:00:00. > :00:09.The battle begins to save 350 jobs at this meat processing
:00:10. > :00:13.Unions and workers claim it would be devastating for the town.
:00:14. > :00:16.You can't just take 350 people off work and not have any
:00:17. > :00:36.History is made as Wales gets its first ever female bishop.
:00:37. > :00:38.I sent Jo a one word e-mail this afternoon.
:00:39. > :00:41.I don't know when she gets to open it, but it just said,
:00:42. > :00:46.hallelujah and there were more exclaimation marks than letters.
:00:47. > :00:48.There've been protests in Wales against fracking.
:00:49. > :00:50.Now a former head of Greenpeace say ministers
:00:51. > :00:55.Made in Wales, for audiences worldwide.
:00:56. > :00:58.But the BBC Director General faces claims he's stalling on a promise
:00:59. > :01:03.to fund more programmes like it. Good evening.
:01:04. > :01:05.In tonight's sport: He's irreplaceable, says
:01:06. > :01:08.Aaron Ramsey back playing last night and back in the Wales squad
:01:09. > :01:34.Bosses have been meeting staff and union representatives at the 2
:01:35. > :01:36.Sisters meat processing factory in Merthyr Tydfil, where more
:01:37. > :01:39.than 350 workers are at risk of losing their jobs.
:01:40. > :01:41.The company employs 1,100 people at the site, but wants
:01:42. > :01:44.to move its packaging operation to another factory in Cornwall.
:01:45. > :01:46.There's been a meat processing business on the site since 1999.
:01:47. > :01:49.The factory opened in 1999, but 2 Sisters took over
:01:50. > :02:07.With the latest, our business correspondent, Brian Meechan
:02:08. > :02:12.Business was continuing at two Sisters today but workers were left
:02:13. > :02:17.wondering what the future would hold for them. The abattoir and cutting
:02:18. > :02:21.operations continue as usual but packing for steaks and other meats
:02:22. > :02:26.for retailers will move if the plan goes ahead. Ben Landers has been
:02:27. > :02:31.doing agency work here for a few months in the packing sections.
:02:32. > :02:36.Agency staff are expected to be the first to go from the 350 jobs under
:02:37. > :02:40.threat. Fairly worrying because there is nothing else around here
:02:41. > :02:46.for us. It is what they are going to do to implement the changes made
:02:47. > :02:51.there. It is very poor at the moment, there is hardly nothing
:02:52. > :02:54.around here. The food industry can be notoriously difficult to operate
:02:55. > :02:59.in and often profits are quite small. That is because when they are
:03:00. > :03:03.negotiating with supermarkets, it is the supermarkets that have the
:03:04. > :03:08.power. This site for example sells the vast majority of its product to
:03:09. > :03:12.just one supermarket chain. Unions are confused over the company 's
:03:13. > :03:15.decision to move the packing business to Cornwall and want to
:03:16. > :03:22.know the reasons behind it. They were only informed yesterday. We
:03:23. > :03:24.want to sit down and have a formal consultation with them. We will be
:03:25. > :03:29.looking to safeguard as many jobs as we can not that plan. We will also
:03:30. > :03:32.be looking at some counterproposals to safeguard all of the jobs. The
:03:33. > :03:38.local Assembly Member raised an emergency question. If we talk about
:03:39. > :03:45.350 people going, that is not just 350 people, that is the impact on
:03:46. > :03:51.the families of those people. And of course, the impact on the local
:03:52. > :03:54.economy. So you cannot just take 350 people out of work and that not have
:03:55. > :03:59.any impact on the community and the economy. Merthyr has been doing well
:04:00. > :04:05.in attracting businesses to the town. Major developments including
:04:06. > :04:11.General dynamics are promising to create almost 900 jobs, requiring a
:04:12. > :04:16.variety of skill levels. The unemployment rate has been falling.
:04:17. > :04:20.In the last five years, it has halved from 14% to just under 7%.
