:00:11. > :00:13.Two men have been charged with attempted murder
:00:14. > :00:16.following a stabbing near Pontypool on Tuesday.
:00:17. > :00:21.A 47-year-old man remains in a critical but stable
:00:22. > :00:26.condition in hospital following the incident
:00:27. > :00:31.will appear before Newport Crown Court at the end of January.
:00:32. > :00:33.Disruption on the rail network has continued for a second day
:00:34. > :00:38.Services between Cardiff and Maesteg have been affected
:00:39. > :00:40.as well as between Cardiff and Birmingham,
:00:41. > :00:46.Yesterday, passengers faced delays and cancellations
:00:47. > :00:53.Gwent Police say the disappearance of a Newbridge man, presumed
:00:54. > :00:58.murdered, remains a mystery four years after he went missing.
:00:59. > :01:01.Kyle Vaughan's car was found on the side of a
:01:02. > :01:06.A murder inquiry was launched but he's never been found.
:01:07. > :01:09.Eight people have been arrested over the course of the inquiry
:01:10. > :01:13.but all were released without charge.
:01:14. > :01:16.It's a year since the Wylfa nuclear power station closed down
:01:17. > :01:20.bringing to an end more than 40 years of electricity generation.
:01:21. > :01:23.Its operators say the decommissioning process
:01:24. > :01:26.is on track despite some problems with equipment.
:01:27. > :01:30.After two more years, it's expected all the most
:01:31. > :01:33.radioactive material will have been removed from the site.
:01:34. > :01:39.On its way off site, another flask of radioactive
:01:40. > :01:44.material, spent fuel cells leaving Wylfa for Sellafield in Cumbria.
:01:45. > :01:52.Ashley White heads up what is called safety case at the plant.
:01:53. > :01:55.Typically, we ship around five of these a week
:01:56. > :01:57.during the de-fuelling period and have around
:01:58. > :02:02.500 sent of site before we actually finish de-fuelling here at Wylfa.
:02:03. > :02:06.Before shutdown, Wylfa is being run from its control room.
:02:07. > :02:11.Now it is the de-fuelling operation rather than electricity generation
:02:12. > :02:16.But it is out on the floor of the massive reactor room
:02:17. > :02:18.that the real work is being done.
:02:19. > :02:22.Special equipment used to remove spent fuel elements from the
:02:23. > :02:29.They were allowed to cool for 100 days before de-fuelling.
:02:30. > :02:31.And there have been some problem since.
:02:32. > :02:34.For the shutdown of thing went according
:02:35. > :02:36.to plan, and through the 100 day outage.
:02:37. > :02:41.The reliability of the defuelling machinery through the sort of period
:02:42. > :02:44.up to now has not been what we would have liked
:02:45. > :02:47.but we're working our way through that.
:02:48. > :02:50.You can see the dedication of the people on site.
:02:51. > :02:53.A lot of work has been done in the machines getting them ready,
:02:54. > :02:58.there is also a maintenance schedule to make sure everything is safe
:02:59. > :03:01.on that machine so they are doing a lot of the checks on there before
:03:02. > :03:06.we hand it over from maintenance teams to the operation teams.
:03:07. > :03:10.It is estimated it will be another ten years before enough radioactive
:03:11. > :03:13.material is removed to put Wylfa into what is called,
:03:14. > :03:18.Another 100 years before the site can be cleared.
:03:19. > :03:22.Over time the buildings here will reduce in size but it
:03:23. > :03:25.will be a long time before Wylfa disappears
:03:26. > :03:31.Newly released papers show that Margaret Thatcher questioned
:03:32. > :03:34.whether more money should be given to thousands of people affected
:03:35. > :03:37.by severe flooding along the North Wales coast in 1990.
:03:38. > :03:40.In a raft of previously secret documents
:03:41. > :03:44.published by the National Archives, the former prime minister asks
:03:45. > :03:50.if the ?50,000 Welsh Office donation seemed low.
:03:51. > :03:53.They became known as the Towyn floods as the seaside resort
:03:54. > :03:57.was most badly affected by a major breach of its sea wall.
:03:58. > :04:00.But large stretches of coast across North Wales were also hit.
