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Welcome to Wales Today. Our headlines tonight: | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Helen Jones' husband Alun waited a fortnight for an angiogram | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Why are patients in some parts of the country | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
The nurse said to us, there might be a slight delay, | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
We waited 16 days for him to be transferred. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
Mike Boyle has Cystic Fibrosis, they're simplyfying how you access | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
expensive treatments, will it really benefit | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
I know there's something, it's within my grasp, | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
within my reach, and I'm being denied that at the moment. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
What we want? 0%. When we wanted? Now! | :00:42. | :00:53. | |
Angry homeowners tell politicians to scrap the rules regulating | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
Ten years years ago, people were moved out of their homes | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
for a road that never came, now it's back to square one. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
And we'll be finding out how a project looking at wildlife | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
on this river could change how we manage our waterways | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
There's concern tonight that heart attack patients in Mid | :01:14. | :01:35. | |
and West Wales are waiting weeks for a specialist cardiac procedure, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
because there is no provision within the Hywel Dda | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Cardiac patient Alun Jones from Ceredigion waited over | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
a fortnight for an angiogram in Morriston Hospital in Swansea, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
although official guidance recommends having the procedure | :01:51. | :01:51. | |
Mr Jones' wife contacted us with her concerns and has been | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
speaking to our reporter Aled Scourfield. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
It should be a time of celebration for Helen Jones as she marks her | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
26th wedding anniversary with her husband Alun. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
But the past few weeks have been incredibly stressful | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Alun suffered a heart attack on St David's Day and was admitted | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
She contacted Wales Today about his experiences. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
He was admitted to the cardiology ward and was advised that he needed | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
to be seen at Morriston for an angiogram within threedays. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
The nurse said to us there might be a slight delay, | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
We waited 16 days for him to be transferred. | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
A coronary angiogram is a specialist x-ray that detects blockages | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
All patients from the Hywel Dda health board area have to travel | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
to Morriston Hospital for the procedure, which is in | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board area. | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
For some, that can mean a journey of over 70 miles. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
The National Institutes of Health and Care Excellence, NICE, | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
suggest that patients who suffer a heart attack like Alun should | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
Helen has nothing but praise for the care her husband | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
received at Glangwili, and he's recovering well. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
She says that patients from Mid and West Wales are waiting | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
If somebody presents with heart or chest pains, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
If you present at Morriston with chest pains, you're likely, | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
very likely, I think they're hitting their targets very well, | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
to be seen within the 72 hours and have this intervention. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
It's not a question of money. It's a question of lives. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
The Swansea Health Board denies prioritising | :03:50. | :03:50. | |
This is where cardiac catheterisation, or angiograms, | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
can be performed at specialist centres around Wales at the moment. | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
None in Mid and West Wales, and just one in the North. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
The Royal College of Physicians said in a report in 2014 that the lack | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
of a cardiac catheterisation lab to perform angiograms | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
in the Hywel Dda health board area was a clinical risk. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Three years later, there's still no facility at Glangwili to cover | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
a rural population of over 370,000 people that includes | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
the counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
I know of many examples, Mr Jones is one of them. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
And others have had to wait for excessive amounts of time, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
weeks on end, for transfer to Morriston for treatment. | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
They are clinically and say, that is what clinicians are saying, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
and there is a need to increase capacity, certainly, | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
I asked for an interview with the Chief Executive | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
of the health board, but I was told he wasn't available. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
In a statement, Steve Moore apologised for | :04:56. | :04:56. | |
He said it was the health board's priority to make sure patients | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
were treated quickly, and work closely with | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
However, he did admit that the current situation needs | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
to improve, and there are plans for a new catheterisation | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
lab here at Glangwili, which will mean fewer patients | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
The Welsh government has told me it's awaiting that business case. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Helen Jones says the development is well overdue for patients | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
like her husband that have had to travel long distances and wait | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
for a cardiac procedure that can provide vital information | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Staying with cardiac care, almost three thousand people who've | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
had certain types of open heart surgery at the University Hospital | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
