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Welcome to Wales Today. They want to bring international motorsport to | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
the valleys. Should ?50 million of taxpayers money be used to get it to | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
the starting line? The trial of former Shadow Welsh | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Secretary Nigel Evans. The court hears from a man who alleges the MP | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
put his hands down his victim's trousers. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Today's the day your council tax bill is finalised. Wherever you | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
live, you'll have to pay more. I am in Tredegar, home to some of | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
the highest council tax bills in Wales. I will be finding out what it | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
means for the people living here. The family of Margaret Hoskins, who | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
died after being treated at Singleton and Morriston hospitals, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
call for an inquiry into all hospitals within the local health | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
board. And the storms lashing our coast | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
reveal the leg bones of a man buried in the cliff. But who was he? | :00:53. | :01:05. | |
Good evening. A racing circuit attracting international motorsport | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
to the South Wales Valleys, bringing much needed jobs. That's the vision. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
BBC Wales has discovered that the new Circuit of Wales racetrack may | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
receive ?30 million from the Welsh Government. But questions are being | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
asked about whether the track, earmarked for Rassau near Ebbw Vale, | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
can be built in time to win a contract for an international motor | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
racing event, seen as vital to the development. Tim Rogers reports. | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
This is the vision but where is the prize? The promises to deliver | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
world-class motor racing including the Moto GP. The motorcycle | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
equivalent of Formula one. But today, not -- nothing has started on | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
this man inside and no contract has been signed and there is still no | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
agreement with Moto GP. A lot of things are going on at the moment | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
which are confidential and I can't disclose on a television programme. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
We have been told you have no agreement. I very much doubt that. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
They don't have an agreement with you? There are doubts to about the | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
companies claim it will create 6000 jobs when the circuit is built | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
attracting businesses, a technology part -- Park and hotels. It | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
increases expectations to incredible height. Where are those going to | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
come from? I have thought when that was said, this is a silly. We are | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
starting to build it this year. By September next year we can have our | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
first race taking place just up the road. A public relations company has | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
been building up the excitement and promoting the dream with local | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
schoolchildren. But will the track be built? 36 adult student John | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Daniels hopes so. Like many people in this community he is desperate | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
for work. This could be my lifeline. So many people would be dependent on | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
it. If it did not go ahead, it would be a problem. Welsh Government has | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
given the company grant of ?2 million to develop the grant -- | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
develop the plan. ?30 million extra could be available. But there is now | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
the serious doubt that the track will be built in time. The company | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
says it remains confident that it will get the investors it needs but | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
it would say who they are. Neither will the Welsh Government. So far, | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
despite the promises, there are still more questions than answers. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
More on that story in 'Week In Week Out' here on BBC One Wales tonight | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
at 10.35pm. The trial of Nigel Evans has been | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
hearing from some of his alleged victims. A jury at Preston Crown | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Court was told Mr Evans put his hands down the trousers of two men | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
had tried to kiss another. Esther Evans who was shadow Secretary of | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
State lawyers at the time is with sexually assaulting seven men. He | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
denies sexual assault and rape. Another sunny morning as Nigel Evans | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
arrived at court today. A contrast to the dock he sat in on trial the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
ninth sex offences. A number of the allegations against the former | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
Debord is bigger of the Commons are believed to have happened when he | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
was shadow Secretary of State for Wales over ten years ago. Today the | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
court heard about some of those incidents. The first witness who | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
cannot be named for legal reasons, Westminster worker. He described a | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
night out he had with Mr Evans and others at a bar in Soho in London in | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
2002. During that night he claimed Mr Evans but is hands down the back | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
of his trousers on two separate occasions. The witness told the jury | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
he was annoyed that he put it down to Mr Evans being drunk. He told the | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
court it was just one of those things. The second witness alleged | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Mr Evans also put his hand around the top of his trousers and moved it | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
to the front twice. The court heard it happened at a bar one evening at | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the Conservative party conference in Blackpool in the same year. He said | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
he was angry and embarrassed and Mr Evans was heavily intoxicated. On | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
both occasions, no formal complaint was made. The first witness told the | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
