19/11/2015 BBC Wales Today

Father-of-six Peter O'Brien is named as one of two workers killed

in an explosion at a steelworks in Cardiff.

The company said its thoughts are with the families.

Yesterday was a tragic day for all of us.

Our Celsa family will grieve together and support each other in

The plant is still closed tonight as an investigation continues

Visiting Wales for the first time as Labour leader,

Jeremy Corbyn says he backs greater freedom for the party here.

I look forward to that autonomy that will come forward, but obviously has

to be agreed through the Labour Party structures.

I am not the control of the party. -- controller.

Private Gavin Williams died after a punishment exercise.

An inquest hears army medics didn't consider him to be an

It promised backers tiny drone cameras.

Now Trading Standards look into the collapse of

And, it's Wales' first Food Assembly, connecting people with

The two men who died in an explosion at the Celsa steelworks

in Cardiff yesterday have been named as Peter O'Brien and Mark Sim.

Tributes have been paid to the men, who were both engineers

The company says supporting their families, and those of the injured,

Laying flowers for two popular colleagues and family men,

51-year-old Peter O'Brien was married with six children.

He was part of a large and close Cardiff family,

and was the founder and club champion of St Peter's Bowls Club.

His neighbours in Llanishen have been speaking

Only been living here about 12 months, we have come from the West

Country, so we are very out of our comfort zone, and they were the

first to welcome us. Frederick and Anita Davies

have lived opposite the O'Brien Terrible, it was really awful. My

neighbour across the road came, last night, wasn't it? I just couldn't

take it in. He was in this terrible explosion, it was awful. We have

known him 22 years, since they came to live here. A very nice man, the

rock of his family, as I said, so I am assuming modest in his approach

to life. Very helpful to his neighbours, couldn't do enough for

them at times. In Caldicot tonight there is

another family in mourning. 41-year-old Mark Sim was married

with two young children, and was To think that you go to work and you

don't come home, it is very difficult to get your mind around

that, it is just an awful, awful tragedy, and I am sure everybody in

Caldicot will rally around Mark's family.

Both men were killed in an explosion in the basement of the rolling mill

Today, fire and police search teams were back

on site to continue the operation to recover the two men's bodies.

Earlier, the company's UK Chief Executive emerged from

the site, flanked by colleagues, to offer their condolences.

Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones

of those who passed away, and were injured, in yesterday's tragic

incident. Supporting each family is our absolute priority. Yesterday, it

was a tragic day for all of us. Our Celsa family will grieve together

and support each other in the days, weeks and months ahead.

Three of the four people who were treated in hospital yesterday

Colleagues are still trying to come to terms with what's happened.

We were in work last night, over at the site, and we were still

producing, the mill was stopped by senior management to explain the

situation and told us what they knew they could tell us, they let the

workforce no, and basically shut the rest of the evening. Operation is

remain suspended at the plant while the investigation continues. Celsa

says it will try to avoid another day like yesterday.

It's not yet known when the plant will reopen.

The company says its priority is to support the families of

It has been an emotional day here, as unions and colleagues have paid

tribute to the two men who died. You saw a genuine sense of grief and

loss expressed by the neighbours of Peter O'Brien, and you get a real

sense of two families and communities in mourning. The

investigation is continuing, and the recovery operation is continuing,

and while we have been on air, fire engine has gone into the plant

might. So you get the feeling that this is painstaking and difficult

work in very challenging circumstances. Everybody agrees this

cannot and should not be rushed. We have no date yet as to when the

plant will reopen. But everybody agrees the priority must be to

support the bereaved families and those who are injured and their

families, and everybody affected by this tragedy.

On his first visit to Wales since becoming Labour leader,

Jeremy Corbyn has said the party is united, despite

He said they will be united in the run-up to the AM elections. -- the

assembly elections. Mr Corbyn also said there was no

problem with giving the Welsh Labour Party more freedom,

stating that he was the party's Our Political Editor Nick Servini

has been speaking to him. It was a lively backdrop. Amani

students at Swansea University's new A campus celebrated their annual

festival before the arrival of Jeremy Corbyn. -- a campus. The last

time he was in Wales, Jeremy Corbyn was a candidate in a contest in

which he began as the rank outsider. He now returns for the first time as

leader of the Labour Party. He came to meet the man in charge of the

Labour Party in Wales, the First Minister Carwyn Jones. They have

very different styles of leadership. But their futures are intertwined.

