:00:00. > :00:14.who died at Hillsborough say they're relieved the inquest has concluded.
:00:15. > :00:17.And after the Chernobyl disaster in the '80s the sale of livestock
:00:18. > :00:35.here was restricted, now an expert says that was probably unnecessary.
:00:36. > :00:41.The families of two football fans from Wales killed at Hillsborough 27
:00:42. > :00:44.years ago have expressed their relief that fresh inquests
:00:45. > :00:51.John McBrien from Holywell in Flintshire and Steven Brown
:00:52. > :00:54.from Holt near Wrexham were among 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death.
:00:55. > :00:56.After two years of evidence - the jury concluded they'd
:00:57. > :01:09.The inquest hadn't even concluded when relatives of those who died
:01:10. > :01:18.came together to sing Liverpool's famous anthem, with its lyrics
:01:19. > :01:21.about walking on through wind and rain with hope in your heart.
:01:22. > :01:24.It was a perfect summary of the struggle they've faced
:01:25. > :01:26.to bring out the full story of that day in 1989.
:01:27. > :01:29.Among the victims 18 year old John McBrien from Holywell.
:01:30. > :01:31.He'd travelled with the Deeside Liverpool Supporters Club
:01:32. > :01:33.and was looking forward to starting a course at the city's university.
:01:34. > :01:36.His mother learned today that he and 95 others
:01:37. > :01:37.were unlawfully killed because of failures
:01:38. > :01:42.by police to keep the crowd safe.
:01:43. > :01:51.I represented our family in the first inquest. I said on television
:01:52. > :01:59.the verdict should have been unlawful killing. Then, 1991. At
:02:00. > :02:01.last it is unlawful killing. That was an achievement.
:02:02. > :02:04.25 year old David Steven Brown, known as Steven from Holt
:02:05. > :02:07.near Wrexham was such a Liverpool fanatic he even bore a club tattoo.
:02:08. > :02:10.His brother and widow were at the inquest today but didn't
:02:11. > :02:14.Sarah Brown was six months pregnant with her daughter
:02:15. > :02:18.Also at the inquests in Warrington, Dean Harris from Newport survived
:02:19. > :02:20.the crush but witnessed its full horror.
:02:21. > :02:34.We have had to fight for this, we had to fight for every smile today,
:02:35. > :02:37.which has been earned. It has been earned by survivors, family and
:02:38. > :02:40.campaigners standing together all these years to get this verdict.
:02:41. > :02:42.The jury concluded that mistakes were made by South Yorkshire police,
:02:43. > :02:45.Charlotte Hennessey from Connah's Quay who's father
:02:46. > :02:48.James died at Hillsborough kept a video diary throughout
:02:49. > :03:00.The failure to close the tunnel upon opening the gate is the cause of the
:03:01. > :03:07.death of my dad and 95 other innocent people. It was not the
:03:08. > :03:09.fault of Liverpool fans. And now the world knows it.
:03:10. > :03:10.An independent police complaints commission investigation
:03:11. > :03:13.and a separate criminal inquiry will now help to decide
:03:14. > :03:23.The tension built up in the last 27 years got out in a flood of relief,
:03:24. > :03:29.through cheering, shouting and spontaneous singing. The families of
:03:30. > :03:33.the 96 victims have finally got the justice they have been fighting for.
:03:34. > :03:36.BBC Wales understands that plans to build a combined heat
:03:37. > :03:38.and power plant at South Hook near Milford Haven
:03:39. > :03:46.An email to Milford Haven Town Council earlier this month
:03:47. > :03:48.indicated that the company behind the project had cancelled the plans
:03:49. > :03:54.Around 600 jobs were expected to be created during construction.
