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from the News at Six. Goodbye from me. On | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today. Our top story. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Glyndwr University stopped from recruiting foreign students after | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
Independent schools tell the Welsh Government its new GCSEs | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Tonight, the Home Secretary calls on communities to confront radicalism. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Stretchered off with a serious neck injury - the | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
parents of Wales and Blues player Owen Williams fly to Singapore. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
And one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War - | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Mametz Wood brought to life in a woodland in Monmouthshire. | :00:34. | :00:55. | |
Glyndwr University has lost its ability to recruit overseas | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
students following an investigation by immigration officials into the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
More than a third of Glyndwr's 9000 students are from overseas. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Visa applicants must be tested to prove they can speak English to | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
The Home Office says there is evidence that test results | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
This is how Glyndwr University sells itself to potential students, | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
hoping to persuade them to study at one of its campuses across | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
35% of the student population is from overseas. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
Since 2011, those applying for student visas need to pass tests | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
to show they understand the required amount of English. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
But the Home Office and National Crime Agency say they've uncovered | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
abuse of tests in some centres which work on behalf of universities | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
This undercover footage from the BBCs Panorama programme | :01:52. | :02:04. | |
shows an invigilator reading out the correct answers on a multiple | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
Students identified with invalid test results number over 230, rising | :02:09. | :02:26. | |
to over 350 if you are the scores counted as questionable. I can tell | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
the house that this morning the Home Office suspended the highly trusted | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
sponsor status, the right to sponsor foreign students, at the University. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
The Home Office says it?s heard evidence that some | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
of those granted student visas go on to work illegally and never attend | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
The university said in a statement, ?We are incredibly disappointed to | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
have been the subject of any deception or activity that | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
To be put in this position is frustrating as Glyndwr University | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
takes its responsibility as a Highly Trusted Sponsor very seriously". | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
There are urgent calls tonight for a review of the visa system | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
and concerns about the university's financial position. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
The university has got to now convince the government that it is a | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
fit and proper university to be able to undertake this kind of activity | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
with overseas students. I want to do that. It is a valuable employer in | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
North Wales. The Home Office says Glyndwr will | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
not be allowed to enrol any new overseas students while | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
its trusted status is suspended. What are the imprecations for the | :03:27. | :03:40. | |
University? It has got the fifth highest proportion of overseas | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
students in the UK for any university and essentially they are | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
paying between 7000-11,000 pounds each for their tuition here. The | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
longer this goes on, the more of an impact this will have. We should say | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
that the Home Office have told students who are already here that | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
they can continue with their courses but those who have visas and have | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
not yet travelled to the UK are being advised to wait until this | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
suspension is lifted. We don't know when that will be. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
The majority of independent fee-paying Schools | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
in Wales will choose not to follow new Wales-only GCSE courses next | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
year and will opt instead to follow the courses set in England. | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
The Welsh Independent Schools Council said it believed | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
the Wales-specific courses lack credibility and portability. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
The Welsh Government argues that its GCSEs will be credible and rigorous. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Here's our education correspondent Arwyn Jones. | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
In September next year, there are big changes on the way for GCSEs in | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
England and Wales. The qualifications will look very | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
different to each other. Independent schools like this one offer a range | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
of different qualifications. These pupils are studying for an | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
International baccalaureate. Around two thirds of independent schools | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
offer Welsh qualifications at the moment but when the changes coming | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
next year, two thirds will follow England. There are concerns about | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
portability, there are concerns about the credibility of the Welsh | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
qualifications going forward. We have to do what is best for our | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
students. It is not an option of opting for Wales or England, it is | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
about the best qualification. These pupils at a state school in bank | :05:36. | :05:47. | |
will start their GCSEs in September. Pupils who attend state secondary | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
schools in Wales have got to sit the exam is set by the Welsh examination | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
board. But because we have seen issues over the GCSE results in some | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
subjects over the last couple of years, some secondary schools are | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
now looking for a plan B. The school says it is considering entering | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
these pupils for two exams, the Wales -based qualification and the | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
one set in England. At the moment, we think taking the Welsh set | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
English GCSE is high risk because we can't anticipate the outcomes. The | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
Welsh government insists its new qualifications will be robust and | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
well respected but opposition parties disagree. I do fear that | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
given the Welsh government's track record in education, we will see a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
two tier education system opening up in Wales. The challenge for the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Welsh government was always going to be to convince employers and | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
universities beyond Wales that our qualifications were gold standard. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