:04:21. > :04:26.But that is still higher than the Welsh average. But on the streets of
:04:27. > :04:30.the town, people don't seem to be feeling the benefits. What is the
:04:31. > :04:36.kind of job situation around here like at the moment? Hard. Hard. It
:04:37. > :04:39.is all right for the Department for Work and Pensions to say you have
:04:40. > :04:42.got to go out and get a job, but it is getting a job. People are out
:04:43. > :04:48.there looking and you just cannot find anything. It is sad really.
:04:49. > :04:51.Local farmers are worried about what the decision says about the state of
:04:52. > :04:58.the food industry in general. This is going to sort of have an affect
:04:59. > :05:05.on farm producers who are supplying the meat plant. It is scary in an
:05:06. > :05:12.area where unemployment is high, it is the last thing we want to see is
:05:13. > :05:19.a section of the economy being knocked again. The Welsh Government
:05:20. > :05:22.invested ?1.2 million in this business six years ago. Ministers,
:05:23. > :05:27.the company and the unions say they will work together now to try and
:05:28. > :05:30.minimise the impact of this decision and the number of redundancies. They
:05:31. > :05:32.will be 45 days of consultation to see what if anything can be done to
:05:33. > :05:34.save jobs. Wales has its first
:05:35. > :05:35.ever woman Bishop. Canon Joanna Penberthy says she's
:05:36. > :05:38."immensely humbled" to take up the job of Bishop of St David's,
:05:39. > :05:41.in what's been described as an "historic moment"
:05:42. > :05:43.for the Church in Wales. A decision to allow women to become
:05:44. > :06:01.bishops was taken in 2013. For the past 1500 years, prayers
:06:02. > :06:06.have been said here at Saint Davids Cathedral but today, this ancient
:06:07. > :06:11.site of Christianity saw history in the making. Wales had elected its
:06:12. > :06:14.first female bishop. Since yesterday morning, members of the Church of
:06:15. > :06:18.Wales electoral College had been meeting to discuss their choice. At
:06:19. > :06:23.lunchtime, the Archbishop of Wales broke the news. The bishop elect of
:06:24. > :06:30.St Davids is Cameron Joanna Penberthy. Joanna Penberthy is 56
:06:31. > :06:40.years old and is one of the first women to be ordained as a priest in
:06:41. > :06:44.Wales in 1997. She knows St Davids well. Having already spent 11 years
:06:45. > :06:51.as a canon at the cathedral. She also worked in the dioceses of
:06:52. > :06:55.Llandaff and St Asaph and served in Bath and Wells. It is an historic
:06:56. > :07:02.moment but what is important to remember is that Joanna Penberthy is
:07:03. > :07:06.an enormously gifted priest, she is intellectually able, she preaches
:07:07. > :07:07.well, she engages the people, she is able to relate to all sections of
:07:08. > :07:23.the community. It is a great excitement here today.
:07:24. > :07:28.Of course, not everybody finds it easy to accept but most of all, I
:07:29. > :07:34.think people know that she is the most remarkable person, she is the
:07:35. > :07:38.most excellent piece. Women bishops in the Church in Wales remains a
:07:39. > :07:45.highly sensitive issue. Churchill was only changed here three years
:07:46. > :07:48.ago. I sent her a one word e-mail this afternoon. I don't know when
:07:49. > :07:54.she will get time to open it but it just said hallelujah. I did not know
:07:55. > :07:57.that I would still be in the active ministry of the church when we would
:07:58. > :08:04.get a woman as a bishop. Today has made me very happy. Joanna Penberthy
:08:05. > :08:07.will be bishop elect until her appointment is officially confirmed
:08:08. > :08:13.by the Archbishop at a secret service on November 30. She will
:08:14. > :08:20.then be consecrated as a bishop at Lambeth Cathedral. -- Llandaff
:08:21. > :08:21.Cathedral. She will then be enthroned in St Davids the following
:08:22. > :08:24.month. Four men have been charged
:08:25. > :08:27.with the murder of Mark Mason. The 48-year-old from Rhyl died
:08:28. > :08:29.after an incident at the Home Bargains car park
:08:30. > :08:31.in the town on Thursday. The men, all from Liverpool,
