:00:09. > :00:17.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines: A woman is charged with
:00:18. > :00:20.possessing and distributing indecent images of children as part of the
:00:21. > :00:23.investigation into paedophile Ian Watkins.Not giving up - protestors
:00:24. > :00:27.take their fight over changes to hospital services in west Wales to
:00:28. > :00:51.the Health Minister at the Senedd Good evening, in tonight's sport.
:00:52. > :00:58.Jonathan Davies is bad for Wales and is straight into fees England. And
:00:59. > :01:21.Gareth Bale as the star attraction is will start the campaign for 2016.
:01:22. > :01:24.-- Wales start their campaign. It's been a highly respected name in the
:01:25. > :01:28.Welsh construction industry but tonight most of the Macob empire has
:01:29. > :01:38.collapsed with the loss of 145 jobs. It's been operating since 1981. In
:01:39. > :01:42.that time, it's built over 12,000 homes and more than 200 miles of
:01:43. > :01:44.road. The company owns Cardiff's historic Coal Exchange, but
:01:45. > :01:46.development plans for that iconic building won't be affected by
:01:47. > :01:49.today's announcement. Here's our business correspondent, Brian
:01:50. > :01:56.Meechan. The sign on the door of the headquarters of Macob told its own
:01:57. > :02:05.story. The company has ceased trading and that means 145 jobs have
:02:06. > :02:19.been lost in Cardiff and also in Chichester. That is account is some
:02:20. > :02:26.of the biggest names in the industry as some of its clients shows the big
:02:27. > :02:29.reputation is at hand. Many involved in the construction sector have been
:02:30. > :02:40.surprised by the collapse of the company. I'm very sad that this has
:02:41. > :02:51.happened and all you can say is that the murky is changing. We hope that
:02:52. > :02:56.work will come to fruition. This hospital opened over a decade ago
:02:57. > :03:04.but the construction history has been very badly hit by the economic
:03:05. > :03:13.crisis. But there are signs of a positive future for construction and
:03:14. > :03:22.industry is set to grow between now and 2018. This is mainly down to big
:03:23. > :03:30.construction projects such as a new nuclear facility in Anglesey. The
:03:31. > :03:33.Welsh specialist panel on construction says we should not read
:03:34. > :03:42.anything into the state of the industry in general because of the
:03:43. > :03:45.fortunes of this one company. There have been more positive statistics
:03:46. > :03:49.from the housing sector but commercially it is still a very
:03:50. > :03:54.competitive murky so we are regrettably seeing companies failing
:03:55. > :04:02.which is not a surprise at this moment. This is the end for large
:04:03. > :04:07.parts of the Macob Empire although small parts are being salvaged.
:04:08. > :04:18.However job opportunities could arise in other companies as the job
:04:19. > :04:21.construction sector improves. A 38-year-old woman has been charged
:04:22. > :04:24.in connection with indecent images of children, as part of the
:04:25. > :04:26.investigation into the jailed Lostprophets singer, Ian Watkins.
:04:27. > :04:29.Officers have charged Joanne Mjadzelics with offences relating to
:04:30. > :04:32.the possession and distribution of indecent images. Rebecca John is in
:04:33. > :04:35.the newsroom. Rebecca, what more can you tell us? Lucy, the Crown
:04:36. > :04:37.Prosecution Service confirmed this afternoon that they've charged
:04:38. > :04:49.Joanne Mjadzelics as part of Operation Globe, the police
:04:50. > :04:52.investigation into Ian Watkins. She faces four charges of possessing an
:04:53. > :05:01.indecent image and two of distributing one. She also faces an
:05:02. > :05:06.account of the struggle string -- of encouraging another person to
:05:07. > :05:09.distribute images. The possession charges relate to the A seventh
:05:10. > :05:22.charge relates to allegations that she asked Ian Watkins to send her an
:05:23. > :05:25.indecent image of a child. The Crown Prosecution Service said they were
:05:26. > :05:28.asked by South Wales Police to review evidence files and concluded
:05:29. > :05:31.there was sufficient evidence, and it was in the public interest to
:05:32. > :05:34.chargeher. Joanne Mjadzelics has been bailed and is due to appear at
:05:35. > :05:37.Cardiff magistrates' court on 21st March. And Ian Watkins was jailed in
:05:38. > :05:40.December. Yes, the former Lostprophets singer from Pontypridd
:05:41. > :05:43.was jailed for 29 years last December after admitting a catalogue
:05:44. > :05:50.of serious sex offences involving children. Police said they believed
:05:51. > :05:54.Watkins is a serial offender, and that there are more young victims in
:05:55. > :05:56.the United States and Germany. A spokesman for the Independent Police
:05:57. > :05:59.Complaints Commission said the charges against Joanne Mjadzelics
:06:00. > :06:01.had no bearing on its continued investigation into the responses of
:06:02. > :06:15.three police forces, including South Wales, to allegations that Ian
:06:16. > :06:18.Watkins was abusing children. Councillors in Powys voted to
:06:19. > :06:21.increase council by 4.5% as the approved their budget for the coming
:06:22. > :06:24.financial year. It was their second attempt to pass it, after protestors
:06:25. > :06:26.interrupted their first seven-hour meeting last week. The budget
:06:27. > :06:33.includes ?20 million-worth of cuts with the loss of around 400 jobs.
