:00:00. > :00:00.cooler through the weekend, but the weather is looking pretty good for
:00:00. > :00:12.Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines....
:00:13. > :00:15.Two companies are fined over the death of five-year-old Karolina
:00:16. > :00:23.Golabek, crushed to death by electric gates. Her family said
:00:24. > :00:31.Justice has been done. What I hear today, I know that was not safe, and
:00:32. > :00:35.it could happen to anyone. It's an industry dominated by meat.
:00:36. > :00:39.Now new targets to boost food production and create jobs.
:00:40. > :00:44.Four men in court charged with historical sex abuse in children's
:00:45. > :00:47.homes. A fifth man fails to appear. After 15 years of big changes, has
:00:48. > :00:52.the education system delivered for the children of devolution?
:00:53. > :00:54.And highs hopes for a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. But
:00:55. > :01:13.triathlon world champion Non Stanford is out through injury.
:01:14. > :01:20.Good evening. Two companies have been ordered to pay nearly ?200,000
:01:21. > :01:23.for leaving a gate that crushed a five-year-old girl to death
:01:24. > :01:26."desperately unsafe". Karolina Golabek was playing near her home in
:01:27. > :01:34.Bridgend four years ago when she became trapped. Kate Morgan reports.
:01:35. > :01:40.Karolina Golabek was a happy, young girl. Just days away from her sixth
:01:41. > :01:47.birthday. She was well known to her neighbours in Bridgend. And in July
:01:48. > :01:50.2010, they spotted her, as usual, playing outside near a car park. But
:01:51. > :01:54.moments later, she was found trapped in an electronic gate, crushed by
:01:55. > :01:58.the equivalent of more than 30 stone in weight. Karolina was rushed to
:01:59. > :02:01.hospital, but died just hours later. Today her family were in court to
:02:02. > :02:06.see two companies ordered to pay nearly ?200,000 for health and
:02:07. > :02:16.safety failings. They say it's been devastating. She was lovely, cute,
:02:17. > :02:22.our beautiful little girl, very clever stop I hear the judge said
:02:23. > :02:25.today that we could not bring her back to life, nor change what
:02:26. > :02:34.happened, but I hope everyone would listen to date. -- today. This
:02:35. > :02:37.Health and Safety Executive video shows tests on the gate just after
:02:38. > :02:41.Karolina's death. When something is put in its way, it doesn't slow down
:02:42. > :02:44.or stop. It should have. John Glen Installation Services worked on the
:02:45. > :02:47.gate a year before the accident. They didn't programme a crucial
:02:48. > :02:50.safety feature or check its strength. A second company, Tremorfa
:02:51. > :02:54.Ltd, was responsible for maintaining the gate. They inspected it twice,
:02:55. > :03:08.but failed to check whether it met safety standards. It didn't.
:03:09. > :03:17.Completely preventable and avoidable, both companies leaving an
:03:18. > :03:20.unsafe date. -- gate. Both companies say they're deeply sorry for what's
:03:21. > :03:22.happened, and they've both made sure it couldn't happen again. The judge
:03:23. > :03:28.said that both companies left the gate highly powerful and desperately
:03:29. > :03:32.unsafe and argued that the death of Karolina shattered her family and it
:03:33. > :03:36.had been entirely foreseeable, but because of the deep remorse shown by
:03:37. > :03:40.both companies, and changes behaviour, he said the fines were
:03:41. > :03:46.not meant to liquidate the companies, but punish them.
:03:47. > :03:49.The food and drink industry is being given a target to increase
:03:50. > :03:54.production by 30% in the next six years. The minister in charge, Alun
:03:55. > :03:57.Davies, says he wants the government to be held to account if the
:03:58. > :04:01.objective isn't met. Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is at a
:04:02. > :04:05.strawberry farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. Who would have thought
:04:06. > :04:11.that here we have an absolutely enormous strawberry business, the
:04:12. > :04:20.first crop, first TARDIS, has gone and we have little plants inside.
