:00:00. > :00:00.in Ukraine. That is all from the BBC News at six. It is goodbye from me
:00:00. > :00:07.Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story.
:00:08. > :00:10.The son of one of the miners who died at Gleision speaks of the
:00:11. > :00:15.moment he knew his father wouldn't get out of the mine alive.
:00:16. > :00:18.It was meant to offer exhibitions and demonstrations on rural life.
:00:19. > :00:22.This failed heritage centre cost millions in public money.
:00:23. > :00:23.A report says it was flawed from the start.
:00:24. > :00:29.Also tonight, should council profits from parking charges be ploughed
:00:30. > :00:35.back to improve our roads? With the state of the roads, I think it is
:00:36. > :00:38.absolutely appalling. Good evening. In tonight's sport - the latest on
:00:39. > :00:40.the spying row. Cardiff City's lawyers tell the Premier League
:00:41. > :00:45.their defeat to Crystal Palace should not stand over allegations
:00:46. > :00:49.their team was leaked in advance. On the eve of the world Snooker
:00:50. > :00:52.Championships, I will be asking whether there is a crisis in Welsh
:00:53. > :00:55.snooker after some of our best players failed to qualify for the
:00:56. > :01:00.showpiece event. And we're in for a weekend of two
:01:01. > :01:01.halves. Some fine sunshine for the start of the Easter weekend but
:01:02. > :01:21.becoming more unsettled from Sunday. Good evening. The son of one of the
:01:22. > :01:24.four men who died when a mine flooded in the Swansea Valley has
:01:25. > :01:27.told a court he knew straightaway there was no chance of them
:01:28. > :01:30.surviving. Andrew Daniel Giles was working on the surface when the
:01:31. > :01:41.disaster happened at the Gleision colliery more than two years ago.
:01:42. > :01:48.Cemlyn Davies has more. Yes, the memorials are for the men
:01:49. > :01:54.who died when the Gleision cholerae flooded in 2011. The mine itself is
:01:55. > :02:06.hidden by the trees on the mountain side behind me. This is an area
:02:07. > :02:08.where generations of men have worked underground - sons, fathers,
:02:09. > :02:12.grandfathers often mining side by side. Andrew Daniel Giles and David
:02:13. > :02:16.Powell were one an example of that. The 15th of September 2011 and
:02:17. > :02:18.rescuers worked frantically at the Gleision mine, hoping to save the
:02:19. > :02:24.lives of four men trapped underground. But their efforts were
:02:25. > :02:30.in vain. David Powell, Garry Jenkins, Philip Hill and Charles
:02:31. > :02:37.Breslin all drowned after 650,000 gallons of water poured into the
:02:38. > :02:40.area where they were working. 275 metres into the mountain. In court
:02:41. > :02:47.this morning, Mr Powell also on record what happened on the day his
:02:48. > :02:53.father and his colleagues died. -- recalled. He told the jury he was
:02:54. > :02:58.working on the surface when a minor, Nigel Evans, came running out of the
:02:59. > :03:06.mine shaft calling on him to call the police and mine that -- mine
:03:07. > :03:10.rescue. He said, I could not speak for long, I knew my father was down
:03:11. > :03:16.there, I was in shock. The court then heard how Mr Giles and Mr Evans
:03:17. > :03:19.both went into the mind to the main entrance. Asked what he saw, Mr
:03:20. > :03:24.Giles told the jewellery the water level was so much, I knew
:03:25. > :03:29.straightaway there was no chance for them. Mr Giles said when he returned
:03:30. > :03:33.to the surface he found Malcolm Fyfield had managed to escape. He
:03:34. > :03:37.said the mine manager was shaking, looking like a ghost, White has
:03:38. > :03:43.anything. He also had one of the other colliers lamps with him. This
:03:44. > :03:48.map which has been shown in court shows the size and complexity of the
:03:49. > :03:53.Gleision mine. This is where they would enter the mind. At the bottom
:03:54. > :03:58.of the main drift is heading one. This is where Garry Jenkins' body
:03:59. > :04:03.was later found. The other three miners as well as Malcolm Fyfield
:04:04. > :04:07.were working in this area. This is where the men preached old workings,
:04:08. > :04:13.releasing enough water to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. Mr
