:00:00. > :00:08.Our top stories tonight: A four-year-old boy has died
:00:09. > :00:11.in a house fire in Pontardawe - his mother and three
:00:12. > :00:19.Police and the fire service are investigating.
:00:20. > :00:22.The latest on the Swansea woman who claims she's been imprisoned
:00:23. > :00:25.And hitting new targets - we're out with paramedics
:00:26. > :00:42.as the latest ambulance response times are released.
:00:43. > :00:46.A four-year-old boy has died in a house fire in the village
:00:47. > :00:51.Firefighters managed to rescue Jac Davies from an upstairs bedroom
:00:52. > :00:55.in the early hours of this morning, but he died at the scene.
:00:56. > :00:58.His mother and three siblings all escaped.
:00:59. > :01:00.The cause of the blaze is being investigated
:01:01. > :01:07.Our reporter, David Grundy, has the latest.
:01:08. > :01:11.All day people have been leaving tributes outside the family's home.
:01:12. > :01:15.Emergency services were called at 1:40am this morning.
:01:16. > :01:17.The children's mother, Jennifer, managed to escape
:01:18. > :01:20.with her six-year-old daughter and her 11-month-old son.
:01:21. > :01:24.But her two other boys were still inside the house.
:01:25. > :01:26.The fire broke out just after 1:30am this morning.
:01:27. > :01:29.Jennifer Davies and her three children, two boys and a girl,
:01:30. > :01:33.Neighbours using ladders had to rescue four-year-old Jac
:01:34. > :01:46.While they were taken to hospital for treatment of the effects
:01:47. > :01:48.of breathing in smoke, he sadly died here at the scene.
:01:49. > :01:51.Too upset to speak, Jac's mother wrote her tribute calling him her
:01:52. > :01:55.The note continues, "You're my life, my world, my everything.
:01:56. > :01:57."Go ride your train up to heaven and wait for me."
:01:58. > :02:03.Always talkative, had everything going for him.
:02:04. > :02:14.But a joint investigation by the police and Fire
:02:15. > :02:19.At this point in time, the fire investigation is ongoing.
:02:20. > :02:21.Until we get the report from the officers we
:02:22. > :02:37.But we will be a reassuring the statement as soon as we know
:02:38. > :02:39.from the investigating officers what the possible cause is.
:02:40. > :02:42.It's believed the house was fitted with smoke detectors and they may
:02:43. > :02:45.have raised the alarm to help Jac's mother, sister and baby
:02:46. > :02:48.Without those alarms this tragic fire could have been even worse.
:02:49. > :02:51.The High Court has been asked to come to the aid
:02:52. > :02:54.of a 21-year-old woman from Swansea, who claims to have been imprisoned
:02:55. > :02:58.He's believed to have taken Amina al-Jeffery, who was once a pupil
:02:59. > :03:00.at Olchfa Comprehensive School, to the city of Jeddah
:03:01. > :03:12.Tonight, one of her friends told us she was very popular at school.
:03:13. > :03:20.She was a bubbly girl. She never kept herself to herself. She got
:03:21. > :03:27.along with people. Had plenty of mates in school. Nothing out of the
:03:28. > :03:34.ordinary, just a normal teenage girl. As far as parting ways at the
:03:35. > :03:37.end of school, that was the normal thing, really. To find out today now
:03:38. > :03:43.everything that has gone on since we have left school is gobsmacking,
:03:44. > :03:44.really. I had to double-check that it was the same person.
:03:45. > :03:46.A fire involving rubber panels, which caused disruption in Cardiff
:03:47. > :03:48.city centre this evening, was started deliberately.
:03:49. > :03:51.Black smoke was seen over Callaghan Square and some nearby
:03:52. > :03:55.South Wales Fire and Rescue service say around 60 people called them
:03:56. > :04:02.Plaid Cymru has asked the Welsh Government to explain why
:04:03. > :04:05.it believes that holding the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Wales
:04:06. > :04:10.would cost twice as much as the 2014 event in Glasgow.
:04:11. > :04:13.Yesterday, ministers said a Welsh bid was not feasible,
:04:14. > :04:15.after a study revealed costs of between ?1.3 and
:04:16. > :04:20.The Welsh Government said the figures were "based
:04:21. > :04:31.The ambulance service in Wales has turned a corner and is "getting
:04:32. > :04:33.better," but continues to face big challenges as demand increases.
:04:34. > :04:35.That's according to Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething.
:04:36. > :04:37.The latest figures for June show the service responded
:04:38. > :04:40.within eight minutes to over 77% of life-threatening 999 calls -
:04:41. > :04:42.its best performance since new targets were introduced last
:04:43. > :04:55.Our health correspondent Owain Clarke has more.
