:00:00. > :00:00.Spy planes targeting ISIS, a multi-million pound deal
:00:00. > :00:08.for military surveillance aircraft secures jobs in Flintshire and hopes
:00:09. > :00:23.There's a strong market across the world for that capability and I
:00:24. > :00:35.think we are well placed here in North to provide that.
:00:36. > :00:38.The family of Miriam Briddon from Ceredigion, killed
:00:39. > :00:41.by a drink-driver, are in Downing Street handing
:00:42. > :00:47.in their petition calling for tougher sentences.
:00:48. > :00:50.They've been selling flowers in Pontypool market for generations.
:00:51. > :00:52.A new report looks at how to revitalise communities
:00:53. > :01:06.I remember coming in here when I was a really little girl. It was so busy
:01:07. > :01:13.here then. I come in and it's disheartening when no one thing
:01:14. > :01:17.here. All of this can have food poisoning bacteria on. And concerns
:01:18. > :01:25.over an increased risk of E. Coli with a growing trend for burgers
:01:26. > :01:28.served rare. And Wales's Valley to Rally GB get started in North Wales.
:01:29. > :01:33.They are the spy planes at the front line of surveillance
:01:34. > :01:35.against so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
:01:36. > :01:37.Tonight a ?130 million deal has secured Welsh jobs to maintain
:01:38. > :01:44.Raytheon based at Broughton in Flintshire says North Wales
:01:45. > :01:46.is now well placed for further expansion into Intelligence
:01:47. > :01:57.This is the view from the cockpit of the Raytheon Sentinel,
:01:58. > :02:01.the RAF's eye in the sky over Iraq and Syria.
:02:02. > :02:05.The plane can fly for nine hours at a time, at 40,000 feet.
:02:06. > :02:09.Surveying the land below using high-tech radar equipment.
:02:10. > :02:14.It's helping to pinpoint a terrorist in the Middle East.
:02:15. > :02:17.It's here in north-east Wales that engineers maintain the planes
:02:18. > :02:20.which have their instruments and electrics installed
:02:21. > :02:26.The fleet of five sentinels were due to be scrapped,
:02:27. > :02:29.but in last year's UK Government's Strategic Defence Review
:02:30. > :02:34.A decision that has secured 40 highly skilled jobs here,
:02:35. > :02:38.and around 120 across the rest of the UK.
:02:39. > :02:41.It's great to be here in North Wales at Broughton to announce
:02:42. > :02:46.a ?135 million contract to sustain the centre now
:02:47. > :02:50.here at Raytheon and ensure that this really capable aircraft
:02:51. > :02:54.which provides an eye on the sky for our Armed Forces is going to be
:02:55. > :03:02.Raytheon have been in business here for 20 years.
:03:03. > :03:04.The company took over the Hawker jet company,
:03:05. > :03:07.and move production to the United States but bosses
:03:08. > :03:10.were so impressed with the quality of the workforce that the company
:03:11. > :03:17.Engineers here are in the process of servicing one of the fleet
:03:18. > :03:21.Today's news means that staff of all ages can have some job
:03:22. > :03:28.We're going to be here for however long, I can still learn.
:03:29. > :03:31.Move around different areas and get to know the aircraft.
:03:32. > :03:36.And Shannon and her colleagues could see their workload
:03:37. > :03:38.increase if the company can sell its high-tech
:03:39. > :03:43.The market itself, I think, is a very strong market
:03:44. > :03:48.for ISR, the intelligence for reconnaissance platforms.
:03:49. > :03:50.There is a strong market across the world for that
:03:51. > :03:54.I think we are well placed here in North Wales
:03:55. > :03:59.This entire area is controlled by Islamic State.
:04:00. > :04:02.Last year the BBC gained exclusive access on board one of the centre
:04:03. > :04:06.now planes as it flew in nine hour mission over Iraq and Syria looking
:04:07. > :04:14.John Skipper spent most of his 35 year military career working
:04:15. > :04:18.in intelligence and was involved in developing the Sentinel.