These concerns suggest we might have a way to go. | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
How significant is this? These independent schools make up less | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
than 10% of the total schools in Wales. What is more significant is | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the symbolism, that some of our most prestigious schools look at the | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Welsh qualifications and say they are not as credible as they should | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
be. We always knew that when Wales and England went their separate ways | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
with GCSEs, the big challenge for the Welsh government would be to | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
convince the rest of the world that the Welsh qualifications with the | :07:33. | :07:54. | |
gold standard one, they were the one to be followed. What we are seeing | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
today is the size of the challenge facing the Welsh government. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
Independent schools are run as businesses and they have to think of | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
the bottom line and if parents don't like what is on offer in those | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
schools they can send their children elsewhere. Maybe they are playing it | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
safe by following England's lead. Some are putting their for the | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
English and Welsh GCSEs to play it safe. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Public sector workers should be paid a living wage of | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
at least ?7.65 an hour, while other employers are being | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
urged to lift the wages of their poorest workers towards that level. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
That's the message from the Living Wage Commission, which has | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
been gathering the opinions of workers, employers and charities. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins has the story. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
At this company, they are making metal products that are exported all | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
over the world. 32 people work here and they are all paid above the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
living wage. The living wage is a necessity in this current climate to | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
consider from a business perspective and we want it sure our employees | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
are able to live. The challenge is not the responsibility of employers | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
but government, because it is up to them to make sure that the | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
environment live in is affordable. But it is the cost of food and | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
energy that has forced up the cost of living and the government does | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
not have much influence on that. There are many people across Wales | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
employed on the minimum wage and there are employers who say they | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
can't pay any more. The impact of low wages is felt right across the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
economy. If people earn less, they spend less in local shops and those | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
businesses are weaker. Victoria runs a Welsh think tank and has been the | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Welsh boys on the Living Wage Commission. There are another of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
benefits from putting employees on the living wage. You have lower | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
sickness absence. And workers themselves are much happier. There | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
is research that shows people's mental health is much better. In | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Wales, about one in four workers earn less than the living wage. The | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
minimum wage pays ?12,800 a year for 839 hour week. A living wage more | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
than ?15,500. In Wales, some people working in the NHS are paid less | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
than the living wage. Not so in Scotland were all employees are paid | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
the living wage or more. The report from the commission says if people | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
can get better paid work, it would save the state more than ?1 billion | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
in benefits like working tax credit or jobseeker's allowance. For you, | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
would that make the difference? Of course it would. It is going to | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
allow people to have more money to afford things. If you look at | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Merthyr Tydfil now, it is mostly charity shops. The town has gone | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
downhill. Restaurants, social care and cleaning companies are places | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
where low wages are most common. Workers in this Swansea restaurant | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
are not paid a living wage. The hospitality industry, we have just | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
come out of the worst recession ever, there are lots of businesses | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
out there that are struggling. Some businesses told the commission they | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
would have to lose workers if the living wage were to become law. But | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
instead, it hopes to persuade employers that it is in their | :11:25. | :11:25. | |
business interests to pay more. It acts as a mild stimulant | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
when you chew it, it?s particularly popular in the Somali and Yemeni | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
communities, but from today khat is The UK Government says most people | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
support the move, while others say it's harmless | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
and shouldn't be banned. Flown in from East Africa to | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
Heathrow, khat is then rushed down the M4 into Wales while it's still | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
fresh. Bundles of the plant are Bundles of the plant are bought | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
here before being sold on Welsh That was last week. From today, it's | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
an illegal activity. Traders say It is a way of life for so many | :11:54. | :12:10. | |
people. So many people who live in this country. They work, they go to | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
school, they have children. More than 2,500 tonnes of the plant | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
was imported into the UK in 2011. A of Wales' Somali and Yemeni | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
mainly men, use the stimulant. They it and it makes them | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
feel more alert talkative. But some community leaders say it | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
affects families You get a lot of men chewing it here | :12:31. | :12:45. | |
in a little room, all smoking, they could be there for hours. My | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
argument is, if you are doing this day in, day out, you can't do your | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
job. You are not going to function. You are not going to be looking for | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
work. Despite complaints | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
from some users of a lack of time to prepare for this change, the | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
penalties from today for supplying and using khat are severe, ranging | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
from a fine up to 14 years in jail. Much more to come | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
before seven o'clock. Stretchered off - now the parents | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
of Wales and Cardiff Blues player And driving from Germany to Wales | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
in a Porsche - thing is, this one is The Home Secretary has called | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
on people to denounce extremism It comes as the father of two young | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
