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Welcome to Wales Today. Our top stories: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The Chancellor' delivered his budget. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
What does it mean for working people and the wider economy? | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
People are going to have to accept that they retrain, | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
evolve or develop their skills on a regular basis through their | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
There'll be billions more for social care in England. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
There's an extra ?200 million coming to Wales. | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
I'll be speaking to the man writing the cheques. | :00:39. | :00:55. | |
And why aren't there more women or people | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Heading to London - forced to retire later, | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
they're protesting about changes to their pensions. | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
I think it is organised theft by the government. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
There is no other way of describing it. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
In tonight's sport, despite Wales' Six Nations defeat to Scotland, | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
Rob Howley names an unchanged side to face Ireland. | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
And the Welsh schoolgirl who plays for an England boys team. | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Charlotte Harris from Ystrad Mynach is aiming to play | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
In his first budget, the Chancellor said investing | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
in training and big projects will improve living standards | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
but he's been criticised for not backing specific projects for Wales, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
But Philip Hammond has given the Welsh Government an extra | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
?200 million to spend over the next four years. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins has been looking | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
at how the budget will affect people working in Wales. | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
The products they design her enable other companies to become more | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
efficient, more productive. This is what the Chancellor is wanting of | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
the UK economy, to be leaner, perform better. The only sustainable | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
way to raise living standards is to improve our productivity growth. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Simply put, higher productivity means higher pay, investment in | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
training and investment in infrastructure will start to close | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
this gap. The latest official figures show that in the UK the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
amount we produce each hour is 30% less than workers in the States. And | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
35% less than workers in Germany. So | :02:52. | :03:08. | |
productivity in the UK is underperforming. That might be | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
because we are not a skilled or our machinery is less efficient, but the | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
bad news for Wales is that when we go to work, we produce even less | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
than other parts of the UK. 29% lower than the UK average. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
Businesses in the Swansea Bay area had hoped that the Chancellor would | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
give the go-ahead for a city deal for the region, promising greater | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
investment. That didn't happen today. We were very disappointed | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
that after hopes were raised last week, there wasn't a single | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
announcement in the budget today about moving that project forward. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
That's a project that would be transformational for the economy of | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
West Wales. How does Wales catch up? This is a company that always has to | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
be ahead of the game to win business. It's done that by | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
continually improving the way it does things and growing its people | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
skills. In an attempt to increase productivity across the UK, the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Chancellor is investing skills training and particularly in new | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
vocational exams. It's too early to know if the Welsh Government will | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
follow. Anything that's developing on the training front has to be | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
commended and encouraged. We are still catching up in the UK from a | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
legacy of perhaps even decades of lack of investment in developing | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
people to come into engineering and manufacturing. There's no doubt that | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the wheel has turned with that. These engineers are employees and | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
therefore there is no change today in what they will pay in National | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Insurance and income tax but for nearly 2000 people in Wales who are | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
self-employed, they will see what they pay in National Insurance rise | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
by 1% in the pound from April next year. In effect, a tax increase. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
Young, low income self-employed people, which there are a lot of, | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
because it's the only way they can be employed. Window cleaners, people | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
who clean your drives, you know, there's lots of small self-employed | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
people only earning just above the minimum wage. The Chancellor said | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
that an employee earning ?32,000 a year generates more than ?6,000 in | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
National Insurance for the Treasury. A self-employed person on the save | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
money only contributes ?2300 a year. The Chancellor is narrowing the gap. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
There are more people working now than ever and it is estimated a | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
large proportion of those new workers are self-employed. I know | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
that 60% of women are self-employed on low paid. So it doesn't equalise | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
out the discrepancy between male and female pay. The previous Chancellor | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
launched the northern powerhouse and Philip Hammond gave the go-ahead to | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
a Midlands engine strategy, although there was no announcement for a city | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
