:00:14. > :00:16.After 44 years of generating electricity, the Wylfa nuclear power
:00:17. > :00:19.station on Anglesey has been shut down.
:00:20. > :00:21.The closure will, for now, bring to an end nuclear
:00:22. > :00:26.More than 500 people work there - around a third will lose their jobs
:00:27. > :00:34.The moment the nuclear reactor went offline.
:00:35. > :00:40.A rare view inside Wylfa's control room.
:00:41. > :00:43.The shutdown so much more than a single flick of a switch.
:00:44. > :00:48.A day they had been planning for some time.
:00:49. > :00:50.Conceived in the 1950s, built through the 60s,
:00:51. > :00:53.finally opened at the start of the 70s.
:00:54. > :01:00.This picture shows the reactor hall then.
:01:01. > :01:04.Below the pile cap, the reactor which was shut today.
:01:05. > :01:07.It was the last of its type, and it stayed running longer
:01:08. > :01:13.There was a stream of nine others that sort of led up to Wylfa,
:01:14. > :01:17.A credit to the people who have operated it, the technicians
:01:18. > :01:21.who built it and the original designers, so absolutely fantastic.
:01:22. > :01:24.It'll take three years to remove Wylfa's fuel, ten years
:01:25. > :01:26.before the site can be put in what they call a care
:01:27. > :01:33.With today's shutdown, attention now turns to Wylfa Newydd,
:01:34. > :01:35.the replacement planned for the site.
:01:36. > :01:37.At Horizon, we are extremely confident that the Wylfa Newydd
:01:38. > :01:40.project will come to fruition and that we will see a new nuclear
:01:41. > :01:43.power station built next door to the existing one
:01:44. > :01:47.We have a number of hurdles that we have to overcome, of course.
:01:48. > :01:51.But there is a tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes.
:01:52. > :01:55.But the final investment decisions on Wylfa Newydd has yet to be made,
:01:56. > :01:58.and plans to build it are fiercely opposed.
:01:59. > :02:01.Supporters and opponents of nuclear power agree on the significance
:02:02. > :02:11.They have very different visions of the future here, though.
:02:12. > :02:13.More than 100 homes are still without power tonight
:02:14. > :02:16.after Storm Frank swept across parts of the country.
:02:17. > :02:20.Emergency services have also been dealing with some flooding
:02:21. > :02:29.Trearddur Bay on Anglesey earlier today, where drivers faced
:02:30. > :02:33.the challenge of water on the roads as well as the crash of waves
:02:34. > :02:39.It was just one part of Wales affected today by Storm Frank.
:02:40. > :02:43.More than a thousand households were without power at some point,
:02:44. > :02:48.mainly focused on parts of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.
:02:49. > :02:51.Engineers worked to reconnect applies and in Ferryside,
:02:52. > :02:56.the Fire Service were needed to pump water away from properties.
:02:57. > :02:59.Although the strong winds and rain eased through the day,
:03:00. > :03:02.officials remain on stand-by over the coming days.
:03:03. > :03:05.If the weather worsens, we have a bespoke weather forecast
:03:06. > :03:07.every day, so we know what's coming around the corner.
:03:08. > :03:12.We are very much geared up and we will double the amount
:03:13. > :03:17.of control engineers we have here in South Wales and also
:03:18. > :03:21.with staff and resources, helicopters, very much geared up
:03:22. > :03:32.In Holt near Wrexham, the River Dee burst banks,
:03:33. > :03:34.leaving nearby farmland flooded, and train services between Bridgend
:03:35. > :03:36.and Cardiff were disrupted for a time due to
:03:37. > :03:39.Services have in the past hour been returning to normal.
:03:40. > :03:42.The outgoing head of the National Botanic Garden of Wales
:03:43. > :03:44.says funding cuts threaten the future of the attraction.
:03:45. > :03:46.Rosie Plummer has been in charge for six years,
:03:47. > :03:49.but says it's time someone else took on the challenge.
