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