:04:14. > :04:17.Giles told the court he had previously accompanied Mr Fifield
:04:18. > :04:22.into the mind to check the water level. They have not been able to
:04:23. > :04:30.get far enough but as to Giles said he could hear it. He said it was
:04:31. > :04:34.like a waterfall. Mr Joss confirmed he later told police the mine
:04:35. > :04:40.manager was a really tidy guy who he got on with well. Malcolm Fyfield
:04:41. > :04:46.denies four counts of manslaughter through gross negligence and the
:04:47. > :04:52.trial continues. I should also note of course that the operators also
:04:53. > :04:56.deny four counts of corporate and slaughter. The trial is expected to
:04:57. > :05:00.resume next Thursday. It cost the taxpayer more than ?3
:05:01. > :05:03.million, but was closed within four years of opening. Tonight, there's
:05:04. > :05:05.criticism that the Cywain Heritage Centre in Bala received public
:05:06. > :05:13.funding based on unrealistic assumptions about its financial
:05:14. > :05:16.viability. Matthew Richards reports. The Cywain Centre was designed to
:05:17. > :05:23.offer exhibitions and demonstrations on rural life as well as a sculpture
:05:24. > :05:26.park and a cafe. But it struggled to match the visitor numbers it had
:05:27. > :05:34.predicted when it applied for and received millions of pounds of money
:05:35. > :05:39.through the Welsh Government. Having used a ?3.4 million of public money,
:05:40. > :05:42.the centre closed in 2011, less than three and half years after it was
:05:43. > :05:47.opened. The Wales Audit Office said that defenders failed to properly
:05:48. > :05:50.assess the risks associated with a project like this. The case was
:05:51. > :05:53.prompted by a BBC Wales investigation. The Wales Audit
:05:54. > :06:00.office says its recommendations echo those they've given in the past.
:06:01. > :06:03.Those areas in which we make recommendations are firstly around
:06:04. > :06:09.better sharing of information on the risks that individual Project 's
:06:10. > :06:12.face and secondly that the funders have a continued responsibly be to
:06:13. > :06:15.ensure the best possible outcome for the public purse. The Welsh
:06:16. > :06:17.Government says it has already made improvements to its monitoring of
:06:18. > :06:20.projects after those earlier criticisms from the Wales Audit
:06:21. > :06:26.Office and that ?4 billion of European investment since 2000 has
:06:27. > :06:32.made a difference here. But some argue the Cywain Centre isn't the
:06:33. > :06:35.only example of wasted money. Economic regeneration money should
:06:36. > :06:38.be in some way separated from political involvement because I
:06:39. > :06:42.think the reason this happened in Bala and it has happened all over
:06:43. > :06:46.Wales, we have this sort of investigation -- investment because
:06:47. > :06:51.the powers of -- that be decide that something needs to be done to show
:06:52. > :06:54.that we care about this community or location. That is a critical
:06:55. > :07:03.decision, not an economic one. -- political decision. The buildings
:07:04. > :07:06.and land have been handed over to a private estate. It's previously told
:07:07. > :07:09.us it's been forced to pick up the pieces since the centre closed.
:07:10. > :07:13.A coroner has said smoke from a fireworks display was not to blame
:07:14. > :07:16.for a major crash on the M5 motorway that killed seven people, including
:07:17. > :07:19.a couple from Newport. Anthony and Pamela Adams were among those who
:07:20. > :07:23.died in 2011 during the pile-up involving 34 vehicles near Taunton
:07:24. > :07:27.in Somerset. It happened next to a fireworks display at a rugby club,
:07:28. > :07:31.but there was also thick fog in the area.
:07:32. > :07:38.Everyday is still a mountain to climb every day is still a struggle
:07:39. > :07:43.to get through. Most you feel you have lost part of your identity. It
:07:44. > :07:46.is my mum and my dad. It is not easy. The recommendations are a
:07:47. > :07:51.positive step forward. That is what we were looking for. Moving on and
:07:52. > :07:53.making sure this does not happen to anybody else.
