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:00:00. > :00:08.The future of the Welsh steel industry under scrutiny
:00:09. > :00:13.claims not enough is being done about cheap Chinese imports.
:00:14. > :00:15.First Aston Martin now sports car maker TVR could base
:00:16. > :00:38.And the warning not to rush in the new Welsh school curriculum.
:00:39. > :00:42.The crisis facing the Welsh steel industry is once again under
:00:43. > :00:47.Industry bosses here have accused the UK government of being one
:00:48. > :00:50.of the ringleaders in blocking attempts to prevent cheap Chinese
:00:51. > :00:57.They also claimed that the EU had effectively put up a sign
:00:58. > :01:00.encouraging China to dump its products in Europe.
:01:01. > :01:04.Our political editor Nick Servini has more.
:01:05. > :01:07.If we ever needed confirmation that the problems for the steel
:01:08. > :01:10.industry were far from over, we got it today in spades
:01:11. > :01:14.from senior figures of Wales' biggest plants.
:01:15. > :01:17.The steel industry, not just in Wales, and actually not just
:01:18. > :01:20.in the UK, but throughout Europe, currently suffers from what could be
:01:21. > :01:28.described as a perfect storm of negative forces.
:01:29. > :01:31.It has been well publicised over the last couple of years
:01:32. > :01:37.that we have been suffering from a huge influx of Chinese material.
:01:38. > :01:39.We have seen prices continue to drop, we have seen imports
:01:40. > :01:42.from China increase into the UK and without further urgent action
:01:43. > :01:45.from Wales and the UK, I think the situation is quite
:01:46. > :01:52.Prices have stabilised slightly in the last month,
:01:53. > :01:56.but the outlook again for us is not particularly bright.
:01:57. > :01:59.They were giving evidence to the Assembly Members
:02:00. > :02:02.on the Assembly's business committee but the criticism was directed far
:02:03. > :02:08.Welsh steelworkers made their feelings known on a march
:02:09. > :02:13.Today the bosses said the European Commission should be
:02:14. > :02:15.doing more to deal with what they say is cheap Chinese steel
:02:16. > :02:26.Yesterday in the US, a tariff of 266% was introduced
:02:27. > :02:35.The equivalent tariff in the European Union is now 16%.
:02:36. > :02:38.The committee was told that the result was that
:02:39. > :02:41.the European Union had effectively put up a sign for Chinese producers
:02:42. > :02:46.saying please dump here, you are welcome.
:02:47. > :02:50.We see the European Commission has not really having the teeth
:02:51. > :02:53.to actually deal with the flooding of Chinese exports coming in not
:02:54. > :02:57.just to the UK but Europe as a whole.
:02:58. > :03:00.At the heart of this is the attitude towards trade tariffs.
:03:01. > :03:03.The UK Government gave evidence today saying it is putting
:03:04. > :03:09.Ministers at Westminster believe more can be done
:03:10. > :03:13.But the industry wants Britain to push for a much
:03:14. > :03:20.At the moment, that is being resisted because of fears
:03:21. > :03:25.there would be too much of a lurch towards protectionism.
:03:26. > :03:28.The European Commission has launched a number of investigations
:03:29. > :03:31.into steel imports but there is growing concern that more action
:03:32. > :03:35.needs to be taken to try and secure the remaining industry in Wales,
:03:36. > :03:43.after 750 losses were announced in Port Talbot in January.
:03:44. > :03:46.They have got to wake up and smell the coffee on this.
:03:47. > :03:49.At the end of the day, we have got to have an industry
:03:50. > :03:55.Many in the industry admit there is no silver bullet for steel
:03:56. > :04:01.Ford and Toyota are already well established in Wales.
:04:02. > :04:04.Aston Martin is joining them now another luxury sports car
:04:05. > :04:09.manufacturer says it's considering a new production line here.
:04:10. > :04:13.TVR says a site in South Wales is one of three around the UK that
:04:14. > :04:22.TVR, an iconic British brand that could soon have a distinctly
:04:23. > :04:29.It has had a new lease of life after it was bought by a group
:04:30. > :04:32.of investors in 2014 and last year, it announced it was building
:04:33. > :04:34.a brandnew two seater sports car designed and built in Britain,
:04:35. > :04:40.The company says it has stayed deliberately tightlipped
:04:41. > :04:43.about the new line so far but today confirmed South Wales was one
:04:44. > :04:46.of three sites it was considering to build it.
:04:47. > :04:52.We could easily be talking about 400 to 600 jobs in the future.
