29/01/2016 BBC Wales Today

Tonight's headlines: A world first for Wales, work starts to transform

an empty factory on Anglesey into a green energy plant that

And it was the biggest "crash for cash" insurance fraud scam ever

seen in Wales, a further five people are sentenced.

Work is starting on a billion pound combined food and power plant

at the former Anglesey Aluminium site on Anglesey.

It could create more than seventeen hundred jobs.

And as our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins explains,

the technology is being described as a world first.

It dominated the area and the economy for decades.

More than 1,000 people worked at Anglesey Aluminium at its peak.

Derelict for three years, it's about to be transformed so this

It's the result of an engineer and architect developing

We need to put mechanisms in the world that are going to get

us out of the quagmire we are in and this is the solution.

Use the heat, use the power, combine it with the food,

Waste wood would be burnt to generate electricity for homes.

Rather than lose excess heat up the chimneys,

Orthios would use it to warm water to farm prawns.

Their waste in the water will act as a fertiliser for

growing vegetables as will spare CO2.

Steve Mallon worked for many years at Anglesey Aluminium.

It was a hot, heavy and dirty industry.

But now we are onto this completely new venture.

The is mind boggling, some of what they are telling us.

Plans offer 1200 construction workers to transform the site

while 500 people will have permanent jobs producing power and food.

Communities right across the island were shaken when

But if these plans come to be there will be a new industry

here, not just power but food as well and people from around

the world will come here to understand

But at a moment the challenge to develop the energy sector

Energy Island may seem like a remote concept but for people living

here it could be the difference between work and no work.

Part-time employment and a long-term career.

What's important about this development is it's the first

significant renewal project that looks like it's going ahead.

There's a drive to make sure as much work as possible goes to local

We have to try and make sure that the right kind of training

provision is available to young people in particular and equip them

with the appropriate skills so that they do take advantage

As the site takes on a new life many will be watching its progress.

The family of Sian Davies from Tregaron who died

while being the member of a cult in London,

have said they'd like a new inquest into her death.

She died after falling out of a house window.

The call by her cousin, Eleri Morgan, is on the day cult

leader Aravindan Balakrishnan was sentenced to 23 years

for a string of six assaults, and for keeping his and Sian's

daughter, Katy Morgan Davies, captive for three decades.

I want to get on and get to know Katy a lot better.

To take her to Wales and to see where her mother

So, perhaps, Comrade Bala will find how it feels to be locked behind

The father of an 18-year-old army recruit from Llangollen,

who was found dead at Deepcut Barracks in Surrey more

than 20 years ago, hopes a second inquest will uncover

Cheryl James was one of four soldiers found dead at the barracks

between 1995 and 2002 amid claims of widespread abuse.

The new inquest will start on Monday.

I'm sure most fathers, if not all fathers, of kids,

girls of that age anyway, there is a protective

instinct that you feel, that is my job, that is

I shouldn't have left her there alone.

More people are surviving strokes in Wales compared with a decade ago

A temporary housing centre where asylum seekers had to wear

coloured wristbands in order to receive their meals is to be

The council say the Fire Service has raised concerns about overcrowding

The Home Office says it takes every effort to inspect all asylum

accommodation on a regular basis to ensure that it meets

The company that runs Lynx House on behalf of the Home Office

scrapped the red wristbands last week.

More people are surviving strokes in Wales compared with a decade ago

It found, around a thousand fewer people die every year,

due to better services which prevent and treat strokes.

But it highlights areas for improvement such as the support

for patients after they've been discharged.

It was the largest "crash for cash" insurance fraud case ever

Today it ended with five people being sentenced to nearly four years

in prison for their part in the scam, bringing the total

number of people brought to justice to 81.

The two men and three women from Newport, Cardiff

and Caerphilly County Borough fraudulently claimed around

The more police delved into this giant conspiracy,

the wider the web of fraudsters became.

And today the remaining five were brought to justice.

One of them, Stephen Pegram, already serving a five year

sentence in prison, claimed thousands.

In total, 81 people from Caerphilly County Borough,

Cardiff and Newport were convicted for defrauding insurance companies

out of three quarters of a million pounds.

At the start we had no idea this fraud was on going.

We were looking for stolen vehicles and it turned into one

of the biggest insurers frauds, if not the biggest, the UK police

The police descended on the conspiracy's HQ,

a small lock-up garage in Pengam near Blackwood.

Only then did they discover the extent of the fraud.

Cars were being deliberately damaged, like this one,

And then the owners were coached into what to say to insurers

Gwent Police are calling on insurers to do more to make sure the damage

on one car matches the damage on another.

This draws to an end one of the largest fraud trial

Such was the scale of the investigation that Gwent Police

has built up a body of expertise in this area.

They now hope others will be deterred from

Swansea City have completed the signing of Chievo striker

Alberto Paloschi for an undisclosed fee, subject to

The 26-year-old, who will wear the number nine shirt,

has signed a three-and-a-half year deal at the Liberty Stadium.

The Dragons have won their first game in the Pro12 since December,

after they beat Leinster 23-13 at Rodney Parade.

It was a great start for the Dragons, as wing

Ashton Hewitt crossed over for the first try in the third

Leinster fought back but it wasn't enough to beat the home team.

Strong winds are causing problems of the M4 tonight.

The westbound carriageway is closed after an overhead sign,

between junction 24 Coldra and junction 28 Tredegar,

Traffic is very slow on the approach.

Drivers are advised to use the A48 to rejoin the motorway.

Well, Derek's here, are these winds likely to ease at all?

Yes, they will. Storm Gertrude is moving away but a sting in her tail

to night with heavy rain and winds. We do have a Met Office warning in

force for heavy rain, that covers much of mid and south Wales. A risk

of localised flooding. The rain will continue for the next hour or so

before clearing. Then we've got showers overnight. Turning cold at

night, temperatures in Wrexham dropping down to three Celsius. That

is the risk of icy patches in the north tomorrow morning. Otherwise, a

much better morning compared to today. Dreyer, writer, some

sunshine. Across the rest of the UK, warnings are reinforced across the

north for ice, gales, snow and blizzards in Scotland. Further

south, fewer showers. Sunny spells. Breezy in the south, stronger winds

in the north. Everywhere colder than today. This too long, mixture of

sunny spells and scattered showers tomorrow afternoon. Wintry showers

inland. Temperatures in single figures with a brisk westerly wind.

Tomorrow evening, one or two showers but otherwise dry for a time. Rain

will spread from the south-west after midnight falling as snow on

high ground. A cold snap this weekend but short lived because

milder air will follow from the south-west during Sunday. On Sunday,

it is all change. Rain, drizzle, hill fog. The wind came up again.

Saturday the best day of the weekend. More rain and strong winds

on Monday. We're back with our next update

at 5.50pm tomorrow evening. From all of us here,

have a good weekend.