deal for Swansea today. The UK Government says it is committed to | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
signing it as soon as possible. That could help to close the gap between | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Wales and the rest of the UK. Let's speak to our parliamentary | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
correspondent David Cornock. So nothing today on | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Swansea's City Deal? The Chancellor told MPs a week ago | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
that he hoped that city Last week the Chancellor told MPs | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
he hoped the Swansea deal would be completed by today, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
but it wasn't. And there's the added complication | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
that the UK Government's adviser on the deal, | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
the former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine, | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
was sacked last night. Alun Cairns, the Welsh Secretary, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
told me the deal isn't ready. He preferred to talk | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
about what was in the budget - ?200 million a year | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
for the Welsh Government And he had his own ideas on how | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
to spend the extra cash. Last week the Chancellor told MPs | :06:31. | :06:43. | |
he hoped the Swansea deal I think there's a challenge | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
for the Welsh Government on how they spend the money, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
bearing in mind they get ?120 or around that for every ?100 | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
they spend in England so there is a challenge, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
are they now going to use this extra money to support small businesses | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
through a business But of course there is also | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
the extra efficiency gains we need from the health service, | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
education, in order to make sure that every penny is spent | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
at the sharp end for patients, Last week the Chancellor said | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
he hoped to conclude The call is mine as to when it's | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
going to be signed but from the challenge session that we had | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
ten days ago, I didn't Lord Heseltine at the time didn't | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
think it was ready but we haven't just stalled on that, | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
I have officials in Swansea today working on trying to get | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
the plan into place. I'm doing everything possible | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
to work with the local authorities, to work | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
with the businesses involved. I want to sign this as soon | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
as possible but I'm not prepared to sign any deal, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
I want to sign a deal that will work for businesses in the area | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
and will really raise the living Last week you praised | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
Lord Heseltine's great expertise, He was extremely helpful | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
and important to the He underlined some concerns that | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
I've seen in the proposals that had come forward, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
he set a direction, but officials We are determined to get this deal | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
signed as quickly as possible He played an important part | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
in the challenge session, He set a direction and on that basis | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
we are working to sign the deal The answer to the question that Alun | :08:25. | :08:41. | |
Cairns neatly sidestep is that Lord Heseltine was sacked for voting | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
against the government over Brexit in the House of Lords. He was due to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
visit Swansea today. That was cancelled. But Alun Cairns and | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
officials in the Treasury insists the deal is making good progress and | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
it will be signed as quickly as possible. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
As predicted, the Chancellor announced a ?2 billion investment | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
for social care in England to help deal with the pressure | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
The Welsh Government will get funding as a result but it can spend | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
There are calls tonight for it to go to fund social | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Time for a matinee in Cardiff. This care home opened last year, offering | :09:14. | :09:32. | |
a deluxe service. Including in-house hairdressing, beauty treatment and | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
chiropody, for ?1500 a week. Around double the UK average cost. The food | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
is excellent, all the staff are very carefully -- caring. It is a | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
wonderful place. It removes you from the problems of today. They are | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
friendly it is like a home from home. You don't feel like you are in | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
an institution. This kind of quality costs big money. Something that's | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
hard to find in the publicly funded part of the social care sector. It | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
is expensive. But the quality is there. In your basic home, the care | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
is good, but you can't put the extra quality in. That's what the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
difference is and that's why funding should be much, much better than | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
what it is and the government should be looking to support our frail, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
vulnerable and older people. Wales has a relatively bigger and faster | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
growing elderly population than the rest of the UK and lots of people | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
with chronic and complex health conditions. A few years ago, when | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
public spending budgets tightened, the Welsh Government made some cuts | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
to the NHS but held steady adult social care budgets. But despite | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
that, councils say there is now a funding black hole in those budgets | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
that needs filling. A report out today says the increasing elderly | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
population in Wales means spending per older person has fallen by | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
