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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight, severe gales battering the country. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Wales is offered military help as it's hit by winds of over 100mph. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
I've never, ever seen anything like it. I'm over 60 and been in business | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
Cricieth for years. This is the worst period I've seen. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
Trees are down. Nearly 80,000 homes are without power. Schools have | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
closed. There's been damage to property and major disruption to | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
road and rail services. Here in Pembrokeshire this evening, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
winds are finally starting to die down after causing so much | :00:39. | :00:39. | |
destruction throughout the day. Also tonight: The police will | :00:40. | :01:00. | |
investigate payments to the chief executives of Carmarthenshire and | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Pembrokeshire councils. They're enjoying a quiet pint but | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
charities warns of a "hidden drinking problem" among the over | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
60s. And protests 50 years ago against | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
closing a casualty unit. Now another shake-up of emergency care will be | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
decided on tomorrow. Good evening. Wales has been offered military help | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
as winds reaching more than 100mph have been battering our coastline. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
The offer was made after a meeting of the UK's emergency Cobra | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
committee in London. Worst hit has been West and North West Wales. At | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
Aberdaron a gust of wind measuring 108mph was recorded earlier. The Met | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
office has issued a rare red warning about high winds saying lives could | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
be in danger. Across the country 90,000 homes have been without | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
power. Part of the M4 at Briton Ferry had to be shut to traffic. The | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
advice tonight is to stay indoors. We hope to speak to reporters across | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the country in just a moment but first Roger Pinney on the latest | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
storm in this never-ending run of bad weather. | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
From space you can see the storm in the satellite image the distinctive | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
curl off a deep depression. Here in Wales it has meant this. All along | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
our western coast from the tip of Anglesey to Pembrokeshire, raging, | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
foaming seas and howling winds. Little window that the Coast Guard | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
should issue this morning. We have alerted shipping in the area and we | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
are advising people not to play on the coastline. They are impressive | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
but just to be aware there has been a lot of debris inside the way. You | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
could get quite easily caught out. The storm has brought its | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
destruction from Holyhead, most services were cancelled. Schools | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
finished early and many rail services have been cancelled or | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
delayed. The Britannia Bridge linking Anglesey to the mainland was | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
closed after a lorry overturned. Power of workers have been at full | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
stretch. Thousands of homes have been without electricity. Across | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Wales, trees have an approved it even in Cardiff well away from the | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
full force of the storm. If it had been a real busy time of it would | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
have been a catastrophe. This road can be backlogged with cars from top | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
to bottom when everyone is leaving the hospital. Have past four to five | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
o'clock, it could be nose to tail on the road. This is village Mac as the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
storm raced up the Irish Sea. -- the Which?. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
I have never, ever seen anything like it. I have been here in | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
business for 30 years. This is the worst period I have ever seen. The | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
strength of the wind seemed to build and build. Here in Anglesey you | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
struggle to stand up and the coast guard has just told me that the wind | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
speed of Holyhead breakwater is top name 70 knots, that is storm forced | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
12. Hurricane speed. The ghost and much greater than that. One man who | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
knows what it is like at sea and hurricane force winds is Brian | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
Thompson, coxswain of the Holyhead lifeboat. It wasn't pleasant. I can | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
only describe it like being inside the washing machine, getting flung | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
around violently. Huge forces. We have seen at the last few days what | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
they have done to the land, imagine what they can do to a vessel. This | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
has been debated batten down the hatches, one the seemingly -- and | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
one in the seemingly string of them. Cemlyn Davies is at Wisemans Bridge | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
near Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire. Give us a flavour of what you have | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
been coming across. Lots of deception. Thankfully, the winds are | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
now starting to die down here in South Pembrokeshire. As the manager | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
of the pub was telling me area, conditions here today have been as | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
bad as he has ever seen them. I have seen Rose closed, schools close, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
people without power. I went to one fuel station and the owner there | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
wasn't able to supply any fuel because he did not have an | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
electricity to operate the pumps. I was walking around with torchlight | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
