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in advance of the general election. That is all | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines. | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
As the Queen announces 11 new bills, we ask, | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Big changes are on the cards for pensioners. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
We hear the views from Conwy Golf Club. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Also tonight, modern day Wales - benefits, pensions and tax credits | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
make up more of our incomes than any other part of the country. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Accused of bare-faced hypocrisy - UKIP's new Welsh MEP confirms he | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
The moment an 84-year-old shop keeper saw | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
off two teenage thieves after calling them a couple of amateurs. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
And they play the Netherlands tonight, but Wales' footballers take | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
time out to remember the Welsh servicemen killed there | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
The coalition's last stand or a bold programme that will make a | :00:48. | :01:08. | |
The politicians are divided over the last Queen's Speech | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
before the General Election, but there are big changes on the way. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
MPs who misbehave could be recalled by voters between elections. | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
Older people will be given more freedom to spend | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Plans to give the Welsh Government more powers are on track. | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
And the law on child neglect is being toughened | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
In a moment the Secretary of State for Wales will tell me what this | :01:33. | :01:49. | |
does mean for all of us in Wales, but first a look at how one Welsh MP | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
has managed to persuade the coalition government to change the | :01:53. | :01:53. | |
law on child cruelty. Back to school for Mark Williams | :01:54. | :02:07. | |
in Aberystwyth. This time just | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
a short visit to find out what books It was his past classroom experience | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
that persuaded him the law needed changing so parents and carers who | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
neglect their children emotionally face the same penalties | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
as those who physically abuse them. It is about dealing with the most | :02:24. | :02:37. | |
serious cases of child neglect, where police will be going into a | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
household and seeing the cases of emotional neglect which might lead | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
onto physical abuse and sexual abuse but are powerless to make those | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
interventions. It is about dealing with serious cases of child abuse. | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
The change to the child neglect law was one of 11 new bills outlined | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
In Wales we have got used to paying for plastic bags when we go | :03:00. | :03:13. | |
shopping. Now England is to follow suit from autumn next year but the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
scheme here will be different. In small shops and take aways, they | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
will be exempt from the 5p charge. Besides the new laws, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
there was the expected confirmation The National Assembly for Wales and | :03:25. | :03:38. | |
Welsh ministers will have more power over taxation and investment. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
But, overall, critics were underwhelmed. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
My colleagues have talked about this being a zombie government. I am not | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
sure you measure the success of a government by how many bills it | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
passes. But these are not equal to the scale of the challenges we face. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
We were hoping for an Infrastructure Bill that would tackle the deficit | :04:06. | :04:17. | |
in Wales. We are disappointed that it did not happen. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Future pensioners will see the biggest changes | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Ministers hope giving workers more control of their pension pot | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Food for thought on the fairways of Conwy Golf Club today. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
There is a lot of people my age who do not put into pensions. I have | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
only just started in business for myself over the last six months so | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
in the short term, I will not be saving for a pension. In the long | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
term it is something to think about. The government's also promising | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
a new law to allow voters to throw out MPs between elections, | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
which may encourage MPs to start With me now is David Jones. You are | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
the voice of Wales in the UK Cabinet, where was the Welsh boys in | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
today's Queen's Speech. There are 11 bills coming through. One is the | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
Wales Bill and that will be completed in the Commons this month | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
and in Parliament by the end of the year. It gives taxation powers, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
potentially, to the Welsh Assembly. But there are a lot of other bills | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
which are not specifically Welsh but do benefit Wales a lot. The pension | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
bills are very important to Wales. I think there will be a lot of Welsh | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
pensioners or people approaching retirement who will welcome that. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Hasn't the Wales Bill been overtaken by the Conservatives offering | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Scotland full taxation powers rather than the limited once you are | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
prepared to offer the Welsh government? This is a government | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
Bill, the policies that were announced on Monday are Conservative | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
policies and they will not kick in until after the next general | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
election. So no change for Wales? No plans to change the Wales Bill at | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
all. But after the next general election, there will be a further | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
appeal where we will look at the recommendations of the Silk | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Commission so there will be more legislation coming through. You | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
mentioned pensions, but we heard there from people, lots of them have | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
not even thought about saving for their pension, let alone having a | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
pension pot they can blow on the Lamborghini. I am pretty sure none | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
of them would want to blow it on a Lamborghini but if people can be | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
trusted to be sufficiently prudent to look after their own pension | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
arrangements by saving for many years, there is no reason why they | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
should have to be buying an annuity. Benefits, pensions and tax credits | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
make up more of our incomes in Wales The latest figures show they formed | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
a bigger proportion of incomes The research from the Office | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
of National Statistics also suggests people here have had the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
second largest rise in the UK in the Our economics correspondent | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
Sarah Dickins has been looking These new figures tell us what | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
