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50 years on, it is still being felt. That's all | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Good evening. 650 workers at a bakery in pupil to | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
have been told their jobs are under threat. The company have lost a | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
multi-million pound contract with Marks Spencer. It says it is | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
looking for new work but the future of the site is in doubt. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Workers clocking in four shifts today heard the bad news, that their | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
biggest contract had been lost. They had been told redundancies could | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
begin as April. For more than 25 years, workers have made and | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
decorated cakes here. Now, the site and 650 jobs are in question. The | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
contract amounts to 85% of its business, making a range of cakes | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
for their stores. Losing it could be devastating. I am on a temporary | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
contract, on the verge of being taken on full-time, but that is a | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
knock to me now. I cannot see it happening. We do products for Tesco, | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Sainsbury's, and we have recently received a large contract with | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
Alfie, but to try to make up 85% of the incoming business will be really | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
hard. The company is owned by the large food group based in | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Birmingham. It says most of the workers are now at risk of losing | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
their jobs and it is a huge setback to its cakes business, but it adds | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
it is doing everything it can to attract new customers. I have had an | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
assurance that the officials would do every thing they can to help, but | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
I do not know where they will get orders from, the managers have | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
assured me they are looking for new orders. It would be perfect if Marks | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Spencer changed their mind, but I cannot see it happening. All jobs | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
are important, we need jobs in South Wales. But yes, these jobs, five or | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
ten years ago, replaced the old industrial jobs, and they are really | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
important, the money feeds into the local economy. The work is skilled | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
and relatively low paid, employees thought business was going quite | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
well. They are a good workforce, they are solid, they performed very | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
well, they had a lot of praise at Christmas, they did a lot of work. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
This is a shock to them. It is out of the blue. The harsh reality is | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
that Marks Spencer will in future get its cakes supplied by a firm in | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Oldham. In a statement, it says it was part of its work to further | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
improve the quality of its food supply chain. The consultation | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
period begins, workers can only hope that new orders can be won. The news | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
that the contract had been lost came as a complete shock to the 650 | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
workers as they turned up for work today. Now, the whole future of this | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
plant is in question, unless the managers manage to find other | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
customers. A preliminary investigation for | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
murder and possession of drugs is under way following the death of a | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
woman from Swansea who was on holiday in Bulgaria. Nina Holmes | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
from Gorseinon collapsed in Borovets on Sunday. The Foreign Office has | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
said it is providing help to her family. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Clinics will be held by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
for patients and their relatives who want to voice concerns about | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
standards of care. It follows a public meeting last week where calls | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
were made for the health board's Chief Executive to stand down. | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
The Labour assembly member Keith Davies has called for the immediate | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
suspension of the Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire county council, this | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
comes after a report found that certain payments made to Mark James | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
were unlawful. The council has criticised the report. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
An ?850 million tidal lagoon which would generate energy from the ebb | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
and flow of the tide in Swansea Bay is being submitted for approval. If | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
it goes ahead, it would initially create 2000 jobs. | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
It could cover a quarter of Swansea Bay, from the dock every year, east | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
to wear the University's new science campus is being built. 16 turbines | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
would be placed in a concrete lot to catch the world's second highest | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
tide. If the scheme is approved, power could be produced for up to 16 | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
hours a day. The first lagoon needs a kick-start, but it is about | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
launching an industry. The lagoons after the first one, their price | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
will be cheaper than nuclear power and will last for 120 years. The | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
money is there to build it, we now need to achieve the correct subsidy | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
level from the British government. To generate cleaner power, tidal | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
lagoon power is asking for government subsidy of around 30 | :05:18. | :05:27. | |
years. Last year, EDF energy secured ?92 50 per megawatt hour of energy | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
after 2023. Large solar parks will attract government support of ?120 | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
per megawatt hour. Wind farms on land typically are offered ?95. Wind | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
turbines at to see are in a higher bracket for the power they generate, | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
?155. Offshore wind is the nearest comparison to the proposed tidal | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
goon at Swansea, the developers are asking for a strike price of between | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
155 and ?164. But some claim this scheme will produce energy which | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
will be far more expensive. The Swansea Bay lagoon is fine for | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Swansea Bay, but it is 1500 football pitches in size. You would need 50 | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
of them to generate a fraction of the power of the Severn barrage. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot councils have three months to offer | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
an opinion. The planning Inspectorate will look at the | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
proposal for up to a year. The decision will rest with a JV, the | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
energy minister in Westminster. Rugby, Wales under 20s took on | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
Ireland tonight, winning 16-0. The women's team lost to Ireland, 6-14. | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
A close match for the ospreys. This weekend marks the 50th | :06:52. | :07:06. | |
anniversary of BBC Wales. Before 1964, he was here shared a local | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
service with the West of England. A broadcasting revolution saw the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
creation of a uniquely Welsh television service. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
There are plenty of challenges ahead, when you think of digital, | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
social media, BBC Wales, like every part, will be to adapt and evolve, | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
but the notion that Wales deserves its own media service, that can deal | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
with Wales on its own terms, in our own language, that is hugely | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
important, and it will endure. The next big Atlantic storm is coming | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
in, rain and wind have been increasing. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
It is time to batten down the hatches again, the next Atlantic | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
storm is on our doorstep, heading towards Ireland. Met Office warnings | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
are in force, one for heavy rain, one for severe gales is that | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
counties -- in southern counties for tomorrow. We have to be prepared for | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
more flooding and disruption. I would not be surprised if there are | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
if you power cuts. But and windy at the moment. The rain is clearing two | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
showers overnight, strong to gale force wind, temperatures stay above | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
freezing. An intense area of low pressure over Ireland tomorrow. Some | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
places start off dry in the morning, but rain and showers will spread | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
across the country. Heavy rain accompanied by strong to gale force | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
winds. Across the rest of the UK, rain in the far north-east will | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
slowly clear, some dry weather and sunshine, but plenty of rain and | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
showers circulating around the area of low pressure over Ireland. Heavy | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
rain, snow on the hills and mountains, and strong to severe gale | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
force wind in the south and West. That goes for Wales, very windy | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
tomorrow afternoon, severe gales are -- on exposed parts of the South and | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
West coasts. Hale and thunder possible. It is a similar story | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
tomorrow night, very windy and wet at times. Further heavy showers. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Sunday will continue windy. It turns dry later in the day. If you sunny | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
intervals. The wind slowly eases. More rough weather on the way. Some | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
big waves in the south-west. Still a risk of flooding in parts of the | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
South and West Coast. Monday is, , with sunshine, but it will not last, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
another low pressure will bring more rain and strong wind by cheese day. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Have a great weekend. Despite the weather. Enjoy the rugby and | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
football if you can. We will have updates on the weather | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
situation over the weekend. We are back just after 1pm tomorrow. Good | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
night, goodbye. | :09:58. | :10:02. |