nearly 13% in real terms since 2009. It says they will need to be an | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
extra ?134 million per year spent on adult social care by 2021 just to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
get back to where spending per head was in 2009. It's a long-term | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
problem. This is not going to be a matter of a one-off sum of money to | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
help. This requires a longer term approach over the next decade or | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
more. Today's budget means an extra ?50 million a year for the Welsh | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
Government's day-to-day spending. There's no pressure to use it on | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
social care. The pressures on social care will double in financial terms | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
over the next ten years. As the impact of an ageing population | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
becomes clearer, it's now over two ministers in Cardiff Bay to decide | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
if that is where today's extra money should go. | :12:01. | :12:01. | |
The man who can answer that question is with our political | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
That man is Mark Drakeford, the finance secretary. An awful lot of | :12:05. | :12:16. | |
that money in England is going on social care. Are you going to do the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
same in Wales? We have invested in social care over the years in Wales | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
so we are not in the same position as they are in England, we are in a | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
much better position. But I did urge the Chancellor to take note of the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
pressures in social care and that will be on the list of issues we | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
will discuss as a cabinet. So it would be a bit odd if you don't | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
spend a significant part of it on social care. You know the pressure | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
the system is under. The pressures in social care are real and we have | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
tried to recognise them already but we as a cabinet will look at all the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
different priorities in Wales, in education, health, local government, | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
and then we will use the modest amount of money we've had today to | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
the best effect to meet the needs of Wales. You will also come under | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
pressure to help companies struggling with business rates. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Already pressure from the Conservatives at Westminster for you | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
to do more than you have already done. We've already done far more | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
than the Chancellor has announced today. We've made ?20 million worth | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
of Welsh Government money available next year to help small businesses. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
The total amount we get from the Chancellor this year for this is ?12 | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
million. We have already gone far beyond what the Chancellor has | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
provided. No giveaway budget, clearly, from the Chancellor. He is | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
preparing a war chest for Brexit, isn't he? He is a cautious man, you | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
are a cautious man. Brexit is the shadow that lies across this | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
project. The dog that didn't bark. He did not mention the word but he | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
undoubtedly believes the Brexit will do damage to the UK economy, that | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
there will be holes to repair, that there will be damaged in and he is | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
using that budget to prepare for that is eventuality. Thank you very | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
much. Much more to come before | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
seven o'clock: Despite Wales' Six Nations defeat | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
to Scotland, Rob Howley names And the Welsh schoolgirl who plays | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
for an England boys' team. The Ystrad Mynach teenager aiming | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
to turn professional. A report which asks who runs | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
Wales has found women are still significantly | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
under-represented at the most senior The Equality and Human Rights | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Commission says despite some improvements since 2014, | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
the position has not changed as much At this lunch in Bridgend, | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
business people have Among them, two women | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
who have their own businesses. Between main course and pudding, | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
I took them aside to find out why they think women are still not | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
making it to the top My background is local authority | :15:06. | :15:07. | |
and I feel there were men within the authority that were less | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
qualified, less experienced than myself, getting | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
the jobs I was applying for. I set up my business with a business | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
partner, another lady, and I don't think I would have done | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
it on my own because I don't think A lot of women go off on maternity | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
leave to raise children and senior management positions either require | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
more time or they are not flexible. So I think if there was more | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
flexible working and more support, you would see a lot more women | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
in senior management positions. Just 6% of chief executive | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
at Wales's top 100 Only 26% of councillors | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
in Wales are women. And with less than half of disabled | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
people having any sort of job, One thing is actually to say very | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
clearly that you want We have seen the number | :16:05. | :16:14. | |
of people applying, women, ethnic minority people, | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
disabled people, the number of people applying for public | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
appointment in Wales has increased Probably in response to the fact | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
that there has been great encouragement of diversity | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
in public sector boards. Another area of progress | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
is in schools. Rachel Webb is one of a growing | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
