:00:00. > 3:59:59There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel.
:00:00. > :00:12.We are back with the late news at 10.
:00:13. > :00:16.Labour and Plaid Cymru have two wins each,
:00:17. > :00:18.in the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
:00:19. > :00:26.Turnout was much higher than in 2012.
:00:27. > :00:30.It is because voting took place on the same day as the Assembly
:00:31. > :00:31.election. But there were tens
:00:32. > :00:33.of thousands of spoiled or rejected ballot papers,
:00:34. > :00:35.as Ben Price reports. This was only the second Police
:00:36. > :00:37.and Crime Commissioner election to have been held
:00:38. > :00:39.and, throughout the day, counting has taken place
:00:40. > :00:42.in all four police force areas. Two new commissioners
:00:43. > :00:44.were expected in North Wales and in Gwent after
:00:45. > :00:45.independents, Winston Roddick and Ian Johnston,
:00:46. > :00:47.stepped down. So, Alun Michael returns
:00:48. > :00:49.for a second term in South Wales. electing former Assembly
:00:50. > :00:57.member Jeff Cuthbert. In North Wales, Plaid Cymru's Arfon
:00:58. > :00:59.Jones takes charge and Dyfed-Powys also welcomes a new face,
:01:00. > :01:01.Dafydd Llywelyn was chosen, ousting former Conservative
:01:02. > :01:06.PCC Christopher Salmon. It's a police service
:01:07. > :01:08.that I served for 13.5 years, as their head
:01:09. > :01:12.of intelligence analysis, and I am looking forward
:01:13. > :01:16.to the challenges ahead. The turnout for this police
:01:17. > :01:25.and crime commission election The turnout for this Police
:01:26. > :01:28.and Crime Commissioner election was much higher than it was in 2012
:01:29. > :01:31.and here, in the Dyfed-Powys area, it was more than 50%,
:01:32. > :01:33.making it the highest But tens of thousands of ballot
:01:34. > :01:37.papers were rejected, prompting calls for better
:01:38. > :01:38.publicity in future. It's ridiculous that that happens
:01:39. > :01:40.in Assembly elections, parliamentary elections,
:01:41. > :01:42.and even European elections, but it doesn't happen in the Police
:01:43. > :01:45.and Crime Commissioner elections, so those voters who wrote
:01:46. > :01:50.a complaint on their ballot paper, that they didn't know enough,
:01:51. > :01:52.they're quite right. The role of the PCC has
:01:53. > :01:54.been questioned by many, but it will be up to the four
:01:55. > :01:57.newly-elected Commissioners in Wales to prove their critics wrong
:01:58. > :02:01.in the weeks and months ahead. Police are investigating
:02:02. > :02:04.the unexplained death of a soldier found unconscious in Brecon town
:02:05. > :02:06.centre early this morning. There's nothing to indicate
:02:07. > :02:10.that the death was linked to extremism.
:02:11. > :02:14.Nick Palit reports. Scenes of crime officers have been
:02:15. > :02:17.conducting a fingertip search of a long stretch of Lion Street
:02:18. > :02:21.in the centre of Brecon. A forensic tent covers the spot
:02:22. > :02:29.where the soldier was found injured and unconscious at around
:02:30. > :02:31.1 o'clock in the morning. He was taken to hospital,
:02:32. > :02:33.but later died. Police are treating
:02:34. > :02:35.his death as unexplained. It's understood he was not wearing
:02:36. > :02:38.military uniform and there's nothing People in the town
:02:39. > :02:41.are naturally shocked. I saw police cars down
:02:42. > :02:45.there as I was leaving, but we didn't know anything
:02:46. > :02:48.at the time, I didn't know anything Shocking, absolutely
:02:49. > :02:51.shocking, yeah. Not very nice, isn't it?
:02:52. > :02:54.In our town. You know, it's a peaceful
:02:55. > :03:01.mid-Wales town. Police are appealing for any
:03:02. > :03:06.witnesses who were in the Lion Street area last
:03:07. > :03:08.night to come forward. In a statement, the Ministry
:03:09. > :03:10.of Defence said, "We are aware of an incident involving the death
:03:11. > :03:14.of a soldier in Brecon. Dyfed-Powys Police is investigating
:03:15. > :03:17.and it would be inappropriate to comment any further
:03:18. > :03:20.at the moment." Cardiff Council has denied claims
:03:21. > :03:29.that one of the city's secondary schools has a problem
:03:30. > :03:31.with Islamic extremism. A Sunday newspaper makes
:03:32. > :03:34.the allegations in an article, which it says was written
:03:35. > :03:36.by an unnamed former teacher Cardiff Council says the school
:03:37. > :03:41.is fully committed to safeguarding pupils, and works pro-actively
:03:42. > :03:47.on countering extremism. Labour will seek to form
:03:48. > :03:49.a minority government after Thursdays' Assembly elections,
:03:50. > :03:51.according to party Meanwhile, the Chairman
:03:52. > :03:56.of the Conservatives in Wales says the party here should focus
:03:57. > :03:58.on June's EU referendum, After 17 years in power
:03:59. > :04:05.in Cardiff Bay, many Labour sources were expecting to lose seats in last
:04:06. > :04:08.week's election, but as it turned out, the party successfully defended
:04:09. > :04:13.all of its most vulnerable seats. While losing Rhondda
:04:14. > :04:16.was clearly a blow, today Carwyn Jones said that,
:04:17. > :04:19.with 29 AMs, he has a mandate We had effectively, in the last
:04:20. > :04:31.Assembly, we had 36, -- We had effectively, in the last
:04:32. > :04:34.Assembly, we had 30 seats, And Carwyn was able to deliver
:04:35. > :04:38.a comprehensive, substantive programme of government by having
:04:39. > :04:40.discussions with other parties. And that will obviously
:04:41. > :04:42.need to continue. That cooperation will come
:04:43. > :04:44.at a price, but for one of Plaid's new faces,
:04:45. > :04:47.there is plenty of room to talk. We now should move forward
:04:48. > :04:49.on the small business rates policy, for example,
:04:50. > :04:51.where there is consensus across the board that we should be
:04:52. > :04:54.cutting those business rates, and childcare is
:04:55. > :04:58.another area as well. The Conservatives lost seats
:04:59. > :05:01.for the first time in Assembly elections, and there have been
:05:02. > :05:04.questions about the future of the party's leader
:05:05. > :05:07.in Wales Andrew RT Davies. But with a review already set up
:05:08. > :05:10.to look into what went wrong, and an EU referendum to fight,
:05:11. > :05:13.the chair of the party says now is not the time for
:05:14. > :05:17.a leadership contest. None of us wants to see a situation
:05:18. > :05:20.however in which the Conservative Party in Wales spends that five-week
:05:21. > :05:24.period arguing about who is leading Let's focus on dealing
:05:25. > :05:29.with the referendum issue first. with Mr Davies' future almost
:05:30. > :05:39.certain to be on the agenda. Well, after a day when Wales
:05:40. > :05:42.was hotter than Portugal in places, all areas will hold
:05:43. > :05:44.onto the sunshine at first tomorrow, but cloud will feed
:05:45. > :05:47.in from the south later on, That's Wales Today,
:05:48. > :05:57.I'll be back at 20 past 10.