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:00:08. > :00:11.Our top stories: Jasmine Lapsley died choking on a grape.

:00:12. > :00:14.The coroner says there needs to be more ambulances on duty

:00:15. > :00:16.in the summer when the tourist population increases.

:00:17. > :00:32.A jasmine was failed by? Welsh Ambulance Service. She was denied

:00:33. > :00:40.the life-saving care she so desperately needed. They say they

:00:41. > :01:04.have learnt lessons from this tragedy.

:01:05. > :01:06.Now disagreement among pro-European parties about the referendum.

:01:07. > :01:07.Thousands work in our steel industry.

:01:08. > :01:10.Unions and bosses have been meeting as fears grow over jobs.

:01:11. > :01:14.Are job centres doing enough for people with disabilities?

:01:15. > :01:17.And we're in for the coldest night of the winter so far -

:01:18. > :01:27.And there's more rain, sleet and some snow in the forecast.

:01:28. > :01:36.Good evening. The parents of a six-year-old girl who died in

:01:37. > :01:39.holiday in Gwynedd after she choked on a grape have accused the

:01:40. > :01:46.Ambulance Service of letting down their daughter. The coroner

:01:47. > :01:51.concluded Jasmine Lapsley died accidentally, but she called for a

:01:52. > :01:57.major overhaul of the way the Ambulance Service operates in rural

:01:58. > :02:03.areas. Roger is there for us tonight. Yes, the inquest lasted six

:02:04. > :02:07.days and it exposed a string of shortcomings in the way the

:02:08. > :02:14.Ambulance Service Trust responded to the call from the length of time it

:02:15. > :02:17.took for the ambulance to get there and mistakes by the Ambulance

:02:18. > :02:21.Service including a vital piece of equipment to a lack of confidence

:02:22. > :02:25.among community first responders. Jasmine Lapsley's parents Robert and

:02:26. > :02:29.Kathleen still looking to the central question, how well people in

:02:30. > :02:34.rural areas are served by the Welsh Ambulance Service. They believe they

:02:35. > :02:39.and their daughter were let down. Jasmine was failed by the Welsh

:02:40. > :02:43.Ambulance Service. She was denied the opportunity for life-saving care

:02:44. > :02:48.she so desperately needed. The coroner has identified there is

:02:49. > :02:52.still a risk to life for people in jasmine's condition, whilst

:02:53. > :02:56.resources are inadequate and she recommended changes need to be made.

:02:57. > :03:01.Jasmine Lapsley, just six years old when she died. She'd been on holiday

:03:02. > :03:08.with her family. She was playing cards. She choked on a grape. Her

:03:09. > :03:16.family called 999. That was at 20. 32. Community first responders

:03:17. > :03:22.arrived 22 minutes later at 20. 54. The ambulance and paramedics came at

:03:23. > :03:28.20. 57. An RAF helicopter arrived shortly after and she was in

:03:29. > :03:33.Intensive Care in Bangor at 21. 43, a full hour after the first 999. The

:03:34. > :03:39.family's holiday home was on the Gwynedd coast. They'd travelled

:03:40. > :03:43.there from their home in Liverpool. There were frantics efforts to help

:03:44. > :03:49.her while she waited for the ambulance to arrive. One expert

:03:50. > :03:52.witness said there was just a three to five-minute window in which she

:03:53. > :03:57.could have been saved. After that her chances were virtually zero. The

:03:58. > :04:01.coroner said she accepted evidence which suggested oxygen was getting

:04:02. > :04:06.through to her lungs well into the incident. The inquest heard of

:04:07. > :04:10.persistent failures to meet Welsh Government ambulance time targets.

:04:11. > :04:13.In 65% of the most serious cases ambulances should arrive within

:04:14. > :04:18.eight minutes. The coroner was told that in Gwynedd up to August last

:04:19. > :04:24.year response times fell well below the target. We have learnt a lot

:04:25. > :04:28.through the tragedy and we've made some improvements already since that

:04:29. > :04:32.day and we have learnt more through the inquest over the last week about

:04:33. > :04:36.more improvements we can make. There are significant changes we have made

:04:37. > :04:39.but I think there is always more to learn, and we certainly will be very

:04:40. > :04:44.seriously considering the conclusions that come out from the

:04:45. > :04:48.inquest today at the highest level in the Ambulance Service so ensure

:04:49. > :04:53.there is anything more we can do, we will. Had she lived she'd now be

:04:54. > :04:57.approaching her eighth birthday. It's due at the end of this month.

