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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A new treatment fund to get new drugs to patients more quickly. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Welcome news for people who've suffered delays in getting | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
It would enable me to get on with my life a bit easier | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
But there'll be disappointment for some patients still waiting | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
Swansea's billion pound tidal lagoon. | :00:24. | :00:41. | |
More than 20 companies urge the UK Government to give the go ahead. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Euro 2016 saw famous faces in the arrivals lounge - | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Cardiff Airport lands a 16% increase in passengers. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
In tonight's sport: Alex Thomson from Bangor in the toughest sporting | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
event in the world - sailing around the globe non-stop, | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
You certainly feel isolated when you are down here. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
There is nobody to rescue you, nobody to help you, | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
The only things around you are birds and albatrosses. | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
And Diana and Pavarotti leant their support in the early days. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
The founder of Ty Hafan children's hospice, Suzanne Goodall, | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Patients in Wales will get access to new medicines more quickly | :01:23. | :01:32. | |
than any other part of the UK following the launch | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
That's according to the Health Secretary, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
who's announced an extra ?16 million a year to help patients | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
access new medicines within two months of them | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
It follows concerns that health boards have been too slow | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke. | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
Even though he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 20 years ago, | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
Simon from Llantrisant has always tried to live life to the full. He's | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
travelled the world. I've sat with the mountain gorillas in Rwanda, | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
watched humpback whales of Alaska. But those experiences are now just | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
memories. It is a struggle to get showered, to get washed and changed | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
in the morning. Even a simple task like that just completely wipe you | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
out. But he thinks a drug which helps ease muscle spasms could help | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
him. It was recommended for use in the Welsh NHS to under half years | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
ago but Simon blames a row about who pays for it means his doctor has not | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
been able to prescribe it. It is extremely frustrating. I've actually | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
been off work for the last six weeks and the thought that this drug could | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
possibly help me with the spasms to the point where it would enable me | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
to get on with my life a bit easier. Hundreds of new drugs and treatments | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
are developed every year but the NHS can't afford to pay for them all so | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
it is the responsibility of two expert organisations to assess the | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
benefits and the cost. They are called the National Institute for | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
health and care excellence and the all Wales medicines strategy group. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
If they say no, you either have to be a special case for treatment or | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
pay for it privately. But if they decided treatment is cost-effective, | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
it should be on the NHS as a matter of course. But that doesn't always | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
happen straightaway. There have been significant challenges by health | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
boards in terms of their planning. And there ability to Horizon scan | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
these medicines. I think today perhaps will remove some of the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
obstacles to the challenges that the health boards found themselves | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
facing in terms of the financial challenges. The Welsh government | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
will give the NHS an extra ?60 million a year to start delivering | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
new medicines within two months while health boards plan how to pay | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
for them over the longer term. If you have a really high cost medicine | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
which is approved, you can then have a timeline with different health | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
boards being able to deliver that medicine. This will mean that there | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
will be a consistent delivery across the country. He also says the system | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
here can be used to treat all conditions and will be fairer than | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
in England and Scotland, where drugs funds are in place but for specific | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
conditions like cancer or rarer illnesses. So ground-breaking stuff? | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Genuinely ground-breaking. Better than the system in England, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Scotland, more effective, and people will receive the proven medication | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
on a much quicker basis. But patients hoping this fund will play | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
for unapproved drugs that could help them will be disappointed. If we | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
simply decided that regardless of the price, anything will be | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
available, we would be very quickly in trouble with our inability to | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
control the drugs budget. But others insist they needs to be other | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
investment. It is that broader ongoing support that people will | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
need from their nurses, from their neurologist, from appointments. | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Since April this year, 35 new treatments have been approved for | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
use in the Welsh NHS to help patients with conditions ranging | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
from arthritis to HIV. The pace at which new medicines are developed is | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
phenomenal. The problem is that the NHS at times has struggled to keep | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
up. We've reported many times of people | :05:41. | :05:41. | |
moving to England to get drugs that What's the impact of this | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
announcement on them? Many of those stories about patients | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
