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Welcome to Wales Today, our top stories: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
All smiles once in Plaid Cymru but they're not smiling now. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Tonight, party leader Leanne Wood on Dafydd Elis-Thomas quitting. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
He has been a semidetached member of the group, | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
so in practical terms, it is not going to make | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
that much difference, but it is sad that given he has put | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
so much into politics over so many years, | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
This is Esther Hoad growing up in Carmarthenshire in the 1970s. | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
Today the taxi driver who drove her to school | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
and abused her is finally sent to prison. | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
MPs hear claims that the Cardiff City manager - Neil Warnock - | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
asked players to pay him to get picked at a previous club. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
The Welsh Police force are encouraging drivers to send | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
And in the week marking 50 years since Aberfan, the | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Well, I can see the tables and chairs with the children sitting | :01:01. | :01:10. | |
in them and they were such a happy group of children, | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
It's the political divorce that has rocked Plaid Cymru but tonight | :01:13. | :01:35. | |
the party's leader has hit back at her former colleague | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas after he dramatically quit over | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Leanne Wood has told BBC Wales that a deal struck | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
with the Welsh Government over its forthcoming budget shows | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
just how co-operative Plaid can be in opposition. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Lord Elis-Thomas - for decades one of the most | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
recognisable figures in Welsh politics - is now sitting | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Here's our political editor, Nick Servini. | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, a former leader of Plaid Cymru with vast experience | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
within the party has never embraced the views of the current leader, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Leanne Wood. It was all smiles back in the month of May as Plaid Cymru, | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
fresh from the assembly election, became the second biggest party, but | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Dafydd Elis-Thomas became increasingly frustrated with Plaid | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
Cymru's robust stance against Labour. He believes it should be | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
more focused upon building another coalition, like the two parties | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
formed nearly a decade ago. Today Leanne Wood hit back at the | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
accusations levelled against her leadership. We have sought to be | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
constructive in our opposition, we have work to try and get our | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
manifesto priorities in. We have tried to influence the Welsh | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Government's responds to Brexit and we will continue to do that. But he | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
has been nothing but trouble for you, you must be glad to see the | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
back of him. The resin element of relief that I do not have to deal | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
with him now, but there is an element of disappointment and | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
sadness that it has had to come to this. Dafydd Elis-Thomas has become | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
one of the most recognisable faces in Welsh politics. Here, rubbing | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
shoulders with Anthony Hopkins. He has rejected claims he led his | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
constituents byes-mac let his constituents down having left the | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
party so soon after fighting the election for Plaid Cymru. I do not | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
understand what morality has to do with holding a by-election. The | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
constitutional argument, I have never seen one and I haven't seen | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
one in the last few hours. But the implications of this followed a far | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
greater than the internal relations of Plaid Cymru, it means that | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
pressured votes at the Senate are up for grabs. Following the assembly | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
election in the month of May, Labour were the biggest party with 29 | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
seats, they have since brought some Lib Dem Kirsty Williams into the | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
cabinet. But a passport and was expected to be made to negotiate | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
with Plaid Cymru, who had 12. The Conservatives have a live-in and | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Ukip at seven, but Dafydd Elis-Thomas and Ukip's Megan Gale | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
have become independents now. If the Labour Party can get in their | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
support, it effectively gives them a working majority. This decision | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
reduces the ability of Plaid Cymru to play hardball. They will not be | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
able to hold the governance to ransom because they have other | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
choices that they can now pursue. That said, Plaid Cymru have formal | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
mechanisms feeding into government decision-making, liaison committees, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
and could become a more important channel for influencing government | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
policy. All this talk of stiff opposition comes on the eve of one | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
of the big days of the year, budget day. Ironically, we learn tonight | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
that both the Labour Party and Plaid Cymru have agreed on a deal to get | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
the budget through. The first big test of the relationship, it has | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
been passed. What is the long-term impact of what | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
will happen? I think much depends upon the | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
relationship between New Labour Party and Plaid Cymru. That be the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
defining relationship in this assembly term. Remember, they are | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
not in coalition but they have set up committees to work together and | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
it would appear it is going well the moment. So we know that they have | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
agreed a budget and they will go through the details on that | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