:04:19. > :04:23.He says it's a very valuable in modern warfare.
:04:24. > :04:31.It can image in very high definition what is going on on the ground.
:04:32. > :04:33.Enemy troop movements, and enemy positions.
:04:34. > :04:37.Particularly effective in Afghanistan, or certainly
:04:38. > :04:40.against Isis where you're trying to identify a small pocket
:04:41. > :04:46.of very quickly moving and difficult targets to acquire.
:04:47. > :04:48.Today's investment will assure that these planes are fit
:04:49. > :04:52.for the skies above the Middle East for years to come.
:04:53. > :04:56.Thanks, in no small part, to a highly skilled workforce some
:04:57. > :05:06.A Pembrokeshire engineering company has gone into administration.
:05:07. > :05:10.Main Port Engineering opened a new manufacturing site last March
:05:11. > :05:13.with ?650,000 support from the Welsh Government
:05:14. > :05:19.with the aim of creating 30 jobs and safeguarding the then
:05:20. > :05:23.The company was served with a petition to wind
:05:24. > :05:33.We will have more just after the ten o'clock news.
:05:34. > :05:35.The family of a young woman from Ceredigion,
:05:36. > :05:37.killed by a drink-driver, have taken their 100,000 name
:05:38. > :05:39.petition to Downing Street to call for tougher sentences.
:05:40. > :05:42.The motorist who killed Miriam Briddon will spend just two
:05:43. > :05:46.The government say they will hold a review into driving offences
:05:47. > :05:50.From Downing Street, Aled Scourfield reports.
:05:51. > :05:53.It's been a long, painful journey for the family of Miriam Briddon's
:05:54. > :05:57.since she was so tragically killed near Ciliau Aeron in March 2014.
:05:58. > :06:00.Today the journey took them from their home in Ceredigion
:06:01. > :06:03.to the gates of Downing Street in their battle for tougher
:06:04. > :06:06.penalties for drivers that kill after drink-driving.
:06:07. > :06:10.Not only have we been fully supported by our local community,
:06:11. > :06:13.that's kept us going for the last two and a half years.
:06:14. > :06:20.We've been supported across the whole of the UK.
:06:21. > :06:23.We're very proud to be here to present this petition
:06:24. > :06:27.on behalf of ordinary families like ourselves.
:06:28. > :06:32.Miriam was just 21 when her Fiat Punto was struck by a car
:06:33. > :06:35.being driven by Gareth Entwistle, seen here hiding his face outside
:06:36. > :06:39.He pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving whilst under
:06:40. > :06:44.He was sentenced to five and a half years in prison,
:06:45. > :06:47.but his sentence was cut by six months on appeal.
:06:48. > :06:50.He'll serve just two and half years in jail.
:06:51. > :06:53.Miriam's family have led a campaign for tougher sentences
:06:54. > :06:58.And almost 110,000 people have now signed a petition supporting
:06:59. > :07:00.them, which was handed into Prime Minister Theresa
:07:01. > :07:05.A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice told me the Government
:07:06. > :07:08.is determined to make sure that sentencing fits the crime for people
:07:09. > :07:12.who killed or seriously injure others on our roads.
:07:13. > :07:14.The consultation on road offences and penalties will be launched
:07:15. > :07:20.Miriam's family told me they are hopeful they will be
:07:21. > :07:22.a change in line to light of the tragic story.
:07:23. > :07:26.It's very hard to put into words the feeling of being here today.
:07:27. > :07:31.We've worked hard for 11 weeks now, and we're handing this over
:07:32. > :07:38.Quite frankly, there has to be a change.
:07:39. > :07:41.We have to get to the point when a sentence fits the crime.
:07:42. > :07:44.People need to understand that drink-driving is not an accident.
:07:45. > :07:48.It is a choice people make with tragic implications.