to guide me. Plenty of deception, people telling me they have never | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
seen conditions like these before. Very difficult for people all there. | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
Tell me how people are coping. They are remaining up beat. I spoke to | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
one person who was without power, he had been without power all | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
afternoon. He was grateful and counted himself or to its because he | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
was not facing the same difficulties as people in other parts of the UK. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
But at the same time, they are bracing themselves for worse to | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
come. We know things may be better tomorrow but again another area of | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
low pressure to come towards the end of the week. Thank you very much. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Sophie Long is in village Mac. You can probably hear the angry | :06:37. | :06:52. | |
waves by bit. We are watching them smash into the road. Several homes | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
are already without power and that is a similar case across the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
country. We made our way here this afternoon and it drove through whole | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
villages that had already lost power. Some 80,000 homes across | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Wales have no power. Suppliers saying they are working very hard to | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
reconnect people are sinners they can. As we drove through Wales we | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
came across six roads that had been blocked by fallen trees, two were | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
completely impassable. Train lines will also be enclosed. The peak bowl | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
here will find things getting worse. -- the people here. We are expecting | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
high tide here at seven o'clock this evening. The danger is those winds | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
speeds recorded will coincide with high water and you are going to get | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
waves again than these. Thank you very much. | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
We'll have a full weather forecast later in the programme with Behnaz. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
And you can get all the latest information on the storms, on BBC | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and online at bbc.co.uk/walesnews. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Charities working with people who abuse alcohol say they're | :08:10. | :08:21. | |
it's a bit carried out by the Gloucestershire Constabulary. Our | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
political editor is here. What are the police going to be looking at? | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
It is the decision to allow Mark James, the chief executive of | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Carmarthenshire Council and the Chief Executive Pembrokeshire | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
Council opt out of the pension scheme in order to avoid tax | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
payments. The money went into their salaries. The recent reports from | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the Wales Audit Office said those payments were unlawful. In other | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
words, they said it was not within the legal power of the local | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
authority to allow them to do that. In a set list reports, financial | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
protection given to Mark James in a libel action was also considered | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
unlawful. We knew Dyfed Powys Police were in contact with the CPS and to | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
night confirmation that a formal police investigation will get | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
underway to work out whether anything criminal has occurred. It | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
would be carried out by the Gloucestershire Constabulary because | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
of the close working links that exist tween divot hours and the two | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
local authority. -- Dyfed Powys Police. This has been a fast moving | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
story. We have had robust defence by Carmarthenshire Council. They were | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
responding to the legal advice available at the time. It comes at a | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
sensitive moment for councils and councils paying. A committee of | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Assembly Members tomorrow will be discussing this very matter within | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
the public sector. Just before I came on air, the leader of | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Carmarthenshire Council said he was going to commission an external | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
review by the Welsh local government Association into what has gone on. | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
Charities working with people who abuse alcohol say they are concerned | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
about the drinking habits of the over 60s in Wales. Alcohol Concern | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Cymru and The Welsh Council on Alcohol say drinking problems in | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
that age range is a largely hidden and under-researched issue. Paul | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Heaney reports. Great Preston from Cwmbran can | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
remember the day when he could drink without any problems. But after his | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
wife passed away, his drinking increased, his son eventually found | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
him collapsed at home. If Meissen had not come that day and would have | :10:52. | :11:00. | |
died in this chair. -- if my son. I can't do that. I can't go back. He | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
said his habit crept up on him. It was easy for me to just reach out to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
the table and pick up the glass of whiskey and have a drink. When that | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
was empty I would totally out of the kitchen and get another one. It was | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
a habit. Ray doesn't find himself in a pub but he has come to one with me | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
today to ask older drinkers if they feel alcohol abuse is as much a | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
problem for them as it is for younger people. This club alone, we | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
have 85% are elderly people. We have no problems with them. They all seem | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
