:00:00. > :00:00.murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing. The Co-Op Bank has
:00:00. > :00:10.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight, findings of a major review of the
:00:11. > :00:13.health service. There are longer waiting times here, but there's no
:00:14. > :00:23.evidence Wales lags behind the rest of the UK. It seems quite likely
:00:24. > :00:26.that cutting the budget has had an impact on waiting times and it is
:00:27. > :00:31.what you would expect. As money gets tight, people may have to wait a bit
:00:32. > :00:35.longer. At the Welsh Tory Conference - a double attack on the NHS here.
:00:36. > :00:39.The Prime Minister says Offa's Dyke is becoming "the line between life
:00:40. > :00:42.and death". Also tonight. 200 new jobs in Wrexham, as a financial
:00:43. > :00:49.services company doubles its workforce.
:00:50. > :00:52.In tonight's sport, a new European rugby tournament - now can the
:00:53. > :00:55.regions and the WRU agree a new working relationship? Cardiff City
:00:56. > :00:58.sack a member of staff, after reports their team was leaked to
:00:59. > :01:02.Crystal Palace before Saturday's Premier League defeat.
:01:03. > :01:10.And a first glimpse of the dragon for the new Welsh World War One
:01:11. > :01:17.memorial in Flanders. Good evening.
:01:18. > :01:25.Cutting NHS funding in Wales may be responsible for longer waiting
:01:26. > :01:28.times. That's according to research by the Nuffield Trust and the Health
:01:29. > :01:33.Foundation, which has compared the health service across the UK. But it
:01:34. > :01:37.also suggests that there is no evidence to show the Welsh NHS, on
:01:38. > :01:45.the whole, is "lagging behind" any other part of the country. It comes
:01:46. > :01:49.as the Prime Minster launched his strongest attack yet on the NHS in
:01:50. > :01:56.Wales. More on that in a moment, but first here's our health
:01:57. > :02:01.correspondent, Owain Clarke. What seems to be a simple question
:02:02. > :02:04.can sometimes take a long time to answer. Six academics worked for
:02:05. > :02:09.more than two years trying to figure out whether Wales, Scotland, England
:02:10. > :02:15.or Northern Ireland had the best performing health service. What is
:02:16. > :02:19.clear from the study is that on lots of health targets that measure time,
:02:20. > :02:23.such as ambulance response times and the amount of time patients have to
:02:24. > :02:26.wait for common hospital procedures, the NHS in Wales is
:02:27. > :02:32.struggling to keep up with other countries in the UK. Pinto 2009,
:02:33. > :02:38.waiting times in Wales for things like hip, knee coronary artery
:02:39. > :02:41.bypass surgery improved a lot. The gap narrowed between Wales and the
:02:42. > :02:48.rest of the UK. But since then, they have deteriorated and lengthened
:02:49. > :02:53.again. By 2013, a Welsh patient needing a new hip or knee on average
:02:54. > :02:59.had to wait 100 days longer than someone in Scotland or England.
:03:00. > :03:06.Peter Bishop knows what that is like. He spent more than a year
:03:07. > :03:10.waiting for his hip replacement. He told me he would get the fixed as
:03:11. > :03:20.soon as possible. I did not see him again for nine months. There was a
:03:21. > :03:25.long waiting list. I basically just had to take my time. Why are Wales
:03:26. > :03:29.patients waiting so much longer? We cannot be certain why that is
:03:30. > :03:34.happening but one point is very clear, Wales was the only one of the
:03:35. > :03:38.four countries that cut its expenditure on health in 2010 for
:03:39. > :03:43.three years. One of the things you would expect from that kind of
:03:44. > :03:47.action is that waiting times would lengthen. If the Welsh Government
:03:48. > :03:53.had an opportunity to wind the clock back, would it change that decision?
