15/07/2014

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:00:00. > :00:20.in a few minutes over on BBC Two, but now on BBC One it's time

:00:21. > :00:28.Stephen Crabb is the new Secretary of State for Wales.

:00:29. > :00:31.Mr Crabb, who's the MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, takes over from

:00:32. > :00:33.David Jones, who was sacked last night in a wide-ranging reshuffle

:00:34. > :00:38.Our parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, reports.

:00:39. > :00:43.Stephen Crabb knew his summons to Downing Street this morning

:00:44. > :00:52.He emerged half an hour later to tell the waiting cameras

:00:53. > :00:54.he was delighted to be David Cameron's new Welsh Secretary.

:00:55. > :01:00.He's 41, married with a son and daughter.

:01:01. > :01:07.He was born in Inverness but he and his two brothers were raised

:01:08. > :01:09.by their single mother in a council house in Haverfordwest.

:01:10. > :01:11.He went to school there too before Bristol University

:01:12. > :01:31.running the London Marathon three times.

:01:32. > :01:43.He's even tried coasteering in Pembrokeshire.

:01:44. > :01:49.The Secretary of State for Wales must work across the devolution

:01:50. > :01:52.divide with the Welsh government in Cardiff and the government in

:01:53. > :01:55.London. I have been doing the junior Welsh office job and enjoy the

:01:56. > :02:00.constructive relationship with ministers and I look forward to

:02:01. > :02:08.continuing that in this new role as Secretary of State.

:02:09. > :02:11.Credibility because a key aspect of his role is to improve relations for

:02:12. > :02:14.the Welsh Assembly government, to ensure that they work together as

:02:15. > :02:25.effectively as possible to make sure that more happens at the coal face,

:02:26. > :02:31.And the First Minister says he can do business with a Conservative

:02:32. > :02:36.Secretary of State. We could be doing that any approach from the

:02:37. > :02:40.wells office. I have dealt with the new Secretary of State in the past

:02:41. > :02:57.and I have found him to be pragmatic and reasonable -- the Wales office.

:02:58. > :02:59.BBC Wales understands that four Conservative Assembly Members who

:03:00. > :03:01.were sacked as official spokesmen and women for the party

:03:02. > :03:06.five months ago, will be reinstated tomorrow.

:03:07. > :03:08.Mohammad Asghar, Nick Ramsay, Antoinette Sandbach,

:03:09. > :03:13.and Janet Finch-Saunders rebelled against the Welsh Tory leader

:03:14. > :03:19.Andrew RT Davies, in a vote on the devolution of income tax.

:03:20. > :03:21.It's understood that the move was triggered

:03:22. > :03:23.by this week's cabinet reshuffle at Westminster.

:03:24. > :03:26.An inquest into the death of a five-day old baby

:03:27. > :03:27.at Swansea's Singleton Hospital has been told

:03:28. > :03:29.strict hygiene rules were in place and enforced.

:03:30. > :03:35.was one of two babies who died there in November 2011.

:03:36. > :03:39.The inquest heard Hope's mother complained

:03:40. > :03:43.after finding a discarded tissue in her daughter's incubator.

:03:44. > :03:46.One of the Welsh language's most prominent poets

:03:47. > :03:53.Gerallt Lloyd Owen, who was 69, won the Urdd Eisteddfod chair three

:03:54. > :04:02.times and the National Eisteddfod chair twice. He also chaired

:04:03. > :04:09.the Welsh language poetry writing competition, Talwrn y Beirdd.

:04:10. > :04:20.He was the voice of his generation. He put into some great poetry in

:04:21. > :04:27.strict metre, what many of us thought in the 60s and 70s. And that

:04:28. > :04:33.can never be replaced because he expressed our innermost thoughts and

:04:34. > :04:36.aspirations and really put us to the test.

:04:37. > :04:39.Flying to space could become a reality soon

:04:40. > :04:41.as an airfield in Wales is one of eight sites

:04:42. > :04:43.shortlisted as a base for Britains's first space port.

:04:44. > :04:45.Llanbedr airport in southern Snowdonia

:04:46. > :04:48.is the only site in Wales on the list.

:04:49. > :04:50.The announcement was made by the UK Government

:04:51. > :04:53.at the Farnborough International air show.

:04:54. > :04:59.From there, our business correspondent Brian Meechan.

:05:00. > :05:02.It sounds like science fiction but Llanbedr could be on its way

:05:03. > :05:15.to being the Centre for European space travel by 2018.

