16/05/2014 BBC Wales Today


16/05/2014

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 16/05/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Good evening. A teenaged boy from Bridgend has fallen out of a moving

:00:21.:00:30.

coach on a road near Bristol. The Ambulance Service said the

:00:31.:00:33.

13-year-old boy has a significant head injury and has been taken to

:00:34.:00:38.

Bristol Children's Hospital. From what we've been told the 13-year-old

:00:39.:00:45.

boy is a member of Tondu rugby club's under 13 team. This happened

:00:46.:00:53.

on the Avonmouth junction of the A 49. We understand he fell from the

:00:54.:00:58.

emergency door of the bus. One person told us that the car

:00:59.:01:03.

travelling behind the bus stopped inches behind where the boy fell. He

:01:04.:01:07.

was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital. He's suffered a

:01:08.:01:12.

significant head injury, not thought to be life threatening. The coach

:01:13.:01:17.

they were travelling on is from Keith Jones Coaches, based in

:01:18.:01:24.

Bridgend. He says he is distraught by what's happened. Police are

:01:25.:01:28.

trying to establish exactly what did happen tonight. Belle have more on

:01:29.:01:31.

this over the weekend. A driver has been given points on

:01:32.:01:35.

his licence and a fine after a crash which injured five children, a

:01:36.:01:41.

school lollipop lady and two other women. Judge said the court could

:01:42.:01:48.

only look at the offence and not the consequences of the driver's

:01:49.:01:51.

actions. A momentary lapse of concentration,

:01:52.:01:55.

the consequences, said the judge today, were tragic. It was last June

:01:56.:02:05.

when the car crashed outside Rhoose primary school injuring five

:02:06.:02:09.

children and three women. Some of those injured are still receiving

:02:10.:02:14.

treatment. Today 62-year-old Robert Bell was found guilty of driving

:02:15.:02:18.

without due care and attention. Afterwards he told me he wanted to

:02:19.:02:22.

apologise to all those injured and their families. He said he hoped and

:02:23.:02:27.

prayed that they would make full recoveries. He didn't think he could

:02:28.:02:31.

say all of that to camera. In the event he did manage a few words. I

:02:32.:02:39.

would like to offer my condolences to all the families involved.

:02:40.:02:44.

There's nothing more I can add. During a three-day trial his defence

:02:45.:02:50.

lawyer argued that Mr Bell had a medical condition which caused him

:02:51.:02:54.

to black out as the car hit the bollards and flipped over. But the

:02:55.:02:59.

prosecution argued that his flip-flops may have caused the

:03:00.:03:02.

accident. They were found in the foot well of the car afterwards.

:03:03.:03:07.

District Judge decided over wise and saying put simply he had a coughing

:03:08.:03:12.

fit and he made a misjudgment. Sentencing him, judge said this is a

:03:13.:03:17.

tragic case, mosh so for the injured than for you. But I do not think for

:03:18.:03:23.

a moment that I am dealing with a man driving like a lunatic. Turn

:03:24.:03:29.

coughing and things went awry. Your footwear had nothing to do with it,

:03:30.:03:34.

however unwise. The tragedy of the extent of the injuries you were

:03:35.:03:38.

going to have to live with and I am satisfied you were a man who finds

:03:39.:03:43.

that a burden. He was given four points on his licence and ordered to

:03:44.:03:49.

pay ?1,250 at the rate of ?10 a week.

:03:50.:03:53.

A Welsh University says it is surprised to hear that a former

:03:54.:03:56.

student has been arrested in connection with one of the did

:03:57.:04:02.

deadliest as to crafts in Nigeria. Sadiq Ogwuche studied at the

:04:03.:04:06.

University University of Glamorgan in 2010. He was arrested in Sudan on

:04:07.:04:13.

Tuesday. In connection with a bombing which

:04:14.:04:19.

killed 70 people. A fruit juice company has been find

:04:20.:04:25.

?80,000 with ?75,000 costs after an engineer was killed by falling pipe

:04:26.:04:31.

work. 25-year-old Gavin Bedford, from Porthcawl, was killed in 2010

:04:32.:04:36.

while working on the decommissioning of a factory in Llantrisant. He died

:04:37.:04:43.

from head injuries. Gerber Juice Company Limited pleaded guilty to

:04:44.:04:46.

safety failings. The Welsh Government has launched

:04:47.:04:50.

what it calls a fundamental review of how our schools worked and it is

:04:51.:04:54.

asking parents, teachers and pupils to share their views. It comes as

:04:55.:04:59.

Wales has fallen down the Pisa rankings, the international

:05:00.:05:06.

education league tables. Lost photos of a soldier who

:05:07.:05:11.

inspired two poets in World War I have been uncovered by his old

:05:12.:05:17.

school in Brecon. David Court Bert Thomas fought alongside Siegfried

:05:18.:05:22.