tomorrow. I suppose the real impact could be when that relationship gets | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
sticky, because it does mean potentially that the Labour Welsh | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Government have an option to strike a deal with Dafydd Elis-Thomas, the | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
question then is, if it becomes a regular occurrence, what do they do? | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Try to lock him in and bring him into the government? That could be | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
difficult, they have already brought one Lib Dem in any form of Kirsty | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Williams. But there are other ways that you could potentially get his | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
support, Rhodri Morgan, the former First Minister mischievously | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
suggested that we could see one or two primary schools being built in | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
his local constituency. Thank you for that, Nick. | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
A committee of MPs has heard claims that the Cardiff City | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
football manager - Neil Warnock - made players pay | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
The allegations were brought up by Damian Collins MP | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
during a parliamentary inquiry into corruption in the sport. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
But in the past hour we've had a statement from Neil Warnock, | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
who says the allegations are utterly false. | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Tomos is at Cardiff City, what more can you tell us? | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
These claims surfaced two years ago when Warnock | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
Jason Puncheon - who played under Warnock at that club - | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
took to Twitter and called Warnock crooked and said he gives players | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
extra wages and appearance bonuses to make sure they pay him to get | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
into the team or for a place on the bench. | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
Puncheon, who has since deleted the tweets, was fined | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
?15,000 by the FA and apologised for his comments. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
This came as part of the inquiry into the governance of football - | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
MPs asked the FA why they had not contacted Puncheon to ask him why | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
The FA said it could only act on "hard evidence", not on comments | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
These are serious but unsubstantiated allegations | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
about one of the game's most experienced managers - | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Warnock - who took charge of his first match here three days ago - | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
didn't want to say anything today but it's understood | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
he feels the matter was dealt with at the time. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
But with any last hour he has come out with a statement telling us that | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
these allegations are completely false and said that the FA | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Commission considered all the evidence in detail in 2014 and found | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
that the allegations which were published about him were unfounded. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
He also said that he is disappointed that these allegations have been | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
repeated two years later. Please keep us posted, thank you. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
North Wales Police is appealing to drivers to submit | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
dashboard camera footage which shows dangerous driving. | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Dash cameras are becoming a popular way of recording traffic incidents, | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
The force has launched a webpage which makes it easier | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
This dashcam footage taken from all over the UK highlights some | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
From travelling the wrong way down a motorway, | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
to dangerous overtaking manoeuvres, and the most extreme road rage | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
from a dumper truck driver to this motorist who caused a crash | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
which left two young girls paralysed. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
North Wales Police say this is a vital tool | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
If people think twice, people do not want to take that risk just in case | :08:39. | :08:52. | |
someone might get in touch with us. I do not want people on the road | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
stating those risks, I am sick of putting people in body bags, it is | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
not nice and if this initiative can make one or two people think twice, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
happy days. The force has launched a webpage | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
which makes it easier It will then decide if an incident | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
is worthy of investigation and prosecution and will contact | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
the witness for a statement. Prestatyn driver Matthew Turner | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
never travels without his in-car cameras and has filmed | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
dozens of close calls. He was even a victim of road rage | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
while riding his bike. Is it clear, otherwise I will... I | :09:18. | :09:31. | |
think that those people will be and should be named and shamed they | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
should not be on the roads. The camera has helped me to provide the | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
evidence of showing people and showing them what they are doing. I | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
have the peace of mind knowing that I can focus on how other people are | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
driving but I have to draw in accordance with the law and the | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
rules of the roads, just like everyone else does. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
The first person to be convicted on the strength of dashcam footage | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
was in North Wales and this driver was banned for dangerous | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
driving on the A468 between Caerphilly and Newport. | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
The rise in the number of dashcam is means that more poor and dangerous | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
driving is being -- being recorded than ever before but it is being | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
disputed as to bother it is great for the public to take on the roll | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
usually done by the police and whether this footage can tell the | :10:20. | :10:20. | |
whole picture. The Institute of Advanced Motorists | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
says cameras shouldn't take the place of police officers | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
