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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The home of the Bond movies. Pinewood Film Company is opening a | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
new studio in Cardiff, promising a multi-million pound investment. I'll | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
ask the Pembrokeshire film-maker who won a BAFTA last night if the | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
promises will live up to the billing. | :00:22. | :00:37. | |
Our other headlines tonight. We're in the market to see if the benefits | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
shake up will result in more or less money being spent in our | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
communities. A string of rescues prompts a | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
warning of avalanches after two climbers are swept 1,000 feet down | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Snowdon. And cautiously optimistic. Could the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
ongoing rugby row be solved before the end of the Six Nations? | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Good evening. Best known for James Bond films, Pinewood Studios has | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
announced is to open a new facility in Cardiff. The Welsh Government | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
says the deal would generate an estimated ?90 million and support | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
2,000 jobs over five years. In return they would also make | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
available ?30 million for film projects made in Wales. The new site | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
will be located in Wentloog in Cardiff and will be leased by | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Pinewood for five years initially. It's not the Welsh Government's | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
first venture into attracting film-makers. In 2008, the | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
multi-million pound Dragon International Studios in Rhondda | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Cynon Taf was partly mothballed after only one film. | :01:34. | :01:55. | |
It is the movie brand that has promoted British film around the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
world perhaps more than any other. For years, James Bond has made its | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
home at Pinewood and helped cement the company 's place as one of the | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
film industry 's biggest names. But could this be their new home? It | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
will open soon. After a year of talks, Pinewood | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
picked Cardiff for its first British studio away from the south-east of | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
England. I think there is a lot more that we | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
can do as a government and we just see this as being a very important | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
venture for us and we were able to give them the building they require. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
The amount of space they require is absolutely phenomenal. But then you | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
add the beautiful locations we can also provide, it is a win-win. It | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
will help small businesses, it is and employment opportunity. | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
The significant after days announcement cannot be understated. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
It is one of the biggest names in the film would. The deal -- with the | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
deal announced, we could see some familiar faces in South Wales. Wales | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
has often been a popular location for filming. But the relationship | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
with film studios has been a turbulent one. | :03:25. | :03:39. | |
Pinewood 's arrival comes with optimism, with a heritage of | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
film-making and an initial commitment to take a five-year lease | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
on the site. And there is a promise of more funding from the Welsh | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Government. They are making a ?30 million pot available to production | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
companies. The government will get a cut of the profits if they do well | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
at the box office. Wales has become quite a well-known centre for the | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
production of television drama and with the UK Government 's | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
introduction of a tax incentive for big budget television, this | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
partnership is something we are very excited by. And it will allow us to | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
work you within this facility to make it suitable for production. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
While it is the film 's stars that we are most likely to notice in | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
Wales, it is the skilled workforce established here that are likely to | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
feel the benefit. It is an established and trusted brand. It | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
has the track record. It is about the timing. You have lots of new | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
talent coming through the ranks, radiator break into pictures. -- | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
ready to break. We will not have to wait long to | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
find out what is produced next. Pinewood say they are hoping to | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
start work as soon as possible. It was a big night for the British film | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
industry last night, and in particular, for Pembrokeshire film | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
maker, Kieran Evans. He won the Outstanding Debut BAFTA | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
for his first feature length film Kelly And Victor. Congratulations. | :05:10. | :05:18. | |
Kieran, we'll discuss your wonderful achievement in a few moments, but | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
first, your reaction to Pinewood studios coming to Wales? | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
I think it is fantastic news. It is a great boost for the creative | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
industry. There is a lot of talented film-making in Wales. And I think it | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
is about time that we got to see a bit more of that. You struggled for | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
years to get this film off the ground. I wonder what difference | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
this kind of investment, this kind of name in Wales, will make to | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
people like you want the way up. I think it is important to realise | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
that when you are looking for money, you need some back-up and | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
money from the Welsh Government and especially for people like film | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
agency Wales, but all helps you to get on the first rung of the ladder. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Let's talk about that after. It has put you on the world stage. | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
I hope they don't take eight years to make my next film. But is the | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
