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high, 15-20. It's not all bad. Thank you very much. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
After her son died, Chris Evans-Thomas raised hundreds | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of thousands for cancer services at Withybush Hospital. | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
10 years on, the money hasn't been spent and she wants it back. | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
I am sure they most probably thought the powers to be, this woman will | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
get fed up after a couple of years. I will not give up until I have got | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
something to have some meaning why Adam had to go. | :00:36. | :00:47. | |
Caroline Parry was shot in the back at close range. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
A court hears her husband murdered her in the street in a fit | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Following allegations hundreds of students may have committed visa | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
fraud, concerns over the future of Glyndwr University. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
It's confirmed that Wales centre Owen Williams, | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
injured in a match in Singapore, has suffered a significant injury to | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
And back at sea for the first time in 50 years. | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
The world?s oldest inshore lifeboat makes maritime history. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
A mother who raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for cancer | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
services in Pembrokeshire is asking the NHS to pay the money back. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Chris Evans-Thomas lost her son Adam to leukaemia in 2004 at the age | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
His dying wish was to improve facilities at Withybush Hospital, | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
but 10 years on, his legacy has not been spent. | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
Adam Evans-Thomas achieved remarkable things in his lifetime. | :01:40. | :01:51. | |
He campaigned for the government to pay the cost | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
of DNA testing for bone marrow donors and he persuaded 3,000 people | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
But as Adam's illness progressed he decided he wanted to give something | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
He began raising money through the Adam's Bucket Full of | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Hope Appeal to refurbish the cancer ward here at Withybush and build | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
When he died in 2004, his mother took on that legacy. | :02:14. | :02:25. | |
We were discussing verbal lockers and lavender and all of this. It | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
went on and on, it went on for another year, we were still | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
enthusiastically fund-raising away. And it has been going on now for ten | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
years. Through the high profile campaign of | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
Adam's appeal, his mother has helped raise ?649,776 in the NHS pot for | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
cancer services in Pembrokeshire, she says she has repeatedly been | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
given dates for when the work will start, but it never has, | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
and now she wants the money back. I am making the money. The | :03:00. | :03:08. | |
Pembrokeshire people have believed in me. I am carrying the can. If we | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
are not going to have this built, not only are we going to ask for the | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
money back, but if you are not going to make up your mind up, we will use | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
it for some thing else. A cancer support charity | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
in Pembrokeshire showed us letters they'd received from the local | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
health board citing "recruitment and They're worried this may mean Adam's | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
legacy never gets built. Everyone is assuming now that it | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
will go to Glangwili Hospital. But is where everything seems to go | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
these days. Everybody is afraid that the hospital will turn into a | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
cottage hospital. In a statement Hywel Dda health | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
board told us they are still fully committed to a new Chemotherapy Day | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Unit and that ?550,000 of funds have been committed to | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
the refurbishment of the cancer ward Hywel Dda have no plans to hand the | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
money back - and legal experts say Frequently, NHS charities ask you to | :04:10. | :04:34. | |
give money for particular purposes but on the basis that is an | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
expression of wish and not a binding obligation on them to use it for | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
that particular purpose. Frustrated at the lack of progress | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
from the NHS Chris Evans-Thomas has set up her own facility for | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
cancer patients in Pembrokeshire. she calls her "distraction centre" , | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
but she won't give up her mission A jealous husband shot | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
his wife dead in the street because he couldn't accept she'd left him | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
for another man, a court has heard. Caroline Parry died | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
after being shot twice Her husband Christopher was | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
described as a controlling and dominant man who couldn't | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
believe his marriage was over. From Newport Crown Court, | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
Rhodri Lewis reports. Caroline Parry had been married | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
for 27 years, but the court was told her husband Christopher was | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
controlling and dominant. In March last year she left him | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
and eventually moved It was here during the morning | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
of August the 8th last year that he waited for her to leave for work in | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
her car, before flagging her down. The prosecutor told the court that | :05:34. | :05:48. | |
when Caroline Parry stopped to speak to her husband, he went to the boot | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
of his car for his shotgun and shot her twice. It was carefully planned | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
by a man in full control when he murdered his wife. | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
Mr Parry then shot himself causing substantial facial injuries. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
He claimed he'd not meant to kill his wife, but had come to shoot | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