:07:54. > :07:57.Two police officers have been convicted of theft in an undercover
:07:58. > :08:01.sting by their own force. Detective Sergeant Stephen Phillips stole ?250
:08:02. > :08:03.from a house in Neath which had been rigged with secret police cameras.
:08:04. > :08:09.Detective Constable Jason Evans took two writing pens. Police sources say
:08:10. > :08:11.the operation was carried-out amid ongoing concerns about alleged
:08:12. > :08:18.misconduct. They'll be sentenced next month.
:08:19. > :08:22.Wales's biggest bus operator is in talks to close a depot and cut its
:08:23. > :08:25.fleet in Wales by 10%, after a reduction in funding from the Welsh
:08:26. > :08:29.Government. Stagecoach say the Brynmawr depot, which employs 77
:08:30. > :08:32.staff, could close in July. Some routes will be scrapped, and others
:08:33. > :08:43.will be less frequent, with Monmouthshire and Blaenau Gwent
:08:44. > :08:46.worst hit, the firm say. The Welsh Government says they are
:08:47. > :08:48.disappointed and say they will continue to work with the industry
:08:49. > :08:53.to deliver a sustainable bus industry.
:08:54. > :08:59.Councils here made almost ?9 million last year from car parking. A report
:09:00. > :09:01.from the RAC foundation says the money raised through charges,
:09:02. > :09:06.permits and fines should be used to improve our roads.
:09:07. > :09:20.This is what leukaemia looks like...
:09:21. > :09:25.The people behind the research say the aim should be managing
:09:26. > :09:30.congestion, not raising cash. If a profit rises at the end of the day,
:09:31. > :09:33.as part of that traffic management operation, then so be it. Drivers
:09:34. > :09:37.want to know that money is going back into the network. But it is
:09:38. > :09:45.being spent on transport services. It should be not that should not be
:09:46. > :09:53.seen as a revenue raiser. Cardiff Council came out on top. They made
:09:54. > :09:59.?6.2 million from parking last year. And ?2.6 million of that was profit.
:10:00. > :10:03.Cardiff was followed by Swansea Council. They turned a profit of 1.2
:10:04. > :10:08.million and Carmarthen came third with just under ?500,000 profit. The
:10:09. > :10:15.body that represents councils in Wales denies it is profiteering. The
:10:16. > :10:17.local authorities are faced with major financial difficulties and
:10:18. > :10:22.this is one of the areas where they can generate some income to try and
:10:23. > :10:27.sustain local services. If we do not generate income, then some of the
:10:28. > :10:35.things local authorities do would cease altogether. The people parking
:10:36. > :10:40.in the capital today, they failed to see the benefits. The council should
:10:41. > :10:42.be looking at the state of the roads. I think it is absolutely
:10:43. > :10:47.appalling. What are they doing with the money? Is it the best way to
:10:48. > :10:56.raise money? Should they be spreading it around and charging can
:10:57. > :11:00.council tax # when parking is not monitored, it is argued it leads to
:11:01. > :11:06.chaos. If we have a parking free for all,
:11:07. > :11:08.with people parking for free, the environment becomes quite
:11:09. > :11:11.unpleasant. The other thing with free parking is it often encourages
:11:12. > :11:19.people who are going to work to drive and park all day for free, and
:11:20. > :11:23.go to work. The motorists may feel that the only thing getting bigger
:11:24. > :11:26.are the profits. It's the most common form of blood
:11:27. > :11:30.cancer, affecting tens of thousands of people. Now, scientists at
:11:31. > :11:33.Cardiff University believe they've made a significant breakthrough in
:11:34. > :11:36.the treatment of the most prevalent strain of leukaemia. Carwyn Jones
:11:37. > :11:39.has this exclusive report. This is what leukaemia looks like,
:11:40. > :11:45.magnified many times over - a debilitating and sometimes deadly
:11:46. > :11:48.cancer. Analysing the disease has been the life's work of Professor
:11:49. > :11:51.Chris Pepper at Cardiff University's School of Medicine. His team has
:11:52. > :11:55.been focusing on the most common strain of blood cancer - chronic
:11:56. > :11:59.lymphocytic leukaemia. What he's examining here are cancer cells
:12:00. > :12:02.circulating in the bloodstream. But look closely and you'll see that
:12:03. > :12:07.some of the cells stick to the walls of the blood vessels and then burrow
:12:08. > :12:10.through them. That's when the cancer cells divide and spread to areas
:12:11. > :12:14.like the lymph nodes and bone marrow. What scientists here have
:12:15. > :12:21.now discovered is the exact molecule that makes the cancer cells behave
:12:22. > :12:27.in the way they do. This molecule plays a critical role in determining
:12:28. > :12:34.whether those Juma cells can escape the blood vessels and go back to the
:12:35. > :12:39.tissues, the solid tissues, where they divide and become a problem for
:12:40. > :12:42.the patient. Those findings are significant and they could change
:12:43. > :12:46.the lives of patients with leukaemia. Actors Richard Harrington
:12:47. > :12:53.and Mark Lewis Jones lost a close friend to the disease two years ago.
