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Constant customer complaints - old, cramped trains. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Now MPs say they need to be replaced urgently. | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
During peak times it's no good at all. I've seen people fainting and | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
being sick. The valleys line is very good, but on Saturday you've only | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
got two carriages, they should be more. | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
Adam Issac is jailed for sexually abusing boys he met | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
A charity warns parents need to understand the dangers | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
It's been horrendous. We've had rats running around. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
Are tough recycling targets leading to fly-tipping? | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
After almost 75 days alone at sea the jubliation | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Welsh sailor Alex Thomson receives a hero s welcome. | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
I've been on my own so long and suddenly there's all these people. | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
I'm super excited. I feel like the whole world has lifted off my | :01:14. | :01:14. | |
shoulders. And much of Wales has | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
been sunny today. Some of our trains have up | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
to 4.5 million miles on the clock and there's now an urgent need | :01:18. | :01:40. | |
to replace "old and That's according to a group of MPs | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
who also say there's been a huge failure to account for a significant | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
rise in passenger numbers. We're taking more than twice | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
as many journeys on trains as we did 10 years ago, | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
which they say has led to overcrowding and customers | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
are left dissatisfied. Here's our business | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
correspondent Brian Meechan. It's a service many have always | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
relied on. But while travellers have changed it seems chains haven't. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Those operated today by the Riva trains Wales are, on average, 27 | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
years old. MPs argue that the increasing number of passengers | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
using the service I've had enough of the conditions. They have been | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
complaints about the standard of the carriages and the overcrowding that | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
many believe happens to regularly. Nearly every day I'm standing to and | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
from work. Today I'm finishing early so it's not as bad, but at peak | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
times it's no good at all. I've seen people fainting, people being sick. | :02:47. | :02:58. | |
The valleys lines is very, very good. | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
But on Saturday you've only got the carriages, there should be more. The | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
Welsh affairs select committee says the problem was that when the | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
contract was agreed between strategic rail authority and Arriva | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
didn't factor in more people using trains. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
When the original franchise was put in place not enough account was | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
taken of the possibility of a growth in numbers. It ended up costing more | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
money than it should have done to deal with it. Having said that, we | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
recognise that Arriva trains Wales, and the Assembly have overcome those | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
problems. Journeys have increased by around | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
50%, with over 29,000,020 14 and 15 and 10 million more than a decade | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
before. Profits have remained fairly consistent. It's made of an ?80 | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
million in the last five years. The vast bulk of that being paid as a | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
dividend to its owners, the German transport company Deutsche Bank. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Over a five-year period the company has received roughly ?750 million | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
from the Welsh government and subsidies. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Arriva trains Wales says it welcomes the fact that the report recognises | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
they have been improvement fund investments in its services. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
However, it does say it will continue to try to solve the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
problems, but as the MPs meatier, there is no quick or easy solution. | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Trains run across the whole of Wales, and it operates railway | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
stations including Bangor were passengers gave their views on the | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
services provided by Arriva. They are tiny. Most of it time a | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
fine for me. But I'm not was travelling peak. | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Arriva's trains are generally on time, all the crowding around | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
services in Cardiff is worse than trains arriving in Bristol and | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Liverpool. But it's better than those pulling into Manchester and | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Leeds. The Welsh government says the current franchises in triple play | :04:51. | :04:51. | |
bus. Major investment will be needed | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
soon. 70% of the Arriva fleet will not be able to be used after 2020 | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
because of new disability regulations. Those will have to be | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
replaced. The impact is the degree of breakdown. If we had 30-year-old | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
cars we would have a problem keeping them going. | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Arriva is one of four bidders for the next franchise which comes up in | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
2018. The Welsh government will work that I may not-for-profit basis, | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
sitting in a major change in direction in the future of rail. In | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
the last half an hour South Wales Police have said a 20 Six Rd man | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
from the Swansea area was arrested yesterday's edition of terrorism | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
offences. -- 26-year-old man. Officers say the investigation does | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
not concern any immediate threat to public safety. | :05:45. | :05:45. | |
An amateur boxer from Port Talbot has been jailed for 12 and a half | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
years, after admitting killing his girlfriend. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
