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Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's headlines. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The sacked Environment Minister apologises to five Assembly Members | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
for trying to find out about their finances. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
The First Minister spells out why Alun Davies had to go. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The only conclusion, I think, any reasonable person can draw, is that | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
he wanted to use that information against those named members. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
I drew that conclusion, the public are going to draw that conclusion. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
On that basis I'm afraid he could not remain in the government. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Christopher Parry shot his wife twice because he could not | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Justice has been done today. My beautiful friend was taken away. She | :00:32. | :00:43. | |
was so young. Hopes jobs could be saved at | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Avana Bakeries as the It's thought 70,000 workers | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
will be on strike tomorrow. What could the walk-outs mean | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
for you? And the conductor who could be out | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
of pocket because of cuts The sacked Environment Minister Alun | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Davies has written to five Assembly Members apologising | :01:02. | :01:21. | |
for trying to get personal The First Minister has told this | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
programme that he'd already warned Mr Davies last week that he was | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
on the edge of a cliff over the way he dealt with plans | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
for a motor racing circuit. Carwyn Jones said he was left with | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
no choice but to sack him yesterday. Here's our political editor | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Nick Servini. Calmer waters in Cardiff Bay after | :01:41. | :01:53. | |
the turbulence of yesterday which saw the most high-profile of | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
sackings in years. Alun Davies had asked personal information bar farm | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
payments to Andrew RT Davies, Antoinette Sandbach, cleared | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
prolific, Kirsty Williams and Bill Powell. The big problem was the | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
information wasn't public and he was using his ministerial office for | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
party political purposes. This morning the First Minister said it | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
would be helpful if he would offer an apology to the five. It would | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
help, certainly from. Then came a letter in which he apologised and | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
said the purpose of the request for the details of the farm payments | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
were simply to provide background information. He could offer | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
assurance that at no time did he intend to use this information for | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
political gain or for public use. That appear to contradict the First | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Minister thought was the request. The only conclusion you can draw and | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
the only conclusion any reasonable person can draw is he wanted the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
information to use against those members. I threw that conclusion. On | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
that basis, he could thus remain in the government. One of the five | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Assembly Members at the heart of this story gave this response to the | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
letter. I have received a written apology. I am disappointed that he | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
tried to do what he tried to do. It underlines to me that Carwyn Jones | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
should've with this last week when it showed Alun Davies have broken | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
the ministerial code. It is high and the agenda. David Cameron didn't | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
waste and opportunity to criticise labour during Prime Minister's | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
Questions, calling it a whirling development. There has been a debate | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
at the Assembly whether an independent adjudicator should | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
advise the First Minister and cases like this. As the sun goes down on | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
this affair questions are still being asked about how to deal in | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
future with ministers who break the rules. Nick is that the Senate | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
tonight. Has a line been drawn and that this whole episode? It may well | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
be. The debate at the Assembly has just finished and a court has some | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
kind of independent voice in any kind future process was defeated. It | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
is a fairly muted state of affairs. Carwyn Jones arguing the current | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
system is the best way of getting to the heart of the matter. A | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
suggestion he is taking the sting out of pretty opposition voices | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
yesterday. The big question now is about Alun Davies. We're still | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
getting here his account of what happened. There have been some | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
suggestions he may find it difficult to act as a backbencher. That is the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
suggestion that can't happen. He has got support in his local party. It | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
was interesting that Carwyn Jones thermally close the door on any | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
ministerial return in future, unlike some high-profile departures in the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
past where that's possible return has been left open. That is firmly | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
closed today. The Welsh governments have had a significant victory in | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
the courts today. This is a story that involved Alun Davies. It is | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
about a dispute about whether the Welsh Government ministers should | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
have powers to set the wages for agricultural workers. In law was | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
passed last year to allow them to do that. The UK Government challenged | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
it so it ended up in the Supreme Court. The decision came in favour | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
of the Welsh Government. The real story behind this is then are lots | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