:03:54. > :03:59.And is the fact its recently decided to pump hundreds of millions of
:04:00. > :04:04.pounds into the health budget in a way an admission that it made a
:04:05. > :04:06.mistake? A decision was taken at the start of this assembly term to make
:04:07. > :04:14.sure that we protected the social services side over the last ten
:04:15. > :04:17.years, we have succeeded in reducing the number of people delayed in a
:04:18. > :04:22.hospital bed when they do not need to be there. Those figures are now
:04:23. > :04:28.at an all-time low. But some of the findings arm more encouraging.
:04:29. > :04:32.Preventable deaths are lower than in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the
:04:33. > :04:36.north-east of England, which has a similar demographic to Wales. Welsh
:04:37. > :04:41.patients are the most satisfied with the way the NHS is run. But they are
:04:42. > :04:45.the least happy about their experiences of staying in hospital.
:04:46. > :04:51.Not every aspect of health care was stuck -- was covered in this study.
:04:52. > :05:02.In other aspects, the Welsh element argues it is ahead of the pack.
:05:03. > :05:07.51-year-old Fiona Bailey from Cardiff was told last year she had
:05:08. > :05:12.less cancer. It took less than two weeks for her to see a specialist.
:05:13. > :05:21.Everybody has been very efficient. And very professional. And very
:05:22. > :05:23.kind. I was diagnosed in October and everything has moved so swiftly
:05:24. > :05:28.since then. I have not had to wait for any treatment dates. But the
:05:29. > :05:33.study suggests of the four countries can boast that their health service
:05:34. > :05:38.runs like clockwork. Each generally speaking is improving at a similar
:05:39. > :05:41.pace and it claims there is no evidence that any nation is either
:05:42. > :05:47.surging ahead or lagging behind the others. But in Llangollen today, the
:05:48. > :05:55.Prime Minister and the Health Secretary renewed their attacks on
:05:56. > :06:04.Welsh Labour 's health record. There are calls for them to apologise to
:06:05. > :06:07.staff. His utterly unfounded assertion has been that somehow in
:06:08. > :06:12.Wales things are uniquely bad, that everything is fine in his own
:06:13. > :06:14.backyard and that things are awful here. This report tells you that is
:06:15. > :06:17.absolutely not the case. The Assembly's Health Minister
:06:18. > :06:20.ending that report. And attacks on the NHS here have dominated the
:06:21. > :06:22.opening day of the Welsh Conservatives party conference in
:06:23. > :06:25.Llangollen, the Prime Minister described Offa's Dyke as the line
:06:26. > :06:35.between life and death. Our political editor Nick Servini is
:06:36. > :06:38.there. The conservatives call it the
:06:39. > :06:44.compare and contrast strategy. Labour call it the Tory war on
:06:45. > :06:48.Wales. Whatever you call it, it got ratcheted up today. Even quite a
:06:49. > :06:52.provocative political gesture, the English Secretary of State for
:06:53. > :06:57.health Jeremy Hunt was one of the first main speakers at the
:06:58. > :07:00.conference. He described the Welsh Government 's attitude to mortality
:07:01. > :07:05.rates in the wake of the hospital scandal at the Mid Staffs hospital
:07:06. > :07:11.trust is morally indefensible. There was obviously a lot about -- a lot
:07:12. > :07:15.of talk about health but it did not entirely dominate proceedings. There
:07:16. > :07:21.was a lot of talk about jobs, as the Conservatives try to take ownership
:07:22. > :07:24.of the economic recovery. These are the kind of people the
:07:25. > :07:29.Prime Minister thinks have the right ambition for Wales. In his address
:07:30. > :07:34.to the party faithful in Llangollen, ambition was his favourite word. He
:07:35. > :07:38.used it 18 times. Most of what he said was about the economy. His main
:07:39. > :07:45.claim was Wales is not only sharing in the recovery, but reading it.
