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as most people. Though that won't | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
Good evening. More needs to be done to improve our flood defences and | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
the money spent maintaining them should be trebled. That's according | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
to a major report looking at the devastating winter storms along our | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
coastline. Natural Resources Wales also say communities need to become | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
more self-sufficient and resilient in future. Here's our Environment | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
Correspondent, Iolo ap Dafydd. The storms last winter were | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
exceptional. They hammered the Welsh coastline. We can expect more | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
extreme weather in the future, according to Natural Resources | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Wales. It's advice for the Welsh government is for sustained | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
investment, that it needs to spend three times as much as it does at | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
the moment just to maintain the existing defences. Aaron estimates | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
are that the money needs to travel in 25 years, so we are spending 100 | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
35mm hounds a year. A significant amount of money, especially at this | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
time when government finances are tight. ?12 million has been spent | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
building this wall. It was completed in 2012. Providing approval is | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
provided next year, a bigger scheme will be built next year to protect | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
hundreds of homes. On January the 3rd, the stream here | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
and the tide almost came over the top of the embankment. Six homes | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
were affected. Had the tide and water been ten or 15 centimetres | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
higher, a few hundred homes potentially would have been flooded | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
across this area of Newport. Last December, Rhyl was flooded after | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
defences were breached. Natural Resources Wales once community to be | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Morse sufficient and resilient to flooding. Four months later in real, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
work is going on to repair the defences. -- in Rhyl. Homeowners, | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
who are continuing to repair their houses after the devastating floods, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
needed take more responsibility as well, according to Natural Resources | :02:34. | :02:34. | |
Wales. can take all of the responsibility. | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
But at a time like this for me have had serious flooding, they need some | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
help and advice, maybe some instruction. There | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
help and advice, maybe some that we can prevent flooding all | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
over the place and if there has to be some selective areas given up to | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
the sea, then you have to understand why this is the case. Since the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
storms, the Welsh government has allocated over ?10 million. It will | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
need time to consider the 47 recommendations before deciding | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
which ones to accept. The Leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
was forced to cancel a walk around Swansea City centre due to security | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
concerns. A number of protesters had gathered before he was due to arrive | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
to officially launch the party's manifesto ahead of the European | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
elections. UKIP says Wales is becoming increasingly Eurosceptic | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
despite receiving billions of pounds from the European Union. | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
One of the reasons that post-industrial Wales receives money | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
from the European Union is that so many of its industries have been | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
closing down. If you look at the industrial policy and energy policy | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
the European Union puts in place and over which the Welsh Assembly and | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
the Westminster Parliament have no power and no say at all, you will | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
see that high energy prices and overregulation RDA industrialising | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Wales and the rest of our nation. The Prime Minister has paid tribute | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
to five service personnel who were killed in a helicopter crash in | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
Afghanistan last weekend. Among them were Captain Tom Clarke from | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan and Lance Corporal Oliver Thomas | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
from Brecon. These tragic deaths remind us of the continued | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
commitment and sacrifice of our Armed Forces. I know that our | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
deepest of these are with their families at this very difficult | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
time. Bridgend Council says it will look | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
for alternatives to a pay freeze in order to save money. Unions are | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
unhappy at a proposal to offer pay rises for only the lowest paid while | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
other Welsh Councils are proposing rises for all staff. Bridgend | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Council says the freeze would have saved a million pounds to help | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
protect jobs and services. E-cigarettes are set to be banned in | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
all council buildings in Caerphilly, including leisure centres and | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
libraries. It's one of the first councils in Wales to stop staff | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
using them. Rhodri Lewis reports. The rise of the e-cigarette has been | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
astonishing. More than two million people now use them across the UK. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
That figure's trebled in two years. But Caerphilly council says the time | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
has now come for them to go the way of normal cigarettes and be banned | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
inside its buildings. In the interest of continuity, long time | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
ago we banned ordinary cigarettes and we now feel the time is right to | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
ban e-cigarettes to enable our staff to give up smoking. It will be | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
enforced in all other council buildings in the borough. These | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
include libraries, leisure centres and community centres. The decision | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
got a mixed reaction in Caerphilly this afternoon. Disgusting. The | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
simple reason is it is not cigarette smoke, it is only vapour. We have | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
only just got used to be not smoking in public places and now they have | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
e-cigarette. Ban them. But one leading expert says e-cigarettes may | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
actually be the most effective way of helping people quit smoking. | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
There is no question of looking at someone using that and thinking they | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
are smoking. So it is not dangerous to be near someone who is using an | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
electronic cigarette, there is really no evidence and very little | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
reason to believe that it will be normalised smoking, so what is the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
problem? The Welsh government is still considering its own ban across | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
the country, the only part of the UK to do so. The new rules in | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
Caerphilly will be introduced within weeks. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have finished their two-day tour of | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Wales by visiting Caerphilly and the Vale of Glamorgan. They opened a new | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
printing press at a factory in Hengoed, before visiting Atlantic | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
College in Llantwit Major. A new surfing centre at the site of | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
a former aluminium plant in the Conwy Valley has been given the | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
go-ahead. The facility, described as the first of its kind in Europe open | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
to the public, will allow surfers to ride artificially created waves on a | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
massive man-made lake. Cricket and Glamorgan drew their | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
latest championship match at Leicestershire. Set 321 to win, | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Glamorgan finished their second innings on 250 for seven. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
As celebrations take place to mark the 100th anniversary of Dylan | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Thomas's birth, our reporter Tomos Morgan has been to New York, where | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
he spent his last days, to find out what he means to people there. | :07:35. | :07:45. | |
The city of towers was Dylan Thomas's discussion of New York. You | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
can see why. He came a four times to promote his work. We will be here to | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
look at the place which was such a part of his history. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Look forward to that tomorrow, but is there much to look forward to on | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
the weather front? Look forward to that tomorrow, but | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
is there much to It looks promising for the bank holiday weekend but we | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
have some heavy under a shower is in place for tomorrow. There will be | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
some surface water flooding. There are showers spreading across the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
country with some mist and hill fog as well. Tomorrow morning, a few | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
places are dry but that will not be the case everywhere. There will be | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
rain and showers, heavy showers in the south-west. Misty in places as | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
well. They will be outbreaks of rain across much of the country. Some | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
heavy and thundery downpours in places with a Met Office warning in | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
force. Northern Scotland will brighten up and a wide range in | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
temperature, a chilly eight Celsius, a warmer 17 in London. In Wales | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
tomorrow afternoon, it is a case of dodging the showers were stopped | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
they will be heavy and thundery in places but it will be hit and miss. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
There should be some sunshine in the West. The showers were slowly fade | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
away and cooler air will filter down into mid Wales and the North. Friday | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
is a better day in prospect. The odd shower but generally drier. Plenty | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
of cloud and feeling fresher. If you consist of sunshine. Tomorrow night, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
it will be chilly with some ground frost. There will be high pressure | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
over the UK on Saturday, which means dry and settled weather. Saturday a | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
decent day, dry with decent temperatures. There is more dry | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
weather to come on bank holiday Monday. Overall, some decent Monday | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
for the bank. -- for the bank holiday. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
And that is Wales Today. We'll be back with updates in the morning | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
from around 6:25am. For now, though, from all of us here, good night. | :09:58. | :10:02. |