as they may not show the context But dashcams are relatively cheap | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
costing between ?50 and ?200. It's estimated they're in 9% of cars | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
so the message is - drive safely becuase you never know | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
who might be watching... The ex-boyfriend of a young mother | :10:33. | :10:46. | |
from Gwynedd has pleaded A 71-year-old man from | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
Carmarthenshire has been sentenced to three years in prison | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
for indecently assaulting Evan Heddwyn Jones was employed | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
by the local authority to take children to their nearest | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
bus stop in his taxi, Esther Hoad has waived her right | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
to anonymity so this programme can This was Esther Hoad as a young girl | :11:02. | :11:11. | |
growing up in rural south-west Wales. This film was captured in the | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
1970s. In the years that followed, a much darker chapter in her life | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
developed. Between the ages of 14 and 16, she was indecently assaulted | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
many times by a man twice her age. When the abuse were started, I just | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
felt wretched. I felt confused and guilty that I had somehow attracted | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
all of this unwanted attention to myself. From the onset and the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
escalation of the abuse, I just cringed in the school taxi every | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
time Evan Heddwyn Jones touched me or spoke to me. My feelings were | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
very much of guilt and self-loathing, confusion and being | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
powerless to allow this to happen to me. I felt I was to blame. Farmer | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Evan Heddwyn Jones was today sentenced to three years in prison | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
after he was convicted of four pounds of indecently assaulting a | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
child. The court heard that between 1976 and 1978, Evan Heddwyn Jones | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
was employed by the local authority to pick up children from their farms | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
in the local area and take them to the nearest bus stop. The Judge | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Keith Thomas said that Evan Heddwyn Jones took advantage of the | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
situation because his victim was the last drop of point on his journey. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
In the 1970s, Evan Heddwyn Jones operated a school taxi service on in | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
this area. The court heard that when he was alone in the vehicle with his | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
victim that he put his hands inside her clothing and touched | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
inappropriately. Esther has said that he taught others about what was | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
happening to her at the time but that nothing was done about it. The | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
police said the investigation relied on the strength of statements from | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
the victim and her diary entries which contained details of the | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
abuse. The impact that child sexual abuse has had on my life will never | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
go away, however. I mean, I live in the countryside and at the age of | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
504I still gag at the smell of silage. Following the sentence | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
today, is the's husband said he hoped it would bring closure for his | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
wife but that this would never go away. It has been with us from the | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
start of our relationship 28 years ago. She told me about it early on | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
and at times it has been devastating. Esther Hoad now lives | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
with her family and despite sharing her story, she did not want to | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
appear on camera. She wanted to show the fees instead of a young girl | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
that was abused and whose life was changed for ever by that experience. | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
Ben Price reporting. The ex-boyfriend of a young mother | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
from Gwynedd has pleaded 22-year-old Emma Baums' body | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
was found in her garden 25-year-old David Nicholas Davies | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
admitted the charge Arriving in court | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
earlier to admit murder. David Nicholas Davies only spoke | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
during the short hearing to say guilty when the | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
charge was put to him. Emma Baum was found dead at around | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
quarter to 11 on the morning of the 18th of July this year | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
in the garden of her Neighbours had described hearing | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
screams during the night before. Her family paid tribute | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
to her at the time of her death, describing the love that she had | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
for her two-year-old son. David Nicholas Davies has | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
now admitted murder. The prosecution barrister appealed | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
with him to work with the police over the next few weeks | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
and that is because he does not accept all of the prosecution's | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
version of events that night. He says he did not go to the house | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
that night intending to kill Emma Baum and he says he did not | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
take a murder weapon with him. The court heard his version | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
is that he used a crowbar All of these issues will affect | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
the sentence that he gets You are watching Wales Today from | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
the BBC. Much more to come before 7 o'clock: | :15:00. | :15:09. | |
9,000 cows have been killed this year so far as a result | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
of bovine TB. Farmers call for widespread | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
badger culling here. And how money spent | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
by Welsh Government flows from big building contracts | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
to lunch in the canteen. All this week, we're marking | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
the 15th anniversary of Aberfan. 116 children and 28 adults | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
lost their lives when an avalanche of coal waste crashed | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
onto the village primary school Many of those who survived have had | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