:06:34. > :06:36.The former coroner for Carmarthenshire is due to appear
:06:37. > :06:39.before magistrates later this month, accused of theft. John Owen resigned
:06:40. > :06:42.from his post in 2011, and was arrested later that year. It's
:06:43. > :06:47.understood the alleged offences relate to his work as a solicitor in
:06:48. > :06:49.Llandeilo. The Cardiff-based insurance company, Admiral, has
:06:50. > :06:53.announced a 7% rise in annual profits. It's the UK's second
:06:54. > :06:57.biggest car insurer and employs 7000 people at its offices in the
:06:58. > :07:00.capital, Newport and Swansea. Hundreds of people, angry at
:07:01. > :07:03.proposals to close a special care baby unit at Withybush hospital in
:07:04. > :07:07.Haverfordwest, took their protest to the Senedd in Cardiff Bay today.
:07:08. > :07:10.They say moving the unit to Carmarthen will lead to lives being
:07:11. > :07:13.lost. But the Welsh government says the changes would provide the best
:07:14. > :07:18.possible care for mothers and babies. Caroline Evans reports.
:07:19. > :07:20.Shame on you! Angry and determined, a 300-strong crowd including
:07:21. > :07:24.patients doctors and midwives cold on the Health Minister to change his
:07:25. > :07:27.mind and keep the special care baby unit in Haverfordwest, among them
:07:28. > :07:30.Mel and Jill ilcox who believe their grandaughter survived a difficult
:07:31. > :07:49.birth only because the care she needed was instantly available at
:07:50. > :08:07.Withybush. -- Mel and Jill Wilcox. She would not have stood a chance.
:08:08. > :08:10.The Welsh government says providing specialist neonatal services across
:08:11. > :08:13.all hospitals in the Hwyl dda Healthboard is neither safe nor
:08:14. > :08:16.sustainable and the changes will increase the likelihood of survival
:08:17. > :08:19.and long term well being for sick and premature babies needing
:08:20. > :08:22.intensive care. But it's not just the loss of what they call the SCBU
:08:23. > :08:24.Unit that people here fear. Without 24-hour paediatric cover you cannot
:08:25. > :08:30.have a 24-hour accident and emergency department so that service
:08:31. > :08:49.will also be lost and will endanger life because most people here will
:08:50. > :08:52.be outside that category. Hwyel Dda Health Board says its repeatedly
:08:53. > :08:55.stated its intention is to continue 24/7 A cover at Withybush. But
:08:56. > :08:58.feelings among the campaigners were running high and a despite a
:08:59. > :09:01.delegation being invited to meet Health Minister Mark Drakeford, they
:09:02. > :09:04.decided to try and take their protest inside the senedd building,
:09:05. > :09:07.they were stopped at the door, but those who had been allowed in for
:09:08. > :09:11.the meeting said they felt nothing had changed. I feel that the has
:09:12. > :09:14.made up his mind and he will not change it at this stage. Also at the
:09:15. > :09:20.meeting was Joyce Watson, the Labour AM for Mid and West Wales. We have
:09:21. > :09:25.to make sure that we have long-term safe and sustainable services. What
:09:26. > :09:29.we have at the moment are short-term safe and sustainable services and
:09:30. > :09:45.that panel made it clear and that evidence that that would fall apart
:09:46. > :09:49.in the very near future. As they marched round the Pier Head building
:09:50. > :09:52.one mother told me how crucial the care at Withybush had been for her
:09:53. > :09:56.and her daughter, she'd come to Cardiff she said with a simple
:09:57. > :10:03.message for the minister a plea to listen not to panels of experts but
:10:04. > :10:14.to mothers in Pembrokeshire. Caroline Evans there on the row over
:10:15. > :10:20.local services. We have become accustomed to David Cameron
:10:21. > :10:25.attacking the Welsh assembly. There was quite a scathing attack today I
:10:26. > :10:36.generally hunt who said that the performance of the Welsh NHS was so
:10:37. > :10:41.bad that 10% of patients were turning to the English NHS for
:10:42. > :10:53.treatment. He said that they had ignored eminent advice given by the
:10:54. > :10:57.Royal College of Surgeons. This was echoed in Cardiff by the Welsh
:10:58. > :11:04.Conservatives who renewed their call for an independent enquiry looking
:11:05. > :11:19.all around the Welsh NHS and I think we can clearly identify a chance for
:11:20. > :11:23.winning points I year before a British election in two years before