first thing. It is about getting recognised. It is the first rung on | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
the ladder and getting going. And just moving on with the new projects | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
and getting exposure to what you want to do next. Wales likes to | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
think of itself as a boom area for the creative arts and for | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
film-making. Is it really? I personally think so. There are a lot | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
of talented people. I have been working making three Manic St | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
preachers videos. There is a well and depth of talents. It needs to be | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
tapped into a bit more. But there is a lot of good creative people | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
waiting to make films in Wales. And I think this announcement today can | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
only get them on their way. Was there one thing that was the secret | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of your success? Someone in school? Family influence? | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
There are in broth people that I have to think. My parents | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
especially. -- a number of people. But there was a drama teacher in | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
school who opened my mind to drama when I was about 13 years old. She | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
set me on my way. I have a lock to thank her for. A lot to thank her | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
for. Thank you very much. And there was | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
another Welsh winner last night. Sarah will know who grow up in | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Swansea won the short animation award. | :07:47. | :07:58. | |
Two women from mid Wales have been jailed for illegally burying a man | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
and claiming benefits in his name. Geoffrey Sturdey died in 2008, but | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
his body was only found the village of Llwynygroes in Ceredigion last | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
June. His widow was involved in the fraud. Cemlyn Davies reports. This | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
is the remote part of countryside where Geoffrey Sturdey's body was | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
found nearly five years after he died. He lived with his wife and | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
three other woman near Llwynygroes in Ceredigion. Mr Sturdey was 60 | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
when he died of natural causes but his death was kept a secret as his | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
widow, Ladan Rebekah Sturdey and Boque Ore Aide, continued to claim | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
benefits in his name. They fraudulently received more than | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
?77,000. Eventually staff at the Department of Work and Pensions grew | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
suspicious. It started as a departmental matching scam. It was | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
above the required limits. It seemed to be a straightforward case but | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
when the investigator looked at it closely, it became apparent there | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
was more to this. The women claimed Mr Sturdey had | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
gone travelling across Europe but after an extensive search operation | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
involving digging equipment and ground-penetrating radar police | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
found his body - and notes written in Hebrew explaining how he had | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
died. As he sentenced them to 20 months in prison, his honour judge | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Paul Thomas QC told Ladan Rebekah Sturdey and Boque Ore Aide they had | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
taken advantage of Mr Sturdey's sad death to claim benefits to which | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
they were not entitled. It gave you two the opportunity to enrich | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
yourselves at the expense of the rest of us, he said. Ladan Rebekah | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
Sturdey and Boque Ore Aide will serve half their sentences behind | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
bars before being released on license. This investigation has | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
shown that people have unlawfully buried this person and then | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
continued to claim benefits and they will not get away with it. Karmel | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Aide, who had also admitted unlawfully burying a man, was given | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
a nine month suspended sentence and she was ordered to complete 150 | :10:09. | :10:20. | |
hours of unpaid work. There's a police investigation into | :10:21. | :10:34. | |
an unlawful payments he received. Pembrokeshire County Council, Bryn | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
Parry Jones, will not be standing down, unlike his counterpart at | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Carmarthenshire Council, Mark James. On Friday, Pembrokeshire Council | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
accepted a Wales Audit Office report stating they'd made "unlawful" | :10:44. | :11:07. | |
payments to Mr Parry Jones. It's the biggest shake up to welfare | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
payments in generation - now the Welsh Government has calculated the | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
cost to Wales of UK Government's changes. It argues that ?930,000 is | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
being taken out of the Welsh economy. The Department for Work and | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Pensions says when Universal credit is rolled out across the UK, three | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
million households in the UK, 200,000 in Wales, will be better off | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
by just more than ?160 a month. So who's got their sums right? Here's | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
our economics correspondent, Sarah Dickins. | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
Neath market, the heart of the county which the Welsh government | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
says will be hit hardest by changes to welfare payments. Its research | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
argues they will affect all of us not just individuals getting | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
benefits or tax credits. I think they are more price conscious, from | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
young families to especially pensioners, who are striving to | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
hatch out -- stretch out a pound, basically. The argument follows that | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
if individual household incomes fall, there's less money in the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
economy as a whole. The Welsh Government has analysed 14 benefits | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
and come to the conclusion that changes will reduce the money coming | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
to Wales through benefits and tax credits by ?930 million a year. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
That's equivalent to ?500 a year for every adult in Wales between the | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
