:00:00. > :00:19.happened at Government House in Wellington. That is all from us.
:00:20. > :00:25.Good evening. The former head of BT in Wales has told this programme the
:00:26. > :00:29.take up of super fast broadband is too slow here because the Welsh
:00:30. > :00:31.Government isn't doing enough to promote it. The ?400 million
:00:32. > :00:34.project, half of which is public money, AMs to make high speed
:00:35. > :00:41.internet available in almost every corner of the country. -- AMs. This
:00:42. > :00:57.exclusive report by our Political Editor, Nick Servini.
:00:58. > :01:09.It is the result of the biggest deal in its kind signed by BT in the UK.
:01:10. > :01:16.Wales has low levels of superfast broadband access. The man who used
:01:17. > :01:30.to run BT in Wales at Devizes Ofcom now and believed the benefits could
:01:31. > :01:40.be felled quicker. At Devizes Ofcom now and believe the benefits could
:01:41. > :01:47.be made quicker. Commuters will see quicker broadband speeds as a result
:01:48. > :01:52.of replacing the quicker wire with fibre cables. ?200 million worth of
:01:53. > :01:56.public money is being spent rolling it out to communities like this
:01:57. > :02:08.where it is not profitable enough for commercial companies to do it on
:02:09. > :02:19.their own. Would you use it? I would, yes. I am always on my phone
:02:20. > :02:28.and have to use 3G. Everybody needs broadband speeds. If you can't go on
:02:29. > :02:36.the computer, you can't find anything out now. Do you think you
:02:37. > :02:42.should be promoted more? Definitely. It aims to bring most of us access
:02:43. > :02:49.to superfast broadband by 2016. Of that, ?300,000 has been spent on
:02:50. > :02:56.marketing. Take-up in the area stands at 19%. When you look at the
:02:57. > :03:00.intervention areas, you will find take-up is higher than in the Prix
:03:01. > :03:06.early commercial centres. Where Welsh government has been in charge,
:03:07. > :03:13.there has been a higher level of take-up. Whether they take advantage
:03:14. > :03:16.of it is another matter. The company in charge of bringing in
:03:17. > :03:20.a new form of disability benefit has apologised to people who've had to
:03:21. > :03:23.wait for their assessments. MPs say people with cancer and other serious
:03:24. > :03:32.conditions are having to wait too long to be assessed for the Personal
:03:33. > :03:38.Independence Payment. It has been a tough few years for
:03:39. > :03:42.Jane. Diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2011, she has suffered side-effects
:03:43. > :03:47.from the chemotherapy meaning she can't go back to her old job. She
:03:48. > :03:53.used to receive Disability Living Allowance that has been waiting
:03:54. > :03:59.months to be assessed by the benefit replacing. You are fighting to keep
:04:00. > :04:09.yourself healthy and fit so you can cope and manage the next lot of
:04:10. > :04:17.treatment. You are also trying to manage the worry that you have about
:04:18. > :04:24.keeping a roof over your head. The payment is worth between 21 and ?138
:04:25. > :04:29.a week. 140,000 adults in Wales are being moved onto it by 2017. Under
:04:30. > :04:38.the new system, there are more face-to-face assessments and
:04:39. > :04:42.everybody's situation is being assessed. People are complaining
:04:43. > :04:48.that they are waiting too long to get an assessment. There are big
:04:49. > :04:54.problems. It is leaving vulnerable people, cancer sufferers without any
:04:55. > :05:00.financial support and it is a huge drain on the taxpayer because it is
:05:01. > :05:06.not being run efficiently. The minister responsible said he was
:05:07. > :05:10.responding to the concerns. There will be people who benefit from
:05:11. > :05:13.benefit and those that will not. What they need his decisions and we
:05:14. > :05:18.need to communicate with these people much better. We are
:05:19. > :05:24.introducing a text system so they will be better informed. The system
:05:25. > :05:35.is run by the private company, Capita. I would like to apologise to
:05:36. > :05:43.each and every of them. Those are taking longer than we envisaged. We
:05:44. > :05:48.are doubling our health professional workforce. We have twice as many
:05:49. > :05:53.health professionals and are taking these assessments. Jamie still
:05:54. > :05:57.waiting for her chance to prove she needs this benefit. The government
:05:58. > :06:00.says and on that has had to wait will have payments backdated.
