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Tonight, the Welsh Government sets out plans for mergers. | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
Our proposals mean they will be fewer cabinet members and leaders | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
and check -- -- chief executives and they will be savings as a result. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
But will you be happy to see your council disappear? | :00:27. | :00:39. | |
Welsh rugby players make up a third of all British athletes | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
The community council accused of intransigence for only | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
Find out what left these two sports instructors lost for words. | :00:51. | :01:05. | |
We never dreamt anything like this would happen to us. And an appeal | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
goes out to save the 300 years old bells at this Wrexham church. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Taxpayers will save ?650 million over ten years | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
That's the claim made by the Welsh Government today, as it | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
confirmed it wants to cut the number of councils here from 22 to eight. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
But for the mergers to go ahead, Labour will have to stay in power | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
after the next Assembly election and get support from parties | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Daniel Davies. | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
Ken Arthur is famous Fritz falls, it's cheese and the those who love | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
maps from us being in three counties at once. The town is in | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion is on the other side of the river and | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
downstream is Pembrokeshire. Before the last organisation all these | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
counties were on. If the Labour Welsh Government has its way we | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
could be heading back there. And it is on the scrap wales': 22 | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
councils. Eight authorities would be created. It's not 1 million miles | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
away from the councils that existed 20 years ago. They haven't decided | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
whether to merge Conwy and Denbighshire creating a third | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
counselling North Wales and nine in total. We know that we have 22 | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
authorities, some of them very small at the moment. They are not | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
delivering in terms of quality. We also know that is a cost of the | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
current system and there is potential for substantial savings as | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
we move forward with our proposals. Not everyone is enthusiastic. Here | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
in Newport the Labour leader of the council said he was horrified the | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
Welsh Government was pushing ahead without meaningful consultation. He | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
said this merger would leave the city short-changed. But ministers | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
say their plans would save money. The merger would cost up to ?246 | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
million but that will pay for itself into three years. They will be fewer | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
councillors than the current 12,050 and they will be fewer people | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
working in admin for local councils. There are 9000 now and that could | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
fall to just over 7000. We need to reorganise local government due to | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
the current context, not just financial but also the need for us | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
to work across a broad range of areas to improve a lot of Wales. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
That hasn't changed my opinion. Not far from here in Newcastle Emlyn how | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
do they feel about the return of dev"? All the services will be the | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
same and they get value for money I don't see the problem. It makes | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
sense to get to -- rid of two councils. Labour still has a long | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
way to go to convince some of its own. Here in Newport this shopping | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
centre has just opened but the council leader says if the city were | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
part of Gwent face-lifts like this would be more difficult to achieve. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Just one headache for whoever tries to push forward with these plans | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
after next made's collection. Our Political Editor, Nick Servini, | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
is at the Senedd. So lots more details today about how | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
it could work in practice, but we're still no nearer this actually | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
getting off the ground are we? That's right. We have been talking | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
about local governor reorganisation of the two years and it has been a | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
story of Labour failing to get support from its political | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
opponents. At least by coming out with a detailed plan that is ready | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
to go they will at least show to their doubters that the party is | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
deadly serious about carrying this out. It will all come down to the | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
electoral maths here after the assembly election in May next year. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
In terms of the Conservatives, they are miles away from Labour in terms | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
of what they want from council change. Interesting tonight, Simon | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Thomas the Plaid Cymru Assembly Member quite conciliar tree in the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
chamber talking about elements of this new draft legislation would | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
discussing and worth consulting on. Plaid Cymru and Labour want the same | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
thing. They believe local governor done local decisions should be made | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
by bigger organisations. Plaid Cymru are talking about existing councils | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
collaborating, Labour want to restructure the entire picture but | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
the principle is the same. If there is going to be a deal done on this | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
the only game in town now and likely to be in the future is one between | :06:01. | :06:01. | |
Labour and Plaid Cymru. A BBC Wales investigation has found | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
Welsh rugby players from grass roots to semi-pro level | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
make up a third of all British A former player, who at one point | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
played at semi-professional level, has admitted taking steroids, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
but never got caught. He also said the use | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
of anabolic steroids Our reporter Tomos Morgan has | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
the story. Athletes across the sporting world | :06:22. | :06:36. | |
have been at the centre of intense media speculation recently with a | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
growing number of sportsmen and women accused and charged with | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
doping offences. Now there is evidence to suggest that the worst | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
offenders are rugby players. I started playing rugby a schoolboy | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
level. One player who played at semiprofessional level told us he | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
took steroids while playing rugby. I think it's totally off the scale. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
People are probably blind to it and if the truth came out I think they | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