court he did not believe he was a victim of crime. The second said he | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
did not consider what happened to him to be a criminal sexual | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
assault. Today both said that they had not changed. At the end of day | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
two, the court started hearing from a third witness who also worked in | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Westminster. The jury heard Mr Evans tried to kiss him at a drinks event | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
in a bar in the Houses of Parliament. Over the next few weeks | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the trial is expected to hear from a number of high-profile politicians. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
The prosecution that this is include the Speaker of the Commons John | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
Bercow, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price and former MP Linda Dilbert. Nestor | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Evans, -- Mr Evans who grew up in Swansea, denies all the charges | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
against him. The funeral has taken place of the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
six-day-old baby who died at home in Pontyberem in Carmarthenshire, where | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
police later seized and destroyed two dogs. Eliza-Mae Mullane's | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
parents gathered with friends and family at the village's Holy Cross | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Catholic Church for the service. The baby died last month after an | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
incident at her home. The cause of her death is not yet known. | :07:02. | :07:14. | |
The examination board the WJEC has launched an internal review of | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
marking following last week's GCSE results. It comes after dozens of | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
head teachers complained about "unexpectedly low" grades for new | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
GCSE English language exams sat by pupils in January. They are also | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
planning to provide additional support sessions for headteachers. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
It's been described as Armageddon by one council and today was the | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
deadline for local authorities to finalise their budgets and decide | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
where the axe will fall. Our 22 councils have to save ?290 million. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Services are being cut, and even stopped in some areas. They're | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
raising money by increasing council tax. On average, it's going up 4.2%. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
Wherever you live, you'll have to pay more. For a Band D property that | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
means an extra ?42 a year. Our Economics Correspondent, Sarah | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Dickins, has been to Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent, where they pay the | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
highest Band D council tax in Wales. When cancels talk about a typical | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
council tax payer they talk about band D. This is what Andy buys you | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
in Tredegar and in future the people living in these houses will pay | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
council tax of ?1540 a year. That is roughly ?30 a week. But here in | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
Blaenau Gwent only 5% of people living -- live in houses in this | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
bracket. Tredegar 's town centre has struggled in recent years. Its | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
traditional industries have declined and the financial crisis since 2008 | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
has hit hard. Lena Gwent council has to find savings of ?10 million. -- | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Blaenau Gwent council. In Tredegar that is also a ?31 charge for the | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
community council making overall bills amongst the most expensive. | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
You have to pay for them to pick up the garbage whereas before that was | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
a free service. They are putting more money in the counsellor 's | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
pocket by charging for these services. They have closed all the | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
local toilets. On Saturday they is not a toilet to go in because if you | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
go in a cafe you have to pay for a cup of tea before you can use the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
toilet. For 40 years this cafe has served the community and they employ | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
three others part-time. The more money we spend on council tax the | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
less money they have to spend in the local economy. Everybody is | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
struggling. We have cut our staff by 50% in the last four years. Councils | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
across Wales have been having to decide how much they are going to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
cut and how much they are going to raise money by increasing council | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
tax than their citizens. The harsh reality is that if council tax goes | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
up here people have less money to spend on other things. Less money | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
for one business affects us -- others. Across the road there was a | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
similar story. This man has run this butcher the 25 years and like the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
cafe he is proud that he buys from local producers. It affects my | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
business and other businesses. If you buy local produce, if I sell | :10:38. | :10:47. | |
less they sell less. Higher council tax bills will mean people have less | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
to spend on other things, less money moving through the economy. But | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
without the increase in council tax the local authority would have been | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
forced to make more cuts to make the books balance. | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
At the other end of the country, Wrexham Council has given | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
campaigners who want to save Plas Madoc Leisure more time to consider | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
taking it over as a social enterprise. Protestors gathered | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
outside the council's meeting this afternoon, campaigning for it to be | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
kept open longer. The building was set for demolition in June, but | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
today councillors extended that date until October. It will, though, | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
still close its doors in April. Our political reporter Daniel Davies | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
has been crunching the figures. Jamie, councils are strapped for | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