21-year old James Tobin was caught after police bugged his home, | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
and heard him admit to his father that he'd killed Kellie Gillard. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Swansea Crown Court heard Tobin hit Miss Gillard with forceful blows | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
during an argument two years ago, causing her to hit the wall | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
A 23-year-old man has denied murdering his girlfriend in Cardiff. | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
Jordan Matthews admitted the manslaughter of | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
Chinese-born Xixi Bi, who was found dead at a property | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
He was remanded in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court next month. | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
A man from Merthyr Tydfil has been sentenced to two years and eight | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
months in prison for sexually abusing teenage boys he met | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
23-year-old Adam Isaac from Maesgwynne pleaded guilty | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
to eight sexual offences between August 2015 | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Adam Isaac is seen here are leaving court after a previous hearing | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
He sexually abused two boys aged 12 and 14 online. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
He asked them to send intimate photos of themselves to him, | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
and he perform sexual acts on himself during video calls. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Indecent images of a third boy were also found in his possession. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
The father of one of the victims says it's had a profound impact. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
He was quite calculatedly groomed on chat messages. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
I think the realisation, to him, of what's happened, | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
It was through the online world of Minecraft that | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
The game has more than 100 million registered users, players | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
interact with each other, and build 3-D worlds | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
After grooming the boys using it the prosecution said Isaac then sent | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
But it wasn't until one victim's father found online Skype | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
conversations asking about his son's sex life that the matter was brought | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
A spokeswoman for Microsoft who own Minecraft said a safe online | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
And they offer resources to help parents keep their children safe. | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
But online gaming is a concern for children's charity, NSPCC. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Online grooming is a term that is vastly growing now | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
That, for me, really reinforces the concern that is out there. | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
It is the biggest, near enough, the biggest child protection issue | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Sentencing 23-year-old Adam Isaac to two years and eight months | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
in prison the judge, Mr Justice Twomlow, told him, | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
you knew you would find teenage boys, this was clearly | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
He went on to say people have to understand the seriousness | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
of behaviour like yours and it will result in prison. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Rhiannon Wilkins, BBC Wales today, at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
And for more information on how to keep children | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
safe online, there's lots of advice on bbc.co.uk/webwise. | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
We've also posted the link on our Twitter feed @bbcwalestoday. | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
A union says 90 jobs are going at a Greggs | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
The company says it intends increasing its production of bread | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
there, but production of doughnuts and other bakery products will be | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
transferred to its other regional bakeries over the next two years. | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
The union says the firm is looking for voluntary reduncancies. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Around 200 beech trees which were up to 200 years old have been illegally | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
National Resources Wales says it's a devastating case | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
which will have a terrible impact on the environment. | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
It says no licence was granted, and it will take the necessary | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
There's a warning tonight that implementing stricter rules | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
on recycling too quickly could increase fly-tipping. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Llanelli Assembly Member, Lee Waters, says it's already a big | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
problem in the town with rubbish being dumped outside | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Last year Wales saw a 14% increase in fly-tipping compared | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
But the Welsh Government says it's not aware of evidence linking | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
changes in household waste collection to fly-tipping. | :10:17. | :10:17. | |
Christine Clark from Llanelli says she has turned to fly-tipping around | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
These are her photos of other people's rubbish dumped | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
in the lane behind her house, often left for many days. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
It's not just this lane, it's all the back lanes and Llanelli. | :10:36. | :10:46. | |
It's one of the problems around here. | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
People chuck stuff outside it's not in there eye sight, | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
In Carmarthenshire a maximum of four black bags can be put out | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Many stick to this, but it's claimed others struggle. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Llanelli's Assembly Member says as councils strive | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
for better recycling rates, careful consideration needs to be | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
given to future policy changes on waste collection. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
I think there's a judgment for us all to reach about how far do | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Because if we push it too far, too fast, we are going to create | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
We may well hit litter to target, but we'll create fly-tipping | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
problems and broader littering problems which would increase costs | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Carmarthenshire Council acknowledges there is a problem | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
It says it's working closely with the local | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Later this month a task force will meet here for the first time | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
