29/02/2016 BBC Wales Today


29/02/2016

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Our top stories: Westminster Conservatives in a climbdown tonight

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as they try break the deadlock over more powers for Wales.

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And claims that we could be in for worse flooding than planned

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for because we're looking at the wrong figures.

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The plan was intended to bring power over your income tax,

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energy projects and how we run elections closer to Wales,

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but tonight there's been a major climbdown from the UK government

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over how those ambitions will be met.

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It follows claims from all sides that the draft law was confusing

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and could end up leaving Welsh ministers with fewer powers,

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Today's move from the Conservative Welsh Secretary has been welcomed

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as our Political Editor Nick Servini reports.

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They say a week is a long time in politics.

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David Cameron with his then deputy, Nick Clegg, at what was then called

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They set out details of the Saint David's Day agreement,

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Fast forward, and after months of criticism in a series of reports,

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and a process that appeared at times to be heading on a collision course,

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and we have an attempt at a breakthrough.

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Until now, it's been assumed that power lies with the UK,,

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Until now, it's been assumed that power lies with the UK government,

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unless it's in devolved areas like health and education.

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This has led to confusion at times and legal battles over who's

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So, the decision was made with the process, make a list

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of powers held at Westminster, such as policing,

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defence and benefits - and assume that if anything isn't

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on the list, the power lies in Cardiff Bay.

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The problem is that the list of around 260 so-called reserved

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powers, including areas like road signs and street trading,

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Then there's the law-making carried out in the Assembly.

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In order to enforce the legislation, there are times that has to change

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the criminal law and, in order to do that,

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it would have had to pass what was going to be

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This morning, in Cardiff Bay, a major climb-down from

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the Welsh Secretary, Stephen Crabb, as he set out plans

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to reduce the list of powers reserved to Westminster

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He also set up a working group to look at what he called distinct

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arrangements for Wales' growing body of law.

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I have demonstrated today I was listening all along and I have

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been taking on board the valid and legitimate criticisms

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I think the changes announced today are the right thing to do.

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It means the timeframe to introduce the legislation will be delayed

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First Minister Carwyn Jones said there is now the opportunity

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to repair the damage done by a flawed process and produce

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The changes were also welcomed by some political experts who'd been

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critical of the original proposed legislation.

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In terms of people's everyday life, you don't really want to be having

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a debate on the constitution every three or four years.

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You want the rules of the game to be workable and stable.

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I think there is now more hope that we can move towards that.

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Not quite back to the drawing board, but a pause to work

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No one is pretending that the process will be easy

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but there is more of a chance tonight for the deadlock

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The tumble dryer company Whirlpool has been ordered to supply

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information to an inquest about any fires related to one of its models.

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Bernard Hender, who was 19, and Doug McTavish, who was 39,

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died after a fire at their flat in Llanrwst in 20-14.

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An investigation found that the fire started in a tumble dryer.

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Anglesey Council Tax payers are facing a 3.5% increase

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in their bills as the Local Authority attempts to save ?3

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million over the next financial year.

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The Council Leader says bills on the island will still be well

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A final decision will be made next month.

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Flooding in the future could be much worse than we're planning

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for because we're looking at the wrong data, putting lives

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That's according to one of the world's leading experts.

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Professor Mark Macklin of Aberystwyth University says

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the risk of flooding could be as much as 40% greater

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because Natural Resouces Wales do not use all the data about past

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Bernard and Debbie Eccles are just one couple affected

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It was all the more upsetting to them because they should have

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been protected by a flood barrier, but it wasn't put up in time

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We were actually trying to get the plates off the road with six

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inches of water or something on top of it.

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It was too late then, water was coming into

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The only thing we can do now is just use the bottom of the house

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It's the fourth time the Eccles have been flooded.

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Now an expert is warning that we should all get used

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to greater and more frequent floods in the future.

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Professor Macklin is head of the river dynamics

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and hydrology research group at the University of Aberystwyth.

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He and his team have been studying geological markers

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Discovering evidence of huge floods in our past which are on a scale

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that current planning does not take into account.

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We had, in the late 18th century, floods which were 20-30% larger

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If we go back further than that, in terms of the last 3500 years,

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we are looking at what perhaps 20% larger than that as well.

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We're actually looking at flood magnitudes that may be approaching

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in some areas, anywhere between 20-40% higher

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than what we have seen in the post 1980 period.

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Natural Resources Wales have compiled flood maps using detailed

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information from river gauges or instrumental records.

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However, as these gauges have only been in place for some 50 years,

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evidence of previous larger floods is missing.

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Professor Macklin's historical geological data is already

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being used in other countries to calculate risk and he said

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it is time we used the same method here.

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We will need to rethink and remap our flood plains to look

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If we don't, we will be putting more properties,

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more lives, more livlihoods, more infrastructure at risk.

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Natural Resources Wales says it does not accepted their their flood maps

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are underestimating Wales' flood risk, there are however aware

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of Professor Macklin's work and they are considering a pilot

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study to see if they can use it to improve their risk

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More on this story on Week In Week Out after this programme.

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BBC Wales can reveal that more than ?200,000 has been spent

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by the Welsh Government, defending itself against claims

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of infringing copyright over its use of photographs of Dylan Thomas.

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The pictures show the poet as a young man with his wife,

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The Welsh-made Raspberry Pi looks set to become the best selling

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The title was held by the Amstrad PCW which is believed to have sold

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According to the company, which is based in Pencoed,

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near Bridgend, the Raspberry Pi will surpass that number

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Let's see what the weather has in store Sue Charles

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Good evening. The last day of meteorological winter but it will

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not feel too springlike this week. Increasingly wet and windy overnight

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into tomorrow and the rain moves to the east and the wind is picking up

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to gale force on the coast and snow showers are being replaced by heavy

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rain in the early hours as it turns milder and not as cold as last

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night. A wet and windy start across Wales tomorrow with heavy downpours

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and across the UK band of rain moves to the east, easing as it does so

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when turning dryer to the West with some trite -- bright spells. Those

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brisk westerly winds will ease later across Wales and dry afternoon with

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just a few showers and milder, 10 degrees on Anglesey or 12 in

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Monmouthshire. A few showers tomorrow night. Clearer for a time

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but colder air returns and any showers could be wintry, especially

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on higher ground, with strong winds creating a real wind chill. Early on

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Wednesday the troth bushes in, bringing showers in the wind will

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strengthen well. The showers on Wednesday will be wintry in the

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hills and it will be windy and cold morning but brighter spells later

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and the wind will ease later on. Highs of just six or 7 degrees.

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Showers will clear on Thursday and quieter and drier day but turning

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cloudy with rain and possibly kill snow arriving again later in the

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day. It may be the first week of spring but a very changeable and

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sometimes quite wintry week to come. From all of us on the

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programme, goodnight.

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