:07:46. > :07:47.Wales has in the past year seen a faster increase in implement than
:07:48. > :07:52.any other part of the United Kingdom. Faster than London, faster
:07:53. > :07:57.than the south-east, the UK capital for jobs growth is right here in
:07:58. > :08:04.Wales. But is because we have a serious long-term economic and
:08:05. > :08:07.unbacked plan is working. He tried to balance the positive with the
:08:08. > :08:10.negative but the criticism when it came about the Welsh Government 's
:08:11. > :08:14.stewardship of the NHS was further than he had gone before. Patients
:08:15. > :08:19.are waiting weeks and weeks for vital heart scans, one in seven
:08:20. > :08:25.people in Wales is on an NHS waiting list. We have a Cancer Drugs Fund
:08:26. > :08:30.inning and but not here. And I tell you, when Offa's Dyke becomes the
:08:31. > :08:36.line between life and death we are witnessing a national scandal.
:08:37. > :08:39.Earlier, the man who runs the NHS in England Jeremy Hunt, came with a
:08:40. > :08:51.message that the NHS year was sleepwalking into a Mid Staffs, this
:08:52. > :08:59.was the hospital scandal in England where they were in a broth avoidable
:09:00. > :09:04.deaths. We have had in England over the last year a very comfortable and
:09:05. > :09:12.difficult transparency revolution where we have said in our NHS, where
:09:13. > :09:20.things are going wrong, we will deal with them -- uncomfortable. Someone
:09:21. > :09:26.in the party are uncomfortable that the strategy is too negative.
:09:27. > :09:32.Very strong words today. Where do things go from here?
:09:33. > :09:35.It is a good question. I think it is worth reflecting on the language
:09:36. > :09:39.that David Cameron used and to talk about Offa's Dyke is the line
:09:40. > :09:48.between life and death, pretty startling imagery and it was not
:09:49. > :09:53.only that line. And fluid got a standing ovation at the conference
:09:54. > :10:05.on the opening day at the conference. Labour are keen to point
:10:06. > :10:08.out that Offa's Dyke is close to the border. Making the point it is not
:10:09. > :10:15.as simple as they would betray it. One other thing I can reveal is that
:10:16. > :10:20.Carwyn Jones has written privately to David Cameron saying that
:10:21. > :10:25.political knock-about is all well and good but he believes these
:10:26. > :10:29.attacks have gone beyond the pale because they destabilise the Welsh
:10:30. > :10:36.NHS. I understand the response from Downing Street has been very robust.
:10:37. > :10:39.What we have seen, this is the last of the Welsh medical conferences.
:10:40. > :10:44.What the leaders are saying publicly is being mirrored in correspondence
:10:45. > :10:46.between the Welsh Government and the UK Government at West Mr -- Welsh
:10:47. > :10:54.political conferences. A task force has been set up to try
:10:55. > :10:57.and prevent the closure of the Murco oil refinery in Milford Haven, and
:10:58. > :11:00.protect 400 jobs. It comes after a proposed ?300 million buy-out from
:11:01. > :11:04.an investment firm broke down last week. Lord Bourne, who is heading up
:11:05. > :11:09.the talks, says they have already received a number of expressions of
:11:10. > :11:13.interest. There are lots of those bits to go
:11:14. > :11:15.through to see what expressions of interest we can follow-up, bearing
:11:16. > :11:22.in mind that we have an excellent workforce. Well-trained,
:11:23. > :11:26.well-qualified. You would expect massive interest and there is. We
:11:27. > :11:29.want to look at those. If we are not able to protect those jobs, and I
:11:30. > :11:32.hope that we are, we have to consider retraining packages. A
:11:33. > :11:36.teenager who suffered severe hand injuries in an explosion at his home
:11:37. > :11:37.in Wiston, in Pembrokeshire, hoped to join the Army, according to
:11:38. > :11:40.neighbours. 19-year-old Jordan Smith was
:11:41. > :11:44.airlifted to hospital where it's feared he will lose the use of both
:11:45. > :11:47.hands. An army bomb disposal team, which has now left, were called and
:11:48. > :11:50.police have been searching the property. Four nearby homes were
:11:51. > :11:52.evacuated, but the road has now re-opened.
