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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story: The GCSE row - the class of | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
2014 learns there will be no re-mark of English exams which received poor | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
grades. Tonight the credibility of the exam | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
board the WJEC and the Welsh Government is being tested yet again | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
- we'll be asking the Education Minister what's going on. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
I think a regrading exercise here would be a retreat, essentially, | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
from the agenda around rigour we have promised to parents, to | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
learners, to employers and to universities in terms of the worth | :00:30. | :00:30. | |
of a Welsh GCSE. A mother and baby monitored by | :00:31. | :00:53. | |
social services may have been dead for three weeks before their bodies | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
were discovered, an inquest has heard. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
The ready meals company Creative Foods announce 150 jobs could go at | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
their Flintshire base. And the new strategy's paying | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
dividends - the record 20,000 girls who are playing football. I enjoyed | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
it loads. It's really fun. It doesn't matter if you score a goal, | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
it's all about the taking part. Good evening. You might be | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
disappointed with your poor GCSE English exam results but there will | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
be NO regrading. That's the blunt message from the Education Minister | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
tonight. Some teachers had complained about unexpectedly low | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
grades. But a review by the Welsh Government has said, "no one single | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
factor" contributed to the results. In a moment we'll be hearing from | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
the Education Minister Huw Lewis, first here's our correspondent Arwyn | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Jones. These year ten pupils input Talbot | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
will set their GCSE exams next year so the outcome of today's report | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
will affect them directly. Following the regrading fiasco in 2012, eight | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
unique exam was offered only two pupils in Wales. This year was the | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
first time they were able to sit there is exams. In March the results | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
were released and teachers voiced concerns about unexpectedly low | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
grades. The Welsh government launched a review. As the Welsh | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
government releases more and more verifications unique to Wales, it is | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
crucial they are respected across the UK and beyond so what went wrong | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
with these results and making sure it doesn't happen again is seen as | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
very important. Schools said the recreating? Grading of papers -- the | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
grading of papers was unduly harsh. They added training was poor and | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
unhelpful but no complaints were made at the time. The report found | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
teachers had been too generous in predict the grades. | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
I lead an experienced department for 15 years and we are good at judging | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
our students and where we expect them to be. These results are in no | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
way in keeping with what we would expect them to be and the papers | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
don't add up. It doesn't make sense to me were the marks are being | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
awarded. The report said the exam board should do more in future to | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
provide online papers so that teachers know what is needed in | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
exams. It said the deadline for deciding if | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
he pulls want to resit in the summer should be extended to the end of | :03:50. | :03:59. | |
April. It said it is fermenting changes but that is not much comfort | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
for the teaching unions. There are a number of | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
recommendations that should give us some cause for comfort for the | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
future, we still have the immediate issue of hundreds of students | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
throughout Wales who have grades that do not match their abilities. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
As the matter was debated in the chamber, opposition parties turned | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
to the exam regulator. I was staggered when I read the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
comment about data vigilance by the WJ EEC and the Welsh government were | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
not aware of what was going on and were not aware of the standards the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
students would be achieving. The Welsh government has made it | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
clear it expects GCSE results to be similar to last year but also be | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
more rigorous. Exams will be tougher in future so these pupils have to be | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
prepared. Earlier Arwyn spoke to the Education | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Minister Huw Lewis. He started by asking how disappointed he was that | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
schools ignored his advice and put additional pupils for the January | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
GCSE exams. There is a disappointment for me within what | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
has happened here and some sense of the world are meant. We have had a | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
26% uplift in early entries in January and it has been identified | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
as something that may have had an impact on the results we saw. Some | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
of those young people were in the year ten, which means they had not | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
been studying the subject for more than a few weeks. But you could have | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
been regrading them. I have dismissed the idea of regrading and | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
regardless of if we had found out a week earlier, I don't think that | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
would change things. I think a regrading exercise would be a | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
retreat from the agenda around rigour we have promised to parents, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
employers, students and universities in terms of the worth of a Welsh | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
GCSE. Is it realistic for you to expect you can have more rigour in | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the exam and subject areas that you say you want without having fewer | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
pupils getting the top grades and as a consequence of that, more pupils | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
have to be disappointed. It doesn't necessarily follow. We know already | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
from this set of January results that even with a tougher set of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
specifications, at least 30 of our schools have actually raised their | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
results over and above the 2013 results. But 26% are down so you | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
should be expecting to see fewer IBO is getting the top grades. But we | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
are seeing it is possible. -- fewer students getting the top grades. The | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
schools I am referring to, you couldn't point to them and say they | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