of Wales in Cardiff since 2013 have been told they may have been | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
So far, three cases of Mycobacterium chimaera have been | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
identified in Wales, which is linked to the use | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
of a device to regulate blood temperature. | :05:53. | :05:53. | |
28 cases have been identified across the UK. | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
Patients who need treatment that isn't available on the NHS | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
because its deemed too expensive can find the process of applying | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Today, that system has been simplified. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
But a leading charity says the changes don't go far enough, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
and an opportunity to end a "postcode lottery" | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke. | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
It's not a life jacket, but it does help him live. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Mike Boyle from Cardiff has cystic fibrosis, | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
a genetic illness that clogs up his lungs. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
But the vibrations from the jacket help clear the mucus, | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
meaning every breath is a little bit less of a struggle. | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
I do it twice a day, and it's for two minute cycles. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
My parents were told I probably wouldn't see my tenth birthday. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Through medical advances and things like that, really, | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
These are the medicines that have helped Mike defy the odds. | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
He takes 55 tablets each day, but with his health getting worse, | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
doctors told him about a new pill they thought could help. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
But he needed to make a special request to try to get his | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
quite confident that this would come around. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
So then when you're told as a patient, no, it's been refused, | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
and on the grounds it's been refused, it's quite some destroying. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Around 700 patients with a range of doses | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
made similar requests last year for treatments that | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
haven't been given the green light as cost-effective for NHS use. | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
One of the main complaint about the system is, | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
to be successful, a patient has to prove they're an exceptional case. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
But Health Secretary, on the advice of an independent panel, | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Instead, a decision will be based on whether or not there will be | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
But experts still need to be convinced that its value for money. | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
I hope the process will be much easier to understand. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
The new definition of clinical benefit for the individual should be | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
much clearer both for the patient but also the clinician as well. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
And also be much more upfront about the fact | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
it as to deliver reasonable value. The NHS is not a finite resource... | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
For years, there have also been complete about health boards making | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
different decisions to each other, leading to what some described | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
Some want to see a single group established to make | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
That won't happen, but the various panels will be | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Some argue this is a missed opportunity. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
It's significantly more difficult to get seven | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
We are only a population of 3 million. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
There are not a huge number of applications all the time. | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Those people on those panels could become experts. | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
One line can have a look at the patients complaining. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
If one says in West Wales they have had a decision | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
and they have a similar type of cancer, that is going | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Hundreds of new treatments and drugs develop each year. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
Back in Cardiff, Mike is well aware the NHS can't pay for them all. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
But now, needing a lung and kidney transplant, | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
he feels he has personally been denied a chance. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
It's just something I could swallow, and it could increase my lung | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
function, help me live longer and improve my life. | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
But that one tablet, you know, costs over ?100,000 | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
per patient per year. I know. | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
I know it is something within my grasp, within my reach, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
and I'm being denied that at the moment. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
The changes which come into force in September won't necessarily mean | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
And it's hoped a similar system also be fairer. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
A Gwent police officer has told an inquest he forgot | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
to switch-on a body camera, which could have recorded the scene | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
where a man attacked and killed Cerys Yemm in 2014. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
PC Sion Jenkins was one of five officers who tried | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
to restrain Matthew Williams following the attack | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Williams was tasered by police and later died. | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
Police searching for an 11 year old girl who went missing | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
from her home in Llanddulas overnight has been found safe | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
North Wales Police has thanked everyone involved | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Earlier this month, Plaid Cymru's Neil McEvoy was suspended | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
as a local councillor, after a tribunal ruled, | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
he made a 'bullying' remark to an official. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
He's also an assembly member, and was suspended from the party's | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
But, today he was reinstated into the Assembly group | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