as it tries to find a long-term solution to this issue. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
Carmarthen, like most local authorities recycles more | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Ceredigion is the best, as it recycles 68% of its waste. | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
Compared to Blaenau Gwent which is the worst performing at 49%. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Also among the best is Conwy, the council there is trailing a once | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
But there is concern it's having disastrous consequences with claims | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
of increased fly-tipping and some people even having to | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
On the streets today the new policy got a mixed response. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
I'm having to go to the tip all the time. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
It's just two of us, what it's like with families, I don't know. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
I'm going to the tip three times just with actual rubbish. | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
The plastics went into the extra bins. | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
We haven't had any problems, but other people have. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
When it comes to recycling the Welsh government wants the nation | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
It says it makes no apology for its commitment to the cause. | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
BBC Wales has learned that a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member has | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
been probed by the Public Services Ombudsman over whether he made | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
a threatening remark to a Cardiff Council officer. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
In November we revealed allegations that Neil McEvoy, | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
who's also a city councillor, had brought the authority | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
into disrepute and had been referred to a tribunal. | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Our political correspondent, Arwyn Jones has been | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
Well, list of the clear leader in Plaid Cymru on Cardiff Council and | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
is said to have made these comments Lily threatening manner to a council | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
official. It happened after a application to suspend the eviction | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
of a council tenant. The allegation is that the AM said, I can't wait | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
until May 20 17th when the restructure of the council happens. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
The Council officer said Mr McAvoy was being intimidating and she took | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
that comment as a threat against her work. The reason for that is Plaid | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Cymru have got this proposal of restructuring the senior management | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
of Cardiff Council and the elections are happening this year. Mr McEvoy | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
is thought to have accepted that he did make those comments, but he was | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
talking to the lady involved, not making a threat to the Council | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
official. The public service ombudsman for Wales rates in a | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
report that that has been referred to the adjudication panel for Wales. | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
As a result they won't be making further comment, a spokesperson for | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
Plaid Cymru and Cardiff said the whole investigation is an outrage. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
The problem for Neil McEvoy is that if the tribunal goes against him he | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
could be suspended or disqualified which makes life difficult with | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
local elections coming in May. With the eyes of the world | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
on The White House today how the first person to capture it | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
on film back in the An after three months away | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
racing around the world Welsh Sailor Alex Thomson has | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
an emotional reunion History will be made tomorrow, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
a woman will be made a bishop in the Church in Wales | :14:56. | :15:08. | |
for the first time. Joanna Penberthy is to be | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
the 129th Bishop of St On the eve of her consecration she's | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
been speaking to Caroline Evans at the Church's training college | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
in Cardiff, where she's getting It's basically a hat that is a | :15:23. | :15:34. | |
symbol of the holy spirit. And packing the Mitre made for her and | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
the men's ring made smaller to fit her finger Joanna Penberthy is | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
preparing to take her place as a bishop. A role she once thought | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
women would never be given. If I'm perfectly honest I didn't think we | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
would ever see women in the episcopate. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
Not in my ministry. But tomorrow history will be made at Llandaff | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Cathedral when the Church in Wales follows the Church of England in | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
consecrating a woman bishop. It follows decades of debate, so how | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
does the Bishop designate responds to people who still can't fully | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
accepted? It's strange that people find it so | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
difficult to see the full humanity of... To see full humanity of women | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
deliberately women as well as men. Why men are seen as the person God | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
calls, and women are sort of, slightly on the side. People are | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
entitled to their consciences but the time for rehashing is over. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
How will she manage this in practical terms? | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
The genius of Anglicanism is the way it holds people of all sorts of | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
opinions. There is a code of practice that enabled us to make | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
place for people who don't wish to receive my sacramental ministry. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Time for a quick lunch with her trainee priests then it's on to meet | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
the other bishops. They are expecting big changes | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
ahead, most good, some challenging. She's a woman. And women always | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
change things for the better, usually. | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
It might change the way in which the restaurant 's behaviour bench | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