of people at the Assembly who complain about this constitutional | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
settlement, it is too confusing and leads to these legal battles between | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
who should govern which bits of the law. A result like that today comes | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
out in favour of Welsh Government ministers and Assembly Members who | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
believe that the entire system should be clear that. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
A man from Cwmbran who shot his estranged wife outside her new | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
lover?s home, has been found guilty of her murder. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Newport Crown Court heard Christopher Parry couldn't accept | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Police in Newport. A quiet, residential street turned murder | :06:14. | :06:30. | |
scene. Here, Caroline Parry, mother of two, was killed by her estranged | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
husband. Shot in the back twice with a shotgun. Christopher Parry, who | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
couldn't accept she have left him, then shot himself. He still bears | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the scars from that day. Today, Christopher Parry was found guilty | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
of Caroline Parry's murder. The jury rejecting his manslaughter plea. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
They believed he intended to kill her that morning and turned the gun | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
on himself. Amazing. Amazing. Justice has been done today. My | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
beautiful friend was taken away, so young. She will be forever young. We | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
are amazed. A fantastic verdict, it is what we wanted. Christopher Parry | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
left his home in early August last year with a shotgun in his car. He | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
travelled the eight most of the home of Caroline Parry's new lover in | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Newport. He waited. Neighbours were then woken by three shots. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Paramedics arrived just before nine o'clock and found both bodies in the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
street. Caroline Parry was pronounced dead in hospital, less | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
than an hour later. People are so sad and upset and to see the flowers | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
there. That horrific shock because it was on your doorstep. It is such | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
a quiet neighbourhood here. You don't expect something like that to | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
come here. Christopher Parry was said to have been controlling during | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the couple 's marriage. Today, he was found guilty of his wife's | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
murder. Christopher Parry wasn't in the courtroom when the guilty | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
verdict was read out. There were cheers from the public gallery. It | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
is clear the scars on his face caused by the shooting will be with | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
him for life, a reminder of the crime he committed and the life | :08:27. | :08:27. | |
Peter. -- Peter. Donna Sullock, | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
the mother of the six-week-old baby, allegedly murdered | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
by her boyfriend Michael Pearce, has told the jury at Newport Crown Court | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
that her son Alfie had no marks on However, | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
the jury heard Pearce sent her a picture message of Alfie while she | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
was out, and his face looked red. The prosecution claim Pearce had | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
beaten him with a shoe He denies murder and manslaughter | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
and the case continues. The search for a pensioner from | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
Denbigh who has gone missing on the Arthur Jones hasn't been seen | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
since the 19th of June. A personal profile of him has been | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
completed and as a result local police will search an area between | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
his hotel and a German war cemetery. A hoaxer who triggered | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
a major search operation whilst he was at his home has been given | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
a suspended jail sentence. Andrew Griffiths, from Corwen, | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
dialled 999 in May claiming he'd injured his ankle on Llandegla Moors | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
between Ruthin and Wrexham. Police say it wasted a total | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
of 90 hours of their time Sensitive patient information was | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
sent to the wrong address by the organisation in charge | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
of health care in North Wales, The Information Commissioner's | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Office also found that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Board failed to give its staff It's apologised to | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
the patients involved and has When we started to investigate we | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
discovered that the member of staff who was responsible | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
for sending this out in error hadn't actually received | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
any data protection training. In fact, by February of this year, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
stats that we'd had back from the board was that only 6.5% | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
of their staff had recieved data protection training we were quite | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
shocked by that to be honest. A bakery in Newport which was | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
threatened with closure has been sold raising hopes that some of | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the 550 jobs there could be saved. The Avana site in Rogerstone lost | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
a multi million pound contract with Marks and Apencer and had announced | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
it would close earlier this year. Paul Heaney is at the site | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
for us tonight. Our work is describing this is good | :10:35. | :10:48. | |
news? Better news than we brought to you three months ago when the | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
previous owner of this site suggested it was close and everyone | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
here, or nearly everyone, would lose their jobs. Mixed views from people | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
leaving the site this evening. Most of whom didn't want to appear on | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
camera. One man said this sounds like light at the end of the tunnel. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