:12:54. > :12:58.It is about second-guessing what the disease is going to do next. How it
:12:59. > :13:02.will mutate and to get there before the disease has a chance to decide
:13:03. > :13:06.for itself what it is going to do. There are some strains of leukaemia
:13:07. > :13:08.they have decided that does not need the aggressive treatment any more
:13:09. > :13:15.not only comes from the research they are doing in Cardiff. And key
:13:16. > :13:19.to that research is this model, which the team has designed from
:13:20. > :13:22.scratch. It replicates how the cancer cells behave in the human
:13:23. > :13:26.body. Very different to if they were simply in a dish or an incubator. By
:13:27. > :13:28.understanding the biology of the disease, scientists believe they now
:13:29. > :13:31.know how to treat it. This could be what changes the lives
:13:32. > :13:34.of thousands of leukaemia patients in Wales and countless more
:13:35. > :13:39.throughout the rest of the world. This drug prevents cancer cells from
:13:40. > :13:42.growing and spreading. It is already in clinical development and looks
:13:43. > :13:47.set to be licensed by the end of the year. I confidently predict for you
:13:48. > :13:51.today that within ten years and probably five years, this disease
:13:52. > :13:55.will become much less of a clinical problem and public people like me
:13:56. > :13:57.will not be working on this disease for very much longer. Chronic
:13:58. > :14:01.lymphocytic leukaemia affects more than 20,000 people in the UK. By
:14:02. > :14:04.targeting specific molecules in the human body, the drugs pioneered by
:14:05. > :14:09.Cardiff University have the potential to stop the disease in its
:14:10. > :14:12.tracks. It's taken two decades of research, but scientists here are
:14:13. > :14:19.confident that their work has finally led to a breakthrough.
:14:20. > :14:26.And another achievement for Welsh medicine today. A heart surgeon at
:14:27. > :14:29.the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff has been short listed for
:14:30. > :14:33.the prestigious Asian Woman of Achievement Award. Past winners
:14:34. > :14:36.include the actress Meera Syal and Shami Chakrabarti, the human rights
:14:37. > :14:38.campaigner. Indu Deglurkar is the only nominee from Wales and
:14:39. > :14:45.specialises in high-risk aortic surgery.
