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chilly old week, George. Rais thank you. That's all from the BBC news

Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. The death of two premature

babies at Singleton Hospital. The health watchdog says a failure to

prevent infections is the most likely cause. A foot on the jobs

ladder. How this scheme to combat long-term unemployment is being

rolled out across Wales. Sin it is giving you a chance and giving you

an opportunity to make a better of yourself. I have never had that

before. Nobody has ever given me a chance. The Circuit of Wales

racetrack planned for the valleys. The Prime Minister is lobbied to

stop any subsidy. The scientific discovery of the

decade - how life on earth took shape - and how scientists here

played their part. And in tonight's sport, two managers

on a mission to stay up. Can Cardiff and Swansea get vital points this

week? Good evening. A failure to prevent infections was the most

likely cause of an ecoli outbreak at a Swansea hospital where two newborn

babies died. That's the conclusion of the watchdog, Health Inspectorate

Wales. It reviewed the incident at Singleton Hospital three years ago.

Our reporter Cemlyn Davies is there for us tonight. What is the

background to this? Well this goes back to the autumn of 2011 when a

pair of twins and a third baby were born at the hospital prematurely and

all three needed neonatal intensive care. The twins' mother had

contracted E coli, which then developed in her new born babies.

Tragically one of the twins died and the third baby - who was being cared

for in the next incubator - also passed away after contracting the

infection. Tests carried out at the time found one of the babies had

caught E coli within the unit. You remember, the neonatal unit was

closed for about a month. And what has the health inspectorate found?

Well according to the inspectorate's report the neonatal unit was very

busy at the time and there was a shortage of cots. The inspectorate

says the fact two sick babies were placed next to each other was a

significant factor in this case. The inspectorate says that, whilst the

exact cause of the transmission and the outbreak cannot be determined,

it was most likely caused by a failure in infection prevention

control within the neonatal unit. The report then makes a total of 13

recommendations. And what has the health board had to say about this?

The report points out that the health board has carried out its own

reviews and found areas where improvements were required. For

example the health board recognised there was inadequate provision for

hand washing and there was a need to increase the space between cots. The

health board also says the newly refurbished neonatal unit here at

Singleton Hospital now has a special isolation room to reduce the risk of

cross infection in the future. Jurors have been chosen for the

trial of a mine manager facing manslaughter charges after the

deaths of four miners at a Swansea Valley mine. It was the manager of

the mind when it flooded in September 2011. Charles Breslin,

Philip Hill, Gary Jenkins and David Howell all died in the incident. He

denies manslaughter whilst the company which operated the site

denies corporate manslaughter. A homeless man has appeared before

magistrates, accused of murder after a body was found in the River Taff

in Cardiff. David Alun Lewis from Ystrad Mynach was found in the water

near the Millennium Stadium in the early hours of Thursday. Gareth Wyn

Jones has been remanded in custody and is due to appear at Cardiff

Crown Court on Wednesday. How do you tackle long term unemployment in

Wales? A new scheme is being launched aimed at breaking the

cycle. 5,000 young people - from eight parts of Wales - will be given

work experience as part of the Lift programme. One in five Welsh

households has no-one working. Our Economics Correspondent Sarah

Dickins has been to Blaenau Gwent, the worst affected area. Here they

are as they arrived. Out of work for more than six months, and the

history of turbulent homes, drugs and prison. This is them now, six

weeks on, working like fire officers, smart, disciplined and

fitter, and working as a team. Wade Porter left school before taking

exams to look after his grandfather who has Parkinson's disease. Urea

got firefighters and people from a higher rank giving you a chance and

giving you an opportunity to make better of yourself. And actually

believing in you. I never had that before. Nobody has given me a chance

and believed in me. Develop either permanent staff here, this course

has not been about training young people to get the job fighting

fires, but about changing their lives. Like firefighters, they have

got to train for 30 minutes a day in the gym, to give them more strength,

confidence and energy. Keep up the good work. Good, thank you. In the

fire station, cooking and eating together is an important heart of

teamwork and these young people are learning to live more healthily. At

one time, Abbey was sleeping rough after drugs took hold of her life.

She is now preparing for university. It is so easy to get into the wrong

crowd. It is very hard. Never occurred to them to say what is the

plan, and whether you want to go, and if they had been in this frame

of mind, long-term unemployed with the background at they had, it is

easy to get lost in that. It has given them something very positive.