He described how some members of staff clapped and gave applause when | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the news was filtered through to them at a meeting earlier this | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
morning to stop another lady told me she didn't feel any more confident | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
her job was safe here and wanted to know about the long-term future of | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
the site. Making hand decorated cakes to sell in a competitive | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
market. Three months ago, workers at the Avana Bakeries were told to | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
expect redundancy and today they were told this site had been sold to | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
new owners so despite the uncertainty this is potentially a | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
short-term boost to morale. We are surprised because we know the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
company has worked hard to secure business. A new company coming in, | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
we are very surprised. We want to make it a success. We assume the | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
company that has bought it is aiming towards that. The site near Newport | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
lost 85% of its order book when Marks Spencer moved a | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
multi-million pound contract elsewhere earlier this year. The two | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
sisters food group which used to own the site makes everything from | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
frozen pizza to chocolate biscuits. The bakery 's new owners are two | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
executives from the previous group. Some are calling for that new | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
company to explain what their plans are for this important source of | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
jobs. We can't magic cupcake borders. It is something people | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
can't do but I would urge, and I am sure they are out to get new orders | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
will stop they couldn't wish for the better workforce. These are great | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
people. 550 workers commute here from miles around. If jobs can be | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
saved it would benefit Newport's economy and the wider area too. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
Do we know how likely the new company is to save jobs there? | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
The new owners certainly have a difficult job on their hands. It is | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
a competitive industry. We have all seen the adverts on television and | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
elsewhere which represent the price was between supermarkets which | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
historically has been where some of the order book for this factory has | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
come from. The main focus of staff is they want to know what is going | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
to happen after November which is when, I understand, the current | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
order book runs out. Perhaps mixed feelings here this evening in | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Newport. Perhaps more hope than expectation than -- that all the | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
jobs can be saved. Still to come | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
in the programme this evening: A conductor's gamble on the | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Welsh Proms. Owain Arwel Hughes is backing | :13:56. | :13:56. | |
the event with his baton And he was the music mogul | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
who discovered Oasis. Why he has big plans | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
for this small chapel in Mid Wales? Public sector workers are taking | :14:05. | :14:19. | |
strike action over pay and pensions tomorrow in what's expected to lead | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
to widespread disruption. Unions say their members have lost | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
out on thousands of pounds a year because of the UK government's | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
policies but ministers argue that Our business correspondent, | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Brian Meechan, is here. A million workers across the UK | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
including 70,000 from Wales are expected to take part | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
in tomorrow's strike. Firefighters, teachers, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
civil servants According to the unions, | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
the average public service employee is now ?2,245 worse off every year | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
after the UK government initially introduced a pay freeze and has | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
since restricted rises to around 1%. They're on the front line of | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
delivering public services. Fire fighters, teachers, refuse | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
collectors, leisure centre staff, librarians. Tomorrow they'll take | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
part in what's been billed as the biggest mass walk-out since | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
the 1926 General Strike. Mark and Sarah both work for the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Ministry of Justice in Newport. Their family has been hard hit by | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
years of pay that's been frozen or capped since the coalition | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
government came to power four years The politicians have had themselves | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
an 11% increase over the past year while the civil servants who work on | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
their behalf are only capped at a 1% increase. That in itself is | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
not fair. MPs don't set their own salaries. | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
It's done independently. The price of food has gone up, the | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
price of utility bills have gone up. The price of fuel's gone up, | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
everything's gone up. Critics argue that many of these | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
strikes have been called after The prime minister confirmed today | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
that is the Conservatives win the next election, new restrictions on | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
industrial action I'm very disappointed that the | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
unions have decided to press ahead with this. There was | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
a small mandate for that strike. There was, in the case of the NUT, I | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
believe 28% came out and voted of whom, admittedly, a majority | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
wanted a strike. That is still a very small minority | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
of teachers. Teachers like Jason Clark are also | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
going on strike. He says the profession is becoming | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
