:00:00. > :00:12.The Welsh Government takes legal action -
:00:13. > :00:15.after a damning report into the biggest sale of public land
:00:16. > :00:21.And Assia Newton was stalked before she was killed - now police
:00:22. > :00:39.are to be trained to spot the dangers.
:00:40. > :00:43.The Welsh Government has confirmed tonight it's taking legal action
:00:44. > :00:46.against its former property advisors - after a damning report
:00:47. > :00:51.into the BIGGEST sale of public land in Wales in recent years.
:00:52. > :00:53.It says it's also referred Lambert Smith Hampton
:00:54. > :00:56.to its Professional Body - over its conduct in the case.
:00:57. > :00:58.The latest development follows a report by Assembly Members
:00:59. > :01:01.in January which said the taxpayers had lost tens of millions of pounds.
:01:02. > :01:10.Our Political Editor Nick Servini has the latest.
:01:11. > :01:12.Exactly four years after the sale of 15 publicly-owned sites
:01:13. > :01:20.In January a report by the Public Accounts Committee
:01:21. > :01:24.described the sale for ?21 million as cavalier and scandalous.
:01:25. > :01:27.The sites were sold without an open tender by the regeneration
:01:28. > :01:31.investment fund for Wales, a body owned by the Welsh
:01:32. > :01:33.government to a company based in currency called South Wales Land
:01:34. > :01:36.Developments, owned by one of the richest men in Wales,
:01:37. > :01:43.These included a site in the Vale of Glamorgan which was bought
:01:44. > :01:46.from the taxpayer for less than ?3 million.
:01:47. > :01:49.It has since been sold on for housing by South Wales Land
:01:50. > :01:57.Another was bought for ?100,000 for 1.9 million.
:01:58. > :02:04.And the so-called jewel in the crown in Lisvane on the edge
:02:05. > :02:07.of Cardiff was bought off the taxpayer for ?1.8 million.
:02:08. > :02:09.The report says it now has a potential open market
:02:10. > :02:14.A third of that will be paid back to the public purse
:02:15. > :02:17.in what is called a claw-back arrangement.
:02:18. > :02:20.The findings prompted the First Minister to
:02:21. > :02:25.publicly apologise to assembly members.
:02:26. > :02:28.The way that it was managed fell well below the standards we expect
:02:29. > :02:34.as a government and for that we are sorry.
:02:35. > :02:36.This has been a long-running saga which included an investigation
:02:37. > :02:38.by the Serious Fraud Office but came to
:02:39. > :02:40.nothing, internal enquiries and do report by the public spending
:02:41. > :02:43.watchdog, the Wales Audit Office, which identified a conflict
:02:44. > :02:49.of interest as one Lambert Smith Hampton employee had represented
:02:50. > :02:53.both the seller and the buyer at the same time.
:02:54. > :02:57.The Public Accounts Committee had recommended
:02:58. > :02:59.the Welsh government carefully consider action against Lambert
:03:00. > :03:04.Smith Hampton and a referral to its professional body the Royal
:03:05. > :03:11.Both recommendations have been taken up by ministers.
:03:12. > :03:13.And so we have another major development in
:03:14. > :03:19.For years, those who sold this land insisted it was a good deal and then
:03:20. > :03:22.we had a series of damning reports and a public
:03:23. > :03:24.Now the prospect of those involved slugging
:03:25. > :03:29.As the government tries to reclaim lost
:03:30. > :03:36.There has been no comment from Lambert Smith
:03:37. > :03:40.Hampton in response to today's developments.
:03:41. > :03:43.A man from Caernarfon has been found guilty of attempted murder
:03:44. > :03:45.after attacking his wife as she walked their children to school.
:03:46. > :03:50.Mold Crown Court heard Sylvan Parry, who's 46, punched his wife
:03:51. > :03:52.Fiona Parry to the ground and repeatedly kicked her.
:03:53. > :04:01.The planned M4 relief road could cost over a billion pounds.
:04:02. > :04:03.That's despite the First Minister, Carwyn Jones, saying last year
:04:04. > :04:06.that the cost would be much lower than that.
:04:07. > :04:10.New figures show the preferred route, South of Newport,
:04:11. > :04:13.would cost ?857 million to build - but factors such as buying land
:04:14. > :04:24.A new report has recommended that the body which distributes
:04:25. > :04:29.public money to Universities should be SCRAPPED -
:04:30. > :04:31.and replaced with a new organisation.
