24/02/2016 BBC Wales Today

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One of the world's most famous cars is to be built here.

Aston Martin's next car will be made in the Vale of Glamorgan

To be made by more than 700 Welsh workers.

I will be looking at exactly what it means

Private Cheryl James from Llangollen was ordered by a superior to have

sex with another soldier the night before she died,

The number of MPs Wales sends to Westminster could be cut

A fibre optic cable from New York to the Welsh coast to bring

The centrepiece of Swansea's city region plan.

And police explain why they deliberately ran down

and killed a dog, similar to this one, on the A55 in Conwy.

It's one of the most iconic names in motoring - perhaps best known

as James Bond's favourite car and now Aston Martin

The newest model, the DBX, will be made in the Vale

of Glamorgan beating off competition from around the world.

750 high-skilled jobs are promised to make the prestige car

which will set you back at least ?150,000.

Here's our economics correspondent, Sarah Dickins.

A symbol of glamour of rights outside Welsh Government buildings.

The prototype of Aston Martin's latest vehicle, DBX. From Twenty20

to be handmade in Wales but exported around the globe. This is a great

deal for Wales and it marks a significant moment in the history of

our automotive sector. It fought off competition from 20 other sites from

the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the state to win the investment

worth many millions of pounds and seven and 50 jobs. For two years,

the Welsh Government and others have been courting Aston Martin. What was

the attraction? You train great people. I actually believe this will

maybe retain youngsters in Wales and in Cardiff rather than having to go

to the Midlands in order to ply their trade.

Magnificent, isn't she? Cilic, sleek and very male. That has

been the luxury brands image. At the new car is designed around what

women might want. Between one and 50000 and ?200,000 it is about the

same price as an average price -- house in Wales. It is aimed at those

who seek glamour and room for the kids. Neither the Welsh Government

nor Aston Martin will tell us how much public money is being spent

bringing them here. We were hungry for it. We have a history of

manufacturing here. We want it to carry on. I felt passionately when

we were going for this. I did is what business is going outside the

UK either. The former MoD site here in Saint

Aston will hazard. -- Saint Athan. The car parts industry is a big

employer here. Between them they employ 18,000 people and have a

combined turnover of well over ?3 billion. This announcement is about

more than jobs, more than money, it is about glamour. What it gives

Wales is a real feather in the cap, one of the smartest, sexiest, most

glamorous brands in the world to be made in Wales. It is impossible to

calculate how much that is worth. But for the Welsh economy to benefit

this glamorous brand also needs to be successful. Needs to sell cars.

It was badly hit by the 2008 recession with sales in 2014 half

that of seven years earlier. We went bankrupt a lot of times in our

history. That'll never happen again. We're going to increase our

production of sports cars and then we create this new business with the

new DBX. When the DBX was launched at the Geneva motor show a year ago

the global economy was much stronger. The rich in emerging

markets like China were big buyers of luxury products. That is less

money being spent in many of those markets now. The question is whether

this new style Aston Martin will be as attractive to the world's stretch

as it needs to be? For the last plant, it used to be a success.

As we just heard, it's hoped the Aston Martin investment

will breathe new life into the M0D site in St Athan.

So Caroline Evans now with reaction to today's announcement

There were smiles all round as the First Minister welcome Aston Martin

to their new home. After you two years of negotiation, the hanger to

house chats will be producing cars. It's been a bumpy ride for this

site. Back in 2000, a plan to modernise it saw millions invested.

A super hangar built as a faster that jet repair facility for stop

but UK ministers announced they were accusing that business five years

later. Relief locally that this new development will include a skills

Academy which will make Saint a third and the Vale of Glamorgan a

centre of excellence. This is fantastic news. We have been through

a turbulent time over the last decade that this is great news. It

demonstrates the UK Government led by the Prime Minister last July, and

the worst governments working together. Attracting one of

motoring's was just disease names is also expected to create around a

thousand jobs with Welsh businesses and suppliers. Here in Neath, they

worked with Aston Martin in the past and they are hopeful their new South

Wales base could mean more work heading their way. It is excellent

news for Wales to have a prestigious automotive supplier coming to Wales.