cash and that's showing up in your council tax bill. Three councils | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
have gone for the maximum rise - Ceredigion, Conwy and Swansea. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
They'll put up their council tax by 5% this year. Any higher than that, | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
and they risk being capped by the Welsh Government. Two more councils, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Bridgend and Powys, are just shy of that limit. The lowest rises are at | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
Flintshire and Wrexham councils. Both have opted for 3% increases, | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
but even that is higher than the average rise last year, which gives | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
you an idea of how steeply the council tax is rising this year. | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
Now, despite these rises, the Welsh Government says we still pay less | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
than people in England. Last year, the average home in Band D paid ?230 | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
less in Wales than in England. But there are other ways of measuring | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
how much we pay and some critics say that if you look at the average bill | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
across all tax bands, it's not at all clear that Wales is better off. | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
There are plenty of statistics available for Labour and the | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Conservatives in particular to throw at each other in the blame game | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
about council tax. The one thing you can be sure of is that wherever you | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
live in Wales, the council tax bill that'll arrive through the letter | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
box soon will be bigger than it was last year. You can find out what's | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
happening to council tax in your area on our website. | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Anthony Hunt is the Deputy Finance Spokesperson for the Welsh Local | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
Government Association. We are going to have to get used to | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
councils not doing things that they used to do. It is as simple as that, | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
isn't it? Councils have a difficult balancing act between keeping bills | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
as low as possible and protecting local services and part of that is | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
having to look differently at how you deliver services. As users of | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
those services, it should not matter if someone else other than the local | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
council provides that service as long as that service is there for | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
people who need it? People want facilities to use. They don't mind | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
how it is run and who is running its much as they mind about the end | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
product delivered to them. Let's look ahead at this ?290 million of | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
cuts. Bills are going to go up next year as well. That is not going to | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
get easier is it? It gets more difficult every year because the | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
longer the squeeze on their finances goes on the more pressure builds up | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
and the more difficult that balances to strike. Schools and social | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
services are ring fenced. But that kind of makes it more difficult | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
because it squeezes the other services. Schools and social care | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
take up two thirds of the money that councils spend and when you look at | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
other things like roads statutory services, it gives cancels a limited | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
amount of room to manoeuvre. Is it inevitable that services that we | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
perhaps now receive for free, councils will have to charge for | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
them? It is inevitable that councils have to be innovative and look | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
elsewhere and not think we have all the answers and look at different | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
ways of doing things. The status quo going forward is not an option for | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
cancels. Much more to come before 7:00pm: How | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
the recent storms have uncovered the leg bones of a man buried deep in | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
the cliff. And a million rare illustrations, | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
unseen for a generation, brought back to life by Cardiff University. | :15:25. | :15:37. | |
The family of a pensioner who died after being treated at two hospitals | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
in Swansea has called for an inquiry into all hospitals within the health | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
board's area. Margaret Hoskins' family have received an apology from | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health board, after the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
64-year-old's care fell short of the standards expected. But her son in | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
law says, more must be done. Tomos Dafydd reports. | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
A joyful, loving grandmother. But when Margaret Hoskins needed | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
treatment at Singleton, Morriston and Gelli Nedd hospitals two years | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
ago, she suffered failings in nursing and medical care. We saw the | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
nursing staff dispensed the medication and leave it by her | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
bedside table and walk off. The nursing staff used to tell us she | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
was not taking the medication. In our eyes the nursing staff should | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
have been supervising her. She died in May 2012. Now, Mrs | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Hoskins' family says that a review into the health board, already | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
underway, should now be widened to include all hospitals. Last July, a | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
BBC Wales investigation exposed neglect of an another patient, | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
Lilian Williams, at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend under the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
same health board's control. This video taken by her family shows | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
medicine scattered around Mrs Williams' hospital bed. The | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
ombudsman was highly critical, calling the case tragic. Her case | :17:05. | :17:13. | |
prompted two external reviews. They're now looking at the care | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
provided at the Princess of Wales and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, one | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