:04:56. > :04:57.His years of experience means paramedic Mr Roberts knows
:04:58. > :05:01.And that helps when a call like this comes in.
:05:02. > :05:12.I've joined him in a rapid response car that can easily weave in and out
:05:13. > :05:17.Tom, a former aircraft engineer, has fallen.
:05:18. > :05:18.Right, are you more comfortable now that
:05:19. > :05:25.She was worried he'd knocked his head.
:05:26. > :05:28.After the checks, all agree Tom doesn't need to go to hospital.
:05:29. > :05:31.I didn't call for back-up, so the emergency ambulance that
:05:32. > :05:35.might have come is now at a higher priority call.
:05:36. > :05:38.But had this happened last year, an ambulance or even several may
:05:39. > :05:42.well have been sent in an effort to arrive within eight minutes.
:05:43. > :05:44.But now that target's been scrapped for all but immediately
:05:45. > :05:50.The Ambulance Service Director of Operations explains why.
:05:51. > :05:53.We could have invested tens of millions of pounds in hitting
:05:54. > :05:57.But it wouldn't have made any difference to patients
:05:58. > :06:01.because we know that around 20% of our previous red patients weren't
:06:02. > :06:06.Our system previously categorised calls as potentially
:06:07. > :06:10.life-threatening and that was a very vague term.
:06:11. > :06:13.Since the new system came into force in October, far fewer 999 calls have
:06:14. > :06:17.been classified as needing an eight minute response.
:06:18. > :06:19.In June last year under the old system, the target applied
:06:20. > :06:26.In June this year it was for just over 1,500 incidents.
:06:27. > :06:29.For all other calls the Ambulance Service is given more
:06:30. > :06:33.The smaller number of calls that you have to get
:06:34. > :06:35.to within eight minutes, theoretically, the easier
:06:36. > :06:42.However, it's really, really important that we do get
:06:43. > :06:48.What we've been able to demonstrate it we can get to a lot more
:06:49. > :06:50.of the calls for those people that have immediately life-threatening
:06:51. > :06:54.conditions than we were ever able to before.
:06:55. > :06:56.Critics have previously described all of this
:06:57. > :06:58.as a dangerous experiment - an attempt by the Welsh Government
:06:59. > :07:03.But supporters claim the new system gives far more information
:07:04. > :07:12.not just about speed, but also about quality of care.
:07:13. > :07:14.For example, between January and March, ambulance crews spent
:07:15. > :07:16.22,000 hours stuck outside A departments waiting
:07:17. > :07:20.And there are differences across the country in how many 999
:07:21. > :07:23.calls end up with patients being treated in hospital.
:07:24. > :07:26.But, overall, the Health Secretary argues that the Ambulance Service,
:07:27. > :07:29.so often in the news for the wrong reasons, is now firmly
:07:30. > :07:33.I'm really encouraged by the fact there's been
:07:34. > :07:36.lots of honesty in the data about what the Ambulance Service
:07:37. > :07:38.does well and what it doesn't do so well.
:07:39. > :07:40.And also to see quality and improvement acting
:07:41. > :07:46.Not just to say, "Here challenges, don't blame us."
:07:47. > :07:53.But, "Here are challenges and this is what we will do about them."
:07:54. > :07:56.Back in the rapid response car, we hear a child has been injured
:07:57. > :07:59.This is an eight minute call and we pull out
:08:00. > :08:04.But before we arrive it turns out to be a false alarm.
:08:05. > :08:06.For some emergencies, speed is critical.
:08:07. > :08:11.But according to this paramedic, the trick is to know when.
:08:12. > :08:15.The cost of covering overtime payments for consultants at Welsh
:08:16. > :08:19.hospitals has gone up by over 60% in the last three years.
:08:20. > :08:30.shows that the total bill went from more than 5 million
:08:31. > :08:32.pounds in 2013 to 2014 to more than ?8 million
:08:33. > :08:36.The Welsh Government says it's working to recruit more consultants,
:08:37. > :08:37.and is addressing specialist shortages.
:08:38. > :08:40.It's a large amount of money, let's be honest about this.
:08:41. > :08:43.But what these figures do reflect is the lack of consultants able
:08:44. > :08:52.We know, for instance, that in May 2016 just gone,
:08:53. > :08:54.the demand for new referrals to outpatients and clinics has gone
:08:55. > :09:01.up by about 4% compared to just one year ago.
:09:02. > :09:03.The number of young people trespassing on the railways in Wales
:09:04. > :09:06.has increased by almost 20% percent over the past year
:09:07. > :09:09.according to British Transport Police.
:09:10. > :09:12.They say the problem is at its worst in the summer months,
:09:13. > :09:14.when days are longer and children are off school.