:07:49. > :07:52.I think the Government are mindful, we need, those of us campaigning
:07:53. > :07:54.on this issue with the Briddon family, need to hold
:07:55. > :07:57.The Briddon family say they will continue to fight
:07:58. > :08:00.for tougher sentences despite their daily battle to deal
:08:01. > :08:08.The UK Government says it's looking at whether there should be
:08:09. > :08:11.a change in the law, in the wake of the Ched Evans case.
:08:12. > :08:13.The Welsh footballer, who now plays for Chesterfield,
:08:14. > :08:15.was cleared of rape in a re-trial earlier this month.
:08:16. > :08:18.Labour has condemned the decision to allow the jury to hear the sexual
:08:19. > :08:23.The Attorney General says this isn't "routinely used", but
:08:24. > :08:29.A 23-year-old man has denied murdering his girlfriend in Cardiff.
:08:30. > :08:33.Xixi Bi,who was 24, died at a property on Ely Road
:08:34. > :08:38.Jordan Matthews, who's from Llandaf, was remanded in custody and is due
:08:39. > :08:46.Ms Bi grew up in China, and had moved to the UK to study.
:08:47. > :08:49.A teenager has been sentenced to four years behind bars,
:08:50. > :08:51.after attempting to rob a village post office near Newport
:08:52. > :08:55.with an imitation gun wrapped in a plastic bag,
:08:56. > :08:58.and dressed in a smart suit and balaclava.
:08:59. > :09:02.19-year-old Kane Wannell fled the Basaleg post office where there
:09:03. > :09:07.were several elderly customers after the postmaster fought back.
:09:08. > :09:10.Major infrastructure projects such as the M4 relief road and Metro
:09:11. > :09:13.will offer "little" to some communities, despite costing over
:09:14. > :09:16.?1 billion in public money, and the promise
:09:17. > :09:22.A wide ranging report suggests that towns in the South Wales Valleys
:09:23. > :09:24.would benefit more from having higher-skilled jobs,
:09:25. > :09:29.so people would earn more and spend more locally.
:09:30. > :09:33.The report concentrates on the town of Pontypool in Torfaen,
:09:34. > :09:37.from where our economics correspondent Sarah
:09:38. > :09:41.The entrance to Pontypool Park, a reminder of past glory.
:09:42. > :09:44.But for decades here, like many other Welsh towns,
:09:45. > :09:51.The indoor market has been refurbished, helped by EU cash,
:09:52. > :10:05.The market, like the town, is not thriving.
:10:06. > :10:07.The bulk of the work that is above minimum wage
:10:08. > :10:11.Lots of people within the town work minimum wage,
:10:12. > :10:17.As seen in London the report says the haves and the have-nots
:10:18. > :10:23.It argues those struggling can be drizzly forgotten and big economic
:10:24. > :10:27.projects can fail to touch communities in need
:10:28. > :10:30.like this one, a mile from Pontypool town centre.
:10:31. > :10:33.What's it going to do for those broader communities,
:10:34. > :10:36.in particular of Pontypool that are so far distant from
:10:37. > :10:42.The prospect of using that infrastructure to commute to work
:10:43. > :10:44.in the big cities of Wales and beyond seems a very
:10:45. > :10:51.It's in this part of the town that families are struggling most.
:10:52. > :10:53.It's only a mile from the centre of Pontypool that you can
:10:54. > :10:58.As you drive up, a few streets away large houses with big bay
:10:59. > :11:08.Here's 75% of children under four are living in poverty.
:11:09. > :11:10.The average income is ?16,000 a year.
:11:11. > :11:19.Reducing poverty is a priority for the Welsh government and Torfaen
:11:20. > :11:23.It hopes the Cardiff Capital Region wil help.
:11:24. > :11:26.It can really bring the scale and ambition to the
:11:27. > :11:35.If we really worked together I think we can combine that skill
:11:36. > :11:39.with the local knowledge we bring to the table.
:11:40. > :11:41.Getting ready for a day of inspiring children
:11:42. > :11:45.with extra money from, among others, the Welsh government.
