:00:00. > :00:08.degrees. A bit of cloud and the risk of a few showers. That's
:00:09. > :00:13.A week on from this hospital being heavily criticised for its care of
:00:14. > :00:16.patients - in an exclusive report the inside story of what's going on
:00:17. > :00:22.It was quite demoralising when we came into work to do the best that
:00:23. > :00:40.we can do and we don't come in to the job to give bad care.
:00:41. > :00:43.The manager of Gleision mine where four workers
:00:44. > :00:47.drowned - the court hears how he saw colleagues swept past him.
:00:48. > :00:50.Caught on camera - rules on open prisons will be tightened after
:00:51. > :00:58.police break up a million pounds drugs ring run from inside jail.
:00:59. > :01:01.For the first time - the underwater footage of the cargo ship Swanland
:01:02. > :01:11.And I'll speaking to one of our big medal hopes as Team Wales are set an
:01:12. > :01:23.ambitious target of 27 medals for this summer's Commonwealth Games.
:01:24. > :01:26.The chief nurse at a hospital heavily criticised for serious care
:01:27. > :01:29.failings has told this programme that staff weren't sufficiently
:01:30. > :01:33."geared up" to deal with a big rise in the number of elderly patients.
:01:34. > :01:35.After a damning review of the Princess of Wales Hospital
:01:36. > :01:40.in Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot hospital a week ago,
:01:41. > :01:43.the local health board says safeguards are now being beefed up
:01:44. > :01:48.Wales Today has been given exclusive access to wards at the Princess
:01:49. > :01:51.of Wales hospital to assess the impact on patients and staff.
:01:52. > :01:57.Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke.
:01:58. > :02:09.Hello. How are you doing? Leonard is now on the road to recovery after
:02:10. > :02:15.suffering what he describes as a funny turn. He was shocked by what
:02:16. > :02:20.he heard on the news last Tuesday. Because his own experience of being
:02:21. > :02:26.treated here, he claims, has been totally different. If it wasn't for
:02:27. > :02:32.these people, I wouldn't be here. Elsewhere, elderly care Val well
:02:33. > :02:38.below what is acceptable and the Ward we visited was full of older
:02:39. > :02:42.patients. It sounds odd to say at this in the last five or ten years,
:02:43. > :02:46.the average age of patients in any major hospital has gone up by about
:02:47. > :02:51.ten or 15 years, which is very peculiar. That is likely to continue
:02:52. > :02:56.to be the case. What caused the failings which meant some elderly
:02:57. > :03:03.patients were not given enough food or water? Was it caused by a few bad
:03:04. > :03:06.apples or deeper problems? I think the numbers of frail elderly coming
:03:07. > :03:11.into hospital are growing year-on-year. I think that has
:03:12. > :03:17.caught sniffing out across ABM, across Wales. I don't think as a
:03:18. > :03:22.nursing profession we were fully prepared for the number of frail
:03:23. > :03:30.elderly that we have on our wards now and that is a enormous -- an
:03:31. > :03:33.enormous education issue. Since the report was published, several nurses
:03:34. > :03:38.have been given counselling and morale across the board, these
:03:39. > :03:44.nurses told me, has been severely dented. I was shocked and deeply
:03:45. > :03:46.upset. We all have parents and children and family who could be
:03:47. > :03:53.admitted here and from my perspective, my ward and by nurses,
:03:54. > :03:58.I believe they give good care. I believe everyone works extremely
:03:59. > :04:05.hard. People pull together and get the job done. How do you make sure
:04:06. > :04:14.that you are taking the boxes and recording everything properly? It is
:04:15. > :04:17.very much a balancing act. It is difficult. I would be lying if I
:04:18. > :04:20.said it wasn't but you have to prioritise and the patients are what
:04:21. > :04:27.come first and their safety and care. I do think it is being
:04:28. > :04:32.visible, being out there and good communication. Because without that,
:04:33. > :04:35.we are going to fail. The review claimed at this hospital there were
:04:36. > :04:39.not enough nurses trained to look after elderly patients and some of
:04:40. > :04:46.the patients I met certainly picked up on those pressures. I think we
:04:47. > :04:52.need more nurses to be honest. Sometimes they are short of nurses.