number of female headteachers. I asked her why education | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
is bucking the trend. We have seen a huge difference over | :16:44. | :17:04. | |
the last ten years. We had a ministerial visit last week from a | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
woman. I can't understand why. I'm just very grateful it's happening | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
because we have always fought for women having equal rights. | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
To mark International Women's Day, these women from Swansea | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
were presenting their ideas on equality and the Wales | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
they want to see when they take their place in the workforce. | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
Today's report suggests we are still a long way off that vision. | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
Barclays has confirmed it's closing its mortgage centre | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
in Cardiff next year with the loss of 180 jobs. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
144 of the posts are being moved to Liverpool and Leeds. | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Staff at the centre in the Llanishen area of the city have been given | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
the option of redundancy or applying for relocation. | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
The move is part of a major restructuring | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
The first pump storage power station for more than 30 years is to be | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
built near Llanberis in Snowdonia after receiving the go ahead | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
The project involves turning two slate quarries at Glyn Rhonwy | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
into reservoirs and pumping water between them when electricity | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
is cheap, to be released when demand rises. | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
The developers say it'll help meet carbon reduction targets. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Developers who left a housing project near Wrexham unfinished | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
almost ten years ago are being urged to complete construction. | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
A petition has been presented to Parliament to urge the company | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
to finish the job at Cefn Mawr or hand over the site to new owners. | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
Harron Homes says it wants to ensure the land is developed in a way | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
that meets the needs of the local community. | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
It's not the case that there is nothing that can be done, | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
even if Harron Homes don't want to act themselves, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
they can give it to the local authority or a housing association. | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
But what isn't right is the way they are just sitting | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
on land like this and not fulfilling an obligation. | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
Hundreds of women from across Wales have been protesting in London | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
against changes to the state pension scheme, which have raised | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
One Welsh MP says those worst affected are destitute and are | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Following decades working in the public sector, | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
62-year-old twins Leslie Stubbs and Sheila Porter from | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Carmarthenshire were hoping to enjoy the fruits of their labour. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
But changes to their state pension age have left them incensed. | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
I think it's organised theft by the government. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
There's no other way of describing it. | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
We are of a generation that have actually been discriminated against. | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
We didn't have the Equal Pay Act in 1970, then to suddenly feel | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
discriminated against now on the basis of your age, | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
because that's what it is, because if we'd been born in 1951 | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
No two cases are the same but the group most affected | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
are women born on or after the 6th of April 1951. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
It's estimated that amounts to around 135,000 people in Wales. | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
For decades the state pension age for women was 60 but between April | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
last year and November next year, it increases to 65. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
They are going to food banks, they are losing their homes, | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
some women are selling their homes in order to survive, | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
living off savings that are rapidly running out. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
One of the groups campaigning against the changes is WASPI, | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Women Against State Pension Inequality. | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
This was one of several coaches from north and south Wales that | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Women born in the 1950s have been an easy group to target and we have | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
Today I have come dressed as Emily Pankhurst because well over | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
a hundred years ago she was fighting for women's rights and we've come | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
here today to basically do exactly the same. | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Many campaigners say they had no or very little warning | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
of the changes to their state pension. | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
A former Conservative pensions minister says the government should | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
I had hoped that having a female Prime Minister, | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
we might have got some better understanding of the position faced | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
by women who, let's face it, have lost out in pensions | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
Thousands of people have gathered here today at Westminster | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
The Department of Work and Pensions says it has no intention | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
of changing its plans but the women here intend to | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
Football, ice hockey and rugby in tonight's sport. | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
The Wales coach says it's a chance to redeem themselves. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Rob Howley is sticking with the same side that lost to Scotland | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
