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from BBC News. It is goodbye from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: How safe are hospitals here? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
One NHS boss in England calls for high death rates in Wales to be | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
investigated. The Welsh Government says any suggestion it's covering-up | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
the figures is utterly ridiculous. We'll be speaking to the Health | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Minister live. The deputy head who admitted | :00:19. | :00:37. | |
voyeurism offences last month is facing more charges - some allegedly | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
committed at the school where he taught. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Concerns around a hundred bus services have been scrapped due to | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
council cuts - but are enough people using them? | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
I have a motorbike to go to work on but the older people need the buses. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
If there were more frequent buses it would make everything a whole lot | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
simpler. Also tonight: Swansea City face the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
most important European night in their history - they take on Italian | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
giants Napoli. We'll be there live. And they | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
volunteer their time to keep us safe - the major investment in RNLI | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
teams. The number of people dying in our | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
hospitals is under the spotlight again tonight. It's emerged the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
medical director of the NHS in England has suggested death rates | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
here are worrying and should be investigated. The Welsh Government | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
says it acts on legitimate concerns at individual hospitals. But one | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
academic has told us he's concerned health boards are not telling us the | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
full story. Here's our Political Editor Nick Servini. | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
In the past few years, the families of some of those who died in Welsh | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
hospitals have told us of of some of those who died in Welsh | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
concerns about care in the NHS. Today the row over death rate has | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
raised its head again, this time in an e-mail from the medical director | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
of the NHS in England, Sir Bruce Keogh, to his equivalent here. In it | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
he describes the high death rate as worrying and says there is real | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
concern about what is happening. He says there are six hospitals with a | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
persistently high mortality that warrant further investigation. He | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
does and he doesn't have adequate data to form a view. The figures | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
published last March by the Welsh government showed 11 out of 17 | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
district general hospitals in Wales had higher death rates than should | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
be expected. That has now dropped to eight. The figures were published in | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
a bid to improve transparency. One eight. The figures were published in | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
of the leading experts in mortality rates in England says he is | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
concerned we are not getting the full picture. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
In England, we adjusted hospital just rates -- death rates and it | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
drew attention to the problem in mid Staffordshire NHS trust. If there | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
are questions about the quality of service in Wales, I think they | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
probably should be looking at things in a similar way. If you go to the | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
website of one of the hospitals, you find that the measures that we use | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
have changed and it looks as though in some of the analysis they do, | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
they are missing data. The Welsh government said any | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
suggestion high death rates are being covered up is utterly | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
ridiculous and completely without foundation. The Conservatives have | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
been calling foundation. The Conservatives have | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
enquiry into the NHS since last year but Assembly Members voted against | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
the idea in November. It is one thing to investigate | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
individual cases where a patient may have passed away and those | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
circumstances may have to be investigated. What we have here is a | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
systemwide investigation to take appropriate action. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
Gareth Williams is campaigning for a full public enquiry into the NHS in | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
Wales. His 82-year-old mother died at the Princess of Wales Hospital in | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Bridgend two years ago. The police were called in after he claimed she | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
was repeatedly neglected by staff. It is sold destroying to see a loved | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
one going through that. Lillian was It is sold destroying to see a loved | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
abused and neglected. With the evidence coming forward, there needs | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
to be a full public enquiry. The Welsh meant has ruled out a | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
nationwide enquiry and said the majority of people who use the NHS | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
are happy with the care they receive. Let's get more from our | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
political editor. Let's go through some of the issues | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
with the health minister, Mark Drakeford, who joins me now. Anyone | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
looking at this tonight, the concerning thing is this has not | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
come from any of your political opponents but the most senior doctor | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
in the NHS in England, who has carried out enquiries into this kind | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
of thing already. I think you are entirely wrong in | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
that analysis. I have no qualm with what Sir Bruce Keogh said but the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
use that has been made of that e-mail today makes me furious at the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
concerted and politically motivated attempt to drag the rapid Jason of | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
the -- the reputation of the NHS through the gutter. He said he was | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