people have to live off and not just from incomes | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
from employment or rents but also from welfare payments, be they | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
pensions , benefits or tax credits. In other words, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
what people have to spend or save. On average in Wales in 2012, | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
we had just more than ?14,500 once taxes have been paid | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
and benefits received. That's an increase | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
on the year before and the second The figures also show us that | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the east of Wales has seen a greater increase than the west, | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
but both are from a low base. The lowest household income level is | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
found in the Gwent Valleys at just under ?13,500, while the highest is | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
in Newport and Monmouthshire That's the narrowest gap | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
between incomes for any part of the UK, suggesting Welsh incomes | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
are less divided. But even that number | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
for Monmouthshire is still Just over a quarter of income | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
here comes from pensions, tax It's the highest in the UK | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
and higher than five years earlier, Day-to-day, we are seeing the | :08:41. | :09:07. | |
opposite. Most people have not got enough income to cover their | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
essential outgoings, let alone anything else. In this area, that is | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
not the case, I would say. We've also heard today that one | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
in six people in Wales now work from home, helped | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
by better internet connections. On average, they earn about ?2 | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
an hour more than other workers and home working is most common in Powys | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
and Ceredigion, where more than one The overall message | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
from these range of figures today is that we are less divided in terms | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
of income than other parts of the UK, but our richest areas are | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
still poorer than the UK average and we are getting even more | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
dependent on social payments. Well, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
city regions have been hailed as one way of transforming our economy, | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
but now one of the key people behind the idea is warning Wales may lack | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
the vision to turn it into reality. Doctor Elizabeth Haywood recommended | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
the Welsh Government should set up the regions, | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
but now she says that without a leader to drive them forward | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
the opportunity could be wasted. City regions have been seen as | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
a way to develop the economy, with Swansea and Cardiff at the centre of | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
a larger region aimed at attracting Two have already been set up, | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
one in West Wales stretching from The other covers Bridgend to | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Monmouth and northwards to the Valleys - | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
the Cardiff capital region. But the woman who told ministers | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
they should be established says they fail to work | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
unless a charismatic leader is We need a person or several people | :10:44. | :10:57. | |
who will drag these kicking and screaming and help them to deliver. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Whether you like them or dislike them, we don't have a Boris as in | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
London, we do need some big visions to make sure that people get excited | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
about it. There's already been criticism | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
that including rural areas like Pembrokeshire in a so-called city | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
region makes no sense, while some regeneration experts don't believe | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
the strategy will work at all. We need to figure out where do | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
people work, where do people live and where two people play? We need | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
to plan that on a regional basis. Supporters of city regions point to | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
where they've been successful But they admit it could take up to | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
20 years to find out whether And you can see more on that story | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
on The Wales Report at 10.35pm A miner at the Gleision colliery | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
told his boss everything was all right moments before an inrush | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
of water killed him and three of Malcolm Fyfield, who was | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
the manager at the Swansea Valley pit, told a jury that Philip Hill | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
assured him all the necessary checks had been completed before explosives | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
were fired in the coal face. Malcolm Fyfield and the mine | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
operators deny manslaughter charges. A ?100 million deal has been agreed | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
between BT and a Welsh wind farm, Construction work on Mynydd y Bwllfa | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
near Hirwaun in Rhondda Cynon Taf BT says it will buy all the energy | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
generated by the nine turbines which will meet around half the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
company's energy demands in Wales. UKIP's new Welsh MEP, Nathan Gill, | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
has faced criticism after admitting that he used to | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
employ dozens of east European and Labour have accused him | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
of bare-faced hypocrisy, but Mr Gill insists he's done | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
nothing to contradict his party's Our political editor | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
Nick Servini is here. How did he come to | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
employ these workers? He was the director of a number of | :12:53. | :13:04. | |
family businesses that provided care services to Hull city council. I | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
have had contact with Nathan Gill tonight and he said it was a | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
business that employs 200 people. Because of a high turnover of staff, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
a few dozen were from the Far East and Eastern Europe to help him run | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
the business. We should say, this is a company that has since collapsed | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
in the financial crisis but has inevitably faced criticism because | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
of the apparent contradiction with UKIP's policy against the free | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
movement of labour within the EU. How damaging is this? The Labour MP | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
for Neath, Peter Hain, as accused them of barefaced hypocrisy, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
particularly in the light of the way he was elected on an | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
anti-immigration platform. What he is referring to is the kind of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
language Nathan Gill used in debates on BBC is when he said people had | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
come up to him complaining when there were no jobs for young people | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