are in more prosperous areas or they are historically high performing | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
schools. That is not the case. There are schools of every type within the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
group that have either held their ground or even better, they have | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
raised their game. The two things could and should go together. As for | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
the rest of the day's news. A mother and her baby daughter who were found | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
dead at their house could have been there for three weeks, an inquest | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
has heard. Joanne Thomas was found in bed alongside four-month-old | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Harper at their home in Troedyrhiw, last July. The coroner recorded an | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
open verdict, after hearing that, the cause of their deaths could not | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
be found. Matthew Murray was in court. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Joanne and Harper Thomas' family were looking for answers into this | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
tragedy but they left the coroner's court today with many more | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
questions. We still haven't got any closure and | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
we don't know why they died. It is a tragedy, how my mother is going to | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
get over this I just don't know. I don't know how any of us are going | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
to get over it. It must leave so many more questions. More questions | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
than answers, and fortunately. -- unfortunately. Joanne was found in | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
her bed alongside four-month-old Harper at their terraced home in | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Troedyrhiw, near Merthyr Tydfil, last July. The bodies could have | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
been there for up to three weeks and had to be formally identified via | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
dental records and DNA testing. The inquest heard how Harper had been on | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
the "at risk register" due to a relationship of Miss Thomas's but by | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
the end of May she was removed from that list and placed on a lesser | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
voluntary scheme. It was said the mother and daughter had moved to | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Troedyrhiw to start a fresh and had only been living there a few months. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
The inquest heard how concerns had been raised weeks before when Joanne | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
fails to take the baby for injections. Social services had | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
called at the property three times but there had been no answer. Today | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the family said social services should have done more but the | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
coroner said they had acted accordingly. Today the inquest ruled | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
out foul play as well as discounting the possibility of carbon monoxide | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
poisoning. Joanne Thomas had a history of depression but the | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
coroner also said there was no evidence to suggest she had taken | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
her own life. At school Joanne achieved 12 straight As at GCSE and | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
her family believed she was turning her life around before this tragedy. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Police have arrested a man in connection with an assault following | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
an incident outside a school in Cardigan. Officers launched an | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
investigation after reports of a child screaming in the back of a car | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
yesterday. The police have confirmed the investigation no longer involves | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
a child. Former shadow Welsh secretary, Nigel | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Evans, has accused the prosecution in his trial for rape and sex | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
offences of portraying him as a cross between Alan Clark, Oscar | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Wilde and Benny Hill. The Swansea born MP appeared in the witness box | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
at Preston Crown Court for a third day, being cross-examined about nine | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
allegations against seven men. Mr Evans denies all the charges against | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
him. 149 staff at a factory in Flintshire | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
which makes frozen ready meals could lose their jobs. A proposal has been | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
put forward to close Creative Foods on the Aber Industrial Estate. The | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
company says, the business may not be viable following an extensive | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
review. Our reporter Roger Pinney is there. Roger, what more can you tell | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
us? Jamie, this company's parent company | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
blames the market, saying there is a long-term decline in the wholesale | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
frozen ready meals business and as a result this plant may no longer be | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
viable. The consultation ends in May but redundancy notices have been | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
issued. This plant employs a number of agency staff and contract | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
workers. I spoke to them earlier and they said they are planning to move | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
to other parts of the UK to look for work but a lock of local workers | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
will have transferred from another frozen foods plant which closed down | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
locally a few years ago. This is what they had to say earlier. | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
What can you do? We have been sold and that is it. That is their | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
decision. It will be hard for a lot of people working here because there | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
are husbands and wives. I have been on holiday and I just | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
found out this morning. Not good. Second time this has happened to me | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
in this town. How big a blow would the job losses | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
be to the area? Naturally, it is a blow. They're in | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
mind this area does have one of the lowest rates of unemployment in | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Wales and they have been very good here at absorbing job losses in | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
recent years. Nonetheless, Alex Aldridge, the local county council, | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
told me he is concerned that some of the workers may not have the | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
necessary skills to transfer to other local businesses easily. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
It will be a huge blow. 150 jobs of the kind of race skills that are | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
here are often not transferable. Fincher has got a very buoyant | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
economy at the challenge would be relocating the individuals into | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
areas where we can accommodate them so this is a significant blow to the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
local economy. Nobody from the company was | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
available to be interviewed today but political pressure is beginning | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
to build both at Westminster and in Cardiff Bay and there are calls for | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
the company to think again. One option would be a kind of sell-off | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
but I think that is a long shop. -- long shot. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Much more to come before seven o'clock: They've closed 17 police | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