As a group, they have gained experience to impress possible

employers. The challenge remains to find a job. Steps need to be taken

to help them along the road to getting a job. That is only part of

the story. There is still a massive challenge in terms of the number of

jobs and quality of jobs are available. With their spell at the

fire station over, Abbey and her colleagues were given a formal

sendoff in front of their colleagues. The people that believe

in you so much, you start to believe in you, too. Their final chance to

show off firefighting skills. The next step is to use their new

confidence to get the job. It is a real challenge, in the communities

that they are from. The Prime Minister's being asked to prevent

public money being given to a proposed new motor racing track in

Blaenau Gwent. Bosses at the Silverstone racetrack have written

to David Cameron claiming that the ?50 million of taxpayer's money

requested by the Circuit of Wales breaches European rules. Here's our

business correspondent, Brian Meechan. MotoGP started in Qatar

this week. The motorbike racing equivalent of Formula one reaches

around 300 million people across the globe. It is an audience that those

behind the circuit of Wales want watching here in Blaenau Gwent which

is bidding to host the UK leg of the event from next year, but this is

the undeveloped site at the moment. The company says it has the backing

for most of the project but needs ?30 million from the Welsh

government and ?20 million from the UK Government, the go-ahead. The man

behind its denies the claims from Silverstone that this state aid

would be illegal under EU rules. If anything, there was an element of

anger and disappointment that what we're proposing to do, a major

investment in one the poorest hearts of the country, that seems to be

deliberately being put at risk by competitors for their own self

interest. MotoGP is currently held at Silverstone, and it is bidding

again to host the event. The team behind the Circuit of Wales have

been accused of exaggerating the economic and others, including the

amount of money it will make an jobs it will create. Other tracks operate

in tight circumstances. Knockhill, Dunfermline, made a profit of

?800,000 in 2012, and in the same year, Darlington lost ?250,000, and

Silverstone lost around ?3 million. -- I think that they are more

concerned about there being a level playing field, and the fact that the

Welsh government is looking at putting money into the circuit, and

that is money that the likes of Silverstone, Brands Hatch or

Donnington have not had. There are plenty of questions over money that

need answering, before the Circuit of Wales gets the green light. Gwent

Police say no further action will be taken against three men arrested

last year on suspicion of slavery. The three who are aged 53, 38 and 20

were arrested in St Brides on the outskirts of Newport in September

last year, but they have never been charged. Scottish independence would

provide the best opportunity for Wales to win a better funding

package from Westminster, according to the Deputy First Minister of

Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. Today she became the most high profile member

of the referendum campaign to visit Wales. Our political editor Nick

Servini went to meet her. Oil and gas revenues, nuclear weapons and

the pound have been major themes of the referendum campaign so far. This

morning, Nicola Sturgeon came to Cardiff to talk about another theme,

the relationship and independent Scotland would have with Wales.

There are fears that the Scotland goes, Wales loses a voice at

Westminster. There are great was that the yes vote would shift to

have Alan is a power across the UK. She argued that the social unions

such as Six Nations rugby matches would be unaffected, but what about

able to travel to Scotland for work? It is not going to be

different, the main, travel area would remain between the UK and

Republic of Ireland. You have to answer the question, how was it that

there are no border controls between the UK and the independent Republic

of Ireland, we exist within a Common travel area, that would be the case

after Scottish independence, as well. The devolved government in

Scotland once health, education and other services. The SNP want to go

further, with full independence. But the Scotland votes yes, is there an

expectation within the SNP that Wales would follow suit? It would be

wrong for me to say what the people of Wales should do, the evolution of

the Welsh devolution system has been driven by people in Wales. There are

different circumstances between Wales and Scotland, of course, but

ultimately, the future of Wales, is a matter for the Welsh people. Many

of the claims in the speech have been strongly disputed. Welsh Labour

described it as smoke and mirrors, and the Conservatives have their

belts. Scotland left the UK there are uncertainties about what the

financial relationship with the with them and what is left of the UK, and

the situation we have at the moment, where it is unclear where is

Scotland would get the pound of the euro, what it's relationship with

London, let alone the rest of the UK, would be. The borders in the

British Isles could be about to change for ever. Today was an

attempt from someone at the heart of this historic campaign to persuade

the people of Wales that there is something in it for them. Still to

come, words of encouragement from a former Swansea City manager -

Roberto Martinez tells his former player Garry Monk - you can stay up.

And the Dutch sailors who made sure the coast was clear during the

Battle of the Atlantic are remembered in Holyhead.

It's been called the scientific discovery of the decade. Evidence

has been found supporting a Big Bang theory for the origins of our

universe. A powerful telescope in the South Pole has picked up signals

from space dating back 14 billion years. A telescope designed by

scientists at Cardiff University. Carwyn Jones reports. A single burst

of creation that kick-started our universe. Until now the big bang

theory was just that - a theory, to explain how we got here, but with no

hard evidence to support it. But this image has changed all that. It

shows gravitational waves. Signals left in the sky a fraction of a

second after everything came into being - billions of years ago. They

were detected by a radio telescope in the South Pole called Bicep2.

