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It will cost ?350 million, was first proposed 12 years ago,

finally this new super-hospital is given the go ahead.

It is entirely understandable that people will be frustrated with the

length of time it has taken to get here. What is more important is that

we have made the right decision for the care system. This will have an

impact for a generation to come. by politicians in Cardiff rather

than Westminster - tonight a furious A Swansea MP, who eight year old son

died, makes an impassioned plea for childrens' funeral costs to be

scrapped. You can't imagine what that feels

like, that pain is absolutely... It is unimaginable.

69 jobs lost and 88 more are at risk, the hunt

is on for a buyer for this Pembrokeshire engineering firm.

And in tonight's sport, Gareth Bale says, it's a dream come

true to have signed a new deal with Real Madrid,

reportedly worth more than a ?100 million over

It was first proposed over a decade ago -

and after years of delays a new 350 million pound hospital

for South East Wales has finally been given the go ahead.

The Specialist and Critical Care Centre is expected to open in 2022

as part of a plan to modernise health-services run

The best sort of medicine, at this health centre. Here they try to keep

people out of hospital, working with the local council and others to

provide support services. But first some emergencies only a major

hospital will do. In this part of Wales that means ageing facilities.

Neville Hall Hospital in Abergavenny or Newport in the Royal Gwent. Here

the emergency department includes temporary cabins. Time for a change.

The new specialist in critical care centre, almost all patients will

arrive here by bluelight ambulance. Treatments for heart attacks,

neo-natal and children's services will move from Newport in

Abergavenny to hear amongst consultant led expertise. You want

the right care in the right place at the right time and that sometimes

needs you need specialist centres with excellent quality care rather

than trying to do too many things into many places. Plans were first

floated in 2004 body ?300 million project but six years later the

plans were no further forward and the then health Minister ask for

more details of the plans. There was uncertainty for years, seemingly

little progress, but then in 2013 the new man in charge once the

review also Wales hospitals. More delay but later that year the

business case for the site was finally accepted. Two years later

the health board submitted its final plans, demolition of old buildings

on the site, but still no final confirmed start date. The original

cost up now by more than ?50 million and several delays. Some people will

be delayed -- be frustrated with the length of time it has taken to get

here. What is more important is that the right decision is taken for the

whole health care system. This will have an impact for a generation to

come. So the delays are justified? To get the right decision it is

absolutely justified. This will be like any other large hospital but

with 460 beds it could catered -- it could cater for as many patients as

other Welsh hospitals. This band spent a decade for the hospital that

night arguing for the hospital to be built here. We have had a range of

health ministers in the period, each one has come in and said we want to

spend all this money on this one project, I want to examine it. We

have been providing health services in point with facilities that were

designed and built for the made last century health needs. This has been

a long time coming then. It has been a long time coming. A landscape of

Green fails ready to be transformed into a major hospital. The BMA said

many of the doctors have concerns about the lack of detail in these

plans. It still wonders what the new facility could mean for other

services across South Wales and the doors here open in 2022.

The pay and conditions of Wales' 20,000 teachers are currently set

But the responsibility could soon sit with the National Assembly.

On the whole politicians welcome the move, they say

it's sensible, but unions are not happy, they say

it could mean lower salaries for teachers working

Let's talk to our political editor Nick Servini.

This is a surprising announcement that has come late in the afternoon.