:04:21. > :04:27.They will go to high-street stores. -- the first plants. They have five
:04:28. > :04:32.acres under glass here. It is just part of an industry that is of
:04:33. > :04:36.growing importance. But what is controversial is how much of it is
:04:37. > :04:40.owned by Welsh people in Wales and how much by others. This company is
:04:41. > :04:46.based on Haverford, but I have looked at the wider industry as a
:04:47. > :04:51.whole. When we see fields of livestock, we
:04:52. > :04:56.look at an industry worth ?5 billion and which 45,000 people work. The
:04:57. > :05:00.Welsh Government says the sector could grow significantly by 30% in
:05:01. > :05:05.six years, creating more jobs and making Welsh communities wealthier.
:05:06. > :05:10.Morgan family have farmed here for two generations and have expanded,
:05:11. > :05:13.but say it has been difficult. We have borrowed a lot of money on the
:05:14. > :05:21.back of an overdraft or expand the business, so access to cheap money
:05:22. > :05:27.or finances would be an advantage. Meat accounts for 32% of the
:05:28. > :05:33.business, and bakery 22%, red meat accounting for 42%, and milk 2% in
:05:34. > :05:37.farming. One of the weaknesses of the food industry in Wales up until
:05:38. > :05:44.now is the large volumes of raw materials that leave Wales to be
:05:45. > :05:49.processed. -- milk is 32%. The aim is to try and get more food taken to
:05:50. > :05:57.the next age, more profitable state, within Wales. We were reporting the
:05:58. > :06:00.opening of a new abattoir in one year ago, world-class facilities to
:06:01. > :06:07.do what we have described in the heart of the Welsh countryside. But
:06:08. > :06:09.it is owned by Ireland. We are investing in facilities that can
:06:10. > :06:15.deliver the products you describe. If you look down the road, there is
:06:16. > :06:20.another business which is processing that product. But it is fair to say
:06:21. > :06:23.even those companies that are not Welsh contribute to our economy, but
:06:24. > :06:29.not as much as it they were owned here. We have been eased in Wales
:06:30. > :06:33.for over 20 years at this page, employing over 600 people in the
:06:34. > :06:38.Welsh economy, as well as associated companies that supply us with
:06:39. > :06:44.transport, canteen, other services, Eddie heavily invested in the Welsh
:06:45. > :06:51.economy. The Minister says the buck stops with him. The pressure is now
:06:52. > :06:55.on the industry to identify what the producers need to help them expand
:06:56. > :07:00.and the government to help make it happen.
:07:01. > :07:05.And one way in which businesses like this could expanded if the people
:07:06. > :07:09.who pick the strawberries or perhaps given more permanent jobs, or they
:07:10. > :07:13.had another crop working through their other times of the year,
:07:14. > :07:18.practical way in which we did see that the sector grow. But we only
:07:19. > :07:22.need to think back to issues with bakeries, where people have had good
:07:23. > :07:27.contracts with supermarkets, then have lost them. That is the
:07:28. > :07:32.challenge for Wales, develop the business but in a way it continues
:07:33. > :07:39.for the future and is money back into communities right across Wales.
:07:40. > :07:43.But thank you. A judge has dismissed a challenge by
:07:44. > :07:46.an animal welfare charity to overturn a decision to allow a one
:07:47. > :07:50.thousand cow mega dairy near Welshpool. It means plans to expand
:07:51. > :07:53.a 300 cow farm near Leighton can now go ahead. The World Society for the
:07:54. > :07:59.Protection of Animals was ordered to pay ?6,000 in costs.
:08:00. > :08:02.Four men charged in connection with historical sexual abuse following an
:08:03. > :08:06.investigation into children's homes across North Wales have appeared in
:08:07. > :08:10.court. A fifth man, also charged as part of Operation Pallial, failed to
:08:11. > :08:12.appear and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. From Mold, Matthew
:08:13. > :08:18.Richards reports. Neil Phoenix, who's 62 and from
:08:19. > :08:22.Wrexham. 54-year-old Roy Norry from Connahs Quay. Edward Huxley, a
:08:23. > :08:27.69-year-old from Berkshire. And David Lightfoot, who's 71 and from
:08:28. > :08:30.Ellesmere Port. They are charged in connection with a series of indecent
:08:31. > :08:38.or sexual assaults against one person. A boy under the age of 16,
:08:39. > :08:41.between 1981 and 1986. They were charged as part of the National
:08:42. > :08:44.Crime Agency's Operation Pallial, set up to investigate claims of
:08:45. > :08:47.historical sexual and physical abuse at children's homes in North Wales.