But the prosecution says he planned the attack, as CCTV footage showed | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
his car in the area two days earlier. | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
If you add all of these activities together, he was a man not prepared | :06:17. | :06:27. | |
to get go, it was said. It was a carefully planned scheme. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Christopher Parry has admitted manslaughter but denies murder and | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
the case continues. Fire crews have been dealing with | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
a substantial fire A large area of grass | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
and gorse was alight, around 120 square metres, opposite | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
the Esplanade, with a strong breeze As you can see from these pictures, | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
the smoke was visible The Health Minister has told AM that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
he's given ambulance bosses a deadline | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
of three months to deliver "urgent improvements" after it again failed | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
to meet response time targets. In May, 54% of ambulances reached | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
life-threatening incidents Opposition parties claim response | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
times are a national disgrace. The ambulance service blamed | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
a rise in emergency calls and I expect an urgent improvement over | :07:09. | :07:29. | |
the next three months. I do not want to be in the position of coming in | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
front of this assembly in September to find that the performance that we | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
have seen in May and has continued into June as well, I do not want to | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
be here having to explain to you why the Cumberland service has not been | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
able to make the necessary improvements. -- ambulance service. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
The NHS faces a "stark" future and a worsening recruitment crisis, if | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
salaries for consultants are cut, according to the British Medical | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
Association. Its Chair in Wales, Dr Phil Banfield, told its annual | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
conference that Welsh Government plans could see senior doctors here | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
paid 5% than elsewhere. The Welsh Government insists there are no | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
There are concerns tonight over the future of a north Wales | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
university, following allegations that hundreds of students may have | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
The Education Minister, Huw Lewis, has described the situation at | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
Glyndwr University, which has been suspended from recruiting overseas | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
students, as having "potentially serious" implications for the higher | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
Latest statistics show that almost 129,000 were enrolled | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
at Universities in Wales in the 2012-13 academic year. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
15% of them came to study here from outside the EU. | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Applicants must be tested to ensure they can speak English to | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
a suitable level - but a police investigation found that hundreds of | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
The end of term approaching, Glyndwr's Wrexham campus is | :08:37. | :08:58. | |
And while the university's ban on sponsoring those from non EU | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
countries is in place, it'll remain that way. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
The restrictions came in after alleged visa fraud was | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
uncovered at testing centres like this one in London. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
The BBC's Panorama programme showed applicants being given the answers | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
to tests designed to measure their understanding of English. | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
230 invalid test results were linked with students at Glyndwr's London | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
35% of Glyndwr's 9,000 students come from outside the EU. | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
Latest figures show they paid almost ?9.5 million in annual fees, | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
almost as much as students from within the EU, who brought in | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Ken Richards is an economist with a background in Higher Education | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
He believes the loss of such a large proportion | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
It is estimated they bring in around a quarter of the university 's | :09:49. | :10:04. | |
income. The impact will not be felt immediately but in future years. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
There is a crisis, I am sure. Today the Education Minister gave | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
his reaction to the developments. It does have potentially serious | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
implications, not just for the institution but for the reputation | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
of the Welsh higher education sector as a whole. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
For some time now the union which represents university and | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
college staff has been calling for the senior management at Glyndwr to | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
resign over the threat of compulsory redundancies and what they describe | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
They say this is another sign that major mistakes have been made. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
At the Wrexham campus today, a few of the remaining students told | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
me they're not overly concerned about the impact of the sanctions. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
My English is perfectly fine. It does not apply to me, I guess. | :10:50. | :11:00. | |
In a statement yesterday the university said it was committed | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
to supporting those genuine international students who fully | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
complied with the standards and is disappointed to have been | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
Recruitment ads like this show the importance of | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
attracting the next crop of students from here and abroad but that work | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Our Education Correspondent, Arwyn Jones, has been monitoring | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Arwyn, how big a problem is this for Wales as a brand, as a destination | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
The problem is that many universities in Wales and other | :11:24. | :11:36. | |
parts of the UK rely to quite a large extent on the money brought in | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
by these non-European Union students. They also bring with them | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