to conduct themselves tidily. That is the amount of drink they have | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
what they do after it. Most old people keep things close to their | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
chest. They don't bother... They won't tell you if there is anything | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
wrong. Most recent quarterly figures show 17% more people who were over | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
the age of six week sought help with a drinking problem last year | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
compared to the year before. One charity says it is a hidden but | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
growing problem. Maybe these older people are just emerging out of the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
bottle now. We are only now becoming aware of the problem that may have | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
in net for some considerable time. Gray has stayed sober than three | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
years for his family. He says people his age should not be afraid to ask | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
for help. It's OK years to realise he had a problem but wants others to | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
realise from his stakes. -- mistakes. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
A former boss of children's homes in North Wales has pleaded not guilty | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
to 39 counts of historical sexual abuse. John Allen, who's 72, | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
appeared today at Caernarfon Crown Court. The judge says his trial is | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
likely to take place in the autumn. Appeal Court judges in Cardiff have | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
adjourned a hearing in the case of two men convicted of killing | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
teenager, Amir Siddiqi, in 2010. Ben Hope and Jason Richards were | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail for the murder of the | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
17-year-old, who was stabbed to death on his doorstep in Cardiff. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
It's a year since a meat processing plant near Aberystwyth was raided by | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
police investigating the mislabelling of meat products. It | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
came during the height of the horse meat scandal. While consumer | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
confidence appears to have recovered, the body responsible for | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
promoting red meat in Wales is warning the industry can't afford a | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
repeat of the scandal. Charlotte Dubenskij reports. It has been a | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
good 12 months for those butchers shop in Aberystwyth. In the wake of | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
the horse meat scandal, shoppers flocked here to buy produce a were | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
confident of. People were coming back to the butchers to buy their | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
meats. They were happier to buy from us because we sourced local animals. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
We processed them ourselves. A few miles away is the former site of | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Farmbox Meats. This time last year police were investigating the | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
mislabelling of meat products and the plant was closed. It was allowed | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
to reopen a few months later but the is this has since it should down. | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
The owner of Farmbox Meats has always denied any cross | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
contamination of products. So far the allegations have not been | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
proven. He remains on bail on fraud charges. As the horse meat scandal | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
is developed, thousands of products were recalled across the UK and many | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
were tested and found to contain horse DNA. Meat sales dipped. Now | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
meets promotion Wales says the industry has recovered well but it | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
has this warning. We can't afford to have this happen again. It | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
undermines the most important people we have in our industry which are | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
the consuming public. The can't afford for that to happen again and | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
the sieges now are in place, testing procedures are in place to ensure | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
what people buy is what it says on the label. Some of that testing | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
takes place at this Cardiff laboratory. The methods we have in | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
place will able to give as 100% confidence about was horse meat | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
resident in meat or not. Those scientific processes mean we can | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
continue to catch the fraudsters. A final report into the scandal for | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
the UK Government is due to be published this spring. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Still to come tonight: Could this be the save that keeps Cardiff City's | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
survival hopes alive? And after a violent storm we can look forward to | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
a brief respite tomorrow. Join me later for a full weather forecast. | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
Health boards across south Wales will decide tomorrow whether or not | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
to give the go-ahead to a major shake-up of the way some specialist | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
hospital care is delivered. The plan will involve centralising high level | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
emergency care. That could see The Royal Glamorgan Hospital in | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
Llantrisant stop treating serious A cases. In the Rhondda there's | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
concern that patients will have to travel further afield, a concern | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
that has echoes in the past. Matt Murray reports. | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
Llwynypia was home to the largest hospital in the Rhondda. It provided | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
medical care for tens of thousands of people in the area. When a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
decision was made in the 1960s to close its emergency accident unit, | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
protests took place with people going as far as chaining themselves | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
to be hospital gate. Where those gates once stood, it is just rubble | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
