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Tonight's headlines: Reducing the risk of dementia - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the campaign encouraging us all to adopt a healthy lifestyle, | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
as a survey shows it's the illness we're most worried about. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
I had a friend, or a cousin, who has been | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
stricken by dementia at a very young age and I realised that hopefully, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
by taking on an healthy lifestyle, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
going into old age with a better outlook, then. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
And a new wave of competition - the battle is on over | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
who could build Swansea's Tidal Lagoon. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Playing in protest - around 200 people turn out | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
in Swansea fighting to save music services for young people. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
Wales' final training session ahead of their Six Nations clash | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
with France - as one coach says Friday night games aren't | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
And Wales is known as the Land of Song - | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
now a new festival around Cardiff aims to become one the best-known | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Three-quarters of people in Wales are worried about getting dementia. | :01:04. | :01:27. | |
But a new survey says almost half of us don't know that | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
45,000 people in Wales are living with the condition. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
And more than 2,000 of them are under the age of 65. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Today, the Welsh Government launched a campaign calling on us to take | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
steps to try to reduce the risk for ourselves. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Here at in Penydarren Park in Merthyr Tydfil, Chris | :01:44. | :02:03. | |
shows me the basics of walking football. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
After 30 years of doing no exercise, he is just taking up the sport | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
because he believes it will help ward off dementia, | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
something that's already affected one family | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
I had a friend, or a cousin, who has been stricken by dementia | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
He has got two young dependent children and | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
I realised that hopefully, by taking of a healthy lifestyle, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
I realised that hopefully, by taking up a healthy lifestyle, | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
healthy body, healthy mind and hopefully | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
going into old age with a better outlook, then. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
According to the Welsh Government, getting dementia | :02:29. | :02:29. | |
is now among our top worries in Wales. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
And a survey of 1,000 people showed almost half of us don't know | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
you can reduce your risk of getting it. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Three-quarters of us, they say, don't know where to begin with that. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
In Caerphilly, these men took part in a | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
35-year health study and the medical experts say what they found here has | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
To some extent, we have it, there is a genetic element, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
but to a large extent, it is how we live. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
And so if we can adopt a healthy lifestyle, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
just in the same way that it may benefit our heart, | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
what affects the heart affects their head, so it will also | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
But Mary Christine, who has been living with dementia for seven | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
But Mary Christine, who has been living with dementia for several | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
She and husband Graham told me that by claiming lifestyle | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
is a factor, the Government is turning attention away | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
from the need for more health care services. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
You have got to live your life, you've | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
got to enjoy it, you've got to have fun, you've got to do | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
We joke about Alzheimer's in this House. There are no tears. You know? | :03:33. | :03:52. | |
Can't afford to cry. The Alzheimer's Society says currently, only four in | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
ten people with the condition in Wales get a diagnosis, the lowest in | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the UK. Last year, the Welsh Government put an extra five when 5 | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
million into support services and set up diagnosis targets. It is one | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
thing to diagnose but you have got to be able to show people that once | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
you have had a diagnosis that it leaves somewhere, as well. So our | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
teams of people going into care homes push up the rates of diagnosis | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
but also make sure that people who work in those care homes have | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
practical things they can do to help people live longer and live better | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
with dementia. The Government message is simple, stay fit and | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
thin, don't smoke or drink, watch your help and try new things. Chris | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
takes the view it is worth a punt. And anyway, he says he is having | :04:41. | :04:41. | |
fun. A number of residents at a care home | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
in Colwyn Bay have fallen ill One patient at the Eithinog home has | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
tested positive for the H1N1 virus and a further five have been taken | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
to hospital with Public Health Wales says it's | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
working to stop the virus The Independent Police Complaints | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Commission says it will not now investigate the death of a dog | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
that was deliberately run over The force had referred itself | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
to the IPCC following the incident on the A55 | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
near Penmaenmawr on Monday. Its Commissioner says | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the force should carry out its own investigation - | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
with input from the RSPCA A watchdog has criticised | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
the Welsh Government for the way it set up and ran a ?50 | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
million investment fund. The Wales Life Sciences Fund was set | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
up in 2012 to try to get more The Wales Audit Office says | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
ministers should have handled potential conflicts | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
of interest "more robustly". The Welsh Government says it'll | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
respond in due course. A competitor has emerged | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
to challenge the company behind the ?1 billion tidal | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
project for Swansea Bay. Tidal Lagoon Power wants to be | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
the first to generate electricity from a tidal lagoon - | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