and yet there were a lot of foreign-born workers and he said | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
that did not make sense. The question is, how does that square | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
with the fact that Nathan Gill used to employ foreign workers when he | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
ran a company? What he is saying is, there is no hypocrisy here, and he | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
is making the point that UKIP is not against immigration per se, all it | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
is against is uncontrolled immigration. | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
Remembering the Welsh troops who liberated a Dutch city 70 years ago. | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
And, she's come out of retirement to compete at the Commonwealth Games - | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
double gold medallist Michaela Breeze says the passion is back. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
There is a drive again, there is an ambition again, and it is fair. The | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
fire is back. An 84-year-old shopkeeper forced | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
armed robbers to flee empty handed when he challenged them | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
as they tried to raid his shop Dennis Trounce, | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
who's been running the business 25 years, pushed the masked men back | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
out through the door. Today, he said they were amateurs | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
and, while he doesn't look for The so-called fracas was in fact an | :15:06. | :15:23. | |
armed robbery. Until 84-year-old Dennis Trounce put a stop to it. | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
Customers today were keen to know the details. Did they get away on a | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
bike? No, they ran. They were pretty and it kids, I think. They came in | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
all wooded. It was on Sunday, 9pm, when two masked men ran into the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
shop. One of them climbed over the counter and in the CCTV footage you | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
can see he had a knife in his hand. The other chap, more sensibly, | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
stayed by the door. I said, what is going on? They said, give us the | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
money. I said, of course, certainly. He said, I have got a knife. I said, | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
were reserved? When he was trying to open the till he needed both hands | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
so we put the knife back in his pocket. It is not the first time he | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
has tackled robbers. Last time he was 76. I was younger them. But you | :16:28. | :16:41. | |
have not learned your lesson. No. But he says really it is not a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
question of being a hero, he wanted to diffuse the situation and that is | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
what he did. A really silly incident really. They were like amateurs. The | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
brave Dennis Trounce there. In less than an hour, | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Wales will take on the Netherlands in a pre-World Cup friendly | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
at the Amsterdam Arena. But the match will also serve | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
as a tribute to Welsh veterans Throughout the day, | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
there have been special events in the Dutch capital, remembering | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
the sacrifice made by Welsh troops as they fought to liberate the city | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
of S-Hertogenbosch in 1944. It was a victory that came at a high | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
price, as Carwyn Jones now reports. For 70 years the Dutch city | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
of S-Hertogenbosch has commemorated the hard fought battle that led to | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
its liberation from Nazi control. For five long days in 1944, soldiers | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
from the 53rd Welsh Division fought tooth and nail with German forces - | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
around 8,000 in total - who had been given orders from Hitler to | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
hold the city at all costs. Peter Davies from Maesycymmer was | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
there and still remembers The battle was fairly hectic right | :17:54. | :18:08. | |
from the word go. The Germans obviously resisted and the infantry | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
were getting some heavy attacks on them. We thought we had pushed most | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
of the Germans out. But they came back in at night. | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
Getting control of the bridges over the main canal | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
in the city was crucial if the allies were to succeed. | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
In a daring manoeuvre, Welsh troops managed to cross one | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
Once in the city, it was close quarter street fighting. | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
In the thick of it was Bill Allen, just 22 years old at the time. | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
It was house to house fighting, more or less. You had to go in and clear | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
each house as you went along. It was a city so there was no actual clean | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
areas, it was all buildings. After five days of heavy fighting, | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
the battle was won and the people of S-Hertogenbosch welcomed | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
their liberators with open arms. For four long years, they'd been | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
living under a brutal Nazi regime. The Netherlands has never forgotten | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
the courage and sacrifice Today, | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
children from the S-Hertogenbosch met Wales manager Chris Coleman | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
in a public display of gratitude. 70 years on, | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
the ties are as strong as ever. Of course, we are grateful until | :19:16. | :19:27. | |
today and will stay grateful for this big help that we really needed | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
in those days. The liberation of S-Hertogenbosch | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
was of huge strategic importance. It allowed the allies to continue | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
their advance into Germany. But for the Dutch people, | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
the victory meant so much more. Visit S-Hertogenbosch today | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
and you'll still find their tributes to Welsh soldiers, 146 in all, | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
who fought and died defending Well, we saw the Wales manager | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Chris Coleman and some of his players taking time out to remember | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
those who lost their lives. Tonight they're playing | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
the Netherlands in Amsterdam. Wales are without Gareth Bale, | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
Aaron Ramsey and Ashley Williams. Earlier, I caught-up with | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
the former Wales captain Kevin Ratcliffe and began by asking | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
him, what's Chris Coleman hoping to It is a game he can look at and | :20:03. | :20:16. | |
think, you might come up against this type of game towards the end of | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
the campaign, you might need to go away against a team like the Dutch | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
and get a point and maybe set your side at two not concede. He has got | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
to see what players he has got available and what system of the | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
players can adapt to. The other thing is, it is giving a great | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
opportunity to lads on the fringe to show what they can do. The Dutch | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
coach has said he is the straight did that so many key players for | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