Jeremy Corbyn has more than a passing interest in how Labour fares

next year, at a time when most Labour MPs did not want him in

charge, it could be crucial to his survival. The election for the Welsh

Assembly, the Scottish Parliament, and the London mayor, the first

really big tests on the horizon. It is unclear how much we will see of

him in Wales over the next few months, but he wants to play an

active part in the campaign. Labour succeeds together in all parts of

the UK. I will be campaigning in parts of the UK, of course I will be

campaigning in Wales, I will also be campaigning as Colin, this is a big

electoral possibility for Labour next year to show that we are

gaining support and that the increased membership of the party,

now nearly 400,000, mean something on the ground. His visit comes after

a difficult week in which you with openly criticised by a number of his

own MPs. The infighting may be at Westminster, but it poses a problem

for Welsh Labour planning an election campaign. It is important

that all party members, bear in mind that we have these elections, and to

be very careful not to say anything which jeopardises our chances. How

do you feel about Labour MPs when they openly criticise Jeremy Corbyn,

it is not very helpful for you? It is never helpful when you get that

kind of open public criticism, it is not helpful particularly for the

party, that is what we have got to remember, and the people who vote

for us. The message went down well with the engineers at the University

today. Now the job is to try and have the same impact on the wider

electorate. This has come at a difficult time for the Labour

leader? Indeed, he had a bumpy ride this week, all about his response to

defence and security issues in the wake of the Paris attacks. It was

interesting today, you get the sense of the two different wings of the

Labour Party, UK Labour and Welsh Labour. Welsh Labour prides itself

on being disciplined party. The UK Labour Party is anything but

disciplined at the moment. And frankly, some of the people in the

Welsh party I speak to terms with that at times. The best example this

week, Wayne David, Labour, Caerphilly MP, openly criticising

Jeremy Corbyn, saying he has a heck of a lot to do. Jeremy Corbyn said

today, we are great friends and we will have a cup of tea next week,

but behind-the-scenes there are serious concerns. One senior

official told me that very direct, is Asians are being had between

Welsh Labour -- very direct conversations are being had. They

are aware of is the Assembly elections. Many people would like

the Assembly elections be all about evolved services, but there is an

acknowledgement that politics in Wales does not exist in a bubble, it

is directly affected by what goes on at Westminster.

A pre-inquest hearing has heard that phone calls were made to police

about a convoy of cars before a crash which killed four people.

Teenagers Alesha O'Connor, Rhodri Miller, and Corey Price from

Barry, and 68-year-old Margaret Challis, died following the incident

The inquest, scheduled for February next year, will question whether the

The family of a 20-year-old man who died days after being sent home from

Wrexham Maelor Hospital have been awarded a five-figure settlement.

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted liability for

He had been suffering from sinusitis,

Wales' Finance Minister has said the Chancellor must deliver on

a promise of fair funding for Wales in his spending review next week.

Jane Hutt made the call in a speech to local council

leaders, where she said public services faced pressure from

We have estimated that pressures on all our public services in Wales

amount over the next three years to ?1 billion.

So, you know, that is the context in which we are also facing the cuts.

And let's remember that the Chancellor said ?37 billion are

going to be found in this spending review.

And those unprotected areas, like local government,

are the areas of course where there is great uncertainty.

A doctor has told the inquest into the death of a Welsh soldier

that the sergeants who brought him to the medical centre withheld

Dr Mark Derbyshire said he thought Gavin Williams had

a psychiatric problem rather than a physical one, because he hadn't

The 22-year-old later died of heat-stroke at Lucknow Barracks.

Private Gavin Williams died serving with the 2nd Battalion the

It was during intensive exercise, on one of the hottest days of 2006,

It was his punishment for bad behaviour.

He collapsed in the heat, and was taken to this medical centre

Dr Rowena French was in that medical centre, and saw

She told the coroner today that, "it wasn't portrayed to me at the time

as being any great emergency by the people who brought Gavin in".

Nobody told her about him collapsing earlier,

that he was sweating profusely and was probably dehydrated.

Had she been told all that, she said, then heatstroke would

Duty Doctor Mark Darbyshire told the coroner he tried to treat

Private Williams in this room, but his patient was aggressive

The sergeants who brought Gavin in hadn't told this doctor either

that he had collapsed earlier in the day and may have heatstroke.

Gavin was later resuscitated by Dr Darbyshire.

This CCTV shows him being taken to hospital, where he suffered heart

The drug ecstasy was found in his blood when he died.

As Gavin's family watched on in court today, the doctor who

treated him, Mark Darbyshire, said, "on a personal level as well,

where I have treated patients in the past who have died, the discussion

He went on to say that there are probably many reasons for that, but

no doubts about it, we should make some effort to sit and speak to the

That is what we do with anyone else who dies."