:09:15. > :09:22.These shocking pictures reveal a number of close calls for people
:09:23. > :09:24.trespassing on the tracks, including the following
:09:25. > :09:35.They were lucky - Victoria Swift wasn't.
:09:36. > :09:39.The 14-year-old from Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham,
:09:40. > :09:41.died after being hit by a train near a pedestrian rail crossing
:09:42. > :09:45.Her family can't understand why anyone would risk their
:09:46. > :09:51.When we lost Victoria it took a long, long time to just...
:09:52. > :09:55.Well, I wouldn't even say we still normal today.
:09:56. > :09:59.Still today we have days where we wonder why.
:10:00. > :10:02.You see her friends having babies, getting married.
:10:03. > :10:05.We just think what would she be doing now?
:10:06. > :10:07.And all because she went on a railway track.
:10:08. > :10:21.If she'd have just gone there she would still be here.
:10:22. > :10:25."Do we really want to put my family through that?"
:10:26. > :10:28.Victoria Swift died in 2007, but it wasn't until last
:10:29. > :10:30.year that this crossing was finally closed.
:10:31. > :10:32.This will protect young people living in this area,
:10:33. > :10:34.but there are fears the message isn't getting across everywhere.
:10:35. > :10:37.British Transport Police say there's been a 19% rise in trespass
:10:38. > :10:39.incidents in the summer months with longer days and warmer
:10:40. > :10:42.There were 128 reported cases of trespass last summer
:10:43. > :10:44.in Wales alone, 20 more than the previous year.
:10:45. > :10:47.Make sure that your child knows the dangers of going
:10:48. > :10:53.That they understand the dangers of going onto railway tracks.
:10:54. > :10:55.And if, for example, they're playing nearby
:10:56. > :10:58.and a football went on to the lines by accident, would they know
:10:59. > :11:03.Would they go running on the tracks to retrieve their football,
:11:04. > :11:05.or would they know to stand back and to contact British
:11:06. > :11:09.Most of those caught on the railways tell police
:11:10. > :11:13.But as many families are painfully aware,
:11:14. > :11:18.Now it's taken five years to build using a team
:11:19. > :11:21.of 1500 workers and today, an iron age farmstead
:11:22. > :11:23.was officially unveiled at the National History Museum at St
:11:24. > :11:28.The original thatched roundhouses would have stood on Anglesey,
:11:29. > :11:30.2,000 years ago and could have housed a tribal chieftan
:11:31. > :11:41.The weather forecast for Wales now with Derek.
:11:42. > :11:48.It turned out nice today, with some sunshine this afternoon. But it's
:11:49. > :11:53.all change again tomorrow. Low pressure bringing some rain clearing
:11:54. > :11:56.two showers. Dry for tonight, some clear spells, but later in the night
:11:57. > :12:01.brain will start to cross the Irish Sea with some spots on the far north
:12:02. > :12:05.and west of Wales. Tomorrow morning, the East will start off dry. Right
:12:06. > :12:09.for a time but it will not last. Being in the West will spread
:12:10. > :12:12.eastwards during the morning, being accompanied by low cloud, mist and
:12:13. > :12:16.market conditions. Across the rest of the UK and eastern England will
:12:17. > :12:19.have a dry and bright morning, but rain in the West will spread
:12:20. > :12:23.eastwards during the day. Should brighten up in the South later in
:12:24. > :12:26.the afternoon but with one or two heavy showers. Right in the north of
:12:27. > :12:30.Scotland tomorrow with some sunshine. Also some showers. Breezy
:12:31. > :12:35.on the south and west coast tomorrow through the English Channel with a
:12:36. > :12:38.high of 22 Celsius in London. That will feel monkey. Wales tomorrow
:12:39. > :12:43.afternoon turning drier and brighter. A bit of sunshine but some
:12:44. > :12:49.showers as well. Breezy on the Bristol Channel coast and the top
:12:50. > :12:54.temperature 21 Celsius in Monmouth and fuelling monkey. Some dry
:12:55. > :12:58.weather tomorrow evening and then later more in the way of rain and
:12:59. > :13:05.drizzle and another mild, Monty night. The rain and drizzle were
:13:06. > :13:08.clear away tomorrow and then drier and brighter weather will spread out
:13:09. > :13:12.from the north with some sunshine turning pressure. Into the weekend,
:13:13. > :13:16.the wind will come from the west or north west and that will bring some
:13:17. > :13:21.cooler, fresher air with it from the north Atlantic. The weekend only
:13:22. > :13:23.make out a shower but a lot of dry weather, sunny spells and watch out
:13:24. > :13:24.for some cold nights. We'll have updates in breakfast
:13:25. > :13:26.from 6.25am tomorrow morning. From everyone on the late team,
:13:27. > :13:30.thanks for your company.