to deal with trauma, guilt and images that | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
will never leave them. Tonight, BBC One Wales | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
tells their stories It took just minutes for the coal | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
tip above Aberfan to slide down the mountain and crash | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
into Pantglas School below. 144 people died, 116 | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
of them were children. Now, 50 years on, people | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
from the village have helped to make a film, | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
telling the story of that day. Well, I was gasping for breath | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
because the air was getting less and less, but at least I had that | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
pocket of air, but the panic I think set in really - | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
how was I going to get out? "I'm sure that somebody is under | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
here," he was shouting. And when he dug out my son, | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
I could feel the air coming into me. Oh, it was something | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
out of this world. For six months, Steve Humphries | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
worked with villagers. Some speaking in public | :16:34. | :16:52. | |
for the first time. What I found to begin with was raw | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
emotion and I think in some ways when a stranger comes | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
in from outside and asks difficult Heti Williams was a | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
teacher at the school. This was where my classroom | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
was and on the anniversary I came back to the school and I can | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
still see the children in their classes, I can | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
feel my children around me. And you can think back to the days | :17:15. | :17:27. | |
when it was a lovely place. He set out, he says, | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
to document stories of survival, but what emerged | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
became more than that. The most extraordinary story | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
of all was of a fireman, Len Haggart, who saved the life | :17:36. | :17:44. | |
of a boy, Phil Thomas, but had never We could just not get him | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
out and then the water started to rush in and you | :17:48. | :18:01. | |
could hear the people And I know they lifted | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
that wall that day, And for the first time since that | :18:08. | :18:20. | |
day, they were reunited. Central to the whole story | :18:21. | :18:30. | |
of Aberfan, he found, was the young wives club, | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
set up by bereaved mothers. That made us feel a lot better | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
because we were all together doing things, you know, | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
helping one another out that way. We must have been about 60 women | :18:44. | :18:45. | |
and it was wonderful. The choir started after the disaster | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
as a way to help cope. It was humbling to meet them | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
and to be allowed into the community and to be told the stories and be | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
that the told them to me. So I feel really honoured to have | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
been allowed to do it. And you can see Surviving | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Aberfan on BBC One Wales Nearly 9,500 cows have been killed | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
in Wales this year so far Now on the eve of a big | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
announcement about new plans to tackle the disease, | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Wales' two biggest farming unions have called for badger | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
culling to be allowed here, as it is in parts of England | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
and Northern Ireland. But opponents say there's no | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
evidence it's effective. Here's our environment | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
correspondent, Steffan Messenger. Milking towels is how this man makes | :19:40. | :19:53. | |
his living but in recent months he has lost one tenth of the search to | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
TB. It is an illness that for decades has ruined livelihoods in | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
rural Wales. Leading to the slaughter of tens of thousands of | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
cattle. -- towels. It was horrible, the worst day of my life | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
that is horrendous, they are like a family. | :20:14. | :20:28. | |
They are not a number, it is heart-wrenching. Farmers like him | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
face annual testing and restrictions on moving cattle. Since the latest | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
measures were introduced in 2008, there has been a 37% fall in cases | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
of TB in Wales. But the problem is concentrated butter pie higher | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
incident levels here in West Wales and along the border with England. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cattle being slaughtered | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
in recent years which has caused alarm in farming circles. Much of | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
the debate has revolved around whether or not to cull badgers, they | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
can also carry the TB infection. A five-year trial to vaccinate them in | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
North Pembrokeshire was put on hold last year due to a global shortage | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
of the TB jab. Now, farming leaders have set a cull is the only option. | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
We have got an absolute vacuum in the last ten months since the | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
cancellation of the vaccination programme, so now there is a real | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
expectation that there will be a practical programme for improving | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
the situation. In England and Northern Ireland, badger culling is | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
being allowed in areas badly affected by TB, opponents have ever | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
claimed it is counter-productive. One leading ecologist who spent her | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
career studying how the disease is transmitted told me changes to | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
farming practices could be the answer. Because the TB bacteria can | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
survive in an environment for days, weeks or months, the infection is | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
still present, even if the animal that was infected has gone. That is | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
one of the reasons why TB is such a challenge to manage. The issue of | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
how best to tackle TB continues to divide opinion. The disease itself | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
is still causing real misery in rural Wales. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