The army says it has reviewed the incident several times.

Keith Hick was one of the crowd-funders who lost out

Now there are complaints to Trading Standards.

And, connecting food producers with their community.

The new scheme to keep money in the local area.

Extra refugees from war-torn Syria will soon be arriving in Wales.

Tonight, a charity is warning the Welsh Government's response to the

crisis is too narrow. The Government setup that Syrian refugee task force

in September. But the Welsh Refugee Council said a 2 tier system will

emerge unless it also deals with refugees and asylum seekers already

here. Here is our political reporter Paul Martin. Images of the European

migrant crisis dominated the summer's news. The sight of people

fleeing their home countries led to calls for the authorities here to

take more refugees. The Prime Minister David Cameron then extended

a specific scheme. We refugees, saying Britain will take up to

20,000 -- for Syrian refugees. At a summit in September, the Welsh

Tubman created a Syrian refugee task force to coordinate how councils

will handle Wales' shared -- Welsh Refugee Council. A charity, the

Welsh Refugee Council, said the task force should be focusing on a bigger

number of people. The 3000 refugees and asylum seekers already here in

Wales. That political response is a narrow focus on the needs of a small

number of refugees through the Syrian vulnerable persons'

relocation, we need that response to expand to include all the siren

seekers and refugees currently living and abiding in Wales. People

like Mohammed, from Syria, who says he is homeless while he waits for

his asylum claim to be decided. I don't have anything to support

myself, I am just going from place to place, to the charities, the

organisations, to feed myself. It has made me feel that I am not

welcome here. I put the concerns to the Minister in charge. The Welsh

Refugee Council set on the task force, they have a place around the

table, they sit on the operations board, we are doing other things in

relations to that. This task was very specifically in relation to the

scheme that was announced by the Prime Minister in September. The

Welsh Government said it is reflecting on the wider lessons of

the current crisis and is working on plans to approve support for all

people seeking factory in Wales. A Conservative AM forced to face a

ballot of party members has come top of the regional list for next

year's Assembly elections. It prompted an open contest in

south-east Wales. Tonight it was announced he had topped the poll. A

second AM forced to follow the same procedure has finished outside of

the top four, meaning he is effectively deselected.

Pembrokeshire Council has confirmed that its Trading Standards officials

have received complaints following the collapse of one of Europe's

Earlier today they visited the headquarters of the Zano project

impairment but box. Top up -- in Pembroke Dock.

The Zano project promised backers mini-drone cameras which could be

But the project, based in Pembroke Dock, has collapsed.

This pocket-sized Zano drone promised so much,

The promotional video used by Talking Group describes how

the mini-drone can capture stunning images and deliver them to

It enticed thousands to invest in the product through the crowdfunding

website Kickstarter, including one self-confessed gadget nerd.

I looked at the website and I thought,

The videos there showed the thing flying, and

the capabilities they were saying it was going to give were fantastic,

After months of waiting, and spending almost ?300

on his mini-drone, Keith eventually received his Zano.

There was nothing with it, apart from the bits I had ordered,

There was no software disc or anything like that at all.

So I contacted them again and I said, yes, the app is available, but

it was for an Android, and I haven't got an Android phone or anything.

So I was still stuck with the drone, which is basically useless.

Thousands of people worldwide had invested more than ?2 million

in the Zano drone, developed here by the company at the Bridge

But in recent months, many of its financial backers have been

questioning their investment, and asking the company why they still

As news reached investors of the company's recent fate,

many have taken to Kickstarter to vent their frustration.

Kickstarter says creators on the website have a remarkable track

record, but there are no guarantees that a project will work out.

There is always a risk when you are buying something that doesn't exist,

like you are at Kickstarter, that that something wouldn't

actually appear, unfortunately, as they found with this company.

Had they gone through the equity crowdfunding route,

which is a different route, they would have been far more

stringently looked at before they had been able to raise money.

Talking Group has informed its creditors that insolvency

practitioners will contact them next week.

It is a disappointing end for a business plan that never quite

Over the past two days, a Cardiff Mosque has welcomed over 650 primary

school pupils from across the capital in an effort to break what

The event at the Dar Ul-Isra Centre has been using interactive workshops

According to the Mosque's Outreach Manager, they've had

We were really concerned that the last weekend's incidents might

But actually, because we live in a very metropolitan city, the parents

were quite open to it, and they encouraged them to come and learn

And the kids are coming in with open minds, you can hear

What that does is it just goes away and reinforces a positive impression

of Islam, and then they can take that forward into their lives.

