24/02/2014 BBC Wales Today

so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news

teams Welcome to Wales Today. Homes under

water - so why have councils given the go-ahead to hundreds of

developments on flood plains despite being warned of the risk? This whole

area is a bit like a miniature Somerset Levels, except you have a

lot of housing and industrial property here.

Premature baby Rohan Rhodes' ventilator was removed too soon by

hospital staff, his parents tell an inquest.

The site's been for sale for three years - what does the future hold

for Milford Haven's oil refinery Murco?

The ?4 million advertising campaign to entice tourists to come on

holiday here. In tonight's sport: He won

silverware - but as the club struggles in mid-table - Wrexham

player-manager Andy Morrell resigns. Good evening. In the last ten years,

councils here have given the go-ahead to hundreds of

developments, despite being warned that they posed a flood risk.

Natural Resources Wales - formerly the Environment Agency - gives

advice to local authorities about planning applications, including the

risk of flooding. Wales Today has learnt that between 2004 and last

year, councils here ignored that advice 341 times. Roger Pinney has

been to Kinmel Bay near Rhyl - one of the communities where it's

happened. Sandbags at the ready. Thankfully they are not needed

today. But here, local people to keep an eye on every high tide. But

it isn't just this coastal strip which is at risk from flooding. The

whole community is built on low-lying flatland with the sea on

one side and the river on the other. It's a flood plain. This is what

happens when it goes wrong. In 1990, the sea wall breached. Much of what

was farmland then has since been built on. In the last couple of

years, the council has given the green lighted two developments,

advice. One of them will be decided by a Welsh planning inspector. Given

the concerns here, there is little wonder locals turn out for a public

meeting called by their assembly member to discuss flooding. Some

people ready have had a really bad. The estate I live on really

shouldn't have been built, I didn't realise it were purchased the

property. It's barmy for councillors on any part of Wales to refuse to

accept the fact is, when they are presented to them, from

organisations like Natural Resources Wales, they are the flooding

experts. If they say it is too risky, local authorities should he

do that. On the riverside, there is an embankment and pumping stations

to keep the water out. The entire area is crisscrossed with streams.

It is a bit like a miniature Somerset Levels accept you have a

lot of housing and industrial buildings here. An industrial estate

is a key distinction, he says, because no one will actually live

here. We have to make the best of the patchwork situation we have at

the moment. Sometimes that means picking and choosing what advice you

take? The place common sense is fuelled by the fear that the place

will buy without new development. In other parts of Wales at my be

because of a lack of buildable land. Compromises are being made. We have

a housing crisis in Wales and in the whole of the UK. The lack of land

means that some local authorities get desperate, and develop land that

is prone to flooding. What is clear is flood risk can have devastating

impact on people, properties and communities. It is important we have

appropriate checks and balances in place. In Kinmel Bay, they're keen

to anything that will do that. Here they question whether existing homes

and businesses can be properly defended, let alone new ones.

A mother from Pembrokeshire broke down in tears today as she told an

inquest how her premature son died at just five weeks old, after being

taken off a ventilator. Bronwyn Rhodes noticed something was wrong

with baby Rohan soon after he son was transferred from a hospital in

Swansea to see specialists in Bristol in 2012. Paul Heaney

reports. Rohan Rhodes was born 14 weeks early

in Swansea. He had serious lung and heart problems so was transferred to

see experts at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol in September 2012. His

parents say within hours he became too unwell for surgery, eventually

suffering a cardiac arrest. When he was deteriorating that night, nobly

escalated his care when they should have. -- nobody. He was left for

hours with nobly taking a blood sample to see how he was doing. His

mother said that nursing staff in Bristol were aggressive when

inserting feeding tubes into her son. They clearly caused him pain,

she said. His father thought he had been sedated when he was taken off

the ventilator, such was the pale and apparently lifeless state of his

body. Rohan Rhodes died at just five weeks, after his mother agreed that

doctors should stop resuscitating him. A pathologist told the inquest

that he had multiple perforations of his bowel and the likely cause of

his death was a stomach infection and pneumonia. Rohan's parents say

they hope lessons can be learned. He suffered a great deal of pain, that

is the part we want to try and make sure doesn't happen again Thomas

that is why we are talking to you, to make sure no other babies suffer.

The hospital trust says it offers its sincere condolences to the roads

family for the loss of their son. The former chief executive of the

now defunct All Wales Ethnic Minority Association, Awema, has

appeared in court and denied three charges of fraud. Naz Malik is

accused of claiming more than ?16,000 from the Swansea-based

charity. He's due to stand trial in August.