:04:58. > :05:01.Her family have said throughout they want lessons to be learned from her

:05:02. > :05:06.death. The coroner Nicola Jones said she wanted lessons to be learned as

:05:07. > :05:11.well. Among her recommendations, actions to plug the gap in ambulance

:05:12. > :05:16.air cover, particularly after 8.00pm at night, when ambulance - air

:05:17. > :05:20.ambulances don't fly. She also says there should be more resources in

:05:21. > :05:25.rural areas in the summer months when tens of thousands of visitors

:05:26. > :05:29.flock to north-west Wales, swelling the population. The coroner clearly

:05:30. > :05:33.believes more should be done. Back to you.

:05:34. > :05:42.Thank you. Arriva Trains

:05:43. > :05:47.in a long-running row over working conditions.

:05:48. > :05:50.Their union, Aslef, said its members will walk out on Monday,

:05:51. > :05:54.They staged a 24-hour strike last week as people returned to work

:05:55. > :05:58.A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering of a man

:05:59. > :06:00.in Briton Ferry, near Neath, last week.

:06:01. > :06:02.The body of Kevin Barry Mahoney was discovered in a lane behind

:06:03. > :06:07.A post-mortem has so far failed to identify the cause of his death.

:06:08. > :06:09.Police are trying to find the clothes Mr Mahoney was wearing

:06:10. > :06:14.the evening before his body was found.

:06:15. > :06:17.No date's been set for a vote on whether we should leave or remain

:06:18. > :06:21.in the EU, but there's already disagreement among the pro-European

:06:22. > :06:24.parties here about their approach to the referendum.

:06:25. > :06:27.The First Minister took part in a debate with the UKIP leader

:06:28. > :06:32.damaged efforts to stay in the EU because he was too negative.

:06:33. > :06:47.Here's our political editor Nick Servini.

:06:48. > :06:53.It was most high-profile evident so far in Wales as we approach the

:06:54. > :06:58.referendum on whether to leave or remain in the EU. The First Minister

:06:59. > :07:02.based his arguments on what companies have been telling him

:07:03. > :07:05.about their wish to remain in. Companies I speak to say it's

:07:06. > :07:09.important we have access to the single market members of the EU

:07:10. > :07:13.because we see Wales as our base for the EU. What you're saying is those

:07:14. > :07:17.people's views are not important. Nigel Farage accused him of

:07:18. > :07:23.scare-mongering over a predicted loss of jobs which wouldn't make any

:07:24. > :07:28.economic sense pointing to the example of Airbus's giant wing

:07:29. > :07:33.making plant. You're quite right to talk about Airbus in Flintshire.

:07:34. > :07:36.It's not just important for jobs in Flintshire but actually rather

:07:37. > :07:43.important for Airbus because they make the wings. If they didn't, they

:07:44. > :07:47.wouldn't make any aeroplanes. They're interdependent. The central

:07:48. > :07:52.argument from the First Minister throughout is a withdrawal was too

:07:53. > :07:57.much of a risk for the economy. Today in First Minister's Questions,

:07:58. > :08:01.Leanne Wood accused him of being too negative. A new you'll is possible I

:08:02. > :08:05.believe just as a new Wales is possible but you failed to put that

:08:06. > :08:10.positive vision in that debate last night. We got an insight last night

:08:11. > :08:14.I think as to how you intend to approach the period leading up to

:08:15. > :08:19.the referendum, and I hope that you will reflect on last night's debate.

:08:20. > :08:22.The leader of Plaid Cymru and I have had discussions, sensible

:08:23. > :08:26.discussions where we talked about how it might be possible to put in

:08:27. > :08:31.place a cross-party campaign in order to put the case of Wales's

:08:32. > :08:35.membership of the European Union and now she fails to outline how she

:08:36. > :08:41.would have done anything different. But her attack responsed this

:08:42. > :08:44.response from the Liberal Democrat Assembly member Parrot who tweeted

:08:45. > :08:48.if Wales want to remain in Europe it's not wise for their leader to

:08:49. > :08:53.drive wedges between people on the same side. What this is about is how

:08:54. > :08:57.politicians persuade people to support a particular cause, in this

:08:58. > :09:02.case to remain in the EU. Plaid Cymru members here want there to be

:09:03. > :09:06.a positive vision set out to stay in but senior Labour figures I have

:09:07. > :09:10.been speaking to today are pretty relaxed about the accusation that

:09:11. > :09:16.has been thrown at them. They say it's unreal estatesistic to expect

:09:17. > :09:20.an EU referendum campaign carried out without them warning of the

:09:21. > :09:23.serious economic consequences of a withdrawal. Organisers last night

:09:24. > :09:26.had hoped to kick start a debate about EU membership. So far they

:09:27. > :09:35.How have been proved right.

