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Suspended as a counsellor, and now Plaid Cymru in the Assembly, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
the party investigates Neil McEvoy, amid a row over bullying. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
The timing couldn't be worse, Mr McEvoy's suspension is a blow | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
I'm not a bully. It's the last thing I am. People I know know that. | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
The timing couldn't be worse, Mr McEvoy's suspension is a blow | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
The most polluted street outside London, a warning poor air quality | :00:30. | :00:47. | |
is a public health crisis, worse than obesity and alcohol. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Home to some exotic creatures, the ?10 million investment | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
If I go out the fumes are hard to breathe. Sometimes we feel like | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
prisoners here. Home to some exotic creatures, | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
the ?10 million investment to expand Folly Farm, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
one of Wales most popular Arise Sir Bryn, the opera star | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
knighted at Buckingham Palace. Plaid Cymru has suspended one | :01:11. | :01:29. | |
of its Assembly members. Neil McEvoy is already serving | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
a one-month suspension from his other role as a councillor | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
in Cardiff, after a panel ruled a comment he made to a council | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
officer was "bullying behaviour". Mr McEvoy says he hopes to be back | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
in the party's Assembly group soon. As our political correspondent | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Daniel Davies reports. Plaid Cymru Assembly members | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
on their way to their weekly The main topic of conversation, | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
what to do about Neil McEvoy? Mr McEvoy is in there addressing | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
fellow Plaid Cymru AMs. We are not allowed in to | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
hear what's being said. These group meetings | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
are always held in private. But we do know that he won't | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
get unanimous support. Last week a tribunal heard | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
in the summer of 2015 he referred That comment came after the eviction | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
of a tenant he'd been supporting, and was deemed to be | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
bullying an official. First this morning party leader | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Leanne Wood removed him from her front bench team, | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
then, after more than an hour and With Neil McEvoy's agreement | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
the Plaid Cymru group has decided that he should be temporarily | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
suspended from the group whilst agreement is sought on a way forward | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
following recent events. Prior to the group meeting | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood, had met with Neil McEvoy and took | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
the decision to remove him from the Shadow Cabinet and withdraw | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
his portfolio responsibilities. Mr McEvoy's supporters came out | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
for him at Plaid Cymru's He is a prominent figure | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
in Cardiff politics, and is poised to lead the campaign | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
there at me's Council elections. But today he was asked | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
whether there was pressure I don't think there was pressure, | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
it was more of a discussion, really. Some sticking points either way, | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
but I understand their position, So we've agreed, we both agreed, | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
actually, to temporarily suspend me and, ideally, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
readmit me in the future. This afternoon he was back | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
in the Assembly Chamber asking questions, but whether he'll | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
continue doing that is a Plaid AM or as an independent AM | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
remains and resolved. So an eventful day, but this is not | :04:05. | :04:17. | |
the end of the process for Mr McEvoy? No, this afternoon he was | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
talking about being suspended for a couple of hours, more likely to be a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
couple of weeks. You heard him referring to sticking points with | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
the party. He doesn't think he has anything to apologise for, he says | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
the tribunal that suspended him was a farce and he's going to appeal. He | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
is talking to his lawyers. But since he was suspended there have been | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
accusations about Mr McEvoy on social media, some of those | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
accusations have been put in a letter and sent to Leanne Wood by | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
survivors of domestic abuse and women's groups. There is an | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
investigation going on, led by the chairman of Plaid Cymru, we are told | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
that investigation will look at all complaints and evidence about Mr | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
McEvoy, how long that will take, what conclusion it will come to we | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
just don't know. This will go on for some time yet. Let's talk about the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
timing of this, not good for Plaid Cymru. Not good at all. Mr McEvoy | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
leads the Plaid Cymru group in Cardiff Council and would have been | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
a big figure in the election campaign in May. It must be said | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
that a lot of his opponents find him an abrasive personality, but he has | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
supporters in Plaid Cymru. He has opponents to who have told the BBC | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
privately at the conference over the weekend that Leanne Wood should take | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
action against him. The party has disciplined him in the past, in | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
2011, four comments he made about a women's group about time. There is | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
this other investigation going on about him at the moment. The party | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
will hope that can be wrapped up quite quickly before the election | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
campaign gets underway proper. Thank you, Daniel Davies. | :06:15. | :06:15. | |
Air pollution is a "public health crisis" and tackling it is more | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