:04:53. > :05:00.Any particular times of day? Mostly in the afternoon and night. You have
:05:01. > :05:04.to have a lot of patients because you can't expect the nurse to come
:05:05. > :05:07.in two minutes. You have to wait at least ten or 15 minutes, unless it's
:05:08. > :05:16.serious and you start shouting and raving. They can then. Managers say
:05:17. > :05:19.more nurses have been recruited and procedures have been tightened up
:05:20. > :05:25.across all four of the hospitals which employ over 5500 nurses but a
:05:26. > :05:31.number of them have been suspended from duty. How many managers have
:05:32. > :05:36.you sacked because of this? Well, one of the things... No doubt you
:05:37. > :05:41.have read the report carefully and its concluding paragraphs, the
:05:42. > :05:46.authors of the report are clear that the best thing you can do is go for
:05:47. > :05:54.a huge heads will roll mentality so we make changes, we move people
:05:55. > :05:57.on... No, let me finish. We move people on and take action but we
:05:58. > :06:02.actually think in respect to people that work in our system, whether
:06:03. > :06:08.they be the most junior staff or the most senior staff, we don't do that
:06:09. > :06:13.in the public gaze. Some patients argue there shouldn't be snap
:06:14. > :06:21.decisions. If you've got a problem you've got to fix it but sometimes
:06:22. > :06:26.that doesn't mean a knee jerk reaction. Sometimes it needs a
:06:27. > :06:32.support role, rather than a storm trooper role. Staff here do feel
:06:33. > :06:36.they are working under a cloud but say they are committed to giving
:06:37. > :06:40.patients the best possible care and on the whole, they remain loyal to
:06:41. > :06:43.this hospital despite its now tarnished reputation.
:06:44. > :06:46.A jury's heard how a mine manager saw colleagues swept
:06:47. > :06:49.past him, as water filled the tunnels where they were worked.
:06:50. > :06:51.Swansea Crown Court was shown a police interview with Malcolm
:06:52. > :06:56.Four men drowned in the disaster, at the Gleision mine
:06:57. > :07:04.Mr Fyfield and the owners, MNS Mining, DENY manslaughter charges.
:07:05. > :07:10.Our reporter Cemlyn Davies was in court.
:07:11. > :07:24.A game since I'd the glacial colliery. This is where the water
:07:25. > :07:30.came flooding through. The image gives an idea of its force and
:07:31. > :07:34.power. These men all drowned in the disaster. Today, for the first time,
:07:35. > :07:41.the jury heard from the man accused of their manslaughter as a police
:07:42. > :07:51.interview with Martin Fifield -- Malcolm Fyfield was played in court.
:07:52. > :07:56.Malcolm Fyfield told police the water was way out of control and it
:07:57. > :08:01.involved the men at the face. He said he jumped to one side and saw
:08:02. > :08:05.his colleagues being swept past him. He said he held on as tight as he
:08:06. > :08:10.could to the side but then he was also dragged into the flow. He said
:08:11. > :08:15.he found himself breathing in water and after that he just remembered
:08:16. > :08:19.seeing the faces of his family. At that point in the police interview,
:08:20. > :08:26.Malcolm Fyfield broke down in tears. He said he then tried to this as the
:08:27. > :08:29.-- to resuscitate two of the men underground but his efforts were in
:08:30. > :08:37.vain and he escaped through old workings. A month later, this man,
:08:38. > :08:40.Detective Sergeant with South Wales Police at the time, arrived at the
:08:41. > :08:45.house of Malcolm Fyfield to arrest him. He told the court Malcolm
:08:46. > :08:50.Fyfield was extremely distressed and distraught when he was arrested. His
:08:51. > :08:56.head was fouled, he was physically shaking and sobbing. -- his head was
:08:57. > :09:01.bowed. Asked if he had ever seen anyone else reacting to being
:09:02. > :09:07.arrested in the same way, he said, from memory, no. Malcolm Fyfield
:09:08. > :09:14.said there was nothing to suggest so much water was held behind the
:09:15. > :09:17.coalface. He had only seen some ponding of water. Trilling had only
:09:18. > :09:22.lead to a minimal amount of water trickling through. Malcolm Fyfield
:09:23. > :09:28.denies four counts of manslaughter through gross negligence and the
:09:29. > :09:32.mine operator deny counts of corporate manslaughter.