less attractive and many are forced to take second | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
jobs. Currently, my staff are working up | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
to 60 hours a week which means they're working an extra | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
20 hours a week for free. They willingly give it but along | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
with the pay cuts and the pension increases, I'm | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
finding my staff is severley overworked and | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
demoralised and that has a huge impact on how they can | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
perform in the classroom. Unions believe public sector workers | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
are being penalised at a time when businesses are beginning to | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
increase staff pay. Certainly, if you actually look at | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
wage rises in the private sector At this moment intime there's been | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
pain in the private sector in terms of people having to do the | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
same for less. The strike will cause large scale | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
disruption with schools, libraries and other services closed for the | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
day. More industrial action is expected | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
to follow later in the year. Some NHS staff are also out | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
on strike though not doctors It was announced today that | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
the lowest paid health workers will earn the living wage | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
of ?7.65 an hour from September. Some specialist doctors will | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
also get a 1% pay rise. Senior doctors will see | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
a salary freeze. On the one hand, | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
future pay being increased to cover inflation and stop people having | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
annual real terms pay cuts. On the other the standard | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
of living issue. It's unlikely that most workers will | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
ever receive the kind of pay rises in future that will | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
make up the amount that's been lost One of Wales' best-known conductors | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
may have to use his own money to pay for the orchestra to play at this | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
year's Welsh Proms in Cardiff. Owain Arwel Hughes launched | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
the Proms at St David's Hall in the 1980s, but he's had to act as a | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
guarantor for some of the concerts later this month after the local | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
authority reduced its funding. Here's our arts | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
and media correspondent Huw Thomas. For decades, Owain Arwel | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Hughes has waved the baton. His concert opened St David's Hall | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
while the Welsh Proms he launched in the 80s have run | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
for almost 30 years. But now it isn't just his reputation | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
but his bank account that is being The Proms concerts have always | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
relied on Cardiff Council's financial support | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
but this year it has been cut back The finance for the orchestra | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
will come from the box office. Very dangeorus and a gamble | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
that's what's bene arranged. In fact with one of the concerts, | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
I'm taking the whole hit myself. It was the only way | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
when I was planing this that we could actually guarantee these Proms | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
would take place. The council says tight budgets mean | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
it can only back the Last Night of the Proms this year while the | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
Hall itself could lose much of the council's support as it looks for an | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
independent company to take it over. This isn't just about cutting | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
back on funding concerts. St David's HaFl currently cost | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
the council over ?1 million a year while ?800,000 is spent on running | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
the New Theatre just down the road. Finding a new operator to look after | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
all of the council's cultural and leisure venues could save around | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
half a million pounds a year. It isn't a popular option with some | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
of the hall's supporters, 6000 have If the Chief Executive says, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
we have got to find money for looked after children or St | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
David's Hall, there is no argument. You have to provide money | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
for looked after children. You can sign all the petitions | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
in the world, at the end of the day the City Council has to make | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
a decision its budget balances. The conductor is coy | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
about the cost of his gamble on the Proms, the concerts he's | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
supporting aren't usually He will be paying the orchestra | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
from his own pocket if ticket sales He's the music mogul who discovered | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
the band Oasis turning them into one of the most successful | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
British rock acts of all time. Now multi-millionaire record boss | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
Alan McGee has unveiled He's restored a derelict chapel | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
in the Brecon Beacons and turned it into a music venue where he hopes to | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
put on some pretty big names. This is the man behind some | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
of the most popular British bands Alan McGee spotted Oasis playing | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
a small gig in a Glasgow club On his Creation record label, | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
he signed Primal Scream He was the beating heart of Brit Pop | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
- a hugely influential figure His latest project has brought him | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
to the Welsh countryside and this He bought the building at auction | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
when it was disused and derelict. Since then he's restored it | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
inside and out and has transformed I mention it to people I meet | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