men from Cardiff who travelled to Syria to fight with extremist groups | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
says he believes his sons may have been radicalised at so called pop-up | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
meetings in the city. Ahmed Muthana says he believes | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
his sons may have attended How and where were these three men | :13:46. | :14:00. | |
radicalised? Muslim leaders in Cardiff except that Nasser Muthana | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
and Aseel Muthana were at least in part radicalised in the city. | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Today, the father, who does not want to appear on camera, told me he | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
believes his sons may have been radicalised at meetings in | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
restaurants in Cardiff. They go to restaurants on city road or Tudor | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Street. These pictures have emerged today of them as young boys. Their | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
father believes their views on their faith were twisted at private | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
seminars in Cardiff. Ahmed Muthana believes his sons came to meetings | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
at a number of restaurants on city Road. It is not clear whether the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
owners knew of the true nature of the meetings. It is understood they | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
were advertised using flyers offering food and friendly company | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
but when the doors are closed discussions can become more extreme. | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Party leaders in the assembly today raised concerns about what was being | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
done to tackle radicalisation in Wales. It is about time, please, | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
bring Muslims into this to tackle this problem rather than shouting | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
outside from the mosque. You can't achieve anything. I am sure we will | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
achieve something very positive in this country. Thank you very much | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
for those points. I can assure you we are not engaged at shouting at | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
any community. We will work closely with a wide range of communities, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
that certainly includes the Islamic community. There is no intention to | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
blame any organisation. We want to work for genuine community cohesion. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
The vast majority of people have condemned the action of these three | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
men but there are those who believes more needs to be done to shine a | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
light on the actions of a very small number of people. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
Two more people have been arrested and bailed over the death | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
of an 88-year-old woman at a South Wales hospital. | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
Tegwen Roderick from Merthyr Tydfil suffered the injuries at | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Ysbyty Cwm Cynon in Mountain Ash last month and died six days later. | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Two women, aged 58 and 62, were arrested on suspicion | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
of assault and conspiring to pervert the course of justice. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Today an inquest into her death has been opened and adjourned. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
MPs have been told that BBC Wales needs to increase the number | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
of English language programmes made about Wales for the people of Wales. | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
The head of S4C, Ian Jones, has been giving evidence to | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on the future of the BBC. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
He said focusing on the success of programmes such as Doctor Who | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
The family of Cardiff Blues and Wales centre Owen Williams have | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
arrived in Singapore to be by his bedside after the 22-year-old | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
suffered a serious injury while playing in a tournament there. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Williams was taken to hospital on Sunday after being stretchered | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
The game in Singapore was halted for some time on Sunday | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
as the Cardiff Blues centre was tended to by medical staff. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
The 22-year-old was taking part in the World Club 10s tournament, | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
a new annual event featuring top professional clubs from | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
The injury happened in the sixth minute | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
of a third place play-off match against the Asian Pacific Dragons. | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
He was stretchered off the pitch and the injury has been described | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
The club have confirmed he is likely to stay in hospital in Singapore. | :17:29. | :17:45. | |
They would like to thank the fans for their messages of support. It is | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
the whole rugby world, players and clubs, who have shown their support | :17:52. | :17:52. | |
for this highly regarded player. Team mate and Wales flanker Dan | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
Lydiate, who was ruled out of rugby for more than a year after breaking | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
a bone in his neck, tweeted, And fellow Wales international | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
Ian Evans said, While his close friend | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
and fellow Cardiff Blues player Macauley Cook has been at Williams? | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
bedside and said, "At the hospital with Owen and thanks for all the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
kind wishes and support for him?. And this afternoon, | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
his family arrived in Singapore and his brother tweeted, ?So | :18:16. | :18:16. | |
emotional reading all the support. Williams burst | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
on to the scene with the Blues and was named in the Wales squad | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
for last summer's tour to Japan. His first try came | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
when Wales beat Tonga last autumn. Seen as an upcoming star, | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
the rugby world will be monitoring his progress closely | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
as a statement on his condition is A new play opens tonight | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
commemorating one of the bloodiest 4,000 men from the 38th | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Welsh Division were injured or National Theatre Wales has recreated | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
the trenches in a forest near Usk. Bringing the past to life | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
in a way that wouldn?t be possible This play, which tells the story | :18:53. | :19:09. | |
of men who fought and died in the trenches uses the countryside | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
around Usk to recreate It was a seismic moment, a very | :19:16. | :19:30. | |
important psychological moment, in the history of Wales. It was the | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
first major action, which was part of Lloyd George's attempt to create | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
a Welsh army. It affected a huge and -- number of people in Wales. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
He was inspired to write the play by the work of two Welsh poets who | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
fought at Mametz Wood, David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
But he's also created three fictional characters to help retell | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
the stories he found in letters and accounts from others who were there. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
Those are the stories that need to be retold, they need to be | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