:14:46. > :14:50.In surgery, it is a bit of a struggle. It has been a field that
:14:51. > :14:55.has always had men in great numbers and right from the outset, why do
:14:56. > :14:59.you want to going to a male mini did field? The way that I look at it, it
:15:00. > :15:04.is not a male dominated field, it is a field predominantly consisting of
:15:05. > :15:07.men. Once you get in there and show that you can do high-quality work,
:15:08. > :15:10.you can hold your own. And all the best to Indu. The winner
:15:11. > :15:13.will be announced in June. And there's plenty still ahead
:15:14. > :15:20.before seven o'clock. The 19th century Eisteddfod Crown spotted for
:15:21. > :15:23.sale on eBay. And we can look forward to some sunshine this
:15:24. > :15:26.weekend but there will be some rain around too - join me later for a
:15:27. > :15:36.full forecast. Football and snooker. Claire is here
:15:37. > :15:40.with tonight's sport. Good evening. We start with the
:15:41. > :15:48.spying row between Cardiff City and Crystal Palace. The BBC has learned
:15:49. > :15:51.that Cardiff have written to the Premier League saying, the result of
:15:52. > :15:54.the match between the teams earlier this month should not be allowed to
:15:55. > :15:57.stand. The Bluebirds allege their opponents broke rules, in attempting
:15:58. > :16:00.to obtain their starting line-up before the match. The BBC's Sports
:16:01. > :16:03.Editor David Bond has seen the letter and joins me now. What
:16:04. > :16:14.exactly are Carding alleging happened before the match? What they
:16:15. > :16:20.are alleging is that essentially Crystal Palace were leaked the full
:16:21. > :16:25.details of Cardiff 's line-up for that much back on April five. At
:16:26. > :16:31.least 24 hours, perhaps even earlier, but 24 hours before that
:16:32. > :16:38.match to place. They say specifically that the Crystal Palace
:16:39. > :16:43.manager Tony Pulis was aware of attempts to obtain that information
:16:44. > :16:50.and he was aware of the team 17 before -- sometime before the
:16:51. > :16:56.deadline when teams are to be exchanged. They are alleging there
:16:57. > :17:01.has been a serious breach of rules. And not just in the spirit of the
:17:02. > :17:07.game, saying this is the breakdown in the trust and the faith between
:17:08. > :17:09.clubs, but that Crystal Palace obtained an unfair sporting
:17:10. > :17:15.advantage by getting that confidential information. The
:17:16. > :17:20.Premier league are obviously investigating now. What impact could
:17:21. > :17:25.their findings have on the league as things stand?
:17:26. > :17:29.Or they are saying at the moment is that they are treating the matter
:17:30. > :17:38.seriously. They are trying to assess whether there is a case to answer.
:17:39. > :17:42.That could take a few days yet. You have to break it down into three
:17:43. > :17:48.issues. There is the first question about the good faith issue between
:17:49. > :17:51.the two clubs. Has there been a breakdown in the sort of Premier
:17:52. > :17:58.league chairmen 's charter which requires all clubs to act in good
:17:59. > :18:04.faith to each other? Then there is the question as to how the club
:18:05. > :18:11.officials have acted. Who leaked the information to Crystal Palace? Work
:18:12. > :18:14.Crystal Palace guilty of breaches of confidence by trying to contact
:18:15. > :18:18.Cardiff officials? At the third much bigger and more difficult issue is
:18:19. > :18:24.whether the outcome of the match was actually affected. How much does it
:18:25. > :18:28.help one team if they know the opposing line-up in advance of the
:18:29. > :18:32.match? I think that is quite a bit debating point. Many people in
:18:33. > :18:36.football shrug and say this kind of thing goes on all the time. But the
:18:37. > :18:40.Premier league will certainly take a dim view that officials at either
:18:41. > :18:43.club were involved in this sort of behaviour, I think.
:18:44. > :18:46.We will watch with interest. Swansea City Head Coach Garry Monk has
:18:47. > :18:49.played down reports of a training ground bust-up among his players
:18:50. > :18:52.before last weekend's defeat to Chelsea. Monk says nobody has been
:18:53. > :19:00.disciplined and insists the matter is now closed.
:19:01. > :19:07.It is an incident that has been blown out of all proportion.
:19:08. > :19:10.Handbags. All over and done with. No problems whatsoever. And then it
:19:11. > :19:15.gets blown out of proportion. We have a good idea of the source it
:19:16. > :19:21.has, from. Trying to unsettle us at this time. Gareth Bale described it
:19:22. > :19:24.as his dream come true and many Real Madrid fans are still in dreamland
:19:25. > :19:26.after the Welshman's stunning solo goal won the Spanish Cup against
:19:27. > :19:30.Barcelona. With the match tied at 1-all, Bale
:19:31. > :19:34.ran half the length of the pitch to score the winner with five minutes
:19:35. > :19:40.to go and seal his first major trophy since his World Record move
:19:41. > :19:43.last year. Whatever happens now during the rest
:19:44. > :19:48.of the season, the summer, he will be part of Real Madrid legend, at
:19:49. > :19:52.least for the coming years. This goal will get replayed and replayed
:19:53. > :19:56.on Spanish television, not just for days to come but for weeks to come.
