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Good evening. The American billionaire who is buying the oil | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
refinery in Milford Haven has told Wales today that all 400 staff they | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
will keep their jobs. Today, the group confirmed it will buy the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
site. The company owner says that they will invest tens of millions of | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
pounds to improve the plant. As they went about their work at the | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
refinery this morning, workers told me they were believed at hearing the | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
news. It is not clear how much the takeover is worth but for the people | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
working here, the deal is priceless. Speaking via Skype from Italy, the | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
prospective owner told us that he will be retaining the workforce and | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
restarting operations on the site. It is our intention to keep the jobs | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
at Milford Haven and the other thing and would mention is that everyone | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
always looks at the jobs at the refinery, which are obviously very | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
important, but what is also important is the indirect jobs. It | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
is a multiple of the 500 people that we will keep at Milford Haven. We | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
are talking about thousands of jobs that are secure in and around the | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
area. It has been a worrying time for the people of Milford Haven and | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
the announcement is a big boost for the community that has been on the | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
refinery since it opened more than 40 years ago. The site came into | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
operation in 1973 when it was owned by Amoco. | :01:59. | :02:14. | |
It was dragging on and on. One minute, it was a rumour, and yes, it | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
is good news, and then it was bad news. But a good outcome at the end. | :02:23. | :02:31. | |
The Welsh government said the takeover is the first step towards | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
securing the refinery's long-term future. This is excellent news. I've | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
been following the events over the last few weeks and we have been | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
pulling out all the stops to help save those jobs. Marvellous to know | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
that there is now a buyer and the jobs will be saved for | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Pembrokeshire. The plant is an efficient one and the workers are | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
incredibly professional. I was pleased to bring Gary Klesch into | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
the sales programme. He has a record of making as this is like this more | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
professional and economical. This evening, there is fresh hope that | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
this refinery will continue to provide local people would work as | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
it has done for many years. Sticking with energy, a surprise | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
announcement tonight that developers have pulled the plug on a massive | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
wind farm off Anglesey. It is claimed it could have powered 1.7 | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
million homes. It is the second big offshore wind farm to be shelved in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
months. 12 miles off the coast, it would have been the first of three | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
to be built between Anglesey and the Isle of Man. | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
In the scale of things, it seems that promotional videos come cheap. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
We are at the heart of this growing industry and ready to contribute to | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
the future energy needs of UK homes and businesses. This is how Centrica | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
and Dong Energy were promoting their development. No longer. They have | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
pulled out. And echo of the decision late last year to abandon a project | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
of the South Wales coast. In this case, they blame sea bed geology. On | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Anglesey, the decision is a setback. Here, a vessel was being | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
built to service wind farms. When this vessel puts to see in a couple | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
of months, most likely it will work off the east coast of England, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
servicing wind farms. To say the decision stalls the UK's offshore | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
renewables industry is perhaps going to fire. But it certainly brings | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
future wind farm development of the Welsh coast to a halt. A subsidiary | :04:45. | :04:54. | |
would have bid for work on the field. The timings were long way | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
out. The groundwork has been going on but in essence, there was still | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
plenty to do to get to a point where construction was going to start. So | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
disappointment more than shock. It leaves Wales without significant | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
offshore wind farm developments in their planning. And it shows that | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
there is a huge missed opportunity for the people of Anglesey to | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
benefit from the work that would have come from that wind farm. The | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
island hoped to gain from the Celtic Array even though nothing firm had | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
been promised. Policymakers want to use the energy industry, including | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
nuclear as well as renewables, to promote growth. We were not aware of | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
specific proposals for jobs. It was opportunities for the Irish Sea and | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
for the mainland. But for Anglesey, it is the potential long-term jobs | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
which have been lost rather than specific figures. When it was first | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
announced, the Celtic array held great promise in terms of jobs and | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
investment. That seems to have come to nothing. Along the coast from | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Anglesey, this wind farm is nearing completion. Could it turn out to be | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
Wales' final office for -- offshore wind project? | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
BBC Wales has discovered that five people arrested by North Wales | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
police in connection with a fraud investigation work for a bus company | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
