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connection with a murdering Belfast back in the 1970s. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the BBC News Welcome to Wales Today. Veronica | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Teal was verbally abused at her Powys care home. Her family caught | :00:16. | :00:32. | |
staff on camera. I cried. I cried for my mum. I couldn't believe it. | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
Tonight, calls for an investigation. We'll have a special report. | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
Learning from the best - the under-performing schools selected | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
for a new improvement programme. A warning from health officials over | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
a dramatic rise in cases of syphilis across north Wales. | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
It's the city where Dylan Thomas first performed Under Milk Wood. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Tonight we follow in his footsteps in New York. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
And sunshine, rain and heavy showers today. A garden flooded on Anglesey. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
I'll have the bank holiday weekend forecast. | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
Good evening. There are calls for a nursing home | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
in Powys to be investigated after an elderly resident was verbally abused | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
and neglected. The poor treatment of Veronica Teal came to light after | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
her family put a camera in her room. They've told this programme that | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
they're horrified at their mother's treatment at the home owned by the | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
Pentecostal Hope Church. India Pollock has this exclusive report, | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
which you may find upsetting. This is 72-year-old Veronica Teal, | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
pick sure taken last week in a new nursing home. Compare it to a few | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
months ago, lying in her bed sobbing. She was living in Newtown, | :02:10. | :02:18. | |
her family installed a Camara in her room because they were worried. What | :02:19. | :02:31. | |
they found, shocked them. It is horrible. I tried to block it. I | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
tried, I did not watch as much. It broke my heart. It is my mum. She | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
has never been treated like that which adds to my naivete. Veronica | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Teal had a stroke 20 years ago, she cannot use her legs and can only use | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
one arm. She also has difficulty with her speech. In November last | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
year, her family decided she needed full-time care. Her daughter chose | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
this nursing home because it was church run, independent and | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
purpose-built. While she can understand everything, she cannot | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
respond the way she would like. Her care plan says she will only use one | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
word. The plan says everyone working with her needs to give her time and | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
assistance to respond. Her son gave me the footage and I have watched | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
168 hours are bit. What I have seen is distressing and far from the | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
dignified care you would expect for your loved ones. | :03:41. | :03:59. | |
Veronica Teal's care plan also says she needs assistance with personal | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
care and a hoist must be used to transfer her from her chair to her | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
bed. Sometimes they do use a hoist, but regularly they don't. The home | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
says staff were misguided but are now aware they have two used seen | :04:17. | :04:27. | |
some good care in this footage. But in the week of footage I have seen, | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
staff have only helped her brush her teeth once. The home says that is | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
because she can ask for help. They never ask her if she would like to | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
go to the toilet and I have seen her left sitting in her own excrement. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Again, the home says that is because she can ask for assistance. On one | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
occasion she was left for 26 hours without her catheter bag being | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
emptied. Her care plan also says she needs | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
encouragement to eat. I spoke to the manager of the home | :05:04. | :05:36. | |
and Reverend Alan Hewitt, the chair of Trustees and pastor of the | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
church. They declined my request for an interview but gave me a | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
statement: The trustees regret an isolated incident of verbal abuse | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
was brought to their attention. The member of staff involved has been | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
disciplined and is undergoing further training. The trustees are | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
confident the residents continue to receive excellent care. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
The Royal College of Nursing in Wales says this member of staff's | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
behaviour is not acceptable. To add chilli tell somebody that they have | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
no time for patients, or patients like them or residence like them, is | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
unacceptable in my book and I would hope the management of that nursing | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
home are fully investigating. I will be contacting the care Council in | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
Wales to ask them to look into the matter. Social services says it has | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
been investigating and will share the outcome of the investigation | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
tomorrow. I saw Veronica Teal last week, she is much happier and has | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
settled into her new home. We can speak now to Dr Aled Jones | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
who's an expert in care for the elderly. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
It was only last night the panorama programme investigated similar | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
incidents in England. How does this compare? Harm has occurred here, | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
whether it is psychological, physical or mental. We know there is | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
a link between psychological harm of this nature and physical harm. The | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
care home does say it is an isolated incident, but is it also bowled to | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
identify why this kind of abuse happens? It happens in spite of our | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
policies and procedures being in place and codes of conduct. We have | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
