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moment. That has got to be a good thing. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The manager of the Gleision Colliery goes on trial. The court is told the | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
explosion that led to the death of four miners sounded like a jet | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
engine. Malcolm Fyfield is accused of | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
manslaughter through gross negligence. The jury hears he | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
managed to escape and then told paramedics, "There's no hope for the | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
others." Also tonight. The parents of Nida Naseer are told | :00:28. | :00:45. | |
by police a body has been found on Newport's wetlands. | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
The former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, Swansea born MP | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Nigel Evans, begins giving evidence at his trial. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Up for sale for three years - has a buyer been found for the Murco Oil | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
Refinery in Milford Haven? And Melanie Stephenson has type one | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
diabetes. Services for patients with incurable conditions must improve, | :01:12. | :01:12. | |
says a new report. The jury in the trial of a mine | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
manager who is accused of causing the death of four colleagues through | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
gross negligence has heard he tried to revive two of the men who died | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
before finding a way to the surface. The court was told miners working at | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the Gleision site in the Swansea Valley in September 2011 heard an | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
explosion like a jet engine, moments before the mine flooded. 58-year-old | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Malcolm Fyfield denies all charges, and the mine owners deny corporate | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
manslaughter. Cemlyn Davies is at Swansea Crown Court. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
Lucy, two and a half years have gone by since the tragic events at | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Gleision Colliery. During that time the miners' families have had little | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
information about what happened that morning. Well, today they came to | :01:59. | :02:11. | |
court hoping for answers. September 13 2011 and rescuers work | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
frantically at the Gleision Colliery hoping to save the lives of the men | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
trapped inside but their efforts were in vain. They all died after | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
water filled the area where they were working. The pit manager, | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
Malcolm Fyfield, was mining alongside the men that morning but | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
he managed to escape. He arrived at court today accompanied by his | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
wife. They sat together as the jury was told Malcolm Fyfield suffers | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
from severe post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of what | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
happened. Members of the miners families filled the public gallery | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
in the hope of finding out exactly why they loved ones left for work | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
one morning but never came home. They sat and listened intently as | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
the prosecution explained how one miner who managed to escape by | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
crawling along a conveyor belt heard an explosion which sounded like a | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
jet engine. He was told to run and he then heard what was described as | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the deafening sound of rushing water. When Malcolm Fyfield emerged | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
from the mine, he was shaking and cold, and told rescuers "they are | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
gone" . Afterwards, he told police he tried to resuscitate David Powell | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
and Philip Hill while he was still in the mind but there was no | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
response, no sign of life. The court heard the postmortem examinations | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
showed the four men died as a result of drowning. Sat a short distance | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
from Malcolm Fyfield worthy directors of MNS Mining, which faces | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
four counts of corporate manslaughter by failing to ensure | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
there was a safe system of work in place. How did this happen? How | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
could such a tragedy have occurred? Those are the questions the miners | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
families will want answered over the coming weeks and months. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Malcolm Fyfield and MNS Mining deny all the charges against them and the | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
trial is expected to last until the end of June. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
The family of missing Newport teenager Nida Naseer have been told | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
about the discovery of a body in Newport. Gwent Police were called to | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the wetlands site in the city this morning. The body has yet to be | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
identified. Our reporter Paul Heaney is there for us. What is the latest? | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
Police were called here to Newport wetlands at 10am this morning after | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
a report that a body had been found in this area. Part of the wetlands | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
pathway just behind me remains closed this evening. A number of | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
vehicles have been leaving this area throughout the afternoon. We | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
understand the body has now been taken for a postmortem and it has | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
yet to be identified. But it is three months almost to the day since | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Nida Naseer left her family home to put the bins out just a few miles | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
away from here. Although the body has yet to be identified, her | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
parents have been informed. Just reminders about the circumstances | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
surrounding Nida Naseer's disappearance. 19-year-old Nida | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Naseer left her home three days after Christmas. It was a PM in the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
evening, she did not have any shoes on, she did not take her coat or any | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
many and simply disappeared. Gwent Police have chased a number of | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
different leagues but have failed to explain exactly what happened to | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
her. Just two days ago, the father told BBC way is that he felt | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
something was stopping his daughter from getting in touch. We know from | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
this is the father told BBC way is that he felt something was stopping | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
his daughter from getting in touch. We know from her sister Archie felt | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
depressed about which meant she could not apply to study at | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
university year. There is one question that still remains, the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
same question everyone was asking themselves in December, why did a | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
19-year-old girl take the bins out just after Christmas and is yet to | :06:30. | :06:50. | |
return home? The police watchdog says it has | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