:09:36. > :09:37.How much of a problem is it for the part

:09:38. > :09:41.How ies who want to remain in the EU if they disagree about the way

:09:42. > :09:47.When we get a date there will be official leave and remain campaign

:09:48. > :09:50.groups set up but I think this could be a problem particularly if the

:09:51. > :09:54.referendum is held in the summer, AMs, like we have seen today will,

:09:55. > :09:58.inevitably be sucked into this debate. With Assembly elections

:09:59. > :10:02.looming, they're going to find it very difficult to agree with each

:10:03. > :10:05.other. It's pretty obvious Labour would like the construct a very

:10:06. > :10:11.positive narrative but they're more than willing to base their arguments

:10:12. > :10:17.on the fear and concerns that people have about a withdrawal. I think

:10:18. > :10:20.this issue may have been raised in a different way if Carwyn Jones more

:10:21. > :10:24.effective in the way he debated with Nigel Farage last night, but the

:10:25. > :10:27.truth is he wasn't, and many people believe he came off second best. As

:10:28. > :10:33.a result we have had the comments today. By contrast, of course, UKIP

:10:34. > :10:37.don't have these problems of trying to get agreement from other parties

:10:38. > :10:39.and they'll be hoping to generate momentum as a result of that debate

:10:40. > :10:42.last night. Thank you. Unions and Tata steel bosses met

:10:43. > :10:45.today to discuss the position It comes as the company

:10:46. > :10:48.is undergoing major reorganisation with growing fears about the future

:10:49. > :10:51.of Tata's Port Talbot plant Our Economics Correspondent Sarah

:10:52. > :11:10.Dickins is in Port Talbot tonight. Well, Jamie, what we know is this

:11:11. > :11:14.steelworks isn't just important to this community here - 4,000 jobs, as

:11:15. > :11:18.you say. It's very important to the Welsh economy. Because it's the

:11:19. > :11:22.biggest steelworks in the UK it's very important to the whole of the

:11:23. > :11:25.UK as well. We know it's losing a lot of money, reportedly a million

:11:26. > :11:29.pounds a day. That has been going on a long time. Quite frankly, that is

:11:30. > :11:36.not sustainable and the Indian owners Tata Martino know that. They

:11:37. > :11:40.have been -- Tata Steel. It's particularly unsustainable when

:11:41. > :11:46.there is no evidence of demand around the world increasing in the

:11:47. > :11:49.next year. What we have now is outside consultants, unions and Tata

:11:50. > :11:53.Steel management trying to work on plan for survival. It's called

:11:54. > :11:57.rationalisation in the jargon. What it means is cutting jobs to try to

:11:58. > :12:01.save the plant. This plant has been through that many times before and I

:12:02. > :12:06.must say many times before and survived. The harsh reality is what

:12:07. > :12:10.I think we're looking towards now is this plant, this community, having

:12:11. > :12:14.to lose hundreds of jobs in the near future to save the plant in the

:12:15. > :12:19.longer term. That's the sort of language that behind the scenes is

:12:20. > :12:23.being talked about. When finally a plan has been developed, it will

:12:24. > :12:27.ultimately go to the board meeting of Tata Steel in Mumbai next month.

:12:28. > :12:31.Keep us posted. Thank you. A campaign has been launched

:12:32. > :12:33.in Tenby against the closure of a day centre for adults

:12:34. > :12:35.with learning disabilities. Pembrokeshire Council declined

:12:36. > :12:37.to give an interview, but say they're holding a public

:12:38. > :12:39.consultation on the future It comes as concerns are raised

:12:40. > :12:43.about the future of care Maggie Schofield has just come home

:12:44. > :12:55.from the day centre she loves. Run by Pembrokeshire Council

:12:56. > :12:58.for adults with learning disabilities, her family says it's

:12:59. > :13:02.the centre of Maggie's world. Because in the centre

:13:03. > :13:26.is where everybody go. Pembrokeshire Council say

:13:27. > :13:34.there is a shift away from dependency and towards helping

:13:35. > :13:37.people to live more independently. The centre Maggie attends costs

:13:38. > :13:40.nearly ?350,000 a year to run. The authority says it needs the same

