:00:00. > :00:10.Welcome to Wales Today. They want to bring international motorsport to
:00:11. > :00:13.the valleys. Should ?50 million of taxpayers money be used to get it to
:00:14. > :00:16.the starting line? The trial of former Shadow Welsh
:00:17. > :00:19.Secretary Nigel Evans. The court hears from a man who alleges the MP
:00:20. > :00:22.put his hands down his victim's trousers.
:00:23. > :00:32.Today's the day your council tax bill is finalised. Wherever you
:00:33. > :00:37.live, you'll have to pay more. I am in Tredegar, home to some of
:00:38. > :00:41.the highest council tax bills in Wales. I will be finding out what it
:00:42. > :00:44.means for the people living here. The family of Margaret Hoskins, who
:00:45. > :00:47.died after being treated at Singleton and Morriston hospitals,
:00:48. > :00:49.call for an inquiry into all hospitals within the local health
:00:50. > :00:52.board. And the storms lashing our coast
:00:53. > :01:05.reveal the leg bones of a man buried in the cliff. But who was he?
:01:06. > :01:09.Good evening. A racing circuit attracting international motorsport
:01:10. > :01:15.to the South Wales Valleys, bringing much needed jobs. That's the vision.
:01:16. > :01:19.BBC Wales has discovered that the new Circuit of Wales racetrack may
:01:20. > :01:22.receive ?30 million from the Welsh Government. But questions are being
:01:23. > :01:26.asked about whether the track, earmarked for Rassau near Ebbw Vale,
:01:27. > :01:29.can be built in time to win a contract for an international motor
:01:30. > :01:41.racing event, seen as vital to the development. Tim Rogers reports.
:01:42. > :01:44.This is the vision but where is the prize? The promises to deliver
:01:45. > :01:51.world-class motor racing including the Moto GP. The motorcycle
:01:52. > :02:00.equivalent of Formula one. But today, not -- nothing has started on
:02:01. > :02:06.this man inside and no contract has been signed and there is still no
:02:07. > :02:13.agreement with Moto GP. A lot of things are going on at the moment
:02:14. > :02:17.which are confidential and I can't disclose on a television programme.
:02:18. > :02:23.We have been told you have no agreement. I very much doubt that.
:02:24. > :02:33.They don't have an agreement with you? There are doubts to about the
:02:34. > :02:38.companies claim it will create 6000 jobs when the circuit is built
:02:39. > :02:41.attracting businesses, a technology part -- Park and hotels. It
:02:42. > :02:52.increases expectations to incredible height. Where are those going to
:02:53. > :02:58.come from? I have thought when that was said, this is a silly. We are
:02:59. > :03:02.starting to build it this year. By September next year we can have our
:03:03. > :03:07.first race taking place just up the road. A public relations company has
:03:08. > :03:10.been building up the excitement and promoting the dream with local
:03:11. > :03:16.schoolchildren. But will the track be built? 36 adult student John
:03:17. > :03:22.Daniels hopes so. Like many people in this community he is desperate
:03:23. > :03:28.for work. This could be my lifeline. So many people would be dependent on
:03:29. > :03:32.it. If it did not go ahead, it would be a problem. Welsh Government has
:03:33. > :03:37.given the company grant of ?2 million to develop the grant --
:03:38. > :03:45.develop the plan. ?30 million extra could be available. But there is now
:03:46. > :03:50.the serious doubt that the track will be built in time. The company
:03:51. > :03:53.says it remains confident that it will get the investors it needs but
:03:54. > :03:59.it would say who they are. Neither will the Welsh Government. So far,
:04:00. > :04:03.despite the promises, there are still more questions than answers.