For ourselves, who are in a design and manufacture the company for the

automotive industry, this can only be good news and hopefully we can

benefit in the future from a prestigious company like Aston

Martin. Only a handful of cars have ever

been completely Welsh made. This one was produced in the 60s. But this

operation is on an altogether bigger scale. Work on the factory here will

start in 2017 with the first cars produced by 2020.

Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins is here.

This facility was built to refit aircraft.

That never came, it has not been used and the reason why is something

beyond the market economy. Any big investment, and this one is hundreds

of millions of pounds, involves risks. In terms of financial risk,

we don't know how much the Welsh Government is putting in nor Aston

Martin. These days in centres from governments and much more

complicated than Cass. If we look at some of the incentives that might

have been discussed, there is going to be skills training. One presumed

that the worst governments was involved in that. A new road is

planned. The Welsh Government is involved in that. That road would

help other businesses like British Airways and the airport. We know

that there are other things that will help the development of the

business. Those things would not be risks in the true sense of the world

if something went wrong. Will this happen? That is what everybody has

been asking me all day today. We don't know what is going to happen

in the global economy. As we saw, it is the rich of the world that buy

these cars. If it does work, if the risk pays off, Wales has a lot to

win. A lots to learn as well. The performance of the Welsh

Ambulance Service in responding to emergency calls was worse in

January than in the previous month. However, it continues

to meet its target of responding to over 65% of the most urgent calls

within eight minutes. Figures show that in January,

the service responded to a higher number of calls than

the month before. An inquest into the death

of an 18-year-old soldier from Llangollen has heard

she mentioned to a friend "how easy

it would be to shoot yourself". Private Cheryl James was found

with a gunshot wound to the head at Deepcut barracks in Surrey

more than 20 years ago. The inquest also heard claims

she had been "ordered" to sleep What happened to Private Cheryl

James at a Deepcut barracks The young soldier was found dead

with a single bullet wound This fresh inquest into her death

has heard about the culture How some recruits

were seen as a sexual challenge and how some soldiers had

little supervision and were drunk The inquest heard from a friend

of Cheryl James, Yvonne Sneddon. She said they were returning

to Deepcut on a coach when Cheryl "If you were going to kill yourself

it would be really easy". She said she was shocked,

that this was out of context She said Cheryl has switched

from being really happy The inquest also heard from another

friend of Cheryl's at Deepcut, Andrew Carter, seen

here on the right. He said Cheryl had wanted a fake

passport to leave the country and had asked if he'd ever done

anything off impulse. Then, the inquest touched

on claims the James family Was Cheryl James ordered to have sex

with a fellow soldier? Mark Beards, a former

Soviet, told the inquest he saw Cheryl the night

before her death. He claims she told him that she had

been ordered to go down to her room He claims the order came

from a Sergeant Gavaghan and that Cheryl didn't want to go

but felt like she had to. It was later put to Mr Beards

that he had been paranoid and delusional and

was untrustworthy. He maintains he is

telling the truth. Cheryl's father, Des James,

listened attentively as he has done He feels this is his

last chance to find out The number of politicians we send

to Westminster is to be cut. Wales will lose more than a quarter

of its MPs under a review The number of MPs we send

to Westminster will fall from 40 to 29 as part of a move to reduce

the size of the House of Commons. Let's talk to our parliamentary

correspondent, David Cornock, What is behind this? The government

says there are too many members of Parliament and he wants to cut the

size of the House of Commons down from 650 to 600. It also says there

were 600 MPs should represent roughly the same number of people.

At the moment, that is not the case. If you are an MP for Wales for the

Welsh constituency you represent fewer people if you represent

existed too busy in England. If you average those, what it means is

there are going to be larger constituencies in Wales, thereby to

be fewer of them. The number will come down from 40 to 29. It is great

to be -- going to be a redraw the map.

This will not go down too well is with MPs.

