13/05/2016 BBC Wales Today

On tonight's programme: With the sun shining in Cardiff Bay,

Labour and Plaid Cymru say they're confident they can find a way

to appoint a new First Minister next week after a tied vote

And we're inside Tata's steel plant in Shotton, where staff

say they're optimistic, despite the company being for sale.

Not quite white smoke, but Labour and Plaid Cymru say

they're confident a First Minister will be appointed next week.

It comes after a day of talks over which of their leaders

On Wednesday, a vote by Assembly Members

ended in a surprise tie between Carwyn Jones

Here's our political editor, Nick Servini.

There may have been a holiday feel to Cardiff Bay on a relaxed Friday

afternoon, but inside one part of the Assembly at least it was far

The discussions lasted around four hours.

There were no details of what areas were covered and no interviews.

All we had to go on was a joint statement and as statements go

it was positive and clearly indicated that we can expect

It said, "We have had a number of meetings today and they have

We are confident we can find a way forward.

That will result in the successful nomination First Minister next week.

We will continue to work over the weekend and look to resume

The nomination of Carwyn Jones as First Minister was supposed

to have been a formality but Leanne Wood had the numbers

to successfully challenge because the Conservatives

and Ukip supported her, while Kirsty Williams

from the Liberal Democrats supported Carwyn Jones.

This has been a highly effective political ambush by Plaid Cymru.

We were supposed to have had Carwyn Jones in place by now

as First Minister and a full Labour Cabinet.

There is no new government and the best chance of getting one

In that sense, Plaid Cymru have put themselves in a much stronger

These are not formal coalition talks but Labour and Plaid Cymru did form

a coalition nine years ago when the former First

Minister Rhodri Morgan and Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones

led negotiations that lasted more than two months.

The former Plaid Cymru leader outlined how he

You needed a top line, which is what you would

like to achieve, and then you needed to have a bottom line below

My advice for anybody in those negotiations is to understand those

constraints and therefore to work within that.

Despite all the talk of cross-party deals this week at the Assembly,

And if these discussions are successful it would pave the way

Alun Michael was Labour's leader after the first Assembly elections.

He didn't have a majority either and knows exactly what it's

like to have the other parties ganging up on you.

When I saw the events in the Senedd this week I had a sense of deja vu.

Three parties that could only agree to be oppositional

towards the Labour Party and have nothing else in common and nobody

But it's a very difficult one to get out of.

It's been an extraordinary first week for the Assembly

charged with the murder of a soldier in Brecon.

Private Matthew Boyd was found unconscious

on Lion Street on Sunday morning, and died later in hospital.

23-year-old Jake Vallely from Brecon appeared alongside Aaeron Evans,

They were remanded in custody, to appear in court again next month.

A man from Swansea is recovering after he was attacked with chemicals

36-year-old Andrew Davies was on a stag do in Krakow

thought to be a cleaning product, at the group.

Mr Davies has been treated for third degree burns to his face,

The Foreign Office confirmed it's provided assistance to a British man

Police are investigating after a jet-skier deliberately tried

to ram a pod of dolphins off Tywyn in Gwynedd.

North Wales' Rural Crime Unit doesn't believe the man is local

and says such behaviour won't be tolerated.

Staff at the Tata Steel plant in Shotton say they're

optimistic about the future, despite the company being for sale.

More than 700 people work at the Deeside factory

which processes steel from the Port Talbot plant.

Managers say it's a profitable part of the business which is valued

Matthew Richards spent the day there.

Although it's got a long history, steel making at Shotton

is about developing innovations for the future.

It sells half a billion tonnes of metal a year,

which it coats with zinc to prevent rust and whatever colour

Customers from IKEA to the London shard.

What it lacks in size compared with Port Talbot,

This is a successful arm of the business.

It sells most of what it produces into the construction sector

and what has made it successful is the way it has been able

to differentiate itself from competitors over many years.

Around three quarters of what comes out of this plant is differentiated.

That means very few of our competitors can produce

For workers like April Wilkinson who has been here for 13 years,

the day job keeps her mind away from the boardroom discussions.

The fact we are running every day, we have got a full order book,

He says the knock-on effecst of closing the plant

I'm afraid it would kill the local community I would think

and that is just going to create other problems further down

the line for the Government, unless they try and give some kind

Steel has been processed here in Shotton for 120 years

and despite the uncertainty over the future, staff say they will be

producing a product that's in demand for a long time to come.

Boxing and Andrew Selby counts himself as the favourite

before his British flyweight title fight

in Cardiff's new Ice Arena tomorrow night.

His opponent, Louie Norman, was initially over the eight stone

limit, but returned and had to strip naked on the scales

Selby, the Barry born boxer, is preparing

A victory would make it the least number of fights a Welshman

A rugby rule book dating back to 1851 has sold

Called 'The Laws of Football as Played at Rugby School',

it's thought the book belonged to William Henry Waddington,

said it's the most valuable book they've ever sold.

Well, will the sunshine last into the weekend?

They will be sunshine this weekend but a bit of a chill

They will be sunshine this weekend tonight and turning cooler as we

head into the weekend. The good news is we can look forward to a lot of

dry weather, there will be sentient but Chile by night and we could see

a touch of crass frost as well. Tonight the cold weather front is

slowly sinking southwards and a bit of cloud with it but its stride.

Temperatures between five Celsius and 10 Celsius. Tomorrow, we do have

that cold weather front clearing and be hounded high-pressure taking

charge which will bring a settled day. We drag in cold air from the

north and that will take the edge of those temperatures. First thing

tomorrow a bit of a chilly start. This engine gets to work and it will

feel more pleasant as we head into the afternoon. For the rest of the

British Isles, we have a few showers further east but the bulk of the

country dry. The best of the dried and bright weather the further south

and west you are. A lovely afternoon for Wales tomorrow afternoon. We can

look forward to plenty of sunshine. Try and feeling cool compared to

last weekend when we saw temperatures get up to 25 Celsius.

Wins remaining life. A fairly quiet night. Light winds so we will see a

touch of Frost into the early hours of Sunday morning. These are the

temperatures in towns and cities. It will get lower than that in the

countryside. Then on Sunday a chilly start to our morning and we have

more sunshine on offer but by the afternoon we will see a bit of cloud

bubbling up. But still plenty of sunshine and it's another dry day.

So essentially a dry weekend with temperatures between 11 Celsius and

15 Celsius. Maude sunny weather on Monday and a few showers creeping in

to parts of Pembrokeshire. Our next update is at

5:20pm tomorrow evening. From all of us here,

have a good weekend.