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Our top stories: Why does Wales perform worse than similar countries | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
when it comes to diagnosing cancer quickly? | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
One of the questions a new research project will investigate. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
You hear for the first time cancer associated with you. And it is just | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
the most surreal experience because you are just thinking, no. | :00:30. | :00:44. | |
On St David's Day - you tell us what really matters to you when it comes | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
to winning your vote in the Welsh election. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
One of the country's most eminent scientists says it would be a | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
disaster for university research if we left the EU. | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
summer's Olympics. has her heart set on cycling at this | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
And on the first day of meteorological spring - a warning | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Why does Wales perform worse than similar countries when it comes to | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
That's one of the questions a new research project - which is being | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
described as the first of its kind in the world - will look at. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
The study, along with another looking at new treatments for bowel | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
cancer, are being funded to the tune of ?1.6 million | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
from the charity, Cancer Research Wales. | :01:38. | :01:38. | |
Our Health Correspondent Owain Clarke has the details. | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
Around 19,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in Wales last year and | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
numbers are rising. Cancer rates are worse here than in many other | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
developed countries. This woman spotted signs of her own cancer | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
early and was diagnosed within days. It had a profound effect. It is | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
absolutely terrifying. You go in because you think you have seen | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
something but you are not sure, and within 50 minutes you're lying on a | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
bed and doctors are talking about a biopsy. And suddenly you are here | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
for the first time, cancer, associated with you. It is just the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
most surreal experience, because you are just thinking, no, this cannot | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
be. Jackie recovered, many do not. But the earlier the kinds is | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
spotted, the the results. But one charity, Cancer Research Wales, is | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
giving a project led by a GP in Bangor ?800,000 to find out. They | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
are under pressure to minimise health service costs and not make a | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
public organise expensive testing but on the other hand is a chance | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
that they have douce that up to two spot people with cancer, and we feel | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
if we can give them the right investigations. Cancer Research | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
Wales was formed when a group of professionals at this hospital in | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Cardiff joined forces. It has grown substantially over the decades and | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
now the charity spends ?1 million a year on 50 Cancer Research partners | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
-- project 's based in Wales. The one this year is being described as | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
an unprecedented boost for the charity's 50th birthday. ?800,000 | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
will be used to develop ways of diagnosing cancer earlier. And | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
?800,000 will be spent trying to develop new therapies to tackle a | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
big killer, bowel cancer. It is the second most common type of cancer in | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
Wales. The team in Cardiff is spearheading efforts to get the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
body's immune system to target and kill cancer cells. We want to make | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
treatments are available for everyone, whether you develop | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
colorectal cancer in the third World or the Western world. So, generic | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
vaccines. To do this, we can identify common targets, which we | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
find in most tumours. 9000 people die of cancer each year in Wales, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
yet we have some of the lowest survival rates in Western Europe. It | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
is hoped that this research will help narrow the gap. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
It looks like health will be the biggest single biggest issue that | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
could affect your vote - when we go to the polls in the Welsh Assembly | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
But BBC Wales' annual St David's Day poll suggests that there's still | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
some confusion over who runs the Welsh NHS. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
With those and other findings, our political reporter James Williams. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
With the Assembly Election on the horizon, BBC Wales' annual St | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
David's Day Paul has been gauging the political temperature. Our | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
survey suggests one third of Babel say that health would be their top | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
issue when they cast their votes on me that there. 18% were jobs at the | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
top the list, and 14% said immigration was their priority. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Despite voters placing health as the top electoral issue, our poll | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
suggests that confusion persists about who runs the Welsh NHS, | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
because despite 65% of people saying, correctly, that it is run by | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
health ministers in Cardiff, just under one third were thinking that | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
it was run by the UK Government in Westminster. It is interesting that | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
we have a slight increase in understanding that the Welsh | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
government makes the key critical decisions around health in Wales, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and I suspect that is as a result of some of the quite the Teutonic | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
attacks on the performance and the governments that Mac vitriolic | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
attacks, that have come from the UK Government. Immigration is the third | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