starting in Swansea. Now Ecotricity - which already | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
generates electricity with wind turbines and solar parks -says | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
it can do it for a lot less money. Our economics correspondent | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Sarah Dickins is here. Bring us up to date on this. Well, | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
if you remember, Tidal Lagoon Power have been working on the Swansea Bay | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
project and other ones were some time and in a way, the delay on | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
recent things, they have got over things like planning, the delay has | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
been about price, what is sometimes called the strike price and the | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Prime Minister recently said he was concerned about that price. After | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
that, Tidal Lagoon Power said if we look at this project, a ?1 billion | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
project, over 90 years, like you would water infrastructure project, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
it works out much more cheaply. The Government then said only a few | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
weeks ago that it would hold a review into the industry. What we | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
have discovered today is that Ecotricity, the Government review, | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
wrote to the department responsible for this -- before the Government | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
review. They said they could produce electricity from tidal lagoon is | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
much cheaper. I have this letter, it was written on the 18th of January, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
before the review, and it says quite frankly that "Our analysis suggests | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
that Swansea Bay is simply the wrong sized project in the wrong place and | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
these constraints are at the root of the high cost of energy. All along, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Tidal Lagoon Power has said Swansea would be more expensive because it | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
is the prototype and Cardiff, Newport and others would be cheaper. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
What this letter is suggesting, what Ecotricity is saying, is that | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Swansea is too small, they would look at a larger projects, they | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
would do it for that Lower price that Tidal Lagoon Power are talking | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
about but over 35 years. What have Tidal Lagoon Power said? They can't | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
be happy, this was very much their project and they have been working | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
on it for five years. They say they welcome competition and they | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
welcomed the review but this really does challenge some of the things | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
they have been telling us, that the prototype Swansea needs to be more | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
expensive. Thank you very much for that update. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
With just ten weeks to go until Wales goes to the polls | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
in the Assembly election, the Welsh Liberal Democrats' leader | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
has defended her decision to work with Labour's Welsh Government. | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Kirsty Williams says if she hadn't struck budget deals with Labour | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
in the Assembly, "the entire institution would have collapsed". | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Our political correspondent Daniel Davies - who's meeting | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
all the party leaders before polling day - | :08:24. | :08:24. | |
Day one of the National Assembly in 1999. | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
Kirsty Williams has been a member since the start. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Another new arrival on the farm near Brecon, home to her and husband | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
And unfortunately, elections in the spring as well. | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
17 years as Assembly member, facing her toughest election | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
yet, she says devolution has disappointed. | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
I think that is a realistic assessment and it is | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
certainly how many people I speak to feel about the Assembly. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
We had such high hopes that creating this new | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
institution would transform the way in which we deliver public services | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
in Wales and for many people, that just hasn't happened. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
She will do her best to convince voters to blame | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Labour for that and do her best to keep her seat, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
Kirsty Williams has helped keep this area a Lib Dem stronghold for nearly | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
20 years but last year, voters here switched | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
to the Conservatives and when spring rolls around, | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the Tories would love to convince them to do | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the Tories would love to convince them to do the same again and turf | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
out their local Lib Dem Assembly member. | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
The Tories point out she has worked with | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
the Labour Government that she now complains about. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
You have done three budget deals with them, you have cooperated | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
with them, you have kept Carwyn Jones where he is. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Well, let's be absolutely clear, if the budget | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
hadn't gone through, the entire institution would have | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
collapsed and I don't think anybody in Wales would have thanked us | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
for a failing institution and an institution that | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
would see it budgets slashed and the money sent back to London. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
There is an alternative, you could have worked | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
with Plaid and the Tories to run things yourself? | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
And sometimes we do work together to try and extract | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
concessions out of the Government, but I got into politics | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
She says despite leading the smallest group in the Assembly, | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
she has managed to get a Labour Government to deliver | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Policies like a law Mrs Williams wrote to guarantee | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
minimum nurse staffing levels on hospital wards. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
After the election, the Lib Dems want to cap infant classroom | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
On the economy, if and when the Assembly | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
get the powers, the Lib Dem would take a penny off the basic | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Polls suggest they could displace Lib Dems in the Assembly. | :10:46. | :10:57. | |
Voters haven't flocked to the Lib Dems in recent years. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
What can Kirsty Williams do to get them | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