:06:01. > :06:03.A jury's heard how one of Britain's most promising sailors was urged to
:06:04. > :06:06.go faster before their speedboat crashed leaving a schoolgirl brain
:06:07. > :06:09.damaged. Cardiff Crown Court heard how Nia Jones on the left
:06:10. > :06:12.accelerated but then collided with another boat after dark. She and
:06:13. > :06:17.Eleni Morus have admitted piloting the boats without navigation lights.
:06:18. > :06:22.But they deny speeding and not keeping a proper lookout in Cardiff
:06:23. > :06:26.Bay in October 2010. An inquest has opened into the death
:06:27. > :06:29.of a teenager after what his family has claimed was years of bullying.
:06:30. > :06:33.15-year-old Simon Brooks who was from Tonyrefail died four days after
:06:34. > :06:40.a suspected overdose having left a message alleging he was bullied. The
:06:41. > :06:43.inquest was adjourned until July. The jury in the trial of former
:06:44. > :06:47.Shadow Welsh Secretary Nigel Evans has retired to consider its verdict.
:06:48. > :06:50.56-year-old Mr Evans, from Swansea, denies nine charges including rape
:06:51. > :06:56.and sexual assault against seven young men.
:06:57. > :06:59.The Welsh Rugby Union says it's board has agreed to increase the
:07:00. > :07:03.amount of funding for regional rugby, the Principality Premiership
:07:04. > :07:06.and the community game. The WRU says it's still negotiating the details
:07:07. > :07:09.of a new agreement with the regions, but the second-tier Premiership and
:07:10. > :07:17.the grassroots game will both receive increases of several hundred
:07:18. > :07:19.thousand pounds in July. Football, and Wales' women have
:07:20. > :07:23.drawn 1-1 with the Ukraine in Llanelli this evening. Wales'
:07:24. > :07:28.Natasha Harding scored the equaliser in their 2015 Women's World Cup
:07:29. > :07:31.qualifier. Cricket, and Glamorgan are
:07:32. > :07:37.celebrating their first win in their first match of the season, beating
:07:38. > :07:41.Surrey by ten wickets at the Oval. They bowled out the home side for
:07:42. > :07:44.just 82, with Graham Wagg taking six wickets. Openers Gareth Rees and
:07:45. > :07:48.Will Bragg then eased Glamorgan to victory with an unbroken stand of
:07:49. > :07:51.157. Let's get the weather forecast, and
:07:52. > :07:58.will we see more sunshine tomorrow Derek?
:07:59. > :08:08.I think I can promise you some sunshine tomorrow. It is not
:08:09. > :08:13.completely dry and there is still some chilly nights and ground
:08:14. > :08:21.frost. Dry for most of us tonight. One or two fog patches forming and
:08:22. > :08:31.it is chilly inland. Tomorrow, the chart shows a cold front which will
:08:32. > :08:41.move south eastwards during the day. Tomorrow morning, the odd spot of
:08:42. > :08:46.drizzle. It is a dry storeroom and it will brighten up. For the rest of
:08:47. > :08:51.the UK, we have this cold front producing splashes of rain. It will
:08:52. > :08:55.move further south, eventually reaching the north-west of Wales.
:08:56. > :09:00.Behind that, some sunshine and showers. To the south, one to the
:09:01. > :09:03.south, one or two showers with a high of seven Celsius in London.
:09:04. > :09:09.There is some dry weather and sunshine. There is one or two
:09:10. > :09:14.showers in the South. Here comes the rain spreading into the north and
:09:15. > :09:18.north-west eventually reaching the coast. The rain will spread south
:09:19. > :09:27.east during the evening, eventually clearing overnight. Into Friday, it
:09:28. > :09:35.will turn into a nice day. Sunny spells for all of us. Just the odd
:09:36. > :09:38.isolated shower. Friday night, cold with a widespread ground frost. For
:09:39. > :09:47.the weekend, plenty more dry weather. It is looking dry for
:09:48. > :09:56.Sunday. And that is Wales Today. We'll be
:09:57. > :10:00.back from around 6.25 in the morning with updates into Breakfast. For now
:10:01. > :10:01.though from all of us here, good night.