:11:53. > :11:55.Police are continuing to investigate the sudden death of a teenage boy in
:11:56. > :11:58.Swansea. The 15-year-old, named locally as James Lock, was found at
:11:59. > :12:01.Hendrefoilan Student Village yesterday morning. The death of the
:12:02. > :12:07.teenager, who was a pupil at nearby Olchfa Comprehensive School, is
:12:08. > :12:09.being treated as unexplained. When you think of the world's
:12:10. > :12:13.financial capitals, Wrexham may not be the first place that comes to
:12:14. > :12:16.mind, but a banking industry company based there has announced plans to
:12:17. > :12:19.create 200 jobs - doubling its workforce. Avox provides research
:12:20. > :12:25.and information to banks and other financial institutions. Matthew
:12:26. > :12:28.Richards has more. London, New York, Tokyo and now
:12:29. > :12:31.Wrexham. Avox is helping the financial sector to become a more
:12:32. > :12:36.stable place following the banking crisis. It employs 220 people now,
:12:37. > :12:39.but will double that number by 2016 proving its service is in demand. It
:12:40. > :12:42.trawls the world's websites on behalf of banks for up to date
:12:43. > :12:55.information on its corporate customers to help them meet new
:12:56. > :12:58.banking regulations. We are a number of years on from the financial
:12:59. > :13:03.crisis. The banks are starting to do more business. But they still have
:13:04. > :13:06.these regulatory reforms and reporting obligations and that will
:13:07. > :13:10.continue. After a year of job losses in Wrexham at companies like Sharp,
:13:11. > :13:13.First Milk and Kelloggs this is a bit of good news for local graduates
:13:14. > :13:19.looking for a way into the financial sector. To see that they are
:13:20. > :13:23.expanding, doubling, from North Wales in particular, Wrexham, it is
:13:24. > :13:27.not thought of as a financial hub, but the recession has been hard for
:13:28. > :13:31.people so to see so many jobs with such opportunities and the potential
:13:32. > :13:34.to work your way up the ladder is really encouraging. From humble
:13:35. > :13:37.beginnings, Avox now deals with the world's biggest financial firms
:13:38. > :13:40.aiming to give them information they can bank on.
:13:41. > :13:43.Anyway, these jobs are something positive to come out of the
:13:44. > :13:46.financial crisis. The extra regulation now in place means that
:13:47. > :13:51.companies like Avox have to work that much harder to do the homework
:13:52. > :13:54.for the banks, making all of our money that much safer.
:13:55. > :13:57.Still to come in the programme. Mystery surrounds the last minute
:13:58. > :14:03.delay of TV's Griff Rhys Jones' honorary role at Cardiff University.
:14:04. > :14:10.And we get a first look at the dragon for the new Welsh World War
:14:11. > :14:17.One memorial in Flanders. Time for the day's sports news now.
:14:18. > :14:29.Here's Claire. Good evening. Cardiff City have
:14:30. > :14:32.launched as a reaction against two members of staff after reports their
:14:33. > :14:39.starting line-up was leaked to Crystal Palace before last Saturday
:14:40. > :14:41.'s defeat. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has categorically denied any players
:14:42. > :14:45.were involved. Here's our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter. Cardiff
:14:46. > :14:49.season just goes from bad to worse. The defeat to Crystal Palace was a
:14:50. > :14:55.disaster. It has been a chaotic season on and off the pitch. But
:14:56. > :14:58.Cardiff City now feel their opponents had an unfair advantage.
:14:59. > :15:00.The club have held an internal investigation into reports that
:15:01. > :15:06.Crystal Palace were given the Cardiff team line-up a day in
:15:07. > :15:13.advance. As a result, two members of staff are facing discipline
:15:14. > :15:18.reaction. Today, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer categorically denied any
:15:19. > :15:23.of his players had leaked information.
:15:24. > :15:29.I have built my life on honesty and loyalty. Those are the values I get
:15:30. > :15:37.from my mother and father and you need that in football. We have stuck
:15:38. > :15:40.together. Crystal Palace as sporting director is Iain Moody. He was head
:15:41. > :15:45.of recruitment at Cardiff until he was sacked by Vincent Tan earlier
:15:46. > :15:50.this year. He has told the Sun newspaper that he and Crystal Palace
:15:51. > :15:53.had done nothing wrong. Cardiff City now want to take things further.