The politicians you vote for on May the 5th will have the power to make | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
decisions about key areas such as health and education. | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
As part of our series looking at How Wales Works, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Arwyn Jones has been in the border town of Presteigne to explain | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
In places like Presteigne, you get a very clear idea of how evolution | :11:19. | :11:34. | |
works and what the Assembly does. That is because here, they are right | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
on the border with England. A lot of public services there are now very | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
different to hear. I have come to Presteigne's version of the | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
Assembly, which happens to be an art centre, which activate to see what | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
people think. A lot of things that directly control our lives -- affect | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
our lives are controlled by the Welsh Government and over the next | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
ten weeks, we will be asked to vote for our next Assembly member. What | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
exactly are we being asked to vote about? The Welsh Government gets | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
most of its money from the UK Government, so next year, ministers | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
here will have nearly ?16 billion to spend on public services in Wales. A | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
lot of that money goes on health, so things like hospitals and GP | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
services. Another key area for the Welsh Government is education, from | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
schools and colleges to universities, it's the Welsh | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Government which makes all the key decisions. Downstairs in our | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
Assembly for the day, there is a Welsh class practising a song for St | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
David's Day. Arts and culture are also devolved and here, the Assembly | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
strikes the right chord. We run the woodland project and we get funding | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
from Wales, the Welsh Government, it is very good environmentally and the | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
trouble is there are big issues around climate change and the Wars | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
going on and are not controlled in Cardiff, and they should be. I lived | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
in Bangor for a while and people of their feel very isolated from the | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Assembly and I think we can do here. Everyone forgets about the middle, | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
but we have a lot of needs here too. People still don't identify with it. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
They still think the decisions made by some faceless bureaucrat, but | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
actually, we are much more democratic with the Assembly than we | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
were when it was all done through a Secretary of State. The Welsh | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
Government doesn't control taxes, although that may well change in the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
next couple of years, but at the moment, it does decide how much | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
business rates shops like these have to pay. Now, this bridge and this | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
river formed the border between England and Wales and while it | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
doesn't dictate the weather, it does dictate how we respond to the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
weather, because it is the Welsh Government which is in charge of | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
floods defences, coastal defences, as well as agricultural policies. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
Immigration is often among the most important issues of interest to | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
voters in Wales, but whoever you vote for in May won't really be able | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
to do anything about it. It is the Westminster UK Government has | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
control over the UK's borders and foreign policy. So those are the | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
main issues we will all be voting on and made of it. People often tell me | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
they don't truly care about what the Assembly does but my point would be | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
if you care about what happens in hospitals and schools and all a the | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
other things we have been talking about in Wales, the chances are you | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
probably do care about what happens in the Assembly in Cardiff Bay. | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
And tomorrow night, as part of the How Wales Works series, | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
we'll be in Tredegar - famous for being the birthplace | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
of the NHS - to find out how it's changed since it was first created | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
almost 70 years ago and the challenges it will face | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Still to come in the programme this evening. | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
in Cardiff before tomorrow's Six Nations game - | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
but Wales Coach Warren Gatland says their opponents | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
British Breakthrough Act at last night's Brits. | :14:58. | :15:10. | |
Around 200 protestors have gathered outside Swansea's Guildhall urging | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
the City Council not to cut funding to its music service. | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
This evening, councillors are considering a proposal to reduce | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
funding for free music tuition in schools. | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
But campaigners are concerned it could lead to the break-up | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
of the service which is run jointly with Neath Port Talbot Council. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
There were plenty of familiar tunes on the steps of the Guildhall this | :15:29. | :15:41. | |
evening, but this lot were here to entertain. West Glamorgan youth | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
music is funded as a partnership between Swansea Council and Neath | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Port Talbot Council. Earlier this month, Neath Port Talbot opted not | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
to cut its subsidy to the service but this evening, Swansea Council | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
will hear proposals to reduce funding for music tuition in schools | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
following a six-month review. These protesters are concerned that | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
without the free tuition in schools, it won't be possible to produce the | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
same level of musical talent but the council says reform is necessary in | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
order to make the service sustainable. If you want people to | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
achieve things like grade eight at the age of 16 or 17, you don't get | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
that starting music lessons at 14. It takes many, many years and it | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
needs the grounding right at the very beginning in primary school. | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
This music service has provided a platform for some of Wales' greatest | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
musicians and composers. Hoping to join the musical greats in the | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
future is Katie. A member of the west Glamorgan youth Orchestra, she | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