:08:32. > :08:34.appeared in front of Llandudno There were more attacks on ambulance
:08:35. > :08:44.staff here during the past year, Fire and police services in Newport
:08:45. > :08:46.and Cardiff say they've been This mobile phone footage shows
:08:47. > :08:50.an incident in the Pill area Meanwhile, fire crews in Cardiff
:08:51. > :08:54.were attacked twice with fireworks, as they tried to put out a bonfire
:08:55. > :08:59.in a Grangetown park. BBC Wales can reveal that the number
:09:00. > :09:01.of people claiming the main long-term sickness benefit in many
:09:02. > :09:04.former coal mining areas, has fallen by a fifth
:09:05. > :09:06.in the past seven years. The communities in the south Wales
:09:07. > :09:09.valleys have historically had some of the highest levels of claimants
:09:10. > :09:11.in the UK. Our political editor,
:09:12. > :09:18.Nick Servini, is here. There's an been intense debate
:09:19. > :09:20.about Conservative-led welfare Now we have an indication
:09:21. > :09:27.on what the real impact has been on the ground in one of the central
:09:28. > :09:30.targets, to get those claiming long-term sickness
:09:31. > :09:33.benefit back into work. Figures from the ONS
:09:34. > :09:35.show that since 2008, the number of people claiming
:09:36. > :09:37.employment support allowance. The main long term sickness benefit,
:09:38. > :09:39.which replaced incapacity benefit, has dropped by just 4%
:09:40. > :09:42.across the UK, despite huge But in Wales there's been
:09:43. > :09:52.a 15% fall. And the reduction varies
:09:53. > :09:54.depending where you are, so in Cardiff, the fall is 5%,
:09:55. > :09:57.but in Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent,
:09:58. > :10:09.there's been a 20% drop. Changes to sickness
:10:10. > :10:10.benefit were always likely to have the biggest impact in former
:10:11. > :10:13.mining communities because of the legacy of industrial-related
:10:14. > :10:21.illness and deprivation. But it's not exactly clear
:10:22. > :10:24.why the fall has been proportionately steeper
:10:25. > :10:26.here than in so many other places. It's not explained by the numbers
:10:27. > :10:29.who have been found fit to work in the tests,
:10:30. > :10:31.called work capability assessments, which are designed to establish
:10:32. > :10:35.whether someone is capable of work. In Wales around a fifth of people
:10:36. > :10:37.fell into that category, Earlier in the week the UK
:10:38. > :10:41.government set out plans One likely factor is also that
:10:42. > :10:45.many people have hit retirement age and are now
:10:46. > :10:47.claiming pensions instead. Or they could be returning
:10:48. > :10:49.to the workplace because of Unemployment levels in Wales
:10:50. > :10:53.are currently lower than most Supporters of welfare reform
:10:54. > :10:56.will celebrate these figures. They argue that work leads
:10:57. > :10:58.to healthier, more fulfilling lives, and it's an issue which has been
:10:59. > :11:01.at the heart of enormous political But critics say it's
:11:02. > :11:08.not as simple as that. They claim in many cases people
:11:09. > :11:11.are being shunted onto other benefits unfairly and the result
:11:12. > :11:18.isn't fulfilment but hardship. Controlled explosions have been
:11:19. > :11:21.carried out at a number of schools and colleges in Wales,
:11:22. > :11:23.following concerns about how a potentially explosive chemical,
:11:24. > :11:25.often used in A-level chemistry Army explosive teams have
:11:26. > :11:28.carried out the blasts, similar action has taken
:11:29. > :11:45.place in England too. Handling hazardous chemicals on a
:11:46. > :11:50.practical basis is something that happens at schools and colleges
:11:51. > :11:53.across the country. Here at Bridgend College it is no different but
:11:54. > :11:57.earlier this week, concerns were raised following the discovery of a
:11:58. > :12:04.potentially explosive chemical known as DNP. It is a chemical that he
:12:05. > :12:08.would find in any chemistry lab, anywhere up and down the country
:12:09. > :12:11.really. We found it into the authorities and they gave us the