in Gwinnett. Four women who work for the company have been released on | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
bail while enquiries take place. It comes after several people were | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
arrested following a separate investigation into fraud at another | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
firm. That company went into voluntary liquidation in May. A | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
deputy leader of Powys council has told BBC Wales that she apologises | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
for using racially offensive language at a council meeting. She | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
used the N word in a debate about health services. She was raising | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
concerns about how some first language Welsh speakers are treated. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
She said that she had been severely reprimanded. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Team Wales say that their weightlifter, Gareth Evans, is well | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
enough to stay on at the Commonwealth Games even though his | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
nose was broken in an assault by another aptly. The Australian | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
weightlifter, France one 2D, appeared in court in Glasgow today | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
where he admitted head-butting Mr Evans during an altercation in the | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
Athletes' Village. Gareth Evans came to Glasgow to try to win a | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Commonwealth medal but now he will remember the friendly games for a | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
different reason. After a fellow athlete attacked him and broke his | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
nose. This is the entrance to the athletes' village where thousands of | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
competitors are housed for the duration of the games. Police were | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
called here yesterday morning were the arrested Francois Tunde. Today, | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
the 29-year-old pleaded guilty to head-butting Gareth Evans during an | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
altercation in the Athletes' Village. The court heard a problem | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
arose between the two madmen at Mr Evans' girlfriend had Francois Tunde | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
as he was being congratulated for winning a medal. Today, the sheriff | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
ordered him to pay ?400 to Mr Evans. He also had his accreditation | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
removed so he cannot be part of the closing ceremony. Tonight, the boss | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
of team Wales told me that as far as he is concerned, the matter is | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
closed. Gareth Evans will be staying on to enjoy the final few days. It | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
was a bump on the nose. Certainly, a lot of blood, but he seems fine. In | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
fact, he was watching the competition. He is fine. It is | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
important to stress that he is the innocent party. The way it has been | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
handled by the police and our security liaison, it has been dealt | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
with swiftly. The leaders of the competing teams have been asked to | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
remind their athletes of the competing teams have been asked to | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
remind their athletes there is incidents of drunkenness and | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
misbehaviour in the Athletes' Village. Team Wales say their group | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
has been well-behaved but they have been reminded of their own code of | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
conduct. More than a quarter of 5 euros in Wales are overweight. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Figures from Public Health Wales show 26% of children due to start | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Primary School way too much for their age. The study found that | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
overweight children most often live in deprived areas in Wales. Experts | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
say that changing behaviour could help. How often do you see children | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
in the street saying, if you are good, and will buy you an ice | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
cream? That gives the wrong psychological message. You build up | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
those patterns for life. If you change that at five, think about | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
different treats, that sort of thing, it will be effective. Some | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
welcome rain for gardeners. If anything by Saturday, too much. We | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
could see localised flooding. Heavy rain and showers over the next 48 | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
hours. Feeling cooler than recently but by the time we get to Sunday, we | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
can look forward to sunshine. Through Sunday, showers dotted | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
around. More showers coming in overnight. Temperatures still on the | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
mild side, between 14 and 17. Those are showers will continue their | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
journey eastwards, merging. Heavy at times, and it could be thundery. | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Temperatures in the high teens and low 20s. For the rest of the UK, the | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
showers are continuing. The best of the dry and bright weather across | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
south-east England. For the Commonwealth tomorrow, heavy showers | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
in the morning. By the afternoon, we can look forward to sunshine and | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
showers. Tomorrow afternoon, very little chance of sunshine. A | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
miserable afternoon. Showers continuing to merge into longer | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
spells of rain. Intense downpours. Temperatures between 17 and 19. The | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
rain will continue on and off. And you can see where we have got the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
intensity. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning. There is a risk of | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
localised flooding. Gradually, the rain will clear through Saturday | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
morning. Maybe lingering across parts of the North. Brighter in the | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
South. Sunday is looking like the best day of the weekend. We can look | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
forward to more sunshine and fewer showers. Newsnight is over on BBC | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
Two now with an exclusive interview on complaints about Steiner schools. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
That is Wales today. Good night. | :12:00. | :12:02. |