That is a growl already. Plaid Cymru say that this is a sad day for

democracy, neighbours say it is going to cut the voice of Wales

here. That labour. It will cut the voice of the Labour Party here. It

will affect me constituencies in Wales and England and make it much

harder for the Labour Party to win a general election.

Much more to come before seven o'clock.

Police officers explain why they deliberately ran down

and killed a dog running loose on the A55 in Conwy.

And it's the disease carried by mosquitoes affecting thousands

Now scientists in Swansea say they have the answer

A fibre optic cable running from New York to London

via Oxwich Bay, that's the centrepiece of plans for a deal

worth more ?500 million to boost the economy of the Swansea Bay

region create more jobs, are being sent to the Chancellor,

They include a fibre optic transatlantic cable from New York

to London via Oxwich Bay that will deliver the fastest,

most reliable broadband the UK has ever had.

it may seem like a tranquil part of the gallop that this could be

central to delivering broadband speeds. It would see a cable

stretching from New York to London as crucially to stop along the way

at areas including Llanelli, Swansea and Port Talbot. This is a small

business in Swansea will stop it designs personalised make-up boxes.

The slow speeds and in the -- and reliable broadband affects business.

It is always there, the consistency of the connection. We are processing

lots of orders and let the Internet goes down the communication line

goes down with the customer. The plans involve ?500 million of

taxpayers money and they are going to be considered by the Chancellor.

In a conference call from Canada, the billionaire businessman, said

Terry Matthews, said people had to look towards the jobs of the future.

If I were somebody let go from a mine, or somebody let go from the

steelworks, I'd be going to college and learning how to code. There is a

massive shortage of people who understand software, people who

understand code. It is a massive shortage. The old stuff fast

broadband would be used to bring together a variety of energy

projects being developed including the giant tidal turbine which has

been placed on the sea bed of Pembrokeshire. It can provide

powerful 600 homes. We are looking to diversified into low carbon

buildings and homes. We are looking to diversify into connected homes.

What we mean by that is, the helm of the future may be a small power

station in its own right. You can use the Internet to actually control

when the house is taking electricity generating electricity. Whether this

becomes the centre of Swansea Bay's regeneration will be decided by the

Chancellor. He has been keen to sign off as many of the city deals as

they can if they provide value for money. The team behind this proposal

thinks it can convince him that it isn't just good for the region but

for the UK as a whole. Critics and supporters of the police

have been taking to social media after it emerged officers

deliberately ran over a dog North Wales Police say there was no

other way of dealing with an animal was running loose in the dark posing

the risk to drivers The force has referred itself to the Independent

Police Complaints Commission. The headlines were screaming out

this morning, even the Times thundered. Police traffic officers

run over a dog and they did it on purpose. The Force HQ in Colwyn Bay,

they must have felt they were under siege. The press office and seen

officers forced to field a barrage of questions from journalists. A

foxhound, similar to these, which had been missing since the weekend

from an English -based park which was hunting in Wales was killed

because the police thought it posed a danger to traffic. What should

they have done? This story has divided public opinion. There's been

a frenzy on media, the North Wales Police Facebook page has had 10,000

messages left on it. In pen my mouth, not far from the stretch of

the A55 where the dog was killed, I found a reflection of the differing

views. If I don't rent the dog over I'd be arrested and put up on

charges. I don't think they had any right to do that. It could've been

with differently. It is a shame the dog had to die but at the same token

the police did what they had to do. The A55 is North Wales busiest road,

even in the middle of the night there was traffic from Irish Sea

ferries. Throughout today's, more and more information about what

happened emerged from the police. It was three in the morning, there was

the risk of a serious accident. Other options were considered, a

firearms team was on the weight that they were worried about being able

to take a safe shot. These were difficult circumstances. A difficult

decision for the officers to make. They were faced with a dog in the

road, fast-moving traffic stop they did attempt a roadblock, they did

put themselves at risk and try to catch the darker stop the officers

made it difficult decision based on a difficult set of circumstances.