commissioned by the Welsh Government, one by the health board. | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
The Welsh Government scrutinise us. The Minister has set up a review of | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
certain elements of care. We use external advisers. I think there is | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
plenty of external scrutiny in terms of what we do. The board itself is | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
very keen to make sure that way we see there are faults, we put it | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
right. Margaret Hoskins' family is hoping a wider review could root out | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
any other failings of care and hold those responsible to account. | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
The Plaid Cymru leader of Ceredigion Council has told the Independents | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
that their coalition deal will terminate if Councillor Gethin James | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
remains a member of the group. He was sacked from the cabinet for | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
joining UKIP just days after Plaid leader Leanne Wood attacked the | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
party during her speech at spring conference. She said a vote for the | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Eurosceptic party is a vote against Wales. Ceredigion's Independent | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
group will meet tomorrow to discuss the matter. | :18:13. | :18:22. | |
A golden eagle has been spotted by a group of mountain bike enthusiasts, | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
living on the Llanllwni Mountain in Carmarthenshire. Although | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
Dyfed-Powys Police said no-one has reported a missing eagle, the RSPB | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
say the bird is likely to be an "escapee" rather than a wild golden | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
eagle. They are commonly kept as falconer's birds, or in bird of prey | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
centres. Wild golden eagles are now almost entirely restricted to | :18:38. | :18:47. | |
Scotland. Bones dating back hundreds of years | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
have been uncovered in a cliff face after the recent storms. Burials | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
dating from the 14th and 16th centuries have been excavated by | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
archaeologists at Cwm Nash near Wick in Vale of Glamorgan since 1982. But | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
the latest discovery, caused by cliff erosion, has revealed two | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
human leg bones. Here's Matt Murray. Recent storms revealing the past. | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
These remains are believed to be thigh bones possibly dating back 400 | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
years. The lower legs showed a lot of wear. Rowena Hart and Paul | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
Huckfield are archaeologists studying the area. Excavations have | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
been carried out here since the early 80's. But when the waves and | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
the weather battered this coastline in the new year it unearthed more | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
bones and more questions, into who they could belong to. Who are these | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
people? The scientific analysis we've had done so far suggest they | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
are all male. Visit possibly a shipwreck. This area was a | :19:43. | :19:53. | |
treacherous area of C. They could also be associated with Saint Mary | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
's Church in the village. It was surfers making the most of the waves | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
today, but the battering this coastline has received has revealed | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
there could be at least ten graves along this cliff edge. And possibly | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
many more buried further back. These were shallow graves and Dolman -- | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
only a metre deep. They were buried with their heads facing the coast so | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
the rest of the bones have been lost to the sea. Only these leg bones | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
remain. So when a walker discovered skull fragments and teeth after the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
storms in January it was a rare find. Those bones are now being | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
studied in detail by archaeologists in Swansea. The most interesting | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
bits that we have is this. We have these lines and it suggests the | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
individual may have suffered malnutrition, especially at a young | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
age and it gives us a better idea of who that individual was. Once the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
human remains have been analysed they will be given to the local | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
parish church of St Mary's for reburial in the churchyard. The same | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
will apply to these bones which will be removed by archaeologists in the | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
next month. Rugby, and Wales won't be looking | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
outside their squad to solve their current problems, according to | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
assistant coach, Robin McBryde. There will be at least one change | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
for Saturday's final Six Nations match against Scotland, after Leigh | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Halfpenny dislocated his shoulder. But scrum-half Rhys Webb, and lock | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
Luke Charteris could still be available, despite recent injuries. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
McBryde says the team are fully aware they fell short of everyone's | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
expectations against England. That expectancy will have grown for our | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
last match against Scotland. We cannot shy away from it. We have to | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
do and say a few questions and we can only do that on the field. It is | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
a short turnaround so we're going to focus on some of the opportunities | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
we missed out on and the areas that we missed out on. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
They've been locked away in the vaults of the British Library. More | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
than a million rare illustrations, some dating back to the 18th | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
century. For generations they've been locked away, but now | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
researchers at Cardiff University are bringing them to the widest | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
audience. They've even discovered lost drawings by one of Wales' most | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
famous Victorian illustrators, as Carwyn Jones reports. | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
From tales of action and adventure to scientific textbooks and early | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