for Friday's Six Nations game against Ireland. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Howley has resisted calls to bring in fresh faces | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Unlike Wales, they can win the title. | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
We've got, I suppose, the opportunity to go out at home | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
in front of our home supporters and deliver a performance which, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
first and foremost, the players are proud of and, equally as | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
important, for the supporters to support that. | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
It's going to be a huge game on Friday night. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
Football, and Wales Women have finished 6th in the Cyprus Cup | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
It finished goalless after 90 minutes but Jayne Ludlow's side | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock criticised Craig Noone | :22:30. | :22:41. | |
and Declan John for the part they played in conceding a late | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Kenneth Zohore put the Bluebirds ahead, then Derrick Williams pounced | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Ice hockey next, and she's a Welsh schoolgirl who plays | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
At just 13, Charlotte Harris from Ystrad Mynach is aiming to play | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
full time in the lucrative, professional leagues in Canada. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
She represents England's junior ice hockey team | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
It's a physical sport but Charlotte Harris is fearless. | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
She trains with men seven years older than her. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
The Cardiff Devils Under-20s are twice her size. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
I first started out with boys teams and you eventually get to the point | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
where you are so used to playing with boys, annoying the boys, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and then you want to get to their standard and you just want | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
Three years since taking up the sport, Charlotte is now good | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
enough to play on the international stage, but with no Wales team | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
she was spotted by England and the 13-year-old is now selected | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
ahead of boys for the Under-14s side. | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
She wants to play hockey all the time. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
She's got the mini sticks and a net at home. | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
She's better on skates than she is walking to be honest. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
I sometimes cringe and think, my goodness, that boy is massive | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
and if he knocks her, but she takes it in her stride. | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Charlotte spends 15 hours a week on the ice in Cardiff | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
and for a handful of teams in Sheffield and Nottingham. | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
She also represents GB girls at Under-16s. | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
Her coach is in no doubt she will be good enough to make | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
She's at the highest level known for her age. | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Give another four years or whatever the Olympics are now, | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
And playing overseas could be tempting too. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Charlotte wants to prove herself against the best in the professional | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
leagues in Canada but admits persuading her parents | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
No, not tonight all this week. The weather is turning milder. North | :24:51. | :25:11. | |
Wales enjoying the better of the drier weather today. Further south, | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
a lot more cloud with patchy rain. Tonight, the rain will clear. Mist | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
and fog forming but it should be a frost free night. Temperature is no | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
lower than six Celsius. Tomorrow we do have high pressure building from | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
the south and also a weather front which is just sitting across | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
southern parts of the British Isles. That will bring some rain later | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
tomorrow night but for much of tomorrow it is looking pretty | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
decent. We start the day on a breezy note, some sunshine but cloud will | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
start increasing from the south as we head into the afternoon. It is a | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
pleasant day to be out and about with temperatures getting up to 13 | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
or 14 Celsius. Through tomorrow night, we will see quite a bit of | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
cloud at first. At the end of the night we will see rain pushing in | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
from the West. It will be patchy in nature. Again, some low-level cloud, | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
mist and fog with temperatures no lower than five Celsius. As we head | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
towards the end of the week, high-pressure sitting across | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
mainland Europe. That means quite unsettled weather on Friday and the | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
weekend. Some rain at times but there will be some sunshine to look | :26:27. | :26:27. | |
forward to as well. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
has announced an extra ?200 million for Wales over the next four years | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
in his budget today. And let's have a last word | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
on that with our political Jamie, an interesting political | :26:41. | :26:52. | |
donation is whether the Conservatives have broken a | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
manifesto promised not to raise National Insurance contributions for | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
the self-employed. Tonight, the Conservative Welsh Secretary Alun | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Cairns says not. His deputy says they have but it's not an | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
unreasonable change. In Cardiff Bay, there's ?200 million, the | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
expectation is that it will go towards social care, like so much in | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
England. Broadly, I don't think anyone was expecting a giveaway | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
budget. So close to starting the Brexit process. That is exactly what | :27:24. | :27:24. | |
we got today. I'll be back with an update at 8pm | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
and after the BBC News at 10pm. From all of us on the | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
programme, good evening. You can still see her - | :27:31. | :27:47. | |
but it has to be supervised. | :27:48. | :27:51. |