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European Union after 44 years of membership. That's all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It is the expectation of the government that the devolved | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will see a | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
significant increase in their decision-making power as a result of | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
this process. Wales in line for more powers, | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
but as Article 50 is triggered, criticism of the Prime Minister | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
for failing to involve Wales This is unacceptable | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
and the culmination of a deeply frustrating process | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
in which the devolved administrations have persistently | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
been treated with a lack of respect. From farmers and families to workers | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
and businesses, tonight, with reaction and analysis, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
we'll look at what this Its vice-chair and chair are sacked | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
by the Welsh Government. I think they have handled it pretty | :00:44. | :01:09. | |
poorly, pretty shockingly, actually. I've had two formal correspondence | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
in the last seven months. It certainly wouldn't happen | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
in normal organisations. Injuries suffered on | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
Pontypridd's 3G pitch. The WRU will now inspect | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
its condition, amid calls for research into the impact | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
of artificial playing fields. And Jackie Kennedy at the funeral | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
of the sixth Lord Harlech. She rejected his marriage proposal, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
but letters revealing their close On the day the Prime Minister | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
triggered Article 50, starting the process of the UK | :01:37. | :01:48. | |
leaving the European Union, Theresa May has told MPs Brexit | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
will mean a "significant increase" in the Welsh Government's | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
decision-making powers. Mrs May said she would consult | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
on which powers should be transferred from Brussels | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
to Cardiff, but that no powers currently held by devolved | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
governments will be taken We will negotiate as one | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
United Kingdom, taking into account the specific interests of every | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
nation and region of the UK and when it comes to the powers | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
that we will take back from Europe, we will consent fully | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
on which powers should reside in Westminster and which should be | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
passed onto the devolved But, Mr Speaker, no decision | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
currently taken by the devolved administrations will be removed | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
from them and it is the expectation of the government that the devolved | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will see | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
a significant increase in their decision-making power | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
as a result of this process. At the Senedd, the First Minister | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
said it was "deeply regrettable" the Welsh Government was not allowed | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
to contribute to the letter sent by Theresa May, | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
notifying the EU of the UK's If the Prime Minister truly believes | :02:54. | :03:09. | |
in the union and reflecting the wishes of the UK as a whole then she | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
needs to adopt a very different approach. I don't see how the Prime | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
Minister can claim to negotiate on the whole of the UK when she | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
disregards the rights of this Welsh Government to speak up for the | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
people of Wales. We should be under no illusions about today's Article | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
50 notice. It does not fulfil the wishes of the Scottish Government, | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
nor to my mind the Welsh Government. It certainly doesn't satisfy Plaid | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Cymru. The language from the UK Government is that they have an | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
expectation of a significant increase in devolved powers. Anyone | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
who takes that at face value needs a reality check. I say to the First | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Minister, do cheer up. This is a great opportunity for us. As well as | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
a challenge. There are challenges and opportunities in life in general | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
but surely the opportunity to strike free-trade agreements with the 85% | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
of the global economy which is outside the European Union, given | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
that the United States clip takes 22% of Welsh export, is there not a | :04:13. | :04:13. | |
great opportunity there? So what will be the key concerns | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
for Wales in the upcoming We're more reliant on EU funding | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
and trade than anywhere else in the UK, so expect both issues | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
to be high on the Welsh So too agriculture, given the sheer | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
number of people who farm in Wales. Our Economics Correspondent, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Sarah Dickins, has been to Swansea and the Gower to hear from some | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
of those likely to be most affected And a new dawn for | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
the Welsh economy. Ken and Sian hand | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
rear pedigree pigs. They are among the 84,000 who work | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
in Welsh agriculture. Food and farming is worth ?6 billion | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
per year to our economy, so this Brexit deal will affect | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
many rural livelihoods. Ken thinks it will end | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
cheap pork imports. When you look at the quantity | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
that we bring into the country, We produce in Wales 5% | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
of what we eat in Wales and regulations have gone | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
to the point where we have got high welfare pork in the country | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
and what comes into the country We just need to be able to compete | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
on a level playing field Will Westminster replace the farm | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
payments Wales has had from the European Union worth almost | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