highest is in the election issue even though it is the UK | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Government's responsibility. Ask if the numbers moving from outside the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
UK into Wales were too high, just over half thought that they were. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
37% thought they were just about right. 8% thought they were too low. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Celebrating the Welsh national Day, from Downing Street, to the streets | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
of Cardiff. How do people feel about the transfer of power from | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
Westminster to Cardiff Bay? Our poll indicated 43% of voters would like | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
the Welsh Assembly to have more powers, 30% thought it had | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
sufficient current powers, 30% would like it abolished completely, and 6% | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
supported independence for Wales. Another question we asked was, can | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
you name these four people's these are the Welsh Police and Crime | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Commissioners, elected to ensure that police forces are run properly | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
but many of our respondents could not name many of them. Do you | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
recognise any of those faces? Do you know who that is? No, I don't. What | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
about that guy? No, I don't. I know that one chap, from Newport went. -- | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
Newport went. His name is Ian Johnson. It is no surprise to some | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
given that just under 15% of people in Wales voted in the first | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
elections back in 2012. There was no significant awareness of the role of | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
the commissioners. That needs to be embraced now, to make people aware | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
of exactly what commissioners do now and what their function can be in | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
the future. There is not long ago elections for policing Crime | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Commissioners will be held on the same day as the Assembly Election, | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
on the 5th of May. Let's talk to our Political Editor | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Nick Servini. What caught your attention in this | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
Paul? I'm not surprised that the NHS is the main concern, it is half of | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
what the Welsh government spends. It is worth reflecting on the extent to | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
which health dominates politics at the assembly. It was not that long | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
ago, when you spoke about policies it would be health, education and | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
the economy, all in one breath. Look at the figures coming from this | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Paul. Just 10% of people put education as the main concern. 18% | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
said it was jobs and 33% said it was the NHS. It really is pulling ahead. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
This will be no surprise to the Assembly Members here. The Welsh | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
government spends so much time defending their record on the NHS. I | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
was at a briefing of Plaid Cymru this morning in which, they geared | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
up for their conference and they were asked their priority. The | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
answer was health, health and health. Confirmation, if we needed | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
it, that the NHS really is the battle ground when it comes to | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
assembly politics. A former lifeguard and children's | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
swimming coach from Gwynedd will be sentenced later for raping a | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
ten-year-old girl Gareth Vincent Hall - from Talysarn | :09:21. | :09:21. | |
near Caernarfon - admitted travelling to Oregon to rape a girl | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
he met online. A defibrillator used to revive a | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
heart-attack patient who later died at Glan Clwyd Hospital was | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
initially set at the wrong power level by a nurse, | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
an inquest has been told. 78-year-old John Rogers from | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
Denbigh died on a coronary care ward in | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
March last year. One of the UK's best known | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
scientists has told Wales Today that it would be a "disaster" for | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
university research if Britain left | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
the European Union. Lord Robert Winston was appearing at | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
a life sciences conference Critics argue that leaving the EU | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
would have no impact on research. Here's our business correspondent, | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Brian Meechan. This diagnostics company has been up | :10:06. | :10:18. | |
and running for a little over a year, designing new tests for | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
diseases including sepsis, it is the second biggest cause of death after | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
heart disease and proper diagnosis would save lives. The benefits of | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
being in South Wales is that we have good universities and a strong NHS | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
infrastructure. We have all of the elements there to take forward a | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
strong collaboration and couple that with innovative SMEs around the | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
area, it is a great melting pot and it has a huge amount of benefits. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
The company came out of work on at Cardiff University. The company is | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
one of a number of growing number of companies in the life sciences | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
sector in Wales. There are now 350 companies operating here and they | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
are employing 11,000 people. But it is not just the number of jobs. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
These ones tend to be a high quality and high value. One of the UK's best | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
known scientists, Lord Winston, came to speak to industry figures at the | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
life sciences hub in Cardiff, as part of the Bio Wales conference. He | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
is also a Labour peer, but he says that his concerns over Brexit our | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
financial rather than political. We will lose massively in signs if we | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
come out of Europe and we will lose some of the cabala orations we need, | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