:11:46. > :11:49.It's proud of low unemployment across Wales and says it's
:11:50. > :11:52.developing a new strategy to support economic growth in all communities.
:11:53. > :11:56.Its recently set up a valleys task force.
:11:57. > :11:58.The Welsh government says investment is at record
:11:59. > :12:04.In Pontypool the report says those who are more affluent are earning
:12:05. > :12:09.and spending their cash outside the town.
:12:10. > :12:12.The challenge is to grow higher paid jobs in town.
:12:13. > :12:17.And there are positive signs, and old pub transformed,
:12:18. > :12:20.new flats above, and a creative space for businesses below.
:12:21. > :12:22.People will then grow outside this space.
:12:23. > :12:25.Eventually they get bigger and they may take up
:12:26. > :12:29.It means they can stay living in Pontypool.
:12:30. > :12:31.It means they don't have to go to Newport or Cardiff.
:12:32. > :12:38.Theyll buy their bacon sandwich in the market.
:12:39. > :12:41.Beth White is the fourth generation of her family to sell
:12:42. > :12:44.I remember coming in here when I was really little.
:12:45. > :12:48.Obviously my mam had the stall and it was so busy then.
:12:49. > :12:55.The report argues that if you can get more people with money
:12:56. > :13:03.spending it in the town, that's good for people like Beth.
:13:04. > :13:08.So what does this report suggest about other parts of Wales?
:13:09. > :13:15.I think the detail of what we see in Pontypool is something that will
:13:16. > :13:20.touch a nerve with a lot of people across Wales. Inward investment has
:13:21. > :13:24.been a policy of successive governments for a long time. The
:13:25. > :13:28.idea of attracting jobs in industrial parks and building good
:13:29. > :13:32.roads to them so people can get there. The Government is right, we
:13:33. > :13:38.have more inward investment and higher levels of employment.
:13:39. > :13:42.Unemployment is below the UK average, but if you look at
:13:43. > :13:46.Pontypool, I think lots of us know a town like that where people are
:13:47. > :13:51.living and earning decent wages, but they are not working in the town
:13:52. > :13:55.they live in and not spending money in that town either. In tall vine
:13:56. > :14:02.about 40% of people don't even work in county. They commute. The
:14:03. > :14:06.argument in this report is that with technology and the way people work
:14:07. > :14:09.now you don't have to be in the same office as your colleagues and you
:14:10. > :14:10.can bring the life back into towns. Thank you.
:14:11. > :14:13.There's concern tonight that relaxing food hygiene rules around
:14:14. > :14:15.serving rare beef burgers could lead to an increased risk
:14:16. > :14:20.Demand for gourmet or premium burgers, served rare or medium,
:14:21. > :14:22.has increased and experts say, while the risks are low,
:14:23. > :14:27.serving under cooked burgers is a risk to public safety.
:14:28. > :14:34.The humble burger, staple of the roadside van,
:14:35. > :14:40.And increasingly being offered as a premium option
:14:41. > :14:46.The sector has grown rapidly, the UK burger bar market is now
:14:47. > :14:51.estimated to be worth over ?3.2 billion, up 22%
:14:52. > :14:58.But it's how well you cook the burger which is causing much
:14:59. > :15:00.debate, as the current trend is to offer high-end burgers cooked
:15:01. > :15:04.We're at Coleg Gwent's catering department,
:15:05. > :15:11.There'll be bacteria on the outside of the meat,
:15:12. > :15:14.and on the meat as it's been handled and gone
:15:15. > :15:22.It's not been killed by high-temperature throughthorough
:15:23. > :15:24.cooking, it's just been warmed up a little bit, which actually
:15:25. > :15:33.We would expect to see, for a properly cooked burger,
:15:34. > :15:40.So this is a burger that's been properly cooked all the way through.
