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And that's all from the BBC News at Six. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
An inquest hears police tasered Matthew Williams four times | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
as they were called to the Bed and Breakfast where Cerys Yemm | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
Also tonight, Labour tells the UK Government to 'get moving' and give | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
the Swansea Tidal Lagoon the go ahead. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Swansea needs to see the benefits in terms of energy infrastructure, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
long-term infrastructure that the project will leave after it's gone, | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
and the tool is it will bring. after it's gone, and the tool | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
is it will bring. Arson attacks on Welsh holiday | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
cottages in the 70s, new documents on how authorities | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
responded are revealed We've decided to report on social | :00:40. | :00:40. | |
media and mental health. As part of the BBC's School Report | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
day, pupils take their concerns And in tonight's sport, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
the manager says he's 17 year-old Ben Woodburn | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
gets his first senior call-up ahead of Wales's crucial World Cup | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
qualifier next week. "I have never been more scared | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
in my entire life" , the words of the police officer | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
called to the Bed and Breakfast Cerys Yemm was killed | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
by a resident, 34-year-old He died shortly after his arrest in | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Argoed during which he was tasered You may find parts of | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
Caroline Evans report disturbing. Today the inquest heard from one of | :01:41. | :01:53. | |
the first police officers to enter the room at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
PC Alan Cotterell told how, with the help of the owner's husband, he | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
pushed the bedroom door open. Matthew Williams was on the floors | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
snarling and growling. He looked possessed, he said. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
His eyes almost black. He told the jewellery he'd never been more | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
scared in his entire life, and said this was by far the most a | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
horrendous thing he'd ever seen. He said he used his Taser, praying it | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
would work. He quickly realised from the severity of her injuries that | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Cerys Yemm was dead. But felt Matthew Williams was such a threat | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
he feared for his own life. He described how he tasered Williams | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
once, and managed to get the handcuffs on him. But as officers | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
tried to hold him down, he was lifting them up with such ease they | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
had to use the Taser again. He told the court, I feel if that Taser | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
hadn't worked I wouldn't be such today. He used it three more times | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
within a minute. Before Matthew Williams stopped trying to get up. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
At that point PC Cotterell told the court he formally arrested him for | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
murder, around 20 minutes after being placed on ambulance he died. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
The inquest into the death of Matthew Williams on Cerys Yemm | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
Labour says the UK government should "get moving" and give the Swansea | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
A report commissioned by the government that backed | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
the technology was published two months ago. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
But ministers are yet to agree to guarantee how much money | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
the company will get for the electricity the lagoon | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
will feed into the National Grid, known as the strike price. | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
Seven square miles of water that could generate enough energy to | :03:35. | :03:47. | |
power 150,000 homes a year. The Swansea tidal lagoon project got the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
thumbs up in a report by former energy minister Charles Hendry, two | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
months ago. The company wants to start building in one year's time. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
That the future is uncertain. The people behind this project started | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
developing the idea to harness the energy generated underwater here | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
seven years ago. But with investors to keep happy, they are still | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
waiting for further backing from the UK Government. That backing boils | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
down to a decision on how high a price the UK Government will | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
guarantee the company would get for energy. Trying to put pressure on | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the UK Government Labour's Shadow energy sector came to Swansea today | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
to meet the company and see the site. She didn't say how how the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
price should be, but she urged Mr 's in Whitehall to get on board. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
We want them to get moving on this as quickly as possible. Swansea | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
needs to see benefits in two rooms infrastructure, long-term and | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
structure that the project will leave in Swansea after it's gone and | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
the tourism it will bring to Swansea. You can see how beautiful | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
it is. The tidal lagoon will be here, and the benefits are going to | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
be amazing. The company didn't want to do an | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
interview saying, perhaps to dramatically, they are looking | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
forward to the UK Government's decision. If the lagoon happens it | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
could lead to a network of others around Wales and the UK. Including | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
in Cardiff. On another boat in Cardiff Bay Welsh Conservative | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
leader and Wattie Davis played down Rebecca Long baby's demand. I | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
