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voters. Join me now on BBC Two. 11pm in Scotland. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Our top stories - the UK Government will consider co-investing | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
with a buyer to save the Port Talbot steel plant and thousands | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
of jobs and Howard Marks - once one of the most | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
wanted men in the world - drug smuggler and author has died. | :00:17. | :00:36. | |
The UK government has for the first time said it would be willing | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
to co-finance a deal with a buyer for the Tata | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
There's still great uncertainty over the future of the plant - | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
which employs more than 4,000 people. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
TATA has officially put its UK steel operations up for sale today, | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
saying it has contacted "tens" of potential buyers. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
There have been many rumours as to who might be interested | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
In the Commons, Sajid Javid this afternoon said the UK | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Government will consider co-investing with a buyer on | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
commercial terms to save the steelworks in Port Talbot. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
The formal sales process begins today. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
I have been in contact with potential | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
buyers making clear that the government stands ready to help. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
This includes looking at the possibility | :01:31. | :01:31. | |
of co-investing with a buyer on commercial terms. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Describing the situation as the steel industry's biggest | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
operation up for sale today and says it has been | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
We will be open to all credible investment offers that we can see | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
So far only one company has expressed an interest in taking over | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
The owner of Liberty Steel, Sanjeev Gupta has suggested | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
that he wants to replace one of the blast furnaces with an electric | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
powered arc furnace to recycle scrap metal. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
The overall costs of running a blast furnace, electricity counts for | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
An arc furnace would use a higher percentage of electricity. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
An industrial-sized arc furnace can consumers | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
as much power as a town of 100,000 people. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
If a buyer is found, it is possible operations at | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Industry experts say above all this is down to the fact that | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
international steel prices have plummeted. | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Today however there has been some positive news for the | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
steel industry as Tata confirmed it had a buyer | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
This has given some hope for the future | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
of its other sites across the | :02:53. | :02:53. | |
The ladies and gentleman working at that steelworks are | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
amongst the most highly skilled in the country and we have every | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
confidence that the steel industry will keep on going and we will get | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
stronger and stronger, provided Tata act in a responsible way and give us | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Back in the House of Commons, the Business Secretary said he would | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
love to declare that the steel crisis was over, but he said it is | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
The leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies has | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
defended his party's plans to scrap university tuition fee subsidies | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
after admitting that students would receive less in future. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
He told BBC Wales' Ask the Leader debate tonight that he wanted | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
to remove the upfront cost for students instead. | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
Our political editor Nick Servini watched the debate. | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
How to fund university education is one of | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
the big dividing lines in the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Under the current system, students from Wales pay | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
around ?3800 towards their fees whenever they study in the UK. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
The Welsh Government can top up more than ?5,000. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
Many in Higher Education believe the current system is | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
unaffordable, as do all of the opposition parties | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
who want to scrap it, among them the Conservatives. | :04:12. | :04:20. | |
In the Ask the Leader debate in Swansea RT Davies outlined why | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
I am not someone who had free higher education. | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
I left school at 16 so | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
ultimately what I want to see is parity with vocational education | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
It is a fact if you have a degree, you will earn more in | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
The Welsh Conservatives are planning to replace the subsidiy | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
with a system that would pay half of Welsh students' rent wherever | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
But he admitted that overall the students would lose out. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
They would get less than they get now? | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Our package is ?400 million over the five years | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
of the Assembly and the current package of support is heading | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
A review into tuition fees subsidies has to be | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
carried out but Labour has pledged to keep it and ruled out means | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
Plaid Cymru said they would wipe off ?6,000 a year of debt for | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
students who return to Wales to work after graduation. | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
The Welsh Liberal Democrats will bring in extra | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
support for living coasts while Ukip says it will help those | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
whose study science, medicine, technology, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
The leader of Ukip in Wales, Nathan Gill has said - | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
he won't be releasing details of his tax returns. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Leaders of the other Welsh parties have said | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
they will reveal their details following David Cameron's | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Mr Gill has described it as political grand-standing. | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
Wales like the rest of the UK - has some of the worst | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
cancer survival rates in the developed world. | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
But a leading international expert suggests we could catch-up - | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
if big changes are made to the way patients are diagnosed here. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Professor Frede Oleson suggests Wales could copy Denmark - | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
which has made big changes to its cancer services. | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
The wife of the singer Sir Tom Jones has died | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Lady Melinda Rose Woodward - known as Linda - was married | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