ages of 16 and 64. That is bound to have an impact in terms of private | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
sector jobs. It is something we have to look at very seriously indeed. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
But the Department of Work and Pensions says its welfare reforms | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
will improve the lives of ?200,000 households in Wales by ?163 a | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
month. Added together that's a total of just more than ?390 million a | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
year. The Department for Work and Pensions says when Universal Credit | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
is rolled out people will be able to work for more hours before they | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
reach the cut off point for welfare payments. I have very little | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
sympathy. In fact, I have no sympathy for young, healthy, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
able-bodied people who say they cannot find work. If it means | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
moving, you have to move, that is the way life is. And when he refers | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
to one million people finding work he's referring to people coming from | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Eastern Europe to work. The Welsh Government and the | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Department of Work and Pensions are talking about different things, like | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
comparing apples and pears. The Welsh Government is focussing on the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
financial impact on the whole of Wales, while the Department of Work | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
and Pensions it talking about how it will affect particular households. | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Much more to come before 7pm. String of rescues - now experts warn | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
of the risk of avalanches after two climbers are swept 1,000 feet down | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Snowdon. And why those botox injections to | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
take away the wrinkles maybe causing depression. | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
Your local council is unlikely to be reorganised this side of the next | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
assembly election in two years time, so says the First Minister Carwyn | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Jones. Instead, he's called on councils to merge voluntarily, | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
saying it would be in their interests to do so. Our Political | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
Editor Nick Servini is here, Nick, how significant is this? | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
The Williams commission, if you remember, which was published last | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
month, put forward a tomato reduction in the number of councils | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
-- dramatic reduction, and to do it through a series of mergers. Carwyn | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Jones started talks with the opposition party leaders to try and | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
fast-track the lawmaking bit of this before the next assembly elections | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
and in a news conference this morning he pretty much admitted that | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
will not happen, the lawmaking element will start after the next | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
assembly elections and will not be completed until 2018. But he did say | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
he will continue the talks with those parties to try and come to an | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
agreement on the map, and idea of a physical, geographical structure of | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
what it will look like. And off the back of that, to the local | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
authorities and try to get them to merge voluntarily, saying it is in | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
their interest to do so. This is what he had to say. I want to be | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
able to be in a position before the summer where there is general | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
agreement about what the map should look like that then offers the | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
opportunity for local authorities to start the merger process | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
voluntarily. But avoids years of uncertainty and the difficult of | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
recruiting. If they merge knowing that the map is complete, we can | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
move forward. How likely is it that he will get support for that? | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Politically, he needs to see this through. He has ramped up his | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
rhetoric against councils in recent months. He is quite brutal when he | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
talks about them. He talks about how he would not tolerate failures. It | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
will be difficult, the political parties all have issues about things | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
like costs, boundaries, voting reform, the councils themselves have | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
issues. I suspect he will have to persuade the council 's that this is | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
definitely going to happen and then he is some way towards getting those | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
voluntary mergers that he is talking about. | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
Walkers and climbers are being warned to take extra care in the | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
mountains following a string of rescues in Snowdonia at the weekend. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
Experts say there's a high risk of avalanche after a couple was | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
swept1,000 feet down the mountain by one on Saturday. Another walker fell | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
200 feet after a snow cornice he was walking on collapsed. Roger Pinney | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
reports. These photographs give an idea of | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
what it is like high on Snowdon. They were taken during a rescue on | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Saturday. This one clearly shows the track of a massive avalanche which | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
swept one Walker 1000 feet down the mountain. Snow on Snowdon at this | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
time of year is not unusual but the moment it is said to be particularly | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
unstable. This is one of the most popular starting off points for | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
walkers going up Snowdon. And you do get an idea of how deceptively | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
conditions are. Down here, there is no snow and it is not even | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
particular the cold. Upon the mountain, the snow starts at 500 | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
metres. By the time you get to 800 metres, it is deep. These walkers | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
today turned back. They did not feel safe enough to carry on. Just a bit | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
