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'A strong contribution to the energy supply'. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
An independent review backs the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
project, which could create two thousand jobs. | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
We have an opportunity now for the UK to use its formidable skills to | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
start a new global industry. But there remains concern | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
over the impact it So how much closer tonight | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
is the ?1 billion project How much less could we be paying | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
on the severn crossings? We'll have the latest | :00:34. | :00:50. | |
on new plans which could see In an exclusive interview, | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tells us allowing Wales | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
to set its own immigration rules If you set up Welsh limits on | :01:00. | :01:15. | |
immigration or started the same thing for English regions would you | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
then restrict the movement of those people within the UK? | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Network bosses meet frustrated customers and politicians to see how | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
And snow has fallen in some places but ice could be | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
We're live with the gritters as they prepare to head out. | :01:31. | :01:40. | |
The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon should go ahead, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
The Hendry Review, commissioned by the UK Government, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
says it would make a "strong contribution" to the energy supply | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
When built, it would generate enough electricity to power 155,000 homes | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
The price tag for the project is ?1.3 billion. | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
The company says it would create more than 2,200 manufacturing | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
But the UK Government still needs to agree to a deal. | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
Here's our Economics Correspondent, Sarah Dickins. | :02:16. | :02:35. | |
A designer 's vision which is now more likely to happen. And sing the | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
energy of the tides. The report from the Hendry review recommends the | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Swansea tidal lagoon goes ahead. The man behind it is ecstatic. It was | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
better than we expected. It was brilliant. It is such a watershed | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
for us. It said let's start tidal lagoons, let's start with Swansea | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
and let it on with it now. As the tides ebb and flow so the lagoon | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
will generate electricity. They would be 16 turbines using the | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
energy as the tide goes in and out. It would also generate hundreds of | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Welsh jobs. We have an opportunity now for the UK to use its formidable | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
skills to start a new global industry. To do so in a way that | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
enhances our energy security supply and helps meet our decarbonisation | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
commitments. Another cost that is around the cost of a pint of milk | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
per household each year. Tidal lagoon power has promised that half | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
of the 1.3 "Cost will be spent in Wales. This company and Abergavenny | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
will be the first on-site, carrying out the civil engineering for the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
lagoon. Things like roadways. They expect to have 100 people working on | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
the site. By this project going ahead it would enable us to keep on | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
expanding to recruit more local people, to train more local people | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
for the future. GE at rugby have the contract for the turbines. At first | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
they would only be assembled in Wales but tidal lagoon power has | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
already put out to tender to build a new ?22 million turbine | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
manufacturing plant in Swansea docks. We have invested over the | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
last few years in new robots and other automated capability to be | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
able to not only deliver the workload we have today but also to | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
be able to deliver the workload in the future. The Swansea project is | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
the first of six in tidal lagoons plans. For in Wales, two in England. | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
The tidal energy to have a truly transformational effect on our | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
economy than ever lagoons need to follow, particularly here in Cardiff | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
and also in Colwyn Bay. That is when the Welsh economy would feel the | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
difference, not just in terms of jobs but also businesses that would | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
be expected to be set up here. Charles Hendry has suggested a tidal | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
lagoon authority, all things which could delay that develop in. Tidal | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
lagoon power says those delays are not a problem. You have to finish | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Swansea. We would want to finish Swansea and now that the fish | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
studies were accurate, what we said would happen with the silt were | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
accurate, before you start building Cardiff. The UK Government says it | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
will respond in due course. The company hopes to start work on site | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
in spring 2018. As well as securing the necessary | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
funds and the backing of the UK Government, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
the scheme also needs a so-called marine licence | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
from Natural Resources Wales. After years of discussions there's | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
still no sign of agreement with serious concerns being raised | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
about the lagoon's Our environment correspondent | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Steffan Messenger now on what's next Swansea Bay is home to play throw of | :05:56. | :06:12. | |
birds, fish and other wildlife stop so what impact will the lagoon have | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
on them? The developers say the effect on nature will be negligible. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
But fishing groups in particular disagree. The lagoon in Swansea will | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
affect the rivers, all of which are important sea trout rivers. Natural | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Resources Wales agree with this. They have not yet issued a marine | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
licence. Planning permission for the Swansea Bay lagoon was granted based | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
on modelling that suggested it would have minimal impact on fish. But | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
before Christmas Natural Resources Wales revised its predictions | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
claiming 21% of salmon and 25% of sea trout could be killed each year | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
as they migrate to and from local rivers. A major adverse impact. | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Tidal lagoon power say they don't agree with the figures all the way | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
they have been worked out. They have submitted new evidence which could | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
lead to further delay. The irony here is that this is about green | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
energy and lots of it. If all six lagoons are built and live up to | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
their promise of delivering around 12% of our relatives that he needs | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