would be a lot will players were banned from playing. The pressures | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
when you are younger to make those jumps especially with young players | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
who have the opportunity to have a full-time career, I still think it's | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
going on. We spoke to several rugby players who did not want to be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
interviewed and according to UK anti-doping statistics are third of | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
all banned athletes are Welsh rugby players. Of the 52 banned athletes | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
across the UK, 17 are Welsh rugby players. A small percentage of the | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
thousands that play the game. However Welsh rugby league bosses | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
say the figures were a wake-up call and admit they are keeping dashed | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
that keeping the sport clean is a challenge. One expert says it's too | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
easy for cheats to avoid detection. Threads that leave this system very | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
quickly can be quite confident they will be caught because the current | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
testing will not be able to detect those drugs. Last week to Welsh | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Rugby Union players were banned after testing positive in a drugs | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
test. The WRU say they are not overly concerned because the numbers | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
of players tested is higher than in other rugby unions and sports. I | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
think it's a problem in society to start with. I would not sit here and | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
say it's not an issue in rugby because the fact that the one player | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
getting band is one too many as far as I'm concerned. The challenge for | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
us in sport generally is to try and get a lead of the game. But the | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
rugby player we spoke to doesn't feel they will ever get rid of | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
banned drugs completely because he feels the pressure is put on players | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
these days are greater than ever. And you can see more | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
on this story in Week in Week Out | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
tonight at 10:35pm A woman from Cardiff died from | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
drowning after the tourist boat she was on capsized on a river in South | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
East Asia, an inquest has heard. Johanna Powell, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
who was a picture editor here at BBC Wales news, was with three | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
friends when the vessel sank on The inquest heard how Miss Powell | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
was probably asleep when the boat A conclusion | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
of accidental death was recorded. Around 50 Syrian refugees will | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
arrive in Wales before Christmas. Four local councils across Wales | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
will welcome the refugees. The Minister for Communities, Lesley | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
Griffiths, says the UK Government has vetted all of those coming here | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
and they pose no threat to security. Two former Welsh Secretaries, Peter | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
Hain and Paul Murphy, have taken Lord Hain, the former MP for Neath, | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
was flanked by supporters Lord Kinnock, the former Labour | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
leader, and Baroness Eluned Morgan as he swore the oath | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
of allegiance to the Queen. Lord Murphy, who served as MP | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
for Torfaen from 1987 until 2015, Both retired from the House | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
of Commons A community council in Denbighshire | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
has been accused intransigence for only publishing its agenda | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
in Welsh and not in English. Following a complaint, | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
the public services Ombudsman said Cynwyd Council was wrong not to | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
produce the document bilingually. In his report, he says | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
the council acted unreasonably. This is a quiet place not far from | :10:19. | :10:36. | |
Corwen. Like many villages it is served by a community Council which | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
is supposed to represent local opinion. | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
is supposed to represent local notices for it get posted outside | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the village shop. When the woman who complained looked at the council | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
agenda on this notice board she found it was only in Welsh and she | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
says she asked for it to be done bilingual you but nothing was done. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
She felt that was unfair. Today the ombudsman has agreed and goes | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
further and says it was unjust. In the report the complainant has -- is | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
referred to as Mrs X. She has now waved their anonymity so I met a few | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
miles outside the village. She is not against the Welsh line which she | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
says. All I want is what I originally asked for is for the | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
agenda to be bilingual. That is all I wanted. I didn't want all of this. | :11:26. | :11:34. | |
Are you thinking this is quite a large sledgehammer the quite a small | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
net? I agree. It did not come -- need to come to this at all. They | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
had plenty of opportunity to change their minds and they were politely | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
requested time after time by the ombudsman 's office but for some | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
reason which I still do not understand they refuse to do this. | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
Despite today's criticisms a Cynwyd Council spokesman was unapologetic. | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
We were asked in the wrong way. If you are asked to do something nicely | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
you lead over backwards but if we are told to do something and | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
threatened with the ombudsman I think it is a reasonable answer to | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
say OK, we will discuss this issue when the ombudsman reports. I have | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
had to issue this public report because of the complete | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
intransigence of the community Council. This is not a linguistic | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
issue, this is a public service issue. This is not a public or | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
private club which can decide its own rules. So though the ball is in | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
the council's court. Will it change its position? That is still not | :12:50. | :12:50. | |
clear. In tonight's sport, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
we reveal the eight nominees And the appeal ringing out | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
across Wrexham to save Tomorrow, the Chancellor George | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
Osborne will set out Working tax credits | :13:06. | :13:19. | |
and housing benefits are expected to be changed to save billions of | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
pounds and help balance the books. Any changes to benefits would have | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
a huge impact on thousands Our reporter, Ben Price, | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
has been to Swansea to speak to some Stormy November clouds over Swansea | :13:31. | :13:47. | |
Bay and ahead of tomorrow's statement by the Chancellor many | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
