07/01/2016 BBC Wales Today

This is the future. Made here in south Wales.

Chancellor George Osborne announces a ?50 million high-tech investment,

setting out his economic vision for Wales and tells

I issue this challenge to the current Welsh

We have our plan for Wales, one that supports jobs

What is your plan for a stronger Wales?

George Osborne 's message is that the economy must stay centre stage

for Wales -- but Wales is not immune to the downturn in China and Brazil

and his tightening of finances must continue.

Taxi drivers angry about the introduction of booking app Uber

Not everyone's happy the cheap transport revolution is coming here.

Taxi drivers are struggling big-time to make a living so Uber coming

to Cardiff is even going to destroy a lot of drivers' likelihood

as well as their regular bread and butter.

It's cash only for some shoppers and businesses in Ceredigion.

No phone lines or internet card transactions for three weeks.

He founded Kwik Save supermarkets in North Wales in the 1960s,

tributes to Albert Gubay, the entrepreneur honoured

Alan Curtis is a legend in Swansea because of goals like these.

Now he's to continue as caretaker manager.

Can he keep them in the Premier League?

The economy in Wales is thriving, but we cannot become complacent.

That's the message from the Chancellor this evening.

George Osborne was in Cardiff announcing his economic vision

for Wales including ?50 million for a semi-conductor research

centre, which will develop the technology that powers devices

like mobile phones and a commitment to signing a ?1.3 billion city deal

for economic development in South East Wales by March.

With the Assembly elections just around the corner, he's challenged

the Welsh Government to set out their stall.

Our economics correspondent spent the day with him.

George Osborne chose the sparkling lights of Cardiff Bay to set out his

stall. To remind him that it was a previous Conservative government

that transformed this Docklands into what it is now. He said his party is

still very much looking to the future.

Wales at its most innovative, the world class research which powers

your smartphones, tablets and washing machines. This is the

future. Made in Wales. The Chancellor 's vision for Wales

investing in home-grown high-tech like this will boost our economy but

we are underperforming. He is confident of his record here since

2010 celebs have a look a lot has been done since 2010. 70,000 jobs

have been created. Unemployment has fallen by 30%. At the end of 2010,

employment in Wales to that 1,000,320 5000. At the end of 2015,

it was 1,000,400 and 7000. Updated 2000. Five years ago, a were out of

work in Wales. At the end of last year, the number was down to 80

8000. What kind of wage packet of these new jobs attract? With average

pay before tax at ?473 a week we're still the least well-paid part of

the UK. ?54 a week below the UK average. George Osborne is taking

the credit for more jobs and called for the Welsh government to spell

out its vision. We have our plan for Wales, one that supports jobs and

pay and rising living standards. What is your plan for a stronger

Wales? If after 16 years in power you still can't provide one, quite

simply it is time for a change. Look at jobs growth Wales, the most

successful job creation programme in the UK and possibly in parts of

Europe. A very Welsh project, one that is producing enormous success

and thousands of apprenticeships. Look at construction growth in

Wales. We have high construction growth than the rest of the united

kingdom. We are better foreign investment. The Chancellor is

warning the UK could be hit by an economic slowdown in China and

Brazil, in Wales the declining steel industry is struggling to compete

with overseas companies. Because of the structure of the economy it is

true that we are more exposed than elsewhere in the country to the

forces going on within the global economy and we are seeing that in

terms of the pressures on the steel industry. We are getting progress of

the new repair and level on what is called anti-dumping measures. All of

these cheap imports coming from China and have to do is of the about

that. Cities in the North of England having given millions by George

Osborne to improve their economies like for instance through better

transport. The daily top business people he wants to finalise a

similar deal for Cardiff by March. We need some leadership and be for

Wales. George Osborne made it clear that he's to receive that offer. We

need to galvanise and make sure that we put forward a persuasive bid.

Should that leadership from the Welsh government or councils or the

private correct sector? Everyone has to get together and streamline this

whole thing. Investment in transport and new industry should help the

Welsh economy. The big question is whether they can do enough quickly

enough. As is so done in China and other emerging economies gains pace

and hits home and put more pressure on Welsh traditional manufacturing.

Sarah, we've heard a lot today about the slowing global economy.

What's your assesment of the impact here in Wales?

Companies and jobs in Wales already. What is happening is that commodity

prices, raw materials, basic things that form our economy, oil, steel,

copper, the prices of those around the world are down compared with

where they were a year ago and before. We have already seen job

losses in the oil sector in Pembrokeshire. Partly because of

lower oil costs and win -- we now know the steel industry across Wales

is feeling the cost of so much cheap steel but talk to manufacturers,

people that export and this feeling that the economy around the world is

weakening. They're not buying so many goods, we have a strong pound

making them expensive, that is day to day taught in many manufacturing

places amongst many working people in Wales and he was recognising that

and he hopes at what he has outlined today will help bring new employment

and new vision but it's all about timing and these things, new

industries, new investments take a long time to gain ground and people

are really struggling now. Thank you.