following his apology for any distress caused. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
Our correspondent Daniel Davies has been following the story. | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
Dan, is there now peace in Plaid Cymru? | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
There is certainly a feeling that this issue has taken up enough time | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
and energy, and they would rather move on. Whether they will be able | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
to do that, I don't know, given that Plaid Cymru is holding another | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
investigation into it to look at other complaint against him. This | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
stems from another suspension he is serving in his other role as Cardiff | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Council member. He said he wanted to restructure the council. That remark | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
was heard by an officer, who told a tribunal she felt threatened in her | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
job, and the adjudication panel came to the conclusion that his comments | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
amounted to bullying behaviour. The party wanted him to apologise. He | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
wants to appeal. And in the meantime for the last two weeks, he has been | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
an independent member of the assembly, until today, when they | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
agreed on the statement in which he says that his comment was not | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
directed at the council officer, but acknowledged that she has said that | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
the comet caused distress, and for that he apologises. From Neil | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
McEvoy, to Donald Trump. Today the Welsh government's top law officer | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
has issued a statement saying there have been increasing attacks on the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
independence of the judiciary at home and abroad. And although he | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
doesn't name Neil McEvoy, he does draw attention to a phrase that | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Vista McEvoy has used about the tribunal that ruled against him, a | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
kangaroo court. According to the Council General of Wales, that | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
language undermines the fundamental principles of the rule of law that | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
underpinned the democratic system of government and administration of | :12:10. | :12:09. | |
justice. People living near Aston Hill, | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
close to Queensferry, in north east Wales say | :12:17. | :12:28. | |
they are ready to oppose new plans to widen a major road there, | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
nine years after a similar They say they'll support | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
an alternative route. The A 494 links the motorway network | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
in England with north Wales. Here we go again, the first stage | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
of a Welsh government consultation, This is a battle | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
they thought they'd won. This has been going | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
on for over 20 years. It was on, then it was off, | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
then it was back on, Eight years ago, there was a public | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
enquiry into quietening It doesn't seem to be a significant | :13:03. | :13:17. | |
amount of difference in what they were stating | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
when we won the public We have reformed a group and been | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
looking very carefully at the different options, | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
and we are ready for another The road at rush-hour - | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
bottlenecks happen when it feeds into the A55, which runs | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
the length of the North Wales coast to Holyhead. | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
So why does this matter? This is the single most important | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
road for the North Wales economy. It connects the region | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
to the north-west of England, there are 8 million people, | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
and two International airports We have been here before, | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
they've been looking for a solution to Deeside's traffic problems | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
for 30 years. These homes were compulsorily | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
purchased to allow A plan that was scrapped | :14:00. | :14:00. | |
after the enquiry. Now, new homes are being built | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
there, but this time On this map, the Aston Hill | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
route is coloured blue, it runs through Queensferry | :14:09. | :14:17. | |
to the A55. The alternative red route would take | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
traffic over the River Dee, connecting through countryside | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
to the A55. They like me Flincher Bridge plan, | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
people living near it would be less impressed. | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
What about business? Ashka Cabani chairs a business form | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
that represents 1000 businesses employing 25,000 people. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
He is backing the blue route. It looks right to me. | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
It looks right for most businesses. Why change something | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
that we already have a plan for? Ten years ago, they | :14:49. | :14:58. | |
were going to do this. So just continue, bite | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
the bullet and go for it, and build the motorway we deed | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
so desperately for North Wales. And this is just the | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
start of the process. Restoring our rivers, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
how a massive survey could change how we look after the country's | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
watercourses, and how the Somali community | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
here is raising money to try to help the victims | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
of drought-striken Africa. "Absolutely diabolical", | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
that's how some park home residents have described the rules relating | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
to the sale of their properties. Campaigners believe | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
it's unfair that anyone buying the bungalow-style mobile homes | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
is required to pay up to They were protesting | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
outside the Senedd to lobby the Welsh Government | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
to change the rules. Here's our political | :15:55. | :15:55. | |
reporter James Williams. Getting ready for the fight. Around | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