:04:53. > :04:55.And if you put on then the usual knockon jobs,
:04:56. > :04:58.that takes it well over 1000, and I think what this car company
:04:59. > :05:02.would like to do as well is not to use normal distribution systems,
:05:03. > :05:07.retailers, they would like people to come down and take delivery
:05:08. > :05:10.of their car and possibly at a racing site, so it could well
:05:11. > :05:19.be afraid to come down to south Wales, they would likely facility
:05:20. > :05:21.on the Circuit of Wales, if that occurs.
:05:22. > :05:23.It comes a week after another iconic British brand,
:05:24. > :05:26.Aston Martin, announced that it would build its new car in St Athan
:05:27. > :05:29.in the Vale of Glamorgan, creating 750 jobs.
:05:30. > :05:31.The Welsh Government gave an undisclosed amount of money
:05:32. > :05:35.to Aston Martin as part of the deal, but it is not clear whether TVR
:05:36. > :05:42.TVR says it will make a decision on where the new site will be
:05:43. > :05:47.in the coming week is and production could start as soon as next year.
:05:48. > :05:50.A 66 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder
:05:51. > :05:54.after a 65 year old woman was found dead in a flat in Cardiff.
:05:55. > :05:56.She was discovered in the Century Wharf block of flats
:05:57. > :06:00.in Cardiff Bay earlier this afternoon.
:06:01. > :06:04.Some hospital wards run by Cardiff and the Vale University Healthboard
:06:05. > :06:07.have closed due to a Norovirus outbreak.
:06:08. > :06:09.The healthboard is advising family and friends not to visit patients
:06:10. > :06:11.in hospital if they are feeling unwell
:06:12. > :06:18.The Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Crabb, has been criticised
:06:19. > :06:21.for missing most of a Welsh debate in the House of Commons.
:06:22. > :06:25.MPs were told Mr Crabb had "parliamentary business elsewhere"
:06:26. > :06:27.but he was photographed at a Conservative Party lunch
:06:28. > :06:34.The Wales Office said it was common for junior ministers to reply
:06:35. > :06:40.There's a "fair chance" schools in Wales will start teaching
:06:41. > :06:44.a new curriculum by the deadline of 2021.
:06:45. > :06:46.That's according to the man who drafted the changes.
:06:47. > :06:49.It's been a year since Professor Graham Donaldson
:06:50. > :06:52.published his plans, which include making computer skills
:06:53. > :06:55.as central to learning as literacy and numeracy.
:06:56. > :06:58.But one union says the timetable set by the Welsh government
:06:59. > :07:04.Here's our education correspondent Bethan Lewis.
:07:05. > :07:11.It was at this time that the present curriculum was introduced but a big
:07:12. > :07:14.change to the way school children are taught and the way they learn
:07:15. > :07:20.This school is one of the schools helping to develop
:07:21. > :07:25.the new curriculum, building on work it is already doing in weaving
:07:26. > :07:28.different skills and subjects within lessons.
:07:29. > :07:34.Pupils are not just receiving distinct subjects, 835 period week
:07:35. > :07:36.when they move from history to geography to IT.
:07:37. > :07:43.They are now being exposed to a broader range of skills.
:07:44. > :07:46.The students do not even recognise necessarily
:07:47. > :07:48.that they are being exposed to the skills.
:07:49. > :07:50.The new curriculum aims to make digital and computer skills central
:07:51. > :07:55.to all learning within schools, along with literacy and numeracy.
:07:56. > :07:59.It is less focused on formal testing and it aims for more flexibility
:08:00. > :08:05.for teachers to tailor their lessons around the central curriculum.
:08:06. > :08:08.At an event in Cardiff today, the man who recommended the changes
:08:09. > :08:12.a year ago gave an update on progress so far.
:08:13. > :08:14.He says has been encouraged by the level of enthusiasm that
:08:15. > :08:17.will help in delivering the changes within the timetable set
:08:18. > :08:32.There is an impatience to get moving with it and other people are saying
:08:33. > :08:35.it does not look as if the time is long enough for us to be able
:08:36. > :08:37.to come to terms with the new curriculum.
:08:38. > :08:41.I think that the process that has been put in place as a pretty fair
:08:42. > :08:44.chance of getting us to the point at which by 2018 and beyond schools
:08:45. > :08:47.will be able to move forward in relation to thinking
:08:48. > :08:48.about the curriculum and its indications
:08:49. > :08:58.The current curriculum has been in place since the late 1980s.
:08:59. > :09:00.Some of those here will be leading the change.
:09:01. > :09:02.There will be many meetings like these of education experts,
:09:03. > :09:04.teachers and officials before the new curriculum is taught
:09:05. > :09:09.But they want the teaching structure ready in two years and four children
:09:10. > :09:11.everywhere to be taught the new curriculum in five.
