12/03/2016 BBC Wales Today


12/03/2016

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We are back with the late news at 10:25pm.

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Good evening.

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The Welsh Conservatives say the only budget they would guarantee

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to protect would be the NHS if they win power in Cardiff Bay.

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The leader Andrew RT Davies says he'd like to see as much money

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going into public services as possible, but it would depend

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on the financial settlement from Westminster.

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From the Welsh Conservative conference in Llangollen,

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our Political Editor Nick Servini.

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Tea and scones for Andrew RT Davis in the tea shop

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in Llangollen this morning.

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And it's bread-and-butter Welsh Assembly issues he wants

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the conference to be about, rather than the EU referendum,

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which dominated David Cameron's speech to the party faithful

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yesterday.

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In an interview for the Sunday Politics Wales programme,

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Mr Davies gave more details of some of the party's spending commitments

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if he becomes First Minister after the Assembly elections in May.

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I would like to see as much money going into public services

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as possible here in Wales, but it would be wrong of me at this

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stage to say that I can guarantee X, Y and Z other

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than the health budget.

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We can guarantee that the 500 million that we will receive over

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the five years of the Assembly will go into the Welsh NHS.

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The big question for the Conservatives is what would

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happen to the education budget if they were in government.

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And the reason for that is that five years ago, their former party leader

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Nick Bourne floated the possibility that it may have to be cut by up

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to 20% in order to ring fence health.

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And their political opponents have not let them forget it.

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Despite the lack of a guarantee on anything other than health,

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the party insists that under its control, more money

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would be freed up for schools as a result of funding them directly

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rather than through councils.

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It also says there would be more cash available by scrapping Labour's

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university tuition fee subsidy.

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It's debates like these on public services Conservatives

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at the Assembly want to engage people in on the doorstep over

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the next two months.

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The question is whether they can amid a very noisy EU referendum

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campaign at the same time.

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Nearly two tonnes of illegal tobacco and half a million illegal

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cigarettes were seized in Wales last summer.

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An initiative funded by the Welsh Government used tobacco

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sniffer dogs to help Trading Standards officers find

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tobacco which was counterfeit, illegally smuggled or on which duty

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had not been paid.

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There's a call for more to be done to improve the ethnic diversity

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of firefighters in Wales.

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Less than 1% of Wales' firefighters are non-white.

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According to Government figures, only 40 out of more than 4,000

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full-time firefighters in Wales are black

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and minority ethnic.

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The UK Government's Fire Minister, Mike Penning, says diversity is not

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an optional extra.

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Rugby, and the second half of Wales' crunch Six Nations match

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against England is underway at Twickenham.

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It wasn't a good first half for the Welsh side

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with England's Anthony Watson touching down in the corner to score

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the first try of the match in the 31st minute.

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Owen Farrell had earlier booted his third penalty making

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the score at half time 16-0.

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Football and all the big Welsh sides were in action this afternoon.

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On the back of two Premier League wins it was a loss for Swansea City

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playing Bournemouth, with a final score of 3-2.

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Meanwhile in Cardiff it was a 1-0 win for

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the Bluebirds against Ipswich.

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In League 2, Newport were victorious against Portsmouth with a final

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score of 3-0.

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And Wrexham also won 1-0 against Boreham Wood

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in the National League.

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A look at the weather now.

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Overnight, it will stay dry with variable amounts

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of cloud and light winds.

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There may be some hill fog or mist developing later in the night.

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Top temperatures 3 Celsius.

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Tomorrow will start rather cloudy, perhaps with patchy mist and fog.

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That should clear through the morning to leave plenty

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of sunshine, temperatures reaching 14 Celsius.

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That's all for now.

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Garry Owen will be here with the all the news from around

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Wales tomorrow evening at 6.50pm.

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But from me and all the weekend team, goodbye.

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country. We have black and white, every

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Goodbye.

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