:13:41. > :13:43.amount again to bring it up to a modern standard,

:13:44. > :13:46.so they're considering closure Social care is already the most

:13:47. > :13:51.expensive service It makes up more than a quarter

:13:52. > :13:57.of Pembrokeshire's total spend, and the cuts they have

:13:58. > :14:00.to find are getting deeper. ?2 million of savings have been

:14:01. > :14:02.earmarked from adult social There are big changes afoot

:14:03. > :14:10.to social care in Wales. This spring a new act comes

:14:11. > :14:13.into force which will fundamentally change the way services

:14:14. > :14:16.are delivered, but against this background of severe cuts,

:14:17. > :14:18.there are fears it could result in local authorities only having

:14:19. > :14:24.to provide the bear minimum. What's interesting at the moment

:14:25. > :14:26.is we have a perfect storm. We have local authorities which have

:14:27. > :14:28.to reduce funding. We have philosophical changes

:14:29. > :14:30.in terms of how And then, of course, in April

:14:31. > :14:35.we have the new Social Services and Well Being Act which will come

:14:36. > :14:38.into force in Wales, which essentially puts a pressure

:14:39. > :14:40.upon local authorities to find different ways of providing support

:14:41. > :14:43.for people so they're not reliant In Pembrokeshire they're proposing

:14:44. > :14:51.keeping two other day centres in the north and south of the county

:14:52. > :14:54.for those with the most complex needs, but Maggie's family fear

:14:55. > :14:57.she won't be eligible. If we had no centre,

:14:58. > :15:00.we would then have to worry We're working age, so,

:15:01. > :15:04.again, we'd have to consider how and what we do because it wouldn't

:15:05. > :15:08.be healthy for us or for Maggie The new Social Services Act coming

:15:09. > :15:18.into force will mean fewer people qualify for traditional

:15:19. > :15:22.state-funded support. The plan is that others -

:15:23. > :15:24.families or charities - If they can't, instead of greater

:15:25. > :15:28.independence, adults like Maggie Children volunteering, planting

:15:29. > :15:51.saplings, but after the loss of millions of Larch and Ash

:15:52. > :15:53.trees through disease, And if you're travelling,

:15:54. > :15:57.watch out for icy patches tomorrow morning with a mix of rain,

:15:58. > :15:59.sleet and snow for some places The case of a disabled woman

:16:00. > :16:09.from Wrexham who's struggled to find work after the closure of her local

:16:10. > :16:11.Remploy factory has been Margaret Foster, who has cerebral

:16:12. > :16:19.palsy, worked at the factory which provided jobs for disabled

:16:20. > :16:21.people for 26 years. She's among a quarter of disabled

:16:22. > :16:24.people who are unemployed, Her MP, Ian Lucas, says the job

:16:25. > :16:42.centre system isn't working Margaret Foster didn't letter isser

:16:43. > :16:47.is stop her holding down a job at her local Remploy factory for 26

:16:48. > :16:54.years, but since it closed in 2012, she struggled to find work. I don't

:16:55. > :17:00.feel I'm getting enough support. I have been on two Work Choice

:17:01. > :17:04.programmes, and they don't seem to have fulfilled their citeria really

:17:05. > :17:10.for me. She thinks Jobcentres could do more to help her. I'd like them

:17:11. > :17:16.to speak to employers about my disability because I find it very

:17:17. > :17:20.hard applying for jobs. I think they should ring around employers and

:17:21. > :17:26.mention my circumstances and say that I'm very willing to try.

:17:27. > :17:30.Remploy were set up in the 1940s to create jobs for people with

:17:31. > :17:34.disabilities, including war veterans, but the UK Government

:17:35. > :17:39.closed factories such as the one in Wrexham because it thought

:17:40. > :17:43.maintaining disabled workers in what it called segregated factories was

:17:44. > :17:47.the wrong approach. When the factory closed, Ministers here promised to

:17:48. > :17:51.help those who lost their jobs to find work in what they called

:17:52. > :17:56.mainstream employment, but Margaret Foster says the system hasn't worked

:17:57. > :18:01.for her, and that was a point raised by her own MP in Parliament this

:18:02. > :18:05.afternoon. Ian Lucas said although she received some disability

:18:06. > :18:09.benefits, she doesn't get the employment and support allowance

:18:10. > :18:16.that could help her find work. How can it be that we have a disability

:18:17. > :18:24.benefit system that presents a case like Margaret, a woman who wants

:18:25. > :18:29.help to work and is disabled and has been from birth but does not qualify

:18:30. > :18:34.for the benefit put in place by the Government? But the Government

:18:35. > :18:41.defended its policy. Of the 54 Remploy factories operated a loss of

:18:42. > :18:44.49.5 million, amounting to around ?22,500 a year to support each

:18:45. > :18:49.disabled person. The Government says many of those who lost their jobs

:18:50. > :18:54.when the factories closed have found work, but that may be of little

:18:55. > :18:59.consolation to Margaret Foster. Plans for a controversial arts

:19:00. > :19:04.centre in Wrexham have been arrived by councillors.

