24/07/2014 BBC Wales Today

That's all from the team here in Glasgow.

Hello. After years of training and preparation, Team Wales have begun

Welsh athletes walked out with competitors from seventy other

nations to mark the opening ceremony of the games in Glasgow.

The build up has been dominated with news of leading medal hopes pulling

out - but Team Wales say, they can still reach their pre-games

It is one of the biggest parties Glasgow has ever thrown. A colourful

start to 11 days of competition. It is a night Frankie Jones will never

forget. Leading team Wales out. Frankie Jones is leading them out.

It is her third and final Commonwealth Games, a series of

injuries mean she has been preparing through the pain was a physio was on

hand just in case. For many, it was their first taste of the

Commonwealth Games. Soon, these athletes would be competing against

70 other nations and territories. We have early chances, we have lost hot

favourites in triathlon but we still have cyclists going and gymnasts.

So, there may be some chances and ten days of this competition. Team

Wales will hope the Opening Ceremony will draw a line under a difficult

few days. Injuries to medal hopefuls was followed by a drugs charge to

one of the athletes. Yesterday, Fred Evans banned from the games because

of his criminal record. It gives me the greatest pleasure to declare the

20th Commonwealth Games open. So, on a night when Glasgow welcome the

games competitions cannot start soon enough for team Wales. The real

business of winning medals is about to begin.

Police say further charges have been brought against three nurses

in connection with the alleged falsification

of patients' notes at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend.

It comes as another nurse has been suspended as part of

It brings the total number of suspensions from there to 14,

with one other from Swansea's Morriston hospital.

The Labour MP for Cynon Valley, Ann Clwyd, says she may stand at next

In February she announced her intention to stand down, having

But she says she's now 'weighing up her options' - Welsh labour says it

hasn't been formally approached and is in the process of arranging for a

full selection - its plan to use an all women shortlist to select her

Three Appeal Court judges have thrown out an attempt by the former

Lost Prophets singer, Ian Watkins, against his sentence for a string

Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison last year.

One of his co-defendants also appealed against her jail term.

Ian Watkins was jailed last November after admitting 13 child sex

offences including the attempted rape of a baby.

The former singer with the Lost Prophets was sentenced to

a total of 29 years in prison and a further six on licence for

a case which the trial judge said "plunged new depths of depravity".

Today, neither he nor one of his codefendants, who was jailed for

17 years, were in court as their lawyers asked three Appeal Court

The QC said the sentence was too high because he pleaded guilty at

the start of the trial and his offences were not the worst to ever

come before the court. Watkins was sentenced to 15 years

for two offences and 14 for another two, which

his counsel said was too much. The sentence should have been less

for both of them. But the judges disagreed and decided

the punishments were appropriate. These were, in our view, offences

against infant children of such shocking depravity that a very

lengthy sentence of imprisonment was demanded. Notwithstanding the

absence of physical injury. Today's decision confirms

the earlier sentences. That means Watkins will now have to

serve at least 16 years and 10 months in jail before he can

be considered for release. A football club in Powys has pleaded

guilty to breaching health and safety legislation

after a twelve year old boy died Casey Breese from Caersws had

been playing with friends when The club admitted responsibility

for the posts - A statement was read out

on behalf of Casey Breese's family. The change of plea to guilty

represents an acceptance by the football club of their involvement

with the goalposts that fell and crushed Casey. They are happy with

the outcome of the case, losing Casey has been a terrible blow for

the family. There are fresh calls

for the chief executive of Pembrokeshire Council to be

suspended - after police confirmed a new investigation has been

launched into payments he received Earlier this year the Wales Audit

Office found the payments made to Bryn Parry Jones and another

senior officer were unlawful. The first police inquiry found no

evidence of criminal offences but This is the man at the centre

of this controversy. The Chief Executive of Pembrokeshire

Council, Bryn Parry Jones. Back in January the

Wales Audit Office ruled cash payments made to him and another

senior officer instead of pension Four months later

a police investigation concluded there was no evidence to suggest any

criminal offence had taken place. And last week the local authority

decided not to take any further action to try and reclaim the salary

supplements worth more than ?45,000. But in a new twist fresh information

has now emerged and a second police Because of the close working

relationship between Dyfed Powys Police and Pembrokeshire Council

this one will also be carried out It's understood the new information

relates to questions over who wrote this confidential document

which has been shown to BBC Wales. Written

in September 2011 it's a report that recommends that senior staff should

be allowed to substitute pension Mr Parry Jones, who earns more

than ?220,000 a year is now facing calls to step aside until the

police have completed their work. It's very clear

if any other member of staff at the council was under investigation

they would be suspended from duty. Now that's not us saying he is

guilty, that's us saying there is Mr Parry Jones needs to be

suspended while those It's only right and proper

and it would apply to any other Pembrokeshire Council said it's

aware of the new investigation and it will cooperate fully with

the police. In the meantime Mr Parry

Jones is still in his post. Plans for a giant solar park,

with 180 thousand panels, have been given the go ahead

by Flintshire councillors. The 270-acre site next to

Deeside Industrial Estate WAS earmarked for agricultural use -

and objectors argued unsuccessfully that the solar park should be

on a brownfield site instead. The firm behind the plans -

Swansea based Compton Group - says, the park could generate enough

power for 11 thousand homes over Most councils

in Wales are making good progress in carrying out measures designed

to prevent another ecoli outbreak, The Food Standards Agency was asked

to look at how the recommendations of the Pennington inquriy -

which examined the 2005 outbreak, when five year old Mason Jones died

- have been implemented. The one issued a report picks out

for further attention in Wales is the way in which we police food for

animals above -- at the start of the food chain and it's important. The

quality and safety of the food that ends up on your plate begins right

at the start of the process. And now, a look at the weather. Today

was the hottest day of the year so far, temperatures nearly reaching 30

Celsius. I am terribly sorry. We may be able to return to the weather

forecast but I think we may not be able to. Later today, the first team

Wales medals could be one on the opening day of the Commonwealth

Games. Wales has big hopes in the pool -

Jazz Carlin swims The paracyclist Rhiannon Henry goes

in the tandem sprint and the Rhythmic Team gymnastics

gets underway. Poor broadband and the challenges

of running a business in rural Wales were under discussion

today at the Royal Welsh Show. Many businesses and homes

in more remote parts of Wales are still struggling to get

online - BT says, delivering broadband connections across Wales

is a massive engineering project and the infrastructure cannot be

rolled out overnight. A few have a story we should be

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