wouldn't put a lot of stalled by what she said today. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
This is virtually over the line. There's still a little bit more work | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
to do on it. It's really important that the strike price for the energy | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
it generates is competitive. Because jobs relied on a competitive energy | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
price. It's the eve of the Conservative | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Spring conference which happens to be in South Wales. Executives from | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
tidal lagoon power armour 's business leaders meeting the | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Business Secretary in Cardiff tonight. -- are amongst business | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
leaders. But speculation about a big spot announcement seems to be | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
premature. The UK Government says it is considering the report, but with | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the side of energy bill that state it is unsurprising it's not speeding | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
Our political editor Nick Servini joins me now, Nick, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
how much pressure is being put on the UK government? | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
There will be a lot of pressure. Theresa May will be in Wales | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
tomorrow, and they will be pressure from within her own party. The | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
context is that this is a government that says it does not want to be | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
consumed by Brexit. So in that sense you'd have thought things like | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
infrastructure projects only way of avoiding that accusation. What I'm | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
hearing about, and Paul touched on it, is that the UK Government is not | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
in a position to make a call. But a call is imminent on another project, | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
the Swansea city deal. This is a plan for local authorities, UK and | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
Welsh governments, to come together for major projects. I don't know how | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
we'll play into that tomorrow. We know that Prime Minister is, when | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
they come to Wales, liked to have announcements to make. But we know | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
there have been issues with the Swansea city deal and it made teak | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
longer. What can we expect that the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
conference than? It is an extraordinary time in | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
British politics. Theresa May has this enormous job of holding the UK | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
together and negotiating a breakdown in the relationship with the EU. We | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
have seen this tit-for-tat with Nicola Sturgeon today, and I think | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
the expectation tomorrow in her speech and speeches from senior | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Conservatives is to talk about the strength of the union of the United | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Kingdom. If you think about it, whereas can she do that? It's | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
difficult in England, counter-productive in Scotland when | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
there's an SNP conference. Political turmoil in Northern Ireland. So it | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
comes to be relatively benign conditions of the devolved country | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
like Wales. These are warm words but people say it needs commitment. That | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
is where the pressure for things like infrastructure improvements and | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
major projects will come from tomorrow. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
We will hear more on this tomorrow. I give. | :08:26. | :08:26. | |
Fewer people had to spend 12 hours or more in A departments | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
in February compared to January, with the number of patients left | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
The latest figures also show an improvement against the four-hour | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
wait target, with just over 80% of patients seen. | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
But the Welsh Government's 95 % target has never been met. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
An inquiry has been launched into how a teenager | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
from Denbighshire fell to her death on a luxury yacht in Jamaica. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
Bethany Smith fell from the 196 foot mast of the yacht | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
The 18-year-old left Wales ten years ago | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
to sail around the world with her family. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
The UK government's attempts to respond to the Meibion Glyndwr | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
holiday home arson campaign, which began in the late 1970s, have | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Secret papers obtained by BBC Wales have re-ignited claims that | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
elements of the security services were involved. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
They also detail concerns that the police couldn't distinguish | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
between legitimate Welsh nationalists and extremists. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
It was a turbulent period in our history, it will be a long-lasting | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
campaign, and we still don't know who was behind it. | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
it knew, Radio Cymru's Manylu programme used a Freedom of | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
information request to see these documents. | :09:49. | :09:49. | |
For a year that request was denied, the BBC made a string of | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Then, finally, these documents, many marked secret, and | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
But they do give a unique insight into | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
thinking at the highest levels of government. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
One document suggests the police didn't understand the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
distinction between legitimate political nationalists, and criminal | :10:07. | :10:16. | |
One Chief Constable and says, seems to think the | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
presence of nationalists in positions of influence in | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
broadcasting and education was a matter for the police. | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
The first attacks came on December 13 1979. | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