of a priority than obesity and alcohol consumption. | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
That's according to Public Health Wales, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
who say air pollution causes the equivalent of 2000 | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
deaths here every year, that's 6% of all deaths recorded. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
Wales is also home to the UK's most polluted street outside London, | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
It's an average morning for the Hardwick family, | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
but the street they live on in Crumlin is far from average. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
The high volume of traffic on Hafodyrynys Road makes this | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the most polluted street in the UK outside London. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
This machine monitors the level of nitrogen dioxide. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
They are installed in areas of high pollution. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
Each year roads can breach a fixed limit of 18 times, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
so far this year this road has breached that limit 60 times. | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
Deanna worries about the effects of pollution on her family's health, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
He has been given an inhaler for when he's really bad, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
It's not something I want for him, I want him to be healthy, | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
I want him to be able to go out and play without struggling | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
It makes you feel a bit incompetent as a parent, sometimes. | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Deanna tried to sell her house, but she didn't have a single | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
She is among half of the homeowners on her side of the street | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that wanted the council to buy their houses | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Caerphilly council says it recognises the air quality | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
problems on the street, and is developing an action | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
That a pollution isn't just a problem here. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
The health effects of a pollution are varied. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
In the short term we are talking about eye, nose and throat | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
irritation primarily, but long-term, more serious | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
consequences particularly on the heart, lungs and a pollution | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
has been associated with increased risk of cancer and other | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
68-year-old Dawn Howells also lives on Hafodyrynys Road. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
She suffers from chest problems and the traffic on the street means | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
When I go out the front all the fumes and everything it's | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
Sometimes we feel like prisoners here. | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
Smoking is probably the number one public health priority, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
air pollution comes second to that, if you talk about obesity, | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
inactivity, and alcohol, they come, actually behind air pollution. | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
This is a public health crisis, and we need to act now. | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
That call was echoed in the Senedd today. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
Will you agree to hosting a summit to make sure that progress can be | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
made on this agenda item so that we can see genuine | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
improvements across Wales, but, importantly, improvements to make | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
sure we do not continue to see the number of people dying from poor | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
The Welsh government says they are committed to reducing | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
emissions and a pollution across Wales, they say they'll | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
publish their response to a recent consultation | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
I'm sure people say why did you live there and have children, | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
We shouldn't have to choose between having a family or where we live. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
You know, we should be able to have a healthy | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
Deanna Hardwick ending that report by India Pollock. | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
And you can see more on this story on Week in Week Out, | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
tonight at 10:40 here on BBC One Wales. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
The trial of a 58-year-old man charged with the murder and rape | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
of a Flintshire schoolgirl more than 40 years ago | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
15-year-old Janet Commins' body was found in a school | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Stephen Anthony Hough denies the charges against him. | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
It's emerged that a former nurse at Glangwili hospital | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
in Carmarthenshire who was fined for breaching the Data Protection | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Act had illegally accessed more than 3,000 confidential medical | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
records, including those of colleagues. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
63-year-old Elaine Lewis, from Llansteffan, was sacked | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
by Hywel Dda Health Board who sent letters to all those involved last | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
The MP for Wrexham, Ian Lucas, says he's been told experts | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
at the new prison there can help in the battle against | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Last night on Wales Today, we showed these pictures taken | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
at Wrexham bus station and posted on social media by a driver. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
They appear to show people high on drugs. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
Mr Lucas says there needs to be better co-operation | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
between the police, local council and other agencies. | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
The pictures are shocking, but it's no surprise. This is an issue that's | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
been going on for a considerable period. I've discussed this | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
personally with the Lord Chancellor and asked her to ask the new prison | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
just outside Wrexham to work with agencies in the town and the local | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
police to help inform aspect about this horrible problem that is | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
destroying people's lives and our local community. | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