:11:24. > :11:32.the Welsh one. What has the Prime Minister said? Jeremy Hunt has been
:11:33. > :11:42.attacked by those seeing it as a cynical attempt by the Tories and
:11:43. > :11:48.with all this talk about death rates in Wales being too high not, it is
:11:49. > :11:56.clear that the way we measure them in Wales will change and it will be
:11:57. > :12:02.made clearer to people when they compare one hospital to another
:12:03. > :12:07.hospital. The question is will it make it easier to compare with
:12:08. > :12:12.England still to come tonight, a repair bill or than ?1 million for a
:12:13. > :12:34.top to this attraction and will start their build-up to Eudora 2016
:12:35. > :12:38.with a friendly tonight. The UK Government has come under pressure
:12:39. > :12:41.over the future of the Severn Bridge tolls - and weather they should be
:12:42. > :12:45.reduced. In a special debate, MPs have been trying to find out what
:12:46. > :12:47.will happen to them when the privately-run bridges return to
:12:48. > :12:51.public ownership in the next few years. But the message was clear -
:12:52. > :12:54.no decisions have been made. Nick Palit reports. It's a iconic gateway
:12:55. > :12:57.to Wales but with bridge tolls rising each year, many also see it
:12:58. > :13:03.as a barrier to cross-border investment and trade. Haulage firms
:13:04. > :13:15.say the ?19.20 toll for a lorry is an extra financial burden in these
:13:16. > :13:25.straitened times. But for the private motorist,too, it's a
:13:26. > :13:35.significant expense. In in 2018 VAT will no longer be payable. And that
:13:36. > :13:38.debate was happening today in Parliament's Westminster Hall. The
:13:39. > :13:41.Transport Minister confirming that once in public ownership there would
:13:42. > :13:45.still be around ?88million of debt to pay off - which would take about
:13:46. > :13:51.two years. After that, who knows? No decision has been made and I suspect
:13:52. > :14:00.it would be slightly earlier to look at that at this point. The
:14:01. > :14:04.Department for Transport will see it as a cash cow as they do now and
:14:05. > :14:08.will continue to charge tolls. The Welsh government have other
:14:09. > :14:25.interests including development and to lose. -- and to resume. Other
:14:26. > :14:28.bridges like the Humber saw their tolls halved after the Government
:14:29. > :14:32.wrote off much the debt three years ago. In Scotland, tolls on the Skye
:14:33. > :14:35.Bridge were abolished when it was bought by the Scottish Executive.
:14:36. > :14:45.The 1st of March saw campaigners rally. It would do the local accord
:14:46. > :15:00.me a huge amount of good if they were banning tolls. -- the local
:15:01. > :15:06.community. We have found that more and more house-builders are offering
:15:07. > :15:12.incentives for people to move into the area. The Welsh government has
:15:13. > :15:17.cold for control of the bridges to be devolved and campaigners hope
:15:18. > :15:31.that this roadside is erected on both sides of the water. It's one of
:15:32. > :15:33.the most popular tourist attractions in the Brecon Beacons - the
:15:34. > :15:37.Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. Built more than 200 years ago, part
:15:38. > :15:40.of it is now struggling to cope with the recent bad weather. ?1
:15:41. > :15:43.million-worth of emergency repairs are being carried out after heavy
:15:44. > :15:47.rain cause a landslip at Llanfoist near Abergavenny. Here's Paul
:15:48. > :15:50.Heaney. Heavy machinery working seven days a week in a delicate
:15:51. > :15:54.balancing act. The first sign of problems here was a crack like this
:15:55. > :16:06.one in the canal towpath. In the middle of January the towpath
:16:07. > :16:09.started to do this. Torrential rain since the start of the year is being
:16:10. > :16:13.blamed for the path, trees and hundreds of tonnes of soil which are
:16:14. > :16:17.still slowly slipping down this hillside. What would've happened had
:16:18. > :16:25.you not done this work? The whole of the embankment would have started to
:16:26. > :16:28.slide. Engineers are having to re-shape this hillside building a
:16:29. > :16:33.man-made track just to get the machinery up to the canal where the
:16:34. > :16:39.damage has been done. And this is how they're making sure things don't
:16:40. > :16:44.get any worse. 500 meals that are 20 metres long and they are drilling