:15:41. > :15:45.Responding to the trend, the Food Standards Agency has been
:15:46. > :15:48.looking at how meat can be made safer for the industry to serve
:15:49. > :15:52.rare, but environmental health experts here say it can't be done.
:15:53. > :15:54.One of my concerns with rear burgers is that someone could get
:15:55. > :15:57.E.Coli food poisoning, and someone could die
:15:58. > :16:04.Right now we can't stop people offering their burgers,
:16:05. > :16:07.if the business can absolutely guarantee that there is no risk
:16:08. > :16:12.at all from the burgers that they serve rare,
:16:13. > :16:18.My concern, the concern of the chartered Institute
:16:19. > :16:20.of Environmental Science, is that nobody can guarantee that.
:16:21. > :16:23.It's impossible to give that guarantee.
:16:24. > :16:25.In fact, the Welsh Food Advisory Committee,
:16:26. > :16:27.which advises the FSA's board, also disagreed with
:16:28. > :16:33.I would hope that we take the opportunity to rethink the
:16:34. > :16:45.Although I'm quite happy to recognise that it was arrived
:16:46. > :16:49.at with the best intentions I don't think it's the best position
:16:50. > :16:55.Here in Wales memories are all too fresh of the E.Coli outbreak
:16:56. > :17:00.of 2005, which killed a five-year-old boy.
:17:01. > :17:03.The man who chaired an enquiry into that outbreak has called
:17:04. > :17:06.on the FSA to reconsider the relaxation of rules
:17:07. > :17:11.and heed the advice of their scientific advisers.
:17:12. > :17:13.Many of us, including myself, and I know experts
:17:14. > :17:16.from Wales as well lobbied the Food Standards Agency not to go
:17:17. > :17:18.down this route and not to, basically, relaxed the system
:17:19. > :17:23.they had in place for many years which worked very satisfactorily.
:17:24. > :17:30.Why change it just because of a change in public fashion?
:17:31. > :17:37.I'm not saying that they've been giving into commercial pressure,
:17:38. > :17:39.that you could say that's what it looks like.
:17:40. > :17:41.The Food Standards Agency says their advice is clear,
:17:42. > :17:44.serving burgers less than thoroughly cooked remains unacceptable,
:17:45. > :17:47.unless a business can provide evidence to their local authority
:17:48. > :17:55.However, FSA advice when cooking burgers at home is that burgers
:17:56. > :17:57.should be cooked all the way through, no pink meat,
:17:58. > :18:13.And high pressure building as we head into the weekend,
:18:14. > :18:19.Engines are to be ready. We gear up for the start of Wales Rally GB in
:18:20. > :18:21.mid and North Wales. And high pressure building
:18:22. > :18:23.as we head into the weekend, looking settled, but not necessarily
:18:24. > :18:25.that bright, a full A group of dentists and doctors
:18:26. > :18:33.from South Wales is going to the so-called Jungle in Calais
:18:34. > :18:35.this weekend to give medicine and clothing to people who've
:18:36. > :18:41.been living at the camp. French officials cleared the site
:18:42. > :18:44.this week and migrants have been moved to centres across the country,
:18:45. > :18:47.but the group believes there are still people
:18:48. > :19:02.in the area who are in need. It was once home to around 8000
:19:03. > :19:06.people. Very close to the Calais ferry terminal they were desperate
:19:07. > :19:10.to come to the UK. French police moved in this week to move migrants
:19:11. > :19:15.to other facilities. Some slept without shelter last
:19:16. > :19:20.night, activists on the ground worn many will simply return here after
:19:21. > :19:25.clearance work is done. Groups of volunteers from Wales have
:19:26. > :19:30.visited Calais frequently for the past year. Ali is a dentist chair
:19:31. > :19:33.income brand, part of the latest group to offer help.
:19:34. > :19:37.Despite thousands of people being moved to other homes there are
:19:38. > :19:41.hundreds still there. The only difference being their accommodation
:19:42. > :19:44.has been decimated. He was inspired by another dentist
:19:45. > :19:49.from Cardiff who visited the so-called jungle camp last year.