:15:54. > :15:57.They are compiling evidence about the evidence to give to the Premier
:15:58. > :16:02.league. They feel that their team sheet was obtained early by
:16:03. > :16:05.underhand means and they want bosses to explore whether rules have been
:16:06. > :16:08.broken. Cardiff have just five matches left
:16:09. > :16:14.to pull off what would be a miracle escape from relegation. They are
:16:15. > :16:18.away at Southampton tomorrow. Swansea travel to title contenders
:16:19. > :16:21.Chelsea on Sunday. They are competing for the league. They are
:16:22. > :16:25.in the semifinals of the Champions League. They are one of the
:16:26. > :16:29.strongest squads in the league. One of the best managers in the world.
:16:30. > :16:34.When you look at it, on paper, we do not stand a chance. But the key is
:16:35. > :16:39.you do not fear these challenges, you have to embrace them. We have
:16:40. > :16:43.two showcase ourselves. Garry Monk has not discussed his future with
:16:44. > :16:48.the Swansea board but is confident he could do the job long-term.
:16:49. > :16:54.The deal is done for a new European Tournament - now attention turns to
:16:55. > :16:57.the future of the domestic game. Both the Welsh regions and the Welsh
:16:58. > :17:00.Rugby Union have welcomed the new competition but have yet to agree a
:17:01. > :17:03.domestic deal on funding and releasing Wales players for
:17:04. > :17:06.internationals. Gareth Lewis is at the Liberty Stadium for us tonight.
:17:07. > :17:10.Fans arriving there for tonight's match. What's been their reaction to
:17:11. > :17:17.the new competition? Three emotions, relief that the
:17:18. > :17:19.European dealers done, concern over the ongoing difficulties between the
:17:20. > :17:25.Welsh Rugby Union and the regional sides and their wallets. The new cup
:17:26. > :17:29.will be shown by BT and sky and they might have two fork out for two
:17:30. > :17:38.subscriptions to watch it next season.
:17:39. > :17:42.The European deal, first of all, your reaction. You're relieved it
:17:43. > :17:47.has finally been done? It has taken this long, we have ended up where we
:17:48. > :17:50.started in October and the whole way that we wanted to do it was just
:17:51. > :17:52.bring more money into the game, which means that everybody
:17:53. > :17:57.ultimately benefits because you do not have to fund regional rugby as
:17:58. > :18:03.much. You have more money now. What sort of difference will it make? It
:18:04. > :18:06.is a small part of it but when you look at the TV deals that France and
:18:07. > :18:12.in and have done, we have a competition still run by the unions
:18:13. > :18:15.where we have only the name miniscule amount of money in return
:18:16. > :18:23.for the TV deal. There are still a long way to go. There is a massive
:18:24. > :18:30.shortfall. Is that the crux of the argument? You are trying to work out
:18:31. > :18:34.this legal document, is it down to money and how it is distributed? I
:18:35. > :18:38.think there needs to be a bigger picture to that. It comes back to
:18:39. > :18:41.trust and collaboration and the way that we can work together to
:18:42. > :18:46.generate new link to come into the game which sued then fly down from
:18:47. > :18:55.there. -- which could then flood down from there.
:18:56. > :19:01.We are -- there has to be growth in the domestic game. Let's start
:19:02. > :19:04.working together. A huge game for your boys night a bonus point win
:19:05. > :19:09.could get back into the play-off places. Very much so. If we can do
:19:10. > :19:14.it with what we are scraping by without the woman, imagine what we
:19:15. > :19:21.could do if it was fully supported. -- with at the moment. There is a
:19:22. > :19:26.lot of water to go under the bridge yet. We have learned this afternoon
:19:27. > :19:30.that the regions are going to make a presentation to the role should be
:19:31. > :19:36.on board at the end of the month. -- the Welsh Rugby Union board. Of
:19:37. > :19:40.course, the action is on BBC Two Wales from 7pm. At the US Masters in
:19:41. > :19:43.Augusta, Wales' number one golfer Jamie Domaldson has just got his
:19:44. > :19:48.second round underway. The 38-year-old carded an opening
:19:49. > :19:52.round 73, one over par yesterday. 1991 champion Ian Woosnam finished
:19:53. > :19:54.his first round 77, five over par. He's the 50-year-old welshman -
:19:55. > :20:01.credited with Sir Dave Brailsford who was brought
:20:02. > :20:05.up in Deiniolen, near Caernarfon, has stood down as head of British
:20:06. > :20:11.Cycling, to focus exclusively on his role in charge of Team Sky. He's
:20:12. > :20:17.aiming for a hat-trick of Tour de France titles this summer. And you
:20:18. > :20:20.can watch all the action from Augusta this weekend, coverage on
:20:21. > :20:28.the red button and BBC Two tomorrow. That's it. Enjoy your weekend.