presented with figures but he could not verify them and he didn't have | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
sufficient to draw conclusion of his own but he was passing it on to the | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
chief investigator. I have no quarrel with that. Mortality data in | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Wales is published absolutely routinely and openly and it shows an | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
improving picture quarter after quarter. It is the political | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
attempt, a concerted political attempt by the Conservative party in | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
London to drag the reputation of the NHS in Wales through the mud which | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
is unacceptable. The latest figures we have got, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
eight out of 17 district general hospitals are above where they | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
should be. Are you happy on the mortality rates when clearly, there | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
could be room for improvement. I fully accept that. For me the | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
trend is the important thing. The figures demonstrate that quarter on | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
quarter, they are. In any statistical series, you are bound to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
have some organisations that are above the average and some that are | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
below. In Wales we have more above and below but there is more we can | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
do. Why did you put this to bed with | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
your political opponents and hold an enquiry into this issue? | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
Because they are not interested in that sort of enquiry at all. All | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
they are interested in doing is diverting attention from the utter | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
shambles which is the English NHS by trying to pretend things in Wales | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
are worse but they are not and we will not fall into that trap. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
An enquiry could reassure people. If you are as confident as you say you | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
are, and enquiry could lay it all out there. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Where there is genuine cause for concern, we do have enquiries in the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Welsh NHS. We have independent enquiry is led by people from | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
outside Wales. But a general global, "let's have an enquiry" would | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
distract from compassionate care and would lead to a detriment of | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
patient's best interests, would lead to a detriment of | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
We have to leave it there. Thank you very much indeed. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
The deputy head teacher from Cardiff who's pleaded guilty to three | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
charges of voyeurism involving children has today been charged with | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
a number of other similar offences. Some of Gareth Williams' latest | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
offences allegedly took place at the Welsh-medium school where he worked. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Over now live to Ysgol Glantaf in Cardiff and our reporter Nick Palit. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Nick, what's the latest. Well, today the Crown Prosecution | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Service issued a statement saying that following further police | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
investigations, the 47-year-old deputy head has been charged with a | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
further 12 counts of voyeurism and 34 counts of making indecent images. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
The statement goes on to say that six of the counts of voyeurism | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
relate to offences that allegedly took place at this school on two | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
days last December. The other six were allegedly at other locations on | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
a number of dates between 2011 and 2013. He'll appear before Cardiff | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
Magistrates to have the charges formally put to him next Wednesday. | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
Tell us more about the background to this story? | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Acting on information last month Police recovered a miniature camera | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
hidden in a toilet and memory sticks containing files of five children. | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
On the 31st of January Gareth Williams appeared at Cardiff | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty three charges of recording another | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
person without their consent for the purpose of sexual gratification. But | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
those charges did not relate to any alleged offences here at the school. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Since then police have widened their investigation to include Ysgol | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Glantaf - hence today's further charges. A letter has been sent out | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
to parents today informing them of the latest situation. Some have | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
already been seeking legal advice on behalf of their children. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Thank you very much. Four men have been jailed for a | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
total of 11 years for their part in a mobile phone insurance scam worth | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
?300,000. Christopher Surman, Andrew Patterson and Wayne Ghosh from | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Swansea and Omar Mapara from Bristol had all admitted conspiring to | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
defraud customers by selling false insurance policies to thousands of | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
people. Three others were given suspended prison sentences for | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
selling insurance without being authorised to do so. They have been | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
sentenced on the basis that there was no intention of ever paying out | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
any of the warranties or what were purported to be | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
any of the warranties or what were phones. It was a complete con in | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
terms of the ?300,000 worth of business. | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Police are appealing for help to find a 15-year-old boy who | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
disappeared early this afternoon. Sean Levi was last seen in | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Llandrillo, near Corwen. He's described as being of mixed race. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
He's five foot five with short, curly hair and brown eyes. He's | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
thought to be wearing a grey hoody and a blue jacket. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
If you live in south Wales, you may have felt an earthquake this | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
lunchtime. The tremor was recorded under the Bristol Channel at 1:20pm | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