Late in the day, the backdrop is the discussions over the Wales Bill, the

plans to devolve further powers from Westminster to Cardiff. It is

working through Westminster now and this amendment was tabled in the

House of Lords where it has been debated this afternoon. The backdrop

is that there has been serious criticism of this bill, the

accusation is that it is unworkable, too confusing. On Friday: Jones

wrote to the secretary calling for among other things devolution of

teachers PM conditions to be devolved. The olive branch has been

given to him this afternoon. The question is, is it enough? I suspect

not on its own. Despite a statement from the wells, this afternoon. But

maybe if more things are added soon. But the teaching unions are not

happy are they? The theory is low cost of living in parts of Wales

compare to places like the south-east of England, will mean

lower pay? A teacher shortage in England, will there be a brain drain

of teachers out of Wales into England? The public sector unions on

pay and conditions believe in safety in numbers, at a UK level. The

trouble is it runs up against the flow of devolution, and there is an

entirely logical argument for this to happen when virtually everything

else in the education system is devolved, why isn't teachers PM

conditions devolve as well? And now I think because we know that there

is a political consensus both in Cardiff and London, I would say it

is a matter of when rather than F. A buyer is being sought tonight for an

engineering firm based in Pembroke sure. Main port engineering was put

into administration last week. Main port engineering has been a

major employer here for more than a quarter of the century. This new

manufacturing site only opened in June 2015 costing 1.8 LU pounds. The

company also got a ?650,000 will government grant to create new jobs

and safeguard its workforce. Its biggest customer was miracle. When

the refinery shut in 2014 main ports lost one third of its income. They

have since struggled to find new customers. The main gates here at

main port engineering have been closed for a few days, the only clue

as to what has gone on is the sign of the gate telling the book the

company has gone into administration. Those administrators

have already made 69 members of staff redundant which means the 88

members of staff face an uncertain future is eating for news. Main

port's new factory was a key part of the Haven waterway enterprise zone

but even its backers admit the loss of Manukau is the felt now two years

later. It takes time for something like that to pay out, businesses

move quickly to get replacement work but this was a big customer for

those engineering companies in the area. The fact that it has gone is

continuing to resonate. The company had been served by a winding-up

petition by HMRC, the case was due to be held at the High Court this

morning but after the ministry jurors were called in the action by

HMRC has been suspended. I would like to think it is an isolated

incident. There are successful copies in Pembroke sure, the

enterprise Ireland is encouraging people into the area, the Port

authority encourages people into the area, there are vibrant businesses

doing good work in the supply chain servicing big companies like Valero.

If miracle's closure was the earthquake the main port

engineering's closure is one of the shock waves, shock waves still being

felt in Pembroke Dock. Sad, so close to Christmas. What are people going

to do? I just feel so sad for Pembroke Dock. . Very good with

Christmas around the corner. There is not a lot of money in the town

anyway so this is really not going to help. The administrators begin

the work of trying to find ways of saving the business average council

and the Welsh government are planning a job event next week for

those remaining members of staff the wait goes on. They are feeling the

worst. Cardiff Crown Court has heard

how a son killed his mother with a chainsaw

while she was hanging Robert Owens attacked

75-year-old Iris Owens, after a row at their family

home in Ystrad Mynach, Owens, who's 47, has

pleaded guilty to murder, A Cardiff teenager has not been

deported to Afghanistan, after a government minister

intervened in his case just Nineteen year old Bashir Naderi has

lived in the city with foster Nearly six thousand people have

signed a petition to He could still be deported

at a later date once A former head teacher

at a Ceredigion primary school has admitted seven counts

of misconduct at a fitness to Helen Hopkins, who worked

in Synod Inn, and admitted she'd taken money intended for books,

Christmas cards and the school She also admitted leaving I-O-U

notes in the school cash box, she denies taking the money

for personal use. A Swansea MP has made an impassioned

plea to the Government to scrap Carolyn Harris, says,

she simply couldn't afford the costs surrounding the funeral of her eight

year old son, Martin, Twenty-five years on,

she's now backing a Labour campaign calling on the Chancellor to abolish

local authority burial charges. Around 5000 youngsters under 16 die

every year across the UK, most of them babies. But the cost of burying

your loved ones can vary widely. Here, the authority don't charge a

fee for the burial costs incurred with children. However many Welsh

councils do, in common with others across Britain. When you are about

things at a funeral, do you want this and this at what you need? You

don't think how much is that going to cost? You just think this is my

child, whatever I need to do, whatever I need I will have. Carolyn

Harris knows from bitter experience the emotional toll of losing a

child. Her son Martin died in a road accident aged just eight back in

1989. Friends and family rallied round and help raise money but she

still needed a loan to meet the full costs of burying her son in the

family plot. The biggest cost was the burial costs because I was

reopening a grave which was quite expensive, I can't ever the exact

amount. When you see it in the cold light of day written on paper, it

looks really cold and you think my God where will I get this money

from? Carolyn Harris is now backing a Labour campaign to persuade the

Chancellor to scrap burial charges in his upcoming Autumn Statement.

For those who charge, the fees raise from a few hundred pounds to around

?4000. Nobody expects to bury their child so nobody prepares to bury

their child. You can't imagine what that feels like, that pain is

absolutely... It is unimaginable. Unless you have been there you can

experience it, and it is the only thing we can do to make it slightly

more restful for the parent is to not have to worry about the cost of

the funeral. It is not something that any mother should ever be

worrying about. The MP says that if the Chancellor pledged 10 million

towards abolishing the fees it would cost local authorities about ?22,000

each. A small price she says to help families at the lowest point.

Gareth Bale says he'd be willing to see out his career at Real Madrid

after committing himself to the club until 2022.