:04:01. > :04:03.5,000 people had to leave their homes and caravan parks
:04:04. > :04:08.A fund was established to offer relief to the worst hit.
:04:09. > :04:11.For the first time it's been revealed that Margaret Thatcher
:04:12. > :04:13.questioned whether the ?50,000 dontation from the
:04:14. > :04:18.The National Archives have released cabinet minutes which show she urged
:04:19. > :04:22.the then Welsh Secretary to ask the Treasury for more.
:04:23. > :04:25.I dare say that within the Cabinet, different people had different views
:04:26. > :04:29.but of course we had the Mayor of Colwyn's fund which amounted
:04:30. > :04:32.to nearly ?1 million to which ordinary people
:04:33. > :04:37.Although public donations helped raise around ?1 million,
:04:38. > :04:39.Wyn Roberts was among the victims who felt
:04:40. > :04:45.There were nearly 2,000 homes flooded.
:04:46. > :04:56.I mean, the camps got a lot of money because their places were all upset.
:04:57. > :05:01.But they did nothing for the people living here, nothing at all.
:05:02. > :05:04.This area has flooded several more times since 1990
:05:05. > :05:06.although there are many defences in place.
:05:07. > :05:09.People whose homes were devastated 27 years ago are
:05:10. > :05:12.speculating what difference, if any, might have made by the
:05:13. > :05:15.attempted intervention of the then Prime Minister.
:05:16. > :05:18.Seperate government documents from 1989 made
:05:19. > :05:20.available today, show another row about money.
:05:21. > :05:23.It's emerged that the then Welsh Secretary Peter Walker
:05:24. > :05:26.rejected plans for his department to fund the
:05:27. > :05:29.S4C television channel rather than the Home Office, fearing it
:05:30. > :05:34.would bring the station too far into the political domain.
:05:35. > :05:38.Paul Clement is understood to be the leading candidate to become
:05:39. > :05:42.Swansea City's new manager but Gary Rowett remains in contention.
:05:43. > :05:44.Clement is currently assistant manager at Bayern Munich,
:05:45. > :05:48.while Rowett was recently sacked by Birmingham City.
:05:49. > :05:51.Ryan Giggs and Wales manager Chris Coleman were among
:05:52. > :05:53.the early favourites but it's understood
:05:54. > :06:00.Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints will break
:06:01. > :06:03.a 44-year-old world record tonight if they beat Cefn Druids
:06:04. > :06:10.They equalled the record set by the Dutch side Ajax in 1972,
:06:11. > :06:16.with a 4-0 victory over Cefn Druids on Boxing Day.
:06:17. > :06:20.And Cardiff City's match against Brighton in the Championship
:06:21. > :06:31.Let's get the weather, Derek's got the forecast.
:06:32. > :06:39.Fogg has been causing problems in parts of the UK over the past couple
:06:40. > :06:43.of days. The worst of it has passed. It will have done so by the time we
:06:44. > :06:47.get to New Year's Day because by then we will have a cold air stream
:06:48. > :06:52.coming in from the Arctic. Today, it has been milder in Wales with
:06:53. > :06:55.temperatures as high as 13 Celsius in Milford Haven. It has been grey
:06:56. > :07:05.and misty in Tonypandy as you can see. So this evening and tonight,
:07:06. > :07:09.Misty and murky in parts of the south. Dry overnight and we should
:07:10. > :07:16.escape a frost, lowers temperatures for Celsius in parts of mid-and east
:07:17. > :07:22.Wales. For tomorrow, a grey starting places. A lots of dry weather
:07:23. > :07:26.tomorrow. The cloud should break up. It will be mild, 11 degrees in
:07:27. > :07:31.Wrexham with a south-westerly breeze. If you are heading out to
:07:32. > :07:37.celebrate New Year, take an umbrella, that is rain in the wake
:07:38. > :07:46.-- on the way. On New Year's Day, the rain will clear and it will try
:07:47. > :07:48.and biting. A cold start to the New Year, some sunshine.
:07:49. > :07:50.I'll be back with our next bulletin at 10.50pm.
:07:51. > :07:51.That's Wales Today, thank you for watching.
:07:52. > :07:55.From all of us on the programme, good evening.