meetings, because we can be quite robust! | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
-- with the rest of us. There aren't many posts with women in and Bishop | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Joe coming along will be a clear signal. | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
The church needs to be the sort of place that says this is how to | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
disagree well. The real problem, I think, is those who can't accept | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
women bishops want more than we feel able to give. | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
As people see that she will do a wonderful job they will be won over. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Tomorrow Joanna Penberthy will be led into the cathedral by a formal | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
procession of 200 people, a two-hour long affair. But before that, | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
there's just a moment for an informal cup of tea, and some | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
light-hearted banter. To a bishop they say my lord, and I | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
was just saying, she could be like the Queen, ma'am! I don't think that | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Welsh campaigners have joined in UK-wide protests on the day | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States. | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
Banners reading "Build bridges not walls" were hung | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
at various locations, including Penarth, Aberystwyth | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
Anti-Trump protests have also been held this evening | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Mr Trump's success has also received support in Wales, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
Well, Donald Trump's new home, the White House, is arguably even | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
more famous than him recognised the world over. | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
But the first to capture it on film back in the 1840s was an aspiring | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
railway entrepreneur from Powys, who became one of America's most | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
We asked some modern day snappers to tell his story. | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, better known as the White House. | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
A symbol of the presidency, of American power and influence, | :18:55. | :19:07. | |
one of the most famous buildings in the world, and one | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
And the first two captured on camera was a Welshman. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
John Plum, he was born in Welshpool in 1809, | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
at the age of 12 he emigrated, with his family, to | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
He saw photography as this new thing, something | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
he could capitalise on and generate income to support his true desire, | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
which was to build this transcontinental railway | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Photography was still very young, so it was a wonderful new, | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
And it allowed people to symbolically take | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
ownership of the world, acquiring images of landmarks. | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
Of course, new institutions, new buildings, such as the buildings | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
in Washington that John Plum made daguerreotypes of in 1846. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Plum's photograph of the White House, it's | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
an interesting picture, when you look at it closely. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
If you took a magnifying glass to it there would be | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
I think this is, perhaps, something we have to hold onto, | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
especially now with digital media, that initial encounter | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
with the photographic process would have been so remarkable. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
And it really would have been an amazing, and familiar experience. | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
Whatever was depicted, must have generated respect and awe. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
For this new country being able to take a photo and say, | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
it is here, you can look at it, see that it is here. | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
It meant that the hopes we had were coming true. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
And we could actually accomplish this. | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
As photography is spread the price dropped, Plum started losing money, | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
and in the 1850s he got into bankruptcy, and sadly, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Being the maker of the earliest surviving photograph | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
of the White House, Plum offers us the opportunity to think of both | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Wales's contribution to the beginnings of photography, | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
he had the same pioneering spirit which this new democracy, | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
this young America, was developing at the time. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
The photographers at the University of South Wales telling | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Let's get tonight's sport now with Claire. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Swansea City manager, Paul Clement, insists the club's prospects | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
of avoiding Premier League relegation are not 'hopeless'. | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Swansea go into the weekend bottom of the table with just 15 | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
The Swans face Liverpool tomorrow lunchtime and the manager says he's | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
not looking at how many points will be needed but he believes | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
It doesn't look hopeless. One behind, outside the relegation zone | :21:51. | :22:07. | |
and not far from the teams above that as well. That can change very | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
quickly. I'm just looking at the game, game to game and doing the | :22:14. | :22:14. | |
best we can in each game we have. Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
says he wouldn't want to stay at the club next season if owner | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
Vincent Tan doesn't give him money The Bluebirds, who are currently | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
18th in the Championship table, In League 2 Newport County | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
are away to Barnet. A plan to extend the period needed | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
for a player to qualify for a country on residency, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
has been backed by Currently a player becomes eligible | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
when they have lived World Rugby is due to vote in May | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
on extending it to five, the WRU says the idea suits the way | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
they want to manage talent in Wales. On the pitch the Blues and Dragons | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