told me she is worried others won't take as much interest in music of | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
the current provision of tuition is lost. Children won't have the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
interest and they won't have a private tutor, they just won't do | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
it. Some people will be able to afford the music programme -- won't | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
be able to afford the music programme and it will deter them. We | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
have to pay in school now but it is still a really reduced price. With | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
enough instruments in hands, the crowd of protesters seem to draw the | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
attention of the Swansea Council leader. He reassured them the music | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
service will continue but reform is needed to some extent. Earlier | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
today, he told with the current level for funding school tuition | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
doesn't make business sense when budgets are tight. I don't think | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
either Council is saying things can continue as they are, because we are | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
aware that the cost of the service, around ?31 an hour, is likely to | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
increase because schools are able to procure music services far cheaper | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
than that. What we need to do is make sure the excellent service we | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
have got is competitive and therefore that schools will want to | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
take that service and parents will want to take that service. The joint | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
running of the service between Swansea and Neath Port Talbot | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
counsels remains under consultation until next month so as Swansea | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Council make reassurances the music service will continue, campaigners | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
hope the funding won't be scaled back any time soon. | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Rugby and the Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde says Six Nations games | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
held on Friday nights aren't ideal for fans, | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
but says there's nothing they can do about it. | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
It comes after calls from the WRU for other nations to share | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
the number of Friday night games in future. | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
Wales have had their final training session ahead of the game | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
They were playful and relaxed this morning. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
The squad has been given a clean bill of health, | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
but Liam Williams was wearing a scrum cap | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
With the roof closed, it promises to be another electric | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
atmosphere, but Friday night games aren't favoured by everybody. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
An additional 74,000 fans travelling into the city of top of the usual | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
rush hour traffic means just getting to the game could be a problem. | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
It'll be the competition's sixth game on a Friday. | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
We have come across the Friday night games in the past, | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
players are getting more accustomed to dealing | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
It's not ideal for the supporters, or us, | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
France arrived tonight at the stadium having | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
won their opening two games in Paris against Italy or Ireland, | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
won their opening two games in Paris against Italy and Ireland, | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
but neither will be as difficult as playing away from home. | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
They've won just three of their last 12 away games. | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
I think they're just a work in progress, you know, | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
so take one game at a time and see what | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
works well for them, what they need to improve | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
on and they have done that in the first couple of games. | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
I think under Guy Noves, he comes with credibility in terms | :19:37. | :19:38. | |
He's been incredibly successful for Toulouse. | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
In just over 24 hours, Warren Gatland's | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
team will step out here in front of a packed stadium. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
They haven't lost to France since that World Cup | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
semifinal back in 2011 and they know a win here tomorrow night will push | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
them to the top of the Six Nations championship. | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
The weekend of rugby starts early, with the Dragons hosting Pro 12 | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
The Welsh region will be looking for an improvement after the defeat | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
against Treviso last week - their third in a row. | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Tonight's game is live on Scrum V Live from 7pm | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
That's followed by Sport Wales, which will have an extended | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Swansea City, who take on Tottenham on Sunday, | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
are too reliant on Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andre Ayew for goals according | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
They've contributed 15 goals to the Swans' total of 24 - | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
the joint-lowest in the Premier League. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
New striker Alberto Paloschi has yet to score for the club. | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
More tomorrow - we'll be live from the Principality Stadium | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
A new music festival comes to Wales this summer which the organisers | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
hope will rival some of the UK's best-known cultural events. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
The Festival of Voice takes place at venues in Cardiff in June, | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
with performances by Charlotte Church and Van Morrison | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Here's our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas. | :21:08. | :21:21. | |
Some of the voices coming together of the culture in the capital. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Today, the owners of three very famous Welsh voices united to launch | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
the Festival of Voice, a series of big concerts and intimate | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
performances at venues across Cardiff in June. Organised by Wales | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
millennium Centre, with a little help from Cerys Matthews. It makes | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
complete sense to have this festival in the land of Song, to open the | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
door wide and help people enjoy the noise we can make and celebrate the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
boys in Wales. Onstage, people will see Van Morrison singing solo and a | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
special appearance by Bryn Terfel. Charlotte Church co-writes and stars | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
the Last Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Mermaid, but she want you to leave Disney at the door. We are taking in | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