Anglesey Council have been told their care and support services | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
for vulnerable children "must be improved". | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
Inspectors found workers were not always suitably qualified | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
or experienced to protect children and families. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
The authority says it'll make significant improvements. | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Wales could lead the charge against cyber crime. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
That's the message tonight from the man in charge of keeping | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
Britain safe against cyber attacks for GCHQ, one of the government's | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Helping companies avoid hacks and data breaches | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
Here's our business correspondent Brian Meechan. | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
More and more data is being created all the time. Companies and | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
organisations hold financial details, health information, | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
shopping habits and more. When used properly adapt to our convenience, | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
but it's always under threat from attack. Work is already going on to | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
that. Cardiff born Paul Pritchard just is at the forefront of | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
protecting this information as a senior figure at one of the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Government's intelligence agencies, GCHQ. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
-- Paul Chichester. The Digital economy will be absolutely at the | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
heart of the UK's future. So investing in young talent and skills | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
and investing in the future, that's what we are short of in the UK. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Wales, by leading that charge, could create a huge opportunity for | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
itself. Companies are responsible for making | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
sure the information they hold on as is kept safely. There are plenty of | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
opportunities for businesses in this growing sector with the UK market | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
for cyber security in 2017 estimated to be ?3.4 billion. 24% of companies | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
experience one or more breaches over a 12 month period. That is likely to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
be underreported. Large businesses are a particular target with 65% | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
having breaches over the same period. This data storage centre in | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Newport is the biggest in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each floor | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
is large enough for three jumbo jets to fully rotate. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
This is a small data all. This is the kind of place where businesses, | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
large firms or multinationals can store information in a high security | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
environment. It's grown to 60 employees. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Many data centres that are in and around London are more expensive, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
but also exposed to the Metro risk profile of the City of London. Here | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
in Wales we have a large 50 acre campus where we can take | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
extraordinary security measures to make the building defensible. We've | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
got good elbow room around the site and it creates a cost-effective | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
location for people to put their equipment. | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
At Cardiff University they been undertaking research for | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
organisations including BLE PD and the Metropolitan Police. Academics | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
say stopping hackers is getting harder. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
-- LAPD. It's becoming more targeted. You've got the online | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
social networks where you have literally billions of people | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
connected together which provides an ideal environment for cybercriminals | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
who want to reach out to potential targets. It is very difficult to | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
manage that because of the scale. Recent high-profile attacks such as | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
against Talk Talk hit reputations and finances and can cause huge | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
damage to customers. Wales seems in a good position to further develop | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
technology and skills to combat current debts and future ones. | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
You're watching Wales Today, stay with us. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
I'm here at Folly Farm in Narberth where plans to build a holiday | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
village have been approved with ?10 million set to be invested here. | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
Certain one good Jones, for services to music. | :15:28. | :15:27. | |
Sir Bryn at Buckingham palace, knighted by the Queen. | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
in the House of Commons delivering his budget. | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
It's expected he'll say Britain needs to be Brexit-ready, | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
with an emphasis on improving productivity and skills. | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
Let's speak to our Parliamentary correspondent , David Cornock. | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
David, what should we be looking out for? | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
I know you can't contain your excitement. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Well, when Philip Hammond emerges from number 11 Downing St tomorrow | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
lunchtime he is expected to confirm that they will not be a spending | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
freeze, so if the Welsh government is hoping for an end to austerity | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
and fat cheques coming down the M4 they are likely to be disappointed. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
But Mr Hammond has been under pressure to do more to help some | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
public services that are under strain. We know they will be more | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
money for some schools in England, and that means they will be extra | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
cash for the Welsh government to spend as it sees fit. Ministers in | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
Cardiff Bay will also be looking to see what Mr Hammond manages to find | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
to help with social care problems in England, that would generate cash | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