Let's talk to our political editor Nick Servini.

The Chancellor didn t shy away from any old-fashioned political

attacks and he had a pretty blunt message on the city deal.

At one level we shouldn't be surprised. This is a conservative

Chancellor well known for his political manoeuvring. It comes to

Wales before the assembly elections and is going to lay into Welsh

Labour but I think the extent to which she did that did raise

eyebrows. This was a speech heavily trailed to talk about the impact of

the global downturn and the British economy. At the beginning, it was

more about Welsh Labour bashing than geopolitics. I can't recall a senior

Tory Cabinet member let alone the Chancellor coming to Wales are

giving a speech and repeatedly trying to portray the Welsh

Conservative leader as a future First Minister and in a way I think

he has touched on the great leap that the Welsh Tories will have the

make in the assembly elections. To go from it all very well be a party

capable of knocking the labour Welsh government, it's another thing to be

seen as a government in waiting and for the reader to be seen as a First

Minister. He had a blunt message and the city deal for south-east Wales.

He once a deal on his desk before the budget in March. Ten council

leaders across Wales are trying to work up a series proposals. I don't

think they will take too kindly to the way they were told to get a move

on today. Big picture, this is positive news because of the noises

the Treasury it is starting to feel inconceivable now that something

would happen with regards to the city deal.

A man from Cardiff has admitted causing the death of a 12-year-old

Hamid Ali Khan, who was a pupil at Fitzalan High School,

died after being hit on Ninian Park Road

Calvin Michael Markall is due to be sentenced next Wednesday.

A man whose body was found near Neath has been named

Officers were called to Thomas Street in Briton Ferry

just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning after a body was found

Police are continuing to question a 44-year-old man on

A main road has been closed in Neath following the appearance

Police sealed off Cimla Road after the hole was discovered

Neath Port Talbot Council says the road will remain closed

for the foreseeable future while it's repaired.

They say it'll mean cheaper taxis coming to Wales but not everyone

is happy at the introduction in Cardiff of the booking app Uber.

Taxi drivers say they're considering legal action

after the council granted an operator s licence.

The drivers say there's not enough work for everyone.

Uber says it'll offer a safe and affordable service.

It's happening on the ground around the world every day.

Already operating in city centres around the world,

the Uber taxi app has been a success, the company valued

at over ?31 billion after just six years in existence.

Its introduction to a city is often controversial.

London cabbies protested against it and in Paris things got

Now it's coming to Cardiff so what's the fuss about?

The basic idea behind it is a simple one.

Using your smartphone, it links via GPS to the nearest cab

and gives you an estimate of how much the fare will be.

The app shows you a map and it gives you information on the driver

With your bank details already registered to the app,

Simply press a button when you arrive at your destination.

Most important for passengers, it can often be cheaper

When the students are not here, the business is dead.

This man is chairman of the Cardiff Hackney Carriages

He is angry that the council has granted a licence,

especially as the city has a problem with unlicensed hire cars.

He says they're considering a legal challenge.

The city council has proven to be ineffective in enforcing

I think we have a very strong case to stop them issuing the licence

Despite his opposition, Cardiff Council today issued

a licence to Uber and the city's cab drivers are worried there's

not enough business for everyone to survive.

There are already too many taxis in the city centre.

As it is, it is a big struggle for taxi drivers to make a living

so Uber coming to Cardiff is going to create

Uber drivers and their cars and subject to normal private hire

licensing laws and pay a percentage of their fare to Uber.

Cardiff will be the 16th British city to get the service.

It's the public that will decide whether it's successful or not.

Pretty disastrous, that's a senior Welsh Labour MP's opinion

of Jeremy Corbyn's handling of his Shadow Cabinet

Labour front bencher and Caerphilly MP Wayne David says

he and his colleagues have told Mr Corbyn lessons must be learnt.

It comes as Cardiff MP Jo Stevens, who today joins Labour's ministerial

team, is calling on the party to unite.

Our political reporter James Williams in Westminster.