The attacks intensified, by the end there had | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
And they seem to be a high level of organisation. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
On one night alone and estate agents in | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
In Mayfair, Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
The actor Bryn Fon was picked up at his home. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
He was later released without charge, and it's accepted he was | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
The secret papers reveal the Chief Constable of North | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Wales was sent greeting cards, naming actors and musicians as fire | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
I turned out to be the reverse of what they expected. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
The fact that I hadn't been a member of | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Cymdeithas Yr Iaith, I wasn't a card-carrying Welsh nationalist, | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
But then they tried to turn that on its head by saying | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
The attacks went on and army disposal team was brought in to show | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
journalists the damage the incendiary devices were capable of | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
In the early 1990s Sean Aubrey Roberts was part of a | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
self-styled Meibon Glyndwr colour party which took part in parades. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
In 1993, following a surveillance operation involving MI5 officers, he | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
But he clearly could not have been involved in arson attacks more than | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
As a folk singer and politician Dafydd Iwan has | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
been involved in nationalist politics for more than half a | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
century, he's long believed the security services played a part. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
It's been worrying me for many years. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Was it a genuine campaign by Welsh nationalist sympathisers, | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
or was it in fact engineered by agent provacateurs? | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
You know that you give the impression that Welsh | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
nationalism was going along a similar route to Northern Ireland | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
There was a real concern about the potential | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
But the idea that the security forces were somehow | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
complicit in doing things which could have endangered life is so | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
fanciful it's frankly to be beyond any belief. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
We never had any hint of that, in the Welsh office, and I do | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
not give any credence to its whatsoever. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
And so the debate continues, the holiday home arson | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
campaign never escalated as some of the secret papers suggest UK | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
Even with these newly released documents, | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
And you can hear more on this story on BBC Radio Cymru's Manylu | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
programme which is available on iPlayer radio. | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
A heroin addict has been jailed for 13 and a half years for killing | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
38-year-old Dean Jones assaulted former solicitor | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Alison Farr-Davies at their flat where she was left to die. | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
From a privileged background 42-year-old Alison Farr Davis grew | :13:37. | :13:52. | |
up in Kidwelly. She entered the legal profession working around the | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
UK. But in the years that followed her | :13:57. | :13:56. | |
life was blighted by an addiction to class a drugs. During a period of | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
homelessness she met this man, Dean Jones, himself a heroin user he | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
became his boyfriend -- her boyfriend. Today he was jailed for | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
killing her. I tell my girls that monsters don't exist, but they do. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
He is a monster for what he did to Ali. He robbed us of a beautiful | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
person and we miss her so much. The couple had been living in this | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
house in Swansea was withdrawing from drug abuse. It was also at this | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
property Ms Farr Davis was found dead in September last year. The | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
court heard Dean Jones had been seen running from this house into the | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
street shouting for help to save Alison. He claimed she'd taken an | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
overdose, but in truth, she'd been assaulted and suffered injuries to | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
her head and chest. Possibly 12 to 18 hours before her death. According | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
to a pathologist missed Farr Davis had 63 external injuries, and some | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
significant internal injuries including 19 broken ribs. This | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
punctured her heart and lungs. The judge, Keith Thomas, said she was | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
incapacitated by who withdraw from drugs which made her entirely | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
defenceless. He described it as an uncorrupt and senseless attack. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Jones will serve two thirds of his 13.5 year sentence in prison before | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
being considered for parole. Still to come in the | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
programme tonight. Strike a selfie pose, | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
but for School Report day these pupils investigate how social media | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
can affect young people. And he could be lining up | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
against Bale and Ramsey next week, the 17-year-old set to make his | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
Wales debut in Dublin. Senior representatives of the Church | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
in Wales have been meeting Last month an electoral | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
college of 47 people failed to agree on a candidate, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
so now responsibility lies Our reporter Nick Palit has been | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
following their progress, and joins us now from | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff. Thank you. Today was the last day of | :16:04. | :16:17. | |