I fully intend to see out my contract here and obviously in the

future, I don't know when I will retire but I am very happy here at

the moment and for the next six years I am not looking past that,

A judge is calling for more investment,

and new court services in Wales to break the cycle of

families that have multiple children taken into care.

A BBC Wales investigation has found that - in one case, a mother had

Judge Nick Crichton says, the current system is failing.

In the first of two special investigations, India

Katrina Huston travels around, and sure working with mums who are at

risk of having or have had their children taking into care. A lot of

them have been looked after children themselves, averaging around 60% of

them, a large amount of them have been sexually abused in childhood.

They grow up with low self-esteem and turned to alcohol. A means of

blocking out the pain. The get into relationships with domestic

violence, they are focused on surviving and not on the care of the

children so they are often done for neglect. Children are taken into

care if they are suffering at risk of significant harm. There are more

than five and half children and the number of court orders brought by

councils to remove children from their families as increased by 31%

compared to last year. Today Katrina is visiting Allison, she was in an

abusive relationship with a drug taker. She had four children between

the ages of seven and two removed by social services because of the

chaotic life. When the social worker turned up to take them I was

devastated, one of my children left the house and I had to go and get

him because he had run away and he was begging, like, can I just spent

nine more days with money? Can I spent ten more days? I want to live

with money, things like that. There were a mess, we all wear. 16 of the

22 councils told us the largest of the children they had taken from one

month. The largest number was 11 children removed. In Newport and run

that it was nine. In Gwynedd was eight. Katrina helps women cope with

the loss of a child and prevent them having more children removed into

care. It is exceptionally tough, it is heart-rending. I have a woman at

the moment who initially said that her heart was aching. The other day

she said to me, I am in pain from the top of my head with the loss of

my children. Can we understand that kind of physical pain that the

emotions are causing? There are calls for more to be done to help

women break destructive patterns of behaviour is they stop having

multiple children removed. One option is the family drug and

alcohol Court, an option in England but not in Wales. It works in the

same way as a normal family court accepted offers parents and hence

help from professionals to make changes. And if they can sort things

out then any child can still be removed. The children's Commissioner

for Wales police that we need to consider it as an option here and

one of the founders of the court agrees. If we had an earthquake in

Wales the government would immediately come up with millions of

pounds, let's say ?20 million to help the survivors and the people

who suffer as a result of an earthquake. The figures on the

increase in the number of care proceedings over the last ten years

and over the last 12 months are an earthquake around the corner. The

Welsh government says it is monitoring the situation and it is

working on a national approach to help reduce the numbers of children

taken into care. It also says it has a service that provides early

interventions to help families including those affected eye drugs

and alcohol. Alison has managed to turn a life around, after two years

of planning Alison now has a three-month-old baby in her care is

no social services involvement. She is also hoping to get her other

children home and hopes were people in her position can get more support

before it is too late. India Pollock reporting -

she'll have another special report It's designed to develop ambitious

green energy projects Work on the twenty million

pounds Menai Science Park near Gaerwen on Anglesey got

underway this morning. A government minister with a shiny

new shovel, there is something rather quaint about the ceremonies.