All of that may may not satisfy the critics. The police say they have

spoken to the owner who is said to understand the officers had to make

a difficult decision and a collector, the owner thinks, in the

circumstances. Some of Wales's biggest arts

companies will lose up to 3.5% of their funding from April this

year from the Arts Council of Wales. It's protected funding for those

who receive less than ?150,000 a year, but others will

see their income fall, after the Arts Council's own budget

was cut by the Welsh Government. We've undertaken this investment

review as with previous one with one thing only in mind, what is the

best kind of art infrastructure we can provide for the people

of Wales across Wales? We haven't considered

the money first and foremost. We've considered it in terms

of organisations and the ideas The Zika virus is believed to have

affected thousands of babies across South America but now

scientists at Swansea University say they may have the answer to prevent

the disease from spreading. Their research, published

by the Royal Society, shows that bacteria in the gut

of disease-bearing insects can be It is a tropical disease

that is spreading fast. From Brazil to Venezuela thousands

of mother in southern and central America have given birth to babies

with the microcephaly defect, believed to be caused by mosquitoes

carrying the Zika virus. But closer to home, scientists

at Swansea University say they have come up

with a way that could stop We take a bacterium which has

evolved to live inside a particular We are slightly changing that

bacterium so it is targeting only The technique the team

is using involves a natural process whereby the activity

of certain genes can be It is a method which has

already worked on other These are bloodsucking

kissing bugs which carry the Chagas disease

and affecteight million people The team here have tested the same

technique of using bacteria to suppress the genes which control

fertility in these creatures. So far, it's proved

almost 100% effective. It is now thought the same method

can be transferable to other species including mosquitoes

which carry the Zika virus. I am very confident that we can

effectively control populations of that mosquito by preventing

the larvae which live in water Luciana, who is currently

studying for a Ph.D., Brazil is a tropical country,

it is facing a difficult moment concerning tropical disease

such as Zika virus and yellow fever, dengue, and this research

is extremely important. If you control the mosquito then

we can reduce the number of cases. Professor Dyson and his team

will continue to work closely with scientists in Rio de

Janeiro in an attempt to stop Wales coach Warren Gatland has been

explaining his reasons for making three changes to the team that

will face France. Alex Cuthbert was selected ahead

of Tom James for Friday's Six Nations match at

the Principality Stadium and Gatland thinks that Cuthbert is regaining

some of the confidence that helped him produce his best

form for Wales. With the wing it is

an opportunity for Alex. We don't think he's far away

from coming back into some form With Tom at the moment we just feel

that it is an opportunity for him to play some more

stuff for the Blues. He knows himself he is down

on sharpness and a bit It is an opportunity

for him to keep working, Like spring on Barry

Island this afternoon. The temperature was seven Celsius

with a light breeze. Mind you, it hasn't been dry

and sunny everywhere. In north and mid Wales a few shower

clouds like this one in Criccieth. Tonight a few showers

will spread south. Dusting of snow in places

with a warning of icy patches Some dry, clear weather as well

with another widespread frost. Temperatures in Mid Wales dropping

as low as minus four, minus five. Here's the picture for eight

in the morning. Bright, crisp and sunny

but not everywhere. So more dry weather and sunshine

tomorrow but cloud will build up One or two wintry showers but a lot

of places dry. Temperatures on the cold side,

four to seven Celsius One or two showers but

some sunshine as well. Cloudier in the afternoon

with a high of six in Risca. Tomorrow night the odd shower

but dry for many. Not as cold as tonight with more

cloud around but still some frost. The forecast for Friday

is still proving Low pressure over Ireland may bring

a little rain and snow on higher ground but we may

miss the worst of it. Perhaps some rain in the south west

later in the afternoon. Mind you a north easterly breeze

will make it feel cold. The headlines again. Aston Martin is

coming to Wales. The new West model, DBX, will be made in the Vale of

Glamorgan. Beating off competition from round-the-world trip 750 new

jobs will be created. I'll have an update for you here

at eight o'clock and again That's Wales Today, thank

you for watching.