A 13-year-old from Barry was electrocuted as she helped her

father bring Christmas decorations down from the attic, an inquest has

heard. Georgia Marshall died at home last November. An exposed cable

wrapped around a metal step ladder gave her a fatal electric shock. A

verdict of accidental death was recorded.

The first of a series of meetings for people with concerns about poor

care at hospitals run by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health

Board is being held this evening in Bridgend. It follows a series of

damning headlines over recent months. Last July, a BBC Wales

investigation exposed the neglect of an elderly patient - Lilian Williams

- at two ABMU hospitals. That investigation led to calls for a

public inquiry into care standards and death rates in the Welsh NHS.

Two external reviews into the ABMU hospitals are ongoing - one

commissioned by the Welsh Government, one by the health board.

The Abertawe Bro Morgannwg Victims' Support Group has also been set up

which is echoing the calls for an inquiry. Our reporter India Pollock

is at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend. What is the purpose of

the night's meetings? People with complaints about care are meeting

with senior clinicians and managers here. Those meetings are being held

in private but I've spoken to a few people who have concerns about the

care and are meeting with them. There are similar concerns that come

up. The standards of care, the frustration at the length of time it

has taken to deal with the complaints. These meetings this

evening for a public meeting which took place last month, about 100

people attended that. There were calls for the Chief Executive to

step down at that meeting. He has refused to do that but says he wants

to listen to people and work with them to improve standards. There is

a demonstration there at the hospital tonight. Yes, as you can

see, a number of people here have been demonstrating and as well as

the resignation of Mr Roberts, they want the health board to be put into

special measures and the -- a full public enquiry. They say anything

short of that is not enough. But this demonstration is a peaceful

vigil. They want to respect the people coming in and out of the

hospital. But they want a message to be heard, and that message is for

full public enquiry to be held. Despite several reviews, that call

has been rejected so far by the Welsh government.

A former Swansea rugby player has been handed a record eight-year ban

for possessing and trafficking steroids. 34-year-old Dean

Colclough, who was a hooker with Swansea RFC was found to be in

possession and trafficking of anabolic steroids. Colclough played

for the club 106 times between 1997 and 2008.

The "For Sale" sign has been up for three years but it seems there are

no buyers for Milford Haven's Murco Oil Refinery. The plant employs 400

people in Pembrokeshire and is owned by the American company Murphy - who

posted a $105 million loss for the last three months of 2013. Just

before we came on air I spoke to the oil analyst Carol Bell and asked her

what's going on at Murco. Murco is the pulling out of it worldwide.

What is apparent from the figures is that the assets in Wales, in

refining, are marked for position, which means they are for sale. So

when the story, blast in November, the company then said that they had

no plans to close down, they were pursuing a sale, and we must assume

that was the case until we hear otherwise. Presumably, if you can't

find a buyer, you have to simply closed down, don't you? That is

indeed the case. Viewers will will remember the story in Grangemouth,

it got close to that. The main problem is that older refineries in

this country are not competitive, given the amount of refining

capacity that has come on elsewhere in the world. What is the wider

picture? It seems to most of us, using the roads and being stuck in

congestion, we need more and more oil all the time, surely the demand

is growing around the world? Refined products are more competitively

produced elsewhere. It is just as easy to fill a tanker with diesel or

petrol as it is with crude oil. So this is a worldwide market. Where

does that leave oil refining in the UK? Will really just not have a

future in it? It is a European wide problem, not just for the UK. There

are 25 refineries in the EU, and up to nine of them were a sale

recently. It's just a case that you can't make money in this business,

and that is why Murphy is pulling out of the business. It recently

passed on to its shareholders, its North American refining operations,

but they are pulling out of refining.

You're watching Wales Today from the BBC. Later in the programme - from

Dr Who to the fashion catwalk - how Wales could do better when it comes

to the creative arts. And Wales will be without Aaron

Ramsey for their friendly against Iceland, as they prepare for the

Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. Castles, beaches and dolphins will

feature in a new ?4 million advertising campaign aimed at

boosting tourism in Wales. It features music from singer Cerys

Matthews and will be launched on St David's Day as part of Wales Tourism

Week. The TV advert is directed by Marc Evans, whose work includes the

Welsh detective series, Hinterland. Abigail Neal reports.