stations - but now a change of heart - so why are they reopening some of | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
them? And the record number of girls | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
playing football. ?6.31 - that's the minimum wage and | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
it's 15 years old today. But campaigners are trying to get | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
employers to pay the LIVING Wage - which is ?7.65. Research by the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Wales TUC shows that nearly one in four workers in Wales earns less | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
than that. And as our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
explains, there are huge variations across both Wales and the UK. | :13:32. | :13:44. | |
At 17, Charlotte is paid the minimum wage for her power. -- for her age. | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
After paying rent, she has ?30 to live on. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Because the standards are set for the minimum wage, people know where | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
they stand. For workers over 21, the minimum | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
wage rises to ?6 31 and hour but campaigners want employers to pay | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
the living wage, ?7 65 an hour. 23% of workers in Wales are paid less | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
than that. There are huge variations. In some areas 40% are | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
paid less than that but in Cardiff North only 10% are paid less than | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
that. The TUC says we would all benefit if we were all paid the | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
living wage. It would mean that additional tax revenue coming in and | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
there are fewer benefits being paid. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
There is evidence to suggest that minimum wage in terms of the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
proportion of BT and wage -- median wage has lead to slow employment | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
growth. Here they are training people | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
developing systems for others. Two workers are paid the minimum wage, | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
format above that. The company wants to pay more. We don't have the money | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
to deliver that now but we hope over the next couple of years, when | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
things start to improve, we would be able to do that. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
We don't want anyone here earning less than they can live on | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
sensibly. 15 years after it was made law, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
there are still 13,000 jobs in Wales that still don't attract the minimum | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
wage. Two years ago, Gwent Police closed | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
17 police stations to save money. But today, seven of them have | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
re-opened. The area's Police and Crime Commissioner says it will be | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
paid for by cutting overstaffed units and dipping into reserves. | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
Paul Heaney reports. Tredegar police station in Gwent is | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
closed to the public. It was one of 17 across the Quentin area that | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
closed its front desk to save half ?1 million. Some of the stations | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
that closed had fewer than ten people visit them each day, which | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
led to the closure. You can see there were people working inside and | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
police officer's cars were parked round the back, which left some | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
people frustrated at not being able to speak to someone. Stephen wanted | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
to report bins being stolen and set on fire last year. He drove six | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
miles to speak to Gwent police in person, a journey which he says | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
could put people off reporting crime. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
It is annoying and I think people will say it is in the trivial so I | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
won't bother. When police say more people contact | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
them online and on the phone but after feedback from the police and | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
fight -- peace" Commissioner, some of those stations have reopened. How | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
can the fourth afford it? -- the fourth afford it? We are taking | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
something out of our reserves until we have done our evaluation. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
If it is ongoing and that is the community needs, we have to look at | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
making savings elsewhere. We have got units within went police that | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
are grossly overstaffed and the people are addressing that. | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
We can afford it in that respect. We have to look at another control room | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
and custody units so we are looking at getting staff out of these units. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
There will be a feeling of relief amongst the residents of Pontypool | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
to feel that they can make contact with the police. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Tredegar station and nine others remain closed for now but officers | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
are being asked to open the door to the public if they are inside. The | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Commissioner says it is up to people to make use of the reopened stations | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
if they are to stay open in future. The Conservative MP Guto Bebb has | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
accused the shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith of a U-turn over a | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
proposal which could give the Welsh Government more powers over income | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
tax. Mr Bebb says the policy contradicts a number of comments | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
made by Mr Smith in recent weeks in which he expressed concern about | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
devolving income tax. Our Political Editor Nick Servini is at the Senedd | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
for us tonight. This is a reaction to the Labour spring conference on | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
the weekend and the most significant announcement yet from Labour in | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
relation to devolution ahead of the general election. It would mean that | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Welsh government ministers could have control of three quarters of | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
the basic rate of income tax. It is subject to a number of conditions, | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
such as getting a better funding settlement from Westminster and a | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
referendum but it was also gave ministers the ability to increase | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
the top rate of income tax. Guto Bebb has accused Mr Smith as a | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
change of heart, referring to an appearance in February in which he | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
said Labour had never sought income tax powers and warned about the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
dangers of the union of introducing tax competition within the UK | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
Borders. Owen Smith has said it is still not a priority for Labour to | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
devolve income tax and says one of the reasons is to guard against a | :19:25. | :19:36. | |
Tory tax cut for the rich. They look after flooding, pollution | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
and some of our woodlands. But after its first year, which has included | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
tackling larch disease and the winter floods, Natural Resources | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Wales is facing another battering - this time, criticism over its | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