but the Welsh government can spend as it sees fit. Mr Hammond is known | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
as a flamboyant Chancellor, he is known as spreadsheet failed. But he | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
set pulses racing in Swansea last week when he appeared to suggest | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
that a city deal could bring investment and jobs and it could be | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
concluded by budget day. The council leader in Swansea, Ian Stuart, as | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
said that he thinks it's ready to go. So tonight the Conservative MP | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
for Gower has said that it is a muddle, and it needs sorting out. So | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
you may not expect, you may get warm words tomorrow about the Swansea | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
city regional deal, but as far as a decisive definitive announcement is | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
concerned, well, that may have to wait for another day. We will chat | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
It's one of Wales' biggest tourism attractions, | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Final planning approval has been granted to build a ?10 million | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
holiday village at Folly Farm near Narberth in Pembrokeshire | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
with visitors able to stay alongside the park's exotic attractions. | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
Folly Farm started from very humble beginnings. | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
It was originally a farm diversification project, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
after the introduction of milk quotas in 1984. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Visitors could get a tasty of country life. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
But it's now a multi million pound business with some exotic | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
attractions and it's one of Wales's most popular paid for attractions,- | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
And it's set to become a whole lot bigger. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
We got a bird's eye view of what's planned. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
This field with the sheep on will be our tooling park which will be a | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
5-star Tooling Park with all the hook necessary. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Pembrokeshire Council has given final approval for a ?10 million | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
pound investment that will create a new themed holiday | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
There'll be lodges, caravans and tents, as well as new visitor | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
facilities for short and medium stays. | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
The development had to be approved by the Full Council | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
because it was a departure from the local development plan. | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
The Council says it will bring wider economic benefits that will enhance | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
the appeal of the attraction around the year. | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
We've grown over the years from a day visitor attraction, which now | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
you can spend two, maybe even three days here. They will be unique | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
developments that we will build into the concept as well. I think it's an | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
exciting oppose oil which will be uniquely placed in our county and I | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
don't think anyone else will be positioned to do anything like this | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
anywhere in the UK. -- unique proposal. Around 180 people are | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
employed here and it hoped it could bring in new jobs. They will also be | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
work for local construction firms. Bluestone near Narberth also has | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
plans to expand by 2018, by creating a new sky dome | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
at its luxury resort. It's also hoping to transform | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
the disused Black Pool Mill as a new tourism attraction, | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
with the promise of 300 extra jobs Despite the economic | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
uncertainties of Brexit, tourism experts say there | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
are opportunities for further growth in Pembrokeshire The new holiday | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
village will be built over the next With Brexit and the and low meaning | :19:59. | :20:14. | |
that overseas visitors will visit written and Wales, it's a great | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
opportunity for us to grasp that. Staycations were reported as being | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
at the last year and I think providing the weather improves we | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
have a good chance of getting even more people to stay at home again | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
this year and visit Pembrokeshire. The new holiday village will be | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
built in the next few years, cementing Folly Farm's position as a | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
big player in the tourism industry. A group of climbers had to be | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
rescued this morning from a perilously steep | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
ridge in Snowdonia. Members of Llanberis Mountain Rescue | :20:47. | :20:47. | |
team were winched down by helicopter to help the three climbers, | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
who'd got into difficulty on Crib Goch, after one man fell | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
and injured his shoulder. The majority of Powys councillors | :20:53. | :21:08. | |
have voted in favour of maintaining a Welsh language stream at Brecon | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
high school. It had been recommended to turn it to an English medium | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
school only. Parents oppose the plan. Today's wrote is not a final | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
decision, that rests with the Cabinet which meets next week. If | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
this goes ahead you have situation where you have more who are will go | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
across the road from the Welsh medium primary school to Brecon high | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
school, and they will go along and access the English team there rather | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
than taking up and continuing their Welsh medium education. | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Cardiff City Football Club has reported an annual loss of almost | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
?10 million having made a profit of almost ?4 million | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Gate receipts, broadcasting, sponsorship and advertising | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
revenues were all down, but players wages and salaries | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
The Bluebirds travel to Blackburn in the Championship tonight. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