?200 million per year? 90% of Welsh red meat goes | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
to the European Union. A free-trade deal is | :05:27. | :05:39. | |
what Karen John wants. She runs a glass recycling | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
company on Swansea docks. Wales exports more goods | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
to the European Union So, in terms of Brexit, | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
what do you want to get from it? I would love to have tariff | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
free-trade and it is highly unlikely that we are going to get that, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
I know. But that would be the | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
best outcome for us. Has the relationship you have | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
had with your customers They have said that whereas I would | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
normally get a five - ten year contract, | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
that is impossible 3% of the Welsh workforce comes | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
from other countries in the European Union, | :06:17. | :06:31. | |
a much smaller proportion But for those like Karen, | :06:32. | :06:32. | |
who has four Polish employees, a priority is to learn | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
whether they can stay. They have worked for | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
us for eight years. They have experienced | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
their neighbours treating And if they could stay | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
here, they will. At the other end of the docks is the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
new Swansea University Bay campus. It cost ?450 million to build, | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
half from European Union funds. Since 2000, Wales has had more | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
than ?5 billion from this pot of cash designed | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
to make us wealthier. But we remain the poorest | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
part of the UK. Dr Ben Evans is developing | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
the Bloodhound supersonic car in Swansea's European Union funded | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
laboratories. He hopes Westminster will replace | :07:15. | :07:15. | |
the funding but it's Without the access to European | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
funding we have had over the last two years, the new campus | :07:18. | :07:30. | |
at the University The research programmes, | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
our collaborations, the European Union has been | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
critical for that. So the thing that I would be | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
asking our British negotiators is to make sure that there | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
are as few barriers to allow me to continue the partnerships | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
I already have in Spain, Despite different views of Brexit, | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
most agree the Welsh economy has been more reliant | :07:45. | :07:56. | |
on the European Union The battle is for a Brexit deal | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
that helps us flourish. The Prime Minister said | :07:58. | :08:11. | |
that her government will 'consult fully' on which powers should reside | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
in Westminster and which But questions remain | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
as to whether Wales' voice will be Our political reporter, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
James Williams, has been A Welsh composer's work mixing | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
the European classical Revised relationships, | :08:23. | :08:42. | |
new partnerships. The Brexit process | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
changes everything. Wales will be fully engaged, | :08:50. | :08:50. | |
according to the Prime Minister, who says she wants a Brexit that | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
will work for the whole Theresa May knows she faces | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
monumental task, not only in negotiating Brexit but also | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
in trying to keep the UK together. So, in this context, | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
does the voice of Wales, a Brexit supporting nation, | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
fall on deaf ears? Do you trust the UK Government | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
to reflect the Welsh opinion From what I have seen | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
of the Prime Minister, I think they should be | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
reflected, yes, but I don't Four nations but ultimately only | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
one negotiating team. Ministers from Cardiff, Edinburgh, | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Belfast and Westminster are already engaged in a Brexit Forum | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
but anxieties have been expressed about the effectiveness | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
of the so-called joint ministerial The United Kingdom is not | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
the place it was in 1972 It is a very different place | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
and the four nations that make up the United Kingdom have an equal | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
stake in these negotiations, so we are not bit players, | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
none of the devolved administrations We expect that our voice will be | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
heard throughout the negotiations. But hasn't Wales' voice | :10:05. | :10:19. | |
already been heard? Although the whole country didn't | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
sing from the same hymn sheet, a slight majority of Welsh voters | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
did back Brexit. The form it takes, | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
however, is less clear. I don't know why people | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
call it a hard Brexit, it just seems like a sensible | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
Brexit. They wanted competition, they wanted | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
an end to EU regulations, they wanted an end to EU free | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
migration from anybody in the EU to come here | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
without any sort of control. For the future shape of the country, | :10:42. | :10:51. | |
there could hardly be The Scottish Parliament | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
has called for a second And in Cardiff today, | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
leading Labour politicians held the first meeting of a devolution | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
task force with one principal aim, more powers to the nations, | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
in order to save the UK. This constitutional debate | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
we are having now is not one that we have chosen to have, | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
it is one that has been forced The United Kingdom is leaving | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
the European Union. And the result of that means | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
powers are coming back This isn't a debate | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
we can opt out of. It is happening and | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
it is happening now. But the people of Wales and the UK | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