The childhood sweethearts met when they were 12 in Trefforest, | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
Pontypridd and married when they were sixteen. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Sir Tom recently cancelled tour dates because of family illness. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
She died yesterday morning in a Los Angeles hospital - she was 75. | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
He was once one of the world's most wanted men - responsible for some | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
of the biggest cannabis deals of the 1970s and '80s. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
The death was announced today of the drugs smuggler Howard Marks - | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
In later life he became known for his writing and campaigning | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Howard Marks was the Oxford graduate who became one of the world's | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
A charming rogue and campaigner to some, to others he was the criminal | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
from Kenfig Hill who had spread drugs around the world. | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
In the 1980s, he was one of the world's most wanted men. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Changing identities and exploiting a network of influential contacts | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
to arrange international shipments of marijuana. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
But eventually, the law caught up with Dennis Howard Marks. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
What is being called one of the world's best drugs rings. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
A ring allegedly masterminded by a Briton, Dennis Marks, | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
A raid on his home in Spain in 1988 saw him extradited to America, | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
where he was eventually sentenced to 25 years in jail. | :07:48. | :07:56. | |
I still believe in the values that began to be instilled in me then, | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
which essentially is that marijuana is harmless. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
He was a model prisoner, prompting his early release in 1995, | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
I did not set out to be a dope dealer. | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
He wrote a bestselling book, Mr Nice, which was turned | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
into a film starring his long-time friend Rhys Ifans. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
I always knew Howard as the fun guy and the brave man who left prison | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
with humility and not a lot of apparent anger. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
Howard, you must have been in a few identity parades in your time. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
His own celebrity profile grew with appearances on chat shows. | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
He stood before Parliament on a single issue ticket | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
He also toured a one-man show, recalling life on the | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
In 2015, he revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
while writing a new book about his exploits but he did not | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
I have certainly suffered from regrets in the past. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
I do not regret now because I am happy now and it is impossible | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
About anything that got you to a stage of happiness. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Howard Marks leaves four children and a reputation as both a notorious | :09:15. | :09:26. | |
was criminal and a charismatic author and campaigner. | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
Football and talks are continuing between Swansea City and two | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
American businessmen about taking a controlling interest in the club. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
The Swans hope an agreement, reported to be worth up to ?100m, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
But with the majority of Premier League Clubs bankrolled | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
by foreign owners, is it good news for the Swans and their fans? | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
2001 and the Swansea City fans are out in protest. | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
In debt of over 800,000, the club was bought | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
It was during these turbulent times that the supporters | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
15 years later and playing in the top flight, Swansea | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
City have more or less secured a sixth season | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Set to prosper from the new ?5 billion TV deals for next season. | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
Having grown under the ownership of local | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
business people, there is the | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
sense the club needs fresh business investment to develop further. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
A new chapter in their history seems to be | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
coming in the form of the Americans Steve Kaplan | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
and Jason Levien who have background in American baseball and soccer. | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
With room for the supporters around the table. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
The indications are that the prospective | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
buyers are not looking to purchase any of the trust's 21%. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
We would be looking for assurances that that 21% | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
will remain and we will continue to have a presence on the club board. | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Overseas investors are obviously looking for a return | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
Will they be able to deliver the big returns | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
For fans high on the agenda will be plans to strengthen | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
the playing squad and the expansion of the relatively small 21,000 | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
But how the Americans plan to spend their | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Let's see what the weather has in store - Sue's | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
thank you. After some heavy rain, the better picture tomorrow. Drier | :11:39. | :11:53. | |
and brighter with a few showers. This front clears northwards, moving | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
north force across the UK. The rain will clear northwards, turning drier | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
and clearer. Some mist and fog patches forming and it will be | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
cooler. Patchy rain further north tomorrow morning. Mist and fog | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
generally cleaving to leave dry morning with spells of sunshine. | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
This front across Northern Ireland, Northern England and Scotland will | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
bring rain and cloud. Colder hear as well. Further south in the sunshine, | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
warming up nicely, 17 in London. Similar across Wales tomorrow | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
afternoon, generally drier afternoon with thunderstorms developing. Many | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
places will avoid them. Elsewhere sunny spells, 14 in Monmouthshire | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
with light winds. The show was slowly die away tonight, turning | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
clearer, mist and fog patches developing. There could even be | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
ground frost in places. For Wednesday a similar story, dry with | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
bright spells, dry with the odd shower. April showers as we head | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
into Thursday. By the end of the week you looks more unsettled, heavy | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
showers at times on Friday, looking unsettled for the weekends. | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
More on all of tonight's stories on our website. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Thank you for watching from all of us on the programme, good evening. | :13:25. | :13:30. |