significant concerns about how some Welsh forces deal with domestic | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
violence. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary says Gwent and North | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Wales Police aren't recognising the danger some victims are in. Jordan | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Davies has more. Rachel Williams was shot by her | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
husband at a salon she worked in. Christie Robinson, attacked by her | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
boyfriend but then wrongly arrested by Gwent Police. She received | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
compensation. And Joanna Michael from Cardiff, stabbed to death by | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
her ex-boyfriend while waiting for officers to arrive. The desperate | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
909 calls were misdirected. One former victim who wants to remain | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
anonymous says Caro in situations like this could be avoided if more | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
officers were trained to spot the danger signs. If they don't see any | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
bruises and you seem to appear to look all right, they will just say, | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
it is a domestic. They will walk away. This is when the victim needs | :07:48. | :07:59. | |
help. The police have gone and then they would be beaten. There are over | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
250,000 domestic abuse cases in Wales and England every year. A | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
third of the games in Wales are men. Today the police watchdog criticised | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
to Welsh forces, Gwent and North Wales Police, saying it had | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
significant concerns about how Gwent handled some victims. It criticised | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
officers for failing to see how serious some crimes were. In North | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Wales, it said the force's treatment of victims was inconsistent. This | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
has got to be every officer's business and the disappointing thing | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
is that not all our offices have the right training, support or expertise | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
to deal with every victim effectively. | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
Are you OK? This hard-hitting film, funded by | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Gwent Police, is one of the ways the former chief and is the tried to | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
improve the way her force handled domestic violence. It also piloted | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
clears law, which gives people the right to investigate their | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
partner's violent past. And it said that a new domestic violence unit. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
It has now been disbanded in favour of training all front line staff. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Unfortunately there are still cultural attitudes not only in the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
police but in other aspects of society that victims are somehow | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
responsible for the violence they suffer and this trickles down into | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
the police response as well. South Wales Police and Dyfed-Powys Police | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
welcomed the praise they received in the report. Gwent says it is working | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
hard to change things and North Wales Police say they worked | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
tirelessly to protect victims. The hope now is that things do change | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
before more lives are lost. The former Deputy Speaker of the | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
House of Commons, Swansea-born MP Nigel Evans, has begun giving | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
evidence at his trial, where he's accused of rape and indecent | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
assault. Mr Evans denied ever behaving indecently with a series of | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
men who claim he sexually assaulted them. Matthew Richards is outside | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
Preston crown court. What did Mr Evans say about the allegations? He | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
was asked almost as soon he took the witness stand whether he had ever | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
sexually assaulted anyone, he said no. Whether he had ever raped | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
anyone, he said no. He was asked if he ever had intercourse with the man | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
who accused him of rape and he said yes. He said it was absolutely with | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
consent. He was also asked about another occasion where he is alleged | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
to have sexually assaulted a man who was staying on his sofa at his | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
home. He said he had run his hand down the man's body but that it was | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
brushed away and he did not pursue anything after that. He denies one | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
charge of rape, two of indecent assault. And he spoke about his | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
personal life as well. He spoke about growing up in Swansea, he said | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
from the age of 12 he would help out in the shop, the grocery shop, that | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
his parents ran and it was there he used to read the newspapers and | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
developed a love of politics. When he was 17 he joined the Young | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Conservatives. You also spoke about coming out as gay in a newspaper | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
article in 2010 but the had been an open secret in and around | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Westminster. And he has been found not guilty on one charge. The judge | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
directed the jury to find Mr Evans not guilty of one charge of sexual | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
assault, saying there was no case to answer, but that was replaced by a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
lesser charge of attempted sexual assault. There will be no hearing | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
tomorrow but he will be back in the witness box on Monday. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Campaigners trying to stop the building of a waste incinerator in | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Cardiff have lost their High Court challenge. The City Council was | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
found to have acted lawfully in approving plans for the site near | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Splott, where the company Viridor has already started work on the | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
project. The Cardiff Against the Incinerator group says it will | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
appeal the decision. We won the battle of public opinion | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
here a long time ago and public opinion is still very clear. We are | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
sure that when people see the consequences of this incinerator, | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
that the opinion will grow even stronger, and we will continue to | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
oppose the incinerator, the impact it has. There are over 400 plants | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
like this operating safely and efficiently across Europe. The | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
standard by which we have two of -- operate and the conditions that come | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
with that and the standards to which our guys and the people who will be | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
employed in the management team are second to none. | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
