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Veterans from Wales have been in France to mark the 70th | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
After meeting those who served, First Minister Carwyn Jones said we | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Leaders, veterans and citizens from across the globe, he had to remember | :00:27. | :00:44. | |
the price we paid in a country we liberated. | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
The First Minister was at a ceremony to honour the 3935 British soldiers | :00:52. | :01:04. | |
killed jawing the Normandy campaign. It is very impressive. Afterwards, a | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
chance to catch up with one of the Welsh veterans. It great honour to | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
be here representing Wales, and an even greater honour to be in the | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
company of such great men who, here 70 years ago, on the beaches, very | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
difficult now for us to imagine what it must've been like for them. But | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
for them to come back is exceptionally emotional. And it has | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
been a remarkable event. The veterans heroes here. Everyone wants | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
to stop, chat, and have an autograph. 19 the -- 90 old Gordon | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
was a dispatch rider. He was given a special celebrity treatment. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
I can't get over it. It's fantastic! People want to take photographs. | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
It's embarrassing. We were just ordinary lads when we came in 1944. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
We had to get on with the job. People say, were you scared? Of | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
course we were scared. Anyone who wasn't scared was an idiot. Some of | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
us survived, thank God we are still here today. Sword Beach on D-Day | :02:20. | :02:30. | |
took international centre stage this afternoon. Everyone who was anyone | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
was here. There were 18 heads of state and 7,000 people watching for | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
the biggest D-Day, narration the world has ever seen. -- D-Day, Ray. | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
We caught up with Gordon. The last time to show his family where he | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
fought. It is a good way to show them where I served. I have some way | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
to go yet. I remember it all. Away from centre stage, there are dozens | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
of smaller ceremonies and parades happening across Normandy. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
88-year-old Eddie Linton lost 90 comrades when his frigate was hit by | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
a U-boat. Like the 1,000 other veterans today, it is their bravery | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
and sacrifice he will never forget. The Normandy veterans Association is | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
disbanding and this'll be the last major commemoration. Today we are | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
able to say that the world was here, paying homage to the men who | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
fought our freedom. -- fought for our freedom. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
The former Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, has announced this | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
evening that he's standing down at the next general election. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Mr Hain, who's the MP for Neath, said it had been a privilege to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
serve his constituency for nearly a quarter of a century, | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
I've been in politics for nearly 50 years. All my life, really. I'm not | :03:54. | :04:03. | |
going to go away. I'm going to fight for Neath. I will live here, and I | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
want to fight for Labour and the support Ed Miliband. And I can do | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
that in all sorts of different ways. It's been a tough decision because I | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
am very close to Neath. I am very privileged to have represented this | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
constituency and done all I've done in government as well and I will | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
fight for Labour in the future. Our Political Editor Nick | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Servini is with me. So tell us about this decision. | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
A surprise? It was a surprise. He was due to | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
stand for election at the general election next year in Neath, and we | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
were filming with him this week to mark 15 years since the start of | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
devolution, and there was no indication that this is what he was | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
planning. The big question is what will he do in the future? As that | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
interview indicates, he certainly wants to remain in politics. I | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
thought his statement earlier was interesting because he said it was | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
time to find new ways to represent the new progressive politics to | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
which he and Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, are committed. The fact he | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
has consulted so closely with Ed Miliband would suggest that an | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
opportunity and a future career opportunity in the House of Lords | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
would be a possibility. We specifically asked him about that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
tonight but he is refusing to speculate on that. He has been a big | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
hit in Welsh politics for decades. Very high profile. Many people | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
became aware of him as a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner. And in | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
those protests against high-profile rugby and cricket tours to South | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
Africa in the apartheid era, he is from South Africa originally. He has | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
been the MP for Neath for 23 years, Welsh Secretary in the 1997 | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
referendum campaign, he has been Work and Pensions minister, and | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
probably outside of Wales 's most prominent role was as Northern | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Ireland Secretary in the period of 2005-2007, which coincided with a | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
historic decommissioning process by the IRA. Thank you. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Six men have been charged with a total of 27 serious sexual | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
assault charges in an investigation into historical abuse in | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
They?re due to appear before magistrates next week. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
The offences are alleged to have taken place | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
against two boys under 16, between 1981 and 1986, in Wrexham. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
The aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, has admitted it failed to ensure the | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
health and safety of its employees at its factory in Broughton. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
The charge followed the death in 2011 of Donald Williams | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
An earlier inquest heard he'd been crushed by a tractor at the end | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
The company will be sentenced next month. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
The head teacher and another member of staff at a Swansea secondary | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
school have resigned after what appeared to be a sex tape | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Graham Daniels was suspended from Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bryn Tawe, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
along with another member of staff, after a complaint about the video. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
The school says the resignations are not necessarily linked to | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
Cricket and a great wind for Glamorgan in the T20 Blast. | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
They beat Somerset to wind by seven runs. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
It's their third wind on the bounce in the competition. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
The defending Commonwealth Champion Dai Greene | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
will lead Wales' athletics team at the Games in Glasgow next month. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
The 400m hurdler from Llanelli, who took gold in Delhi, is one of 27 | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
The London 2012 medallist Aled Davies will head a six-strong | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Well, some heavy rain forecast for tomorrow. | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
Derek has all the details in the weekend forecast. | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
The humidity is rising and trouble is brewing with some heavy rain and | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
But it's not going to be a total wash-out this weekend, I can | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
Dry for most of us tonight, although I wouldn't rule out | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
You may see a few flashes of lightning. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Tomorrow, we have a Met Office warning in force which covers most | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
of Wales, apart from the south-west and Pembrokeshire. | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
It might start off dry in the North, but thundery rain will spread | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Could be some torrential rain in places, too. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Across the rest of the UK, thundery rain will spread northwards | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
during today, torrential rain in places with a risk of hail | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
and gusty winds, flash flooding a possibility but not everywhere. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
The far north of Scotland is staying fine and dry. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
And drier, brighter weather will spread from the south-west | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
across the southern half of the UK during the afternoon. | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
A high of 22 Celsius in London will feel quite muggy. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Tomorrow afternoon in Wales at 3pm, the worst | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
There will be a few showers dotted around. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
But more in the way of dry weather, some sunshine as well, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Some sunshine tomorrow evening, just one or two showers. | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
And after midnight a few more showers | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
You may catch a heavy shower but, on the whole, plenty of dry | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
weather, there will be sunny spells and it will feel pleasantly warm. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
So, heavy rain and thunderstorms clearing tomorrow. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Sunday the best day of the weekend, and it's looking | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Next week on Wales Today, we'll be asking has devolution improved | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
To mark the National Assembly's 15th birthday, every day next week we'll | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
look at whether delivered a stronger economy, | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
That is Wales Today. We are back at 6:50am tomorrow, but from all of us | :09:51. | :10:00. | |
here, goodbye. | :10:01. | :10:03. |