silly to go any further. The majority of people got to where we | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
were and they turned around as well. The wardens were heading up to see | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
if anyone had gone any further. I think we did the right thing in | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
turning round. This video shows a scene which would not be out of | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
place in the Alps. Team members use a rope to bring a | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
casualty down the mountain after an avalanche. This man says at times | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
conditions at the weekend were atrocious. | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
One of our chaps went through, he was rope at and he went through the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
cornice. It is a significant risk to them, especially in the wind and the | :18:12. | :18:20. | |
reduced visibility. The most important thing is to have a really | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
good quality walking winter boot. The National mountain centre trains | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
people in the skills they need to keep safe in these conditions, as | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
well as probables, crampons and an ice axe are essential, they say. -- | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
probably is. Anti-aging injections, like Botox, have | :18:40. | :18:40. | |
But having your laughter lines done could lead to depression. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
It is the snow sitting there, and then the Walker putting their weight | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
on it is enough to put it into action. Rescuers say if you survive | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
an avalanche, you can count yourself lucky. The conditions in the | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
mountains can change by the hour. Anti-ageing injections like Botox | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
have become the most popular form of cosmetic treatment in the UK. But | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
having your laughter lines den could lead to depression. A study by | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
Cardiff University reveals a link between the areas of the face where | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
the injections are targeted and the psychological effects experienced by | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
people who've had the treatment. Carwyn Jones reports. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
This woman from Cardiff has been having Botox injections for ten | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
years. The procedure takes just a few minutes. Three injections around | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
each eye. This needle contains a powerful toxin which smooths out | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
lines and wrinkles are paralysing muscles in the face. It makes you | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
feel better in yourself. Makes you feel happy, cheers you up a bit. | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
Around 200,000 injections are carried out each year. They change | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
how we look on the outside but do they also affect how we feel on the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
inside? Research by psychologists at Cardiff University has found that | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
people who have treatment on their forehead attentive you happier | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
because the face is unable to form frown lines. But injections for | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
crows feet around the eyes have the opposite effect. People feel | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
depressed and that is because the facial muscles cannot form a true | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
smile. The results were measured using a clinical scale for | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
depression and the findings were stark. Laughter lines, the early | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
data seems to indicate that this kind of treatment can reduce people | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
's ability to smile and makes people less happy. Cosmetic injections are | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
the most popular form of treatment at this clinic in Cardiff. Over the | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
years, this woman has noticed more and more customers having Botox to | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
give them the outward appearance of happiness. Very often, they come in | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
because they are aware that they are frowning a lot or that they are | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
looking miserable and they feel that other people judge them for it. And | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
they want to look like a brighter, happier version of themselves, the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
kind of person they would like to project. In the UK, the cosmetic | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
sieges industry is booming. Its turnover has turned wood macro | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
increased fivefold in the last ten years as old -- in the last ten | :21:26. | :21:39. | |
years. Rugby, football and Winter Olympics now. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
Here's Claire with tonight's sport. Good evening. | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
The Wales squad are back in camp ahead of Friday's Six Nations match | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
with France. There are no fresh injuries but there was confirmation | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
today that Jonathan Davies won't be in contention for Friday night, the | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Lions centre hasn't fully recovered from injury. Warren Gatland will | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
name his side to face France on Wednesday. Behind the scenes, some | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
positive signs tonight of a resolution in the on-going rugby | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
row. Chief Executive Roger Lewis says there are more talks tomorrow | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
and he's hopeful the matter can be sorted before the end of the Six | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
Nations campaign. The certainty that everyone has been | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
seeking for a Europe and for competitions is close to resolution. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
I will be back up in London tomorrow with my colleagues from France and | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Ireland and England. We have a small working party to put the flesh on | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
the bones of what we discussed last week. Personally, for the | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
competitions, I would like to resolve it by the end of the Six | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Nations. But it will take as long as it takes because we have to get the | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
right resolution, the right decision, the right outcome for | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
rugby. The latest big football event to come to Wales will be worth | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds to the local economy, according to the | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Welsh Government. The Cardiff City Stadium will host the Super Cup in | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
August, a match between the winners of the Champions League and Europa | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