have been forecasting challenging times the thousands of people who | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
are relying on financial support from the government. 238,000 | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
families in Wales receive tax credits which provide extra | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
financial support based on individual family needs. 89,000 of | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
those who got them were in work. More than 243,000 people in Wales | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
receive housing benefit. Swansea is the third highest place in Wales for | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
the number of people who are eligible for working tax credits. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Around 18,000 people here get them. It's also the second highest place | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
in Wales for the number of people who receive housing benefits. The | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Phoenix Centre in the Townhill area of Swansea helps people when money | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
is tight. There is a community enterprise offering cheap childcare | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
and a cafe with knock-down prices. It also creates jobs for local | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
people. I am Emily, I am 26 and they get around ?70 for working tax | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
credit and around ?80 for housing benefit. A single mother of three | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
young children, Emily works in the centre part time. She has to keep a | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
close eye on her weekly budget but Emily often feels her situation | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
isn't there. I would be better off on the income support. My youngest | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
son is two. Technically I don't have to work until his five and that is | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
the scary thing that other people will be feeling that too. So what | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
you are saying is you would be better off? From what I understand | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
they would be better off unemployed. Just down the road a karate lesson | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
that the Gwent boxing gym. Parents you are concerned about the impact | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
of potential welfare cuts. It's not right. They have got people to go | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
back to work with the working tax credit, child tax credit. They have | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
got people off the dole. The government is not listening to what | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
people need. They are prioritising cats in areas where it would make a | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
lot of difference to people. And as fears over cuts continue its hoped | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
they will be something to soften the blow. Let's talk to our | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
Parliamentary correspondent. The UK Government says cats have to be | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
made. Yes, George Osborne says that unless the country tackles its | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
national debt it is economic security is threatened. That is the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
message will appear tomorrow as he talks about moves to a low welfare | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
economy which means cuts the benefits. We don't know the details | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
of what he'll do on tax credits. He's had to rethink them after they | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
were blocked by the House of Lords. He may look instead at something | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
like housing benefit. And it will all be doom and gloom. They will be | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
extra money for the NHS in Wales if the Welsh Government decides to | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
follow the decision taken by the NHS in England which is getting a 4% | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
real terms boost next year. There will though be difficult times for | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
local government in England that could feed through to a challenging | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
settlement the local councils in Wales. Policing to looks vulnerable. | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
We are also expecting him to unveil plans to guarantee public than in | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Wales the head will always stay higher than England. | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
And we will of course have lots of reaction to the Spending Review | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Back to tonight and the sport with Tomos. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
We start with news of an award which recognises outstanding | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
contribution at the grassroots level of local sport. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Tonight we can reveal the winners of this year's Unsung Hero award. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
They volunteer at the local swimming pool in Llanrwst | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
and over the years they've taught hundreds of children to swim. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
I went to surprise them with the news. | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
We are in Llanrwst to reveal this year 's Unsung Hero Award. There are | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
two award winners and they are just over there officiating at a swimming | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
gala. Before we surprised them, but find out why they deserve this | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
year's award. There is no doubting their passion. Jane and Nerys have | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
been teaching here every week since 1983. Some they've helped have | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
competed at national level and others have become lifeguards and | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
swimming teachers themselves. Generations helped by two remarkable | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
women. I was a teenager when I started coming here and it just | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
shows the commit they give and my daughter is here now and it is | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
lovely to see how they have given their time so long. Around 100 turn | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
up every week, chance of children from mainly rural areas to get | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
together. If anybody said to me we would want you to do a swimming club | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
the 32 years, I would think no chance. But you can see from | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
tonight, the kids absolutely love it. And they love Jane and Nerys. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
It's a partnership formed in friendship. They have lived next | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
door to each other on neighbouring farms the 40 years. Both live here | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
in the village nestles between ball and better is a kite. With its lakes | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
and white-water rivers and the landscape here is a constant | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
reminder of the importance of swimming skills. Water is a magnet | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
for children whatever age. They always want to play with water. The | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
children have drowned, young people have got into difficulties. We try | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
and do a lot of life with them because it's vitally important. When | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
mother came to us and said her child fell in the river but the brother | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
jumped in and got hold of the and she came and said thank you for | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
teaching my children life-saving skills. Back at the pool and its | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
prize-giving time at the swimming gala. Every child gets a medal. But | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
what Jane and Nerys don't know is they are about to get a trophy of | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
their own. What are welcome. You love the bit confused. I have got to | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