by the British Geological Survey, and measured 4.1 magnitude. The | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
epicentre was south of the Gower and was felt in Swansea and Llanelli, as | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
well as on the other side of the channel. Some people reported their | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
houses shaking. Almost 100 bus routes have been | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
scrapped across Wales in the past few years, with many more under | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
threat. Rural villages have been worst hit by the cuts as councils | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
struggle to make money on services. worst hit by the cuts as councils | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Matthew Richards has been finding out more. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Wherever cuts are made, it's in rural areas where the lack of | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
subsidised public transport will be felt most harshly. Larger distances | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
and fewer alternative ways to travel means that some could be stranded if | :11:42. | :11:42. | |
their service is stopped. I'm hitching a ride on one of the | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
threatened routes in the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk to speak to | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
passengers. It is a pity, like I said before, | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
because a lot of elderly people are out in rural areas and in my line of | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
work, getting at here to look after them is a lot harder. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Most people have cars and I have a motorbike to get to work on but the | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
older people need the best service. -- the best service. This hour long | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
journey from Chirk to Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog only carried three | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
passengers. On services like this, you can understand why whenever | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
Council are looking at cutting back. Some people find it a lifeline. It's | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
a familiar picture across Wales where one in seven council | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
subsidised bus routes have been cut over the last three years. The | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
biggest reduction was in Pembrokeshire where 19 routes were | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
scrapped. 16 went in Wrexham. While Gwynedd cut ten and both Powys and | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Blaenau Gwent saw six routes disappear. In Mid and West Wales a | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
taxi-type service called Bwcabus has filled the gap left when traditional | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
services have been removed from remote communities. | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
We developed a new network which was responsive to what the public | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
wanted. That means that many villages, for example a village like | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
one in north Carmarthenshire used to have one bus a week. People there | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
now have 12 options every day, in each direction. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
The Welsh Government says it's looking at innovative solutions to | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
fund and deliver sustainable bus services but the responsibility for | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
particular routes lies with councils. Age Cymru says it's | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
essential for older people to have access to public transport. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Isolation is a big problem in Wales. All the people who find themselves | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
cut off, not able to get out and about into local communities, not | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
able to the services that they need. We know that a lot of people rely on | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
buses to get out and about. It gives them independence and freedom. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Wrexham Council will be discussing the issue of bus services next week | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
and Pembrokeshire have warned that further cuts are unavoidable there | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
too. Passengers in some areas face an anxious wait to see whether the | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
bus they use will arrive in an anxious wait to see whether the | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
You're watching Wales Today. Stay with us as there's plenty still | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
ahead: They've just had one of their busiest years - the major investment | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
in RNLI teams. And paintings of Welsh landscapes | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
bought for a million pounds - ensuring these significant works | :14:18. | :14:18. | |
about Wales stay in Wales. It's a big night for Swansea City | :14:19. | :14:31. | |
and their new manager - here's Claire with tonight's sport. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Good evening. Yes, he's only been in the job two weeks, but Swansea | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
City's interim manager Garry Monk faces a huge test tonight. The Swans | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
welcome Italian side Napoli to the Liberty Stadium in the first leg of | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
their Europa League tie. Napoli's manager is a man who knows all about | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
success - he won the tournament last year with Chelsea. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
He may only be getting his feet under the desk but tonight Garry | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Monk is facing one of the biggest nights of European football in | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
Swansea city history. It has been a whirlwind few weeks but it is a | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
challenge he is relishing. Nights like this don't come around | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
often so great is a case of going out there and enjoy it and put in a | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
performance we can be proud of. It is a game we can win and it has to | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
be the way, that has to be the attitude of the players and that is | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
what we've had in the Games I've had with them and we will take that into | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
this game. Swansea are fully aware of the | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
challenge ahead of them tonight. Napoli Have a rich heritage. Today | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
they are coached by a man who has won most of football's top prizes, | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
including the Europa league last year with Chelsea. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
It will be good to speak to him afterwards, to pick his brain | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
because of his experience. For somebody like myself, who has been | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
doing it to ten days, it would be lovely to speak to him afterwards | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
and it will be nice if I can have the right result to speak to him | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
about! Comedy with that stature in the game, it is something to aspire | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