to look inside across nursing homes and care homes across the sector. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Nursing culture and team culture, things happen in the workplace that | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
make people tolerate behaviour they would not do normally. So workplace | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
culture in this sector needs further monitoring. You say there are | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
policies and procedures in place, is there enough? Yes, what we don't | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
need is any more policies and procedures, we need better | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
implementation of them and better monitoring. As a society, a sense we | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
value older people and their care than we do at present. The findings | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
of the investigation are expected. Social services will meet Veronica | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
Teal and her family tomorrow so we will bring you more updates at | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
6:30pm. It's his number one priority and a real game-changer. | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
That's how a new flagship policy has been described by the education | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
minister Huw Lewis. Schools Challenge Cymru will cost ?20 | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
million a year and aims to raise standards in under performing | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
schools. Similar schemes have been running successfully in London and | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Manchester for nearly a decade. Here's our Education Correspondent, | :08:59. | :08:59. | |
Arwyn Jones. Too many schools in Wales don't | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
measure up. Many in our poorer areas are set to get a boost. At Willows | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
in Cardiff Bay have seen an improvement in their results over | :09:11. | :09:19. | |
the past two years and does part as Schools Challenge Cymru, they will | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
get help. They will draw up a plan looking at the school's weaknesses | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
and needs. All the support they need will be paid for out of the ?20 | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
million fund. I would expect for the challenge adviser to be aware that | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
as a headteacher, we know the school and we know where the gaps are with | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
our pupils. We know what to do to make those gaps appropriate and | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
ensure we are held to account for putting those gaps right. The school | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
motto does say it all because part of the challenge is to ensure there | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
is that belief can achieve. They will be setting some ambitious | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
targets for all 40 schools. In terms of GCSEs they will be expecting | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
significant improvements within the first year. In February I visited | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
schools in London who have been part of a similar scheme launched ten | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
years ago. It was a huge success and enable schools to build on what they | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
had. They did drink in consultants and experts who worked alongside my | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
teachers to get them to focus on the things that were critical, develop | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
the teaching soap the learning of the children improved. The scheme in | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
London was funded for nine years which is less than what has been | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
promised by the education minister here. This rogue ram will be here | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
for the next two years. -- this programme. We will have to evaluate | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
it, and I would like us to move on to a second phase of Schools | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
Challenge Cymru. But that two-year commitment to the programme is | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
there, it is concrete and it is very real. But those involved with the | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
Schools Challenge Cymru, say it is not about money but making sure | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
schools work together. After criticisms of the Welsh government | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
for lacking strategy, the hope now is that this policy will stay the | :11:14. | :11:24. | |
course. I sent there is a policy for this. Teachers and head teachers | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
want to know there is a policy to get behind. The Welsh government has | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
been criticised for its handling of education. The idea here is, by | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
raising the standards of our most challenging schools, they will raise | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
the standards for everyone. Three people have been stabbed at a | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
house in Caerphilly. It's thought three men forced their way in to the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
home in Lansbury Park last night and attacked a woman and two men, who | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
are all in their twenties. They were treated in hospital for stab wounds. | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
One of the men is in a serious but stable condition. | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
There's been a significant increase in cases of the sexually transmitted | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
disease syphilis in north Wales. In the last year 39 cases were reported | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
to Public Health Wales. Normally there are around seven. The rise was | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
first seen on Anglesey but has now spread across the region. | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
I don't think we are seeing all of the cases because some of these | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
patients do not have symptoms. Some of them may not come forward for | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
testing. Yes, we are probably seeing the minority and probably there are | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
more cases. It is important they come forward for testing. They can | :12:34. | :12:42. | |
then get it treated easily. Pembrokeshire Council is to write to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
its own Chief Executive asking him to pay back unlawful pension | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
contributions. Bryn Parry Jones and a second unnamed official were both | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
given cash payments to avoid tax, totalling ?51,000. An investigation | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
by the Wales Audit Office led to the payments being stopped. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Labour has launched its campaign for the European elections with a set of | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
key pledges. The party urged voters to send a message to the UK | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
government about the cost of living, and to reject the UK Independence | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Party. Daniel Davies reports. Opinion polls are looking up for | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Labour. It launched its campaign at Swansea university's new EU-funded | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