:20:29. > :20:31.Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones' appointment to a top role at
:20:32. > :20:34.Cardiff University was delayed at the last minute after questions were
:20:35. > :20:38.raised over why a Nobel Prize holder was not offered a second term in the
:20:39. > :20:41.post. It's believed the current Chancellor, Professor Martin Evans,
:20:42. > :20:45.should have been asked to stay on for a further five years before
:20:46. > :20:46.offering it to the TV star. Matt Murray reports.
:20:47. > :20:57.I am having this terrible recurring nightmare. What is it? It might have
:20:58. > :21:00.involved Cardiff University. Griff Rhys Jones may have been struggling
:21:01. > :21:03.to see the funny side after his appointment as Chancellor of Cardiff
:21:04. > :21:06.university was delayed. The comedian is best known for his partnership
:21:07. > :21:10.with the late Mel Smith in this long-running BBC comedy. And was
:21:11. > :21:12.ready to grasp his new role as Chancellor having already posed for
:21:13. > :21:19.publicity photos in a Cardiff University gown. It is believed the
:21:20. > :21:22.comedian was here and ready for Ray ceremony but it was cancelled or
:21:23. > :21:24.postponed with just an hour to go. It's understood the Current
:21:25. > :21:28.Chancellor, Sir Martin Evans, should have been asked to stay in the post
:21:29. > :21:32.for a further five years and he was keen to stay in the post. For
:21:33. > :21:37.students leaving lectures today it seemed an embarrassing situation all
:21:38. > :21:46.round. They just cancelled at the last minute. I do not think we have
:21:47. > :21:53.heard what happened. They should be able to organise to their chancellor
:21:54. > :21:56.is for the University. The university has said that the
:21:57. > :21:59.reputations of both Griff Rhys Jones and Professor Martin Evans were not
:22:00. > :22:02.in question, describing them both as valued friends and supporters of
:22:03. > :22:05.Cardiff University, while the comedians office declined to
:22:06. > :22:09.comment. Now for the past 15 months, we've
:22:10. > :22:15.been keeping you up to date with plans for a new Welsh, World War One
:22:16. > :22:19.memorial in Flanders. And today we can show you, for the first time, a
:22:20. > :22:23.full size model of the dragon which will top the monument. It's been
:22:24. > :22:28.made at a foundry in Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant in Powys. From there Roger
:22:29. > :22:38.Pinney reports. A first glimpse for a Sunday first
:22:39. > :22:47.gimp -- glimpse for Lee Odishow. Let's get
:22:48. > :22:55.-- I have got to make sure that I am happy with the design. Make sure my
:22:56. > :23:01.designers realise what I wanted to be and then present it to the world.
:23:02. > :23:05.And the world will see it on top of the Welsh stone waiting in
:23:06. > :23:11.Flanders. At the weekend, the sculptor went there to see where his
:23:12. > :23:23.work will set. The site is at the sight of the Passchendaele battle.
:23:24. > :23:28.In Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant today, some of those steering the project.
:23:29. > :23:31.There is still money to be raised. At the Dragon is proving to be
:23:32. > :23:36.everything they hope for and more. The wow factor is still there. We
:23:37. > :23:41.were very impressed with the model but now we have seen the full-size
:23:42. > :23:46.one, fantastic. The stones are, it is built, and now we are looking
:23:47. > :23:52.forward to putting the two together. It is gone to be a real honour for
:23:53. > :23:57.me to see it. I have been out of Belgium to see the stone standing
:23:58. > :24:01.ten feet tall, to have this out on top of it will be such an honour.