:19:57. > :20:02.For many years, the World Snooker Championships has been a real treat
:20:03. > :20:05.for Welsh sports fans. We've become used to seeing our best players,
:20:06. > :20:08.like Ray Reardon and Mark Williams, dominating the sport. But this year,
:20:09. > :20:11.our top professionals have struggled. Wales doesn't have a
:20:12. > :20:15.single player in the world's elite top 16 for the first time in almost
:20:16. > :20:17.40 years. On the eve of this year's World Championships, Ashleigh
:20:18. > :20:26.Crowter's been asking if Wales is still a great snooker nation.
:20:27. > :20:31.For decades, Wales showed the world how snooker should be played. A
:20:32. > :20:35.small country producing a series of great champions. Wales was a
:20:36. > :20:40.powerhouse of the world game. But this week we have seen something
:20:41. > :20:43.that once would have been unthinkable, all of our top players
:20:44. > :20:53.having to fight their way through the less than clamorous qualifying
:20:54. > :20:55.rounds. For the first time in years, no Welsh player has a sufficient
:20:56. > :21:01.world ranking to guarantee an automatic face at the showpiece
:21:02. > :21:06.event at the Crucible. It has left people asking whether this is just a
:21:07. > :21:10.bit poor weather snooker in Wales is in more permanent decline. It is
:21:11. > :21:22.certainly a concern for these people working to produce the next
:21:23. > :21:25.generation of players. There are fewer committed players than in
:21:26. > :21:29.previous years. Entries seem to be less, that is the worrying thing.
:21:30. > :21:34.We're not getting as many kids entering the events. I speak to
:21:35. > :21:38.certain schools I have approached and snooker is still a little bit
:21:39. > :21:43.frowned upon. It is seen as a misspent youth. These days, snooker
:21:44. > :21:46.clubs are much more welcoming places to go to.
:21:47. > :21:52.It has been a time of real change in the professional game. The chairman
:21:53. > :21:56.of world Snooker has shaken up the sport, introducing more tournaments,
:21:57. > :22:00.many of them in Asia. The top players are also less protected.
:22:01. > :22:08.They now have to battle through the early rounds of each event. We are
:22:09. > :22:12.small country but we have had a huge addition in snooker, both amateur
:22:13. > :22:15.and professional. I think that will continue but I do not think that the
:22:16. > :22:22.boys that are playing now are finished. Ryan Bailey is certainly
:22:23. > :22:29.pushing up the rankings. I think they still have plenty. They find it
:22:30. > :22:33.difficult having to travel week in week out, when they were both in
:22:34. > :22:39.their prime a few years ago, I think they were having a lot more time
:22:40. > :22:46.off. Body 14 might turn out to be a watershed year. Mark Wiliams lost
:22:47. > :22:50.his qualifying match on Wednesday. Former world finalist Matthew
:22:51. > :22:55.Stevens is another high-profile absentee after he also lost a tight
:22:56. > :22:58.game. But there are still reasons to be optimistic and evidence of
:22:59. > :23:03.strength in depth. Three Welsh players, Dominic Dale, Ryan Bailey
:23:04. > :23:09.and Michael White all one tense qualifying matches.