:03:50. > :03:50.Carmarthenshire Council says it's considering its contribution
:03:51. > :03:56.to the garden, but the attraction needs to be sustainable.
:03:57. > :04:00.We know that we are very dependent on our visitor footfall,
:04:01. > :04:05.and our commercial efforts ourselves.
:04:06. > :04:11.You can't magic the sort of levels of funding that we need
:04:12. > :04:13.to maintain our international endangered plant collections
:04:14. > :04:19.So, it's providing a transition and funding is going to be,
:04:20. > :04:22.I think, one of the biggest challenges.
:04:23. > :04:25.Drivers at Arriva Trains Wales have started an overtime ban ahead
:04:26. > :04:29.of a planned strike in the New Year in a row over pay and conditions.
:04:30. > :04:31.Members of Aslef are due to walk out next Monday.
:04:32. > :04:35.Arriva have said the strike is disappointing and unnecessary.
:04:36. > :04:40.Ambulances have met a new target for responding to the most urgent
:04:41. > :04:45.Throughout November, ambulances responded to more
:04:46. > :04:48.than 70% of the most life-threatening calls
:04:49. > :04:51.within eight minutes - the target is 65%.
:04:52. > :04:54.It comes after the Welsh government introduced a pilot scheme scrapping
:04:55. > :05:06.response target times for all but life-threatening cases.
:05:07. > :05:08.Glamorgan Cricket Club says Toby Radford has left his position
:05:09. > :05:10.as head coach two years into a three-year contract.
:05:11. > :05:13.Assistant coach Robert Croft and the other backroom staff
:05:14. > :05:17.It'll be a wet and windy end to the year - here's Derek.
:05:18. > :05:23.But still some rain around this evening.
:05:24. > :05:28.A few flood warnings in force, and over 20 flood alerts.
:05:29. > :05:31.More information on the Natural Resource Wales website.
:05:32. > :05:34.So, this evening, heavy rain will move northwards and clear.
:05:35. > :05:39.Some of these heavy, perhaps with thunder,
:05:40. > :05:42.and cold enough for a little snow on the mountains in the North.
:05:43. > :05:45.Gusty winds, especially on the south and west coasts,
:05:46. > :05:52.Tomorrow will be a chilly, breezy day.
:05:53. > :05:55.Some sunshine, but a band of heavy showers will spread eastwards
:05:56. > :05:59.Followed by dryer, brighter weather in the afternoon.
:06:00. > :06:01.Temperatures lower than recently with the gusty wind.
:06:02. > :06:03.Tomorrow night, New Year's Eve night, one or two showers.
:06:04. > :06:05.Otherwise a lot of dry, clear weather.
:06:06. > :06:07.A much colder nights than we have had for several weeks.
:06:08. > :06:12.Temperatures inland falling close to freezing or below with a slight
:06:13. > :06:15.frost, maybe one or two icy patches as well.
:06:16. > :06:17.For the Nos Galan Road Races taking place in Mountain Ash tomorrow
:06:18. > :06:22.night, it should be dry and quite cold, around two Celsius.
:06:23. > :06:25.New Year's Day will start dry and cold, but it won't last.
:06:26. > :06:28.The wind will pick up with more rain on the way.
:06:29. > :06:32.Feeling really quite chilly with a freshening south-easterly wind.
:06:33. > :06:36.This month has been the wettest on record for some areas in Wales.
:06:37. > :06:42.At Capel Curig, over a metre of rain has fallen this month.
:06:43. > :06:46.More wet and windy weather on the way.
:06:47. > :06:54.That's Wales Today - from all of us here,
:06:55. > :07:05.Emergency services went in to help evacuate. As the streets became
:07:06. > :07:13.rivers, locals were brought out by boat. Only a few hours earlier,
:07:14. > :07:15.residents had been hopeful their flood defences would hold. But