Sasoon and Robert Graves. His death affected them so much they

:05:23.:05:25.

immortalised him in their work. Staring out from the pages of

:05:26.:05:30.

history, a young schoolboy who went on to have an unexpected but

:05:31.:05:35.

profound literary connection. This is David cut berth Thomas, a pupil

:05:36.:05:42.

at Christ Clennell in Brecon in 1914. Staff have unearthed a

:05:43.:05:48.

collection of photographs. These images of DC Thomas were among them.

:05:49.:05:55.

He en-- he enlisted in the Army and met one of the greatest war poets,

:05:56.:06:00.

Siegfried SAS soon. The Welch Fusiliers all signed up to the royal

:06:01.:06:05.

well. . It was because of that that Sasoon and Thomas met in training.

:06:06.:06:11.

DC Thomas was killed bay sniper's bullet in 1916 in no-man's-land.

:06:12.:06:17.

Sasoon was so moved by his death he wrote these lines. So, Tommy left

:06:18.:06:21.

us, a gentle soldier, perfect and without stain, and so he will remain

:06:22.:06:25.

in my heart, fresh and happy and brave.

:06:26.:06:30.

98 years after his death and DC Thomas is still remembered by his

:06:31.:06:34.

old school. Today you will find his name inscribed on the roll of honour

:06:35.:06:40.

in the chapel. A fighting alongside Thomas and Sasoon was poet and

:06:41.:06:46.

November Novemberist Robert Graves. In his celebrated war novel Goodbye

:06:47.:06:53.

To All That he wrote I felt David's death more than any other. I felt

:06:54.:07:00.

empty and lost. The link between them and their friends, and they

:07:01.:07:06.

wrote after his death and during his life, it is utterly touching. These

:07:07.:07:11.

old photographs of DC Thomas once thought lost reveal a young man with

:07:12.:07:15.

a passion for sport, who left school and made the ultimate sacrifice. But

:07:16.:07:21.

his name will live on, immortalised in poetry and prose.

:07:22.:07:26.

Cricket, and Glamorgan's 2020 campaign got under way tonight with

:07:27.:07:33.

a win away to Hampshire. Glamorgan scored 161-7, winning by ten runs.

:07:34.:07:38.

Nathan cleverly is preparing to begin a new era a at a new weight.

:07:39.:07:46.

He has put on almost two stone for his cruiserweight debut tomorrow

:07:47.:07:49.

night against his opponent from Guyana. He lost his light

:07:50.:07:55.

heavyweight title nine months ago. So it looks like we are in for a

:07:56.:07:59.

sunny weekend and I think we need to make the most of us. We do. We had

:08:00.:08:05.

nice weather today across Wales. Most of us seeing sunshine, but warm

:08:06.:08:11.

sunshine over the next few days. Remaining dry across Wales, but the

:08:12.:08:14.

breeze will pick up. We are talking the usual places along the coast

:08:15.:08:19.

mainly. But tonight across much of the country, it is dry. Lift be

:08:20.:08:23.

clear as well at times. High cloud will come and go overnight but that

:08:24.:08:27.

won't affect the temperatures all that much. The temperatures tonight

:08:28.:08:33.

could remain as high as 12 Celsius in Cardiff or Newport. Light winds

:08:34.:08:37.

but that will change. Tomorrow morning most of us see some blue

:08:38.:08:42.

skies. And then wall to wall sunshine for some of us. Not

:08:43.:08:45.

everyone though. The cloud will come and go throughout the day. Cloud in

:08:46.:08:52.

the afternoon in particular. Northern Ireland, parts of Scotland,

:08:53.:08:56.

western Scotland, Northern Isles as well, strong winds and rain. Wales,

:08:57.:09:00.

the Midlands much of the south remaining clear. Cloudier in the

:09:01.:09:04.

south-east. We'll see the highest temperatures here, 24 possibly in

:09:05.:09:08.

London. Another warm one tomorrow. Back here in Wales, it will cloud

:09:09.:09:13.

over in the afternoon. The temperatures tomorrow reaching 20 or

:09:14.:09:17.

21 Celsius. Kite beat today's top temperature of 22 Celsius in

:09:18.:09:22.

Cardiff. The winds pick up tomorrow. Coastal parts, the Lleyn Peninsula,

:09:23.:09:27.

seeing stronger winds. That weather front will close towards Wales in

:09:28.:09:31.

the next few days. Temperatures tomorrow night falling to 9 Celsius.

:09:32.:09:36.

If we look at the pressure chart, low pressure is introducing this

:09:37.:09:40.

weather front towards Wales Sunday into Monday. But I think tomorrow

:09:41.:09:44.

and Sunday the best part of both days will remain dry. Bright, plenty

:09:45.:09:49.

of sunshine and a change on Monday. That is Wales Today. We'll be back

:09:50.:09:55.

at five to Senator evening. From all of us goodnight, have a good

:09:56.:09:58.

weekend. Bye-bye.

:09:59.:10:01.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS