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Welcome to Wales Today, our top story: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Why the vow to continue funding Scotland from the three Westminster | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
party leaders might leave us poorer in Wales. | :00:07. | :00:15. | |
As our constitutional chemistry is poured over, we'll be asking if | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
the promise to continue the Barnett Formula is the wrong outcome here. | :00:18. | :00:39. | |
They marched through Newport to save their jobs. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
How this summer's passport chaos brought | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
And this is what it should look like if the builders had finished but it | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
won't be all right on the night for the country's newest arts centre. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Wales could continue to be ?300 million a year worse off | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
as a result of a promise made to Scotland by the leaders of | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
That's the warning tonight after David Cameron, Ed Miliband | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
and Nick Clegg pledged to keep the method for allocating money to | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
the UK's devolved nations in place if Scotland rejects independence. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
It may sound like something dreamt up in a of test tubes and colourful | :01:15. | :01:34. | |
concoctions like this high-tech ice cream parlour in Cardiff. But the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Barnett formula was almost created on the back of an envelope. So says | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
the man who devised it. Barnett came up with the funding system in the | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
light -- late 1970s to provide a short-term method to decide how much | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
money should be given to various parts of the UK. But 35 years on it | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
is still firmly in place. This is the Barnett formula, it may look | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
complicated but one of the reasons it has lasted so long is its | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
relatively easy to calculate. But it does have its critics. It says it | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
leaves Scotland and -- overfunded and Wales are short-changed. A few | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
years ago the average public expenditure per head in the UK was | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
nearly ?9,000. But in Scotland it was more than ?10,000. Here in | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
Wales, it was more than ?9,500. In Northern Ireland nearly ?11,000 was | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
spent on each citizen. We're better off than basic spending in England | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
but what the former does not take into account is the cost of | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
providing services in Wales will stop high levels of poverty, low | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
levels of population density which makes ambulance care and education | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
more expensive to provide. On a bases Wales is about ?200 million | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
per year worse off than it could have been on another formula. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
Observers warn a new needs -based formula wouldn't necessarily be the | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
best option for Wales. It was a political fight, if you open a can | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
of worms now who knows what will happen. I am not persuaded Wales | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
will win. There are poor work areas of England. If you have English | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
devolution Wales might not necessarily win. In their attempt to | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
convince Scottish voters to reject independence, the three main UK | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
parties have now promised to keep the Barnett formula if Scotland | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
votes No on Thursday. That has frustrated people in Wales who have | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
long campaigned for a new, fairer funding system. Between 2010 and | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
2020, Wales will lose somewhere between ?5.3 billion and ?8.5 | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
billion to our public services if the Barnett formula is fixed. Is the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
First Minister suggesting today that this announcement isn't the whole | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
truth? If so, don't the people of Wales deserve to know today what the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
future holds for their public services. First Minister, in short, | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
where is your piece of paper? As Ed Miliband and I have said, an | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
incoming Labour government would address the issue of fair funding | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
for Wales. We have said that for some months and that position has | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
not changed. Reform may be on its way but the political reality is we | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
in Wales will have to accept that place in the queue was the people of | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Scotland decide what they want. Some breaking news for you. Lord Barnett | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
has called for the formula named after him to be scrapped when he is | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
calling it grossly unfair and will call fully debated the House of | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
Lords next month. Let's talk to former Secretary State | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
for Wales, Ron Davies, and the leader the | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Welsh Conservatives, Is Wales in danger of getting | :05:00. | :05:14. | |
squeezed if Scotland votes no? It is not a question of being squeezed, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
what we have seen today is a lack of blind political panic and this | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
decision has been taken on the hoof and stop if it is carried through | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
and the Barnett formula remains, we face the prospect of continuing | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
another Barnett formula and that will mean very many differing | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
estimates that up the most conservative estimate is about ?400 | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
million a year short of what we need to meet our basic public services. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Bad news and it flies in the face of all the promises which we were | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
made. Andrew RT Davies, would you like to have been consulted by your | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
leader, David Cameron, before he announced this? I have discussions | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
all the time with the Prime minister and other leaders in Westminster. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Did he consults you on this announcement is? No, not on this | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
announcement. If you look at what is Wales get out of the union as a | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
welfare, we get ?10 billion worth of welfare payments into Wales. We only | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
raise ?4.5 million in income tax. The separatists, Plaid Cymru, can't | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
have their cake and eat it. We have to come out and say they want an | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
independent Wales and this is how they get going to fund it. All they | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
say they want to remain in the union. The union supports services | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
in Wales. He were to break that union up and they can't have their | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
cake and eat it. You are an architect of the pollution here in | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
Wales. If it is a yes vote, how do you see the future of Wales? If that | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
is a Yes vote they will have to be discussions. The prospect of some | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
sort of climactic break-up of the United Kingdom is not what is going | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
to happen. If it is a Yes votes, the rump of the British government | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
together with the newly elected Scottish government with the backing | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
of a Yes votes will sit down and work out a new set of arrangements. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Whatever happens it will sit down and work out a new set of | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
arrangements. Whatever happens it'll be have our safest what has been | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
made on offer to Scotland has to be available to Wales in terms of | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
enhanced powers come in terms of a proper Parliament for Wales. But | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
also the comments of Andrew RT Davies notwithstanding, we have to | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
look at funding. We can't give these powers to Wales as we have the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
proper funding to do with it. The promised to keep Barnett is bad | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
news. It will undermine any constructive discussions there might | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
be in the event of party discussions taking place in the weeks and months | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
to come. Andrew RT Davies, a quick announcement nights by the | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
announcement from Lord Barnett that his own formalin should be torn up. | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
Lord Barnett has said this many times and everyone knew it was | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
supposed to be a temporary measure in the 1970s. Lord Barnett next | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
month celebrates his 91st birthday that up is not forget what we have | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
got to be doing in Wales is create wealth. Creating the opportunities | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
as a country to create wealth. Creating the opportunities | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
support services and enjoy the benefits | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
support services and enjoy the down Plaid Cymru's line, you want to | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
break that down Plaid Cymru's line, you want to | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
will get none of the benefits that will emanate from a | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
will get none of the benefits that Northern Ireland. Which ever way the | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
vote Northern Ireland. Which ever way the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
absolutely beyond debate and Northern Ireland. Which ever way the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
the absolute passion in Scotland for politics. How do you replicate that | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
passion for politics in Wales which you know as well as I do, it has | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
been absent in recent years? Alex Hammond has led his campaign with | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
superb skilful stop -- Alex Salmond. Hammond has led his campaign with | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
What he has managed to Hammond has led his campaign with | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
encapsulated to key arguments. The right of people for | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
self-determination and right of people for | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
will chime with people anywhere in the UK. Secondly, he has managed to | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
article it a vision which is quite different from | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
article it a vision which is quite we have seen over the last 20 years. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
article it a vision which is quite have a belief and conviction in what | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
you stand up for by having people at large in Wales. Wales can | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
succeed, you have got a lead that ambition within the union of UK. | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
So if Wales' income changed what additional areas of our life might | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins looks | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
People living in social housing with a spare room now have to pay more or | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
The decision by the UK Government was controversial with tenants. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
She has lived in the same house for 14 years and now has spare space | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
and so her housing benefit has been cut with consequences. | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
had to borrow money and luckily it is paid back. | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
But it is degrading what the government are doing to people. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
This is one of 5000 properties run across Wales. | :10:50. | :11:11. | |
The group that represents Welsh housing associations says | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
of 22,000 tenants, 3% have moved, 18% have borrowed money to cope, 24% | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
at getting discretionary housing benefit given to them from Welsh | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Government through local authorities and 11% just haven't been paying | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Westminster issued the policy, the Welsh Government didn't want | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Our tenants are now caught in the middle. | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
We would be looking to the future and maybe one | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
of the aspects we would see post-referendum is looking at where | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
devolved powers can be brought to Wales, where we make better | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
But Wales already has its own policies | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
On a farm outside Llanelli, Damien Davies is coming towards the | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
Called Moving Forward, the scheme helps young people get | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
He came here with no farming experience. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
What has Steve taught you? A lot. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
I didn't know my fruit from my veg but now I do. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
The scheme gives him the minimum wage | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
I would never think about employing somebody at the age of 17 to work on | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
the farm, the environment you work in in regard to health and safety. | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
It has given people the chance to come on board with myself, | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
for myself to have confidence with the student and, yes, he has | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
Steve has told Damian that he is going to keep him on and some argue | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
projects like this are successful because they recognise local needs. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
The potential for them being much better and much | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
That is because we understand the playing field a lot better. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
But we also have a history of those organisations that have a track | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
record and deliver in the right way and for the right reasons. | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
Whatever happens on Thursday Scotland has been promised | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
it will have power over more parts of daily life. | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
In the past, the Welsh Government has said it didn't want extra powers | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
But now says that what is offered to Scotland should be offered to Wales. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Two men have gone on trial in Cardiff accused of forcing | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
a vulnerable man to work for them against his will and without pay. | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
Darell Simister from Worcestershire was found last year | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
in poor health at the farm on the outskirts of Newport where | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
he'd been living for 13 years. Caroline Evans reports. | :14:04. | :14:13. | |
Timid and vulnerable, that is how Darell Simester was described in | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
court today. The man now 44 who disappeared 13 years ago and was | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
found last year in such a disappeared 13 years ago and was | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
family said they hardly recognised him. The men accused of keeping him | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
on a farm against his will our father and son, Daniel Doran senior | :14:35. | :14:43. | |
and Daniel Doran junior. Darell Simester came into contact with the | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
family when he was picked up at the side of the road by Daniel Doran | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
junior and offered a few days work tarmac in. But it is alleged he was | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
taken to Cariad Farm on the outskirts of Newport where he | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
remained for the next 13 years working for no pay. Police arrested | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
the father and son in September last year after Darell Simester's family | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
finally traced into the farm and his brother went there and found him. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
Today, the prosecution alleged that during his time on the farm he had | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
lived in a shed, worked for no pay, got his food once a day and washed | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
in an animal trough. It's said he worked from seven in the morning | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
until nine or ten at night, seven days week. In all those years he | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
left to three times. Once he was taken to a horse fair in Brecon and | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
wants to Cardiff on New Year's Eve. It was alleged that on one occasion | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
he fallen from a horse onto a concrete floor and fractured his | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
hip. When he was taken to hospital two days later he was told to give a | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
false name and a false story to the doctors. On another occasion it was | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
said after a shed caught fire, he ran away that is brought back. He | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
told police he promised eat less and tell the damage was paid for. Both | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
defendants deny a charge of requiring another person to perform | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
forced or compulsory labour. The case is expected to take up to six | :16:19. | :16:19. | |
weeks. Much more to come | :16:20. | :16:20. | |
before seven o'clock. All of tonight's sport | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
and a full weather forecast plus could you pin-point the location | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
of every Welsh castle? Now you'll find all of them in | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
in one place. Calls have been made | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
for jobs to return to Newport's Passport Office and | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
compensation to those who were left out of pocket after "exceptional | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
demand" caused delays in dealing A committee of MPs described | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
a complete management failure within the agency. | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Jenny Rees reports. Back in June, there was a real risk | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
Alison and her husband would not be able to make their holiday in France | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
after the six-week wait she hired a car and drove to Liverpool office | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
for it to be dealt with. It's in which set her back ?500. Today, MPs | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
have urged the passport office to compensate those who were left | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
out-of-pocket. Two days before I was due to go, I got a phone call from | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
somebody in the passport office and he told me the only reason he had | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
phoned me is because they had a duty to because they had been to my MP. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
The telephone conversation went, if you don't come up to Liverpool today | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
we will cancel your replication and this was two days before we went | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
away. The Newport West MP Paul Flynn sits on the home affairs select | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
committee. The report highlights and understaffed agency where people who | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
paid for the faster service were exploited. They have got to | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
acknowledge the cuts they made in the staff resulted in the crisis. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
They have got employ more people, certainly in the summer, and the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
cases if they are putting on new staff they should be in the places | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
that lost previously by the previous cots and Newport was a major loser. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
It lost a major loser. It people had been in place who would not have had | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
a crisis. Ever emerged -- emerged of boxes of applications waiting to be | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
processed. There were more than half a million at its peak. That now | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
stands at 90,000. The government says it measures have been | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
introduced to reduce the backlog. Two reviews of the passport office | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
have also been commissioned. Police have been given more time to | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
question a man arrested on suspicion of the murder | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
of a 45-year-old woman in Mold. Paramedics were called to help | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
Karen Catherall Police say | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
a full investigation is underway and are appealing for anyone with | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
information to contact them. The Indonesian foreign ministry has | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
told the BBC the reason Matthew Davies from Blackwood was arrested | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
and sent to prison is because he The 25-year-old arrived in Indonesia | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
on a visitors visa to allow him But the authorities say that instead | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
of going home when that ended, His family are appealing | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
for help to get him out. Cardiff University has moved up 13 | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
places in this year's ranking of It's now 123rd out of more | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
than 850 that were evaluated. No other Welsh University is | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
in the top 450. Bangor's new ?40 million arts | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
centre, Pontio, The first performance | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
at the centre is now unlikely to The decision means that | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
among the productions which will have to be either cancelled or | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
rescheduled is a sell-out opening gala concert featuring | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
the opera star Bryn Terfyl. As late as two o'clock this | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
afternoon Pontio's website was offering tickets for productions | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
through the autumn and up to Christmas. By four o'clock they'd | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
disappeared. The programme is suspended until | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
February. The reason they've taken the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
decision would appear obvious. Pontio remains | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
a construction site and bear in mind the first performance was due to | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
have taken place tomorrow night. All the spokesperson for | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the builders would say this was always a challenging | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
schedule. The university which will run | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
the centre once it's built says Earlier this year the opera star, | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
Bryn Terfel, visited the site. His gala concert next month was | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
postponed along with all the others. Ticket holders will get a refund | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