that could be a significant boost to the UK's efforts to cut carbon | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
emissions and tackle climate change. That is generally agree to be the | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
greatest threat to nature conservation. Charles Hendry's | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
report the first lagoon in Swansea is given the go-ahead. So any effect | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
on wildlife can be carefully monitored. The review indicates that | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
both economic league and environmentally in his field this | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
should go ahead. That is a wake-up call both to the UK Government and | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
the agency here in Wales. They need to ensure the enable this to happen. | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
Several environmental charities have given a cautious welcome but they | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
want assurances they will be enough of a pause between building the | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
first lagoon and starting work on more. How long a pause are we | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
talking about? Eight years minimum should be the pause because that is | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
the timespan of two fish spawning cycles. Less than that we cannot | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
look at the environmental impact properly. Natural Resources Wales | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
says it is working closely with the developers and other experts to make | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
sure it fairly assesses the impact of this world first scheme. | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
Developing new sources of sustainable energy in a way that | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
minimises harm to the environment is a goal it says it wholeheartedly | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
supports. The UK Government is planning to cut | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
the tolls on the Severn crossings From 2018 when the bridges revert | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
to public ownership, all cars and small vehicles | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
will pay three pounds. Tomorrow, a consultation | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
will also be published into Our political editor | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Nick Servini is here. We already knew that the tolls were | :09:09. | :09:30. | |
going to be halved. In a letter from two UK Government ministers to MPs | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
it says that will come down to ?3. Particularly big savings for vans | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
and small vehicles at the moment. Let me point you to a sentence in | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
the letter which says we want to be clear there is no intention to use | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
the tolls for any purpose other than to support their operation and | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
maintenance. It is saying they will be no plan to use the revenue to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
bolster the car offers of the Treasury. A few years ago David | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Davies the Monmouth MP got some figures pointing to a figure of a | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
total of just ?1 to support the operation and maintenance. So they | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
will come down but they will be further political pressure for them | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
to come down further as well. On the free-flowing charging system we knew | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
the government was looking at this. It does nudge it along a bit with | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
the official publication tomorrow. All of which is great news for | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
motorists and a timely reminder that after decades of tribe is paying for | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the costs of these crossings we are approaching a moment when they are | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
going to be significant changes to the tolls. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
An inquest has heard how a father drowned accidentally after getting | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
into difficulty in the sea with his nine-year-old son. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
40-year-old Benny Collins was taken to Morriston Hospital | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
after being recovered from the water at Three Cliffs Bay | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
He was the third person to die at the popular | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Benny Collins' family arrived at the inquest in Swansea to hear how he | :10:59. | :11:11. | |
lost his life at the beach. The physio at Morriston Hospital Mr | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Collins was described as a loving family man who was also passionate | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
about sport. It was in July 2015 when Mr Collins had come to this | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
problem beauty spot with his son Harry. The inquest heard they run | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
into the sea together holding hands but they were knocked off their feet | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
by way. Harry was thrown towards the short whilst his dad was dragged | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
away. When the tide is out here the sea is safe for swimming but when it | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
comes back in and meets with this dream which runs through the centre | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of the beach it becomes treacherous as a rip Curl and is formed which | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
has enough strength to pull any object or person back out to sea. | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
The Coast were called on Mr Collins was pulled from the water by a | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
helicopter. He was taken to Morriston Hospital but efforts to | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
revive him were in vain. His death was the second within a matter of | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
weeks. It sparked calls for lifeguards provision there which has | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
since happened. There has been a different diver death -- a | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
difference this year with lifeguards there. There is nothing better than | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
somebody on the scene. The seas can be enjoyed nicely but at times we | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
need to take that care. Asking senior coroner Colin Phillips | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
described what happened that day as a tragedy. He told the family he | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
will consider whether adequate improvements have been made at the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
beach since Mr Collins' death. He also said he would continue at a | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
session with the RNLI about what more can be done. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Drivers are being warned to prepare for icy conditions on the roads | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
overnight and into the morning with temperatures expected to drop | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Snow has fallen in some parts of Wales today | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Our reporter Nick Palit is with the gritters | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
The much anticipated still has not materialised in many parts of Wales | :13:07. | :13:20. | |
but it is bitterly cold. The roads are very wet and as the temperatures | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
trot overnight that could freeze over. That is why the critters | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
behind me in force. I'm going to talk now to Gareth | :13:28. | :13:42. | |
Richards who runs the operation in Caerphilly. What is the scale of the | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
task? We have been out since midday today. We've had eight vehicles | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
working. By tomorrow morning we were love use 180 tonnes of salt. We will | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
have travelled over 1200 kilometres. And you are out all night as well. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
There will be vehicles working throughout the night in readiness | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
for the morning to try and get the roads treated before the traffic is | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
back on them in the morning. These lorries cannot go down the side | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