to. It is a challenge for us to use play | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
against a team like this and the advantage is because they know how | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
we play but it is up to the players on the pitch. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Both teams are missing crucial goal-scorers. Swansea know there | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
priority is staying in the Premier League but nights like this are | :16:40. | :16:40. | |
priority is staying in the Premier special and a good result is needed | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
to night ahead of the return leg in Italy next week. | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
Let's head to the Liberty Stadium now and speak to our football | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
correspondent Rob Phillips. Well, there's nothing like getting stuck | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
in - just two weeks in the job and a massive test for Garry Monk. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
It doesn't come much more difficult than this but as you heard, Garry | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Monk is excited and relishing pitting his wits against Rafa | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
Benitez, who won this competition with Chelsea last year and won the | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
champions league with Liverpool. It is a really tough test for the Swans | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
but it is a special night and this is why they went to Malmo, to play | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
Games like this, against a side with great pedigree. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
How vital is it to get something from the game tonight - with that | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
return leg next Thursday? I think it is absolutely crucial. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
That said, a draw would be terrific because they would only have to | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
score a goal and keep a clean sheet in Napoli. They would rather be take | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
a 1-0 defeat. They had an earthquake in Swansea earlier today. If this | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
once went to night, I think you will be able to hear it on the Richter | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
scale. And Rob will be in his commentary | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
seat in the next few minutes. All the action live on Radio Wales Sport | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
- coverage starts at 7:00pm. Rugby. Wales AND France have had a | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
run out at the Millennium Stadium today ahead of their Six Nations | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
clash tomorrow night. France today ahead of their Six Nations | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
into the match unbeaten having won against England and Italy. Wales are | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
looking to bounce back from that dismal defeat in Dublin. Defence | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
coach, Shaun Edwards is backing George North, whose 37 Wales caps | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
have all been on the wing, to make an impact in the centre. | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Watching George North in training so far, he has trained exceptionally | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
well. The brief period he played at centre was probably against | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Australia, when he was sensational in the last 20 minutes. If I was a | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
centre, I would be worried about my opposition if I saw George North in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
my jersey. We will have the build-up tomorrow | :19:09. | :19:09. | |
night. And there's Pro 12 action tonight. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
The Blues welcome Leinster to the Arms Park. You can see it on Scrum V | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Live, over on BBC Arms Park. You can see it on Scrum V | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
That's it from me. Details of Swansea's game in our | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
late bulletin at 10:25pm tonight. Tomos? | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
It should be a special night at the Liberty Stadium. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Over the past two years, the RNLI has invested over ?50 million along | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the Welsh coastline. The level of investment, revealed to BBC Wales, | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
comes at a time when the service, provided by volunteers, is busier | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
than ever. Last year, the boats were launched a thousand times, over a | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
hundred times more than the year before. Aled Hughes reports. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Welcome aboard a ?3 million lifeboat, the Kiwi. This life saving | :19:50. | :20:05. | |
machine is currently homeless. The last boat house was built in | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
1909 two has told sailing and rowing -- to house sailing and rowing | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
boats. As you can see, this is 21st century science and the boat is a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
lot bigger. We need more facilities to house these boats. We didn't have | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
any changing rooms in the old lifeboat station and we would be | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
changing next to the boat. Mumbles moved into its boat house | :20:35. | :20:46. | |
last week. Others are a year away. ?53.9 million if the total | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
investment. For the crew here, a village that prides itself on its | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
rich RNLI history, nobody underestimates what the new station | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
will mean. The bird has has been here for as | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
long as anybody can remember. It keeps the village alive. | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
Because of the location of these lifeboat houses, most if not all of | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
the building material has to come in from the sea and that makes them | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
work more difficult. The simple aim is to have a proper facility to | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
house the new boats which the RNLI hopes will save more lives. And this | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
is how it will look. Down the road, they are much closer to completion | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
and it will be much more than just a boathouse. | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
This one will have a much bigger crew room. We didn't have a changing | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
room. The crew didn't have their own kit. We will have our own kit now | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
and we have extra toilets and showers, we have a proper workshop | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
and a proper place to keep the boat. The investment is no drop in the | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
ocean and the amount each local volunteer group has to raise is no | :21:56. | :22:07. | |
small amount either. A major collection of works by the | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
artist John Piper being unveiled tonight have been described as one | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
of the best in the world. The paintings - on show at the National | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
Museum of Wales - are mostly landscapes of Snowdonia and were | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
