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Good evening. Manufacturing in Wales can be rebuilt - despite years of | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
decline. The former boss of Japanese electronics giant Sony, Sir Howard | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Stringer, has told BBC Wales, companies can win back business | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
that's been lost to Asia. It comes as new figures show the economy is | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
close to being as strong as it was before the recession hit, with | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
manufacturing going from strength to strength. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Manufacture ing has always played a significant part in the Welsh | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
economy and that continues to be the case today. Much of it has moved to | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Asia, though, where wages are much lower, making production costs | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
cheaper. Some manufacturing work is returning, Sony is now making this, | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
a basic credit-card size computer for children. There is a lesson in | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
that for other manufacturers. The way to bring manufacturing back to | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Wales is to find a way to make it worthwhile for the Japanese company | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
and one of it is the distance to the customer. It is very long from | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
China. Everything moves so fast. In the ten weeks it takes a ship to get | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
to the UK, your market will have changed. If you do your | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
manufacturing in Wales, at reasonable costs, you have a | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
tremendous advantage on your competition in getting to the market | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
so quickly. But the employment figures are startling. In the 2001 | :01:46. | :01:54. | |
Census just over 200,000 people were working in manufacturing. Ten years | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
later, that number was 144,000. That is a 30% rediction. Over the last | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
two years, Sony has transformed how it manufactures its cameras. Gone | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
are the old production lines where people work on specific components | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
and now one operator creates one kit and that means people like Claire | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
take 90 minutes to put something like this together. Sony has also | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
moved production of these smaller cameras from Asia to Wales. It's | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
innovations like this that brings that extra work in. Innovation and | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
quality will be our two real drivers of everything we do. We would always | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
be trying to innovate and change processes to make them more | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
efficient, higher quality, faster through-put time. That is our goal. | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
Manufacture ing may never return to Wales on the scale that it left. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Rising costs in Asia and long shipping times mean there are | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
opportunities for Welsh firms to compete for business. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
And you can hear the full interview with Sir Howard Stringer on Wales at | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
Work, at 7.00am tomorrow morning on BBC Radio Wales. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
A man and a woman have been taken to hospital after a fire at a ground | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
floor flat near Pontypridd. Emergency services were called to | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
the flat in New Road in Ynysybwl at around 8.30pm this evening. Fire and | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
ambulance crews, and the police, are still at the scene. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
There are calls for more of us to report offensive material on social | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
media to the police. It comes a day after a man from Port Talbot was | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
jailed for posting offensive messages on Twitter, following the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
stabbing of teacher Ann Maguire in Leeds. Online safety experts say we | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
shouldn't leave it to others to take on the so-called "internet trolls". | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
Joy Lamb is more cautious online than she used to be. It is | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
two-and-a-half years since her granddaughter was killed by a train | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
at this station in Liverpool on a night out with friends. The family's | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
distress was deepened when her father discovered a Facebook tribute | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
page set up by school mates had been targeted by trolls posting offensive | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
pictures about the teenager. He first said to me, "Don't look at it | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
because it will upset you." I did and it did upset me. I felt that | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
that was the reaction that the trolls wanted. So, we totally | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
ignored the whole thing in the end and we didn't give them the time of | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
day because that is the reaction. Their claim to fame. Increasingly, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
police aren't ignoring them. Yesterday, this man was jailed for | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
eight weeks for remarks on Twitter about the stabbing of Ann Maguire. | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
This man runs an organisation which calls itself the Social Media | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
Police. The key sites such as Twitter and Facebook are doing a lot | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
of work within schools, in trying to educate people about how to use | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
social media responsibly and take steps. Legislation will tie up | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
police time. So through people and parent engagement and community | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
engagement, it is a more effective way to resolve trolling long-term. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Earlier this year, ChildLine reported that it had seen an 87% | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