:12:12. > :12:16.guidance there was no need for evacuation and the authorities came
:12:17. > :12:20.and dealt with it on evening. Also on Monday, 1500 students at our
:12:21. > :12:23.college were evacuated as the bomb squad were called to safely dispose
:12:24. > :12:26.of the skin chemical and similar incidents have taken place at
:12:27. > :12:32.schools and colleges across Wales and in a number of English counties,
:12:33. > :12:36.including one village in Shropshire where this controlled explosion
:12:37. > :12:43.caused alarm. This action has been prompted after guidelines on how to
:12:44. > :12:47.safely store certain chemicals were recently updated by the Department
:12:48. > :12:54.for Education. It is only when the bulk of the material becomes dry,
:12:55. > :13:00.that is when we need to become concerned because when it is dry,
:13:01. > :13:05.this material can be explosive. Last week in a similar but unrelated
:13:06. > :13:10.incident, part of a Swansea University campus was evacuated for
:13:11. > :13:16.this to happen. The bomb squad were called in to deal with another
:13:17. > :13:21.potentially dangerous chemical. The Health and Safety Executive is
:13:22. > :13:24.investigating. Meanwhile, schools and colleges are being urged to
:13:25. > :13:25.check their storerooms as the safeguarding of pupils remains a
:13:26. > :13:27.priority. Think Gavin and Stacey or Hinterland
:13:28. > :13:30.- programmes set in Wales, Two years ago, the BBC
:13:31. > :13:33.Director General, Lord Hall, promised there'd be more money
:13:34. > :13:36.to make more of them. But appearing before
:13:37. > :13:37.the Assembly's Culture Committee earlier, he was accused of stalling
:13:38. > :13:40.over that promise, as no Lord Hall said he'd be making
:13:41. > :13:43.an announcement in March. Here's our Arts and Media
:13:44. > :13:53.correspondent, Huw Thomas. And following real-life
:13:54. > :13:57.adventures on Anglesey. It's the kind of programming
:13:58. > :13:59.the politicians want more of, ?22.5 million was last year's
:14:00. > :14:07.budget, but by his own admission, the head of the BBC thinks
:14:08. > :14:10.more needs to be spent. Lord Hall has set expectations high,
:14:11. > :14:13.having warned two years ago that English-language TV programmes
:14:14. > :14:15.about Wales had been But he began today's committee
:14:16. > :14:25.appearance by saying any extra spending won't be
:14:26. > :14:27.known until next March, setting the tone for a sometimes
:14:28. > :14:29.fractious exchange. But we don't know what
:14:30. > :14:37.you're going to deliver. We are working that throughout
:14:38. > :14:39.you got to give us time The charter and the agreement
:14:40. > :14:46.about the charter and the financial deal around the charter has been
:14:47. > :14:51.settled this September. Showing Welsh life on screen isn't
:14:52. > :14:54.just about finding local characters. The new series of Ordinary Lives
:14:55. > :14:56.was filmed in south Wales, with Welsh accents, on a show
:14:57. > :14:59.that could easily have A new charter for the BBC
:15:00. > :15:05.means its priorities are set for the next 11 years and improving
:15:06. > :15:08.the portrayal of communities TV producers who have been lobbying
:15:09. > :15:13.the BBC hope it will help Wales and the people of Wales
:15:14. > :15:17.shouldn't be invisible on the national television service
:15:18. > :15:20.for Wales, they should not be inaudible on the radio services
:15:21. > :15:23.and they shouldn't be inaccessible It's not that they are inaccessible,
:15:24. > :15:30.inaudible and invisible yet, but if steps aren't taken to protect
:15:31. > :15:33.the future of the media in Wales, who is to say how low down
:15:34. > :15:41.the agenda it will slip? Whether it is stories about real
:15:42. > :15:44.people from communities across Wales or the fictional characters that
:15:45. > :15:46.bring compelling dramas to life, the BBC says it's committed
:15:47. > :15:49.to making more of it, but it will be spring next
:15:50. > :15:51.year until we know how It's already happening in America,
:15:52. > :16:02.but ministers say fracking We hear from a former head of