:04:32. > :04:33.A Welsh Government-commissioned review says a new 'Tertiary
:04:34. > :04:35.Education Authority' should REPLACE the Higher Education Funding Council
:04:36. > :04:38.The Education Minister says a decision will be made
:04:39. > :04:48.A national campaign has been launched to highlight the danger
:04:49. > :04:50.posed by people who stalk their EX-partners.
:04:51. > :04:53.The charity behind it - says the vast majority of women
:04:54. > :04:56.murdered by ex-partners will have been stalked beforehand.
:04:57. > :05:04.nearly 250 people reported suspected stalkers to police here.
:05:05. > :05:11.Jordan Davies has been to speak to a victim's sister.
:05:12. > :05:22.this is a sister, as you can seek to here was shaved off. She told us she
:05:23. > :05:24.had done it for a charity but we found in court that he had done it.
:05:25. > :05:26.Assia Newton was attacked regularly - by her husband
:05:27. > :05:30.After decades of abuse - she separated from Kelvin Newton.
:05:31. > :05:32.But he continued to turn up at her home unannounced.
:05:33. > :05:35.A few days before she was due to go on holiday.
:05:36. > :05:38.He turned up and strangled her with a dog lead.
:05:39. > :05:43.Now - her sister - Nadia Salaman believes Assia
:05:44. > :05:45.might still be alive - if Kelvin Newton's behaviour
:05:46. > :06:03.I would have thought stalking was a stranger outside your house, he was
:06:04. > :06:12.letting himself in the house, but he was unwarranted, she did not want
:06:13. > :06:17.him there, he was stalking. Perhaps if he had been arrested, it would
:06:18. > :06:19.have given my sister some breathing space, who knows what would have
:06:20. > :06:20.happened. New stalking laws were
:06:21. > :06:25.introduced in 2012 - campaign want more people to use
:06:26. > :06:30.them before it's too late. The charity says that over a recent
:06:31. > :06:33.two and a half year period - nearly 250 people reported suspected
:06:34. > :06:36.stalkers to Welsh police - The charity says many victims
:06:37. > :06:39.won't contact police until there have been
:06:40. > :06:48.over 100 incidents. A lot of the research has been
:06:49. > :06:53.published around stalking... Jane Monckton-Smith has written
:06:54. > :06:55.several books on The issue. And says the relationship
:06:56. > :06:57.between stalking and violence And that dangerous behaviour -
:06:58. > :07:06.can often be missed. The most dangerous form of stalking
:07:07. > :07:14.is that perpetrated by an ex-partner. Much more dangerous than
:07:15. > :07:18.stranger stalking. The research has come out of America showing that up
:07:19. > :07:19.to 90% of cases had stalking prior to the homicide.
:07:20. > :07:22.Nadia - who lives near Porthcawl - now realises there were warning
:07:23. > :07:31.She now wants people to report stalking sooner in the hope it'll
:07:32. > :07:35.Anglesey and Pembrokeshire County Councils have decided to charge
:07:36. > :07:38.owners of Second Homes - and long-term empty properties -
:07:39. > :07:44.Anglesey voted for a 25 percent extra charge,
:07:45. > :07:51.Meanwhile, Flintshire and Powys councils have already voted
:07:52. > :07:56.But critics say the hike could hit the tourism industry.
:07:57. > :08:03.We've got a huge issue with the service provisions we have
:08:04. > :08:05.to give to second homes and they contribute so little
:08:06. > :08:08.to funding those services but the priority must be to provide
:08:09. > :08:10.homes for our young people in particular in the county.
:08:11. > :08:13.First to rugby - and England's Manu Tuilagi
:08:14. > :08:17.is on the bench for the first time in nearly 2 years as Wales take
:08:18. > :08:18.on England in Twickenham this Saturday.
:08:19. > :08:21.Meanwhile, Wales forwards coach, Robin McBryde, says England has more
:08:22. > :08:27.of an edge - compared to when Wales beat them in last year's World Cup.
:08:28. > :08:29.They have got the bit between their teeth and created
:08:30. > :08:32.quite a bit of momentum in the first Six Nations.
:08:33. > :08:34.So they are sitting pretty and are not too far away
:08:35. > :08:43.from where they want to be I don't think.
:08:44. > :08:45.Football - Swansea City coach Francesco Guidolin
:08:46. > :08:50.insists his future remains at the club -
:08:51. > :08:52.despite an illness which means he'll miss a third game
:08:53. > :08:56.The 60 year old Italian has spent 5 nights in a London hospital
:08:57. > :09:00.And boxer Lee Selby returns to London to defend his IBF
:09:01. > :09:02.World Featherweight title next month.
