0:00:00 > 0:00:01We are back with the late news at 10:25pm.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Good evening.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18The Welsh Conservatives say the only budget they would guarantee
0:00:18 > 0:00:21to protect would be the NHS if they win power in Cardiff Bay.
0:00:21 > 0:00:25The leader Andrew RT Davies says he'd like to see as much money
0:00:25 > 0:00:28going into public services as possible, but it would depend
0:00:28 > 0:00:32on the financial settlement from Westminster.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34From the Welsh Conservative conference in Llangollen,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36our Political Editor Nick Servini.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Tea and scones for Andrew RT Davis in the tea shop
0:00:39 > 0:00:41in Llangollen this morning.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43And it's bread-and-butter Welsh Assembly issues he wants
0:00:43 > 0:00:46the conference to be about, rather than the EU referendum,
0:00:46 > 0:00:50which dominated David Cameron's speech to the party faithful
0:00:50 > 0:00:53yesterday.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56In an interview for the Sunday Politics Wales programme,
0:00:56 > 0:00:59Mr Davies gave more details of some of the party's spending commitments
0:00:59 > 0:01:04if he becomes First Minister after the Assembly elections in May.
0:01:04 > 0:01:11I would like to see as much money going into public services
0:01:11 > 0:01:14as possible here in Wales, but it would be wrong of me at this
0:01:14 > 0:01:17stage to say that I can guarantee X, Y and Z other
0:01:17 > 0:01:20than the health budget.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22We can guarantee that the 500 million that we will receive over
0:01:22 > 0:01:25the five years of the Assembly will go into the Welsh NHS.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27The big question for the Conservatives is what would
0:01:27 > 0:01:30happen to the education budget if they were in government.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33And the reason for that is that five years ago, their former party leader
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Nick Bourne floated the possibility that it may have to be cut by up
0:01:37 > 0:01:39to 20% in order to ring fence health.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42And their political opponents have not let them forget it.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Despite the lack of a guarantee on anything other than health,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47the party insists that under its control, more money
0:01:47 > 0:01:51would be freed up for schools as a result of funding them directly
0:01:51 > 0:01:55rather than through councils.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59It also says there would be more cash available by scrapping Labour's
0:01:59 > 0:02:03university tuition fee subsidy.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06It's debates like these on public services Conservatives
0:02:06 > 0:02:09at the Assembly want to engage people in on the doorstep over
0:02:09 > 0:02:13the next two months.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16The question is whether they can amid a very noisy EU referendum
0:02:16 > 0:02:19campaign at the same time.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Nearly two tonnes of illegal tobacco and half a million illegal
0:02:23 > 0:02:25cigarettes were seized in Wales last summer.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28An initiative funded by the Welsh Government used tobacco
0:02:28 > 0:02:30sniffer dogs to help Trading Standards officers find
0:02:30 > 0:02:33tobacco which was counterfeit, illegally smuggled or on which duty
0:02:33 > 0:02:38had not been paid.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41There's a call for more to be done to improve the ethnic diversity
0:02:41 > 0:02:43of firefighters in Wales.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47Less than 1% of Wales' firefighters are non-white.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50According to Government figures, only 40 out of more than 4,000
0:02:50 > 0:02:52full-time firefighters in Wales are black
0:02:52 > 0:02:56and minority ethnic.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58The UK Government's Fire Minister, Mike Penning, says diversity is not
0:02:58 > 0:03:02an optional extra.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Rugby, and the second half of Wales' crunch Six Nations match
0:03:05 > 0:03:08against England is underway at Twickenham.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10It wasn't a good first half for the Welsh side
0:03:10 > 0:03:13with England's Anthony Watson touching down in the corner to score
0:03:13 > 0:03:16the first try of the match in the 31st minute.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19Owen Farrell had earlier booted his third penalty making
0:03:19 > 0:03:24the score at half time 16-0.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Football and all the big Welsh sides were in action this afternoon.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31On the back of two Premier League wins it was a loss for Swansea City
0:03:31 > 0:03:33playing Bournemouth, with a final score of 3-2.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Meanwhile in Cardiff it was a 1-0 win for
0:03:36 > 0:03:37the Bluebirds against Ipswich.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40In League 2, Newport were victorious against Portsmouth with a final
0:03:40 > 0:03:42score of 3-0.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44And Wrexham also won 1-0 against Boreham Wood
0:03:44 > 0:03:48in the National League.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49A look at the weather now.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Overnight, it will stay dry with variable amounts
0:03:51 > 0:03:53of cloud and light winds.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56There may be some hill fog or mist developing later in the night.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Top temperatures 3 Celsius.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Tomorrow will start rather cloudy, perhaps with patchy mist and fog.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05That should clear through the morning to leave plenty
0:04:05 > 0:04:10of sunshine, temperatures reaching 14 Celsius.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12That's all for now.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Garry Owen will be here with the all the news from around
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Wales tomorrow evening at 6.50pm.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19But from me and all the weekend team, goodbye.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37country. We have black and white, every
0:04:37 > 0:04:41Goodbye.