:16:45. > :16:52.them and gently and will put concrete inside them to support the
:16:53. > :17:05.embankment and pin it back to the original wall face. The canal has
:17:06. > :17:11.had major building work in the past. It has come as a financial shock and
:17:12. > :17:16.here we are now having to refund the income and we're looking at
:17:17. > :17:32.cancelling up to 50 holidays so it is a major blow to the start of the
:17:33. > :17:36.season. Insurance will cover some loses, but the Canal and Rivers
:17:37. > :17:40.Trust has a ?1 million repair bill. It says other parts of the canal are
:17:41. > :17:44.still open. The hope is to have this section open too by the end of
:17:45. > :17:53.April, reconnecting one of the most popular attractions in the Breacon
:17:54. > :17:56.Beacons. And tourism facilities in north Wales which were damaged in
:17:57. > :18:00.this winter's storms are to get money to repair them from the Welsh
:18:01. > :18:03.Government. In Rhyl, where 130 homes were flooded in December, ?250,000
:18:04. > :18:06.will be spent on projects including beach access. While Conwy Council is
:18:07. > :18:09.getting nearly ?500,000 to help restore Deganwy Promenade. There the
:18:10. > :18:11.authority says it wouldn't be able to do the work without financial
:18:12. > :18:15.help. The longest running television drama in Wales is to lose one of its
:18:16. > :18:27.episodes each week and will also lose its weekly on a bus as part of
:18:28. > :18:43.a plan to save ?1 million per year. -- its weekly omnibus. They're
:18:44. > :18:46.infections that can kill and we're running out of drugs to combat them.
:18:47. > :18:49.Superbugs like MRSA and C-Difficile infect one in every 25 hospital
:18:50. > :18:52.patients in Wales. Now medical researchers at Swansea are leading a
:18:53. > :18:55.multi-million pound, UK-wide project to try and stop future outbreaks.
:18:56. > :18:58.They're analysing the bacteria's DNA using one of the biggest computers
:18:59. > :19:01.of its kind ever built in Wales. Carwyn Jones has more. Mankind
:19:02. > :19:02.against microbes and the fear is that our greatest weapon,
:19:03. > :19:11.antibiotics, could be rendered useless as viruses mutate. We still
:19:12. > :19:25.do not know how infections spread and evolve. Here they are breaking
:19:26. > :19:33.down the very DNA of bacteria and analysing microbes molecule by
:19:34. > :19:39.molecule. We can see that this one may have a particular gene that
:19:40. > :19:42.means it is resistant to a certain antibiotic and we may be able to
:19:43. > :19:48.understand where that Jean came from and how we can prevent nasty bugs
:19:49. > :19:55.from acquiring resistance to some of the things we might use to get rid
:19:56. > :20:05.of them. As well as hospital bugs, the research will analyse the DNA of
:20:06. > :20:10.more usual bacteria. They will look at the most common form of food
:20:11. > :20:14.poisoning and the genetic code of this bacteria which will appear as
:20:15. > :20:21.row after row of letters on a computer screen. To make sense of
:20:22. > :20:26.all the data, the research team has had to develop new technology on a
:20:27. > :20:29.huge scale. This is one of the most powerful computers of its kind
:20:30. > :20:34.anywhere in Wales and allows researchers to store and process the
:20:35. > :20:41.genetic data of millions of different strains of bacteria. This
:20:42. > :20:44.technology will be blisteringly fast and able to do computations at a
:20:45. > :20:53.speed that is massively beyond desktop competing on your home PC at
:20:54. > :20:57.home. That enormous amount of data is crucial in the war against
:20:58. > :21:02.hospital superbugs which infect one in every 25 patients in Wales.
:21:03. > :21:21.Scientists here believe it is a fight we can win by tackling
:21:22. > :21:24.microbes at a molecular level It's an important day for our national
:21:25. > :21:29.football and rugby teams. Ashleigh's here with tonight's sport. Thanks,
:21:30. > :21:31.Lucy. We'll be live at the Cardiff City Stadium shortly ahead of
:21:32. > :21:34.tonight's football friendly. But first to rugby, where Scarlets
:21:35. > :21:37.centre Jonathan Davies has been recalled to the Wales team for
:21:38. > :21:45.Sunday's Six Nations clash against England. Davies has only played two
:21:46. > :22:06.halves for his region since a serious chest injury last November.