:09:33. > :09:34.Rules on criminals in open prisons will be tightened
:09:35. > :09:38.after police broke up a million pound drugs ring from inside jail.
:09:39. > :09:40.BBC Wales has been given access to undercover police footage
:09:41. > :09:45.In the wake of this and other recent high profiles cases the Ministry of
:09:46. > :10:00.Sitting behind a wheel of a prison minibus, this is Matthew Roberts, a
:10:01. > :10:03.convicted drug dealer who has been allowed out on trust from an open
:10:04. > :10:10.prison in South Wales. In his/her hand he has just received a sample
:10:11. > :10:13.of drugs that he plans to distribute through a network he is organising
:10:14. > :10:19.but he is unaware he's secretly being filmed by undercover
:10:20. > :10:22.detectives. Within that pot is a sample, a test of the larger
:10:23. > :10:30.commodity to come and we say that white powder is mephedrone. He was a
:10:31. > :10:37.serving prisoner in Monmouthshire. He was allowed out to dry a prison
:10:38. > :10:41.vehicle around South Wales. The network he setup was planning to
:10:42. > :10:46.flood the area with mephedrone. Acting on intelligence, the regional
:10:47. > :10:50.organiser crying unit and the National crime agency kept the gang
:10:51. > :10:54.under surveillance. It was clear from the beginning that he had
:10:55. > :11:01.become a significant threat to Wales in the provision of drugs and we had
:11:02. > :11:06.to utilise our capabilities to catch him in the act. Robert and his gang
:11:07. > :11:11.have been convicted and sentenced to a total of 36 years but this affair
:11:12. > :11:16.has raised new questions about the regime inside open prisons. A former
:11:17. > :11:23.inmate told us the system is easily abuse. It is the availability of
:11:24. > :11:27.anything. Anything you want is their will stop Anything you shouldn't
:11:28. > :11:30.have? Anything you shouldn't have, you could get. Drugs, drink,
:11:31. > :11:37.whatever. This together with the case of
:11:38. > :11:43.Michael Wheatley, a convicted armed broke the -- armed robber who
:11:44. > :11:47.escaped in Kent has raised questions about how prisoners are assessed for
:11:48. > :11:51.a day release. It is too late if the failure is
:11:52. > :11:56.already occurring. That is when a prisoner may go underground and be
:11:57. > :12:02.an idea has never -- ideal prisoner but actually they are running crime.
:12:03. > :12:08.They are now back within a secure prison. The prisons officer declined
:12:09. > :12:11.to be interviews but said he accepts the system for allowing prisoners
:12:12. > :12:16.out on temporary licence has been too relaxed and major changes will
:12:17. > :12:16.be introduced. Much more on that story on Week
:12:17. > :12:22.in Week Out tonight at 10:35pm Remembering the last witness to
:12:23. > :12:29.the surrender of the German Army - Derek Knee negotiated the terms of
:12:30. > :12:35.surrender with Hitler's successor. I had no idea I had been sent
:12:36. > :12:38.on a surrender mission. I thought it was just some talk that
:12:39. > :12:42.somebody hadn't understood A jury has returned a verdict
:12:43. > :12:53.of misadventure on six Russian crewmen, presumed to have drowned
:12:54. > :12:55.when their ship sank near The Swanland was on its way
:12:56. > :13:03.from Raynes jetty near Colwyn Bay to the Isle of Wight when she foundered
:13:04. > :13:17.in a gale off the Lleyn Peninsula. These never before broadcast
:13:18. > :13:23.pictures show the Swanland as she is now, upside down at the bottom of
:13:24. > :13:27.the sea, lying under 260 feet of water. Here one of only two
:13:28. > :13:33.survivors is found with Maxine signalling to an RAF helicopter. He
:13:34. > :13:39.was swept into the sea by the second of two massive waves. The first had
:13:40. > :13:43.buckled the ship. The Swanland was 33 years old and her age didn't help
:13:44. > :13:48.when she got into difficulties, the coroner said. Maintenance had met
:13:49. > :13:55.legal requirements. It was the way she had been loaded at Colwyn Bay
:13:56. > :13:58.which was a major factor. The cargo of limestone was loaded into the
:13:59. > :14:05.centre of the ship. It caused pressures which put her at risk.