increase in contacts from victims of online bullying, one of the main | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
problems was racist bullying where there had been a 69% increase. With | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
most of us having access to smartphones or tablets, it's never | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
been easier to post things online. ChildLine say the 24-hour nature of | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
online bullying or trolling means there is no escape for victims and | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
that can sometimes lead to feelings of low self-esteem and self-harming | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
or suicide. Joy and her family had hoped the internet would be a place | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
where they could share their happiest memories of Georgia. The | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
trolls have only added to their heartbreak. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
It's emerged that a man suspected of abuse in the north Wales care system | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
has been found dead. Kenneth Wheatley, who was 62, was being | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
questioned by the National Crime Agency about historical claims of | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
abuse. He was found dead on a railway line, three days after he | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
was arrested and bailed by Suffolk Police on suspicion of the indecent | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
assault of a boy near Ipswich in 1976. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
The UK's oldest coal-fired power station near Newport is to close, | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
putting 83 jobs at risk. The owners of Uskmouth power station, Scottish | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
and Southern Energy, say they've been unable to find a buyer for the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
site. They say they're exploring redeployment options within the | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
With the European elections less than a fortnight away, former Plaid | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
Cymru leader Lord Wigley has attacked the three main UK parties | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
for allowing UKIP to steer the agenda. He's lent his weight to | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Plaid's campaign for the European elections. The party hopes to keep | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
its only seat in the European Parliament. In a speech in Merthyr | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Tydfil tonight, Lord Wigley warned that leaving the EU would be | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Plaid Cymru's vote will hold up. What we are afraid of is not losing | :06:54. | :07:07. | |
our seat, but UKIP gathering a momentum that drives us to a | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
position where Wales finds itself being taken out on the coat tails of | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
London and that is not acceptable. The former Cardiff City boss Malky | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Mackay has apologised "without reservation" to club owner Vincent | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Tan, over the issues that led to his sacking in December. The 42-year-old | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
Scot has also halted his legal action against the club, after | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
agreeing a settlement. The club's former head of recruitment Iain | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Moody issued a similar statement. Rugby and Warren Gatland is already | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
without Sam Warburton and Leigh Halfpenny for Wales' summer tour. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Today, news that Justin Tipuric won't make the plane to South | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Africa. The Ospreys flanker will undergo | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
surgery on his shoulder next week Well, I'm afraid we're in for a bit | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
of a wet weekend. It's not looking great, is it, | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Derek? It isn't. We are in for a taste of | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
autumn. Low pressure bringing more rain and heavy showers. Strong to | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
gale force winds as well. I can promise you at least a little | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
sunshine. Tonight, rain will spill across the whole country, some heavy | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
rain and hill fog. The winds picking up again as well, with lowest | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
temperatures 7-11 Celsius. The reason for this disturbed spell of | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
weather is low pressure, which will track across the UK over the | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
weekend. So, rain first thing tomorrow will clear away. It will | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
dry and brighten up. Some sunshine for a time, but showers will follow. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Across the rest of the UK, rain will continue to move north and east. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Clearing away into the North Sea, but the rain will linger and become | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
slow-moving across Scotland. Elsewhere, the sun will come out, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
but with heavy blustery showers, a risk of thunder and a warning of | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
strong to gale force winds in the south-west. It is a case of dodging | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
the showers in Wales tomorrow afternoon. Some of them will be | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
heavy with thunder. Dry intervals in between. And watch out for strong to | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
gale force winds on the Bristol Channel coast and in Pembrokeshire. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Tomorrow night will continue windy. Quite wet for some of us as well | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
with further rain and blustery showers. Sunday will be cool and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
windy. The wettest weather is likely on the mountains. Elsewhere, some | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
places becoming dry in the afternoon and brightening up with sunny | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
intervals. The winds slowly easing, so the bluebells are in for a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
watering this weekend. Some strong winds as well. Next week, the winds | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
will ease with sunshine and showers. Later in the week, signs of high | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
pressure heading our way. That's Wales Today. We're back | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
tomorrow at 6.10am. From all of us on the programme, | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
good night. | :09:50. | :09:57. |