:03:55. > :04:03.We rely on large jobs happening in the chemical and gas industry. A
:04:04. > :04:06.couple of months working on that is 12 months wages for somebody. When
:04:07. > :04:09.something of this magnitude is called off now, it hurts, it hurts
:04:10. > :04:13.the local economy. David Cameron has paid his first
:04:14. > :04:16.visit to the Port Talbot steel plant since Tata announced
:04:17. > :04:18.it was putting its UK During a meeting with senior
:04:19. > :04:21.executives and union officials, the Prime Minister talked
:04:22. > :04:23.through different options for supporting any potential rescue
:04:24. > :04:32.package for the industry. The announcement that Wales's
:04:33. > :04:34.largest coal-fired power station is to downgrade its operations
:04:35. > :04:36.will have an inevitable impact on opencast mining here -
:04:37. > :04:39.that's according to the operators From April next year,
:04:40. > :04:43.Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan will only generate
:04:44. > :04:44.electricity when it is needed Here's our Environment
:04:45. > :04:48.Correspondent, Steffan Messenger. By 1967 this industrial wilderness
:04:49. > :04:54.will begin to look like this... At the time it was built,
:04:55. > :04:56.Aberthaw was hailed as one of the most advanced power
:04:57. > :05:02.stations in the world. For over 40 years, this site
:05:03. > :05:05.near St Athen in the Vale of Glamorgan has been generating
:05:06. > :05:09.electricity from burning coal. It can supply around
:05:10. > :05:10.1555 megawatts of That is enough power
:05:11. > :05:18.to meet the needs of some But a fall in demand
:05:19. > :05:21.for coal-fired power, rising costs and energy regulations
:05:22. > :05:23.have combined to make keeping this place going a huge
:05:24. > :05:25.challenge They announced that from April next
:05:26. > :05:32.year this site will only be operational at times
:05:33. > :05:38.when the National Grid need a helping hand with extra supply,
:05:39. > :05:41.like in the winter months. Environmental campaigners
:05:42. > :05:42.predict this is the It is the third biggest source
:05:43. > :05:49.of nitrogen oxide emissions in all of Europe and it is also one
:05:50. > :05:51.of the biggest polluters in terms
:05:52. > :05:54.of mercury emissions in the whole of It is just a gargantuan polluter
:05:55. > :05:58.and its time has come and RWE says it is investing
:05:59. > :06:02.in new technology to help That will involve expanding the
:06:03. > :06:10.range of coal burned at the plant. We are looking at the production
:06:11. > :06:12.of coal in Wales coming I think that is still
:06:13. > :06:17.under discussion. Coal coming from other countries,
:06:18. > :06:21.coming in, people moving to mixing coal and biomass,
:06:22. > :06:23.there are lots of complex Of course if you burn
:06:24. > :06:28.different materials, Opencast mines in south Wales
:06:29. > :06:33.currently supply the vast majority of coal
:06:34. > :06:38.burned at Aberthaw. Miller Argent in Merthyr Tydfil
:06:39. > :06:41.and Celtic Energy, which mines near Neath said today
:06:42. > :06:44.they are considering the impact The future of around 600
:06:45. > :06:53.staff at contract jobs at expected things to become
:06:54. > :06:57.clearer by the autumn. 30 years since the world's worst
:06:58. > :07:00.nuclear accident at Chernobyl, in what is now Ukraine,
:07:01. > :07:04.an expert has told Wales Today that restrictions imposed at the time
:07:05. > :07:10.on the sale of livestock here, Radioactive caesium fell in rain
:07:11. > :07:15.on North Wales and restrictions on farms in the affected area
:07:16. > :07:18.were only completely lifted The death toll of Chernobyl
:07:19. > :07:26.is still argued over. The world's worst nuclear accident
:07:27. > :07:31.still divides opinion. Here in Wales what we do know
:07:32. > :07:41.is yes, radioactive caesium did fall in rain about one week after
:07:42. > :07:44.the explosion and the radiation levels here in North Wales on some
:07:45. > :07:47.farms was high enough Restrictions which were to
:07:48. > :07:50.remain in place for more Some people were saying
:07:51. > :07:55.that it is nothing to worry about and it will be over
:07:56. > :07:58.in two or three weeks... Glynn Roberts had to cope
:07:59. > :08:02.with restrictions for a whole Almost a working lifetime,
:08:03. > :08:05.with the added burden Public confidence in their
:08:06. > :08:18.product, lamb, had to be The most important thing
:08:19. > :08:21.here is that we do supply the households with the best lamb
:08:22. > :08:24.and safest lamb in the world. And by doing this for the last 26
:08:25. > :08:26.years I It has made more work
:08:27. > :08:31.for us but that is work, The regime involved
:08:32. > :08:36.radiation testing. caesium were not allowed
:08:37. > :08:41.to enter the food chain. Were the restrictions