:04:04. > :04:12.More on that story in 'Week In Week Out' here on BBC One Wales tonight
:04:13. > :04:17.at 10.35pm. The trial of Nigel Evans has been
:04:18. > :04:20.hearing from some of his alleged victims. A jury at Preston Crown
:04:21. > :04:27.Court was told Mr Evans put his hands down the trousers of two men
:04:28. > :04:30.had tried to kiss another. Esther Evans who was shadow Secretary of
:04:31. > :04:38.State lawyers at the time is with sexually assaulting seven men. He
:04:39. > :04:42.denies sexual assault and rape. Another sunny morning as Nigel Evans
:04:43. > :04:48.arrived at court today. A contrast to the dock he sat in on trial the
:04:49. > :04:51.ninth sex offences. A number of the allegations against the former
:04:52. > :04:56.Debord is bigger of the Commons are believed to have happened when he
:04:57. > :04:59.was shadow Secretary of State for Wales over ten years ago. Today the
:05:00. > :05:03.court heard about some of those incidents. The first witness who
:05:04. > :05:07.cannot be named for legal reasons, Westminster worker. He described a
:05:08. > :05:12.night out he had with Mr Evans and others at a bar in Soho in London in
:05:13. > :05:15.2002. During that night he claimed Mr Evans but is hands down the back
:05:16. > :05:21.of his trousers on two separate occasions. The witness told the jury
:05:22. > :05:25.he was annoyed that he put it down to Mr Evans being drunk. He told the
:05:26. > :05:31.court it was just one of those things. The second witness alleged
:05:32. > :05:35.Mr Evans also put his hand around the top of his trousers and moved it
:05:36. > :05:40.to the front twice. The court heard it happened at a bar one evening at
:05:41. > :05:46.the Conservative party conference in Blackpool in the same year. He said
:05:47. > :05:51.he was angry and embarrassed and Mr Evans was heavily intoxicated. On
:05:52. > :05:57.both occasions, no formal complaint was made. The first witness told the
:05:58. > :06:01.court he did not believe he was a victim of crime. The second said he
:06:02. > :06:05.did not consider what happened to him to be a criminal sexual
:06:06. > :06:11.assault. Today both said that they had not changed. At the end of day
:06:12. > :06:15.two, the court started hearing from a third witness who also worked in
:06:16. > :06:20.Westminster. The jury heard Mr Evans tried to kiss him at a drinks event
:06:21. > :06:24.in a bar in the Houses of Parliament. Over the next few weeks
:06:25. > :06:27.the trial is expected to hear from a number of high-profile politicians.
:06:28. > :06:32.The prosecution that this is include the Speaker of the Commons John
:06:33. > :06:38.Bercow, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price and former MP Linda Dilbert. Nestor
:06:39. > :06:43.Evans, -- Mr Evans who grew up in Swansea, denies all the charges
:06:44. > :06:47.against him. The funeral has taken place of the
:06:48. > :06:50.six-day-old baby who died at home in Pontyberem in Carmarthenshire, where
:06:51. > :06:52.police later seized and destroyed two dogs. Eliza-Mae Mullane's
:06:53. > :06:58.parents gathered with friends and family at the village's Holy Cross
:06:59. > :07:01.Catholic Church for the service. The baby died last month after an
:07:02. > :07:14.incident at her home. The cause of her death is not yet known.
:07:15. > :07:17.The examination board the WJEC has launched an internal review of
:07:18. > :07:20.marking following last week's GCSE results. It comes after dozens of
:07:21. > :07:23.head teachers complained about "unexpectedly low" grades for new
:07:24. > :07:25.GCSE English language exams sat by pupils in January. They are also
:07:26. > :07:31.planning to provide additional support sessions for headteachers.
:07:32. > :07:34.It's been described as Armageddon by one council and today was the
:07:35. > :07:38.deadline for local authorities to finalise their budgets and decide
:07:39. > :07:42.where the axe will fall. Our 22 councils have to save ?290 million.
:07:43. > :07:48.Services are being cut, and even stopped in some areas. They're
:07:49. > :07:54.raising money by increasing council tax. On average, it's going up 4.2%.