It's one of the most sophisticated instruments of its kind, and it was

the brainchild of scientists at Cardiff University. It is mind

blowing. The challenge was to measure a signal and temperature

that fluctuates to 1 billion of a degree, and you need to build a

camera that would be sensitive to that. Physicists at Cardiff have a

long track record of designing cameras and lenses that can operate

under extreme condtitions. Without that expertise, the subtle patterns

of light in the night sky would never have been picked up. These

faint signals from the early universe could only be detected by

cooling the telescope down to very low temperatures, and this one was

operating at -273 Celsius. But the hard work has paid off. This

discovery has been hailed as a red-letter day in the history of

physics. For decades, we have been looking at the cosmic microwave

background, the afterglow of the big bang. We have seen ripples of it, in

this image, the red and blue, and this is the first chance we have had

to look at the first tiny fraction of a second of the history of the

universe. We can see what happened in the millionth of a billion of

1,000,000,000,000th of a second after the big bang. The data

gathered by Bicep2 will now form the basis of other experiements to test

those findings. Images taken by the space telescope Planck will play

into the mix. Scientists at Cardiff designed the camera on board this

craft as well. It's technology like this, pioneered in Wales, that has

helped us to understand the origins of our universe - when planets like

ours were formed in the blink of an eye. Neil Kinnock one declared that

he was the first member of his family in a "thousand generations"

to attend university. His son, Stephen, hopes to be the second

Kinnock in a matter of decades to enter the House of Commons. He took

a big step in that direction on the weekend. He was selected as Labour's

candidate in the Aberavon constituency for next year's general

election. Here's our political reporter James Williams. From Saint

Petersburg to the Swiss capital, Geneva. Stephen cannot were work as

they can all of the world, and now the backdrop for his foray into

politics will be the steelworks of pot Tolbert, as he was selected as

the local Labour candidate. -- Port Talbot. With Aberavon having voted

Labour in every single general election since 1922, it is a vote

that is more than likely to lead to the continuation of the Kinnock

political dynasty. This is Stephen doing his bit alongside his father

back in 1994, on the eve of his mother were successful election to

the European Parliament. She now sits with husband in House of Lords.

Soon, their son could be just down the column -- corridor. I have been

living in Port Talbot speaking to the Labour members and it is not a

universal advantage at all. I think that there are people who might have

voted against me yesterday because of who my family is. I think it is

much more about who I am and what I have done. Has he already made an

impression on the people of Port Talbot? Anyone can represent them in

this day and age as long as he does good for the town. Give it a go. I

would prefer to have someone who is local, born and bred in Port Talbot,

rather than having them shipping people in all the time. He was

educated in London at Cambridge University before working abroad.

Experience that a personal friend says could be advantageous to the

area. He has huge experience internationally, and he has got

contacts that could be great benefits to the constituency and

Wales. It could potentially be great news. If successfully plans to spend

every weekend he needs to in Aberavon, putting further distance

between himself and his wife, Denmark were first female prime

minister. I don't think it will affect their relationship because we

have been used to the idea in Denmark that Stephen cannot and his

wife have separate careers. Ash max Stephen Kellock. -- Stephen Kinnock.

Football and rugby now here's Claire with tonight's sport. Post Good

evening. No points for Cardiff or Swansea at the weekend means extra

pressure this week, as both clubs continue their fight to stay in

football's top flight. Swansea City have a game in hand and are back in

action tomorrow night, away to Arsenal while Cardiff are targeting

this weekend's vital game away to West Brom. Who stays up will be

decided over the next few weeks. And, at this stage, both managers

are taking it one game at a time, as the fight for points intensifies.

Swansea are chasing points tomorrow night with a trip to Arsenal. Defeat

to Everton at the weekend leaves them four points above the

relegation zone. Eight games without a win will concern Garry Monk and,

while he plans his next apogee, former manager Roberto Martinez is

not concerned, as he believes that his old club will be fine. I just

want to see them finishing very high end the league. They are a top side

in the Premier League. But as it happens, as the season develops, you

have the demands of Europe and that kind of thing can affect the

league, but I think they are going to get a lot of points from now

until the end of the season. It was goals galore at the Cardiff City

Stadium, and despite losing 6-3, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer did not expect

anything from Liverpool. He knows that games against West Brom and

Crystal Palace could be the ones that will decide their fate. We will

regroup and go again. If you look at all of the positives and learn from

them, as well, of course. As things stand, the table looks like this,

Swansea are 15th, and Cardiff 19th, so both clubs know that it is all to

play for, but there are some must win games this week. Newport County

are 12th in League Two, and in the conference, Kevin Wilkie kicked his

new rain off with a 1-1 draw at the Salisbury -- at home to Salisbury

for Wrexham. Rugby, and as we await news of a new European Competition -

news today that former Wales captain Ryan Jones is leaving the Ospreys.