:23:10. > :23:16.If you are not at the Crucible, it is a real downer. It is an amazing
:23:17. > :23:23.place to play. It may feel rather different/ snooker fans at the
:23:24. > :23:31.Crucible this year. Mark Wiliams ' face is still on the posters but he
:23:32. > :23:34.will not there in person. As those of us who browse car-boot
:23:35. > :23:38.sales and internet auction sites know only too well. You never know
:23:39. > :23:43.what's going to turn up. Well, what about a 19th century Eisteddfod
:23:44. > :23:47.crown? Even more remarkably it was found by an army doctor in Germany
:23:48. > :23:50.who happened to be born in the town where it was awarded. Well, today
:23:51. > :23:54.the crown has been returned to Blaenau Ffestiniog to be reunited
:23:55. > :23:57.with the bardic chair from the same Eisteddfod. Here's Roger Pinney.
:23:58. > :24:01.A small ceremony and they are back together, Crown and chair. Separated
:24:02. > :24:11.quite possibly since the year they were awarded. This woman stumbled
:24:12. > :24:15.along the Crown whilst browsing the Internet. I could not believe it. It
:24:16. > :24:24.was listed as ATR. I thought, that looks like an Eisteddfod crown. Have
:24:25. > :24:30.you tried it on? I am afraid I have, yes. Does it fit? No, it is not. No
:24:31. > :24:43.words of wisdom or anything came down from anywhere. And she bought
:24:44. > :24:46.it for ?250. Along with the chairing ceremony, the crowning of the Bard
:24:47. > :24:52.is one of the National Eisteddfod 's most defining ceremonies. Crowns
:24:53. > :24:59.come in all sorts of designs. The 1898 Eisteddfod was not filmed. This
:25:00. > :25:03.is 19 years later. 1917 in Birkenhead. Remembered for the share
:25:04. > :25:12.one posthumous leave. But there are some folks -- photographs from 1898
:25:13. > :25:15.and stories. The pavilion was hit by the weather, before the start. It
:25:16. > :25:23.blew down during the winds. The local quarrymen, they all arranged
:25:24. > :25:27.to have quarrymen from all the local quarries to come down and rebuild
:25:28. > :25:31.the pavilion in time for the opening ceremony. After that small setback,
:25:32. > :25:37.the event itself was quite a success. Wed his crown has been this
:25:38. > :25:42.last 100 years or so, nobody knows, not that it matters, it is a little
:25:43. > :25:45.bit of history come home. -- where this Crown.
:25:46. > :25:53.We're all hoping for a bright, sunny Easter break. Any good news for us?
:25:54. > :25:59.Well, it has been a rather cloudy day but we can look forward to more
:26:00. > :26:03.sunshine tomorrow and Saturday. The Easter weekend is looking promising.
:26:04. > :26:13.A dry start certainly for Friday and Saturday. Some wind and rain for
:26:14. > :26:17.Sunday. Tonight will be cloudy at first with the odd spot of rain. But
:26:18. > :26:21.the cloud should start to clear the north and in the overnight period
:26:22. > :26:30.much of the country will have starry skies. Overnight lows down to two
:26:31. > :26:33.Celsius. The pressure chart for tomorrow showing high pressure
:26:34. > :26:37.centred over the UK. With that a very settled day. Chilly start to
:26:38. > :26:46.Good Friday but the sun well help the temperatures to recover. Light
:26:47. > :26:51.and variable winds. Highs of 11-13 Celsius. Tomorrow night, clear skies
:26:52. > :26:55.and light winds so the temperatures will take a dip if you are out
:26:56. > :26:58.camping bare that in mind a cold night into Saturday. The
:26:59. > :27:04.temperatures getting down to one Celsius. Saturday is the next fine
:27:05. > :27:15.day of the weekend high pressure just about remaining in charge. So
:27:16. > :27:23.more fine sunshine but a bit breezy. Thicker cloud invading the east by
:27:24. > :27:27.the afternoon. 12-14 Celsius. All eyes on this area of low pressure
:27:28. > :27:38.coming in from the near continent on Sunday bringing with some wind and
:27:39. > :27:44.rain. Western parts of Wales hanging on to the dry weather longest. Wet
:27:45. > :27:49.and windy weather on Sunday and Monday looking more changeable for
:27:50. > :27:53.next week. We'll have an update for you at 8pm and a full round-up after
:27:54. > :27:55.the BBC News at Ten. From all of here, have a great Easter break.
:27:56. > :28:00.Good evening.