:19:05. > :19:07.The ?4.5 million arts hub will be created at an indoor market

:19:08. > :19:09.and will include galleries, a performance space

:19:10. > :19:12.But traders have concerns about the scheme, saying they'll

:19:13. > :19:15.lose business and that some stalls will be forced to close.

:19:16. > :19:28.Arts project in unusual places are nothing new here such as these

:19:29. > :19:38.performances at Snowden or the seaside. It looks set to continue.

:19:39. > :19:41.sharing floor space with the traders of the People's Market.

:19:42. > :19:44.Galleries, studios and a cinema will sit alongside stalls selling

:19:45. > :19:47.Its designers say it will turn an under-used facility

:19:48. > :20:02.The foot fall for the arts will support the market. We invest every

:20:03. > :20:06.year in arts and culture. We'll see that reduce in year three to

:20:07. > :20:12.?78,000. We're getting more for less.

:20:13. > :20:14.The long-running debate about the arts hub has also,

:20:15. > :20:16.they say, hit visitor numbers, with shoppers mistakenly thinking

:20:17. > :20:23.The work will cost ?4.5 million, three of which will come

:20:24. > :20:26.from the Welsh Government and Arts Council for Wales,

:20:27. > :20:41.Traders fear the number of stalls could be redoos deuced from 30 to 20

:20:42. > :20:45.with some losing their jobs. I have to keep looking longer than the

:20:46. > :20:52.potential two years that we've got in front of us because hopefully

:20:53. > :20:55.we'll turn the market around. Obviously, there are no guarantees.

:20:56. > :20:58.We just have to hope that's what happens. It's the period in between

:20:59. > :21:03.that's going to be the real difficult time I think. Building

:21:04. > :21:07.work is due to start this time next year and last 12 months.

:21:08. > :21:10.Football and Newcastle United have agreed a ?12 million fee

:21:11. > :21:12.with Swansea City to sign England midfielder Jonjo Shelvey.

:21:13. > :21:15.The 23-year-old had a medical at St James' Park this afternoon.

:21:16. > :21:17.Shelvey moved to Swansea from Liverpool in 2013

:21:18. > :21:36.A win for I'm not surprised he's leaving the club. His chances since

:21:37. > :21:39.Alan Curtis have taken over frontal boundary far and few between. He

:21:40. > :21:45.started the season on fire to be fair to him. He was probably the

:21:46. > :21:48.best midfield player in the month of August but since playing for England

:21:49. > :21:52.he hasn't been the same player for one reason or another. Swansea's

:21:53. > :21:56.targets, for me I look at goal scoring. The problem you have is I

:21:57. > :22:00.think there's seven - eight sides at the bottom of that table who are

:22:01. > :22:02.looking for a similar type of player.

:22:03. > :22:05.Snooker, and Mark Williams is out of the Masters after an entertaining

:22:06. > :22:07.first round match at London's Alexandra Palace.

:22:08. > :22:10.It all hinged on a final frame decider, but the Welshman

:22:11. > :22:12.from Ebbw Vale eventually lost by sixframes to five to five-times

:22:13. > :22:19.A disease which has killed millions of larch trees in Wales has had

:22:20. > :22:21.an impact on how much new woodland is being created.

:22:22. > :22:23.That's according to the Welsh Government.

:22:24. > :22:26.It hopes to plant 100,000 hectares of new woodland by 2030 to help

:22:27. > :22:28.reduce our carbon footprint, but it's nowhere near that target.

:22:29. > :22:30.Jennifer Jones has been to a planting project

:22:31. > :22:32.in Caerphilly County where the community has helped

:22:33. > :22:42.Not a common sight perhaps - teenagers up to their knees in mud

:22:43. > :22:50.in the pouring rain volunteering to plant trees.

:22:51. > :22:53.We're planning to plant 100 to 150, and we want to plant trees

:22:54. > :22:57.here today because we want to save our environment.