let you in on a little secret. The real reason everybody is here | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
tonight is because of you to and the tireless work you do week in week | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
out. I am delighted to say that you are this year's BBC sport get | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
inspired tent back to winners. -- Unsung Hero Award winners. | :20:51. | :21:07. | |
Congratulations. You have got tears in your eyes. What does it mean to | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
you? It is tremendous for us. We never dreamt anything like this | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
would happen to us. I am lost for words. It is a shock. I love | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
teaching the children. It is just lovely. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
It was a great night for everyone involved with | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
Congratulations once again to Jane and Nerys. | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Well, it's time to announce exclusively the nominees | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
for this year's BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality of the Year. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
The winner will be announced at the Wales Sport Awards on Monday, | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
So, let's take a look at the eight nominees. | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
His goals helped to dig Wales to the European Championships. It is Wales | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
and Real Madrid foot bollard Gareth Bale. The Ospreys and Wales rugby | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
international Dan Biggar had a standout World Cup and six Nations. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
And what about an Olympian a la John Davies. European games gold | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
medallist and world Grand Prix winner tae kwon do athlete Jade | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Jones. The new IBF world featherweight champion who also | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
defended his title this year, boxer Lee Selby is also on the list. Along | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
with Non Stanford back from injury to qualify for the 2016 Olympics. | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Classic winner and career-best Tour de France finisher Geraint Thomas | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
and Wales and Swansea City Captain Ashley Williams who led his country | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
to next year's European finals. Each night next week, | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
we'll be profiling the candidates. You'll be able to vote | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
from Monday morning until Saturday | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
the 5th of December. All the details on how to vote will | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
be available from next Monday on Cardiff Blues hooker Matthew Rees | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
will face The 34-year-old was shown | :23:00. | :23:09. | |
a red card for stamping on Harlequins and England number eight, | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Nick Easter, during the Blues' That is the sport. Back to you, | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
Jamie. An appeal is ringing out in Wrexham | :23:18. | :23:35. | |
to save the bells The rare set | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
of ten bells is almost 300-years-old Bell ringers need to raise | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
?10,000 for the work. Matthew Richards is there | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
for us tonight. Welcome to this beautiful medieval | :23:46. | :23:55. | |
church. I have got here the receipt for the last instalment to pay for | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
the set of bells back in 1732 the ?44. Inflation has gone up somewhat | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
I think. We saw a group practising earlier this evening. Let's listen | :24:05. | :24:16. | |
in to hear them playing the bells. With me now is David Spalding the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
tower captain of the bell-ringers year. Explain to me a bit about the | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
bells and what needs to be done. It is some years since they had any | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
maintenance and they are now at a stage when they urgently need some | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
maintenance. Then they will be good for another 50 or 60 years. Tell us | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
about the history of them. They are special. These bells were cast in | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
Gloucester by Abraham Riddle in the early 1720s. They are almost unique | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
beef up but because we have ten bells and there are very few ten | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
bell-ringers in the world. They got here in quite a unique way. They | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
did. We have got a report of how they were brought up by boat at the | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
River Severn to strew spree and hauled overland to Wrexham. In the | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
1720s it must have been quite a challenge. You need to raise ?10,000 | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
and you are appealing for more people to become members. We do need | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
to get the money to pay for the repairs but equally we would welcome | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
any interest in bell-ringing. It is an inch and tradition and one which | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
we are keen to encourage. Thank you very much. We were let the practice | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
continued receiving. Let's get the weather now. Sue | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
Charles has tonight's forecast. After a cold start to the week, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
we're moving in to a milder spell of weather now, | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
but also more unsettled. Cloudier tonight with outbreaks | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
of rain moving south eastwards, pushing through on brisk north | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
westerly winds overnight. The cloud holding up | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
the temperatures though. Those strong winds persist | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
into tomorrow, Likely to be heaviest | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
in the north and west, but moving Some brighter spells in between, | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
but with brisk north westerly winds Highs between 9C in Powys and 11C | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
in Pembrokeshire. Tomorrow night, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
largely dry but often cloudy. A few isolated showers | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
for a time and staying blustery If we follow the isobars the winds | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
move from the north west to the So Thursday might be | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
a bit cloudy but mostly dry. Some bright spells, | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
some mist and hill fog. Patchy rain more likely further | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
north west, but also slightly milder with temperatures back in double | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
figures at 11C to 13C and turning But with that milder Atlantic | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
influence it's also very changeable with another front arriving | :26:44. | :26:55. | |
from the west on Friday. Friday might start dry, especially | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
in the east, but there's more rain Behind that front drier and colder | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
for a time overnight Friday into Saturday and remaining windy | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
with a risk of wintry showers. Then further rain | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
on the way through Saturday. So quite topsy-turvy | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
weather this week. Very changeable and signs that we | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
could briefly return to colder air I'll have an update for you here | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
at 8:00pm and again after the BBC news | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
at 10:00pm. From all of us on the programme, | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
good evening. The knives are sharpened, | :27:35. | :27:55. | |
and the heat is on... | :27:56. | :27:59. |