refreshed. The tragedy of young boys being sent into that kind of warfare | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
which was a war I don't think anyone realised what they were being sent | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
into, and having to face this awful prospect of knowing they would have | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
to go over the top at some point. There was a very high chance if they | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
did they would either die or be very seriously wounded. | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
To help bring their stories to life, the actors visited France | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
We saw the memorials of the boys and all the soldiers who were there. It | :20:39. | :20:50. | |
was quite shocking. I was quite shocked by how many names. It was a | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
massive memorial. There were names printed, in tiny letters, all the | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
way down the walls. It gave the reality of how terrible it was. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Some of the men who fought in the battle were from this countryside. | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Using the landscape to help shine a light on their experience is seen | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
by the company as a way of paying tribute, and one they hope | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
could be replayed in other locations between now and the centenary | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Think Porsche, think high performance sports car. | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
In this weather, you'd probably imagine the roof | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
A retired doctor from Borth y Gest near Porthmadog has just arrived | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
home after driving his Porsche a thousand miles from Germany. | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
But then the Porsche in question is his family's 50-year-old tractor, | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
Not far to go now across the front and into Porthmadog. Journey's" Dr | :21:48. | :22:06. | |
Arthur Niesser. There was one last tailback. His daughter hitched a | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
lift for this leg of the adventure. And a big welcome home from friends. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
A glass of champagne was nice waiting. And as for the 50-year-old | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
tractor, it appears to have performed just as you would expect | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
from German engineering. I was very nervous. Everyday I expected some | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
trouble or a breakdown. But we travelled along, 11 mph, slightly | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
uphill, downhill, 11 mph. I am really pleased and proud. This | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
European odyssey began three weeks ago at Dr Arthur Niesser's | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
birthplace in southern Germany. A few eyebrows were raised. Across | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
frontiers, through Belgium to Brussels. In London it was straight | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
through the middle. The trip was a fundraiser for a charity which | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
supports doctors in war zones. At that it was completed in this | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
anniversary year of the start of World War I. You imagine telling | :23:17. | :23:26. | |
your grandchildren that you drove a Porsche from Germany at 11 mph. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
Incredible. I think it is brilliant. It is good to know he is using his | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
retirement to raise funds for doctors. Dr Arthur Niesser says he | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
will never forget the countryside he was able to pass at just 11 mph. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Having taken all this time to get the tractor here, you would think it | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
would stay, but it is going back to Germany, where it will be used in Dr | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
Arthur Niesser's home village in local events. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
A big change on the way with some rain | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Very warm again today for most of us, though, and humid. | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
Highest temperatures in Mid Wales and the south. | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
Usk recorded 24 Celsius in the shade. | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
There's more dry weather to come tomorrow and it should feel less | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
The satellite shows some cloud over Wales today. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
The best of the sunshine in the southwest and most | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
So dry this evening and dry overnight although a weak | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
cold front will bring a few spots of rain to the north and east. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Lowest temperatures 12 to 15 Celsius. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
A few rural spots may drop to 10 Celsius. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
So here's the picture for 8am in the morning. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Dry but in the south and west much cloudier compared to this morning. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
The cloud broken with some sunshine and feeling | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
During the day most places will stay dry. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Cloudy in places but some breaks and sunshine as well. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
Warmer than today in the north and west. | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Slightly cooler in Powys and the south and less humid. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
In Montgomeryshire tomorrow, dry with clouds and sunshine. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
In Torfaen tomorrow, more cloud than sunshine but dry | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
Tomorrow night much of the country dry. | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
Just the odd spot of rain perhaps in the far west. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
On Thursday, there maybe a little rain for a time but | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
otherwise a lot of dry weather and brightening-up with some sunshine. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
However, rain may reach the far south and west by evening. | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
And that heralds a change with a trough | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
On Thursday night into Friday, rain will spread north. | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Heavy and possibly thundery in places. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
The rain followed by brighter weather and showers. | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
So the dry, warm spell breaking down later this week. | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
Further rain and showers over the weekend but there should be | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
Just not as nice as last weekend and not as warm. | :26:24. | :26:38. | |
The headlines from the BBC. The Prime Minister has apologised for | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
appointing Andy Coulson has his head of communications after a court | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
found the former editor of the News of the World guilty of conspiring to | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
hack phones while he was in charge of the paper. | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
A university in North Wales has lost its ability to recruit overseas | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
students following an investigation by immigration officials. These | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
applicants must be tested to prove they can speak English to a suitable | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
level but the Home Office says there has been systemic cheating. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
The issue now is what impact the loss of this status by the Home | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Office has on the business plan that has recently been agreed with the | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
Welsh government because of the difficulties that everyone has been | :27:25. | :27:25. | |
aware of. I'll have an update for at 8pm and | :27:26. | :27:27. | |
again at the later time of 11.30pm. | :27:28. | :27:31. |