:24:02. > :24:04.Much of the work now is down to the fine arts foundry. Experts in their
:24:05. > :24:10.field. No strangers to prestige projects. They will turn the clay
:24:11. > :24:13.model into a bronze. As stunning as this looks, this is not even halfway
:24:14. > :24:18.there yet. Moulds will have to be made before
:24:19. > :24:19.the bronze is poured. But they are certain it will be ready for
:24:20. > :24:28.unveiling in August. How's it looking for the weekend,
:24:29. > :24:31.Sue? Not looking bad at all this weekend. Many people starting their
:24:32. > :24:35.Easter break. Mostly settled. It will be cloudier
:24:36. > :24:40.on Saturday with some rain. Sunnier on Sunday. This evening's largely
:24:41. > :24:42.dry. The sky clear tonight, so turning chilly with some ground
:24:43. > :24:46.frost forming in sheltered rural spots, but clouding over through the
:24:47. > :24:49.early hours further west. And that's thanks to a cold front which brings
:24:50. > :24:52.some thicker cloud through tomorrow and some rain on this too. So
:24:53. > :25:00.tomorrow, the best of the any brightness early on further south
:25:01. > :25:07.and east. Then that front pushes in from the Northwest, the breeze picks
:25:08. > :25:11.up. Cloud thickening and a few spots of light rain and drizzle - but as
:25:12. > :25:14.that band moves southeastwards it peters out through the day, so not
:25:15. > :25:19.huge amounts of rain. A fresh westerly breeze. Highs of 11 Celsius
:25:20. > :25:23.along Cardigan Bay. Maybe up to 13 in Denbighshire. That front
:25:24. > :25:26.continues to clear southeastwards through tomorrow night into Sunday
:25:27. > :25:29.morning. Then a ridge of high pressure builds back in from the
:25:30. > :25:36.Azores. So a clear, chilly start Sunday. Even a touch of frost
:25:37. > :25:40.possible, but the better day of the weekend. A lot more in the way of
:25:41. > :25:44.sunshine. Some cloud around. I can't rule out a shower completely, but
:25:45. > :25:49.staying dry and fine for most. A westerly breeze. Highs of ten to 14
:25:50. > :25:53.Celsius. The settled spell continues into next week. High pressure
:25:54. > :25:56.dominating Monday and Tuesday, so largely dry with more fine weather.
:25:57. > :26:00.Clearer by day. That also means colder by night, so a continued risk
:26:01. > :26:04.of frost. Then some signs it might turn unsettled later next week into
:26:05. > :26:25.the Easter weekend, but still a lot of uncertainty about that. Today's
:26:26. > :26:28.picture is from Sharon Laban, a lovely spring scene overlooking
:26:29. > :26:32.Bracelet Bay on Mumbles. Lots of fine weather there early next week.
:26:33. > :26:35.Don't forget you can send photos to us by twitter or email, especially
:26:36. > :26:45.if they help to tell the weather story.
:26:46. > :27:02.A reminder of our top stories. Cutting NHS funding in Wales may be
:27:03. > :27:05.responsible for longer waiting times, according to research by the
:27:06. > :27:08.Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation. But it also says there's
:27:09. > :27:12.no evidence to show the Welsh NHS on the whole is "lagging behind" any
:27:13. > :27:16.other part of the UK. It comes as the Prime Minster launched his
:27:17. > :27:23.strongest attack yet on the NHS in Wales.
:27:24. > :27:26.And a banking industry company based in Wrexham has announced plans to
:27:27. > :27:29.create 200 jobs, doubling its workforce. Avox provides research
:27:30. > :27:33.and information to banks. That's all for now. The next
:27:34. > :27:35.subtitled news is at 8pm and at 10:25pm. From all of us here, good
:27:36. > :27:41.evening.