Now, tomorrow the Welsh Government will announce how it plans | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
on spending your money for the next year and where it'll | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
It's got ?16 billion to play with - that's nearly 30% of the value | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Any change in spending is felt by private businesses too. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins has been looking | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
at how that money can make it's way into private | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
The latest section of the Heads of the Valleys Road, costing more than | :22:32. | :22:49. | |
?220 million. There are 450 people working on this site, but the | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
spending affects many more people than that. This is a very practical | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
example about how government spending can affect communities and | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
how public sector money becomes money in the private sector for | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
small businesses. If the government has more or less, that is felt | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
throughout all the different layers of the economy. The site is run by | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
the UK firm cost that and it works terribly for the Welsh Government | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
and contracts a number of smaller Welsh companies. The percentage that | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
we sublet to local contractors is about two thirds of the but we | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
subcontract. We try to encourage the employment of local and businesses. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
This is in addition to training up locally employed people as well. | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
This part of the project, to make the A4 56 Heads of the Valleys Road | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
a dual carriageway is very complex, as the takeaway rocks to mount in | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
the gorge. The earth moving is carried out by a company with | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
headquarters here. I have got in the region of 50 or 60 people working on | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
the job. 20 or 30 excavators and dump trucks, so it is a big project | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
for us in terms of our turnover. His company also pays other firms to | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
carry out some of the work and hires in extra machinery. At Cardiff | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
business School they are already working at the effect the road will | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
have on the Welsh economy. There are many contract is involved on that | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
and they themselves support for the contractor down the supply chain, so | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
you can clearly see that the main contractor that is employed, through | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
its activities as well, we'll support that economic activity in | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
the wider economy. The wages of the many hundreds working on the project | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
gets bent back in the local economy. For instance, they have to eat. | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
Steve has had his own small catering business here for years, he is now | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
flat out feeding the team on site. They get through 600 eggs each week. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
We are here from quota seven until half past two, we normally close | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
just after two o'clock. We start off with breakfast, a mid-morning break | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
and then onto lunchtime. Steve buys from local supermarkets and gets its | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
vegetables from a local supplier. And so the money that started in the | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
Welsh Government's offers clothes on. Tomorrow we will hear a brother | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
that flow will increase or slowdown in the near future. -- we will hear | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
whether that flow will increase. We've put the coins in Derek's meter | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
- here's two minutes of weather! Tomorrow is St Luke's Day | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
and around this time of year, warm weather is often called | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
an Indian summer. Temperatures today are around | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
average but tomorrow will be a few The air over us today has been | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
unstable with big towering clouds and heavy showers but with some | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
sunshine in between. There's also a few flood warnings | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
in force on the coast at the moment, mainly in south-east Wales due | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
to high astronomical tides caused The time of high water in Newport | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
is 8 o'clock this evening. The water level rises | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
to over 13 metres. This evening, clear spells | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
and scattered showers. And then after midnight a cold front | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
will bring more widespread rain. Breezy, especially on the coast, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
with lowest temperatures in Snowdonia dropping | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
to around 6 Celsius. By 8am in the morning the worst | :26:19. | :26:19. | |
of the rain will have cleared. Most of the country will be | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
dry bar a few showers. You may catch a passing shower | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
in the afternoon but most places remain dry with broken cloud | :26:26. | :26:37. | |
and sunny spells. Temperatures are lower than today | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
at 10 to 14 Celsius. much of the day will be | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
dry with some sunshine. In Conwy tomorrow, there will be | :26:47. | :26:56. | |
a shower in places although it is otherwise dry | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
with bright or sunny intervals. Tomorrow night a north-westerly | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
breeze will blow a few Some dry, clear weather | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
as well and chilly. Wednesday's chart shows low | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
pressure over Ireland. There's high pressure over Ireland | :27:18. | :27:19. | |
and that's heading our way. So, on Wednesday, a few | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
scattered showers. Some sunshine as well | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
with a dry end to the day. The outlook for the rest of the week | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
is dry and settled. Morning mist and fog patches | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
and chilly at night with frost Thank you for that. I will have an | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
update after the BBC News at ten. That's Wales Today, | :27:33. | :27:44. | |
thank you for watching, and from all of us on the programme, | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
have a good evening, goodbye. | :27:47. | :27:47. |