Still to come tonight. We are going to talk about | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
homophobic bullying in schools today. And how more and more people | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
feel victimised because of their sexuality. | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
As part of the BBC's School Report, our budding journalists find out | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
what can be done to tackle the problem and put politicians on the | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
spot. A ?300 million deal to buy one of | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
Pembrokeshire's oil refineries looks set to be completed in the next few | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
weeks. The owners of the Murco Refinery have been looking to sell | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
the site for more than three years. The new owners will be a private | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
equity firm as Abigail Neal reports. They processed 135,000 barrels of | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
oil here every day but with falling profits, the last few years have | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
been an anxious time for workers at the Murco refinery. The American | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
owners are reported to be close to signing 18 with a London based | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
private equity fund. It is thought to be worth ?300 million and | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
includes the sale of the plant along with Murco's 400 petrol stations. | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
They have been looking to find a buyer for the refinery for more than | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
three years now. This proposed sale to a private equity fund will secure | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
the 450 jobs here at least in the short-term but there are concerns | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
about what the longer-term ambitions of a new could be. It is lovely to | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
see that it is going to get going. I am really glad for the people | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
working there and the town. For the boys and the girls over there, if | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
someone is going to buy it, they stay. It is the nature of a private | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
equity fund which has made some business leaders nervous about | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
today's news. We want guarantees that the plant will remain open and | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
the future for the employees and all the contractors and supply chain. It | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
is very important Pembrokeshire. There is a refinery which has opened | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
in the southern part of India which produces more than all of ours put | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
together in the UK and that is an export refinery. These super | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
refineries are starting to take over. In Europe, we are going to | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
find it increasingly challenging to justify keeping the ones we have. | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Although small, the Murco site has been upgraded in recent years which | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
could count in its favour in terms of assets. The deal with the new | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
owners is expected to be signed next month. | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
Services for patients with chronic conditions in Wales like diabetes | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
and heart disease must improve. That's according to a new report by | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
the Auditor General for Wales. It says health boards have made | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
progress since 2008, when the Auditor warned services across Wales | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
were poorly coordinated but, six years on, several health boards | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
still don't have a detailed plan for change. Steffan Messenger reports. | :15:54. | :16:05. | |
Derek and Melanie, just two of the 800,000 or so adults in Wales with | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
chronic illnesses. Long-term conditions that can mean years of | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
treatment in care. With an ageing population, it is a growing | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
problem, so how well is the health service dealing with it? 25-year-old | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Melanie has always loved athletics but at 15 she was diagnosed with | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
type one diabetes, learning -- leaving her dependent on insulin. It | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
is really not looked at, the psychological side of having a | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
condition, is completely ignored. Thankfully, I have been part of some | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
groups with the charity diabetes UK so we work with people our own age | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
to talk about the condition. Otherwise, there would be nothing. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Derek moved to Wales 14 years ago and he has a rest between illness | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
that means he needs an oxygen to survive. In England I felt I had no | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
support whatsoever. Credit to the Welsh National Health Service, it is | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
only since I have been in Wales I have had good support. I have | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
telephone numbers to two nurses, and oxygen nurse and a rest between us, | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
so if I get a problem I can make a telephone call. Two different | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
experiences that tally with the Wales Audit Office's findings. It | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
reports it has seen some progress since its last report. Increased | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
investment in community-based services, more specialist nurses and | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
more patients able to get access to education programmes. That has led | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to a reduction in hospital admissions to some chronic | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
conditions. But several health boards still lack a detailed plan | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
for delivering community-based care. Over half the services already | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
available are only open on weekdays and waiting times are generally too | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
long. As our operation has grown older, the demand is increasing, so | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
it is important that the shift in services we are seeing continues. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
Clearly, hospitals and health boards have well costed and clear workforce | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
plans that indicate how those changes are going to be made. The | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
Welsh government says it is pleased this report recognises the | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
improvements that have been made. It will now consider the | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
recommendations. The boss of the Football Association | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
of Wales has welcomed a new competition, designed to replace | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
most international friendlies. UEFA has given the go-ahead for the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
League of Nations competition to begin in four years' time. Final | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
details of the format have not been decided, but Jonathan Ford has said | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
the FAW wants discussions to continue. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Now, all day, we've had school pupils visiting BBC Wales as part of | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
our School Report project. In all, teenagers from 55 schools across | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
Wales have been given the chance to report on issues that matter to | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