who wanted access to cancer medicines in particular in England | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
from the English Cancer Drugs Fund, that fund was set up initially as a | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
way for paying for often expensive drugs that had not been approved as | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
cost-effective. But the costs of that fund spiralled. It was changed | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
quite significantly. And now decisions about costs are central to | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
it. The Welsh government tell me if you just look at cancer medicines, | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
for example, if they now get funded through the revised English | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
mechanism, they will also come under the new wealth fund, so there will | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
be a greater degree of parity, although the Welsh government will | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
claim its fund is there as it will be able to pay for speedier access | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
to all kinds of medicines for all kinds of different conditions. But | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
there will be people listening and watching tonight thinking, I have | :06:43. | :06:54. | |
got an illness, I know there is a drug out there, it's very expensive, | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
it's not been approved as cost-effective, will this fund pay | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
for that? The simple answer is no. They have to make a request to | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
another mechanism. It has been criticised as unfair and a postcode | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
lottery. It is being reviewed and the outcome is expected soon. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
First Minister Carwyn Jones says there is no Plan B if steelworkers | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
reject the current offer being made to them by Tata. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
The deal includes new commitments for investment at Port Talbot | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
but would also result in cuts to the pension scheme. | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
Plaid Cymru says it's unacceptable and it should be | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
Let's talk to our political editor Nick Servini. | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
Just yesterday, the unions called for politicians to stay out of this. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
No sign of that today. That's right, and everybody will be aware of the | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
uncertainty surrounding the steel industry in 2016. Tata have given | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
renewed commitments for ?1 billion worth of investments. But the sting | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
in the tail for the steel workers is that there will be cuts to the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
pension schemes. They will be balloted on this later in the month. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Plaid Cymru have been very vocal on this. They say conditions for the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
steel industry are much better now than they were, these terms are | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
unacceptable, they should be rejected by the staff. That has | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
prompted an indignant response from union officials with a very blunt | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
message, saying to politicians, keep your noses out of it, these are | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
tough personal decisions. What we saw today in the First Minister's | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Questions of 2017, which Carwyn Jones, not entirely listening to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
that advice, because while he didn't explicitly urge steelworkers to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
support the deal, he did say there is no plan B, he did say this is the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
only deal on the table, and he did say this is the best way of | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
preserving jobs in the sector. He made it abundantly clear that he | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
believes the best deal for the steelworkers is to support this. In | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
truth, it was probably unrealistic to expect the politicians to stay | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
out of this. In other words, steelworkers can expect plenty of | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
people to give them advice now on which way to vote in the weeks | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
ahead. Thank you. More than 20 industrial companies | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
have urged the UK Government to go ahead with the planned ?1.3 billion | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. In a letter to the Financial Times, | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
they say it could start a new era An independent review | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
into the viability of generating electricity from tidal lagoons | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
will be published on Thursday. Here's our economics | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
correspondent Sarah Dickins. This is how Swansea Bay's tidal | :09:23. | :09:34. | |
lagoon might look when it's built. Using the tide, the energy of the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
moon, to generate power for electricity. Tidal lagoon power | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
wants to build a six mile breakwater wall that will trap water. As the | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
tide falls, it will empty, powering a bank of 16 turbines. The plan is | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
to generate enough electricity to power 155,000 homes for the next 120 | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
years. The price tag is ?1.3 billion and the company promises to spend | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
half of that in Wales. It also says they will be 2200 manufacturing and | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
construction jobs. The lagoon was given planning consent 18 months ago | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
but has been held up because of negotiations with the UK Government | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
about the price it will guarantee for the electricity that the lagoon | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
will feed into the National Grid. The Swansea Bay project will be the | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
first of its kind and if it gets the go-ahead, tidal lagoon power wants | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
to build another five lagoons at sites including Cardiff, Newport and | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Colwyn Bay, which would create 35,000 jobs in Wales. But it is all | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
on hold while ministers wait to hear the results of the independent Henry | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
Review into the economic viability of tidal lagoon power. | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
And the conclusions of that independent review | :10:46. | :10:46. | |
It has been very detailed, it has been going on for months, and their | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
team have talked to people across Wales and the UK about the | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
implications of this new industry, not just for energy generation but | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
how much renewable energy, at what cost, what it means for jobs and | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
