:00:20. > :00:25.Hello, good evening. A jury has heard how a mine manager saw
:00:26. > :00:28.colleagues swept past him as water filled the tunnels where they
:00:29. > :00:33.worked. Swansea Crown Court was shown a police interview with
:00:34. > :00:37.Malcolm Fyfield on the day he was arrested. Four men drowned in the
:00:38. > :00:40.disaster at the Gleision mine nearly three years ago. Mr Fifield and the
:00:41. > :00:45.owners, MNS Mining, deny manslaughter charges. Cemlyn Davies
:00:46. > :00:52.was in court. A glimpse inside the Gleision
:00:53. > :00:56.Colliery. This hole in the coalface is where the water came flooding
:00:57. > :01:01.through. The jackknifed conveyor belt in this image gives an idea of
:01:02. > :01:06.its force and power. Garry Jenkins, Philip Hill, David Powell and
:01:07. > :01:10.Charles Breslin all drowned in the disaster. Today, for the first time,
:01:11. > :01:14.the jury heard from the man accused of their manslaughter as a police
:01:15. > :01:18.interview with Malcolm Fyfield was shown in court. In it the mine
:01:19. > :01:24.manager described the scene underground after the men breached
:01:25. > :01:29.old workings with tragic consequences. Malcolm Fyfield told
:01:30. > :01:33.police the water was way out of control and it engulfed the men at
:01:34. > :01:38.the face. He said he jumped to one side and he saw his colleagues being
:01:39. > :01:43.swept past him. Mr Fifield said he held on as tight as he could to the
:01:44. > :01:47.side, but then he too was dragged into the flow. He said he found
:01:48. > :01:52.himself breathing in water and after that he just remembered seeing the
:01:53. > :01:57.phases of his family. At that point in the police interview Malcolm
:01:58. > :02:00.Fyfield broke down in tears. Malcolm Fyfield said he then tried to
:02:01. > :02:04.resuscitate two of the miners underground, but his efforts were in
:02:05. > :02:07.vain. And with the water still rising he escaped through old
:02:08. > :02:12.workings. Just over a month later this month, I Detective Sergeant
:02:13. > :02:19.Bruce Robertson well is police at the time, arrived at Malcolm
:02:20. > :02:21.Fyfield's house to arrest him. Hugh Griffiths told the court Malcolm
:02:22. > :02:25.Fyfield is extremely distressed and distraught when he was arrested. His
:02:26. > :02:30.head was bowed, he was physically shaking and he was sobbing. Asked if
:02:31. > :02:35.he had ever seen anybody react to being arrested in the same way, is
:02:36. > :02:41.to Griffiths replied, from memory now, no. Mr Fifield told police
:02:42. > :02:46.there was nothing to suggest that so much water was being held behind the
:02:47. > :02:49.coalface. He said he had previously inspected the other side and had
:02:50. > :02:54.only seen some pondering of water. Pre-drilling had only led to a
:02:55. > :02:58.minimal amount of water trickling through as well, he said. Malcolm
:02:59. > :03:02.Fyfield denies four counts of manslaughter through gross
:03:03. > :03:06.negligence and the mine operators deny four counts of corporate
:03:07. > :03:11.manslaughter. The trial continues. We often hear the way to ease
:03:12. > :03:16.pressure on Wales' hospitals is for Health Boards to focus on care in
:03:17. > :03:20.the community. But according to BBC Wales researched the number of beds
:03:21. > :03:25.in community hospitals has fallen by 20 part -- by 25% over the last five
:03:26. > :03:29.years. At the same time only one Health Board has met Welsh
:03:30. > :03:34.Government targets for an increase in the number of staff working in
:03:35. > :03:36.the community. Steffan Messenger reports.
:03:37. > :03:39.A hospital bed. Health care the traditional way. But for several
:03:40. > :03:44.years now Health Boards across Wales have been closing or partly closing
:03:45. > :03:48.some community hospitals to focus on a new way of working. It is part of
:03:49. > :03:53.a drive to bring specialist care into people's homes and GP
:03:54. > :03:57.surgeries. Here in Cardigan the last two inpatient wards closed last
:03:58. > :04:00.year. The local Health Board is working on plans to build a new
:04:01. > :04:06.health centre in the town. But what about the provision in the meantime?
:04:07. > :04:09.We know that bed blocking is that the problem for district hospitals
:04:10. > :04:14.because they lost the 12 beds they were able to release patients from
:04:15. > :04:18.there down to Cardigan. Most of patients are elderly. They are away
:04:19. > :04:22.from their community and it makes a difference. If we can keep the
:04:23. > :04:26.patient in his own community, like in Cardigan. The Health Board which
:04:27. > :04:30.runs Cardigan hospital insists no beds have been lost. Instead, they
:04:31. > :04:35.have been spread out across the community. But according to our
:04:36. > :04:39.research the number of beds in community hospitals across Wales has
:04:40. > :04:43.fallen by 25% over the last five years. Community care is not
:04:44. > :04:48.necessarily about institutions. It is about providing a package of care
:04:49. > :04:52.for patients near to where they live by making the professionals do the
:04:53. > :04:56.travelling. It can improve the quality of care for patients. But
:04:57. > :04:59.while some rural hospitals are closing, only one Health Board has
:05:00. > :05:04.met Welsh Government targets to increase the number of staff working
:05:05. > :05:08.in the community. According to a recent Wales audit office report.