particularly with engineering. -- the collaborations. I think it would | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
be a disaster for us. Those who want to leave the EU deny his claims. We | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
have huge respect for Lord Winston, but we move beyond the | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
superficiality project fear, and to project opportunity. We hear of | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
threats, but we never hear of what this might deliver for Wales. More | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
and more countries are working on medical breakthroughs in Wales, work | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
that has the potential to save lives and boost the economy by creating | :12:20. | :12:20. | |
Much more to come before 7 o'clock. jobs. | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
was played in 1971, the performance supposedly left the disappointed | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
composer in tears - so no pressure for tonight then?! | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
And it might be the first day of meteorological spring | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
but a taste of winter again tomorrow. | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
A full forecast in a few minutes. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
How do you celebrate a tenth birthday? | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
10 years ago today the Queen officially opened the Senedd in | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
Cardiff Bay - there was no birthday cake but there were Welsh cakes to | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
celebrate St David's Day, as well as a visit from the man | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Carl Roberts spent the day there for us. | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
A week is a long time in politics. A decade, and eternity. A lot has | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
happened in this building since it was officially opened ten years ago | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
today. Royal openings, Olympic parades... And even a Grand Slam | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
celebration. Some of the uses for the Senedd. Often described as an | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
iconic building, it cost less than the world-record fee that Real | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
Madrid paid for Gareth Bale, who cost 85 million, whereas this | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
building cost ?67 million. And the men who designed it, themselves | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
icons of the architectural world, are happy with the way that it | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
turned out. We got that it should serve the public and there should be | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
a relationship where the public vote people in, the public have a big | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
domain, and they are above it. It has been amazingly looked after, | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
considering it has 100,000 visitors each year. It is weathering well. We | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
know that the investment in the quality of materials, that comes to | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
show. For many of us, the Senedd feels me. These politics students at | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Aberystwyth University visiting today were in primary school when | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
this building open, and they have grown up with it. The Senedd is then | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
amazing opportunity for the Welsh people to take control of their own | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
lives, and they should definitely grab it. At First Minister's | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Questions, you can see how they debate with each other, and see how | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
the issues of the day are being debated with Assembly Members. It | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
brings it back to the public. The students are among over 1 million | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
people have visited the Senedd. Staff here have led 30,000 tours of | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
the building, including visits from hundreds of schools across the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
country. For most people, popping into this building is part of a day | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
out in Cardiff Bay. But for the SME members down there, and for me, it | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
is a place of work. The politician in charge of the assembly says that | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
the building has secured a prominent place in Welsh life in a relatively | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
short time that it has been opened. People have taken it to themselves. | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
And recently, people came here to express their sympathy over the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
events in France. It is used for all sorts of things. This model of the | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Senedd is on show in the old assembly building in Cardiff Bay. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
The building was designed to last century, so it is only a 10th of the | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
way through its life span. And there is already plenty to look at it on. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
-- look back on. Carl Roberts reporting and if you | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
want to find out more about how Wales is different to the other | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
nations in the UK - the "how Wales Works" series has | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
been running across BBC Wales TV and radio and | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
online at... Ifor ap Glyn will take up the role | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
in May - and will write in Welsh. There's no salary but the National | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
Poet is expected to champion Welsh writing, and compose poems inspired | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
by significant national events. Our arts and media correspondent Huw | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
Thomas reports. Ifor ap Glyn is an accomplished | :16:15. | :16:30. | |
poet and performer. Born and bred in London to Welsh | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
parents. He is rooted in Canaervon | :16:38. | :16:51. | |
where he balances poetry with work The new role will be | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
a boost to his profile. As our national anthem says, | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
"Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion", | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
we are a land of poets and singers. Our singers are certainly | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
internationally renowned. He writes in Welsh and | :17:05. | :17:05. | |
the language alternates each time a new national | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
poet is appointed. But a leading authority on poetry | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
in Wales says it would be better to have two roles, | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
one for each language. It's a good idea to alternate | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
between a Welsh It might be an even | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
better idea to have a two track system of one poet in Welsh | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
and one writing in English | :17:27. | :17:30. |