a three-day meeting of the bench of bishops who decide who will be the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
next Bishop of Llandaff. This is important for the Church in Wales, | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
because the dieses based biscuit the job behind me serves nearly half the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
population of Wales. -- the diocese based behind me. Barry Morgan served | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
as Bishop of Llandaff and Archbishop of Wales. Why is it taking so long? | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
As you may remember last month an electoral College of 47 officials | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
failed to agree who would be the 72nd Bishop of Llandaff. After | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
voting on a confidential list of candidates they failed to come up | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
with a two thirds majority for anyone. It's been reported that a | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
leading gay cleric, the very Reverend Jeffrey John, narrowly | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
missed out. Because nobody was appointed the constitution says the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
bench of bishops must decide. They've been meeting. That ended at | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
lunchtime today. In the last hour the Church in Wales issued a press | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
statement saying they have drawn up a new short list and the process | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
will continue. There is no fixed timetable for this process but added | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
the bishops wish to announce their choice as soon as all formalities | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
The choir Only Boys Aloud was turned down for Arts Council of Wales | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
funding because it did not provide enough opportunities for girls, | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
Creator Tim Rhys-Evans told an inquiry on public funding | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
for music in schools that the lack of public sector support | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
was "galling" and their bid being rejected was difficult. | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
When I was on the youth choir of Wales, they were 70s Pranab 's, and | :17:56. | :18:11. | |
ten tenors. -- 70 Sopranos. It was our intention to do something about | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
We have experience on success, so I find that difficult. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
A spokesperson from the Arts Council of Wales says its extremely proud | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
to have been able to provide over ?70,000 to the Aloud Charity | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
since its inception but its revenue funding decisions were affected | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
by several years of reduction in funding. | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
Young journalists from 44 schools across Wales have been taking part | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
in the BBC School Report Project learning how to make | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
With social media a big part of modern life, | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
school reporters Holly, Halley, Isabel and Molly, | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
from Porth County Community School have looked at the effect it's | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Wales' Children's Commissioner told them it's something | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Today we've decided to do a report on the effects of social media on | :18:50. | :19:04. | |
the mental health of young people. We've becoming pleasingly alarmed | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
the impact of social media is having on our friends. People are rage are | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
overly concerned with social media. -- people are age. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
These are images we see everyday. We enjoy keeping up with what our | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
favourite celebrities are doing. But young together some young people | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
feel they are underachieving if they don't have all the possessions of | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Dodi activities these people do. Some are going as far as buying | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
themselves likes to look more popular. Do you think people create | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
unrealistic images on social media? They look up to social media stars | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
and think that is perfect. They try to make themselves or change | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
themselves. An social media websites like Facebook and snap trap they do | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
certain things like heart or not and categorise people by locks. It's not | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
just the pressure to be popular but causes low self-esteem. Hurtful | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
comments can cause problems. Figures show this is a growing problem. The | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
NSPCC says the number of children or young people targeted by online | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
bullies in the UK has increased the 88% in five years. Make-up Tip 's on | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
you to have turned this girl into a social media star, but despite | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
millions of fans even she has admitted she's been upset by nasty | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
comments. The children's Commissioner, Sally Holland, says | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
there is an important role for parents and teachers. Could parents | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
and schools do more to stop these things happening on social media? I | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
know as a parent of teenagers it's quite hard because teenagers want to | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
keep that aspect of their life private. It's important to develop | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
an open atmosphere in the household. Adults, teachers or parents, they | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
need to educate themselves. Students become wrapped up in how they are | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
seen by others and chase likes. They are concerned about status updates. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
That can damage their sense of identity and self confidence. We are | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
keen to educate students in how to, perhaps, combat and deal with social | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
media. Social media is here to stay, for our generation it is the way we | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
contact and stay in touch with friends. But it's up to us to make | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
sure we use it responsibly. That report from our | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
School Reporters from He's not a household name yet | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