League. Two former trophy winners, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Kevin | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Ratcliffe, were on hand for today's official launch. The FA of Wales | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
hopes it will boost Cardiff's chances of being a host city for the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
European Championships in 2020. Swansea City and Cardiff City can | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
now concentrate on avoiding relegation after getting knocked out | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
of the FA Cup in the fifth round. Despite Jonathan de Guzman's header, | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Swansea lost 2-1 at Everton, after Neil Taylor's ill-judged back pass | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
let in Stephen Naismith to score the winner. Cardiff also lost 2-1 to Cup | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
holders Wigan. Midfielder Gary Medel tore a muscle in the defeat and | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
could be out for several weeks. Former Swansea City manager Michael | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
Laudrup will speak publically about his sacking for the first time | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
tomorrow. The Dane, who led Swansea to the League Cup title in his first | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
season in charge, is holding a press conference in London. He was | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
dismissed by the club two weeks ago and is now considering whether to | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
take legal action. At the Winter Olympics in Russia, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Welsh born skater Lloyd Jones was in action earlier, competing for France | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
in the Free Dance final. He finished 15th. The 25-year-old, who's from | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Whitchurch in Cardiff, moved abroad for a new partner and better | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
facilities. Another Welshman, Bruce Tasker from Manobier, is part of | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Great Britain's four man bobsleigh team. He's arrived in Sochi, excited | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
and ready to compete for a medal. He starts his bid for Olympic glory on | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Saturday. Great to finally be here. We are | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
soaking up the environment and getting it out of our system before | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
we focus on the job in hand. It is just another race. Yes, it is the | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Olympic Games, it is the pinnacle of our sporting career but the rules do | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
not change, the competitors do not change. We are not changing | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
anything. Got to be brave to do that event. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Brave man. Now, the weather forecast. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Some good news. I'm not expecting any big storms this week which makes | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
a change. Mind you, it's not going to be completely dry with further | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
rain and heavy showers at times. And given the ground is so wet and | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
saturated, relatively small amounts of rain could lead to further | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
localised flooding, especially in the south. We've all seen some rain | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
today spreading north across the country. The rain heaviest on the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
high ground in the south with around 20mm. This evening rain will clear. | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
Followed by a few scattered showers but a lot of places becoming dry. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
The wind falling light with lowest temperatures four to seven Celsius. | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Here's the picture for 8am. A grey start in places with some low cloud, | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
mist and hill fog. One or two showers here and there, otherwise | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
most of the country dry. Light winds and not too cold. During the day, | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the low cloud and mist will lift. It will brighten up in places with | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
sunshine. You may catch a shower but these few and far between. A lot of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
places will enjoy a dry afternoon. Top temperatures seven to ten | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
Celsius. Above average for February with a light west to south-westerly | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
breeze. Moderate on some coasts. Tomorrow evening dry for a while but | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
some showery rain will spread across the country later in the evening and | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
overnight. Wednesday showery rain first thing will clear. Most of the | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
day then dry. Plenty of cloud but bright in places with some sunshine. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Overnight into Thursday. More rain on the way. So a wet and windy start | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
on Thursday. The rain clearing to sunshine and showers. Friday windy | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
and chilly with sunshine and squally showers. Hail and thunder possible. | :26:32. | :26:43. | |
Wintry on high ground with snow. Our picture tonight is from Louise | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
Rixon. Sunshine in the Brecon Beacons yesterday. Thanks, Louise. | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
More rain and showers on the way this week but I can promise some dry | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
weather and sunshine as well. To write headlines. The war of words | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
over the future of Scotland has intensified. Alex Salmond has said | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
that mocking an independent Scotland's ability to share the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
pound could damage business in the rest of the UK -- blocking. Lastly, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
George Osborne said they vote for independence meant walking away from | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
the pound -- last week. Pinewood Studios will open a new | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
facility in Cardiff. The Welsh Government says the deal could | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
generate around ?90 million and support 2000 jobs over five years. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
X Ray is coming up in 30 minutes. Here's Lucy and Rhodri with what's | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
in tonight's programme. Tonight, we go undercover to expose | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the trading shoddy counterfeit goods which is sweeping through Wales. | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
And how would you claim compensation if you're car is damaged by a | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
pothole? All that and more. I'll have an | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
update for you here at 8pm and after the BBC News at Ten. | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
That's Wales Today. Thank you for watching. From all of us on the | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
programme, good evening. | :28:03. | :28:04. |