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Don't forget Newsnight's starting over on BBC Two in a moment. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
After months of allegations about pension payments, public | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
protests and an ongoing police enquiry, the highest-paid council | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
chief executive in Wales is to face a disciplinary investigation. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
But despite premature council unanimously voting that they had no | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
confidence in Bryn Parry Jones any more, | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
they stopped short of suspending him and tonight he remains in his post. | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
Unison who represent council workers have said tonight that a dark cloud | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Finally the troubled waters that have rocked this authority may be | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
soothed by moves to cut their highest paid employee adrift. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Today the tide turned against Chief Executive Bryn Parry Jones. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
46 members voted to support a motion of no confidence in him, | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
with only three against and three abstentions, even | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
previous supporters like the council leader decided enough was enough. | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
I think that circumstances have shifted quite considerably in that | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
period. Over the last two or three months, there has been border have | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
been rather a number of elements that have led to today's decision. I | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
have been clear about my relationship with the Chief | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Executive. Leaders and Chief Executive is not very popular people | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
by their very being. The local papers have been full | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
of headlines, There had been an option to suspend | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
Mr Parry Jones immediately but It is a ludicrous situation. The | :01:43. | :02:18. | |
suspension should have been immediate and I cannot believe we | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
are in this position. IM extremely concerned also that the motion that | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
has actually gone through counsel paves the way for a deal for the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Chief Executive. That is a golden goodbye, potentially, and it is not | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
something I think should be entertained in this case. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
A disciplinary committee to consider Bryn Parry Jones is likely to meet | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
next week but experts warn the process could | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
You cannot just sack someone, they have to go through a disciplinary | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
procedure and he is the head of the Council, the head of paid services. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
No one can actually investigate him. You have to appoint someone | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
independent with an open mind and that person has to be paid. They | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
cost a great deal of money. It takes some time to investigate | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
allegations. Public anger at Mr Parry Jones has grown over the cash | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
pension payments he received and his refusal to pay the money back. Some | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
may question the delay but today, those opinions have not been heard | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
-- have been heard. A 45-year-old man has appeared | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
in court in Newport accused Mark Jones is charged with | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
the murder of one-month-old Amelia He is also charged with conspiracy | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
to convert the course of justice. Detectives investigating | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
historical abuse at North Wales children's homes say a paedophile | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
headteacher who died in prison Officers say Peter Howarth would | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
have faced 38 claims of abuse He died in 1997 while in jail | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
for sex assaults on boys. The new claims came to light as | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
part of the National Crime Agency Welsh Rugby Union chairman | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
David Pickering has lost his job. The former Wales captain has been | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
voted off the board with Dragons Chief Executive Gareth Davies and | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
former Wales international Anthony It brings an end to Pickering's 11 | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
year tenure as chairman David Pickering has been at the | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
helm of Welsh rugby for 11 years. His role as chairman has seen him at | :04:13. | :04:26. | |
the heart of the governing body but this afternoon the former Wales cap | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
and failed to win real to the board. Speaking from home today, | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
he said he was saddened but grateful I have been in the post for a long, | :04:37. | :04:50. | |
long time. It has been a fantastic period for Welsh rugby. I could not | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
have wished for any more. It has been a difficult nine months. They | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
have impacted on people 's decisions and I fully understand that and | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
respect that. There is no doubt he presided | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
over one of the most successful The national side won three Grand | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Slams during his tenure and got But the entire game was rocked | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
in one of the most damaging disputes in Welsh | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
rugby, there has been criticism He admitted today the last nine | :05:15. | :05:28. | |
months in the job had been difficult. You can see that people | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
are starting to say, let's return to Wales. This deal will bear fruit. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
There is a lot of money that has been put into it. We have given the | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
region is a 35% increase and that will be of great benefit. And the | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
regions have put a lot of effort into achieving this deal as well. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
What I want going forward is harmony between us all, ambition and working | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
together. And that is all I will do is work together with the new | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
leaders. The 53-year-old will finish in the post in October. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
A new chairman will be chosen from the 18 strong board | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
Scotland's First Minister has claimed health spending cuts in | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Wales prove independence would be the best option for both countries. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
Alex Salmond says the First Minister was reducing health expenditure | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
because of cut backs being imposed on him by the UK Government. | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
The reason that the Welsh First Minister is reducing national health | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
expenditure in Wales, going down in real terms, was not because Carwyn | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Jones wants to do that but Kos of the impact of the cutbacks from the | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
London government. First Minister Carwyn Jones, | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
who has been campaigning for a No vote in next week's referendum, | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
says independence would not protect the Scottish health service and the | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
current level of devolution in Wales has allowed his government to make | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
the right choices for the NHS here. Up to 145 jobs are at risk after the | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
University of South Wales confirmed it is to close it century-old campus | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
at Caerleon, near Newport. The two-year phased closure would | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
put security, administration The university says it is in talks | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
with unions to avoid redundancies. Students are voting with their feet | :07:01. | :07:17. | |
as to where they will go and where they will not go. Our competitors | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
are investing heavily in the future. We have to keep pace with not only | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
investment we have already done but more investment and we want to | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
secure our recruitment and secure ourselves as the largest university | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
in Wales. We are having to take some difficult decisions. On the field in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
rugby tonight, Rodney Parade was the scene of a hard-fought Barbie as the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
ospreys took on the dragons. -- Derby. The ospreys took the lead and | :07:44. | :07:56. | |
managed to hold on. Derby. The ospreys took the lead and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
managed to hold on. It is looking mostly dry with some | :08:00. | :08:11. | |
sunny spells but it will also turn quite breezy at times. If we take a | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
look at the map tonight, cloud thickening. That will hold up the | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
temperatures as well. Lowest temperatures tend Celsius. Some | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
early mist and fog tomorrow. A grey start. Across the UK, the cloud will | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
thin and break to leave another dry a day with variable cloud and sunny | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
spells. Just an outside chance of an isolated shower. And relatively | :08:42. | :08:51. | |
mild. Top temperature 22 in southeastern on. Warm in Wales, top | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
temperature 20 Celsius in Monmouthshire. It should stay warm | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
and dry for Proms in the Park in Swansea tomorrow. High pressure will | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
keep things settled. It is that easterly breeze on Sunday which | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
should bring the best of the sunshine further west. Temperatures | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
still hanging on for most. Sunny spells and variable cloud. Early | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
next week, high pressure across the UK drifts slowly towards | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Scandinavia. This low pressure will edge closer from the south-west. The | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
details are still fairly elusive. But it will remain settled. Cloudy | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
at times, the breeze picking up. Maybe turning a little more | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
unsettled midweek. That is all for now. We are back tomorrow from 6am. | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
But from all of us on the programme, could night. | :09:58. | :10:01. |