a different direction, I don't think the Disney interpretation was very | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
faithful to the original, being as she married the Prince in the end, | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
but don't come expecting the Little mermaid, it isn't that at all. This | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
glamorous cafe in London is the setting for the launch of the | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
festival, a festival that is happening in Cardiff. But if it is | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
to have the impact the audience is hoping for, they will need to | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
attract the critics and the audiences from over the border. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Wales millennium Centre will produce the new festival every two years and | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
wanted to stake a place alongside heavyweight cultural events like the | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
Edinburgh fringe and Manchester's International Festival. Rufus | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
Wainwright is giving his only UK performance here at Festival of | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Voice, Van Morrison and Bryn Terfel don't do everything activate | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
something every week, so we have been very focused on trying to focus | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
on experiences people will get on a train or plane to. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Ticket sales and the reaction of the critics will determine whether the | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
festival is a success but the audiences hope the calibre of the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
voices on show will make it one of this year's unmissable events. | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
And among the winners - Catfish and the Bottlemen | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
A public vote meant they picked up the prize | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
So how's it gone down in their hometown? | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
A glittering night and a glittering prize. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
And from front man Van McCann, perhaps the shortest | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
For followers of the band, the award will not come | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
It was on a public vote and Catfish have | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
been selling out venues across the UK. | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
Back in the hometown, this Llandudno bar is where they first headlined. | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Ysgol John Bright is where it all started. | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
Two current members of the line-up were pupils there. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
And they have plenty of fans among the current crop. | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
There's quite a few fans in school, so there were quite | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
I woke up this morning to a celebratory | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
text message, you know, which was obviously really good | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
to get and I was delighted that the boys, really proud. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
to get and I was delighted for the boys, really proud. | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
Catfish And The Bottlemen follow in the footsteps of Duffy | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
and the Stereophonics as Brits Breakthrough Award winners. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
Congratulations to them. Any award winning weather on the way? | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Derek, how is it looking? We have been treated this week are some | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
lovely weather, blue skies, sunshine and frost. Not quite as nice this | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
afternoon, more clout but still generally dry and apart from a few | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
showers, or dry weather to come over the next few days, but a breeze | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
picking up will make it feel colder. Tonight, most of the country dry, a | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
few showers in the west and the odd shower may turn up in the South | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
later on tonight. Not as cold as recent nights but still some frost. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
Temperatures in parts of mid and North Wales falling below freezing. | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure over Ireland and that brings the | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
threat of some rain to the south-west. So at eight o'clock in | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the morning, breezy across Pembrokeshire and cloudy in the | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
south with maybe one or two showers. Elsewhere, it is looking dry, should | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
be bright in parts of mid and North Wales and feeling cold, only three | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Celsius in Caernarfon. During the day, a few showers will drift their | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
way northwards, wintry on high ground with a few flakes of snow. We | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
may see some rain turning up in Pembrokeshire but Flintshire should | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
stay dry. More clout than sunshine tomorrow but bright in places. | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
Breezy than today and chilly, highs between four and seven. On Anglesey | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
tomorrow, most of the des dry though I wouldn't rule out a shower in the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
afternoon. In Montgomeryshire, mostly dry tomorrow with maybe a | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
light shower in places, chilly five Celsius in Welshpool with a light | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
breeze. If you are in Cardiff for the rugby, it will be chilly, mostly | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
dry but we could see a few spots of light rain around the middle of the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
day, around six Celsius Baha'i. One or two showers in the evening, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
wintry in places, otherwise the cloud breaks and temperatures fall | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
low enough for a touch of frost. Saturday, a cold day with a | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
north-easterly breeze, especially in the south and south-east. The odd | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
light shower in place but no more than that, drive for most of us and | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
the Sun should break through at times. -- try. Then on Sunday, high | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
pressure will topple its way across the UK, moving down from the north, | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
meaning settled and dry weather. Sunday, chilly and dry, variable | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
cloud with some sunshine. Exley, a dry start on Monday but rain on the | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
way, the wind picking up, so a change on the way for the start of | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
March -- next week. Derek, thank you very much. A | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
reminder of the top story: the Welsh Government has launched a campaign | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
calling on us all to take steps to try and reduce the risks of getting | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
dementia. A survey says three quarters of people in Wales are | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
worried about developing the condition. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
And that is Wales Today, we have a quick update at 8pm and more after | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
the BBC News at ten. From all the buzz on the programme, thank you for | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
watching and have a good evening. Goodbye. -- from all of us. | :27:50. | :27:51. |