:14:06. > :14:08.Experts have questioned how well the ship had been maintained. During
:14:09. > :14:15.because of the inquest, the jury was told that in 2009, the owners of the
:14:16. > :14:21.Swanland took on a new inspection regime, something they were entitled
:14:22. > :14:25.to do. That in the two years before the sinking, less maintenance was
:14:26. > :14:32.carried out. Marine accident investigators said that was odd. In
:14:33. > :14:34.their report into the sinking, the sinking, B Marine Accident
:14:35. > :14:40.Investigation Branch said it was apparent annual surveys done in 2010
:14:41. > :14:43.and 2011 lacked rigour. It report lack of maintenance is likely to
:14:44. > :14:48.have been a major contributing factor to the vessel's failure.
:14:49. > :14:52.Today the operators didn't want to be interviews but off-camera I had
:14:53. > :14:57.been told they had spent a lot of money on the Swanland. The Maritime
:14:58. > :15:03.and transport union has demanded a toughening up of ship inspections. I
:15:04. > :15:07.would like to see a more intense approach to this. There are hundreds
:15:08. > :15:12.of ships sailing around the coastline today which will go and
:15:13. > :15:15.inspected. It sparked one of the biggest search operations ever
:15:16. > :15:21.mounted off the North Wales coast and a second life raft was found,
:15:22. > :15:24.empty. Six crew died and only one body has never been recovered.
:15:25. > :15:27.The usually quiet world of the National Library of Wales
:15:28. > :15:29.tonight finds itself embroiled in a row about management pay.
:15:30. > :15:33.A 10% increase in the pay packet of at least two senior managers
:15:34. > :15:36.at the National Library of Wales has led to workers threatening to
:15:37. > :15:40.Our reporter Charlotte Dubenskij is in Aberystwyth.
:15:41. > :15:49.Charlotte, what's the background to this pay row?
:15:50. > :15:54.Good evening. The National Library of Wales says this payment was made
:15:55. > :15:59.to senior members of staff and it was the result of an independent
:16:00. > :16:02.review by the Welsh government's HR. It is the result of the
:16:03. > :16:07.responsibilities of those members changing due to a restructuring at
:16:08. > :16:12.the library. It is the equivalent to a 10% up to their pay this year and
:16:13. > :16:18.we understand a third member of staff is up for that temporary
:16:19. > :16:22.increase. In 2012 and 2013 we know that members of the team were being
:16:23. > :16:28.paid around ?62,000 a year. If we use that as a benchmark, this
:16:29. > :16:33.increase could be around ?6,000 for each member of staff. The unions are
:16:34. > :16:38.livid. They say the National library isn't transparent in its decisions
:16:39. > :16:45.and more than 200 staff haven't been given a consolidated pay rise since
:16:46. > :16:53.2008. A pay rise is on the table for those members of staff and that will
:16:54. > :16:59.be discussed with unions next month. Two days to go until polls opened,
:17:00. > :17:02.the Welsh Conservatives have renewed their attack on UKIP as the election
:17:03. > :17:08.campaign nears its climax. They have repeated their claim that only they
:17:09. > :17:23.can perform the EU with a promise to hold an in out referendum if they
:17:24. > :17:25.wind the general election next year. Have the Conservatives been clever
:17:26. > :17:33.enough to get Kay Swinburne back into the European Parliament? GE has
:17:34. > :17:37.come out in favour of the EU. On the doorsteps of Wales, the party says
:17:38. > :17:41.it has been a harder sell. Kay Swinburne says her message to try to
:17:42. > :17:46.deal with the UKIP threat is that the Conservatives are the only ones
:17:47. > :17:52.who can deliver a renegotiation of our membership ahead of a
:17:53. > :17:58.referendum. Most people believe in a European project of sorts. They also
:17:59. > :18:03.believe that they don't sign up to the direction it's going in. They
:18:04. > :18:06.understand the need for reform and making the system more
:18:07. > :18:11.democratically responsible will make them feel more engaged with Europe
:18:12. > :18:17.so that is starting to resonate. The parties have done close analysis
:18:18. > :18:25.on the build-up to this election. This is a turnout election, it is
:18:26. > :18:28.about getting your core vote out. For Kay Swinburne, that means plenty
:18:29. > :18:33.of visits to places like this, Cardiff North. It is about
:18:34. > :18:36.converting support into votes. The Conservatives look to follow one
:18:37. > :18:40.from the result five years ago when they topped the poll in Wales.
