Browse content similar to 09/12/2015. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Welcome to the programme. Tonight's headlines: | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
Last weekend's home defeat the final straw. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
Garry Monk is no longer manager at Swansea City. | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
The coach will pick up the reins for their next match. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:12 | |
And as ministers hand over ?4 billion, | 0:00:12 | 0:00:17 | |
they urge local councils to think seriously before they set | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
council tax next year. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
After weeks of speculation, Swansea City have parted company | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
with manager Garry Monk. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
BBC Wales understands that assistant manager Pep Clotet and first-team | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
coach James Beattie are also set to leave. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
And tonight, it's been revealed that Swansea Coach, | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
Alan Curtis is set to take charge for Saturday's game | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
against Manchester City. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:55 | |
Our sports reporter Iwan Griffiths has more. | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
They've come from behind... | 0:01:00 | 0:01:01 | |
Scenes of celebration following the August victory over | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
Manchester United. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
How things have changed. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
With just one win since that result, Garry Monk's feature as manager | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
became increasingly uncertain. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
A dismal performance and a disappointing three nil home | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
defeat to Leicester last week was a trigger that led | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
to his sacking. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:22 | |
He'll be hugely disappointed, very hurt. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
I feel very disappointed for him because he's done a good job. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
He took over in difficult circumstances, after | 0:01:28 | 0:01:33 | |
Michael Laudrup, and I think he's done a very good job. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:38 | |
He's taken the club to its highest ever finish, | 0:01:38 | 0:01:43 | |
certainly in the premiership. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:45 | |
There's no doubting Garry Monk's allegiance. | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
Joining the League 2 side on a free transfer in due 2004, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
he received a captain's armband two seasons later. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
With the Swans up in League 1, the defender skippered his team | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
to championship promotion in 2008, before but historic 2011 | 0:01:59 | 0:02:04 | |
season, when Swansea city stepped up to the Premier League. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
It was 2013, and Monk was celebrating a League | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
Cup victory, cheered on by thousands of fans who'd lined the Swansea | 0:02:11 | 0:02:18 | |
streets. | 0:02:18 | 0:02:19 | |
On the 4th of February 2014, following the sacking | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
of Michael Laudrup, he was appointed as interim player manager by HM Hugh | 0:02:21 | 0:02:24 | |
Jenkins will stop he was confirmed as manager three months later, | 0:02:24 | 0:02:27 | |
Jenkins. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:28 | |
he was confirmed as manager three months later, and Monk signed | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
a new three-year contract this July. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:32 | |
On the 9th of December just four months later, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
and his 11 year relationship with the | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
South Wales club has come to end. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
Probably change did have to come. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
Not Garry Monk's personal self, any manager we had, the run of form | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
we had he would probably have to go away, whoever it was going to be. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
We were talking about it at the weekend | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
and we said we can't see him staying long. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
But I did like him. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
I feel really sad, and I hope for | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
this one is that they get a really good manager. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Swansea city are currently 15th in the Premier | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
League, just one point above the relegation zone. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
The new manager will need to change things around, | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
and quickly. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:10 | |
But it won't be easy. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
Manchester city are the opponents in just three days' time. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
Councils should think seriously before they set council tax next | 0:03:16 | 0:03:19 | |
year, after a better than expected settlement from the Welsh | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
Government. That's the message from ministers tonight. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
Councils will get more than ?4 billion from the government. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
That's 1.4% less than they got this year. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
With the details, here's our political correspondent | 0:03:32 | 0:03:33 | |
Daniel Davies. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
Keeping their heads above water hasn't been easy for | 0:03:37 | 0:03:39 | |
cash-strapped councils. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:41 | |
Here in Narberth this swimming pool is run by local people who saved it | 0:03:41 | 0:03:46 | |
from closure by Pembrokeshire County Council. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
I've been on the Council for 20 odd years | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
and along the time I've learnt that if you want to maintain services, | 0:03:51 | 0:03:56 | |
especially in this climate where cuts are everywhere, | 0:03:56 | 0:04:00 | |
then you've got to get out as do it yourself, | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
there's no other way round it. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
Government funding for councils next year will be just over ?4 billion. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
A cut of 1.4%. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:14 | |
But that's less than the almost 35.% | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
cut they faced this year. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
Under the funding formula, rural councils do badly. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
Powys Council will take the biggest hit, down 4.1%. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:25 | |
Cardiff Council comes out on top down just | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
0.1%. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
Do you expect council tax rises to be lower this year | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
than they have been? | 0:04:34 | 0:04:35 | |
Well, I don't want local governments to produce | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
irresponsibly low council tax rises, but nor do they want them to produce | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
irresponsibly high council tax rises. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
I expect them to look first at the cost of administration, | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
senior management costs stop I expect them to look | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
at their reserves, that they are currently | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
carrying, and see how they can deploy those | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
to supplement their money they are getting from the Welsh government. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Councils are expected by ministers to protect | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
schools and social care, so when the axe falls it falls | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
elsewhere on libraries, and leisure centres. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
The Tories say councils in the countryside are losing out. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