:16:03. > :16:06.Greenpeace who says, they're wrong. And manager Chris Coleman says
:16:07. > :16:09.Ched Evans needs to play at the highest level,
:16:10. > :16:11.if he's to be considered Public Services in Wales could "fall
:16:12. > :16:26.off a cliff", unless more is done to try to prevent people
:16:27. > :16:28.from falling ill. That's the warning from Sophie Howe,
:16:29. > :16:30.the Future Generations Commissioner who says all public bodies need
:16:31. > :16:33.to work more closely together Our health correspondent,
:16:34. > :16:42.Owain Clarke reports. Ambulances, A, GPs
:16:43. > :16:44.and waiting times. Health is never far
:16:45. > :16:49.from the headlines. An extra ?240 million for the NHS,
:16:50. > :16:52.but cuts to some areas of local government,
:16:53. > :16:56.education and community projects. But research suggests that actual
:16:57. > :16:58.health care may contribute as little as 10% to the health and well-being
:16:59. > :17:01.of the country's population, much more important arguably
:17:02. > :17:03.are things like the environment around us and the
:17:04. > :17:05.quality of our homes. Tom Savary from Barry knows that
:17:06. > :17:16.all too well. I did have a part-time job
:17:17. > :17:21.for a while, but that just went out His problems began when he became
:17:22. > :17:27.homeless when he was just 16, but what turned his life around
:17:28. > :17:30.was not care from the NHS, but support from a housing charity
:17:31. > :17:33.which found him a place to live. I sort of felt more confident
:17:34. > :17:36.in myself, it got me back into looking for work and education,
:17:37. > :17:39.it gave me hope that I didn't have If Megan is to succeed,
:17:40. > :17:53.whatever her background circumstances, she will need to live
:17:54. > :17:55.in a more equal Wales. She'll need to live in a community
:17:56. > :17:58.that has everything she needs As this Welsh Government video
:17:59. > :18:06.suggests, all public services have a part to play in trying
:18:07. > :18:10.to make sure that we are healthy, happy and prosperous,
:18:11. > :18:12.but how do you get them Last year, a new law was passed
:18:13. > :18:20.in Wales to try to do just that. And this is the person whose job
:18:21. > :18:23.it is to deliver those goals. One of the most critical areas,
:18:24. > :18:26.I think, is focus on prevention. A shift really from just dealing
:18:27. > :18:28.with the here and now. It would be like just
:18:29. > :18:31.parking your ambulance at the bottom of a cliff and waiting for people
:18:32. > :18:34.to fall over to actually getting on top of that cliff and making sure
:18:35. > :18:37.that they don't fall It is something that we have got
:18:38. > :18:41.to do because quite simply, if we carry on the way that we are,
:18:42. > :18:44.our services are going The Welsh Local Government
:18:45. > :18:48.Association for example is worried that if the NHS continues to consume
:18:49. > :18:51.an ever-increasing proportion of the Welsh budget,
:18:52. > :18:53.services that help people stay healthy in the first
:18:54. > :18:55.place will lose out, storing up more problems
:18:56. > :18:57.in the future. They say there is a risk that public
:18:58. > :19:00.services could end up becoming no But what is the shape
:19:01. > :19:03.of things to come? Health experts from around the world
:19:04. > :19:06.have been discussing just that at this conference in Cardiff
:19:07. > :19:08.and some think Wales through the future generations act
:19:09. > :19:10.has at least an opportunity If you do it right,
:19:11. > :19:14.if you implement the act, I think you can make your vision
:19:15. > :19:20.for a healthier, more prosperous, more resilient, more
:19:21. > :19:29.equal Wales a reality. If you don't manage to do that,
:19:30. > :19:41.then I think inequalities will increase and maybe also
:19:42. > :19:43.life expectancy decrease. The NHS is under more pressure
:19:44. > :19:45.than ever before yet that pressure is unlikely to ease,
:19:46. > :19:48.and less more can be done to prevent more of us from falling
:19:49. > :19:51.ill in the first place and that is about more
:19:52. > :19:53.than just a health service. The question is, where do