:19:50. > :19:54.He had lines queueing around him last year. He literally had got a
:19:55. > :19:59.caravan, attached it to his car and was driving around doing all the
:20:00. > :20:03.work he could possibly do. Sometimes people have problems they don't know
:20:04. > :20:07.about. This can cause significant loss of quality of life.
:20:08. > :20:11.They will take medical supplies and money with them.
:20:12. > :20:16.It is basic humanitarian aid for me. I'm not concerned with the politics
:20:17. > :20:21.of who wants to come to the UK. These people all deserve basic care
:20:22. > :20:26.and aid which, unfortunately, in the jungle is not being provided. As
:20:27. > :20:31.refugee centres they will tell you, the living conditions are poor. We
:20:32. > :20:37.just want to help our fellow man. That is my philosophy. They were
:20:38. > :20:42.temporary shelters built by people who had very little. Some now appear
:20:43. > :20:46.to have even less. Ali hopes that practical help with the right some
:20:47. > :20:48.relief as a long-term solution to the crisis seems a distant hope.
:20:49. > :20:50.Students and staff at Swansea University were evacuated
:20:51. > :20:51.earlier after a potentially hazardous chemical
:20:52. > :20:57.The emergency services were called to the Singleton campus shortly
:20:58. > :21:03.It's understood that steps are being taken to safely remove
:21:04. > :21:06.the chemical and the Health and Safety Executive
:21:07. > :21:11.I think most people were surprised it wasn't a drill.
:21:12. > :21:19.This is the one time it isn't a drill.
:21:20. > :21:23.They scanned the building to make sure no one was there.
:21:24. > :21:28.At least half the campus are away, if not at home.
:21:29. > :21:30.The latest radio listening figures show the audience
:21:31. > :21:33.for BBC Radio Cymru has fallen to its lowest level this century.
:21:34. > :21:37.101,000 people tuned in between July and September,a drop of 2,000
:21:38. > :21:40.compared to the previous three months.
:21:41. > :21:44.Meanwhile, Radio Wales increased its audience
:21:45. > :22:01.to 340,000, attracting 7,000 additional listeners.
:22:02. > :22:05.So how will the weather be looking for the event over the coming days?
:22:06. > :22:09.A bit mixed over the next 24 hours, there is some rain heading
:22:10. > :22:12.into parts of North West Wales, misty but mild and often cloudy
:22:13. > :22:15.This evening starts dry, some clear spells further south,
:22:16. > :22:17.but cloud thickening and that patchy rain pushing into
:22:18. > :22:24.That rain further north comes from this cold front, also bringing
:22:25. > :22:27.thicker cloud tomorrow, but it retreats back northwards
:22:28. > :22:30.as high pressure starts to build in from the south later in the day.
:22:31. > :22:34.Some mist and fog first thing tomorrow.
:22:35. > :22:37.Slowly lifting, that mainly patchy rain and drizzle in the north
:22:38. > :22:46.Some limited brightness later, light winds,mist and fog reforming
:22:47. > :22:51.But still quite mild for late October at 12C in Gwynedd,
:22:52. > :22:57.Some improvements as we head into the weekend, that high pressure
:22:58. > :23:00.continues to build from the south keeping things relatively settled,
:23:01. > :23:03.but quite a gloomy high with a lot of cloud around.
:23:04. > :23:11.A lot of low level cloud, and just a light breeze allowing
:23:12. > :23:14.a fair amount of mist and fog to develop overnight.
:23:15. > :23:17.Temperatures won't drop away too much staying in double
:23:18. > :23:24.A misty, murky start to Saturday, quite cloudy, but where we get
:23:25. > :23:28.the breaks in the cloud southerly winds will make it feel quite mild
:23:29. > :23:35.Through the weekend, high pressure drifts
:23:36. > :23:40.It should still be should be dominant enough to block weather
:23:41. > :23:43.systems from coming in, but always the north and west more
:23:44. > :23:49.So often overcast but mild as we head into the weekend,
:23:50. > :23:51.which looks mainly dry and settled, but could be quite cloudy.
