. 140 jobs will go at the Kellogg's factory in

Wrexham. Unions say it's a kick in the teeth for the workforce.

And as hundreds join the search for the missing three-year-old Mikaeel

Kular, police say he may have gone missing following a "criminal act".

And that is Wales Today. We'll have a quick update at 8pm and more news

at 10.25pm. For now though, from all of us on the programme, thanks for

watching and have a good weekend.