a wealth of experience and a cultural diversity but then when | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
issues like this are thrown out, it can cause quite serious problems. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
The questions being asked of the Education Minister earlier today | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
was, why were these not picked up? Why couldn't people realise that the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
students could not speaking this? Other questions included, is this | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
just confined to Glyndwr University in Wales coast to mark our other | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
institutions facing similar problems? The Welsh Government will | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
be seeking to address those issues over the coming days and weeks. The | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
futuristic looking very uncertain for Glyndwr University. Yes, it is | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
an institution facing serious problems. It has financial | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
problems. It has two agree a deal moving forward to save some of it | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
financial problems. It relies very heavily on those international | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
students. As we heard in that report, it has also got some | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
staffing issues with unions threatening to go on strike and | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
asking for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor. However, in the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
last few minutes, I have been speaking to one of the men in charge | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
of funding universities in Wales and his point very clearly was that they | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
are keen to look after those students currently enrolled at | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
Glyndwr University. He said that some solution needs to be found to | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
ensure the future of higher education in north-east Wales. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
However, what that will look like, aims to be seen. | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
Still to come in the programme: Could your bin collection be | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
sponsored? The council considering new ways to raise cash. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
And after 50 years on dry land, the world?s oldest surviving inshore | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
The number of large scale solar parks could double in Wales. | :13:31. | :13:47. | |
Most big solar parks are found on farmland, | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
The largest project yet in Wales is in front of Flintshire | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
councillors in a few weeks time, with a developer seeking approval | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
to place up to a 180,000 photovoltaic panels on fields where | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
Our environment correspondent Iolo ap Dafydd looks at how land is being | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
used, and why green fields are more attractive for the developers. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Just behind the Deeside industrial estate, these fields at the moment | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Instead of growing potatoes and leeks, some 220 acres here could | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
a very big solar farm, there could be | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
All that depends of course on approval by Flintshire County | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Council and it also raises the question whether this is | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
the best use of land, which at the moment is actually producing food?" | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
Stuart Banks says he isn't opposed to solar energy, | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
and is keen to place photovoltaic panels to generate power for | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
electricity on his own farm near the Broughton Airbus factory nearby. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
But he's less sure if that should be done on productive farm land. | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
I have got land that is not as productive as this. It is heavier | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
and it would lend itself better to solar than actually agriculture. | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
The developers didn't want to be interviewed as a decision | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
by Flintshire planning councillors is expected soon. | :15:07. | :15:07. | |
Further south, there are far more solar planning applications. | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Wales's newest ?15 million solar park site started generating | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
power last month, on a former industrial site near Port Talbot. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
This was a perfect location within a Brownfield site with a great grid | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
connection on the site. The key difference is that there is a lot | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
more work to do to get the Brownfield site ready for any form | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
of development. Green fields are cheaper to build | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
industrial sized solar parks, and that's part of the reason why so | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
many developers target rural areas. There are 18 large operational sites | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
in Wales currently producing 156 megawatt of energy, with twice | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
as many either being built or in the planning process, which | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
could double the amount of energy Developers argue solar photovoltaic | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
panels are in place for up to 25 years, but animals | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
could still graze the land. Developers to say and have provided | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
pictures of sheep grazing underneath but I have yet to see that in the | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
developments that have been completed in Carmarthenshire. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
The UK Government is consulting to cut subsidies for solar schemes over | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Three times as much energy from these PV panels is being generated | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
It may be a financial decision rather than how | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
we use land, that could slow the increase of big solar projects. | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
A pledge to get more women represented in public life has | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
been signed by the Assembly, Welsh Ministers and local authorities. | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
Currently, only 9% of council leaders and 27% | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
The Assembly's Presiding Officer says it's important women start | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
making the decisions, rather than implementing them. | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