bought from a private collector for nearly a million pounds. Our arts | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
and media correspondent Huw Thomas got a sneak preview. | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
The Welsh landscape -dark, rough and beautiful. These are some of the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
paintings by John Piper board for ?1 million, a price that keeps these | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
mythic and works about Wales in Wales. John Piper wasn't Welsh and | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
it was buildings rather than mountains that first made his name. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
The government asked him to capture the bomb damaged after World War II | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
and his subject included Coventry Cathedral. In the decades that | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
followed, he returned to Wales, making it a second home. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
He worked for a period of several years in North Wales, just after the | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
Second World War. He produced an extraordinary series of landscape | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
pictures and the collection is very much about the landscape of Wales. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
This is a splendid 20th-century addition. | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
The ?1 million needed to buy this location was raised with donations | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
from the Art fund, charity and the Heritage Lottery Fund. But it is the | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
legacy of Derek Williams which contributed ?350,000 towards the | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
cost. He was a huge collector of art and when he died 30 years ago, his | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
collection went to the National Museum. His estate has been | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
supporting the visual arts ever since. It is not just some of the | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
paintings that are the legacy of his passion for art. The galleries were | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
paid for by the trust and renamed in his honour. It is the largest modern | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
benefactor to the National Museum. The contributions to the centenary | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
of the Museum, the major acquisitions of Picasso, Kandinsky | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
and others, that is evidence of the formidable legacy that Derek | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
Williams has made. During his life, Derek Williams | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
collect it John During his life, Derek Williams | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
years after Derek Williams died, it is the gallery bearing his name that | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
will house the best collection of Pipers in the world. | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Time for the weather not and it's turned a bit colder today, Derek. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
This winter is the wettest in Wales on record. According to the Met | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Office over 690mm of rain has fallen in the last three months. Over two | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
feet of rain! The previous wettest was in 1995. Rainfall records go | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
back to 1910. The next 24 hours will bring more showers. Hail in places | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
and cold enough for a little snow on high ground. This evening and | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
tonight plenty of dry weather. Some clear spells. A few showers as well. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Heavy and wintry on high ground. Colder than last night. Temperatures | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
inland falling low enough for a touch of frost in places where the | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
wind falls light. Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure near Iceland. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Brisk winds for the UK, unstable air and showers. Here's the picture for | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
eight in the morning. Some places dry and bright but not everywhere. | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
There will be showers around. If caught in one it could be heavy with | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
hail. Feeling cold. Strong winds in the northwest. During the day into | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
the afternoon, further showers. Heavy in places with hail and | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
thunder. A little snow on some of the hills and mountains but I can | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
promise some dry weather and sunshine as well. Temps lower than | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
today six to eight Celsius with a brisk and gusty wind. Strong winds | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
on the coast. In Ceredigion tomorrow a mixture of sunshine and heavy | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
showers. Windy on the coast and feeling cold. And chilly in | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Caerphilly tomorrow. Sharp showers and sunshine. Hail possible with a | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
high of 6C in Bargoed. If you're in Cardiff for the rugby tomorrow. It's | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
going to chilly with a few passing showers. Saturday is breezy. Try and | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
bright for a while but it may turn cloudy and damp before evening. Send | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
a windy with gales. Outbreaks of rain and drizzle as well. The rain | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
heaviest in the west and northwest. 20 to 50mm on high ground. Drier in | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
the south-east and the Marches. And turning milder - up to 12C on the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
north coast. So its the wettest winter on record in Wales. Next | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
week, more rain and showers. Windy at times but a few sunny spells as | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
well. A reminder of our top story: For | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
health minister has told this programme Conservative politicians | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
are trying to drag the reputation of the Welsh NHS through the mud. It | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
comes after the medical director of the NHS in England suggested death | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
rates in hospitals here are worrying and should be investigated. | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
Where there is genuine concern, we do have enquiries in the | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
Welsh NHS. We have independent enquiries led by people from outside | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Wales. But a general local "let's have an enquiry" would be | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
distracting from the main purpose, which is to provide careful and | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
compassionate patient care and would actually lead to a detriment of | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
patient's best interests, not an improvement. | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
The missing 15-year-old boy who disappeared has been found safe and | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
well. I'll have an update for you later | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
than usual at 8:30pm. More, too, at 10:25pm. From all of us here, have a | :27:45. | :27:45. |