in like South America, The Tabernacle chapel currently | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
holds fewer than 100 people, that's a far cry from | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
the 50,000 seater stadia that bands But this small venue is poised | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
to host some pretty big names. Alan McGee plans to raid | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
his contact list and invite some I'll bring down some pop stars, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
some proper rock and roll. I suppose I'll have to put a call | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
in to my old friend, Courtney Love, and see if she fancies doing | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
a couple of nights. You can only pull 400-500 | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
people wanting to come to that. The Victorian chapel has already | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
started to put on acoustic nights And they've proved a big hit | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
with audiences and artists. It's setting a precedent in the area | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
that this will be the place to go. To get this vibe, | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
this good vibe for the community. The music mogul, who now lives in | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
Powys, says his latest venture is about attracting the biggest talent | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
to this most intimate of venues. Cardiff cyclist Geraint Thomas is | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
preparing himself for a new role He had been supporting team-mate | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Chris Froome, who was bidding to win the race | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
for a second successive year. But Froome has now pulled out | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
of the Tour after crashing on today's rain-soaked stage | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
in Northern France. Thomas has now moved up to 14th | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
in the overall standings, but he's more than two minutes | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
behind the current leader. The Wales rugby player | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
Owen Williams, who fractured his spine during | :23:36. | :23:36. | |
a match last month, has been moved He'd been treated at the | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
University Hospital of Wales since being flown back from Singapore, | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
where he damaged his spinal cord Rookwood in Llandaff is Wales' | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
specialist centre for rehabilitating Some encouraging news | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
for Commonwealth Hurdles champion Dai Greene two weeks before he tries | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
to defend his title in Glasgow. The 28-year-old from Llanelli won | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
his first race for ten months in Hungary last night, beating | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
the reigning World Champion. Greene's not been able to train | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
as normal this year Glamorgan's hopes of winning | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
promotion have suffered a blow after their second Championship | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
defeat in a row. They lost to Surrey by nine wickets | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
in Colwyn Bay. The Welsh county needed to bat all | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
day to save the match but they were bowled out for 398 in | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
their second innings. Surrey reached their victory target | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
of 42 with the loss of one wicket. Let's get the weather forecast now. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
Are we in for some more sunshine? Yes we are. It has been a fine day. | :24:37. | :24:52. | |
This evening, plenty of late sunshine, a fine, pleasant evening. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Remaining dry. It turned cooler into the ladies have the chance of | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
isolated mist and fog patches. Lows in terms and cities between 8-13. We | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
have two weather systems pushing in from east and west tomorrow. The one | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
in the west will affect our weather tomorrow. Through the day cloud will | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
thicken, maybe some patchy, light drizzle from that front heading in | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
from the west. Still warm. Further east, the sunshine will turn hazy | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
bid to receive the higher temperatures, 23 degrees along the | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
marchers. Tomorrow night, some clouds around, a few spots of rain | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
but not amounting to much. Remaining mild. Friday, starts cloudy with | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
rain easing allowing dry and brighter conditions that then the | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
sunshine yellow the border likely to be replaced by thick cloud. The one | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
friend brings humid air which could trigger a few showers as well. -- | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
the warm front. As we head into the beak and these friends pushing in | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
from the Atlantic soul and unsettled influence. Humid air continuing | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
pushing in. It should be fine at first on Saturday, some sunny spells | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
before cloud and showery rain pushes in from the west. It begins to move | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
eastwards. After a couple of fine, warm days, a humid and changeable | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
and to the week with further showers spreading eastwards on and off | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
through Sunday. Sunny spells in between. This photo is of menacing | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
looking storm clouds. You can send in your photos by twitter or e-mail. | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
Keep up-to-date with all the detail and check the video forecast online | :26:54. | :27:05. | |
on our website. New security measures for passengers at UK | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
airports will affect all flights. Mobile devices in hand luggage will | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
have to be charged or they must be left behind. | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
The sacked environment Minister Alun Davies has written to five Assembly | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
Members apologising for trying to get private financial information | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
about them. The First Minister said he'd warned Mr Davies about the way | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
he had dealt of plans over a motor racing circuit. | :27:30. | :27:30. | |
And that is Wales Today. We'll have a quick update at 8pm, | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
and there's more after the BBC News at Ten. | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
For now though, from all of us here, have a good evening. | :27:36. | :27:38. |