What we are trying to do is to encourage people to show them they | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
have the skills so they can do it and bringing women together who have | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
done it, who have actually been there, winning achieving in a men's | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
world. I think once people have role models, they will think, maybe I can | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
do it. The logo for the NATO summit, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
which is being held in Newport in September, | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
has been unveiled in Brussels. It features the city's iconic | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
Transporter Bridge, along with a castle, a dragon and a Celtic knot, | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
to reflect Wales' diverse heritage. It'll be used | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
around the summit venues and will be seen by thousands of delegates, | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
including President Obama. Now we've heard plenty in recent | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
months about Welsh councils having But now it seems they are also | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
looking at ways in which they In Wrexham, ideas being looked | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
at include putting advertising billboards on libraries | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
and finding shirt sponsors The council says it's a case | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
of every pound they make is In sport they learned long ago they | :17:49. | :18:04. | |
could add value from sponsorship. These days, it is logos everywhere | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
you look. But what about selling advertising space on a street litter | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
picker 's shirt? It is one of the ideas being looked at by reckoning | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
as Wrexham Council. The council has to save ?45 million and it is | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
already making some difficult and unpopular decisions. The philosophy | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
is every pound it can generate is a pound it does not have to cut. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Adverts have already been sold on roundabouts in Wrexham. Other ideas | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
including building a solar farm. Residents we spoke to back this new | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
commercial minded approach. I think it is a good idea. There are so many | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
cut acts, anyway they can make money has got to be good. I am all for it. | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
If they can actually save money or put money back into the coffers, | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
please do it. As commercial manager at Wrexham football club Steve Cook | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
knows all about it. Daily using meetings thinking up new ways of | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
thinking up income and it is not easy. It is challenging sometimes. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
If you offer a good service and a product and people can see there is | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
a good return on investment, will put their money into something, if | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
they can see value when something. There has got to be a return from | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
their local audience or target market. A bit like in cricket where | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
you say you have to make a century out of singles, I think there are a | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
lot of ideas that on their own make vast sums of money but actually | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
adding up, could make a significant difference. It is about changing the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
mindset that the council. It is certainly a shifting ideology. The | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
way that councils go about their business is changing. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
It's been confirmed that the Wales rugby player Owen Williams has | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
suffered a significant injury to his spinal cord and the vertebrae | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
The Cardiff Blues centre was injured during a match in Singapore, and | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
remains in hospital there, after surgery to stabilise a fracture. | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
Today his family, who are at his bedside, thanked everyone | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Spend a few minutes on social media sites and the support and concern | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
for Owen Williams is obvious. His team-mates and family are | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
encouraging supporters to stay strong. The Twenty20 old centre | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
suffered a serious injury playing for the Cardiff Blues in Singapore. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
He was stretchered from the field and taken to hospital. Surgeons | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
operated on Monday to stabilise a fracture of his spine. Today the | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Cardiff Blues confirmed he had suffered a severe injury to his | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
spinal column. He also injured his spinal-cord which runs through the | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
vertebrae. In 2010, Scottish international Thom Evans suffered a | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
similar injury in a six Nations match at the millennium Stadium. He | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
made a full recovery after surgery after the unit -- after surgery at | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
the University Hospital of Wales. But he was told to quit the game. | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
The immediate concern is to make sure that the spinal-cord is | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
adequately stabilised and the compressed and once the spinal | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
column is stabilised, then you have just got to go to the | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
rehabilitation. You have to give it an opportunity to heal up. It needs | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
to be adequately rested. Williams is one of the country 's most promising | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
young players. He scored a brilliant solo try playing for Wales in the | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
autumn internationals last year. It is not currently clear what effect | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
this injury will have on his playing career. Some office team-mates spent | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
the afternoon in Cardiff modelling a new range of suits for the Welsh | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
team but their thoughts were with their friend on the other side of | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
the world. Every player was devastated. Everyone has got their | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
fingers crossed for him. Everyone who knows him. Hopefully there will | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
be some good news over the next two days. Our thoughts are with him and | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