:07:55. > :08:01.Wherever you live, you'll have to pay more. For a Band D property that
:08:02. > :08:04.means an extra ?42 a year. Our Economics Correspondent, Sarah
:08:05. > :08:14.Dickins, has been to Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent, where they pay the
:08:15. > :08:17.highest Band D council tax in Wales. When cancels talk about a typical
:08:18. > :08:23.council tax payer they talk about band D. This is what Andy buys you
:08:24. > :08:28.in Tredegar and in future the people living in these houses will pay
:08:29. > :08:34.council tax of ?1540 a year. That is roughly ?30 a week. But here in
:08:35. > :08:41.Blaenau Gwent only 5% of people living -- live in houses in this
:08:42. > :08:46.bracket. Tredegar 's town centre has struggled in recent years. Its
:08:47. > :08:51.traditional industries have declined and the financial crisis since 2008
:08:52. > :08:58.has hit hard. Lena Gwent council has to find savings of ?10 million. --
:08:59. > :09:02.Blaenau Gwent council. In Tredegar that is also a ?31 charge for the
:09:03. > :09:10.community council making overall bills amongst the most expensive.
:09:11. > :09:16.You have to pay for them to pick up the garbage whereas before that was
:09:17. > :09:21.a free service. They are putting more money in the counsellor 's
:09:22. > :09:29.pocket by charging for these services. They have closed all the
:09:30. > :09:35.local toilets. On Saturday they is not a toilet to go in because if you
:09:36. > :09:39.go in a cafe you have to pay for a cup of tea before you can use the
:09:40. > :09:47.toilet. For 40 years this cafe has served the community and they employ
:09:48. > :09:53.three others part-time. The more money we spend on council tax the
:09:54. > :09:59.less money they have to spend in the local economy. Everybody is
:10:00. > :10:03.struggling. We have cut our staff by 50% in the last four years. Councils
:10:04. > :10:07.across Wales have been having to decide how much they are going to
:10:08. > :10:12.cut and how much they are going to raise money by increasing council
:10:13. > :10:16.tax than their citizens. The harsh reality is that if council tax goes
:10:17. > :10:20.up here people have less money to spend on other things. Less money
:10:21. > :10:28.for one business affects us -- others. Across the road there was a
:10:29. > :10:33.similar story. This man has run this butcher the 25 years and like the
:10:34. > :10:37.cafe he is proud that he buys from local producers. It affects my
:10:38. > :10:47.business and other businesses. If you buy local produce, if I sell
:10:48. > :10:50.less they sell less. Higher council tax bills will mean people have less
:10:51. > :10:56.to spend on other things, less money moving through the economy. But
:10:57. > :10:59.without the increase in council tax the local authority would have been
:11:00. > :11:02.forced to make more cuts to make the books balance.
:11:03. > :11:05.At the other end of the country, Wrexham Council has given
:11:06. > :11:08.campaigners who want to save Plas Madoc Leisure more time to consider
:11:09. > :11:10.taking it over as a social enterprise. Protestors gathered
:11:11. > :11:14.outside the council's meeting this afternoon, campaigning for it to be
:11:15. > :11:17.kept open longer. The building was set for demolition in June, but
:11:18. > :11:25.today councillors extended that date until October. It will, though,
:11:26. > :11:30.still close its doors in April. Our political reporter Daniel Davies
:11:31. > :11:33.has been crunching the figures. Jamie, councils are strapped for
:11:34. > :11:38.cash and that's showing up in your council tax bill. Three councils
:11:39. > :11:42.have gone for the maximum rise - Ceredigion, Conwy and Swansea.
:11:43. > :11:50.They'll put up their council tax by 5% this year. Any higher than that,
:11:51. > :11:53.and they risk being capped by the Welsh Government. Two more councils,
:11:54. > :12:02.Bridgend and Powys, are just shy of that limit. The lowest rises are at
:12:03. > :12:05.Flintshire and Wrexham councils. Both have opted for 3% increases,
:12:06. > :12:09.but even that is higher than the average rise last year, which gives
:12:10. > :12:17.you an idea of how steeply the council tax is rising this year.