But there is nothing old-fashioned about what they are trying to do at

the science Park. The entrance will be there in the first building will

be roughly the weather was diggers are currently. The former MP and

assembly member leads the team in the project. You're convinced this

will not be a white elephant, this will work. This will work, we

already know there is a lot of interest in the development we have

here and we're confident that once the building is ready we will have

enough building -- and tenants go into it. One business already

looking to go in there is a live the health. They want to develop a smart

device app for nurses. It is revolutionary and designed to catch

paperwork and free more time for patients. What will they get from

the science Park? Being based halfway between Manchester and

Dublin, looking out over the area alongside other similar technology

businesses and science businesses, it presents the image to the world

and the partners we need to be making on an international stage

that we are serious. It is planned that the park will host businesses

developing new products and ideas, many it is hoped was in -- spin out

of research being done at Bangor University. In the early to

thousands the Welsh government tried something similar with the Technion

programme. It has closed critics claiming it fails to deliver value

for money. Cannot we tried these in Wales before with the Technion? This

one is different in that we will have anchor tenants who will link in

with the emerging economies of each region sought this will not be the

only centre of its type in Wales but this will be specific to a sector

that is growing, Anglesey has a reputation that is now global for

energy. Energy and innovation the slogan says, and they hold 70% of

businesses will come from the clean energy sector but if this is to

succeed where techie failed it is those anchor investors who really

are the key. Roger Pinney - from Science

to Sport now here's Claire. Gareth Bale says, it's a dream come

true to have signed a new deal with Real Madrid,

reportedly worth more than a ?100 million

over the next 6 years. The Welsh forward has won 5

trophies since his world record move to Spain,

3 years ago. But Bale today admitted,

having had a difficult There's some flash photography in

Tomos Dafydd's reports. A thumbs up from Gareth Bale after

signing one of the biggest deals in world football. The clocking joins

three years ago for a then record fee of ?85 million is now betting on

him to read another successful year at the Santiago Byrne about. The

reason I signed here for so long as I am very happy here and feel more

comfortable every year I am here. I'll improving my Spanish, my family

is more settled. It is a six-year deal reportedly worth ?108 million

after tax. It works out at ?80 million per year, raking in a cool

?346,000 per week. Eclipsing the Premier League's top earner. With

the new money he could buy more than 1 million Real Madrid shirts with

his name on it, and he could afford to buy Swati -- Swansea City

football club. Gareth Bale is now football's third-highest error

behind Barcelona's Lionel Messi and his team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo. But

his time in the Spanish capital hasn't always been rosy, winning the

Champions League in his first season made him an instant hit. But his

second season ended without a trophy, Gareth Bale was singled out

by the fans and attacked by the media. History tells you when

British players travel abroad it is never usually greatly successful but

it is something I wanted to try and something I wanted to improve my

football and game and obviously I have some great years here.

Obviously I had one season where it maybe wasn't the best but I think

this was the best season for me, this made me grow up as a player and

person and I think gave me more confidence to deal with whatever the

thrown at me. The Real Madrid president brought the Welshman to

spend three years ago and has long believed Gareth Bale is the man to

succeed Cristiano Ronaldo as Real Madrid's best and most marketable

player. This is a chance for Gareth Bale to right itself into the

history books of the biggest club in the world and win more trophies. Two

Champions League in three seasons is not bad at all but if he could

extend that and make it three or four or five he would be without

doubt a legend at Real Madrid. As Coleman said in the past that

they'll is better off staying in Spain. This deal runs out just

before his 33rd birthday, and he says he can see himself finishing

his career at Real Madrid. Swansea City are in action tonight,

looking for their first Premier League win since

the opening weekend. The Swans are just one

place off the bottom, five points from safety -

ahead of their trip to take Former Swans players Joe Allen

and Wilfired Bony could Rugby and Wales will be

without captain Sam Warburton for their first Autumn Test

against Australia on Saturday. The 28 year old flanker

is struggling with a neck injury. There are also big doubts over

the fitness of Liam Williams. It means Wales have delayed

naming their team until Thursday. Defence Coach Shaun Edwards

is hopeful Williams It did look like a serious injury

but we are waiting to the last minute with the medics. He will

definitely play some part of the CDs over the next month.

And we'll bring you that team annoucement on Thursday -

We've enjoyed a Halloween treat today.

In Trawsgoed the temperature soared to over 22C 72F.

10 degrees above average and a new record for Halloween.

So if you're heading out this evening.

It's going to stay dry and mild but with mist

Some low cloud too with drizzle in the north late in the night.

Further south where the sky remains clear it will turn chilly.

Temperatures in mid Wales dropping as low as 6C.

So here's the picture for 8 in the morning.

Damp and misty in places too with low cloud.

Parts of the south and west brighter and dry with a little sunshine.

Now a weak cold front will move south tomorrow.

It won't bring much if any rain but it will bring

So a few spots of light rain or drizzle will spread south

tomorrow but during the afternoon it will dry and brighten-up

in the north and west with some sunshine.

10 to 14 Celsius with a north to north-easterly breeze.

Tomorrow evening cloud in the south will clear.

Most places dry overnight but a few showers.

And a colder night with some ground frost.

Wednesday's chart shows a bump of high pressure

over Ireland and that's heading our

Otherwise dry and bright with some sunshine.

It will feel more seasonal than it has for some time with light winds.

So the next few days called the recently, lower temperatures

particularly at night, some sunshine of Frost. This month has been drier

than normal and in fact it could be the driest October in Wales since

1978. I wish you a happy and safe Halloween.

Thank you. In the headlines again, after years of delays a new ?350

million hospital for south-east Wales has finally given the

go-ahead. The specialist and critical care Centre is expected to

open in 2022 as part of a plan to modernise health services run by the

Aneurin Bevan health board. It will take on some of the specialist work

done at the Royal Gwent and Neville Hall hospitals.

The pay of Wales 20,000 teachers could soon be set by the Welsh

government rather than politicians at Westminster. Unions are concerned

it could mean lower salaries for teachers working in Wales and

England. I will have an update here tonight

and again at the BBC News at ten. That's Wales today. Thank you for

watching.