:22:58. > :22:59.Over the past three years, 25,000 trees have transformed this

:23:00. > :23:02.corner of the Upper Rhumney Valley, and the old McLaren and Philipstown

:23:03. > :23:10.coal tips are now hidden under new woodland.

:23:11. > :23:16.Our young people have been very much a part of this project, not just in

:23:17. > :23:19.planting the trees but looking at the seeds, growing them, moving them

:23:20. > :23:21.forward. There is an intrinsic respect for that environment.

:23:22. > :23:24.This new forest is part of the Welsh Government's scheme

:23:25. > :23:26.to plant a tree for every child born or adopted here.

:23:27. > :23:29.It started seven years ago, which means these little ones each

:23:30. > :23:42.Each year 35 to 36,000 births in Wales, and so we have to try and

:23:43. > :23:47.allocate all of those births a tree, and so we're looking roughly at

:23:48. > :23:48.about 14 hectares of land to be planted each year.

:23:49. > :23:50.But despite projects like this one in Caerphilly,

:23:51. > :23:53.Wales is still one of the LEAST wooded countries in Europe,

:23:54. > :23:55.with trees covering only 15% of the land.

:23:56. > :24:00.That's compared to a European average of 37%.

:24:01. > :24:03.The Government plans to create an additional 100,000 hectares

:24:04. > :24:12.That's an area slightly bigger than Gwynedd, which, it claims,

:24:13. > :24:14.would be good for the economy and help Wales meet its

:24:15. > :24:21.But, over the past 5 years, only 3200 hectares of new forest

:24:22. > :24:27.have been created, and the Government has admitted

:24:28. > :24:29.that the "significant impact of a disease"

:24:30. > :24:32.which has already killed nearly 7 million larch trees here,

:24:33. > :24:35.has "impacted" on its woodland creation aspirations.

:24:36. > :24:43.It's a huge threat and a challenge in terms of replanting the land

:24:44. > :24:48.afterwards, and, of course, ash dieback is a huge threat as well.

:24:49. > :24:52.But fundamentally, the message has to be if we're going to lose lot of

:24:53. > :24:54.trees, that's all the more reason for getting planting more now and

:24:55. > :25:01.the sooner, the better. Back in Abertysswg, the local

:25:02. > :25:04.eco-club students are done digging. The seeds of change may

:25:05. > :25:06.be sown in Caerphilly, but there's plenty more work to be

:25:07. > :25:09.done if Wales is to see Snow for some of us

:25:10. > :25:12.in tonight's weather forecast. Not that low for January,

:25:13. > :25:27.but cold in the wind. Strong to gale force winds

:25:28. > :25:30.on the north and west coast. This picture taken by

:25:31. > :25:32.Cheryl Hamer shows huge waves Temperatures inland falling close

:25:33. > :25:46.to freezing or below Tomorrow's chart shows low

:25:47. > :25:58.pressure approaching Ireland a tricky mixture of rain,

:25:59. > :26:02.sleet and snow in places. Tomorrow morning the de-icer

:26:03. > :26:04.will come in handy. Dry and cold with a widespread

:26:05. > :26:06.frost and icy patches. One or two mist and

:26:07. > :26:08.fog patches as well. During the day, cloud and showers

:26:09. > :26:17.will spread across the rest The showers heavy in places merging

:26:18. > :26:22.into longer spells of rain Also some snow on higher ground,

:26:23. > :26:26.the hills and mountains, mainly above 300

:26:27. > :26:28.metres or 1,000 feet. The wind lighter than today

:26:29. > :26:31.with temperatures reaching highs More snow on Pen y Fan,

:26:32. > :26:38.Snowdon and Cadair Idris tomorrow. The temperature below freezing

:26:39. > :26:40.and feeling more like -10 Tomorrow night low pressure

:26:41. > :26:46.will bring more rain and showers. Most of the snow on higher ground

:26:47. > :26:54.but a little snow is possible in places on lower ground later

:26:55. > :27:00.in the night with icy patches. On Thursday rain, sleet and snow

:27:01. > :27:12.will gradually clear. It will brighten-up

:27:13. > :27:22.during the afternoon. Turning colder with

:27:23. > :27:23.a brisk north-west wind. Otherwise a lot of dry weather,

:27:24. > :27:36.more settled with sunshine, Cold into next week but turning

:27:37. > :27:44.milder later in the week. That's Wales Today. Thank you for

:27:45. > :27:47.watching. From all of us on the programme, good evening.