:08:42. > :08:45.really necessary? Some scientists say
:08:46. > :08:48.our understanding of the dangers of what they say are low
:08:49. > :08:54.levels of caesium has changed. Professor Gerry Thomas
:08:55. > :08:56.of Imperial College researches We never had a nuclear
:08:57. > :09:04.accident like that before. I think it was sensible at the time
:09:05. > :09:07.to be cautious. learn from what we now know
:09:08. > :09:14.about the science 30 years later and say actually,
:09:15. > :09:17.caesium is not really something we could be that
:09:18. > :09:19.concerned about and we've from the Chernobyl area,
:09:20. > :09:22.where people have been following it now for over 30 years and it looks
:09:23. > :09:26.like there is nothing to be seen. The monitoring ended when the last
:09:27. > :09:28.restrictions were lifted There are those who argue scientists
:09:29. > :09:32.like Gerry Thomas are too Others believe sheep
:09:33. > :09:35.on the Welsh uplands should continue to be
:09:36. > :09:39.checked for radiation. When you come to low levels
:09:40. > :09:42.of radiation, there is very think, with time,
:09:43. > :09:48.and we will only see in the next generation
:09:49. > :09:49.and the generation after that whether there
:09:50. > :09:51.are significant effects to be Around Chernobyl they are
:09:52. > :09:58.still working to contain the damaged reactor and nearby,
:09:59. > :10:00.homes, schools and communities 30 years on, there and here,
:10:01. > :10:04.the accident is still Scarlets centre, Scott Williams,
:10:05. > :10:14.will undergo a fitness test on Thursday, as he battles to make
:10:15. > :10:17.a come-back for his region's all-important clash
:10:18. > :10:21.against the Dragons. Saturday's game is part
:10:22. > :10:23.of the so-called Judgement Day, when the Blues also face the Ospreys
:10:24. > :10:27.at the Principality Stadium. Williams hasn't played
:10:28. > :10:29.since he suffered a leg-injury in Wales' World-Cup
:10:30. > :10:30.victory over England. But the Scarlets' Head Coach
:10:31. > :10:32.believes his return Obviously he's going to be
:10:33. > :10:42.a bit rusty if he does It has been a long time
:10:43. > :10:50.since he played rugby World Cup. Certainly we would love to get him
:10:51. > :10:54.out there and he is training well. He has one more test on Thursday,
:10:55. > :10:57.passing that, he will be There is a very strong
:10:58. > :11:00.argument that he will be. Snooker and in the quarter finals
:11:01. > :11:13.at the World Championships He has just been knocked out by Ding
:11:14. > :11:15.Junhui. He was defeated 13 frames to three frames.
:11:16. > :11:18.Our election tour of Wales has been travelling the country over the past
:11:19. > :11:21.ten days gauging your opinions about issues that matter near you.
:11:22. > :11:28.Our tour of Wales leaves Brecon and heads to
:11:29. > :11:31.We then head on to Merthyr and on Friday
:11:32. > :11:34.Join us on Wales Today lunchtime at 1:30 and 6:30 in
:11:35. > :11:39.Time for a look at the weather now - and Sue, it's looking
:11:40. > :11:49.It is for some of us. It is cold with sunny spells and wintry
:11:50. > :11:54.showers. Even some snow and hail. Overnight winds continue feeding in
:11:55. > :11:57.some showers. More likely further west. Snow on high ground, drier
:11:58. > :12:03.further eased with some overnight frost. Subtle changes tomorrow with
:12:04. > :12:07.northerly wind which brought Arctic air going more westerly, bringing
:12:08. > :12:13.Atlantic air with the weather system pushing in later. Tomorrow, a cold
:12:14. > :12:16.start with some frost and scattered showers, some wintry. Across the UK
:12:17. > :12:20.the best of the drier and brighter weather further eased. Showers
:12:21. > :12:26.pushing in on the north-westerly wind. A wintry mix of rain, sleet
:12:27. > :12:30.and snow. Particularly colder further north, seven Celsius in the
:12:31. > :12:38.Highlands and a more springlike 12 where it is brighter, longer further
:12:39. > :12:41.south. Blustery wind. We lose the raw wind but Tab which is still in
:12:42. > :12:45.single figures, seven Celsius here and nine in Cardiff. -- but
:12:46. > :12:53.averages. Pushing from the West tomorrow night. When trees no on
:12:54. > :12:57.high ground. -- temperatures. Rural frost patches. Thursday, cold with
:12:58. > :13:02.sunshine and showers, some wintry and heavy at times with brisk
:13:03. > :13:08.westerly wind. I'm settled influences bringing low-pressure. --
:13:09. > :13:13.not settled. Wet and windy overnight. A mix of sunny spells and
:13:14. > :13:16.showers in the next couple of days. Rain overnight Thursday into Friday.
:13:17. > :13:19.Less cold heading into the weekend. We'll be back with all
:13:20. > :13:22.the latest in Breakfast But for now from everyone
:13:23. > :13:25.on the programme, thanks for watching,
:13:26. > :13:28.nos da, goodnight.