conservation work. Here's our environment correspondent, Iolo ap | :19:49. | :19:49. | |
Dafydd. This winter saw some of the worst | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
storms in a century. Tidal surges caused damage to the coastline | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
across Wales. It gives Natural Resources Wales a huge challenge in | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
its first year. Taking on the work of three bodies, it has a board | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
range of responsibilities to maintain, enhance and use the | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
natural resources in Wales. With an annual budget of ?180 million, some | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
are questioning it dependence. We are at the adviser to government on | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
the environment. We are working with the government on how we think | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
Glasdir can improve. On promoting and advice on planning, we are | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
totally independent. This naturalist says that it is too | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
close to the government. It is not an independent body, looking at what | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
has happened. It is not far enough away from the | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Welsh Assembly. It is under the wing of the Welsh Assembly. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
, letting a disease in Larch trees was one of its first challenges. Its | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
longer term conservation concern some charities. Wales is one of the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
only countries in the world that hasn't banned the hunting of white | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
fronted Greenland geese. It's responsibilities mean that | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
inevitably its focus will be drawn to the urgent. That is a concern. | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
The concern is often a convex, long-term set of issues around | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
conservation. The new organisation has had a | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
challenging year. Some have been left with the depression that | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
Natural Resources Wales has been given a lot of responsibilities and | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
few resources. If your little girl goes to a Welsh | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
primary school, she's more likely to play football than any other sport. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
The Football Association of Wales say their strategy, to get more | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
girls involved is paying off. They're supporting clubs to set up | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
their own community projects. Our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter's | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
been to Port Talbot see how the money's being spent there. | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
It is something you would never have seen a generation ago. A pitch | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
packed with girls from local primary schools playing football. Now it is | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
happening all over the country. 175 girls took part in this tournament | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
today, including two teams from one primary school. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
I enjoyed it loads. It is really fun and it doesn't matter if you score, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
it is about taking part. I like it when the team works together and | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
when we figure out what to do and stuff. How have you played today? | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
We have all worked hard. This is one of the curve that has received a | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
grant to help develop football in local schools. Chris Coleman warfare | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
today to see how the money is being spent, to get more girls playing | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
more often. It was a commitment made after West Wales hosted the under 19 | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
is tournament. We want to see more people playing | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
here coming to our games. We want to provide festivals like this for the | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
pupils locally. The days when football was a | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
minority pursuit for girls are long gone. It is providing a strong | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
foundation for the growth of the senior game in Wales. More than | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
20,000 girls now play regularly at school and it is having a knock-on | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
effect on adult participation. The within our act up by 368 active | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
female coaches and 14 qualified female referees. It is good news for | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
the national side, with a couple of crucial qualifiers in the next | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
week. One of their stars can see the benefits from all sides. She is a | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
teacher. I think schools are important, | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
primary schools up to high schools. That helps them with the club links | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
and if they get positive experience within their lessons and school, | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
they are more likely to participate outside of school. Organisers have | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
invited the players to a football camp, in the hope they will keep on | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
playing for many years to come. Fog then sunshine today - but it's | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
all change tomorrow. Derek's got the forecast An umbrella | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
will come in handy tomorrow! It turned out nice today. Morning | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
mist and fog cleared leaving hazy sunshine. Tomorrow will be warm and | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
breezy but re unsettled with some rain and thundery showers. Dry this | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
evening but showers will drift up from the south after midnight. These | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
may turn heavy and thundery. Some mist and hill fog and milder than | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
last night. Here is the picture for 8am. Pembrokeshire may be dry at | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
this stage. Elsewhere some places wet with rain and showers. Heavy | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
downpours in places with a risk of thunder. And feeling mild. During | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
the day further showers. Heavy and thundery in places. Some drier, | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
brighter spells as well but not as nice as today. Top temperature | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
around 16C with an east to southeasterly breeze. Some windward | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
coasts noticeably cooler. Poor air quality expected tomorrow, | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
especially in the south-east. On the north coast tomorrow. Very mixed. | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
Some rain and heavy showers. Into Thursday, rain brought by a front. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Some heavy rain spreading northeast followed by drier and brighter | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
weather. The wind lighter and temperatures a little lower. Friday | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
a better day. Much drier and brightening-up. And feeling fresher | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
with a south-westerly breeze. The weekend changeable and breezy. Some | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
rain and not as warm as last weekend but some dry weather. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
I will have an update for you here at eight o'clock and again after | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
That's Wales Today. The BBC News at 10pm. Thank you for watching. From | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
all of us on the programme, good evening. | :26:12. | :26:42. | |
All across the country, millions of families are waking up to a Britain | :26:43. | :26:43. |