:08:48. > :08:54.In total, 20 arrests have been made so far. The four men stood alongside
:08:55. > :08:59.each other providing addresses, dates of birth and confirmed their
:09:00. > :09:05.names, told each of their cases will be sent to the Crown Court one week
:09:06. > :09:09.from now. A fifth man, Mark Lester, failed to appear, charged with
:09:10. > :09:16.indecent assault and sexual assault. A medical note provided was
:09:17. > :09:19.described as not adequate and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
:09:20. > :09:22.Another man, Keith Stokes from Cheshire, has already been before
:09:23. > :09:26.the district judge. His case will also be heard before the Crown Court
:09:27. > :09:30.on 20th June. Ice in the engine may have been the
:09:31. > :09:33.cause of a light aircraft crash in Caernarfon in which a man was
:09:34. > :09:37.killed. Iain Nuttal from Blackburn died in May last year after the
:09:38. > :09:40.aircraft, flown by his father, lost power and hit a tree. An Air
:09:41. > :09:45.Accident Investigation found no mechanical faults with the engine.
:09:46. > :09:48.The centres of Newport and Bridgend will be revamped as part of plans to
:09:49. > :09:54.regenerate areas across South Wales using ?58 million of funding. Other
:09:55. > :09:58.projects include a similar scheme to move people into empty homes in Port
:09:59. > :10:01.Talbot. Similar funding for projects in North Wales was announced by
:10:02. > :10:04.ministers last week. A woman has been awarded ?2,500
:10:05. > :10:09.after she was diagnosed with a stroke, which turned out to be a
:10:10. > :10:12.brain tumour. The 45-year-old was admitted to the Royal Glamorgan
:10:13. > :10:17.Hospital near Llantrisant in 2009. Opportunities to diagnose the cancer
:10:18. > :10:21.were missed for more than a year. Cwm Taf University health board has
:10:22. > :10:25.apologised. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water recorded
:10:26. > :10:30.profits of ?50 million last year. Up from 29 million the year before. The
:10:31. > :10:33.company says it's their strongest performance since it became
:10:34. > :10:36.non-shareholder owned more than a decade ago. The firm has already
:10:37. > :10:44.promised to keep any prices rises below inflation until 2020. It has
:10:45. > :10:47.been our best year of operational performance, notwithstanding
:10:48. > :10:52.challenges last year, the months of storms during the winter,
:10:53. > :10:56.unprecedented, but a great effort by everyone, 2500 colleagues working
:10:57. > :11:02.long hours, dedicated to keep the service to customers going.
:11:03. > :11:07.Still to come in the programme... No George North in training.
:11:08. > :11:08.But despite a virus, he's picked for Saturday's first test against South
:11:09. > :11:17.Africa. If there's one area where we've seen
:11:18. > :11:21.big changes since devolution, it's education. Our schools, colleges and
:11:22. > :11:28.universities work very differently now to 15 years ago. And very
:11:29. > :11:31.differently to the rest of the UK. There have been concerns about
:11:32. > :11:34.falling standards here. But how well founded are they? And how did
:11:35. > :11:37.officials cope with such a frantic pace of change? Our Education
:11:38. > :11:43.Correspondent, Arwyn Jones, looks at how education has delivered for the
:11:44. > :11:47.children of devolution. Let us look at the evolution as a
:11:48. > :11:54.school project, what has been achieved over 15 years. In the past
:11:55. > :11:59.few years, ministers flexed their new-found policy muscles. Out went
:12:00. > :12:05.the annual sat tests and league tables and in came the play based
:12:06. > :12:09.foundation test, a unique way to teach children, but what has been
:12:10. > :12:14.the result? According to opinion polls be commissioned, the way that
:12:15. > :12:19.you view standards over the past 15 years is a real mixed bag, around
:12:20. > :12:26.one in five standards have improved, but over 25% and things have
:12:27. > :12:30.declined, but the largest proportion think that it has made little
:12:31. > :12:36.difference. There has certainly been a distance for this family, children
:12:37. > :12:42.of devolution having all gone through a devolved school system.