Wales are missing. Any danger it will be a one-sided affair? I think | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
it will be, no doubt. We have only got around six goals in us. That is | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
not really a lot. One of their players might have doubled that so | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
it is going to be very difficult. The fitness level is going to be | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
something to look at for Chris. You will probably see the full | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
allocation of service being used. And next up for Wales, trying to | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
qualify for the European Championships. Are they set up to | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
finally qualify? Well, we have got a stronger squad than we have ever | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
had. We have got what I classed as too, maybe three world-class players | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
if you count Ashley Williams, Aaron Ramsey and definitely Gareth Bale. I | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
am sure we can come very close if not succeed this time. Enjoy the | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
game. Thank you. And you can watch the game live | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
over on BBC Two Wales at 7.00pm. Commentary too on BBC Radio Wales | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
and Radio Cymru. One of our most decorated athletes | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
has come out of retirement to spearhead Wales' weightlifting | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
team at the Commonwealth Games. Double gold medallist | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Michaela Breeze quit the sport four But with just | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
a few months to go until Glasgow, she's had a change of heart | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
and is already showing the sort Our sports reporter Ashleigh | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Crowter's been to meet her. The body is a few years older but | :22:11. | :22:24. | |
works feels that little bit harder but the competitive edge in Michaela | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
Breeze is still razor-sharp. Less than a year ago, she expected to be | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
running her gym hundreds of miles away from the Glasgow spotlight, but | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
when she started coaching some budding young lifters, it real walk | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
a passion that had lain dormant for a few years. I lifted 25 kilos above | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
qualification with no training for two and a half years. There was a | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
realisation of, it is still there, can I still do this? Since November | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
last year, it has been a little more focused. There is a drive again, and | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
ambition again, and it is there. The fire is back. She will return to the | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
games with a huge reputation to defend. She was champion in | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Manchester and Melbourne and took silver four years ago. But as she | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
begins the competition in Glasgow, she will be carrying extra | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
responsibilities as a coach. Christy Williams is the new girl on the | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
block. A former Fleet works as a school receptionist. 18 months ago | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
she had never even picked up a weightlifting bar but with Michaela | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
showing her how it is then she has proved to be a natural. Ecstatic. To | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
be training with her and hopefully to be at an international with her | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
would be a dream come true because she is a legend in weightlifting and | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
she is a good friend to me. I haven't seen her on the telly in the | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
Olympics and things but I had never see myself doing it. I thought, I | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
may as well give it a try, I have got nothing to lose. I love it. She | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
has potential but she needs to work hard, as all athletes to. My test as | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
a coach will be whether I can coach other athletes to break my records. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
The former athlete is promising her dual role will not take away from | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
the coaching efforts. I believe in my ability and I am putting myself | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
there to be shot at. Bring it on. That is what competition is all | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
about. Am I still young enough to do this? We will have to wait and see. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Let's get the weather now. A break from the rain tomorrow? | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
A big improvement tomorrow but disappointing today. | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
More like November than June. The radar shows the rain. | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Some of it heavy and chilly as well. Only 10 Celsius in Swansea. | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
Parts of the north dried-up this afternoon with a high of 14 Celsius | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
The good news is, tomorrow will be much drier, sunnier and warmer | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
This evening, still some rain and showers, but overnight turning | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
drier and cleaer, although the north may see a little rain. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Temperatures in rural Powys falling as low as six Celsius. | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
Here's the picture for 8.00am in the morning. | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
Much better than today. Generally dry. | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
Good visibility as well with a light to moderate breeze. | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
So, much drier and brighter tomorrow after today's rain. | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
Just the odd shower, for example on the Brecon Beacons. | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
Top temperatures 14 to 18 Celsius with a light to moderate breeze. | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
Tomorrow night, dry with some high cloud spreading from the south. | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
The temperature in Ruthin falling to 6 Celsius. | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Friday, plenty of dry weather. Some cloud and hazy sunshine. | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
Just a few spots of rain. Warmer with a south-easterly | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
By the end of the week we'll be in a battle ground with warm | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
and humid air on the near continent and cooler air over the Atlantic. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
So, Friday night into Saturday will turn humid with a risk of some heavy | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
There is a Met Office Yellow warning in force. | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
The worst of the thunderstorms may occur in England on Saturday but | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Wales could be affected as well. Sunday will be better. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
Some sunshine, a few showers and feeling fresher. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
So the unstable weather is set to continue. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Some sunshine and warmer but no sign yet of a long spell of fine weather. | :26:56. | :27:15. | |
In the last Queen's Speech before the general election, the coalition | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
government has set out its plans for its final year in power. There was | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
also confirmation of plans to give Wales more power over taxation and | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
investment. I'll have an update for you | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
at 8.00pm and a full round up That's Wales Today. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
Thanks for watching. | :27:35. | :27:39. |