:05:16. > :05:17.Commercial space travel is to be a reality with virgin offering

:05:18. > :05:19.its first paying passenger space flights this year.

:05:20. > :05:23.Absolutely fantastic, good for the economy.

:05:24. > :05:27.It's what has been needed since the airfield closed some years ago.

:05:28. > :05:30.This former worker at the airfield said it will be a boost

:05:31. > :05:39.Kids leaving school, nothing to go to, but work like that

:05:40. > :05:50.The airfield ticks a lot of boxes which are required

:05:51. > :05:54.Low population levels, accessible by land and sea and causing little

:05:55. > :06:00.It will bring a certain amount of wealth creation to the local

:06:01. > :06:03.area and as things start to develop, we will look to move to a full

:06:04. > :06:07.operational capability in two or three year's time and it will bring

:06:08. > :06:11.a significant number of jobs and new developments on the airfield.

:06:12. > :06:19.It's an industry of growing importance.

:06:20. > :06:22.It's worth over ?11 billion to the UK economy every year.

:06:23. > :06:25.And it supports nearly 35,000 skilled and well paid jobs.

:06:26. > :06:28.We may be thinking of conventional aircraft like these for

:06:29. > :06:31.our holiday flights and space travel might be out of the price range of

:06:32. > :06:40.The question is, whether it's a future based at Llanbedr.

:06:41. > :06:44.I think a decision will be made on this.

:06:45. > :06:47.We can offer everything required and obviously they do short list,

:06:48. > :06:50.as part of a competition, but we have a good case to make

:06:51. > :07:01.Wales has a thriving aerospace industry.

:07:02. > :07:16.referendum looming, that could lead in Scotland and with an independent

:07:17. > :07:18.-- leave Llanbedr's ambitions grounded.

:07:19. > :07:20.Triathlete Helen Jenkins has withdrawn from the Commonwealth

:07:21. > :07:24.The two-time world champion, representing team Wales,

:07:25. > :07:28.Meanwhile with just over a week to go before the games,

:07:29. > :07:30.almost all of Wales' athletics team are competing for the last time

:07:31. > :07:33.Sprinter Christian Malcolm, who didn't make the team,

:07:34. > :07:38.The New Saints will go into their Champions League second qualifying

:07:39. > :07:42.round return leg only a goal down against Slovan Bratislava.

:07:43. > :07:46.Erik Cikos struck the home side's first-leg winner after 52 minutes.

:07:47. > :07:51.The teams meet again next month at Rhyl's Corbett Sports Stadium.

:07:52. > :07:53.Cricket, and Glamorgan have lost their T20 game tonight

:07:54. > :08:00.Sussex reached their target of 152 with 1.5 overs to spare.

:08:01. > :08:10.Glamorgan remain third in the Southern Group table.

:08:11. > :08:20.Tonight - cloud is making its way in from the west - some mist

:08:21. > :08:24.and fog patches - a few coastal showers - but for most - a fairly

:08:25. > :08:29.We start to see high pressure building from the south

:08:30. > :08:32.tomorrow, but this front will push in through the day.

:08:33. > :08:35.So tomorrow, some drier, sunny spells to start further east

:08:36. > :08:38.then turning increasingly cloudy from the north west.

:08:39. > :08:46.Then that front bringing mainly patchy rain into the north and west

:08:47. > :08:52.of the UK - losing its intensity as its spreads south and east.

:08:53. > :08:54.South-east England holding on to the sunshine for longest,

:08:55. > :08:57.so it'll be warmest here at 27 Celsius possible in London

:08:58. > :09:03.In the high teens in the north of Scotland.

:09:04. > :09:12.Temperatures rising, between 18-22?C. Tomorrow that to the south

:09:13. > :09:15.and east with rain easing off and drying off, but it will remain

:09:16. > :09:20.cloudy with some mist and fog hatches. Thursday is warmer still.

:09:21. > :09:23.Early cloud will clear the leave a fine day with sunny spells and the

:09:24. > :09:28.chance of an isolated shower, and starting to feel hot with

:09:29. > :09:33.temperatures into the mid-20s. Later in the week we draw up this humid

:09:34. > :09:38.air from Spain. Some hot, sunny spells, this is unstable so a

:09:39. > :09:43.greater chance of some thundery breakdown. There is the potential

:09:44. > :09:59.for some torrential downpours on Friday and into Saturday. For now,

:10:00. > :10:02.from all of us here, very good night to you.