didn't speak with one Harmonising those differing opinions | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
over the next two years poses Let's go to Westminster now | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
and join our parliamentary Thank you. Historic is a word that | :11:42. | :12:06. | |
is sometimes overused in Welsh politics but today certainly feels | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
like a momentous day for Wales and the UK and the European Union. Let's | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
try and make some sense of it now with someone who was around that | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Cabinet table with trees in May this morning, Alun Cairns, the Welsh | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Secretary. Theresa May talks of more powers going to Wales. What powers | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
is she talking about? We have got to recognise a significance of this | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
letter. It talks about a deep and special partnership that we want | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
with the European Union. It also recognises Wales within the letter | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
and that she will be negotiating for the whole of the United Kingdom and | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
of course it is my role to ensure that Wales is represented in those | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
negotiations. Which powers is she talking about? It is meaningless if | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
she won't set out what powers she will get going to Wales. We will | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
have more to say about that tomorrow in the white Paper when that is | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
published but today is about the sort of relationship we want with | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
the European Union, it is about the opportunities it provides for Europe | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
as well as for the UK. For Europe because they can pursue the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
direction they want to pursue may be without the UK stopping them when we | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
will full members but it is also about the new opportunities for | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
businesses in Wales to look globally, made in too deep the | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
relationships with some of the nations that we have not maybe | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
fostered. Forgive me, it was the Prime Minister who talk about powers | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
and will the money follow the powers? Powers without money again | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
would be meaningless. Again, even if we were remaining members of the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
European Union, we wouldn't be talking about money post 2020 at | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
this early stage. But what the Chancellor has done is he... The | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
Chancellor has guaranteed that money from the UK Government taxpayer, in | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
addition to that, those projects that will run beyond that time when | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
we have left the European Union will also be guaranteed. The Prime | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
Minister is absolutely delivering on what she said when she went into | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Downing Street. We are acting on the structure on the Welsh and British | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
people and we have a process in place and we are following it in a | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
calm and measured way to seize those new opportunities. The First | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Minister says you have treated the Welsh Government with a complete | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
lack of respect from the word go. I am disappointed in that. The Prime | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Minister has been in Wales three times in the last six weeks. We have | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
been talking about the contents of this letter for many months. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
Ultimately, the UK Government needs to act in the interests of the whole | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
of the UK and that is what we are doing, specifically with Wales being | :14:38. | :14:38. | |
mentioned. The leader of Ukip in | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
the Welsh Assembly, Neil Hamilton, has apologised after AMs said | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
they heard him say "suicide is an option" | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
while Labour Assembly Member, Eluned Morgan said the triggering | :14:48. | :14:48. | |
of Article 50 was a sad day. After being asked repeatedly by | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
the Presiding Officer to say sorry - Mr Hamilton said he apologised | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
for whatever remark Let's move to other news now, | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
and the chair and vice-chair of Sport Wales have been sacked | :14:57. | :15:08. | |
by the Welsh Government. Paul Thomas and Adele Baumgardt | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
were suspended in November, along with the entire Sport Wales | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
board, following concerns that the organisation had | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
become dysfunctional. Tonight Mr Thomas says he's shocked | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
by how poorly he's been treated. From Olympic and Paralympic gold to | :15:18. | :15:39. | |
training the next generation of athletes. There is no doubting Sport | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Wales' success in promoting elite and grass-roots sport but over the | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
last six months, there has been turmoil at the top of the | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
organisations which gets over ?20 million of public money every year. | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Last November, the activities of the entire board were suspended after | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
infighting which led to a vote of no confidence in its chair. A few weeks | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
ago, the other board members were reinstated but the chair and | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
vice-chair remain suspended. Today the Minister overseeing the work of | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Sport Wales said she decided new leadership was needed for the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
organisation to move on. Both the chair and the vice-chair have always | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
had the interests of Sport Wales at heart. They have both exhibited | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
considerable energy and dedication over the period of time and I do | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
consider though the need to secure fresh leadership. In a letter to | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Paul Thomas, the public health minister says your conduct and | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
behaviour is that you adopted which she fought you felt to be necessary | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
change were counter-productive. But Doctor Thomas has hit back at how he | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
has been treated by the Welsh Government. It is really | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