:22:07. > :22:13.Now that he is fit again, Warren Gatland says he's in great shape. In
:22:14. > :22:39.terms of being fit, he is really sharp at the moment. Saturday steam
:22:40. > :22:53.-- Saturday's team is the same as started recently. All the three
:22:54. > :23:00.quarters division one test caps for the British Lions in the summer. I
:23:01. > :23:09.think he has established himself as a fantastic player and we know all
:23:10. > :23:37.each other's game inside out so it gives confidence for us to play
:23:38. > :23:41.against them while alongside John. To football, then, and Wales are
:23:42. > :23:44.hoping to create a feel-good factor tonight as they play Iceland in a
:23:45. > :23:47.friendly. Chris Coleman feels his team has a great chance of
:23:48. > :23:50.qualifying for Euro 2016 after being drawn in a favourable group. And
:23:51. > :23:54.tonight, he starts his preparation for the qualifying campaign later in
:23:55. > :23:56.the year. Live now to our football correspondent Rob Phillips who's at
:23:57. > :24:03.the Cardiff City Stadium. Gareth Bale starts and Hughes comes into
:24:04. > :24:19.the team as well. Hennessy is in goal and Neil Taylor is getting the
:24:20. > :24:33.boat over Ben Davies. -- getting the vote. A lot of optimism, Rob, after
:24:34. > :24:49.that trial. What will Chris Coleman hope to achieve tonight? This is the
:24:50. > :25:26.start of the road to the EU law 2016 wildfires -- Euro 2016 qualifiers.
:25:27. > :25:30.That is live commentary tonight on radio Wales And you can see all the
:25:31. > :25:38.highlights from the game on Match of the Day Wales at 11.20 tonight, over
:25:39. > :25:39.on BBC Two Wales I won't predict the score, but hopefully Sue can
:25:40. > :25:47.forecast the weather. After the UK's wettest winter on
:25:48. > :25:51.record - we're on course for the driest and warmest spell of weather
:25:52. > :25:54.since last autumn. But before we get there, a rather cloudy day tomorrow
:25:55. > :25:57.with some drizzle. Tonight that cloud will thicken across Wales -
:25:58. > :26:00.misty and murky with some patchy rain - the cloud holding up the
:26:01. > :26:03.temperatures, so much less cold than last night with overnight lows of
:26:04. > :26:07.six or seven Celsius. Tomorrow's also a cloudier day - mist and fog
:26:08. > :26:12.patches - some outbreaks of light rain on and off - but it shouldn't
:26:13. > :26:16.amount to much - it's more a dull and damp day - a bit drier further
:26:17. > :26:19.east - winds pick up slightly - but they're warmer, southerly winds - so
:26:20. > :26:22.temperatures back in double figures of ten Celsius in Monmouthshire and
:26:23. > :26:26.13 in Conwy. It's this waving weather front bringing the thicker
:26:27. > :26:29.cloud and rain - it could turn heavier for a time - especially
:26:30. > :26:32.across North and West Wales on Thursday night into Friday morning.
:26:33. > :26:34.So some rain early Friday, turning drizzly but remaining cloudy,
:26:35. > :26:38.eventually brightening up from the northwest through the day which will
:26:39. > :26:41.be breezy and staying on the mild side. That front's being pushed back
:26:42. > :26:44.northwards by high pressure building from the south on Saturday - these
:26:45. > :26:47.isobars straighten out - meaning winds turn more southerly. And those
:26:48. > :26:50.southerly winds start drawing up warmer air from the Azores, so
:26:51. > :26:54.things beginning to turn much milder over the weekend. So tomorrow and
:26:55. > :26:57.Friday it will be often cloudy with some rain and some brightness. A
:26:58. > :26:59.cold start to Saturday, then the milder, more spring-like weather
:27:00. > :27:06.developing through the weekend. Temperatures could reach the
:27:07. > :27:09.mid-teens early next week. It will be warmer but not necessarily
:27:10. > :27:12.wall-to-wall sunshine. Finally, today's picture, taken by Julia
:27:13. > :27:15.Wilson in Barmouth, looking out over over the Mawddach estuary with the
:27:16. > :27:19.Lleyn Peninsula in the distance. Not so bright there over the next couple
:27:20. > :27:22.of days but improving over the weekend. Don't forget you can send
:27:23. > :27:33.photos to us by Twitter or e-mail, especially if they
:27:34. > :27:43.European ministers are trying to persuade Russia to back down over
:27:44. > :27:49.Ukraine. Also, in Wales, the firm Macob has collapsed with the loss of
:27:50. > :27:52.potentially 12,000 jobs. Goodbye.