This isn't the first time for Wayne David to criticise

No. Cast your mind back to November and you may recall that he was

critical of Jeremy Corbyn after a string of negative headlines saying

he had to a heck of a lot to learn but he was offering advice and

learning. Fast forward two months and the MP and Labour frontbencher

still isn't mincing his words. Even in relative terms, it has been a

bruising few days for Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster. Wayne David was

asked whether he agreed with his Labour MPs that this had been one of

the worst reshuffles ever and this is what he had to say. It was very

badly handled indeed. Many of ours would say there was no need for it

at all. It was Jeremy 's position to have it but it was disastrous in

with the way it was handled and that is a Ledson he had to learn and a

point we have made. And another Welsh frontbencher calling for unity

in the party tonight. Yes, after we saw one Welsh Labour MP resign

pretty dramatically yesterday, he did it on live television, another

has stepped up to the front bench today as shadow presence minister.

She says she won't criticise the two other Labour MPs have resigned from

the front bench but she called on all Labour MPs to unite and get on

with the job as she says of challenging the Conservative

government. She says she's had enough of wake up in the morning and

seeing negative headlines about internal party wrangling. Of course,

in a Welsh context it is critical for the party to present a united

front. In the run-up to May's assembly election but that might be

easier said than done. Keep us posted. Thank you.

No phone line or internet for three weeks now in an area

A road crash which damaged a telegraph pole is causing serious

Around 40 homes and businesses in Pentrebach near Lampeter

One business owner says he's lost hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This petrol station in Pentre Bach has been turning customers away

for weeks, not for a lack of fuel but without the internet its credit

Garage owner Michael Jones says his monthly turnover has been

We need the broadband for credit cards, post

Without that people have got to pay for their shopping

Not a lot of people carry cash with them these days.

A road crash damaged a telegraph pole here just five days before

Since then around 40 homes have been without a working

Today, BT engineers arrived to try and fix the problem.

BT Openreach say the telegraph pole needs to be replaced but they can't

undertake the work until they have permission from the utility company

that runs higher voltage cables in the same facility.

They say they are working hard to try and fix the problem

While checks can be carried out, it won't be restored until the pole

is replaced and customers have been told that won't be until

So little comfort for farmer Clive Mills, who's now three weeks

It's a big effect, not just on us personally but on the whole area.

People trying to contact us for the business, they can't do it.

They can only do it through mobile phones, mobile phone signals in this

area are not particularly good at the best of times

And that looks set to continue into next week as customers are left

Alan Curtis is to continue to lead Swansea as caretaker manager but can

And the restoration of this ruined garden after the floods,

Plas Cadnant's owner vows to return it to its former glory.

Albert Gubay, the Welsh businessman who changed the way we shop,

In the 1960s, he founded Kwik Save in his home town of Rhyl.

It quickly expanded through North Wales

In later years, the billionaire became known for his huge

There was a time when they seemed to be everywhere.

The pile it high, sell it cheap philosophy

of Albert Gubay's Kwik Save empire seemed unstoppable.

In his home town of Rhyl, he had a reputation

In recent years, though, Albert Gubay became known

I'm not one of those people that takes everything out

I don't have difficulty in giving things away.

On leaving the Royal Navy after World War II,

I said, God, please help me to get on in this life and whatever I make

The first Kwik Save supermarket was in Rhyl's Queen Street.

And people remember the difference it made.

Pat Broady's husband, a builder, did work for Albert Gubay.

Biscuit tins, always biscuit tins, and he gets out all his ten shilling

notes and counts them all out and puts them back.

That had pound notes in it and that's the way

Albert Gubay sold Kwik Save in the '70s.

The business eventually closed but he kept on making money.

In 2010, he put ?600 million into a charitable trust to become

A year later, he was honoured by the Pope for his charity work.

A Rhyl journalist who interviewed him says he detected a lingering

He was in fact, from his very, very early life, worried

I know some people who won't give anything away.

There comes a time when you can't grab on to it so you might

as do some good with it, which I've always tried to do.

Albert Gubay's charitable trust is now worth ?1 billion.

It's yet to be revealed how and where the money will be spent.

Within the last hour, Swansea City has confirmed caretaker

manager Alan Curtis will remain in charge of the Premier League club

Swansea Chairman Huw Jenkins admitted tonight that a number

of managerial candidates have turned the club down.