:12:18. > :12:22.Now, despite these rises, the Welsh Government says we still pay less
:12:23. > :12:32.than people in England. Last year, the average home in Band D paid ?230
:12:33. > :12:36.less in Wales than in England. But there are other ways of measuring
:12:37. > :12:40.how much we pay and some critics say that if you look at the average bill
:12:41. > :12:46.across all tax bands, it's not at all clear that Wales is better off.
:12:47. > :12:49.There are plenty of statistics available for Labour and the
:12:50. > :12:53.Conservatives in particular to throw at each other in the blame game
:12:54. > :12:57.about council tax. The one thing you can be sure of is that wherever you
:12:58. > :13:01.live in Wales, the council tax bill that'll arrive through the letter
:13:02. > :13:05.box soon will be bigger than it was last year. You can find out what's
:13:06. > :13:13.happening to council tax in your area on our website.
:13:14. > :13:18.Anthony Hunt is the Deputy Finance Spokesperson for the Welsh Local
:13:19. > :13:22.Government Association. We are going to have to get used to
:13:23. > :13:31.councils not doing things that they used to do. It is as simple as that,
:13:32. > :13:34.isn't it? Councils have a difficult balancing act between keeping bills
:13:35. > :13:38.as low as possible and protecting local services and part of that is
:13:39. > :13:44.having to look differently at how you deliver services. As users of
:13:45. > :13:47.those services, it should not matter if someone else other than the local
:13:48. > :13:54.council provides that service as long as that service is there for
:13:55. > :13:59.people who need it? People want facilities to use. They don't mind
:14:00. > :14:02.how it is run and who is running its much as they mind about the end
:14:03. > :14:09.product delivered to them. Let's look ahead at this ?290 million of
:14:10. > :14:15.cuts. Bills are going to go up next year as well. That is not going to
:14:16. > :14:18.get easier is it? It gets more difficult every year because the
:14:19. > :14:22.longer the squeeze on their finances goes on the more pressure builds up
:14:23. > :14:28.and the more difficult that balances to strike. Schools and social
:14:29. > :14:34.services are ring fenced. But that kind of makes it more difficult
:14:35. > :14:41.because it squeezes the other services. Schools and social care
:14:42. > :14:45.take up two thirds of the money that councils spend and when you look at
:14:46. > :14:51.other things like roads statutory services, it gives cancels a limited
:14:52. > :14:56.amount of room to manoeuvre. Is it inevitable that services that we
:14:57. > :15:01.perhaps now receive for free, councils will have to charge for
:15:02. > :15:06.them? It is inevitable that councils have to be innovative and look
:15:07. > :15:11.elsewhere and not think we have all the answers and look at different
:15:12. > :15:14.ways of doing things. The status quo going forward is not an option for
:15:15. > :15:17.cancels. Much more to come before 7:00pm: How
:15:18. > :15:22.the recent storms have uncovered the leg bones of a man buried deep in
:15:23. > :15:24.the cliff. And a million rare illustrations,
:15:25. > :15:37.unseen for a generation, brought back to life by Cardiff University.
:15:38. > :15:40.The family of a pensioner who died after being treated at two hospitals
:15:41. > :15:44.in Swansea has called for an inquiry into all hospitals within the health
:15:45. > :15:46.board's area. Margaret Hoskins' family have received an apology from
:15:47. > :15:49.Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health board, after the
:15:50. > :15:53.64-year-old's care fell short of the standards expected. But her son in
:15:54. > :16:03.law says, more must be done. Tomos Dafydd reports.
:16:04. > :16:05.A joyful, loving grandmother. But when Margaret Hoskins needed
:16:06. > :16:08.treatment at Singleton, Morriston and Gelli Nedd hospitals two years
:16:09. > :16:19.ago, she suffered failings in nursing and medical care. We saw the
:16:20. > :16:23.nursing staff dispensed the medication and leave it by her
:16:24. > :16:30.bedside table and walk off. The nursing staff used to tell us she
:16:31. > :16:39.was not taking the medication. In our eyes the nursing staff should
:16:40. > :16:44.have been supervising her. She died in May 2012. Now, Mrs
:16:45. > :16:47.Hoskins' family says that a review into the health board, already
:16:48. > :16:50.underway, should now be widened to include all hospitals. Last July, a
:16:51. > :16:53.BBC Wales investigation exposed neglect of an another patient,
:16:54. > :16:58.Lilian Williams, at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend under the
:16:59. > :17:01.same health board's control. This video taken by her family shows
:17:02. > :17:04.medicine scattered around Mrs Williams' hospital bed. The
:17:05. > :17:13.ombudsman was highly critical, calling the case tragic. Her case
:17:14. > :17:16.prompted two external reviews. They're now looking at the care
:17:17. > :17:18.provided at the Princess of Wales and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, one
:17:19. > :17:25.commissioned by the Welsh Government, one by the health board.