what it means for the environment. We'll get the recommendation of the | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
review on Thursday morning and I'm told we will also get a statement | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
from the UK Government. In other words, we will hear what will be | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
happening to the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon and we might well here what | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
would happen to the industry after that because we know that the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
company behind Swansea wants a network of about six lagoons across | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
the UK as well as things they would be planning abroad. And support a | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
day from 20 companies, writing this letter to the Financial Times. How | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
significant is that? They are 20 industrialists employing more than | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
42,000 people. I think this really shows the level at which industry is | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
wanting to see this happen on many levels. Some will benefit directly | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
from that, of course, but they really feel this is an opportunity | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
for the UK. One of the companies is one I have spoken to before in | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Pembrokeshire that has really suffered from the decline of oil and | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
sees this as an opportunity for a new industry. These businesses that | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
have been tendering for work and have been talking to Charles Hendry, | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
they stretch the breath of Wales, friend temperature to Chepstow, and | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
also in North Wales as well. We need to remember that it would still need | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a Marine license and there are significant lobbies in the | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
environmental and the fish lobby who are not happy with the proposals. | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Thank you. A community regeneration | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
charity in Aberavon has had its Welsh Government funding | :12:33. | :12:33. | |
suspended whilst police investigate allegations | :12:34. | :12:35. | |
of a misuse of public funds. NSA Afan, based in Sandfields | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
in Port Talbot, is being investigated by South Wales Police, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
who have arrested and bailed a 35-year-old woman from the area | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
on suspicion of theft. Work begins this week on a pump | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
to protect hundreds of flood-hit In December 2013, around | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
400 people were forced to leave their homes when severe | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
storms breached sea defences. It's the third and final phase | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
of more than a million pounds of improvements by Denbighshire | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Council. Two search and rescue helicopters | :13:06. | :13:20. | |
based in Caernarfon have been temporarily grounded. Because cars | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
are being forced to carry out urgent safety inspections on the tail | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
rotors after an accident involving a similar helicopter on a North Sea | :13:33. | :13:33. | |
oil rig last week. A new replacement terminal could be | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
built at Cardiff Airport The plan was announced as a rise | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
in passenger numbers Four years ago, amid falling | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
numbers, the airport was bought by the Welsh Government | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
for ?52 million. Our business correspondent Brian | :13:47. | :13:48. | |
Meechan is there for us tonight. There aren't that many people here | :13:49. | :14:01. | |
tonight, Jamie, so science perhaps that there is still room for | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
improvement. Small airports in recent years have really struggled | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and we have seen some go to close down. Such as Blackpool and | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Plymouth, where they have closed down commercial flights. Other | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
airports have really succeeded, such as Manchester and Edinburgh. The | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
question is whether the Welsh government intervention can turn | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Cardiff from a struggling airport to a larger, more successful one. There | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
was more positive news today. Few passengers using Cardiff Airport | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
in 2016 received a welcome like the national football team | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
returning from the Euros but more and more travellers went | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
through its doors last year. Cardiff Airport has seen | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
an increase of 16% in passenger That means over 1.3 million | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
travellers in 2016. That had an impact of over | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
?100 million on the local economy. Those heading to sunnier shores | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
today say they have noticed improvements from the investment | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
at the airport but want to see more. I don't know how much | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
is here when you go through now. It has changed from three | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
or four years ago. It's starting to be | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
a lot more places to go. We had to go from Bristol other | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
years because there has not been any The current terminal is more than 45 | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
years old and in reality it hasn't fundamentally changed much | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
from what it looks like today. The limitations of the current | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
building is one of the reasons the airport is planning to build | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
a new one in the next ten years. We have invested heavily, | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
we have significantly improved the experience and the facilities | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
here but there is a limit to what we can do so we have got | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
long-term ambitious plans for the business and really | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
to enable us to get to where we want to be, | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
a new replacement terminal will be a significant part of the master | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
plan as we go forward. The airport is paying | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
back loans at commercial rates on money borrowed | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
from the Welsh Government It has already started discussions | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
with state-owned investment funds and pension funds | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