:09:03. > :09:05.He'll be taking on the American, Eric Hunter, at the O2 Arena.
:09:06. > :09:08.29 year old Selby from Barry, first captured the World Title last
:09:09. > :09:16.People living in a village in Ceredigion say it's been split
:09:17. > :09:19.in half, after a historic bridge partially collapsed.
:09:20. > :09:23.The bridge in Llanfair Clydogau near Lampeter connects the village,
:09:24. > :09:26.but it was closed after part of it gave way at the weekend.
:09:27. > :09:35.It's stood in this village for over a century and half.
:09:36. > :09:37.But at the weekend the bridge in Llanfair Clydogau partially
:09:38. > :09:45.Now too unsafe to use it's closed and split the village in two.
:09:46. > :09:48.With half the village unable to get to the local shop unless the take
:09:49. > :09:54.a long detour it's quieter than normal.
:09:55. > :10:00.It has caused havoc in the village because their village that like the
:10:01. > :10:05.shoppers on one side and people live on the other side. It is three miles
:10:06. > :10:07.that way so it is seven miles round trip just to come to the shop.
:10:08. > :10:14.So with shop and post office on one side and the bus stop and village
:10:15. > :10:20.hall on the other I took the detour to see how long it'd take.
:10:21. > :10:30.It has taken me just over 25 minutes. I had to go into the
:10:31. > :10:36.village and in and out of two counties, no back into Ceredigion
:10:37. > :10:37.council is to it has taken me just under 25 minutes which would
:10:38. > :10:39.normally take two minutes. makes the drive to the shop daily
:10:40. > :10:54.to pick up his morning paper There was a plan in 2014 for a plan
:10:55. > :10:58.to fix the bridge. They did some blood and early work and then went
:10:59. > :10:59.to eat claiming there wasn't any money and there we have the bridge
:11:00. > :11:04.collapsed. -- went away. Engineers have carried out
:11:05. > :11:08.an inspection and the bridge But it's a listed structure
:11:09. > :11:12.so they are liaising with CADW and at the moment cannot say
:11:13. > :11:14.when it will reopen. So with the village split in two it
:11:15. > :11:17.looks like a frustrating wait Let's get the weather forecast
:11:18. > :11:30.next - here's Derek. Thank you. We enjoyed a taste of
:11:31. > :11:37.spring today. Look at that sky in Tenby, cleared and blue. Swansea one
:11:38. > :11:42.of the warmest places in the UK. There is plenty more dry weather to
:11:43. > :11:48.come over the next few days, thanks to high pressure. A dry story
:11:49. > :11:54.tonight, a few clouds and clear sky, turning cold with the widespread
:11:55. > :11:58.frost. Temperature could fall as low as minus three or minus four
:11:59. > :12:04.degrees. A cold and chilly start tomorrow morning, dry with plenty of
:12:05. > :12:10.sunshine. Close it in Monmouth and Newport, also cloud over Fishguard.
:12:11. > :12:15.Across the rest of the UK, a chilly start in England with four patches
:12:16. > :12:19.listing. A touch of frost, most places dry with sunshine. A
:12:20. > :12:25.different story for Northern Ireland and West Scotland, Renee in Belfast
:12:26. > :12:31.and Glasgow. Breezy as well with a high of eight Celsius in Newcastle.
:12:32. > :12:36.More cloud tomorrow in the afternoon but many places dry, still bright in
:12:37. > :12:40.places. Giving players and in the sunshine, at 211 Celsius on the
:12:41. > :12:48.north coast. Tomorrow night, drive for many of us. Perhaps a few spots
:12:49. > :12:51.of rain to the north-west. Not as cold as tonight. Temperatures
:12:52. > :12:56.remaining above freezing. Plenty of cloud on Saturday, perhaps a few
:12:57. > :13:02.spots of rain in the north-west. It should brighten up in the south with
:13:03. > :13:07.sunshine. It looks drive for rugby in Twickenham on Saturday afternoon.
:13:08. > :13:13.Hardly a breath of wind. High pressure for Sunday. That means more
:13:14. > :13:19.dry weather and that goes for next week. We had an thread I spelt
:13:20. > :13:22.change. Some sunshine, a chilly easterly breeze and cold enough
:13:23. > :13:23.overnight frost. There's plenty more on all our
:13:24. > :13:27.stories on our website. But for now that's Wales Today -
:13:28. > :13:30.thanks for watching - from all of us on the programme,
:13:31. > :13:32.nos da, goodnight.