:05:09. > :05:14.The figure was meant to rise by 10% in each part of Wales, between 2010
:05:15. > :05:20.and 2013. But only one Health Board managed to do that. Other Health
:05:21. > :05:25.Boards saw a reduction in the number of community nurses by 2012 and the
:05:26. > :05:29.audit office came to the number -- came to the conclusion the number of
:05:30. > :05:33.cross Wales may be insufficient. Opposition parties and charities say
:05:34. > :05:38.the shift towards community care needs to speed up. Against a
:05:39. > :05:42.background of an increasingly ageing population it is important we get
:05:43. > :05:48.the care that we provide for older people right. That we get it right
:05:49. > :05:50.from now, clearly we need to prioritise and we need to speed
:05:51. > :05:54.things up to make sure people can receive the care they want and need
:05:55. > :05:59.within their own communities. Health Boards have told us that many
:06:00. > :06:03.community-based services are already in place, working to improve care
:06:04. > :06:06.for patients. The Welsh Government is set to announce how a ?50 million
:06:07. > :06:12.fund to strengthen community-based care will be spent, tomorrow.
:06:13. > :06:18.A jury has returned a verdict of misadventure on six Russian sailors
:06:19. > :06:21.who died when a cargo ship sank off the Gwynedd coast. Only two members
:06:22. > :06:29.of the Swanland's crew survived when a wave hit the ship in 2011. The
:06:30. > :06:34.Maritime union RMT has repeated its calls for those responsible to be
:06:35. > :06:37.prosecuted. Two days before pole is open for the
:06:38. > :06:42.European elections on Thursday, the Welsh Conservatives have renewed
:06:43. > :06:47.their attack on you tip of the election campaign nears its climax.
:06:48. > :06:51.-- on UKIP. They have repeated their claim they are the only party who
:06:52. > :06:56.can reform the EU and pledged to hold on in out referendum if they
:06:57. > :07:01.hold -- if they win the general election next year. The usually
:07:02. > :07:08.quiet world of the National Library of Wales tonight is embroiled in a
:07:09. > :07:13.row about the management of pay. A 10% pay increase has led to workers
:07:14. > :07:18.threatening to pass a motion of no confidence. What worries me, and I
:07:19. > :07:22.agree entirely with the unions on this, the National Library of Wales
:07:23. > :07:27.has had a reduction in its revenue of 25% in the last ten years. We are
:07:28. > :07:34.facing a further cut of about ?1 million in the next two years. We
:07:35. > :07:38.have to resolve this problem. The Wales Commonwealth Games team
:07:39. > :07:42.has been set a target of 27 medals in Glasgow, eight more than they won
:07:43. > :07:49.in Delhi four years ago. Sport Wales, who allocate money to Welsh
:07:50. > :07:53.sporting bodies, say whether -- say medal winning athletes are vital to
:07:54. > :07:58.inspire the nation. Parts of Wales were hit by thunder and lightning
:07:59. > :08:02.last night. One viewer captured it on camera. This is it, slowed down,
:08:03. > :08:05.the moment a bolt of lightning struck a tree outside Arwel
:08:06. > :08:08.Roberts' home in Greenfield in Flintshire. Any thunder and
:08:09. > :08:18.lightning around tonight? Easington night. Dramatic
:08:19. > :08:22.thunderstorms over the past 24 hours. There was a cluster across
:08:23. > :08:29.south-west Wales. Tonight, showers Eads northwards. Some cloud around.
:08:30. > :08:34.It will become chilly with mist and fog patches developing. Colder than
:08:35. > :08:39.last night. Five or six Celsius. Tomorrow, early mist and fog patches
:08:40. > :08:44.will clear. Remaining largely dry. A similar story for most but not all
:08:45. > :08:47.of the UK. A few showers in south-east England and the
:08:48. > :08:50.north-west corner of Scotland and Northern Ireland. In between,
:08:51. > :08:55.generally dry and bright. Temperatures still above average for
:08:56. > :09:00.most. Sunny spells with thick cloud later for Wales. The isolated
:09:01. > :09:05.shower. Staying dry for most. 15 Celsius across Cardigan Bay. 19
:09:06. > :09:10.Celsius in Cardiff. Tomorrow night, a deep area of low pressure starts
:09:11. > :09:15.to push up fronts from the south which could bring heavy rain. There
:09:16. > :09:18.is a warning for late Wednesday and Thursday. Through the early hours
:09:19. > :09:23.the heavy rain moving up from the south. 50 millimetres or two inches
:09:24. > :09:27.is possible before it eases northwards, eventually clearing to
:09:28. > :09:31.showers. Friday, cloudy at times, a mix of bright spells and showers.
:09:32. > :09:37.Temperatures in the mid teens. Low pressure is in control as we head
:09:38. > :09:40.into the bank holiday weekend. Recent dry spells on Saturday. It
:09:41. > :09:43.will not be as warm and dry as last weekend. You can keep up-to-date
:09:44. > :09:55.with the latest on the website. Using exclusive police surveillance
:09:56. > :10:01.footage, Week In Week Out next night on the gang who ran ?1 million
:10:02. > :10:03.conspiracy from inside prison. That is Wales Today. Good night.