:12:43. > :12:46.Their mother is a teacher and supports much of the Welsh
:12:47. > :12:51.Government's work, but is torn how we teach our youngest children. I
:12:52. > :12:57.like the foundation phase in that it lends its wealth to the children
:12:58. > :13:01.learning themselves. -- lends itself. I am not a fan because of
:13:02. > :13:06.the lack of structure, and looking at where my elder two wed at the
:13:07. > :13:10.same point as we are my youngest is now, I think their maths and
:13:11. > :13:16.literacy skills and may be slightly better. But if devolution has
:13:17. > :13:22.achieved something, it is that this little girl loves a tough object. It
:13:23. > :13:27.is mathematics, I am in the top group and we do weird questions,
:13:28. > :13:38.like providing four by two and adding six. But what has happened to
:13:39. > :13:41.results over rail -- overall? Back in 1999, Wales and England were neck
:13:42. > :13:47.and neck, but England is motoring ahead. But that is not the whole
:13:48. > :13:57.picture. Importantly, in Wales, few Georgian undertake BTECs and NVQs,
:13:58. > :14:01.and children are much more likely to be pushed into those than GCSEs,
:14:02. > :14:14.which accounts for that apparent gap in the GSE -- in the equivalent. We
:14:15. > :14:20.could use the millennium cohort study follows the lives of 20,000
:14:21. > :14:24.youngsters born since devolution. Comparing children in Wales with
:14:25. > :14:29.elsewhere in the UK, with similar circumstances and backgrounds, those
:14:30. > :14:35.children do slightly less well in literacy test results, about the
:14:36. > :14:43.same in new Morrissey, but better in other measures. -- the same with
:14:44. > :14:47.numbers. When sat tests scrapped a decade ago, the plan was to replace
:14:48. > :14:53.them with other tests, but that never happened. The man who made
:14:54. > :14:55.those recommendations says we did not know how the children are
:14:56. > :15:03.getting on in the most important areas. How much of a problem is
:15:04. > :15:07.this? Literacy and numeracy at 11? You have to have evidence, and
:15:08. > :15:13.unless you put the systems in place to provide evidence you can trust,
:15:14. > :15:16.you cannot use it, and that is the problem. He also thinks there are
:15:17. > :15:23.weaknesses and how officials went about work. I am but the Scots have
:15:24. > :15:31.their own parliament in 1999. In Wales, they had none of that
:15:32. > :15:35.experience. The government insists concerns have been addressed and it
:15:36. > :15:38.is about to launch further changes to our schools, the curriculum here
:15:39. > :15:45.than qualifications like ECSC is about to become totally different
:15:46. > :15:48.from Elsevier. -- my GCSEs is about to become totally different from
:15:49. > :15:53.elsewhere, and the picture is constantly moving.
:15:54. > :15:56.And staying with devolution. The editor of The Independent newspaper
:15:57. > :15:59.has told this programme that Wales has been neglected by Fleet Street
:16:00. > :16:02.since devolution was introduced 15 years ago. Politicians in Cardiff
:16:03. > :16:05.Bay complain regularly that they're overlooked by the London papers. A
:16:06. > :16:08.situation the Presiding Officer said had contributed to a democratic
:16:09. > :16:11.deficit. Our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas reports.