streets so what can people do to get their cars out in the morning. In | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Caerphilly we have over 900 salt bins. If they have any ice on the | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
pavements or on the carriageway we can use those bins to free the cars | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
in the morning. In the past when we've had cold weather we've had | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
problems with running out of grit. What are you doing to make sure that | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
doesn't happen? We have a contingency among the Welsh | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Government has ordered us to keep. We have well over 9000 tonnes ready | :14:47. | :14:56. | |
for any situation. From a very cold Pontllanfraith back to the studio. | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
So, ice the concern overnight and stay with us for the latest | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
Derek will be here with all the details. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Arctic winds. Hail, sleet and snow in places. | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
A warning of ice as well. I'll have the latest forecast. | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has told Wales Today that allowing | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
the Welsh Government to set its own immigration | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
rules would be "fraught with difficulties". | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
Mr Corbyn says the idea, which is backed by some | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
of his own MPs, would be very difficult to implement. | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
He's been speaking exclusively to our parliamentary | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
It's an issue high on voters' priorities but one where his own MPs | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
Should Britain control immigration from Europe | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
The First Minister has suggested Jeremy Corbyn's approach, | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
not ruling out free movement, is very London centric. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
It's not about being London centric, it's about the economic relationship | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
If we want access to the European market there's going to be | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
The priority has to be making sure that those excellent manufacturing | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
industries and jobs that are going on in Britain | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
have somewhere to export and sell their goods to. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
If we cut ourselves off from Europe we will have a real problem | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Chuka Umunna came up with an interesting suggestion that | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
a regional policy on immigration allowing perhaps the Welsh | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Government to set its own quotas, do you think there is milage in that? | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
I think it would be very difficult to implement it because if you set | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
up a Welsh limit on immigration or started the same thing | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
for English regions, would you then restrict the movement | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
What would you do if it was a contracting industry, | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
say a building industry that had a contract to do work | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Would you say that the European workers couldn't go and work on it? | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
I think it's fraught with difficulties. | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
Last year there were tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and members | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
12 days into January his Shadow Defence Secretary, | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
the Llanelli MP Nia Griffith, is absolutely furious that | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Mr Corbyn's spokesman used the deployment of UK troops | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
in Estonia to deter Russian aggression as an escalation | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
I had a chat with Nia briefly last night and we will have another | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
I want to see a de-escalation of tensions between Nato and Russia. | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
I want to see a de-militarisation of the border between them. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
We don't want to see increased tensions. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
I know Nia has been too meet British troops who have been deployed | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
We will have a discussion later on today. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
It's a big year for Labour in Wales and it hasn't started well. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
The party hasn't been this low in the polls since Gordon Brown's | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
day and there are council elections to fight in May. | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
Mr Corbyn says we will certainly see him on the campaign trail here. | :17:57. | :18:09. | |
More needs to be done to make farms more resilient | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
That's according to the Farmers Union of Wales. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
It comes after the latest figures show a drop in income for dairy | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
farms of more than a half in a year with a warning tonight that things | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
could get much worse, as Teleri Glyn Jones reports. | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
Des Jones Farms at Ceredigion. He milks 400 cattle but last year saw | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
his income fall by almost half because of a drop in milk prices. He | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
says it's been catastrophic. I wouldn't be the only one who says | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
dipped into his pension just to keep things going. Which you have to do | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
in these times. It's something we all do. We are all in the same boat. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Thankfully at the moment the milk price has gone up but we have | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
already dug a big hole. Des is not the only one who has seen huge drop. | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
The latest figures show the income for all types of fans have dropped | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
23% on average in the year up to much and dairy farmers in Wales have | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
seen a drop of more than a half. It's the great surprise that farming | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
is vulnerable to fluctuations in the markets. Commodity prices, the | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
strength of the pound the cost of fuel all an impact on incomes. But | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
questions are now being raised about how the industry can whether such | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
storms in the future. The Farmers Union of Wales warned that things | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
could get modified. Triggering article 50 and coming out of the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
European Union, negotiating our trade deals, where do our -- where | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
is our export market? Those who present significant problems and | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
issues for the industry. Having a sustainable industry is essential. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
But let's have a resilient one. Let's have an industry that can take | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
those peaks and troughs that can take the knocks down -- the knocks | :20:09. | :20:18. | |
down -- the not Down's. Incomes do fluctuate year-on-year and Welsh | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
farmers are adept to managing that change. Des admits things have | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
improved for him since these figures were gathered. The mud of money get | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
paid every month has increased but with uncertain times ahead this | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
industry could still be vulnerable. The future of the utility firm | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Dee Valley Water could be More than a hundred shareholders | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
attended a meeting in Wrexham earlier to vote on a takeover bid | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