have the chance to join the Ospreys in the European Challenge Cup | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
quarter finals tomorrow. The Dragons travel to Brive, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
while the Blues, captained by Sam Warburton, are hoping to beat | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Bristol at home. Wales centre Jonathan Davies | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
will start for the Scarlets European Champions Cup game | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
against Sale tomorrow. After 74 days 19 hours 35 minutes | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
and 15 seconds alone on his 60 foot yacht Welsh sailor Alex Thomson | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
was able to finally rest his sea legs and reunite | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
with his family today. The 42-year-old who was born | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
in Bangor, completed the vendee Globe round the world race in second | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
place and this morning he came into the French port | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
receiving a hero s welcome. Exhausted but jubilant, he said he | :23:28. | :23:45. | |
was running on empty, but as Alex Thompson approached the French coast | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
surrounded by a fleet of well-wishers his energy was | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
recharged, his relief and delight clear to see. Joined on board by his | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
wife, Kate, and son, Oscar, his daughter waiting on land, is ?3.5 | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
million vessel carries into the marina. The French canal was lined | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
with hundreds of supporters, but nothing as sweet as reuniting with | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
his family. It's great to have them back. My son | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
didn't want to let go of me. Sometimes I do take to myself, why | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
am I doing this? White? But you don't have a choice. At that point | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
you don't have a choice. I'm so fortunate to have such a great team, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
they've given me a machine that could have won the race. | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
Finishing in second place, I'm chuffed. The race is dubbed the ever | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
rest of saving, and requires competitors to compete alone at sea | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
without stopping or receiving any form of assistance for almost three | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
months. Just to finish as an achievement. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
Despite coming close to his French rival Alex couldn't close the gap | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
and had to settle for second. It's his fourth attempt at the race, last | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
time he finished third. With approval from his wife could he be | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
tempted to go again? I haven't asked her yet. It would be | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
difficult not to. Third, second, only one goal after it. I want to go | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
for the win at some point. But for me it's the end of the races, that | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
feeling, that 75 days where I haven't thought at the finish. I | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
didn't want to think about it. It's a war, a day by day ground. At the | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
end it's a relief. It feels like the whole world has lifted off my | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
shoulders. Alex is planning some time out, | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
tonight he is looking forward to going to bed and sleeping for more | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
than 25 minutes, knowing there's no chance of sinking. | :25:39. | :25:39. | |
Glorious weather in France, how's it looking closer to home, Derek? | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
You don't need to go to France for sunshine. | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
We've had plenty of it in Wales today. | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
Stunning in Snowdonia with a clear, blue sky. | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
Mind you it hasn't been sunny everywhere. | :25:51. | :25:51. | |
In Powys one or two fog patches lingered into the afternoon. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
The sky clear with a widespread frost. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Some patchy cloud in the south and southwest later in the night. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Temperatures in mid Wales falling as low as -5. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
Milford Haven just above freezing with a breeze. | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
So here's the picture for 8 in the morning. | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
Some cloud likely in parts of the south and southwest. | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
Sunniest in the north in the afternoon with some cloud | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
Top temperatures 1 to 5C with a light to moderate breeze. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Temperatures rising a few degrees above freezing with a light breeze. | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
If you're walking up Pen y Fan tomorrow the thermals | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
Tomorrow night frost but cloud will increase overnight. | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
Flakes of snow in places too with a risk of ice. | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
Temperatures slightly higher with mainly light winds. | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
High pressure over us on Monday and that means more dry weather | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
but with a risk of freezing fog, especially in the south. | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
Later in the week, the wind will pick-up making it feel cold. | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
And a reminder of our main stories this evening. | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
Donald Trump is now the forty-fifth president of the United States. | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
He was sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington DC an hour ago | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
in front of hundreds of thousands of people. | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
In his first speech as president, he pledged to put America first, | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
to protect American families, jobs and borders. | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
There is an urgent need to replace old and cramped carriages on Welsh | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
train services according to a group of MPs. They say there is a failure | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
to account for a significant rise in passenger numbers which has led to | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
overcrowding. We'll have a quick update at 8, | :28:14. | :28:13. | |
more after the BBC News at Ten. For now, from all of | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
us on the programme, Parents are facing an explosion in | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
the number of children saying It was like a battle, like in a war | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
zone. She would literally scream. | :28:25. | :28:31. |