:16:12. > :16:14.Millions of us buy a daily paper. Their influence still strong in
:16:15. > :16:19.politics, business, sport and entertainment. And whoever said no
:16:20. > :16:23.news was good news clearly wasn't an Assembly member. As complaints come
:16:24. > :16:27.regularly that they're shunned or simply overlooked by many of
:16:28. > :16:31.Britain's most popular papers. If you buy a newspaper, chances are
:16:32. > :16:34.it's one that's written and published here in London. Some Welsh
:16:35. > :16:39.poltiicians think these papers should be reporting more regularly
:16:40. > :16:42.on Welsh affairs. Adding updates from Cardiff Bay to the column
:16:43. > :16:45.inches devoted to Westminster. Ultimately it's the editor who
:16:46. > :16:48.decides what's in the paper. At The Independent, Amol Rajan is in
:16:49. > :16:55.charge. And confesses to sometimes doing Wales a disservice. I think
:16:56. > :16:59.Wales has been treated mostly as political stories, an independent
:17:00. > :17:03.story, Labour Party story, but fair to say it has suffered from neglect,
:17:04. > :17:07.which it is right to annoy some Welsh readers. Since the start, the
:17:08. > :17:10.Assembly's suffered accusations that its debates and decisions aren't
:17:11. > :17:15.always that interesting to the outside world. You were the one that
:17:16. > :17:23.said... You said it was like watching paint dry. That was because
:17:24. > :17:28.of the materials. Assembly business isn't necessarily boring. But it
:17:29. > :17:32.does have to compete with Fleet Street's own news agenda. I think
:17:33. > :17:36.Wales is interesting, hugely interesting, but we are given by the
:17:37. > :17:41.news agenda and there is a practicality where we have to be led
:17:42. > :17:44.by the fact that many of our readers are not in Wales, but the south-west
:17:45. > :17:49.and south-east of England. Political programmes have come and gone. But
:17:50. > :17:51.both the BBC and ITV Wales have continued covering Assembly
:17:52. > :17:53.politics, even though the total number of English language
:17:54. > :17:58.prorgammes produced by both broadcasters has fallen while the
:17:59. > :18:03.assembly's been in existence. The Western Mail's also been covering
:18:04. > :18:05.events from the start. And while it retains a strong readership among
:18:06. > :18:08.the decision makers in politics, business and sport, overall it's
:18:09. > :18:15.suffered the same declines in circulation as almost every other
:18:16. > :18:22.paper. As the Assembly bedded in, the Western Mail was selling more
:18:23. > :18:24.than 57,000 copies Monday to Friday. By 2014, and including Saturdays as
:18:25. > :18:31.well, circulation's hovering just above 22,000. But focussing on hard
:18:32. > :18:36.copy sales masks the rapid growth online. The digital arm of the paper
:18:37. > :18:40.got almost two million page views a month during the second half of last
:18:41. > :18:48.year. And it is on course to double that figure by 2015. We have a huge
:18:49. > :18:52.audience online that is growing fast... One newsroom produces
:18:53. > :18:55.stories for the Western Mail and Wales Online. And while the politics
:18:56. > :19:02.of devolution can occasionally be dry, some issues do excite the
:19:03. > :19:06.readers. A great example of an easy issue to report, and one that got a
:19:07. > :19:10.lot of coverage, was the 5p charge for plastic bags, affecting
:19:11. > :19:18.everybody, it is the Welsh Government doing something, making a
:19:19. > :19:21.decision impacting one is all. -- on us all. Accepting that newspaper
:19:22. > :19:24.circulations are down across the industry, the internet seems the
:19:25. > :19:28.solution for politicians looking for greater coverage. An enormous
:19:29. > :19:31.opportunity for them to focus on digital in the way they present
:19:32. > :19:35.themselves to Wales and the rest of the world. Compared to making it
:19:36. > :19:41.into print, the opportunities for being published online are vast. But
:19:42. > :19:44.the politicians will need to make quite an impression if they're to
:19:45. > :19:51.get noticed among the sites and apps delivering news to the modern world.
:19:52. > :19:54.The Labour Party has written to its local branch in the Cynon Valley
:19:55. > :19:57.saying it won't change its mind and that the new parliamentary candidate
:19:58. > :20:01.will have to be selected from an all-women short list. Last week, a
:20:02. > :20:04.meeting to select a successor to the outgoing MP Ann Clwyd was cancelled
:20:05. > :20:09.because local party members objected to the short list.