by Severn Trent Water. There were protests from those | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
who fear jobs would be lost Severn Trent Water says it | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
will make a significant A court will rule later this month | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
on whether the deal will go ahead. Seven Trent RA large multinational | :20:51. | :21:04. | |
company that has the capability and motive to centralise functions, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
things like finance and HR and call centre staff. There is no reason for | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
them to retain those positions here and that could mean a lot of job | :21:17. | :21:17. | |
losses. Now, weak mobile phone signal can | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
affect us all but for some people living in rural areas the best | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
chance of making a call is walking Today, the major phone networks met | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
customers struggling to get a signal as well as politicians | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
to try to find a way forward. It's an industry that prides itself | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
on speed and delivery but not-spots across rural Wales have been hitting | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
the headlines for years. We've had to go up the hill | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
to get a reception. Sometimes with an umbrella, | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
which isn't terribly hospitable. I don't think I should pay | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
for a monthly contract when I'm not getting a signal or the service | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
I'm paying for. You have to drive in any | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
direction out of the village And today the complaints don't | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
sound any different. I've got absolutely no signal | :21:59. | :22:08. | |
on my mobile and if it rings it's always a surprise because I have | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
strayed into an area or I'm What I have to do is quite | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
often go and get a hotel. If I've got three or four hours | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
worth of work to do, rather than having the frustration | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
at home of not having connectivity, I go and pay for a hotel | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
with the additional costs. They're in Cardiff Bay for a mobile | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
summit where surprisingly It's a meeting between mobile phone | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
networks, politicians, regulators and customers that has | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
taken ten months to arrange. Now there are calls to get | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
things moving faster. We do need to move quickly | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
because technology is moving so quickly and some | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
of the presentations highlighting the importance of mobile | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
communications in terms of the media or in terms of small | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
businesses in West Wales, these are things which can't hang | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
around for the next two years The operators say the geography | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
of Wales provides its There have already been calls | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
to relax planning for taller masts. But what about placing | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
them in national parks? Phone networks say now is the chance | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
for Wales to lead the way. It's absolutely vital | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
that the Welsh Government does what it can to make planning reform | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
quicker and cheaper for mobile networks and to look at the business | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
rates regime as well. It's absolutely vital as well | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
that the UK Government backs that up with some of the major nationwide | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
regulatory reforms we would like to see to enable for instance | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
sharing to be cheaper or to be able to upgrade our sites more | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
quickly and cheaply. The Welsh Government say while it's | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
not a devolved issue it wants to make a difference, | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
starting next week with For the people living in rural | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
Wales, they will be hoping talk leads to action so maybe they can do | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
more of the talking in future. Well, as we've been hearing, | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
some wintery conditions tonight, Derek has been keeping | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
across the forecast all day. Today's rain and snow has now | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
cleared but more snow is expected It could cause a few | :24:05. | :24:14. | |
pockets of disruption. Strong to gale force winds will make | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
it feel bitterly cold. Most of the snow today | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
fell on higher ground, A dusting of snow in Beaufort | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
near Ebbw Vale this afternoon. But lower down, many places | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
like Port Talbot just had plain This evening and overnight, showers | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
will spread across the country. Some of them heavy with | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
hail, sleet and snow. And with temperatures close | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
to freezing or below So there is a Met Office warning | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
in force for both snow and ice. Anywhere could see a dusting of snow | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
with several centimetres So here's the picture | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
for 8:00am in the morning. Icy in places too, especially | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
where there's any lying snow. A few wintry showers | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
but a lot of places dry. The temperature in Llandudno | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
4C with a strong wind. So a mixture of sunshine | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
and wintry showers tomorrow. Hail, sleet and snow | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
showers but some places Top temperatures only 2C to 5C | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
but feeling much colder Bitterly cold on Pen y Fan | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
tomorrow with snow showers. It will feel more like -15C | :25:48. | :25:56. | |
with gale force winds. Tomorrow night, further | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
showers and snow in places. Saturday not quite so cold and less | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
windy but still chilly. A few showers, mostly of rain | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
with snow on higher ground. Low cloud and hill fog | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
and turning milder. In the meantime, bitterly cold | :26:17. | :26:28. | |
tonight and tomorrow You can get the latest on the | :26:29. | :27:01. | |
weather tomorrow morning plus regular travel updates on Radio | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Wales, Radio Cymru and online. Time for a reminder of our top stories. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
The Swansea Bay tidal lagoon should go ahead according to an independent | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
report. The Hendry review says it would make a strong contribution to | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
the energy supply but the UK Government still needs to agree to a | :27:19. | :27:19. | |
deal. The UK Government is planning to cut | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
the tolls on the Severn crossings From 2018 when the bridges revert | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
to public ownership, all cars and small vehicles | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
will pay three pounds. Tomorrow, a consultation | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
will also be published into I'll have our next update | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
for you at 8:00pm and then again From all of us on the programme, | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
have a good evening. | :27:43. | :27:46. |