:17:26. > :17:30.The Welsh Government scrutinise us. The Minister has set up a review of
:17:31. > :17:35.certain elements of care. We use external advisers. I think there is
:17:36. > :17:41.plenty of external scrutiny in terms of what we do. The board itself is
:17:42. > :17:45.very keen to make sure that way we see there are faults, we put it
:17:46. > :17:49.right. Margaret Hoskins' family is hoping a wider review could root out
:17:50. > :17:53.any other failings of care and hold those responsible to account.
:17:54. > :17:55.The Plaid Cymru leader of Ceredigion Council has told the Independents
:17:56. > :18:00.that their coalition deal will terminate if Councillor Gethin James
:18:01. > :18:03.remains a member of the group. He was sacked from the cabinet for
:18:04. > :18:06.joining UKIP just days after Plaid leader Leanne Wood attacked the
:18:07. > :18:10.party during her speech at spring conference. She said a vote for the
:18:11. > :18:12.Eurosceptic party is a vote against Wales. Ceredigion's Independent
:18:13. > :18:22.group will meet tomorrow to discuss the matter.
:18:23. > :18:25.A golden eagle has been spotted by a group of mountain bike enthusiasts,
:18:26. > :18:27.living on the Llanllwni Mountain in Carmarthenshire. Although
:18:28. > :18:31.Dyfed-Powys Police said no-one has reported a missing eagle, the RSPB
:18:32. > :18:34.say the bird is likely to be an "escapee" rather than a wild golden
:18:35. > :18:37.eagle. They are commonly kept as falconer's birds, or in bird of prey
:18:38. > :18:47.centres. Wild golden eagles are now almost entirely restricted to
:18:48. > :18:51.Scotland. Bones dating back hundreds of years
:18:52. > :18:54.have been uncovered in a cliff face after the recent storms. Burials
:18:55. > :18:57.dating from the 14th and 16th centuries have been excavated by
:18:58. > :19:00.archaeologists at Cwm Nash near Wick in Vale of Glamorgan since 1982. But
:19:01. > :19:05.the latest discovery, caused by cliff erosion, has revealed two
:19:06. > :19:09.human leg bones. Here's Matt Murray. Recent storms revealing the past.