Football, and Swansea City manager Garry Monk has claimed speculation

about his future in the job is being caused by people

Going into this weekend, and the visit of Bournemouth in the Premier

League, the Swans have won just one of their last nine matches.

What I can't worry about is things that I can't control.

I can't control what people say out of here.

The only thing that I need to worry about or focus on is what's said

And with my players, with each other, with the staff, with

the club as a whole, with the fans, it is what we say inside of here,

I've concentrated my players on that, I've concentrated my staff...

And that is how we will go about our business.

Organisers of Velothon Wales have confirmed the event will return

Its debut in June attracted some controversy due to the number of

road closures, although there were no reports of any major disruption.

Up to 18,000 riders will be able to take part in next year's Velothon

on the 22nd of May, along a 140-kilometre route on closed

Pioneered in France as a way of connecting people with local

food producers, Wales' first Food Assembly has been

Meat, vegetables and coffee can be ordered online from firms within

a 25-mile radius, and collected every week from a pub.

Organisers say 90p of every ?1 spent stays within the local area.

It gives a whole new meaning to "pub grub".

These shoppers are collecting their orders from farmers

and food producers based within a 25-mile radius.

The Food Assembly aims to give consumers access to fresh goods,

and the people who provide them, as well as more control over where

Over 90p of every ?1 spent through the Food

Assembly stays in the local economy, with over 80p going directly to

So, you know, compared to I think supermarkets,

where it is more like 7p of every ?1 goes to the food producer,

So the members of this Llangollen Food Assembly have placed their

online shopping requests, which come through to the individual producers.

And then they can make the food to order.

This pig farm just outside Wrexham is home to a family of Saddlebacks.

Mike Ford runs one of the meat suppliers working with

He says he enjoys meeting his customers

We as Welsh producers have got some fantastic opportunities here.

And it is a great way of getting out and meeting the public.

They can see how passionate we are about the food, about

So basically we are cutting the middleman out,

Back in Llangollen, Laurie Rose Bell is doing her online shopping,

and says that she finds the scheme as convenient as it is healthy.

I was really interested to start buying local produce.

I have got an eight-month-old baby, so it is really difficult to

actually go out and source these things locally.

So to have somewhere that I can actually come

and just pick my order up once a week is perfect, and I can order

Anybody can set up their own Food Assembly.

Time for the weather forecast, and it's been rather mild, hasn't it?

Brace yourselves - there's a big change on the horizon.

It's going to turn much colder over the next few days.

The coldest spell of the autumn so far.

A little snow in places too, but not everywhere,

Now, this is the cloud that brought all the rain

this morning, followed by a much drier afternoon with a few showers.

There was some rain in Powys this morning. This was a quiet afternoon

looking across the DS to re-. -- Dee estuary.

Tonight, mid and north Wales largely dry.

A chillier night than recently, with lighter winds.

Tomorrow morning any rain in the far south will clear.

It will brighten up with some sunshine,

but a few showers will spread from the north during the afternoon.

These turning wintry on high ground in the north,

Becoming fresh to strong and turning colder.

Temperatures nearer the seasonal average of seven to 10 Celsius.

So, cold Arctic winds sweeping south across the whole of the UK

into the weekend, bringing a big drop in temperature.

Tomorrow night, cold and windy with clear spells and wintry showers.

The showers falling as rain, hail, sleet and snow.

A dusting of snow in places, mainly on higher ground,

The wind a big feature on Friday night and Saturday.

The Met Office has issued a Yellow Warning.

Gales in mid and north Wales with gusts around 50 or 60 mph.

And the wind will make it feel bitterly cold.

More like -14 on Pen y Fan and-16 on Snowdon.

Most of the showers in the west and south west.

Some heavy showers, with hail and sleet and snow in places.

On Saturday night, more showers in the north and west.

Elsewhere, dry with some frost and icy patches.

On Sunday, a few showers, mainly in the north and west.

So, a taste of winter over the next few days, but not lasting too long.

Turning a bit milder again next week.

Now, before I go, if you're interested in finding out

a bit more about my job or the new series of Weatherman Walking, join

me on the BBC Cymru Wales Facebook page for an online Q session.

Thank you, Derek. Our top story tonight: Tributes have been paid to

two men who died at an explosion at is this Macros steelworkers

yesterday. Peter O'Brien and Mark Sim were in juniors at the plant.

The company says -- wert -- were engineers at the plant. The company

says supporting their families as a priority.