:20:10. > :20:14.Tonight's sport. And bitter disappointment for one of our best
:20:15. > :20:21.Commonwealth medal hopes. That's right. Good evening. One of
:20:22. > :20:24.Wales' best hopes of a gold medal at next month's Commonwealth Games has
:20:25. > :20:27.been forced to pull out of the team because of injury. World triathlon
:20:28. > :20:31.champion Non Stanford, who's from Swansea, has a stress fracture in
:20:32. > :20:34.her ankle. She's been replaced by Carol Bridge from the Rhondda, who
:20:35. > :20:36.works as a nurse in accident and emergency. More from our sports
:20:37. > :20:41.reporter Ashleigh Crowter. As sensational race! She was
:20:42. > :20:44.supposed to be the one getting the games for wheels off to a flying
:20:45. > :20:50.start, crowned world champion back in September, Non Stanford was said
:20:51. > :20:55.to compete in the first day in Glasgow and was the whole she would
:20:56. > :20:59.an early gold medal, but not to be, just when she thought you was over a
:21:00. > :21:04.recent injury, a scan revealed a stress fracture in her left ankle. I
:21:05. > :21:12.was so optimistic, everything going so well, plenty of time to make sure
:21:13. > :21:18.I was ready for Glasgow, and to take a second blow so quickly has been
:21:19. > :21:23.tough. But unfortunately, it is part of the game that we play, injuries
:21:24. > :21:28.happen to everyone, and the timing has not been ideal this year. She
:21:29. > :21:32.will have to wait another four years for the chance to wear the Welsh
:21:33. > :21:37.vest, a cruel blow on the day after her team-mates have their official
:21:38. > :21:41.sendoff. Helen Jenkins was there and will lead the quest for medals. She
:21:42. > :21:46.had her own injury lay-off not long ago, but is back in action and
:21:47. > :21:49.approaching the form that saw her crowned world champion in 2011. Non
:21:50. > :21:54.Stanford is promising to be in Glasgow to support the team. Before
:21:55. > :22:01.setting her sights on a new future target, the 2016 Olympics.
:22:02. > :22:05.Rugby, and George North has been named in Wales' team to play South
:22:06. > :22:07.Africa on Saturday, even though he's suffering from a virus. The
:22:08. > :22:12.Northampton wing was withdrawn from the midweek team because of illness.
:22:13. > :22:15.But Warren Gatland hopes he'll recover in time to join a side in
:22:16. > :22:19.which Matthew Morgan and Gareth Davies could win their first caps
:22:20. > :22:20.from the bench. From Durban, our rugby correspondent Gareth Charles
:22:21. > :22:28.reports. With two train stations -- training
:22:29. > :22:31.sessions in one day, the main thing to content within the heat. One
:22:32. > :22:38.absentee is George North, consign to his hotel room but making some
:22:39. > :22:42.progress. The real surprises in the starting line-up, plenty of
:22:43. > :22:49.experience, with Wales in particular utilising the centre partnership.
:22:50. > :22:57.Against an inexperienced hearing. Up front, Adam Jones places 100th
:22:58. > :23:08.International. The midweek skipper, after proving his fitness. And the
:23:09. > :23:20.number seven shirt taking over an absence. And quite ending oppression
:23:21. > :23:25.created midweek by some. And Wales eye to create an impression on
:23:26. > :23:30.Saturday. -- and making quite an impression. We're not here to make
:23:31. > :23:33.up the numbers, we feel we have trained well, going out there with
:23:34. > :23:39.the belief and confidence we could win. The surroundings and weather
:23:40. > :23:43.conditions sometimes make it easy to forget you are in the middle of a
:23:44. > :23:49.South African winter, but those players chosen by Warren Gatland
:23:50. > :23:56.know it will get hotter before they can contemplate any relaxation and
:23:57. > :23:59.an end of season break. One final bit of sports News for you
:24:00. > :24:04.tonight. Football, and Cardiff City have signed midfielder Kagisho
:24:05. > :24:07.Dikgacoi from Crystal Palace. The 29-year-old South African is out of
:24:08. > :24:09.contract. He's the fifth player to be signed by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
:24:10. > :24:14.this summer. Thank you. Primary school children
:24:15. > :24:21.in Aberystwyth took a giant leap for mankind earlier today by launching
:24:22. > :24:28.their very own space mission. Three, two, one! CHEERING.