to take a share in the business which would help fund | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
the new terminal. But what would a private | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
investor want to see? Private investors are going to want | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
to see that they are going to get a return on their investment | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
so it's imperative that airport operators are able to provide | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
evidence that there is not only a current customer base | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
but that this base is going to be sustained, that there is a real | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
will for the airlines to operate These are the sort of requirements | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
the operator will need to give Cardiff Airport has a target | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
of 2 million passengers a year It will have to constantly | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
improve what it's offering in order to achieve that, | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
given the range of other There has been a debate ultimately | :17:01. | :17:16. | |
about what should happen if the Welsh government ownership is able | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
to turn this around. I spoke to the economy secretary today, Ken Skates, | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
and he dismissed any idea of it being sold on to the private sector | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
completely, or even giving up 50-52 the private sector. He said it will | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
continue to be driven by the Welsh government, but he said he will be | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
happy to see investment coming in from the private sector, those | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
pension funds in particular, if that means being able to help with the | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
infrastructure and the facilities. Much more to come before | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
seven o'clock: Alex Thomson from Bangor | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
in the toughest sporting event in the world - | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
sailing around the globe non-stop And Diana and Pavarotti | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
leant their support. The founder of Ty Hafan children's | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
hospice, Suzanne Goodall, has died. If you have a minor injury that | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
needs medical attention and live in North Wales, | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
you can make use of a new mobile phone app that shows | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
waiting times at hospitals. Live Wait is designed to relieve | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
pressure on busy A departments and persuade people to use smaller | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
health centres instead. Originally designed for use | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
in hospitals in Staffordshire, the Live Wait app now includes | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
North Wales. Type in your postcode and it | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
will tell you how busy If your problem isn't too serious, | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
you could choose to use a quieter What we are trying to do | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
with technology is do whatever we can to inform the public | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
about all the services At the moment it could be that | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
people are unaware that their local hospital has been upskilled | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
with regards to nursing staff or facilities so if they had to come | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
here before they don't any more. Eleri Pugh has brought her mother | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
to Bangor's A department today. She thinks relieving | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
pressure on staff If they come to a big hospital | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
like this, perhaps they think they can see a minor injuries doctor | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
or they come to the major A and they don't know who to see | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
so they come here first. But the minor injuries | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
units, they are good. The app designers believe many | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
people are not aware that A is not Staff say that although Ysbyty | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Gwynedd might be closer, 25 miles away at this minor injuries | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
unit, there is no wait. At this centre near Porthmadog, | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
staff can treat a range I think people see the emergency | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
departments as the next option They don't realise there | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
is a Community Hospital out there that can deal with a lot | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
of conditions so they need to be educated and it | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
will work well, I'm sure. The most serious life-threatening | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
problems will still get prioritised in busy departments but for everyone | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
else, the power to keep waiting times to a minimum | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
could be at your fingertips. Tonight's sport now. | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Here's Tomos. It's the toughest sporting | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
event in the world - sailing around the globe non-stop | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
single-handed with no help. Alex Thomson from Bangor is doing | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
just that and is contention to win Tonight, after 65 days alone | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
on the ocean, he's in second place, More people have been in outer space | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
and up Mount Everest than have And in the vast oceans, a Welshman | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
is hoping to make history - become the first outside France | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
to win the Vendee Globe. You certainly feel isolated | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
when you are down here. There's nobody to rescue you, | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
nobody to help you, The only things around | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
you are birds and albatrosses. 29 boats set off from the north-west | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
of France on November the 6th. Those that do will have travelled | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
28,000 miles across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
before getting back to the Atlantic It's remarkable that Alex Thomson | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
is still in this race. Yesterday morning, I was dozing | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
and there was an almighty bang, While in the lead, he hit something | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
and the boat was badly damaged. Alex thought he would limp | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
home in tenth but he has clawed his way back, | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
100 miles behind the leader with less than 3,000 miles | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
to the finish line. Alex Thomson's boat is built | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