but teenager Ben Woodburn's international football career | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
is about to lift off. The 17-year-old, who plays | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
for Liverpool, has been named in the Wales squad for the first | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
time ahead of their crucial World Cup qualifier | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
against Republic of Ireland. Manager Chris Coleman has rejected | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
any suggestions the call-up is designed to keep the teenager out | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
of England's clutches. He became Liverpool's youngest ever | :22:00. | :22:14. | |
scorer earlier this season. Many acknowledged his talent. But for | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Chris Coleman it's no surprise. Then would burn has been on the radar | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
scoring like this since he was 13. It makes me laugh, don't tell me | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
about this kid I've been looking out for five years. We know what about | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Ben, we know he's a good player. If I thought it was too early we | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
wouldn't call him up. This game is massive for us. With all due respect | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
to Ben Woodburn this is a good game for me to get him in. This is the | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
big one. And he's done enough. He's earned his place with us. Born in | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Nottingham he is eligible to play for England, but the forward | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
qualifies for Wales through his maternal grandfather, and has | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
already played under 16, under 18 and under 19 level. Coleman says he | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
never feared he'd choose to representing and over Wales. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
You can sit down as much as you like with players like Sirhowy Arms Hotel | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
and they come and play for Wales, and timidly, they make their own | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
mind up. He hasn't played for England or Scotland, use played for | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Wales. -- players like Ben Woodburn. It's a natural progression. Wales | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
had to Dublin with a job to do. They are boosted by the return of Gareth | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Bale and Aaron Ramsey. They are four points behind the Republic of | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Ireland. The side finishing top qualifies automatically with eight | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
of the nine second-place teams facing play-offs. | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
People about the phone go this is do or die. I don't see that. All I see | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
is huge challenge, we've always wanted to be involved with games | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
like this. The pressure is on. For all the right reasons. I'm looking | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
forward to it. A week Friday it's D-Day in Dublin for the game that | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
could decide Wales's World Cup ambitions. | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
And you can see the squad in full on the BBC website. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Turning to Rugby and Wales have arrived in Paris, as they look | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
to end their Six Nations campaign on a high with victory over France. | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
Interim Coach Rob Howley says securing a top four world ranking | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
Victory for Wales, and an England win over Ireland, would lift Wales | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
into fourth spot ahead of May's 2019 World Cup draw. | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
I spoke to the players this morning about motivation. Things motivate as | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
in different ways, there or ambition, music, everyone is so | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
different. Ultimately, this is an opportunity to go into the next | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Rugby World Cup ranked fourth. That's a large incentive for this | :25:02. | :25:02. | |
That's a large incentive for this group of players. | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
And it wasn't quite the fairytale story at Cheltenham for | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
the syndicate from Pembrokeshire, who we featured on last | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
Tobefair which is owned by seventeen people from Cresswell Quay, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
My money's on a change in the weather. | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
Colder tonight with rain and stronger winds on the way tomorrow. | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
North East Wales enjoyed some sunshine today but generally much | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
cloudier compared to yesterday with a little rain in Llanbedr. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
This evening patches of rain will clear. | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
Overnight dry bar the odd shower in the north and colder | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
Ground frost in some sheltered spots by dawn. | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Here's the picture for 8 in the morning. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
A bit chilly but much of the country dry. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
More cloud for mid and north west Wales. | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
During the day the weather will go downhill. | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
Rain in the north late morning will spread further south | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
The wind increasing as well and feeling cool. | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
Dry for a while but turning wet and windier. | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
In Caerphilly, dry and bright for a while but rain | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
Tomorrow night breezy with outbreaks of rain. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Some heavy, persistent rain in mid, west and northwest Wales. | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
If you're heading to Paris for the rugby. | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
Although parts of the north and east should be drier and bright at times. | :26:54. | :27:07. | |
Highest temperatures in the North East, 14C. | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
So much more unsettled over the next few days. | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
A reminder of our top story, an officer who tasered a man he found | :27:12. | :27:29. | |
killing Cerys Yemm in a hostel told an inquest he has never been more | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
scared. The officer says he tasered Matthew Williams four times. He died | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
shortly after his arrest. More after the news at ten. That is | :27:43. | :27:46. |