:23:52. > :23:55.The cloud thick enough for some rain and drizzle.
:23:56. > :23:58.When the suns breaks through, feeling pleasantly mild
:23:59. > :24:01.although where the sky is then clear overnight it will turn chilly
:24:02. > :24:06.Finally this picture is from weather watcher ADJ,
:24:07. > :24:09.who took this one of misty, autumn woods near Tonypandy.
:24:10. > :24:20.Likely to see more mist and fog over the next 48 hours.
:24:21. > :24:23.If you're near any of the forests of Mid and North Wales over
:24:24. > :24:25.the coming days you'll almost certainly encounter
:24:26. > :24:27.the Wales Rally GB - the penultimate stage
:24:28. > :24:28.of the F-I-A World Rally Championship.
:24:29. > :24:31.Teams from around the world are back to compete over
:24:32. > :24:33.200 miles across Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Powys.
:24:34. > :24:36.The event is about to be launched in Park Eirias in Colwyn Bay,
:24:37. > :24:44.and Chris Dearden is there for us tonight, Chris.
:24:45. > :24:53.Good evening. From the ceremonial start the first cars crackle their
:24:54. > :25:01.way across the start line. That's where the Wales Rally the GB
:25:02. > :25:04.formally begins. The work in the forests in Denbighshire this morning
:25:05. > :25:08.for a shakedown. That is chance to iron out
:25:09. > :25:14.last-minute problems. They would be there for real on Sunday. I have Ben
:25:15. > :25:18.Taylor who is the managing director with me.
:25:19. > :25:22.What is the attraction? There is a fantastic cloud here this evening.
:25:23. > :25:27.It is the biggest event in North and mid Wales every year. Its second
:25:28. > :25:32.motorsport in the UK, to Formula 1 Grand Prix. This is a big event. The
:25:33. > :25:38.best of the World Championship rallying coming to Wales. And we've
:25:39. > :25:44.a platform here which we really excited about.
:25:45. > :25:49.It's been in Wales for 20 years, 16 years, I think?
:25:50. > :25:52.Wachtel Wales get out of it? It's a fantastic host country. The Welsh
:25:53. > :25:57.government have been incredibly supportive. They get back a ?10
:25:58. > :26:02.million economic impact in the Welsh economy which is big numbers. It's
:26:03. > :26:06.talking about local communities. You can't get a bed in Wales for the
:26:07. > :26:08.next four days! We've also got primary schools and
:26:09. > :26:13.rugby clubs and community groups benefiting from the event coming.
:26:14. > :26:17.It's bringing masses of spectators with it.
:26:18. > :26:22.Last year was really wet. I remember the driving rain and wind. With the
:26:23. > :26:25.weather this year, what is going to like?
:26:26. > :26:30.It looks like it will be favourable. We had a terrible time last year.
:26:31. > :26:35.The weather looks fair. It's half term, the families and kids go free.
:26:36. > :26:38.It's a brilliant way to end the half term holiday. We are really looking
:26:39. > :26:41.forward to a fantastic regard. With less mud over the next few
:26:42. > :26:44.days! Rallying starts tomorrow morning with the first stage. It
:26:45. > :26:57.looks great to be a Chris. Rank you. Our headlines. Around 40 highly
:26:58. > :27:01.skilled jobs have been maintained in Flintshire. Raytheon is benefiting
:27:02. > :27:09.from a deal struck with the Ministry of Defence is worth more than ?130
:27:10. > :27:13.million. And BBC Wales has learned tonight that main port engineering,
:27:14. > :27:18.based in Pembroke Dock has gone into administration. We will, of course,
:27:19. > :27:22.have more details for you on that story in late bulletin. That's at
:27:23. > :27:28.10:30pm. You can see the latest online.
:27:29. > :27:31.For now from all of us on the programme,