his family. We have tried to send as many messages out there and the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
whole rugby community has got behind it. Officials and medical staff are | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
in Singapore where plans are being made to fly Owen Williams home at an | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
appropriate time. His family and friends are hoping and praying for a | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
speedy and full recovery. Cricket and Glamorgan are playing Hampshire | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
in ET 20 blast tonight. Maritme history was made today as | :22:39. | :22:50. | |
the world's oldest surviving inshore lifeboat took to the waves for | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the first time in half a century. It was back in the 1960s that staff | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
and students at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan, came up | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
with the iconic design for the Rigid For years, their original | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
vessel was thought lost. But today it embarked | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
on a celebratory voyage. 6am, high tide at Llantwit Major, | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
and after months of careful planning, the crew of Atlantic | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
College launch the oldest boat of This prototype vessel paved | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
the way for the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats that are | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
so commonplace on our seas today. The RNLI has been using RIBS | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
since the 1970s and a modern version of the boat accompanied | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
its predecessor on today's voyage. This historic vessel set the | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
blueprint for one of the most successful designs of the last | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
century and it all began in the Vale of Glamorgan nearly 50 years ago. | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
In the late 1960s, the staff and students of Atlantic College | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
They were inspired by their headmaster, a former engineer | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
in the Royal Navy, who set them the challenge of designing a vessel | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
The result was this - the world's first inflatable boat, | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
It is very easy to carry the boats into the water. They can be launched | :24:07. | :24:19. | |
from exposed situations on beaches and Rocky slipways. | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
The College sold the patent to the RNLI for just ?1. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
That led to the development of inshore lifeboats and naval | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
But the original RIB, that sparked it all off, was thought lost. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Then, two years ago, it was discovered by chance in a storage | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
After it was given back to the college, the students began | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
It was covered in many layers of paint and barnacles. When it first | :24:41. | :24:52. | |
arrived, we had to scrape all of those fine sand it down. We had to | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
check the integrity of the wood. We had to make sure it was not rotting | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
from within. With the vessel ship shape again, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
there was the question A former college student | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
provided the answer. He was preparing an exhibition all | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
about Ribs at the De La Warr Pavilion in East Sussex and wanted | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
the prototype to take centre stage It would be a bit boring to take it | :25:13. | :25:22. | |
there on a trolley behind a car. Why don't we take it there and how it is | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
meant to be taken, on the water? And this morning, | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
with perfect weather conditions, It will take around 10 days to get | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
there, and the once the exhibition's over, this vessel will return home | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
to Atlantic College, where it will inspire a new generation | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
of pioneering boat builders. It looks to me as if the weather | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
could be starting to turn. Have we seen the last of the sunshine? Not | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
quite but there is a change on the way. There is more dry and warm | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
weather to come tomorrow but rain is on the way. Heavy showers and | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
thunderstorms on Friday. Today felt less humid than recently but still | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
nice and warm. Late this afternoon, a few showers broke out in the North | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
West. But for most of us, it is a fine end of the day. Dry overnight | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
as well. Some clouds but mild. Lowest temperatures typically 12 | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
Celsius. This is the picture for ATM tomorrow. The whole country dry. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
Maybe cloudy in the far north and Llandudno first thing. The sunshine | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
may be a bit hazy. Feeling pleasantly warm. During the day, | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
more dry weather to come. Spells of hazy sunshine. In the south and | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
south-west, rain is expected later in the afternoon. Top temperatures | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
21 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, rain will move north. Some of it heavy. | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
Turning drier in the south and west overnight. Friday, low pressure over | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
southern Britain and that means much more unsettled weather. Outbreaks of | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
rain on Friday. Some bright spells in the south but also showers. Heavy | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
downpours in places with a risk of thunderstorms. Saturday, more | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
showers. However, the North may stay dry and bright and the South and | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
West should brighten up during the afternoon and evening. Sunday a | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
better day with sunny spells. A few scattered showers. Temperatures | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
lower than recently. The pollen count is lower as well. The gardens | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
are in for a watering later tomorrow and Friday but it is not all bad | :27:54. | :28:04. | |
news for the weekend. Thank you very much. That is it from | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
us. We are back at 8:30pm and the late bulletin is at 11:40pm. Good | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
night. | :28:13. | :28:17. |