The 33-year-old, who's been with the Welsh region for ten years, has

signed a two-year deal with Bristol. He becomes the third Welsh player to

sign for the English side. He joins Ospreys team-mate Matthew Morgan and

Sale scrum-half Dwayne Peel. That's it from me - enjoy your evening.

Thousands of sailors fleeing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

ended up on Anglesey where more than 100 eventually settled. They helped

patrol the Irish Sea during the Second World War and now a memorial

is being built to commemorate the links between Holyhead and the Dutch

Navy and recognise their contribution in Britain's darkest

hour. Matthew Richards reports. 1940, and the Dutch Navy began to

arrive at Holyhead harbour. Among the sailors was Mathieu Van Weert,

who met local girl Megan Parry then married and settled in the town

after his war duties were over. His son Graham had little idea of how

his father spent the war, until the local maritime museum asked him to

explore the relationship between Holyhead and Holland. Where we were

standing now, that was a cafe for the Dutch lads. They use this as

their unofficial meeting place, so the local girls would come down here

as well. The Dutch Navy carried out minesweeping duties along the

western approaches to keep Britain's convoy of supply ships moving and

supporting the Battle of the Atlantic. Around 130 sailors were

known to have settled in Holyhead and many of their descendants are

still there. Though there are a few clues which might explain why they

felt at home, not all were accepted at first. All these young,

good-looking Dutch seamen, ending up in this largely Methodist town. I'm

sure that there would have been a few fathers biting their nails. You

were foreign if you came from Beaumaris, let alone Holland! It is

important for Graham that the extraordinary circumstances which

brought his father and mother together are not washed away by the

advancing waves. Holyhead was a safe haven for members of the Dutch navy

and because of the welcome they got here, they were able to make a

significant contribution to the naval war effort. Making Britain

safer for all of us. Farmers across Cardigan have come together to help

farmers in Somerset who have been badly affected by the recent

flooding. They've been collected hay and silage and the first batch was

distributed today. It's hoped it'll help others feed their cattle and

re-stock their supplies. Hopefully no more flooding heading their way -

or ours. Derek's got the forecast. We still have four flood alerts in

force in south-west England this evening. Today started off dry and

bright with sunshine followed by rain and the southeasterly wind.

Last night was called with the widespread frost. In Snowdonia,

temperatures fell minus four Celsius, making it the coldest night

since January the 12th for most of Wales. The next few days will bring

a mix of weather, showers, some dry weather and sunshine, and feeling on

the chilly side. Rain will continue to spread north

and east, from the south-west after midnight. The wind, easing, and not

as cold as last night, but in parts of the South West, temperatures

could fall or the foreground frost. Tomorrow, we have a front line

through England and Scotland, which will start to move west during the

afternoon. This is the picture for 8am. Dry across the country with

some patchy cloud in the north and north-east. Bright in parts of Powys

the best songs I likely in the self West. The wind, lighter than today

and feeling mild, seven Celsius in Canales. -- Canaervon. Then we will

have showers coming into the north and east, and coming into parts of

Powys and Monmouth Shire and the South-East. The top ten pitches, 11

Celsius, with a north to north-westerly breeze. Top

temperature of nine Celsius in Tregaron. The morning, dry and

bright, but expect showers in the Atholl in. Tomorrow night, showers

will spread further south and west across the country, drying up in the

north and east with the ground frost in places. On Wednesday, showers and

the south-west first thing we'll clear, then most places will be

driver some sunshine. -- will clear. Showers could be heavy in places

with the rumble of thunder, and on Friday, and north-easterly breeze,

that will make it feel cool. The picture tonight is from Tina of dusk

on the Pembrokeshire coast. The nice headlines. The families of the 239

people on board the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have been told that

it did crash and that no one survived. The Prime Minister of

Malaysia said new evidence pointed to the flight ending in the southern

Indian Ocean. The other headlines, a health watchdog has found that the

failure to prevent infections was the most likely cause of an E. Coli

outbreak at a Swansea hospital where two newborn babies dies. The report

said that the neonatal unit was busy and there was a shortage of cots in

the lead up to the incident, three years ago.

X-Ray's on in half an hour. Here's Lucy and Rhodri with a preview. I'll

be finding out why a passenger was asked to leave ?500 after a travel

agent made a mistake on his ticket. And I am on the streets of Llanelli

with a man who promises that he can save you money. All that coming up

just after seven on BBC One Wales. We'll have an update for you here at

eight o'clock and again after the BBC News at Ten. That's Wales Today.

Thank you for watching from all of us on the programme good evening.

We've all come here to do our duty, to do what's required of us.

We're being tested, just as Britain is being tested.