and derelict buildings. Local councillor Sylvia Jones took me to | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
the site. She campaigned to keep services then the 60s and fears the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
same thing is happening again. Everything goes from the Valleys. | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
All the wealth has gone. The facilities are going out of the | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Valleys as well. We had a fight to keep their new hospital here. That | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
took over 40 years for us to get it. I hope it will take another 40 years | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
to be able to get what we need now. This hospital only has limited hot | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
-- services and deals with minor injuries. More serious injuries are | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
treated eight miles down the road. But hospital Mark would stop | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
treating serious A cases as well as losing it specialist baby unit. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
The Welsh Government says at the moment services are spread too | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
thinly at hospitals across the region. Tomorrow's decision has been | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
a long time coming but wind the clock back a year and the message | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
from the First Minister was clear. As to be a change in the health | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
service for it to be safe for the future. I am not going to city and | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
say it does not matter. I am not going to do that. The possible | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
changes are great concern especially for many parents. Here there is a | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
fear that losing accident and emergency from hospital Mac could | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
mean driving for half an hour. I was already worried about her sitting in | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
a car on the way down. It was a bit more stressful taking them to | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Bridgend. We would have to travel over mountain rose to get to those | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
hospitals. It is far enough to go as it is. The next bag staying would go | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
there. Those changes have in talks about even before these children | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
will warn. Tomorrow's decision will have a profound affect on how | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
services are delivered across South Wales. | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
And we'll bring you the details of those plans in our programmes at | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
lunchtime and at 6.30pm tomorrow. An hourly rail service between | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury could be set up if the plans are approved by | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
the Transport minister. Edwina Hart has been handed a report by the | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
group that reviews improvements to Cambrian main and coastal lines in | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
mid Wales. The Welsh Government said the minister would now consider the | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
recommendations. The body responsible for protecting | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
buildings and monuments in Wales has been asked to consider making BBC | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Wales' headquarters in Cardiff a listed building. BBC Wales is trying | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
to find a buyer for the site in Llandaff, as part of multi-million | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
pounds plans to move to a new purpose-built broadcasting base. BBC | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Wales says it has "significant concerns" about CADW's plans. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
European rugby is edging towards a peace deal after months of bitter | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
argument. A Six Nations meeting in Paris today agreed on a format for a | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
new European Cup next season. The Welsh Rugby Union and the Welsh | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
regions will now be involved in working on the finer details of the | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
plans over the coming weeks. Our sports news correspondent Gareth | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Lewis is with us. What will they be working on? | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
It is out of their hands. Any deal hinges on the broadcasters, BT Sport | :20:12. | :20:25. | |
and sky. Marry the two together? Broadcasting aside, there are | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
movements on other issues. The regions and encouraged about the | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
balance of power buying the scenes as are the WRU. It is more money for | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
the regions, ?1 million extra each. The regions want to make sure that | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
is parity with funding to stop if the deal is done it reduces the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
chances of a breakaway Anglo Welsh league. The regions has major | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
concerns about the money they are playing for in the current | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
tournament that is being withheld because of the insurgency that has | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
been rumbling on. Still a lot to be thrashed out. What would a new | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
tournaments looked like? Then off for fuel in the top tier. Six | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
English, six French, seven from the Pro12 including a play-off winner. | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
Qualification would be tighter. Only one Welsh side will qualify for the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
top tier. You could end up with only one Welsh side in that top tier. | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
It'd improve the standards and competitiveness of April 12. -- of | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the Pro12. On the pitch, there's been another | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
blow for Wales. Centre Scott Williams will miss the rest of the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Six Nations because he needs shoulder surgery. He got injured | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
tackling Brian O'Driscoll in Wales' defeat to Ireland on Saturday. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
But better news for hooker Matthew Rees. He's been cleared to start | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
training with the Cardiff Blues again after treatment for testicular | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
cancer. The Wales and Lions forward been given the all-clear by | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
specialists at Velindre Hospital in Cardiff where he's been treated | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