Designed to evoke memories of her favourite holiday, the new ad

campaign asks viewers to pack an open mind, a sense of adventure and

an appetite for discovery in a bid to broaden Wales's appeal. They

might know bits about us, but with films, if you take it to a pistol, a

competition opens up and start to understand a bit more about who we

are. -- ticket to a festival. Ministers said they want to tackle

misconceptions about how much there is to see and do here in Wales so

the first Mountain bike Park in Merthyr Tydfil is featured as well

as dolphin watching in Cardigan Bay. It is a ?4 million campaign, with

the tourism is an important industry in Wales, 10% of the people in Wales

worked in the tourism industry and there is a contribution of about ?5

billion a year. Look beyond the advertising and Welsh tourism is

having to put up its prices. Both Snowdonia National Park and the

Brecon Beacons National Park are cutting staff, closing information

centres and raising car parking charges as they face a 13% cut in

funding. The historic management agency is having to increase

admission fees -- monuments agency. Pembroke should coast National Park

are due to consult on what cuts they need to make in the next six months.

A reduction in funding will mean there will be a reduction in what we

can do. We have no specific plans for increasing charges, but it will

be a balance between increasing charges and perhaps having a

detrimental impact on people visiting some of our sites. So it is

a Catch-22. Local authorities faced the same pressures on their tourism

budgets while at the same time reliant on the income tourists can

bring. It's a business that continues to

grow despite the economic downturn - a report out today says Wales should

make more of developing the creative industries. The think tank IPPR says

Cardiff is successful in fashion, television and radio but it could be

further boosted if these industries weren't concentrated in London.

Here's our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas.

Made in Wales are shown around the world. Doctor Who is a hit with

viewers and it is good for business. This is where he begins every

journey. It is where the series is filmed. Along with the likes of

Sherlock and casualty, it is given Wales and enviable reputation. But

over the road, there is another building that is almost finished. It

will be a ?6 million creative industry centre as it it is where

the Welsh government hope will be a home for new businesses that want to

stay in Wales. The creative industries is a sector that employs

more than 30,000 people here. They are working at over 4000

enterprises, turning over ?1.8 billion a year. But could Wales be

doing more? Only two weeks ago the world's biggest designers and

celebrity buyers were at London Fashion Week and while the city's

catwalks may be considered their natural home, the think tank IPPR

says it is time to break London's grip. One who resisted the lure of

London is this designer, who works from home in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Her textiles are appearing on cushions, curtains and lampshades

and exported around the world. I don't feel I have to be there on a

day-to-day basis because I can travel to and from there, I go there

for trade shows, and in that aspect, I reap the rewards. The students at

Carmarthen are the next generation of designers. But will they stay

here or had bright lights of London? It's probably easier to have it

accessible business and make a name for yourself, because being in a

smaller area, you would get lost in London. There is a lot of funding we

can get in Wales which are probably wouldn't get in London. It is easier

to work freelance from home here now, and worked locally or further

afield. A week ago, Pinewood Studios announced they would open a new

facility in Cardiff with an estimated ?90 million impact on the

economy. Although there are things we can do ourselves, those things

will have more impact if they are actually complimented by a sound and

effective policy at the London end. Like the doctor, the Welsh economy

has undergone several regenerations. It is hoped that in the future,

Wales can take a bigger place in the spotlight.

Tonight's sport now, here's Claire. Good evening. He's been in charge

for two and a half years but today Wrexham's player-manager Andy

Morrell resigned from the club. The 39-year-old led the club to two

play-off finishes - but they've struggled this season and following

their loss to Barnet on the weekend, they've dropped to 13th in the

Conference. Matthew Richards looks back at his career.

First as a player and then as player/manager, Andy Morrell has

definitely made his mark making over 200 appearances for the club. Last

year saw the crowning achievement of his tenure, winning the FA Trophy at

Wembley. But two months later there would be heartbreak at the same

venue as Wrexham lost in the play off final to Newport, denying them a

return to the Football League. This season, with a play off place

seemingly unlikely, Andy Morrell has thrown in the towel after two and a

half years. It was a hard announcement to hear for Wrexham's

players ahead of training this morning and tough too for Morrell's

assistant who inherits his role until a permanent successor is

found. It was very emotional because Andy had players he brought to the

club, friends he played with, and for them to see him how he was and

for them to see him how he was, it was hard to take. The club will

advertise for a new manager this week. Billy Barr has expressed an

interest in taking on the job, but with a game at top-of-the-table

Luton tomorrow, it's a baptism of fire. There have been some

incredible highs over the last couple of years but they have been

some devastating lows as well. Andy Morrell said he had taken the team

as far as he could. Nobody is doubting his dedication and

commitment. He put his body on the line for Wrexham stop he threw

himself at Paul's most of us would run away from. As a player, most

respect. As a manager, his track record stands up. He goes with a

very good CV which will do him no harm whatsoever. It is a sad day for

the football club. Coming after Brian Flynn and Dean Saunders, Andy

Morrell guided the club through a tough period but leaves as the only

Wrexham manager to win more than half of his matches even if some of

the most crucial were just beyond his reach.