He is admired, respected, a legend at the Liberty Stadium, now Alan

Curtis has been entrusted with the top job until the summer, tasked

with keeping the club in the Premier League. He's known Swansea City for

a long time so it is clear the players have his respect. As long as

he stabilises the club till the end of the season and we stay in the

league, it will be brilliant. Curtis is synonymous with Swansea. His

debut 44 years ago. What a shot and what a goal Tax Act he played during

three different spells at the club. He has held every footballing

position possible off the field. He has been a community officer, youth

team coach, first-team coach, assistant manager more than once,

caretaker manager, matched a host and caretaker manager again. It is a

good fit at this moment in time especially when there is nobody

stepping up to come and join Swansea as the manager. If the appointment

goes wrong, everyone will understand that Alan has been thrown in at the

deep end and I wouldn't be surprised that there are other measures in

place that if someone does become available between now and the end of

the season Alan Curtis will stand aside. Chairman Hugh Jenkins search

revenue permanent manager has delivered nothing yet and in the

weeks and two stacked Garry Monk, some fans have criticised the lack

of a succession plan. Tonight, Hugh Jenkins said finding a replacement

hasn't been easy and the club spoken to a lot of venture managers. Many

didn't want to leave their clubs, others didn't want to put their

reputation on the line by joining a Swansea side at the wrong end of the

table. In the end, the club said it felt the best position was to keep

things in-house by staying with Alan Curtis and they will revisit the

issue in the summer. Rugby - Cardiff Blues head coach

Danny Wilson says Matthew Morgan will play mainly at full back

at the region at the request The 23-year-old who'll join

the Blues from Bristol in the summer says he turned down offers

from around the world Glamorgan expect to appoint

a new head coach in early February with interviews to find

Toby Radford's successor to take Assistant coach Steve Watkin has

revealed he won't be applying. The owner of an historic walled

garden on Anglesey devastated by flooding on Boxing Day says he's

determined to restore it Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens

in Menai Bridge were opened to the public in 2012

after being rescued Originally developed in the early

1800s and then brought back from dereliction over the last 20

years, it took just minutes for the garden at Plas

Cadnant to be devastated. Water from surrounding fields tore

through the grounds and built up behind the 200-year-old stone

wall before toppling it. Statuary and rare plants

were also washed away. I'm in another section of the garden

a little further down the valley and even here you get a sense

of the water and the amount of debris that was

washed down the hill. The bark has been ripped off

the bottom of this tree. This is where hundreds of tonnes

of rubble came to rest at the bottom of the hill, some 200 yards away

from the walled garden. Tens of thousands of pounds

of repairs will be covered by insurance but years of careful

landscaping has been wiped away. Owner Anthony Tavernor has already

started picking up the pieces and is determined to re-open

at least partially next month. We're going to restore the garden

back to how it was so if people can just bear with us

while that happens. I'm sure some of our visitors

wil be non-gardeners, they might be having a look

at the damage because it will be The garden has been a labour of love

for its owner, who wanted to recreate the picturesque style

of his Victorian predecessors. A team of staff and volunteers

is working round the clock to salvage as many of the original

materials as possible. I didn't know it was here

and when I first came here to see Such a wonderful secluded garden

and because it's not owned by a large organisation it's

all Anthony's vision which makes it The floodwaters may have been

unwelcome but they've also brought worldwide attention

to the Hidden Garden via support It's unlikely to stay

hidden for much longer. After all the rain and flooding

a colder snap is heading our way. Turning noticeably chillier over the

next few days. Bright spells and blustery showers tomorrow. Tonight

staying quite windy, dry and clear freight time with temperatures

dropping away, further showers will arrive from the West early tomorrow.

Lows of one to towns, colder in the countryside. This is the front that

pushes in from the Atlantic overnight in the showers early

tomorrow. Though showers could be wintry on high ground but they will

rattle through quickly and brisk westerly winds, showers easing

through the day and sunny spells developing but feeling noticeably

fresher in the strong winds. Eyes of four Celsius on Anglesey, nine in

Cardiff. Dry freight time tomorrow night and showers start pushing from

the West again overnight remaining windy along the coast with overnight

lows of two to seven Celsius. Low pressure is in charge on Saturday so

turning unsettled again. The front from the South West, Saturday might

start dry that it turns wet and windy from the South West. Shari --

shall refrain, picking up to suddenly winds so not as cold as

tomorrow and once the front is through low pressure continues to

bring showers on and off through the weekend so the remaining unsettled.

Looking chillier on Sunday, breezy with a mix of sunny spells and

showers so a fresher feel on Sunday and turning increasingly cold next

week with the airbrushing down and the Arctic. Windy this weekend with

sunny spells and showers. Similar on Monday but turning colder with a

possibility of showers, wintry on high ground. We have had a taste of

snow today, this photo is on the hills outside Gwynedd. If you have

any photos to tell the weather story, you consent them by e-mail or

twitter or become a weather watcher. Tonight headlines Ash the Chancellor

use a visit to Cardiff to announce they've ?15 million investment in a

scientific research Centre in south Wales. He said he wants to sign a

?1.3 billion city deal for Cardiff by March. I'll have an update at

age. I'll have an update for you here

at 8pm and again after the BBC From all of us on the

programme, good evening.