:19:54. > :19:59.you strike the balance? Former head of Greenpeace says
:20:00. > :20:02.the Welsh Government is wrong Stephen Tindale says it would allow
:20:03. > :20:07.us to burn less coal and become less reliant on importing gas
:20:08. > :20:09.from the Middle East. But protest groups here strongly
:20:10. > :20:11.disagree and ministers have vowed Stephen Tindale says we should frack
:20:12. > :20:22.for gas but many campaigners for the environment disagree
:20:23. > :20:23.and the Welsh Government says its opposition
:20:24. > :20:25.to fracking is unequivocal. I think the Welsh politicians,
:20:26. > :20:33.like many politicians in England and Scotland,
:20:34. > :20:35.are reacting to that sort of society pressure and saying it is not worth
:20:36. > :20:38.the politics of standing up I think that is a shame
:20:39. > :20:46.and it is important that people like me, who are in, I suppose,
:20:47. > :20:49.the environmental community, who support fracking,
:20:50. > :20:50.to speak out, rather than just saying, well,
:20:51. > :20:52.we've lost that one. We met in the Vale of Glamorgan
:20:53. > :21:01.where applications to explore Local people who fought plans
:21:02. > :21:12.to drill in this field don't agree that shale gas does less damage
:21:13. > :21:19.than other fossil fuels. At the well, gas leaks
:21:20. > :21:22.and when you move gas from A to B, And most of these leaks are methane,
:21:23. > :21:28.which is 20 times more potent as a greenhouse gas
:21:29. > :21:30.than carbon dioxide is. So shale gas might be greener
:21:31. > :21:33.to burn, but getting it out of the ground does a lot
:21:34. > :21:37.of damage too? Getting it out of the ground
:21:38. > :21:39.and all the way to the There is a lot of emissions
:21:40. > :21:45.involved in that. Fracking or hydraulic fracturing
:21:46. > :21:47.starts with chilling underground. Water and chemicals are prompted
:21:48. > :21:50.to the shale rock at high pressure. That forces cracks to widen,
:21:51. > :21:52.releasing trapped gas, which is flushed back up
:21:53. > :21:53.to the surface. Supporters say it's created
:21:54. > :21:56.an economic boom in parts of the US, but at an environmental cost
:21:57. > :21:58.as a others. The view of the UK Government,
:21:59. > :22:00.fracking should happen. Plans to frack on this site
:22:01. > :22:02.in Lancashire were In Wales, licenses to explore
:22:03. > :22:08.for oil and gas have been issued, including
:22:09. > :22:10.near Port Talbot, at Pontrhydyfen. But the Welsh Government says
:22:11. > :22:18.it is using the planning system to stop fracking and soon it
:22:19. > :22:26.will get new powers to issue those licenses, meaning companies trying
:22:27. > :22:35.to reach the gas underground Let's get tonight's
:22:36. > :22:40.sport now with Tomos. Good news for Wales
:22:41. > :22:41.fans tonight, Nicky. Aaron Ramsey is back in the national
:22:42. > :22:44.squad to face Serbia in their World Cup qualifier
:22:45. > :22:46.a week on Saturday. Manager Chris Coleman
:22:47. > :22:48.says he's irreplaceable, having missed Wales' opening three
:22:49. > :22:50.games of the campaign. Well, Coleman has made a 10 man
:22:51. > :22:52.shortlist for Fifa's coach of the year award,
:22:53. > :22:54.after guiding Wales It was his first start
:22:55. > :22:58.for Arsenal since August Aaron Ramsey said playing 75 minutes
:22:59. > :23:02.last night was exactly what he needed after recovering
:23:03. > :23:04.from a hamstring injury. He looks good, he looks fit and he's
:23:05. > :23:15.a huge part of what Obviously, with the talent
:23:16. > :23:20.that he possesses. When asked about Ched Evans,
:23:21. > :23:23.who was found not guilty of rape after a retrial last month,
:23:24. > :23:26.Chris Coleman did not rule out picking him in future but said
:23:27. > :23:28.he would have to be playing The striker, who last played
:23:29. > :23:35.for his country five years ago, is now at League 1
:23:36. > :23:41.side Chesterfield. The whole incident was
:23:42. > :23:43.unsavoury, of course it was. But he's been freed,
:23:44. > :23:46.so that's how we have to look at it. But from a football perspective,