The formula is certainly of... | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
You know, not helpful to those living in rural | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
communities will stop the relationship now between rural | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
communities and the Welsh Labour government is at an all-time low, | 0:05:18 | 0:05:22 | |
and this actually further endorses that. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
The government doesn't accept that. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
It says the formula sets funding reflects local | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
populations, and that all councils have signed up to it. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
Cardiff Council is likely that says today's | 0:05:34 | 0:05:38 | |
settlement is encouraging, but still won't be enough | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
to meet growing demand. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
His authority is going to lease this athletic Stadium | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
to help raise money. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
Councils such as Cardiff faced being only able to fund education | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
and social services. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
There won't be a budget is left for anything else. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
Things that people do often care about, whether it is Ledger centres | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
or parks or clean streets. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
The cuts are still coming down the track, but the pace of cuts | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
has slowed down. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
Something local council leaders have | 0:06:06 | 0:06:07 | |
welcomed tonight. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
Wales is once again at the bottom of a UK table measuring the strength | 0:06:11 | 0:06:14 | |
of the economy. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:15 | |
And the figures from the Office for National Statistics also | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
show that it's growing at the slowest rate. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
While we make up 5% of the UK population, we only contribute 3.5% | 0:06:20 | 0:06:25 | |
to the economy. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
A North Wales Assembly Member has branded the UK Government's | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
multi-million plan to improve mobile phone coverage in his area | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
as an expensive flop. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
Plaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd says 27 masts promised for so-called "not | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
spots" haven't been installed, with the company responsible citing | 0:06:42 | 0:06:47 | |
technical and planning problems. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:48 | |
The MP for Wrexham Ian Lucas says there's a North/South divide | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
in terms of mobile phone coverage in Wales. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
A civil engineering firm in Gwynedd is going into voluntary | 0:06:54 | 0:06:59 | |
administration, with the loss of 50 jobs. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
Staff at Mulc-air, in Caernarfon, | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
have been told they're being made redundant. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
The Newport Gwent Dragons say they're "extremely disappointed" | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
that Taulupe Faletau is to join Bath from next season. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
The 25 year old has rejected an offer of a national dual contract | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
with the Dragons and the Welsh Rugby Union. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
The WRU say it liaised with the Dragons "on all | 0:07:20 | 0:07:24 | |
developments" during the talks. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
I'm growing very tired of Talupay and the Dragons being a test case | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
for these policies, procedures and documents, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
but I think apart from the personal interests, I think there is a need | 0:07:34 | 0:07:38 | |
to consider its implications in a wider context as well, | 0:07:38 | 0:07:44 | |
so we can understand, going forward, how the NDC is working. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:53 | |
Or | 0:07:55 | 0:07:55 | |
Or in | 0:07:55 | 0:07:55 | |
Or in this | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
Or in this case | 0:07:56 | 0:07:56 | |
Or in this case not. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
Time for a quick look at the weather now, here's Sue Charles. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:00 | |
Good evening. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:01 | |
After a brief respite in our weather today, | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
turning increasingly wet and windy overnight. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:04 | |
A band of more persistent rain pushing in from the north-west, | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
a further 20 to 40 millimetres of rain possible at lower levels. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:10 | |
60 on higher grounds, Snowdonia, the Cambrian Mountains. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
So, the Met office warning of an ongoing flood | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
risk in north-west Wales, as river levels are so high | 0:08:14 | 0:08:16 | |
and the grounds already saturated. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:17 | |
A wet start tomorrow, but winds easing, and the weather | 0:08:17 | 0:08:20 | |
improving from the north-west, and that's the case | 0:08:20 | 0:08:22 | |
across the UK. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:23 | |
A cold front moving south-eastwards, bringing rain | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
crossed south-east England, slowly clearing behind it turning | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
drier and brighter from the north-west, | 0:08:26 | 0:08:28 | |
but also chillier behind that cold front. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:29 | |
A queue showers, wintry in the Highlands. | 0:08:29 | 0:08:31 | |
Highs of just four Celsius in north-east Scotland. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
13 in the mind all the air in south-east England. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
And across Wales, a drier, brighter ends to the day, | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
with a fuel isolated showers. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:39 | |
Highs of nine Celsius in Conwy, 11 in Cardiff. | 0:08:39 | 0:08:41 | |
Now, that front moves southwards on Thursday, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
but it doesn't clear completely. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:44 | |
It is a waving weather front, pushing back | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
northwards on Friday, so showers clearing on Thursday | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
night, eventually turning drier, clearer | 0:08:48 | 0:08:49 | |
and colder overnight. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
Two to eight Celsius in towns and cities, | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
colder than this in the countryside. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:53 | |
Friday is looking cold and breezy, with | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
sunshine and showers. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:56 | |
More likely to be drier in the north, away from | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
that front, with rain more likely to linger in the south, | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
where it is closer, and it is that same front | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
which looks like it will move back northwards over the weekend, | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
bringing rain at times, stronger southerly winds, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
and eventually bringing milder air behind it. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:09 | |
So, chillier with sunshine and showers | 0:09:09 | 0:09:11 | |
on Friday, colder overnight into Saturday, with rain likely | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
on Saturday, which should then clear northwards on Sunday. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
Detail is likely to change, though, as we get closer to the weekend. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
We're back from around 6.25am in the morning. | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
That's Wales Today. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:21 | |
From all of us on the programme, thanks for watching. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:24 | |
Goodnight. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:38 | |
Goodnight. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 |