:19:10. > :19:18.These remains are believed to be thigh bones possibly dating back 400
:19:19. > :19:21.years. The lower legs showed a lot of wear. Rowena Hart and Paul
:19:22. > :19:24.Huckfield are archaeologists studying the area. Excavations have
:19:25. > :19:27.been carried out here since the early 80's. But when the waves and
:19:28. > :19:31.the weather battered this coastline in the new year it unearthed more
:19:32. > :19:39.bones and more questions, into who they could belong to. Who are these
:19:40. > :19:42.people? The scientific analysis we've had done so far suggest they
:19:43. > :19:53.are all male. Visit possibly a shipwreck. This area was a
:19:54. > :19:58.treacherous area of C. They could also be associated with Saint Mary
:19:59. > :20:01.'s Church in the village. It was surfers making the most of the waves
:20:02. > :20:04.today, but the battering this coastline has received has revealed
:20:05. > :20:12.there could be at least ten graves along this cliff edge. And possibly
:20:13. > :20:18.many more buried further back. These were shallow graves and Dolman --
:20:19. > :20:23.only a metre deep. They were buried with their heads facing the coast so
:20:24. > :20:27.the rest of the bones have been lost to the sea. Only these leg bones
:20:28. > :20:31.remain. So when a walker discovered skull fragments and teeth after the
:20:32. > :20:34.storms in January it was a rare find. Those bones are now being
:20:35. > :20:42.studied in detail by archaeologists in Swansea. The most interesting
:20:43. > :20:52.bits that we have is this. We have these lines and it suggests the
:20:53. > :20:56.individual may have suffered malnutrition, especially at a young
:20:57. > :20:59.age and it gives us a better idea of who that individual was. Once the
:21:00. > :21:03.human remains have been analysed they will be given to the local
:21:04. > :21:06.parish church of St Mary's for reburial in the churchyard. The same
:21:07. > :21:08.will apply to these bones which will be removed by archaeologists in the
:21:09. > :21:12.next month. Rugby, and Wales won't be looking
:21:13. > :21:14.outside their squad to solve their current problems, according to
:21:15. > :21:17.assistant coach, Robin McBryde. There will be at least one change
:21:18. > :21:20.for Saturday's final Six Nations match against Scotland, after Leigh
:21:21. > :21:23.Halfpenny dislocated his shoulder. But scrum-half Rhys Webb, and lock
:21:24. > :21:28.Luke Charteris could still be available, despite recent injuries.
:21:29. > :21:38.McBryde says the team are fully aware they fell short of everyone's
:21:39. > :21:45.expectations against England. That expectancy will have grown for our
:21:46. > :21:49.last match against Scotland. We cannot shy away from it. We have to
:21:50. > :21:54.do and say a few questions and we can only do that on the field. It is
:21:55. > :21:58.a short turnaround so we're going to focus on some of the opportunities
:21:59. > :22:03.we missed out on and the areas that we missed out on.
:22:04. > :22:06.They've been locked away in the vaults of the British Library. More
:22:07. > :22:08.than a million rare illustrations, some dating back to the 18th
:22:09. > :22:11.century. For generations they've been locked away, but now
:22:12. > :22:13.researchers at Cardiff University are bringing them to the widest
:22:14. > :22:17.audience. They've even discovered lost drawings by one of Wales' most
:22:18. > :22:20.famous Victorian illustrators, as Carwyn Jones reports.
:22:21. > :22:27.From tales of action and adventure to scientific textbooks and early
:22:28. > :22:30.examples of mass advertising. The 1800 saw the birth of a new age in
:22:31. > :22:35.book illustration. Advances in printing techniques meant hand drawn
:22:36. > :22:40.images like these could be easily reproduced in books and magazines.
:22:41. > :22:42.The illustrations are important because they were valuable but
:22:43. > :22:49.largely forgotten part of our heritage. Welsh heritage as well
:22:50. > :22:53.because this was a time when artists were travelling to Wales and
:22:54. > :22:58.painting and drawing scenery on the spot. By the Victorian age book
:22:59. > :23:02.illustrations were everywhere and some of them were works of art in
:23:03. > :23:06.their own right. Now Cardiff University is bringing more than 1
:23:07. > :23:09.million of these images up to date. It is working with the British
:23:10. > :23:13.library in London to create the biggest online archive of old
:23:14. > :23:17.illustrations anywhere in the world. Nearly 70,000 books stored the
:23:18. > :23:22.generations in the vaults of the British library have been digitised
:23:23. > :23:26.and put on the Internet. The benefit of having these illustrations online
:23:27. > :23:29.is that anyone anywhere in the world can see them but at the moment
:23:30. > :23:33.searching for a particular artist or subject matter is like finding a
:23:34. > :23:38.needle in a haystack. There are simply too many images with not
:23:39. > :23:41.enough information attached to them. So computer experts at Cardiff are
:23:42. > :23:46.designing software that can recognise exactly what is in the
:23:47. > :23:49.picture and who produced it. Some of the images that have been put online
:23:50. > :23:56.include long forgotten drawings by one of Wales' most celebrated
:23:57. > :23:59.Victorian illustrators. Jenny Meadows from Cardigan found fame and
:24:00. > :24:08.fortune with his illustrations of the work of Shakespeare and his
:24:09. > :24:14.drawings for Punch magazine. He was known in London and he was in
:24:15. > :24:18.tremendous demand. He was as important as factory and Dickens in
:24:19. > :24:26.his own field. From next year Kenny Meadows' illustrations will be
:24:27. > :24:28.available online in a format that will finally make it easier for us
:24:29. > :24:35.to search for exact images and information. A Victorian treasure
:24:36. > :24:36.trove fit for the 21st-century. Let's get the weather picture now.