:24:29. > :24:32.The space capsule lifted off from the playground with the help of a
:24:33. > :24:35.large helium balloon. It spent three and a half hours in the sky,
:24:36. > :24:38.reaching a height of nearly 18 miles, before finally coming down in
:24:39. > :24:44.a field near Llandrindod Wells. And they certainly have the weather for
:24:45. > :24:45.it. It feels more like summer again today. Derek is out enjoying the
:24:46. > :24:59.sunshine. Don't fall in! I will try my best not to, it is
:25:00. > :25:05.gorgeous here. And the rowing club making the most of the sunshine, out
:25:06. > :25:09.on the water this evening. The top temperature today was in Cardiff. 22
:25:10. > :25:14.Celsius. Not quite the warmest day of the year so far. That was back in
:25:15. > :25:18.mid May when 25 Celsius was recorded at Hawarden in Flintshire. There's
:25:19. > :25:22.more fine weather to come. But it's not all plain sailing for the
:25:23. > :25:26.weekend. Cloud on the way. One or two showers as well but still some
:25:27. > :25:35.sunshine. Fine and sunny this evening. Dry overnight. The sky
:25:36. > :25:39.fairly clear. Lowest temperatures dropping to nine in Rhayader. 13 in
:25:40. > :25:41.Caernarfon and Newport. Tomorrow's chart shows a ridge of high pressure
:25:42. > :25:46.across southern Britain. Further north, fronts will bring some rain.
:25:47. > :25:50.So tomorrow morning. Friday the 13th! The whole country dry. Lots of
:25:51. > :25:54.sunshine and a few clouds. During the afternoon, cloud will increase.
:25:55. > :25:58.The odd shower possible. Mainly in the north but most places dry.
:25:59. > :26:05.Sunniest in the south. Warm and humid. Highest temperatures in the
:26:06. > :26:08.south-east 23 Celsius. Cooler in the west and northwest, especially on
:26:09. > :26:18.the coast. Around 17 Celsius in Nefyn. And the pollen count will be
:26:19. > :26:22.very high inland. Lower on windward coasts. The chart for the weekend
:26:23. > :26:25.shows high pressure over Ireland with a weak front over Britain. This
:26:26. > :26:30.will move south-west, bringing cloud and a few showers. So Saturday
:26:31. > :26:33.bright for a time in the south and west with some sunshine. But a
:26:34. > :26:42.cloudier day overall. One or two showers. Some dry weather as well.
:26:43. > :26:46.Temperatures still up to 20 Celsius. On Sunday the odd shower. But most
:26:47. > :26:49.places dry. Some cloud, but generally more in the way of
:26:50. > :26:57.sunshine compared to Saturday. 16 Celsius in Conwy to 21 Celsius in
:26:58. > :27:02.Kidwelly, with a light breeze. More fine and warm weather to come
:27:03. > :27:05.tomorrow. Not quite as nice as this over the weekend, but still some
:27:06. > :27:09.pleasant weather. It looks absolutely beautiful.
:27:10. > :27:14.The main news again from the BBC. Iraq says it has launched air
:27:15. > :27:17.strikes against Islamist militants advancing on the capital Baghdad.
:27:18. > :27:20.They're targeting the ISIS fighters linked to Al-Qaeda. Tonight,
:27:21. > :27:27.President Obama has spoken of the need for immediate, short-term
:27:28. > :27:30.military action in Iraq. And tTwo companies have been ordered
:27:31. > :27:35.to pay nearly ?200,000 for leaving a gate that crushed a five-year-old
:27:36. > :27:39.girl to death "desperately unsafe". And that is Wales Today. We'll have
:27:40. > :27:43.an update at eight. More after the BBC News at ten. For, now though,
:27:44. > :27:46.from all of us here, have a good evening. Goodbye.