for speed, not for comfort. He doesn't have a toilet, | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
no kitchen either, It looks like something | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
you might give your baby. Alex needs to eat up | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
to 7,000 calories a day. He sleeps no more than | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
20 minutes at a time. The reason, when he's sleeping, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
the boat goes more slowly. It's nine weeks since Alex last | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
saw his wife and two young children # Crashing through the waves, | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
in a 16 mono hull. # Not a soul in sight, | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
but the day is never dull.# There have been other | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
high points too. This was captured by one of Alex's | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
rivals off Cape Town. Alex Thomson says it has been | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
like a war on the water at times He's completed 90% of the race | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
and this week we'll see whether a sailor from Bangor | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
can overcome the odds and win the hardest sailing race | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
of them all. A date for your diary, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
and Lee Selby will defend his world IBF featherweight title | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
for the third time against Jonathan Barros on January | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
the 28th in America. Selby, who's from Barry, | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
wants to emulate the likes of Lennox Lewis and Joe Calzaghe | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
and win in Las Vegas. After a 12 month absence, | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
Elfyn Evans from Dolgolleau will compete in all 13 rounds | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
of this year's World The first round gets underway | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
at Monte Carlo later this month. The woman who spearheaded a campaign | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
to open the first children's hospice Suzanne Goodall founded | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Ty Hafan in 1999 - a centre which has supported | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
hundreds of families For the last 18 years, | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
Ty Hafan has been looking after life-limited children, | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
young people and their families, ensuring they make the most | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
of every precious moment. And it was all made possible by this | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
woman, Suzanne Goodall. After retiring as an occupational | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
therapist, she spent the next 11 years realising her vision to set | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
up a children's hospice for Wales. Princess Diana became Ty Hafan's | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
first patron and persuaded Pavarotti to give a concert to raise money | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
to build it in 1995. Thankfully, with all the wonderful | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
people who have helped us along the way and very excellent, | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
committed staff and all our friends, Today in the chapel at Ty Hafan, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
a solitary candle was lit She will be remembered for her huge | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
compassion for families but very much making sure that children | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
and families have the service She's in the fabric of the building, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
in everything we do. This really will be her legacy, | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
that she has supported paediatric palliative care and brought it | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
forward so much in Wales. There are butterflies | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
dotted around the hospice near Barry that she founded, | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
a metaphor of the short but beautiful life they manage | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
to create for the children here. Ty Hafan is now in talks | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
with the Royal College of Nursing in Wales | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
to create an annual award that would recognise | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
excellence in nurses working Suzanne Goodall, who's | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
died at the age of 95. Sue's got the forecast | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
tonight and talk of snow Our weather has been fairly quiet of | :25:24. | :25:39. | |
late but by the end of the week wintry weather on the way. It will | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
turn colder with the risk of rain, sleet and snow for some parts of | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Wales. Tonight, some dry spells, the odd spot of patchy rain, mist and | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
fog pick-up overnight. Not too cold at 6-8 C. These are fairly frequent | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
-- friends and they clear. The winds turn more north-westerly. These | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
isobars are close together, signalling colder winds. Tomorrow, a | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
few early showers. They should clear. Turning dry and brighter but | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
the emphasis is on the wind. Very strong north-westerly. They could | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
reach gale force along the coast. Six Celsius in Gwyneth Glyn ten in | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Cardiff. But the whinger will make it feel colder than that. Tomorrow | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
largely dry but as we get into the cold air, a chance any showers could | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
turn wintry, mainly over high ground, but temperatures starting to | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
drop. And then the pressure chart shows this frontal wave coming in | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
from the south-west on Thursday falling mainly as rain but where it | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
meets the cold air, snow is possible. But huge uncertainty about | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
the position of this system. So this is a snapshot for Thursday. Don't | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
take the graphics too literally. Some brighter spells but the | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
likelihood of showers for some and where the front meets the colder | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
air, a Met Office warning that any showers could be a wintry mix of | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
rain, sleet and snow. Very hard to pinpoint but it will be cold and | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
windy. For the end of the week, we keep those north-westerly winds. A | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
coming from Iceland. These friends bring an ongoing risk of wintry | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
showers. Also the risk of thunder. I'll have an update | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
for you here at 8pm and again after the BBC News | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
at 10pm. From all of us on the | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
programme, good evening. | :27:38. | :27:40. |