15 months ago, this man and his wife moved from the Bristol area to | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Wales. They paid ?75,000 for their Park home. 7500 of which, 10%, was | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
paid directly to the site owner. The actual 10% we paid to the park owner | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
was never brought up until we had actually exchanged contracts. It | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
came as a bit of a shock. It has led Royston to join others in protesting | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
the up to 10% commission the buyer pays to the site owner. Despite them | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
not being involved in the selling process. We feel it is diabolical in | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
this day and age. We feel that it is very, very unfair, and somebody has | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
got to stand up and be counted. And that's what we're all about. We are | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the ones standing up and being counted. This morning, they took | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
their protest to the steps of government. Almost 100 lobbied | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
ministers in Cardiff. It is in the Welsh governor's gift to change | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
commission rules. Today, they have announced a public consultation into | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
the issue. The minister says he is currently the view that there may be | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
a case to reduce or even abolish the commission. However, this former | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Liberal Democrat Minister passed a law in 2013, he decided against | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
including a change in the commission rate. I think the whole economics of | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
Park homes are bizarre because you buy the site, but you still pay a | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
pitch fee, and you still have to give a commission. The whole thing | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
is bizarre, but it has been established like that for decades. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
To try to unravel that starts to get very compensated. But for these | :17:57. | :18:06. | |
protest is and the around 5000 Park home residents in Wales it's a | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
simple question of fairness. Our rivers and waterways | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
are a much loved part of the Welsh landscape, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
but in some areas, fish stocks and other wildlife has declined | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
because of poor water quality. Now, a new project has been | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
launched to return rivers Our environment correspondent | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Steffan Messenger is on the banks What's this | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
project all about? We are at the end of the River story | :18:28. | :18:40. | |
at Cardiff Marina where the river flows into the sea. Water quality | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
further up the catchment has been deemed poor, even bad in places by | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
natural resources Wales. Now a huge survey of this river from top to | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
bottom has given us a unique insight into the challenges it faces and | :18:56. | :18:56. | |
what needs to happen now. A fine day for litter picking. | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
Volunteers joined forces with a host of different organisations at the | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
start of a new campaign to restore our rivers. I think it definitely | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
has the be the way forward for everyone to work together with the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
local community, get that pride and awareness back up of the value of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
our rivers. This is the first of a number of clean ups along this river | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
this spring. The hope is to involve local people and schools as well as | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
specialists in dealing with different types of pollution. The | :19:31. | :19:42. | |
river flows for around 24 miles from Cardiff into the bay. But the water | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
quality is so bad in parts that local anglers complained to the | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
council, claiming the river was basically dead. After an enquiry by | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
the council's environment committee, a number of different organisations | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
came on board and a thorough survey was carried out from top to bottom. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
The first of its kind on a river in Wales. We found hundreds of major | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
tipping incidents, and also sewage outfall. There are also unscrupulous | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
builders who deliberately mis-connect showers, granny flats, | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
directly into the storm drain. That all adds together to kill a river | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
off. Wells water are now involved in responding to the survey's findings. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
We've got 7000 comet is of rivers in Wales, and actually, we can't | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
understand everything that is going on in all of them. This survey will | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
help us to understand where we have missed connections. After two hours | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
of litter picking, the team of volunteers feel around 20 barracks, | :20:50. | :20:58. | |
and then there is all this rubbish as well. Things that can't be was | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
cycled. A programme of work to tackle the problem is now being | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
prepared. This project could set a precedent for restoring other rivers | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
across Wales. And the findings of that survey, | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
mapping pollution along the river Ely will soon be available | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
as an online resource. It'll also show areas where fallen | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
trees and invasive species like japanese knotweed | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
could be causing problems. The hope then is that restoration | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
work can be properly targeted, and the River Ely can | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
in time will become a haven for fish and other wildlife | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
and an amenity the local community Hundreds of members of the Somali | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
community here have been taking part in fundraising events to raise money | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
for drought-stricken families and relatives living | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
in the Horn of Africa. Cardiff has one of the the largest | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Somali communities in the UK, and people here have already raised | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
