27/12/2016 BBC Wales Today

Hospital staff in Wales were physically attacked more

than 18 thousand times while at work, over

According to new figures, there were also eleven-thousand verbal attacks.

Organisations representing doctors and nurses say -

When those nurses are having to have time off

scarred, that increases the bill to the National Health Service, so it

is a wrong thing to do and I think we have got to educate both

ourselves and the public better about de-escalation and realising

Parents who bought their children laptops, tablets and smart phones

for Christmas are being urged to talk to them about online safety.

Childline was contacted by 85 children in Wales about online

sexual abuse in the last 12 months - contributing to a 24% rise in UK

Fees paid to letting agencies could be banned under proposals

Tenants here can be charged for a range of administration

fees, including credit and immigration checks.

There are calls within the Assembly to bring Wales in line

with England and Scotland, where such fees are not charged.

A leading transport expert is warning that the rail

infrastructure in Cardiff will not cope with the increased demand it

Professor Stuart Cole says the city's Central station doesn't

have enough platforms to handle the predicted 23 million passengers

Some of Wales' best-known video bloggers - known as vloggers -

have told BBC Wales that - poor broadband speeds are holding

Many make a living by posting videos on websites like YouTube, but say -

slow internet speeds are making it difficult to develop

More than 2 million vlogs are posted online everyday and with them comes

a chance of self-made stardom, a global fan base and lucrative

So it's no wonder that the number of YouTubers from Wales

is on the rise, but what does it take to be a successful vlogger?

All you need is an idea and a camera, right?

So many people were contacting me asking for information about how

I produced my nail designs on my Facebook page

and it was taking me so long to reply to them that I thought

it is just going to be easier to film it on my phone,

stick it on YouTube and then give my friends the links.

So my name is Huw Richards and I live in mid West Wales

and I show people on YouTube how they can grow their

After building up an authentic brand creating content that is easy

to follow and entertaining, can you really make

It depends upon the number of followers that you have,

but if for example you have over one million followers,

then you can conceivably have a very good income of over ?20,000 a year.

There is one thing that many Welsh vloggers say is holding them back.

A lot of places have not been upgraded yet,

so if you're thinking about doing that, check your broadband speeds

before you start because it is make or break when you're

It means that when I have about 0.2 megabytes per second

and I have a video that is 400 megabytes, you can do the maths

and realise it takes a long time and what I have to do is go

to my college and use the Wi-Fi there, so I can

The Welsh Government says the aim is to bring fast reliable broadband

to every property in Wales and that the programme

in which it is investing ?80 million still has a year left to run.

But for the Welsh vloggers who work in a rapidly changing

high-definition world, the wait for fibre-optic broadband

Football and there's increasing pressure on Swansea City

to sack their manager, following yesterday's

The 4-1 loss has left Bob Bradley's side four points adrift of safety

Under his stewardship, the Swans have conceded 29 goals,

and won just two out of eleven games.

Many fans and pundits want him sacked.

Obviously the fans yesterday, obviously there were a lot

of chants of "Bradley out, Bradley out".

Everyone can hear it around the ground.

There are two options, either Bradley stays

and in the January transfer window, he has the option of getting

the players he wants in or obviously a new manager comes in,

and heads the same group of players for now and then

Rugby, and Ospreys are up to second in the Pro12 table as they beat

The visitors were ahead at the break, but a penalty try

and Dan Biggar's boot rewarded the Ospreys' dominance

In horse racing, the Hennessy Gold Cup winner,

Native River, has won the Coral Welsh

After his victory in Newbury last month, the six year old,

ridden by Richard Johnson, was the favourite for the contest.

Let's see what the weather has in store.

A hard frost tonight - and some fog, which will be slow

to clear in the morning but tomorrow dry with some sunshine -

I'll be back with our late bulletin just after 11.

That's Wales Today - thank you for watching.

From all of us on the programme, good evening.

Good evening. It's a wintry night out there. Temperatures as low as

minus three in one or two places