campus, a symbol of global ambition, says Labour. What about Labour's | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
ambition? It'll want to do better than the 2009 European election when | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
its share of the vote slumped by 12%. That pushed Labour into second | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
place behind the Tories, with Plaid Cymru and UKIP taking the other two | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
seats. The last European election was pretty bleak for Labour. It was | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
the first time the party had failed to top the poll in a Wales-wide | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
election since 1918. The outlook is much better this time and the | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
challenge for Labour for the party is to win a second Welsh seat in the | :13:55. | :14:02. | |
European parliament. The last election in 2009, I remember well | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
because it was at the last of the last Labour government and in the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
middle of the expenses scandal. But this time on the doorstep, things | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
are more positive. We have been out working hard every day for the last | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
few weeks and we have had a great response. It would take a political | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
earthquake for Derek Vaughan to fail to get re-elected. Labour has set | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
its sights on making sure its second candidate Jane Bryant joins him in | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Brussels. The response on the door has been very good and positive. | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
People are quite keen to give a bit of a kick to the national government | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
at the moment. Labour is putting the cost of living at the centre of its | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
campaign. It's stressing its pledge to freeze energy bills if it wins | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
power in Westminster. A reminder that though these may be the most | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
important European elections in a generation. According to Welsh | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
Labour, they're also a dry run for the general election next year. | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
A company in Caerphilly has won more than ?360 million worth of contracts | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
from the Ministry of Defence. General Dynamics in Oakdale will | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
work on the engineering and support for a radio system used by the armed | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
forces. It says the investment has secured more than 140 jobs at the | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
site. It is hugely important because it | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
allows us to retain the skills we have developed over the years here | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
in South Wales. Without this it would be difficult to retain the | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
critical expertise we need in this business. | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Trains are starting to run again on a section of the Cambrian Coast | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
Railway in Gwynedd, which was completely washed away by storms in | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
January. The line at Llanaber, north of Barmouth, has cost ?7 million to | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
rebuild. It means that trains are now able to go as far north as | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
Harlech, but the rest of the line to Pwllheli will stay closed until at | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
least the summer, while a new bridge is built. | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
34 Welsh beaches have been given the international Blue Flag award for | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
their high standards and water quality - one more than last year. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
Aberdaron and Barmouth in Gwynedd, and Cilborth beach in Ceredigion | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
have been recognised for the first time. 31 beaches have been given the | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Green Coast Award, which recognises unspoilt environments. | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
The Hay Literature Festival will be broadcast on BBC television, radio | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
and online. It's the start of a three-year partnership, bringing the | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
coverage on Sky Arts to an end. BBC Wales Television, Radio Wales and | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Radio Cymru are among the networks broadcasting live from the festival | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
which begins at the end of this month. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
New York 1953 where Dylan Thomas first performed his most famous | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
work, Under Milk Wood. He died on another trip to the city months | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
later at the age of 39. As events take place around the world to mark | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
the centenary of the poet's birth, Tomos Morgan has been back to The | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Big Apple to take a walk in his footsteps. | :16:57. | :17:10. | |
The beginning at the beginning. Dylan Thomas performed Under Milk | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
Wood in New York City for the first time in 1953. It is a place he | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
described as the city of towers. During his four trips here in the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
early 50s, he wrote how he struggled with the scale of the city in | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
letters home. I have no idea what I am doing here in the middle of the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
last empire on earth. Here I have to take things to sleep. Everybody uses | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the telephone every time, it is like breathing. Fire Brigades, ambulances | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
all with their sirens, wailing and screaming, seem never to stop. His | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
name is synonymous with a range across the city. To mark his | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Centenary, an app has been developed showing those key locations. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Tourists can visit his favourite horns on an official Dylan Thomas | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
walking tour led by a Welshman. Now we are in the Cherry Lane Theatre in | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
the heart of the village. He arrived here in typical fashion, forgetting | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
his notes. Unfortunately a friend remembered that she had a book of | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
his poetry and went to get it. It was in Manhattan at the 92nd St | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
theatre where Swansea's famous poet found a much bigger audience. The | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
stage is set just like it was for the first performance of Under Milk | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Wood on the 14th of May, 1953. It was in this very seat he sat and | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