thousands of pounds. Shocking images like this have | :21:51. | :22:03. | |
sparked an international charitable response in the last few weeks. In | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
parts of Somalia, they've had three years without rain. The last famine | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
here in 2011 claimed the lives of 250,000 people. It makes a big | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
difference, you know. A world away in Wales a year without Wales is | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
hard -- without rain is hard to imagine. They are doing everything | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
they can to help. They have arranged football and family fun days in this | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
part of Cardiff where second and third generations still have strong | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
family ties in that region of Africa. Most of my family are from | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
the rural area of Somali land, an area too far from any City, from any | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
area where you can get basic supplies from, and the stories that | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
I have heard are dire, people left with nothing. There is a large | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
population here, and we have a big connection to the communities. They | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
are appealing for help and support. With food and rain in abundance in | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Cardiff, the Somali community here recognise just how fortunate they | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
are to be living in Wales, but they're determined to help family in | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
drought stricken areas. This family fun day and other weekends have | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
already raised nearly ?6,000. A few family members we have been able to | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
speak to have all said about how devastating it is and how it is not | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
getting better because it hasn't rained. I can see the suffering | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
around, therefore they want us from the West to rally around them and | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
basically send as much money as possible. Obviously, there is no | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
funding, because Somali land is not recognised as a country. I have | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
sisters hurting, even though we are all the way in Wales, in Cardiff, we | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
hurt as bad as they are. We do as much as we can. Getting clean | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
drinking water is the best way to stave off disease. Aid is being | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
planned for next week. Meanwhile the funding continues. A | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
charity football match between a Somali team and members of the | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Bangladeshi community kicks off at 8pm. The score is irrelevant, their | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
only goal is to raise as much cash as possible for a drought stricken | :24:32. | :24:32. | |
part of Africa. following the alleged bite | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
on George North during Wales' defeat Six Nations officials have been | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
unable to find any television BBC Wales understands | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
the Welsh Rugby Union's plan to take over the Newport Gwent Dragons | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
and Rodney Parade Stadium The WRU already owns | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
a 50% stake in the Dragons. The region has been looking | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
for investment for nearly a year. But if the deal is to happen it | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
will need to be supported by three quarters of | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
Newport RFC shareholders. Let's see what the weather | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
has in store, Derek's Sunshine and heavy showers today, | :25:13. | :25:25. | |
snow in the mountains. Parts of the North are dry, bright and sunny. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
This evening and tonight, more showers, and also heavy rain. Sleet | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
and snow, too. Snow, 300-400 metres, a few centimetres likely on some of | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the higher level roads. Dry in the west later in the night. This is the | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
picture for 8pm tomorrow morning. Cloudy in the north, some rain, some | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
heavy, extending into the North East to Wrexham. Eastern Powys and | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
Monmouthshire with showers. The south-west dry and brighter with | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
sunshine. During the day, further outbreaks of rain in the north, wet | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
weather, wintry on high ground. Further south, showers with dry | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
weather and sunshine in the afternoon. Temperatures again on the | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
cold side, the wind lighter ban today. Tomorrow, cold and wet, six | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Celsius in Holly welcomer dry and bright in Swansea tomorrow. Sunshine | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
as well. Rain will clear, showers dying away leaving a dry night with | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
mist and frost in places. Thursday, dry with showers, especially in the | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
north and east, the best sunshine in the South west. The north-easterly | :26:44. | :26:51. | |
wind will make it feel chilly. Dry and bright elsewhere, looking | :26:52. | :26:53. | |
promising for the weekend. Dry, sunshine and warm. | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
Northern Ireland's former Deputy First Minister, | :27:05. | :27:05. | |
Martin McGuinness, has died at the 66. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
He was a senior commander in the IRA, which | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
in the 1970;s and eighties - was at the forefront of a terror | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
But he later played an important role as a Sinn Fein negotiator | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
And there's concern that heart attack patients living in mid | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
and west wales are waiting longer than they should for angiograms. | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Helen Jones from Ceredigion got in touch when her husband waited | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
over a fortnight for the test that should be available within 72 hours. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
Hywel Dda Health board has apologised. | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
If you - like Helen - have a story you want | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
us to investigate - you can email us | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
[email protected] - i'll be back at 8 and again | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
after the News at 10 - That's Wales Today - | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
thank you for watching - from all of us on the | :27:47. | :27:49. |