:09:12. > :09:14.Some people here think that is a tough timetable for such
:09:15. > :09:18.The timetable set by the Education Minister
:09:19. > :09:23.We are supposed to get all this done and dusted by 2018.
:09:24. > :09:30.Let's do it properly and take our time and build
:09:31. > :09:33.on the enthusiasm that is there and get it finished a good
:09:34. > :09:36.curriculum for children in the 21st century.
:09:37. > :09:39.Change to the way young people are taught is welcomed
:09:40. > :09:42.but all here agree that the hard work of putting the ideas
:09:43. > :09:45.into practice is only just beginning.
:09:46. > :09:48.Cycling, and at the World Track Championships in London,
:09:49. > :09:50.Owain Doull has won a silver medal as part
:09:51. > :09:54.The four, led by Sir Bradley Wiggins, lost to Australia
:09:55. > :10:02.And after two years of injury troubles, Becky James has come back
:10:03. > :10:06.She says she is now hopeful for a place on the team
:10:07. > :10:22.It has been a tough road and the World Cup was tough. I was knocked
:10:23. > :10:27.out in the first round which was so frustrating. To be back and doing
:10:28. > :10:32.Kear in, the event I love, and just... I have been working so hard
:10:33. > :10:35.and knuckling down since Hong Kong. I have seen improvements, gear in,
:10:36. > :10:37.year out. Happy days. Football and Wales manager
:10:38. > :10:39.Chris Coleman has revealed he's set for talks about extending
:10:40. > :10:41.his contract next week. Coleman is currently in Paris
:10:42. > :10:44.with just 100 days to go until Wales' opening
:10:45. > :10:47.match of Euro 2016. He also admitted Gareth Bale might
:10:48. > :10:50.miss both of Wales' warm up games later this month after six weeks
:10:51. > :10:53.out for Real Madrid. Coleman's contract
:10:54. > :10:54.ends after the Euros and he's hoping
:10:55. > :11:01.negotiations go smoothly: Ideally, we will know
:11:02. > :11:04.what we are doing before we go to the tournament,
:11:05. > :11:06.so everybody is settled. I can't really, if I am honest,
:11:07. > :11:11.stop thinking about this tournament. I have got to make sure
:11:12. > :11:14.that we get it right, Well, let's see what the weather
:11:15. > :11:33.has in store as we head After a brief respite, turning
:11:34. > :11:37.colder with wintry showers and windy. A front is pushing through
:11:38. > :11:41.eventually clearing but bringing rain and snow so if we look at the
:11:42. > :11:47.map the band of rain, sleet and a warning of snow, two or five
:11:48. > :11:49.centimetres possible as the front moves through.
:11:50. > :11:51.It clears northwards turning colder and drier.
:11:52. > :11:53.Behind it temperatures hovering around freezing with a frost
:11:54. > :11:56.Then that front moves back southwards across the UK tomorrow
:11:57. > :11:59.bringing a second wave of rain and some snow.
:12:00. > :12:02.Early frost and ice - a colder day brighter in the south
:12:03. > :12:07.more likely to see blustery, wintry showers in the north and that
:12:08. > :12:10.front extends across northern England bringing a mix of rain,
:12:11. > :12:14.sleet and some snow on higher ground.
:12:15. > :12:17.Showers to the north of it , brighter to the south .
:12:18. > :12:19.Moving very slowly southwards feeling raw in those brisk
:12:20. > :12:26.Just 5 Celsius in the north of Scotland, nine in the south of
:12:27. > :12:30.Deteriorating through the afternoon across Wales that wintry mix of rain
:12:31. > :12:34.and some snow for higher communities - a real windchill with gale force
:12:35. > :12:37.northerly winds along the coast later.
:12:38. > :12:39.That band of rain sleet and snow continues to clear southwards
:12:40. > :12:41.tomorrow night clear skies developing frost and ice likely
:12:42. > :12:48.A brief ridge of high pressure builds between these weather systems
:12:49. > :12:52.winds turn more northerly introducing Arctic air.
:12:53. > :12:55.A frosty start to the weekend a cold but largely dry, often bright
:12:56. > :12:57.Saturday, variable cloud - maybe the odd wintry
:12:58. > :13:03.Brisk northerly winds gale force again along the coast.
:13:04. > :13:06.highs of 6-8 Celsius with a real windchill.
:13:07. > :13:08.But fairly quiet and settled for the weekend lighter winds
:13:09. > :13:17.on Sunday, possibly a bit brighter but it'll stay cold throughout.
:13:18. > :13:24.It could cloud over late on Sunday and into Monday. I feel cold all
:13:25. > :13:29.Our next update will be at around 6.25 tomorrow morning in BBC