:00:11. > :00:13.Rail passengers travelling across South Wales have faced
:00:14. > :00:16.significant disruption throughout the day after planned
:00:17. > :00:22.Network Rail is currently carrying out major re-signalling work.
:00:23. > :00:25.There were cancellations between Cardiff and Newport,
:00:26. > :00:28.with some valley lines also delayed or cancelled.
:00:29. > :00:35.A ?300 million resignalling project fully underway.
:00:36. > :00:39.But delays to the work today meant delays for passengers.
:00:40. > :00:42.Some travelling to and from Cardiff Central waited
:00:43. > :00:50.Got outside Cardiff and eventually the train was delayed by over
:00:51. > :00:54.an hour and now we are just trying to get back by getting
:00:55. > :00:58.a bus to Newport and then a train from there.
:00:59. > :01:02.Because my wife is breast-feeding our newborn baby, obviously we have
:01:03. > :01:06.to carefully plan when we are able to feed her.
:01:07. > :01:12.My train was cancelled so we have had to make a phone call
:01:13. > :01:17.We have to wait around in the cold now with the little one.
:01:18. > :01:20.Bus services replaced most journeys to Newport.
:01:21. > :01:23.Some valleys' lines were also delayed and cancelled.
:01:24. > :01:26.With works planned until the 2nd of January, some disruption
:01:27. > :01:30.to services was expected here today at Cardiff Central, but with that
:01:31. > :01:35.work running behind, the disruption was worse than hoped.
:01:36. > :01:38.Network Rail say they are getting the work back on track,
:01:39. > :01:43.in time for the start of the first working week of the New Year.
:01:44. > :01:46.We were never going to open the lines until we were 100%
:01:47. > :01:48.confident that everything had been tested and was fully
:01:49. > :01:52.We will catch up now within the next few days over
:01:53. > :01:56.We've got a huge amount of complex work left to go,
:01:57. > :01:58.but we are confident that on the first working day
:01:59. > :02:00.of 2017, we will be open and ready for customers.
:02:01. > :02:03.Great Western Railway say a points failure unrelated to the engineering
:02:04. > :02:08.work contributed to delays between Swansea, Cardiff and Newport
:02:09. > :02:11.by about 40 minutes, but with the resignalling work
:02:12. > :02:15.continuing over the next few days, the advice for passengers
:02:16. > :02:19.is to check their journey details before setting off.
:02:20. > :02:22.A health board says a new emergency pharmacy service has prevented more
:02:23. > :02:27.than 8,000 unnecessary visits to GPs and hospitals in North Wales.
:02:28. > :02:30.Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says the service,
:02:31. > :02:34.which funds the emergency supply of prescription medication,
:02:35. > :02:41.Police looking for a missing man from Monmouth say they're
:02:42. > :02:45.Liam Stubbs has been missing for ten days.
:02:46. > :02:48.The 46-year-old teaching assistant was last seen in the town's
:02:49. > :02:55.Doctors and nurses at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen
:02:56. > :02:59.could be bussed into work from a nearby supermarket car park
:03:00. > :03:04.The car park is often full with patients and visitors
:03:05. > :03:09.Hywel Dda Community Health Council says it's one option
:03:10. > :03:14.being considered, but no firm decision has yet been made.
:03:15. > :03:17.A man hoping to build an 80-foot bronze sculpture of a dragon
:03:18. > :03:20.on the Welsh borders near Chirk could be given another five years
:03:21. > :03:25.Wrexham Councillors will vote on the extension next week.
:03:26. > :03:28.Businessman Simon Wingett was given planning permission
:03:29. > :03:35.for the statue in 2011 and wants to raise ?2.5 million.
:03:36. > :03:38.The funeral has taken place of a Welsh soldier who was captured
:03:39. > :03:42.in France during World War Two, but saved from the firing squad
:03:43. > :03:48.His remarkable story emerged when he brought a packet
:03:49. > :03:51.of cigarettes given to him by Field Marshall Rommel along
:03:52. > :03:58.Afterwards, Roy Wooldridge pursued his life's
:03:59. > :04:01.work teaching maths, but
:04:02. > :04:05.at 95, he shared his story on the Antiques Road Show,
:04:06. > :04:08.revealing how he was captured while on a top-secret
:04:09. > :04:15.I was taken to a French chateaux and shown into
:04:16. > :04:21.a big room and standing there was Field Marshal Rommel and looking out
:04:22. > :04:27.of the window was Field Marshal von Rundstedt.
:04:28. > :04:31.They were two of the most powerful men in Germany.
:04:32. > :04:35.It was Rommel he felt spared his life.
:04:36. > :04:38.He said, is there anything that you require?
:04:39. > :04:44.So I said, yes, I'd like a pint of beer.
:04:45. > :04:47.I'd like a packet of cigarettes and I'd like a good meal,
:04:48. > :04:57.And I was served in his mess and on the table was a stein
:04:58. > :05:02.of beer and there was a packet of cigarettes.
:05:03. > :05:08.His sons Ian and Peter say in later years he
:05:09. > :05:13.He always regarded Rommel as a man of honour,
:05:14. > :05:16.who fought a clean war and despite the fact that Hitler had
:05:17. > :05:21.ordered that anybody captured without
:05:22. > :05:23.nametags and all that, which our father was,
:05:24. > :05:28.was to be shot, Rommel didn't agree with that and so, Dad
:05:29. > :05:31.always reckoned it was Rommel who saved his life.
:05:32. > :05:34.His collection was valued at around ?10,000, but he told
:05:35. > :05:38.the Antiques Road Show it was not for sale.
:05:39. > :05:45.It will now be donated to the Imperial War Museum.
:05:46. > :05:48.Football, and Swansea City's caretaker boss Alan Curtis has said
:05:49. > :05:51.the next manager should ideally be British and have experience
:05:52. > :05:56.But it does now seem unlikely that either Ryan Giggs or Chris Coleman
:05:57. > :06:00.will succeed American Bob Bradley who was sacked on Tuesday.
:06:01. > :06:03.Curtis, who will be at the helm during Saturday's game
:06:04. > :06:06.against Bournemouth, says he has no idea for how long
:06:07. > :06:14.Whoever comes in has to be the right man.
:06:15. > :06:16.I suppose ideally he would be British, knowing the Premier League,
:06:17. > :06:19.but they have to be satisfied that he fills all the criteria for
:06:20. > :06:43.We have had a real mixed today. Sunshine and frost. Fog and cloud
:06:44. > :06:49.and a wide range of temperature. Tonight, most places are dry.
:06:50. > :06:54.Freezing fog patches in the east. A lot of cloud around. Some frost
:06:55. > :06:59.inland but milder on the coast and in the West. Tomorrow, fog patches
:07:00. > :07:06.will slowly lift. A lot of cloud around with limited amounts of
:07:07. > :07:12.sunshine. The odd spot of drizzle. Fairly mild, seven in Monmouth, 11
:07:13. > :07:19.in Bangor. Into new years eve, mostly dry, sunshine in places. Just
:07:20. > :07:24.the odd spot of rain. Breezy in the north. Then on New Year's Day, rain
:07:25. > :07:30.will clear southwards, then it will try and brighten up and turning
:07:31. > :07:35.colder with showers in the north. Change on the way for the start of
:07:36. > :07:37.the New Year, turning quite cold with some sunshine and more frost. I
:07:38. > :07:40.will be back tomorrow. We'll be back with the late
:07:41. > :07:42.bulletin just after 11pm. From all of us on the programme,
:07:43. > :07:48.hwyl fawr, goodbye.