The Welsh Rugby Union is cancelling around 200 tickets | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
for Friday's Six Nations match against Ireland because they've | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
been sold on for profit by unofficial providers. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
The Union says anyone who has bought a ticket | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
from a source other than itself, a Welsh rugby club, Seatwave, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Events International or Gulliver's Sports Travel should | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
He's regarded as one of the world's greatest bass baritones, | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
but today Sir Bryn Terfel was the star of the show | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
He was at Buckingham Palace to collect his | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
It was announced in the New Year Honours that he would receive | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
Our arts and media correspondent Huw Thomas was at the Palace. | :22:41. | :22:52. | |
Sir Bryn Terfel on stage, an icon of Aldeburgh and a voice that earned | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
royal recognition. This was its performance at a gala concert last | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
year. Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, for services to music. Today he was back | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
in the same glamorous surroundings of the palace ballroom, not to sing | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
this time, but to meet the Queen and from bended knee to arise Sir Bryn | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
Terfel. Congratulations, can we see the award you got today? It's still | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
surreal. Already I see a knighthood brings a certain significance to | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
what you do in your daily routine as a musician. | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
It helps, I guess, to promote Wales, even more than I have done in the | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
past. And that will propel me forwards to the future. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
With his partner, the harpist Hannah Stone, he is expecting a baby next | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
month, but today was a chance to reflect. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
A fantastic time of year and Hannah was here today, but we were only | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
supposed to bring three people and I brought forth. It's wonderful to see | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
my boys and Hannah here. So Sir Bryn Terfel joins an elite | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
club, but it wasn't just his singing ability that brought him here today | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
but his broader impact on nurturing young singers in Wales and beyond. | :24:17. | :24:27. | |
On stage he is an imposing presence, but behind-the-scenes he's nurtured | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
young talent, finding tuition fees through his foundation and | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
supporting singers with the Sir Bryn Terfel scholarship on the Eisteddfod | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
stage where he learned his craft. From the beginning Sir Bryn Terfel | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
showed exceptional talent, here winning the song prize at the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Cardiff Singer of the world in 1989. That competition returns this year, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
and its patron has praised Sir Bryn Terfel's inspirational journey. He's | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
been a great ambassador for Wales and for opera. He's a wonderful | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
character, Claudius, Claudius Rice. He does an amazing job. From | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
counterblast to the Palace, Sir Bryn Terfel is one of the world's leading | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
bass baritones and joins a distinguished band of Singh night | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
did for their excellence. Is the weather | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
anything to celebrate? Some heavy rain tonight, milder | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
tomorrow with further rain for some of us. We had this window of dry | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
fine weather earlier but they cloud from this front and heavy rain | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
coming in from the south-west at night. Tonight, outbreaks of rain | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
pushing in from the south-west, will north eastwards through the night. | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
Heavy at times but not as cold as last night. Between six and eight | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
Celsius. This system bringing rain overnight has a trailing weather | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
front tomorrow waving back and forth, bringing more rain before it | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
eventually clears south-eastwards. The best of any dry weather tomorrow | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
in the north, but bad band of rain lingering across much of South and | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
mid Wales, before it eventually starts to clear south-eastwards in | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
the afternoon leaving a few lingering showers. Brighter spells | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
later, more likely further north. South-westerly winds bring in warmer | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
air. Slightly milder tomorrow. Now, tomorrow night that patchy drizzle, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
mist and Merck, more likely to linger in the south but dry in the | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
North with clear spells. Not a cold night at six to nine Celsius. We | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
keep those milder south-westerly winds into Thursday with a window of | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
dry weather for a time before another friend brings in rain from | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
the south-west by Thursday night. Not a bad day for most of Wales on | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
Thursday, largely dry, breezy, but feeling mild. Pleasantly warm in the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
sunshine. Temperatures into the teens along the marches. The | :27:07. | :27:15. | |
changeable weather continues later in the week, some rain with some | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
brighter spells too. Remaining mild into the weekend. | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
I just want to update you on a developing story tonight. Within the | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
last half an hour the UK Government has suffered another defeat in the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
House of Lords over the process of leaving the EU. Peers have voted for | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
an amendment to the Brexit bill which called for Parliament to be | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
given a meaningful vote on a final deal. We will have an update at TPM. | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
That's Wales Today, from all of us here, good evening. | :27:42. | :27:54. | |
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, presents the first Budget of 2017. | :27:55. | :27:56. |