:00:00. > 3:59:59Mike Wooldridge, BBC News, Lahore. There's more throughout the evening
:00:00. > :00:15.on the Good evening. The leader of the
:00:16. > :00:18.Welsh Conservatives has given his strongest indication yet that he's
:00:19. > :00:21.willing to work with the other parties in the Assembly. He told his
:00:22. > :00:24.party's annual conference in Llangollen that Wales needs a
:00:25. > :00:31.coalition of ideas to tackle the problems its facing. Andrew RT
:00:32. > :00:34.Davies has been speed dating. This session at the conference was
:00:35. > :00:38.designed to come up with new policies. But is he ready to deal
:00:39. > :00:43.with another party in the Assembly in order to challenge Labour? It
:00:44. > :00:54.appears he may well be after he spoke of building a coalition of
:00:55. > :00:58.ideas in his maiden speech. -- main speech. Later, he was asked what
:00:59. > :01:02.that meant. It means reaching out to anyone who has the best interests of
:01:03. > :01:05.the people of Wales at heart and wants to get us off the bottom of
:01:06. > :01:08.the league table, whether it be health, education or the economy.
:01:09. > :01:11.Rather than this overlording mentality that Labour have which is
:01:12. > :01:15.to extinguish any sort of freethinking or alternative. It
:01:16. > :01:18.didn't sound much like Andrew RT Davies was trying to reach out
:01:19. > :01:21.during his speech today. He accused the Liberal Democrats of not knowing
:01:22. > :01:26.what they stand for and accused Plaid of wanting to break up the UK.
:01:27. > :01:31.But we are told reaching out is what he was trying to do. Behind it all,
:01:32. > :01:34.of course, is the realisation that if the opposition parties are going
:01:35. > :01:39.to threaten Labour at the Assembly they need to work together.
:01:40. > :01:42.Earlier, the Welsh Secretary David Jones renewed the main theme of the
:01:43. > :01:49.conference by attacking the record of the Welsh government. This time,
:01:50. > :01:52.on education. The plain and simple truth is that Labour have let down
:01:53. > :01:59.an entire generation of Welsh young people with little sign of doing
:02:00. > :02:04.anything to make things better. There was nothing cuddly about the
:02:05. > :02:07.Conservatives here. This was a conference in which the gloves came
:02:08. > :02:11.off and battle lines were drawn. There's growing concern that a trial
:02:12. > :02:14.closure of a junction on the M4 near Port Talbot could harm the local
:02:15. > :02:18.economy. The Welsh Government plans to close junction 41 in the summer
:02:19. > :02:22.saying it'll ease congestion. Over 300 people attended a public meeting
:02:23. > :02:25.last night to voice their concerns. This stretch of motorway can be
:02:26. > :02:30.bumper-to-bumper and plans to close Junction 41 temporarily are aimed at
:02:31. > :02:32.easing congestion. But it's not easing the fears of local
:02:33. > :02:36.businesses. The Aberafan shopping centre is located just off the
:02:37. > :02:42.junction. Keith Hopkins runs this hairdressers in the centre. He
:02:43. > :02:46.believes even a short term closure will do long term damage to the
:02:47. > :02:50.economy. Closing junction 41 closes my business. I'm fully aware of
:02:51. > :02:54.this. I've been here a long time, nearly 40 years. I know exactly what
:02:55. > :02:58.it takes to make this business run. The reason we are here in the
:02:59. > :03:01.beginning is because of ease of access. And over 300 people attended
:03:02. > :03:06.a public meeting in a church last night so they could have their say
:03:07. > :03:09.on the plans. The Welsh Government claims it'd bring an economic boost
:03:10. > :03:13.of over ?1 million a year due to fewer accidents and delays. At rush
:03:14. > :03:16.hour, this stretch of road can become heavily congested. The Welsh
:03:17. > :03:23.government say that by closing junction 41, the capacity of the M4
:03:24. > :03:27.westbound would increase by 11%. It's a major problem every morning.
:03:28. > :03:32.That and the Brynglas tunnels are the two big problems we face on the
:03:33. > :03:36.M4 motorway. What we're trying to do is take the old piece of road that
:03:37. > :03:40.was built many years ago and hook it up to this new distributor road
:03:41. > :03:43.which has been built and try to entice the traffic off. The trial
:03:44. > :03:49.closure is proposed to get underway in August and last for six months.
:03:50. > :03:52.Football and Cardiff City have given themselves some hope of avoiding
:03:53. > :03:56.relegation from the Premier League. Juan Cala's goal saw the Bluebirds
:03:57. > :04:00.win 1-0 at Southampton. Elsewhere there were wins for Newport County
:04:01. > :04:03.and Wrexham. And The New Saints have won the Welsh Premier after they
:04:04. > :04:05.drew today. A full check on the weather now,
:04:06. > :04:18.here's Owain Wyn Evans. It has been a cloudy day across
:04:19. > :04:26.Wales but blue skies tomorrow, hopefully. Clear skies tonight so it
:04:27. > :04:32.will be chilly. Clouds will break overnight. Temperatures falling
:04:33. > :04:40.close to freezing. Tomorrow morning, sunny spells across the
:04:41. > :04:48.South and mid Wales. The cloud in the North will clear at times
:04:49. > :04:51.tomorrow. Light to moderate winds. This area of high pressure keeps
:04:52. > :04:57.things are settled for the next few days. Plenty of blue skies and sunny
:04:58. > :05:00.spells. That's Wales Today. We're back
:05:01. > :05:05.tomorrow at 6.50. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.
:05:06. > :05:15.your work like this. -- subbing simple. When I
:05:16. > :05:19.We start with a look at the latest satellite sequence, because it shows
:05:20. > :05:24.what has been going on over the last few hours. This band of cloud has
:05:25. > :05:25.been slipping south across England and Wales. A bit of patchy rain