:24:37. > :24:43.Derek's got the forecast. Much of Wales turned out lovely and
:24:44. > :24:47.sunny today. Ceredigion the warmest part of Wales with a high of 13C.
:24:48. > :24:50.Mind you, it wasn't sunny everywhere with cloud covering Cardiff, Newport
:24:51. > :24:54.and Chepstow. Over the next few days, it's going to stay dry and
:24:55. > :24:57.settled. More sunshine but also some cloud, fog and frost. In Flintshire
:24:58. > :25:01.last night the temperature fell as low as -2C. So dry tonight. A few
:25:02. > :25:05.mist and fog patches forming with some low cloud later in the night
:25:06. > :25:10.and where the sky remains clear a frost is likely with temperatures
:25:11. > :25:13.falling close to freezing or below. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure
:25:14. > :25:18.over Denmark and the UK and that's the reason for the dry weather.
:25:19. > :25:22.Here's the picture for 8:00am in the morning. Mixed fortunes across the
:25:23. > :25:27.country. The east, most of Powys and the south, grey and cloudy. Misty in
:25:28. > :25:32.places too and chilly. Parts of the west and north fairing better.
:25:33. > :25:37.Clear, bright and sunny right from the start. During the day, the mist
:25:38. > :25:41.will lift and the cloud will gradually clear. So more of the
:25:42. > :25:45.country brightening-up and becoming sunny in the afternoon. Top
:25:46. > :25:51.temperatures 10C to 12C with just a light breeze. In Pembrokeshire
:25:52. > :25:55.tomorrow, dry. The morning maybe cloudy but the sun should come out
:25:56. > :25:59.in the afternoon with a high of 11C in Narberth. In Flintshire tomorrow,
:26:00. > :26:05.becoming fine and sunny after a grey start. The temperatures in Holywell
:26:06. > :26:09.rising to 11C. Tomorrow night dry with a greater risk of mist and fog
:26:10. > :26:15.patches. Some low cloud too and where the sky stays clear it will be
:26:16. > :26:19.cold enough for a frost. Thursday will be dry. Mist and fog will
:26:20. > :26:23.slowly lift and most of the country will end up bright and sunny.
:26:24. > :26:27.Although cloud may linger in a few places. As for the outlook, more dry
:26:28. > :26:30.weather on Friday. Breezier over the weekend but still a lot of dry
:26:31. > :26:32.weather. No sign of any significant rain on the horizon and that goes
:26:33. > :26:45.for next week too. The main news again from the BBC:
:26:46. > :26:49.One of Britain's best known union leaders, Bob Crow, has died suddenly
:26:50. > :26:59.at the age of 52. It's thought he suffered a heart attack. He led the
:27:00. > :27:02.RMT union for more than a decade. It's 30 years since the Miner's
:27:03. > :27:05.Strike. In tomorrow night's programme we'll be finding out how
:27:06. > :27:08.the year long dispute affected communities across Wales and how it
:27:09. > :27:16.still resonates with former miners and their families three decades on.
:27:17. > :27:21.I think a lot of us realised it was something we could not win. But at
:27:22. > :27:27.the same time, there was nothing else we could do. If we sat back and
:27:28. > :27:30.did nothing, we were going to go anyway. We had to fight for better
:27:31. > :27:34.conditions. I'll have an update for you here at
:27:35. > :27:38.8:00pm and again after the BBC News at 10:00pm. That's Wales Today. From
:27:39. > :27:41.all of us on the programme, good evening.