:18:41. > :18:44.One of the victims of a shooting in Newport last year was a drug
:18:45. > :18:47.dealer who owed ?20,000 to a gang from Manchester a court has heard.
:18:48. > :18:51.25-year-old Gary Rabjohns is one of four men who deny conspiracy to
:18:52. > :18:53.murder, after a car was shot at then rammed
:18:54. > :19:10.Residents in Newport awoke to see this outside their homes last year.
:19:11. > :19:14.Smashed and crumpled from being chased and shot at, it's alleged one
:19:15. > :19:20.of those travelling in this car had stolen from another man in a four x
:19:21. > :19:25.four Jeep that rounded off the road. Today one of those suspected of
:19:26. > :19:31.being in that four x four gave evidence in his defence at Newport.
:19:32. > :19:35.25-year-old Gary Rabjohns said he didn't want to incriminate anyone by
:19:36. > :19:39.giving the names of some of his friends and acquaintances. He said
:19:40. > :19:44.he knew Mr Phillips, one of the men in the car that was rammed off the
:19:45. > :19:47.road in Newport. He said Phillips was a drug dealer who owed money to
:19:48. > :19:52.a gang in Manchester and was stealing to pay off the debt. He
:19:53. > :19:55.also spoke of messages sent on BlackBerry messenger before the
:19:56. > :20:00.shooting, suggesting Phillips was in Newport and a fight might take place
:20:01. > :20:04.but he said he didn't want anything to do with it. Gary Rabjohns and
:20:05. > :20:06.three other men deny three counts of conspiracy to murder and the trial
:20:07. > :20:09.continues. How many medals can Wales win at
:20:10. > :20:12.this summer's Commonwealth Games? Today, the organisation which funds
:20:13. > :20:15.most of the sports said it expected Team Wales to win at least 27 medals
:20:16. > :20:19.in Glasgow, that's eight more than Our sports reporter Ashleigh Crowter
:20:20. > :20:36.is with one of our medal hopefuls Hello, Jamie. We are at the National
:20:37. > :20:39.Centre were a lot of the preparation is being done for the Commonwealth
:20:40. > :20:46.Games. We are at the National judo centre where one of our top medal
:20:47. > :20:49.hopes, Natalie Powell, is working hard. The games are just nine weeks
:20:50. > :20:54.away and we will be having a word in a few moments but first let's speak
:20:55. > :21:03.to Sara Powell. You have set the target of 27 medals. It was 19 in
:21:04. > :21:06.Delhi. Like a big jump. This is a bold target but this has been set
:21:07. > :21:10.with the sport. They know their performances and we have every
:21:11. > :21:16.confidence we can deliver this medal target. You are the people who hand
:21:17. > :21:26.out the money. How much money do you give to these boards was Mac -- to
:21:27. > :21:29.these sports? We invest 3.5 million in our priority sports and we expect
:21:30. > :21:35.them to deliver the results. Hopefully we will see the success.
:21:36. > :21:39.Elite sport costs the same based on the size of any entry so if we
:21:40. > :21:47.deliver 27 we will be doing exceptionally well. -- of any
:21:48. > :21:52.country. If I can interrupt you, Natalie. You are one of our big
:21:53. > :21:59.medal hopes. Hopefully you can win the judo medal. I've had a good year
:22:00. > :22:07.so far. I have just broken into the top ten so I am regressing well. I
:22:08. > :22:12.hope I can win. Do you feel any extra pressure with targets? No, it
:22:13. > :22:17.doesn't really bother me. If I get in a situation where funding gets
:22:18. > :22:21.cut, I will have to address that but at the moment I'm just looking at
:22:22. > :22:26.high-performance and hopefully if I perform well, I will get the medals
:22:27. > :22:29.and the money. We wish you well and the rest of the team.
