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who do we think we are? That's all from us. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Good evening. Workers and unions have reacted angrily to the news | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
that 640 jobs are to go after a bakery in Newport announced it's to | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
close. Politicians have described the move by Avana as "utterly | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
devastating" and an "act of ingratitude". The company said in | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
February that jobs were under threat after it lost a major Marks | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Spencer contract. Jordan Davies reports. Andrew Downey has been | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
working at the Avana Bakery in Newport for 22 years. Today he was | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
told it is going to close. What do you think you will do now? I will be | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
60 this year. Who's going to employ me? That's the thing. Are you | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
fearful that you won't find work? Yes. I live up in the valleys and | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
there is nothing up there. It is a kick in the teeth really. As workers | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
left today, they said they were angry but not surprised. Two months | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
ago the bakery said many of the 640 jobs here were under threat after | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the loss of a multi-million pound Marks Spencer cake contract that | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
accounted for 80% of its work. The bakery's owners began a period of | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
consultation with staff and looked for new customers. Now, as that | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
period comes to an end, they have announced the site is to shut. But | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
union officials say they understand the bakery is still in talks with a | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
potential big customer. The company is still talking to a big potential | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
customer. We are hopeful that they will do business with Avana but at | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
this moment in time, nothing is forthcoming so the company has made | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
the decision to announce the closure. I phoned the parent company | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
today to see if they would put anyone up for interview. They said | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
no one would be available to speak but sent a statement saying they | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
fully explored all the options available, but haven't been able to | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
find a way to keep the site viable. Avana has been making cakes for | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
decades. Today's news was described by the local MP as an act of | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
ingratitude following years of fine service. Avana haven't been able to | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
replace the massive M order it relied on for years. The company | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
that owns this bakery now says it will try and minimise the number of | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
compulsory redundancies before this site closes for good this summer. | :02:42. | :02:54. | |
The widow of a man who died in the Hillsborough disaster has told an | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
inquest jury how he dreamt of being "the best daddy ever". 25-year-old | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
Steven Brown, from Holt near Wrexham, died when his wife was six | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
months pregnant with their daughter. Sarah Brown - on the left - told the | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
hearing in Warrington of the void he had left in their lives. | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
The First Minister has told BBC Wales there are still companies | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
potentially interested in buying the Murco oil refinery in Milford Haven. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Carwyn Jones visited the site today to discuss options for keeping | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
hundreds of jobs. It faces closure with the threat of up to 400 job | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
losses after talks broke down with a potential buyer. It was good for the | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
First Minister to hear first hand about the situation we find | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
ourselves in. We explored those options in terms of potential | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
solutions to this situation - positive solutions to this | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
situation. We've looked to him for guidance in terms of what support | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
government can bring. Do soldiers wait longer for | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
treatment in Wales than elsewhere in the UK? The Welsh Government has | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
questioned the accuracy of the record of a meeting in which the | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
most senior doctor in the armed forces raised concerns about NHS | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
waiting times in Wales. The Ministry of Defence says the minutes were | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
agreed by everyone - all it wants to do is ensure consistent treatment | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
for soldiers across the UK. Here's our Political Editor Nick Servini. | :04:16. | :04:28. | |
Soldiers returning from Afghanistan marched through the streets of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Haverfordwest. Many of course come back injured and it is their | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
treatment in the Welsh NHS which is at the centre of a high-profile | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
political battle. At its heart is what was or was not said at a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
routine meeting of the UK and Welsh Government officials on care for | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
Armed Forces personnel. A partial account of the meeting has been | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
released. In it, the Armed Forces most senior medical officer says | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
there were personnel facing longer waiting times in Wales than | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
elsewhere. He also noted the example of patients being treated quicker | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
thanks to referrals across borders. The MOD says the minutes were | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
released after a Freedom of Information request, and they were | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
agreed by all parties at the time. But the Welsh government says it's | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
part of a political attack on Labour's handling of the NHS. And | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
the First Minister Carwyn Jones has accused the UK Government of | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
politicising the civil service. What happened is there was a meeting in | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
London. Minutes that were not agreed were then leaked to the press by the | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Ministry of Defence as a way of getting back at us. We find that is | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
unprofessional and unacceptable and it means that they are trying to | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
politicise something based on a story that was the never there. -- | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
was never there. The Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond says he'll | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
support the Surgeon General if he has concerns about waiting times in | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Wales. Other Conservatives say action needs to be taken. It is not | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
good enough for my constituents, it is certainly not good enough for the | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Army, but over and above all, it undermines the military. They have | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
the right to deserve prompt and efficient treatment, amongst the | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
best in the world. That is sadly not happening in Wales. It is a scandal. | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
The state of the NHS is always an emotive subject - the treatment of | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
wounded soldiers makes it even more so. | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
A female teacher from Newport who admitted a series of sexual offences | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
against a teenage pupil has been spared a prison sentence. Kelly | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Burgess, who's 26, in the brown coat, admitted sexual activity with | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
a boy when he was 16 and 17 last year. She's been sentenced to ten | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
months imprisonment, suspended for two years. | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
Our economy could suffer unless we produce more engineers. The Royal | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Academy of Engineers says we need at least an extra 2,500 more graduates | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
in areas like science and technology. Today, an event has been | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
held in Newport to try and encourage children to take up the challenge. | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
Work has begun in St Asaph to build temporary flood barriers that can be | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
put in place quickly when there's a risk of flooding. One person died | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
and 400 homes were evacuated when the River Elwy burst its banks there | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
two years ago. Cricket, and fewer than 13 overs | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
were possible on the second day of Glamorgan's opening Championship | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
match against Surrey. But Glamorgan still managed to take a couple of | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
wickets, as Surrey moved to 209 for seven. Jim Allenby has taken four | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
for 39. After a wet start to the week are | :07:33. | :07:44. | |
things going to improve? Here's the weather. Yes they are. The rain has | :07:45. | :07:56. | |
cleared away. The emphasis for the next few days is on dry weather. A | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
few showers around tonight. A lot of places dry but still a colder night. | :08:08. | :08:19. | |
Temperatures as low as -3. For us in Wales, a bright and breezy day in | :08:20. | :08:35. | |
prospect. A cool westerly breeze. Bright and breezy. Most of the | :08:36. | :08:48. | |
showers across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Most of Wales will be dry. | :08:49. | :08:58. | |
Sunny spells with temperatures of ten to 12. Cloud around tomorrow. | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
Temperatures dropping to five in places. Still plenty of dry weather. | :09:10. | :09:24. | |
High pressure heading our way for the weekend. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
Thanks Derek. Quick look ahead to tomorrow's programme Offa's Dyke | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
stretches from Chepstow to Prestatyn - the one time boundary between | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Wales and the Saxon Kingdom of Mercia. But now there's evidence it | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
may be 200 years older than previously thought, and may not have | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
been built by King Offa at all. More tomorrow evening at 6:30pm. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Jeremy Paxman's got Newsnight over on BBC Two now, hearing the voices | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
and memories of those who witnessed the Rwandan genocide 20 years ago. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
We're back on Breakfast from 6am with the latest news and sport, | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
traffic updates and weather forecasts. That's Wales Today. Thank | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
you for watching - from all of us on the programme, good night. | :09:59. | :10:00. |