since October. Football. Swansea City travel to | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Stoke in the Premier League tonight hoping to ease their relegation | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
worries. Cardiff City are still second from bottom after they could | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
only manage a goal-less draw at home to Aston Villa. Here's our sports | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
reporter, Ashleigh Crowter. They wanted three points but only | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
got one. We almost missed out altogether. David Marshall's | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
stoppage time saved is being talked about as one of the greatest living | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
memory. He is the first keeper to make 100 saves in the Premier League | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
this season and his manager says he is an example the rest of the team | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
should follow as they battled to avoid relegation. We need the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
players to stand up and be number one like David was tonight. Stephen | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
and Ben, fantastic performances. But Cardiff had no luck. In the first | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
half they hit the woodwork twice in the space of a minute. But after the | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
break it was Marshall and his back four will help them cling on for a | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
point. It has left them in trouble, second from bottom, three points | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
clear of safety. Fill fall and play Swansea this evening. Swansea city | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
will play. Everybody is scrapping for their lives to get that point. | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Anybody slightly off the mark will lose it. We have got to make sure | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
that we are switched on and giving the best we can. If we do that we | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
can compete with any team. There was an immediate response to their new | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
manager in the Derby. The need that to continue. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
So back to the weather. Those gale force winds causing major problems, | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
how long are they going to stay with us, Behnaz? | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
We have only got another few hours left. A red warning is in place of | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
parts of the North and West. That is valid until nine o'clock tonight. If | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
you can, try to avoid going out. For the rest of the country it is and | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
the warning -- it is an amber warning. It could be some structural | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
damage as those strong winds continue. These other peak gusts | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
from today. 96 mph across mumbles. They are continuing for the next few | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
hours but gradually as we go into the overnight period the wind was | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
that ease. We have a few showers but they will push south and east and | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
could see the potential for some icy patches. You need to take care on | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
untreated surfaces. Temperatures around the freezing mark for most of | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
us. There it is tomorrow, it is still blustery but nowhere near as | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
windy as it was today. We will season brightness and we had the | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
rain this morning, tomorrow it is a case of showers. A brief respite | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
tomorrow. There's showers could be wintry and temperatures ranging | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
between 6-7 Celsius. Is going to tomorrow night, gradually be will | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
clear away. Overnight Itchen read/write, lighter winds as well. | :25:24. | :25:33. | |
-- overnight it should we try. We could see a few problems with icy | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
patches. There are no warnings but there could be issued as we going to | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
tomorrow. All eyes on the next area of low pressure after Reef respite | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
on Thursday. We have got more wet and windy conditions heading our way | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Friday. Friday will start off dry but who will see wet weather | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
spilling from the south and that comes very strong winds. At the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
moment it is a warning for the rain. We could see further flooding has a | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
go through Friday. The rain will continue into Saturday, gradually | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
the wind and rain will ease on Saturday. Sunday, finally, we get | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
another break. We can look forward to try and brighter conditions on | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Sunday. Distant reminder, tonight we still have the red warning across | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
parts of the north and west for the winter. This is a quick picture a | :26:23. | :26:37. | |
tree down. Hurricane force winds have been battling written causing | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
widespread disruption on roads and railways. The Prime minister has | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
pledged to compensate homes and businesses affected. The Welsh | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
Government is warning people to make only essential journeys in affected | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
areas. Winds have reached more than 100 mph, 80,000 homes remained | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
without power tonight. We have got technicians out there, engineers, | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
anywhere we can trying to carry out repairs. It is difficult under the | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
circumstances with the weather. We have got winds meant in West Wales | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
who can't get out of their vehicles. You can get all the latest | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
information on the storms on BBC Radio Wales, Radio Cymru and online. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
The news just then, the M4 at Briton Ferry has now reopened. There is | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
still severe congestion on the M4 but it has reopened. | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
And that is Wales Today. We'll keep you updated on the latest weather | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
situation in our updates and 8.00pm and 10.25pm tonight. | :27:41. | :27:41. |