and a gift voucher. Couldn't this decision have | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
been taken earlier in the day? I think building programmes | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
are challenging. This is | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
a particularly challenging one. As we have explained there have | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
been, in recent weeks there has been a careful review | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
of the building programme that. We didn't want to pull | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
anything until we were absolutely sure we had to pull the whole | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
programme. At a cost of more than | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
?40 million, Pontio was to provide a prestige new focus for the arts in | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
North West Wales. No doubt it will | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
when it is finished. For now, the construction delays | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
will appear to be something Newport's Elena Allen has secured | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
her place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio after winning gold | :21:33. | :21:44. | |
and silver medals at the World Allen won individual silver in the | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
skeet but also helped Great Britain to win the team competition for the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
first time after producing a perfect She says it's a reward for her | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
and her husband Malcolm, It has been tough. It has been quite | :21:55. | :22:09. | |
stressful for me particularly for him having to put up with a few | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
little issues during training because they get stressful. It is | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
the pressure, as the competition nears become -- the pressure builds | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
up. Could you pin point Carreg Cennen or | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Bodelwyddan on a map? Well, if you need a little help then | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Pembroke Castle hopes They been given money by Cadw to | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
help people learn more about the history of our castles | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
here in and even for the short-sighted, | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
this lesson will be hard to miss. In just two weeks the shape of Wales | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
has been sprayed across the ground. A map 1000 square metres in size, it | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
is thought to be the largest Everyone asks me how I scale is, how | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
would you work to scale. I do what everybody did in school, I | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
got a grid. I literally gridded the whole thing | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
down to about 25 centimetre square in various ways, mainly with string | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
and chalk. Castle by castle has | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
been added, their different colours represent | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
which category they fall into. It is a snapshot in history | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
really from about the early 11th century to the 14th century and | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
it is telling you about The yellow castles you can see are | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
the Marcher Lords castles and the red castles are the Welsh | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
princes, the princes of Deheubarth. The purple castles are the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Royal castles and the ones in the north are predominantly | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
Edward I era. We're going to have giant | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
chess pieces that school groups can | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
move around and re-enact the march of the Marcher Lords into West Wales | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
and the defence The crosses are for | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
religious landmarks. It's a new experience for the | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
artist who is more used to seeing It is going to have a life beyond | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the actual painting. Usually I paint something, it looks | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
elegant and impressive and people engage with it. This is | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
good to be physically interacted It is definitely bright, I am sure | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
the children will With it being so large you get all | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
the scale of everything. It is big enough to | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
see all the writing. With hundreds of castles laid out | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
here it is hoped this vivid reminder will encourage some to test their | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
knowledge, Good weather to be exploring castles | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
over the next few days. September is making up for August. | :24:41. | :24:59. | |
Some high temperatures today. Porthmadog reached 24 Celsius. That | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
is about 7 degrees above average. That is more dry weather to come but | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
it is going to turn humid with the risk of a few heavy showers. Here is | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
the situation. We have low pressure close to Portugal and that means | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
wins for the Wii -- UK. Temperatures this week well above average, rising | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
into the low to mid 20s. Fine for most of this this evening but the | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
odd shower is possible in the north-east. Clearly in the West and | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
a mild night. There was temperatures up to 16 Celsius. Here is the | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
picture of eight o'clock in the morning. The | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
picture of eight o'clock in the Powys starting rate. Further west it | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
is a different story, much brighter with sunshine in Pembrokeshire, | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Ceredigion and the West of Gwynedd. To link the day, the low cloud was | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
slowly lift and break so most of the country will see the sun. It will be | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
warm with an easterly breeze. Highs into the low 20s stop Thursday will | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
bring more dry into the low 20s stop Thursday will | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
cloud and Mr left. Some sunshine buffed and leash showers will | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
cloud and Mr left. Some sunshine the far south late in the afternoon. | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
On Friday, greater risk of downpours. The sun should break | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
through as well and it will feel humid. Into the weekend, a few heavy | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
showers on Saturday but otherwise dry with some sunshine. We have had | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
some lovely sunrises and sunsets. Enjoy the dry, warm September | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
weather while it lasts. Wales could continue to be worse off | :26:50. | :27:00. | |
as a result of a promise made to Scotland by the leaders of the three | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
main Westminster parties. They pledged to keep the method of | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
allocating money to the UK's devolved nations in place if | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Scotland rejects independence. Lord Barnett has called for the formula | :27:13. | :27:13. | |
named after him to be scrapped. Tomorrow we'll be live | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
from Edinburgh with a special Wales As well as following the final day | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
of campaigning, we'll be meeting up with Welsh expats to see how they're | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
voting and assessing the impact of a Yes vote on Welsh businesses | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
at 6.30pm on BBC One Wales. I'll have an update for you at eight | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
o'clock and again That's Wales Today, thank | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
you for watching. | :27:36. | :27:38. |