16/03/2014 BBC Wales Today

Good Evening. Welsh businesses have called on the Chancellor George

Osborne to cut their energy costs, when he unveils his budget on

Wednesday. Mr Osborne has been setting out his message ahead of the

Budget - as have his political opponents. Daniel Davies reports.

This steel company is a big employer in Wales. It is a big consumer of

energy to and is pressing the UK Government to cut carbon taxes. It

is not just giant steel companies. Thousands of small businesses want

help as well. Energy bills are growing at a rate that is

frightening, and it is frightening businesses. That is reducing

confidence. If businesses do not have confidence they will not

employee people or invest. If they do not spend then the economy will

not turn around. Chancellors are never short of advice about which

way to turn at this time of year that George Osborne believes he is

on the right track. We have to make sure we are getting to the autumn of

what it is that provides economic security for the people of this

country. The economic security of knowing you have got a job and can

deal with your debt. This is our long-term economic plan and we have

to go on continuing with this plan. The owners of Abergavenny garden

centre said business is up and things are growing. Mr Osborne might

say the same about the economy but Labour sees it differently. We had

three years where the economy bumped along with no growth. We have seen a

little bit of growth but the fruits are only being enjoyed by the

wealthiest. Some conservatives want Mr Osborne to cut taxes but he has

promised to cut welfare. A tax cut for Ingo is expected. I is down on

Wednesday to see if you get lucky. -- Ingo. -- eyes down. A light

aircraft pilot had to make an emergency landing near Swansea,

after his plane hit a flock of birds. The aircraft flipped upside

down on the private runway in Grovesend, causing substantial

damage, but the pilot escaped serious injury. The Air Accidents

Investigation Branch has been informed. The chairman of Plaid

Cymru says it was "entirely appropriate" for party leader Leanne

Wood to sack Lord Elis-Thomas as chairman of an assembly committee.

Dafydd Trystan Davies told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme,

Plaid needed to be disciplined, to present a progressive, positive

agenda. Lord Elis-Thomas had criticised an attack on UKIP at the

party's Spring Conference as "facile". Football fans queued up in

Cardiff today to take a look at the World Cup Trophy. Hundreds turned

out to pose for pictures. Football legends Terry Medwin and Colin

Baker, who were part of the Welsh team that competed in 1958 in

Sweden, were also there to share their experiences. On the pitch,

Newport County came from behind to earn a point against League Two

strugglers Exeter City. Looking back, we did so well, we reached the

quarterfinals of the World Cup, and looking back, we were so near. We

lost John Charles, he could not play one game, he was injured. Looking

back, we did quite well. I am the only man alive score a goal in a

World Cup final. Not just a quarterfinal but a World Cup final.

After a poor first half, the visitors went ahead after an own

goal. 1-all the final score there. Rugby, and Wales are set to tour

South Africa without captain Sam Warburton. He dislocated his

shoulder in the last minute of their Six Nations victory over Scotland

yesterday. He's being scanned and probably faces an operation. Much of

Wales has seen some lovely weather today with glorious sunshine in

places. This was the picture in Dinas Dinlle near Caernarfon,

earlier, but is it going to last? Here's Georgina Burnett with the

forecast. places. This was the picture in

Dinas Dinlle near Good evening. A cloudy night ahead sets the tone for

the rest of the week, and a cloudy day tomorrow as well. Tonight,

temperatures down to six or seven Celsius, very mild indeed. Light

westerly winds and those winds continuing tomorrow. Sunshine in the

South East where temperatures may reach ten or 11 Celsius. For the

rest of the week, that cloud stays with us and it becomes quite breezy

towards the middle of the week. It averages up to 11 Celsius. That's

Wales Today. We'll be back in Breakfast with updates from 6.25.

From me and the weekend team, goodnight.

Good evening. Spring well and truly sprung this week. Yet again, today

was a beautiful day, with lots of sunshine around, particularly in the

south-east. Highs of 20 Celsius in St James's Park. A different story

further west with thicker