:23:47. > :23:49.what needs to happen is he has missed a lot of football
:23:50. > :23:57.at the top level. The players will gather
:23:58. > :23:59.here at their training base next week to prepare for a game
:24:00. > :24:02.which this year falls on the eve Now, the players are still waiting
:24:03. > :24:06.to find out whether they will be allowed to wear poppies
:24:07. > :24:08.on their shirts. After requests from England
:24:09. > :24:10.and Scotland were turned down by Fifa, the FA W will raise
:24:11. > :24:13.the matter at a meeting The matter was brought
:24:14. > :24:16.up in Parliament too. We want our players to be able
:24:17. > :24:19.to wear those poppies and I have to say to Fifa,
:24:20. > :24:22.before they start telling us what do, they jolly well ought to be
:24:23. > :24:30.sorting their own house out. Wales played Serbia the last
:24:31. > :24:32.time they were aiming to reach a World Cup,
:24:33. > :24:35.but a humiliating heavy defeat the way nearly saw
:24:36. > :24:36.Chris Coleman quitting. I can't believe I'm still
:24:37. > :24:39.sitting here after that The change in fortunes has seen
:24:40. > :24:50.Wales lose only one of their last 15 qualifiers but Chris Coleman has
:24:51. > :24:52.warned his players that taking on joint group leaders Serbia
:24:53. > :24:58.will be a huge challenge. Lions coach Warren Gatland says prop
:24:59. > :25:00.Gethin Jenkins or flanker Dan Lydiate are the main candidates
:25:01. > :25:02.to captain Wales against Skipper Sam Warbuton has returned
:25:03. > :25:05.to the Blues. He's recovering from injury,
:25:06. > :25:07.while another possible candidate, Alun Wyn Jones, will be missing
:25:08. > :25:15.following the death of his father. We'll find out who's
:25:16. > :25:17.in the team tomorrow at 11. The former world 400 metres hurdles
:25:18. > :25:20.champion, Dai Greene, has been stripped of his
:25:21. > :25:21.National Lottery funding. The athlete from Llanelli has been
:25:22. > :25:24.left out of Britain's world-class Greene, who's 30, became world
:25:25. > :25:28.champion in 2011 but has been Time now for the weather
:25:29. > :25:46.forecast with Derek. Most of the country dry and pride
:25:47. > :25:53.today. The sunshine showing off the beautiful autumn colours. This
:25:54. > :25:57.picture taken in Chirk and how about this one from Neath? Tonight, most
:25:58. > :26:05.places dry with one or two showers in the far north and west. Cold,
:26:06. > :26:09.widespread ground frost. One or two mist and fog patches likely as well.
:26:10. > :26:13.Here is the picture for eight o'clock in the morning. The south
:26:14. > :26:18.and east will be cold and dry and bright. As we had further north and
:26:19. > :26:25.west, it is a different story. Much cloudier with a few spots of rain, a
:26:26. > :26:29.few showers. Some dry, bright weather tomorrow but cloudier than
:26:30. > :26:34.today. That cloud thickener for some patchy rain and a few showers in the
:26:35. > :26:38.afternoon. The Southeast may well stay dry. In Monmouthshire tomorrow,
:26:39. > :26:45.a bright morning. Cloudier in the afternoon but it should stay dry.
:26:46. > :26:52.Gwynedd, not as nice as today with rain in places. And then tomorrow
:26:53. > :26:56.evening, some rain and showers will spread across the country. It should
:26:57. > :27:00.turn drier and clearer after midnight. Not as cold as tonight. On
:27:01. > :27:06.Friday, a mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. Some dry weather
:27:07. > :27:10.in the mix. However it looks like some rain and heavy showers will
:27:11. > :27:15.reach the North and west and parts of mid Wales later afternoon into
:27:16. > :27:21.the evening. Over the weekend, the wind will turn into the North,
:27:22. > :27:26.dragging called a rare down from the Arctic. We are in for a cold weekend
:27:27. > :27:31.with a few showers in parts of the north and west. Even a dusting of
:27:32. > :27:35.snow on Snowdon. Otherwise, a lot of dry and sunny weather. Frost in
:27:36. > :27:37.places. The bobble hat will come in handy.
:27:38. > :27:40.I'll have a quick update at 8pm and a full round up
:27:41. > :27:46.From all of us on the programme, have a lovely evening.