examples of mass advertising. The 1800 saw the birth of a new age in | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
book illustration. Advances in printing techniques meant hand drawn | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
images like these could be easily reproduced in books and magazines. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
The illustrations are important because they were valuable but | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
largely forgotten part of our heritage. Welsh heritage as well | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
because this was a time when artists were travelling to Wales and | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
painting and drawing scenery on the spot. By the Victorian age book | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
illustrations were everywhere and some of them were works of art in | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
their own right. Now Cardiff University is bringing more than 1 | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
million of these images up to date. It is working with the British | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
library in London to create the biggest online archive of old | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
illustrations anywhere in the world. Nearly 70,000 books stored the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
generations in the vaults of the British library have been digitised | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
and put on the Internet. The benefit of having these illustrations online | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
is that anyone anywhere in the world can see them but at the moment | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
searching for a particular artist or subject matter is like finding a | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
needle in a haystack. There are simply too many images with not | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
enough information attached to them. So computer experts at Cardiff are | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
designing software that can recognise exactly what is in the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
picture and who produced it. Some of the images that have been put online | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
include long forgotten drawings by one of Wales' most celebrated | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Victorian illustrators. Jenny Meadows from Cardigan found fame and | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
fortune with his illustrations of the work of Shakespeare and his | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
drawings for Punch magazine. He was known in London and he was in | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
tremendous demand. He was as important as factory and Dickens in | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
his own field. From next year Kenny Meadows' illustrations will be | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
available online in a format that will finally make it easier for us | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
to search for exact images and information. A Victorian treasure | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
trove fit for the 21st-century. Let's get the weather picture now. | :24:36. | :24:36. | |
Derek's got the forecast. Much of Wales turned out lovely and | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
sunny today. Ceredigion the warmest part of Wales with a high of 13C. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Mind you, it wasn't sunny everywhere with cloud covering Cardiff, Newport | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
and Chepstow. Over the next few days, it's going to stay dry and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
settled. More sunshine but also some cloud, fog and frost. In Flintshire | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
last night the temperature fell as low as -2C. So dry tonight. A few | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
mist and fog patches forming with some low cloud later in the night | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
and where the sky remains clear a frost is likely with temperatures | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
falling close to freezing or below. Tomorrow's chart shows high pressure | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
over Denmark and the UK and that's the reason for the dry weather. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
Here's the picture for 8:00am in the morning. Mixed fortunes across the | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
country. The east, most of Powys and the south, grey and cloudy. Misty in | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
places too and chilly. Parts of the west and north fairing better. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Clear, bright and sunny right from the start. During the day, the mist | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
will lift and the cloud will gradually clear. So more of the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
country brightening-up and becoming sunny in the afternoon. Top | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
temperatures 10C to 12C with just a light breeze. In Pembrokeshire | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
tomorrow, dry. The morning maybe cloudy but the sun should come out | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
in the afternoon with a high of 11C in Narberth. In Flintshire tomorrow, | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
becoming fine and sunny after a grey start. The temperatures in Holywell | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
rising to 11C. Tomorrow night dry with a greater risk of mist and fog | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
patches. Some low cloud too and where the sky stays clear it will be | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
cold enough for a frost. Thursday will be dry. Mist and fog will | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
slowly lift and most of the country will end up bright and sunny. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
Although cloud may linger in a few places. As for the outlook, more dry | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
weather on Friday. Breezier over the weekend but still a lot of dry | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
weather. No sign of any significant rain on the horizon and that goes | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
for next week too. The main news again from the BBC: | :26:33. | :26:45. | |
One of Britain's best known union leaders, Bob Crow, has died suddenly | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
at the age of 52. It's thought he suffered a heart attack. He led the | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
RMT union for more than a decade. It's 30 years since the Miner's | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Strike. In tomorrow night's programme we'll be finding out how | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
the year long dispute affected communities across Wales and how it | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
still resonates with former miners and their families three decades on. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
I think a lot of us realised it was something we could not win. But at | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
the same time, there was nothing else we could do. If we sat back and | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
did nothing, we were going to go anyway. We had to fight for better | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
conditions. I'll have an update for you here at | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
8:00pm and again after the BBC News at 10:00pm. That's Wales Today. From | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
all of us on the programme, good evening. | :27:39. | :27:41. |