them. Lauren and Ellis from Ysgol Plasmawr in Cardiff have been | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
working with our journalists, putting together a special report on | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
how young people in our schools are being bullied because they're gay or | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
bisexual. We are going to talk about | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
homophobic bullying in schools today and how more and more people feel | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
victimised because of their sexuality. More than 50 pupils in | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
our school are part of a group campaigning against homophobia. The | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
figures show that in 99% of our schools, homophobic language is | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
still being used. And children are being bullied on a day basis in | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
classrooms across Wales. Whether you are in a Conran saved, a secondary | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
school, at some point a pupil going to all those schools will experience | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
either homophobic language or someone they know who is being | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
bullied because they are suspected of being gay. Recent figures show | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
that homophobic bullying is still widespread in Welsh schools. More | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
than half of pupils have experienced are bullying. 41% have try to take | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
their own life because they have been bullied. And 60% of gay people | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
say teachers who see them being bullied never intervene. So what can | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
we do in Wales to tackle homophobic bullying in our schools? And should | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
the Welsh government be doing more? The Deputy Minister for schools said | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to turn the | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
situation around but something that can only be changed if politicians | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
teachers and schools work together. Schools need to have a better policy | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
in place and at the core of that is making sure young people are able to | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
learn without a fear of being bullied. But I think young people | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
have a crucial role in making sure homophobic bullying is considered to | :20:49. | :20:49. | |
be utterly unacceptable. Celebrities who are openly gay have | :20:50. | :21:01. | |
raised awareness of this discrimination and stereotyping but | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
it still goes on in society. Someone who has campaigned against | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
homophobia is Gareth Thomas. He came out five years ago. I have had | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
negative comments while walking down the street but the best thing to do | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
is outweigh them with the positive ones. You can be picked on because | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
of your race, gender or disability. Homophobic bullying is no different. | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
Two budding reporters of the future there. And if you want to see more | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
news stories by pupils from Wales and across the UK, just log on to | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport. So, pretty nippy today, but there's | :21:45. | :21:45. | |
change on the way, Derek. Chilly today. Sunny spells but not | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
dry everywhere. A few showers turned up this afternoon. Hail in places | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
and snow on the mountains. Mind you, on this day last year, it was | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
bitterly cold with huge snow drifts. In Carrog today, the temperature | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
reached seven Celsius, but on Saturday, more than double that with | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
a high of 15 Celsius. So, a change to warmer weather over the weekend | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
thanks to a change in wind direction. This evening, scattered | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
heavy showers. Overnight most of the country will become dry, although | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
the north may see some rain for a time. Showers in the south late in | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the night. Some patchy mist and cloud. A slight frost in places. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Here's the picture for 8.00am in the morning. The north will be dry. | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Further south and west, a few showers. Heavy in places. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Aberystwyth and Dolgellau dry and bright. Some sunshine on the Lleyn | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Peninsula. A real mix tomorrow. Showers in places with a risk of | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
hail and thunder. Some dry and bright weather as well. Some | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
sunshine in Gwynedd and Anglesey. Temperatures a little higher than | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
today with a cool east to southeasterly breeze. Showery in | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
Blaenau Gwent tomorrow. Some heavy showers with a chilly breeze. Only | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
seven Celsius in Brynmawr. In Flintshire, a dry morning. But a few | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
showers are possible in the afternoon. Tomorrow night, rain and | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
showers will spread north but most of the country ending the night dry | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
and not as cold as recent nights. As we head into the weekend, a change | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
on the way. The cold pool of air will move away with warmer air over | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
France heading our way. On Saturday, it's an improving story. Rain in | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
parts of the west will clear. The whole country then dry and | :23:46. | :23:47. | |
brightening-up with hazy sunshine. On Sunday, more dry and bright | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
weather but it may cloud over during the afternoon with a few spots of | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
rain by evening. So the cold snap this week is on its last legs. | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Feeling more like spring again over the weekend. I can't promise a | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
clear, blue sky but plenty of dry weather. Hazy sunshine and higher | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
temperatures. Good news for the daffodils and the rest of us. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
The top stories from the BBC. The big six energy companies are to | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
be investigated to see if they're charging customers too much. After | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
scathing criticism by the energy watchdog, the companies are accused | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
of raising prices more quickly than they cut them. | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
A court has been told how 4-20 Gleision Colliery flooded in three | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
years ago. Malcolm Fyfield, who escaped from the mine, is accused of | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
causing the deaths through gross negligence. He denies all charges | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
and the mine owners deny corporate manslaughter. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
And that's Wales Today. We'll have a quick update at 8.00pm more at | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
10.25pm. For now though, from all of us on the programme, have a good | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
evening. We won't be kept down. | :24:57. | :25:18. | |
Wales deserves better. Wales once pioneered in education, | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
industry and healthcare. | :25:23. | :25:27. |