Staying with football - Wales manager Chris Coleman says it's

important they hit the ground running as they gear up for their

2016 European qualifying campaign. Wales now know who'll they'll face

as they aim to get to the finals in France. Meanwhile - it was goals

galore at Swansea and Cardiff's matches, but sadly neither side

bagged any points. The sunny south of France. Neath

College is one of the locations hosting 2016. Chris Coleman joined

the other managers yesterday to draw the team's fate. The build-up to

qualifying starts next week for Wales with a friendly against

Iceland. Today Coleman named a 23 man squad for the game. Aaron Ramsey

are still some way from fitness but Coleman is confident Gareth Bale

will be available and there is also a call-up for Manchester City

player. Wales find themselves in group B.

It will be about us, how many times can we feel is our strongest team? I

fancy us to beat anybody with our strongest team at our best. But it's

a positive group, it will be tough, but we are a good team and we are in

there so we have got a chance. Coleman will take heart from house

of his players performed yesterday in the thriller against Liverpool.

Swansea city definitely deserved a point. They showed that their spirit

was there, despite losing 4-3, their manager and former manager were

impressed. I could see the intensity, the quality, I always

want to see Swansea do well. If you think about the mud of Games we had,

to keep the energy levels going, and the belief we had in the second

half, I can't thought my players for the efforts and believe they showed.

For Cardiff City, the fight to stay up gets harder. That hammering at

home to visitors Hull City leaves them in 19th place, and plans for

warm weather training have been cancelled as they prepare for a trip

to Tottenham on Sunday. You cannot find any positives when you lose 4-0

against a team in round about the same position as you are, especially

not when we dominated, created chances, these are the Games you

need points from. Newport County were tested on the surface at Rodney

Parade and the result didn't go to plan. Their defeat to strugglers

Charlton leaves and seven points off the play-off places.

The second round of the Wales Open Snooker is underway in Newport with

four Welshmen in action today. Andrew Pagett is playing now, hoping

to join Dominic Dale and Matthew Stevens who both came through their

matches this afternoon. Michael White plays in this evening's

session. You can watch the action over on BBC Two Wales at 7pm. Time

for the weather! We enjoyed a break from the rain but

it is turning wet again this evening. Nothing too extreme this

week, and I can promise you some dry spells and sunshine as well. We have

the warmest place in the UK yesterday, which spring on the way.

This evening, rain will spread across the whole country, some heavy

bursts. Gusty winds, as well. Turning drier after midnight with

one or two showers. We're not expecting any frost. Here is

tomorrow 's chart. We have strong winds and squally showers, and this

trough over Ireland will move eastwards during the day. Here's the

picture for breakfast time. Much of the country dry at this stage, the

crowd broken, with some sunshine. Quite breezy, though. Later in the

morning, during the afternoon, that trough will spread across the

country, bringing some showers with it. I wouldn't rule out hail and

thunder. Plus three South to south-westerly wind. Some showers

and at that little sunshine as well. In other areas, the morning should

be dry, showers arriving in the afternoon. Tomorrow night, dry apart

from a few scattered showers, and it will be a cold night. Into

Wednesday, a few showers here and there. A little bit wintry on high

ground. Some sunshine as well, with a drawn dry end to the afternoon.

This will clear the way first thing on Thursday, leaving us with a

mixture of sunshine and showers again. Once again they will be

heavy, with hail and thunder, and wintry on the mountains. A similar

story on Friday. Some dry weather as well, with a few silly spells. No

sign of any snow apart from the higher hills and mountains.

The headlines: The Scottish and UK governments have set out competing

visions for the future of North Sea oil and gas. Both sides say they

hold the key to ensuring that the offshore reserves continue to pump

billions into the economy. In the last ten years, councils have given

the go-ahead to hundreds of developments despite being warned

that they posed a flood risk. Wales today has learned that since 2004,

councils ignored that advice 341 times. I'll have an update for you

here at eight o'clock and after the BBC News at Ten. That's Wales Today

- thank you for watching. We've got to get in the car.

NINA SIGHS