performed to a crowd of 1000 people. Although Under Milk Wood had been | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
scheduled for a number of months, it was touch and go to the last minute | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
whether it would have finished in time. People did not know it was | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
going to be funny. So they were very reverent and hushed until the humour | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
begins. A few people laughed at first and then it becomes | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
uproarious. A few blocks away, members of the St Davids Welsh | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Society of New York are practising for their own performance. There are | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
more people performing than in the audience. It did not matter whether | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
they had talents, they wanted to bring these people together to | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
become the village. The majority of his time was spent in bohemian, | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Greenwich Village where he seemed most comfortable. But one of his | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
favourite drinking holes, he is still remembered. He liked to | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
drink. He was here to drink. He wasn't here to socialise. At night, | :20:11. | :20:22. | |
he would talk. He liked being around his peers. His peers were miners and | :20:23. | :20:34. | |
semen. It was up the stairs he took his final steps, only to boast of | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
drinking 18 whiskeys. This was his last address before his untimely | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
death on November the 9th, 1953. The jailing islands of hotel bedrooms, | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
from which one must escape at once. The and said provider for power that | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
shoots its building up to the stars. Everything is not terrible here, I | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
have met many kind and intelligent, humorous people. A century since | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
his, many visitors to New York share his fear and fascination with the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
city. A place where his legacy remains. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
And on tomorrow night's programme we'll be live in Laugharne, the town | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
that inspired Under Milk Wood. Celebrations are taking place all | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
weekend there to mark the centenary and we'll be catching up with one of | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
his many fans - a former US President! That's at 630pm. | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
The Ospreys should still have a chance of making the top four spot | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
as they are currently in action in Italy. After trailing throughout the | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
night, Ashley Brett put the Ospreys ahead. The score is currently 27 | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
points to 23. Mixed weather across the country, so | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
how is it looking for the bank holiday weekend? | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Very promising. I cannot promise unbroken sunshine, but plenty of dry | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
weather over the next few days. There will be differences from day | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
today such as cloud cover. The radar picked shows today's rain and | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
showers. Heavy downpours in places but hit and miss. Sunshine and | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
showers in Powys. Temperatures in Powys falling as low as six Celsius. | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
This is the picture for 8am. Much better than today. A lot of cloud | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
around. Low cloud and fog on the Brecon Beacons. Should be brighter | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
in the south-west. Temperatures seven to 10 Celsius. The weather | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
will in crude during the day with the cloud lifting and breaking. A | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
dry afternoon. Just the odd shower in Pembrokeshire. Peeling cooler | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
tomorrow with a light breeze. Plenty of cloud and dry weather. A high of | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
12 Celsius with a light breeze. Tomorrow night, much of the country | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
is dry with a lot of ground frost in mid Wales and eastern parts. Six | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Celsius. On Saturday, high pressure over the UK. The warm front through | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
Ireland may affect us for a time. Saturday is dry and bright with the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
best of the sunshine in the East. More cloud further west and perhaps | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
a few spots of rain turning up by the evening. On Sunday morning, then | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
maybe the odd spot of light rain in the north-west. A lot of cloud in | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
the north and west. The best of the sunshine is in the south-east with a | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
high of 12 Celsius. Bank holiday Monday looks nice. Hazy, milky | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
sunshine with high cloud. A southeasterly breeze and seven | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Celsius on the north coast, 18 in Flintshire. Some nice weather this | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
bank holiday weekend. I cannot promise wall-to-wall sunshine, but a | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
lot of dry weather. Enjoy it if you can because the signs are it will | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
break next week with some rain. Enjoy the dry weather over the next | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
few days. Enjoy the dry weather over the next | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
The main headlines: Gerry Adams is still in police custody. He was | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
arrested last night and is being questioned in connection with the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
murder of a mother of ten, Julie McConville in 1972. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
There are calls for a nursing home in Powys to be investigated after an | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
elderly resident was verbally abused and did. The poor treatment of | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
Veronica Teal came to light after her family put a camera in her room. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
They are horrified at her mother's treatment. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
I am disgusted and I am glad my mum is out of it, but there are other | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
people there. You should be allowed to have dignity and care. | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
If you have got a story about care services you want to share with us, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
get in touch with us by e-mailing us. | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
We will have a quick update at 8pm and more News at 10:25pm. But from | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
the team here | :25:33. | :25:33. |