:22:30. > :22:32.He was the last witness to the surrender of the German Army
:22:33. > :22:36.Derek Knee, from Barry, who's died at the age of 91,
:22:37. > :22:38.was Field Marshall Montgomery's official interpreter that day.
:22:39. > :22:40.He negotiated the terms of surrender with Hitler's successor
:22:41. > :22:43.Admiral Donitz - an historic event that led to
:22:44. > :22:53.His memories of May 4th, 1945, never left him.
:22:54. > :22:57.Derek Knee was only 22 years old when he found him
:22:58. > :22:59.self negotiating the surrender of the German army, bringing
:23:00. > :23:03.A fluent German speaker, Derek served as a field intelligence
:23:04. > :23:08.Then one day in May 1945, completely out of the blue,
:23:09. > :23:11.he received orders to make his way to Field Marshall Montgomery's head
:23:12. > :23:28.I had no idea I was being sent on a surrender mission. I thought it was
:23:29. > :23:31.just some talk that somebody in an important position hadn't understood
:23:32. > :23:34.and wanted me to translate. Of course, it didn't prove to be that
:23:35. > :23:36.at all. On a windswept morning on Luneberg
:23:37. > :23:39.Heath, four German officers presented Monty with a letter,
:23:40. > :23:41.effectively outlining the German Montgomery immediately handed
:23:42. > :23:56.the letter to Derek. It was in German. The Germans
:23:57. > :24:01.couldn't provide an English translation and the British, except
:24:02. > :24:04.for me, couldn't understand it. So I was given it. I held it and
:24:05. > :24:06.translated it but one of the Germans actually burst into tears.
:24:07. > :24:09.In less than 24 hours, the German forces in North West
:24:10. > :24:11.Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands had surrendered unconditionally.
:24:12. > :24:15.Four days later Europe celebrated the end of World War II.
:24:16. > :24:17.Derek Knee was the last living witness to that
:24:18. > :24:25.But the significance of that day in 1945 - and Derek's role in history -
:24:26. > :24:31.Derek Knee, who's died at the age of 91.
:24:32. > :24:34.Now, last night storms struck parts of Wales.
:24:35. > :24:46.That was the moment lightning hit a tree in Greenfield in Flintshire
:24:47. > :24:49.filmed by Arwel Roberts, who's been waiting years to get
:24:50. > :25:07.We have had some dramatic weather over the last 24 hours and the radar
:25:08. > :25:10.shows a cluster pushing across South Wales earlier this afternoon but
:25:11. > :25:14.those heavy showers will clear northwards and then it turns dry
:25:15. > :25:18.with cloud around. Largely clearing skies allowing it to become chilly
:25:19. > :25:23.with mist and fog patches developing. Those of six or eight
:25:24. > :25:27.Celsius. Tomorrow's early mist and fog patches but they will soon clear
:25:28. > :25:30.and remaining largely dry through the day with sunny spells but we
:25:31. > :25:34.could see some thicker cloud building later. The heat will
:25:35. > :25:40.trigger a few showers but very isolated. Dry foremost with
:25:41. > :25:44.temperatures slightly above average at 15 or 19 Celsius. Tomorrow night
:25:45. > :25:48.a deep area of low pressure starts to push these fronts up from the
:25:49. > :25:54.south, which could bring some very heavy rain so the Met Office has
:25:55. > :25:59.issued an early warning for rain. Through the early hours that heavy
:26:00. > :26:04.rain moving up from the south. 40 or 50 millimetres, two inches on high
:26:05. > :26:12.ground, before it moves northwards and eventually clearing to sunshine
:26:13. > :26:16.and showers on Thursday. The chief nurse at the Princess of Wales
:26:17. > :26:21.Hospital in Bridgend criticised for care failings had told the programme
:26:22. > :26:27.staff were not geared up to deal with the big rise in the number of
:26:28. > :26:28.elderly patients. I will have the headlines at 8pm and again after the
:26:29. > :26:32.BBC News at 10pm.