disappointing that they have not backed me at a point of time where | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
really what we need is just change. We need to move it on but I think | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
they have handled it pretty poorly, pretty shocking actually. I have had | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
to formal correspondence in the last seven months and I am shocked by | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
that. But would not happen in business and it would not happen in | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
normal organisations. But the vice-chair, Adele Baumgardt, also | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
sacked today says regrettably the behaviour of Mr Thomas says 's | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
appointment as chairing April 2016 quickly evidence that he was not in | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
her opinion fit to hold senior public office but Paul Thomas has | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
defended his work. Is Sport Wales fit for purpose? It is not. I think | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
the staff are. I think the chief executives that supported and | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
support sport in Wales are. I just think the body itself needs to | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
become more efficient, effective and it needs to become 21st century in | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
the way it leads itself. One of the Ames were Sport Wales is to secure | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
success for swimmers. That work wouldn't tip -- continue with a new | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
chair but many questions remain about what went wrong at the top of | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
Sport Wales. 126 aerospace jobs are under threat | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
in north east Wales. Marshall Aviation Services has said | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
it wants to close down its engineering and maintenance site | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
at Broughton in Flintshire. The company is now to start | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
consulting with unions. A new executive jet roles off | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
the production line at Broughton. Then what is now marshalling | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
the was called Hawker Siddeley, a string of takeovers brought | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
changes of name, the end of production and the shift to small | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
aircraft engineering Now, the company is confined | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
to a corner of a site it shares with Airbus | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
and other aviation businesses. Marshall Aviation Services the small | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
component in the massive aerospace complex at Broughton, | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
dominated of course by Airbus. But these jobs will be | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
missed in this area. They are well paid | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
and highly skilled. The company says the Broughton | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
business has been losing money. It has tried to find | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
a buyer and failed. The Unite union hopes | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
it can still save jobs. The area itself is highly skilled | :18:38. | :18:51. | |
with high employment opportunities and that is why I am hopeful | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
that the number of people on the redundancy notice today | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
will have an opportunity to move There are great opportunities | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
with Airbus and other companies. The investments that we have made | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
from the government are something we hope will enable them | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
into new skilled jobs. These pictures were taken | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
inside the site six years ago. Before Marshall Aviation | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Services took it over. There have been job | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
losses since then. The company says it is consulting | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
but insists the site will close unless an alternative | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
comes to light. A 25-year-old man has been arrested | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
after a disabled man's body 67-year-old Anthony Churton | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
was found dead at his home North Wales Police says | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
he was a vulnerable Three other people have also been | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
arrested on suspicion A decision on whether to back | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
the ?425 million Circuit of Wales with public money won't be taken | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
until after May's local elections. Developers behind the plans to build | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
a motor racing track near Ebbw Vale want the Welsh Government | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
to guarantee half the cost. But the Economy Secretary, | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
Ken Skates says he's yet to receive BBC Wales understands | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
the Welsh Rugby Union will inspect Pontypridd's Sardis Road pitch | :20:10. | :20:22. | |
tomorrow, following burns suffered by Merthyr RFC players | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
on the artificial 3G surface, during their cup semifinal | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
there on the weekend. There are now calls for more | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
research into the pitches, Merthyr RFC back in training | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
after a painful weekend. Well, most of them, the medical | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
room, or the burns unit, as some of the club have nicknamed | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
it, busier than normal. Coach Lee Jarvis put these photos | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
on Twitter after the club's cup semifinal defeat against RGC 1404 | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
at Pontypridd Sardis Road on Sunday. Whenever you land on it, | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
you could feel how hard it was and how dry it was and it was | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
an instant burn on your skin. Whenever you play on the pitch, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
it hurts your heels, It feels like you are | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
running on tarmac. The club doctor wants rugby's | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
governing bodies to do more research into injuries caused | :21:07. | :21:17. | |
by artificial pitches. We ourselves as a club are learning | :21:18. | :21:18. | |
every week about what pitches are doing to our players | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
and the wider rugby community both locally and the WRU, | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
and the IRB have a responsibility now to help us as doctors, | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
physios and players to understand exactly what these pitches | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
are going to do in the RGC won Sunday's match | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
with this late try. They haven't commented | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
on the injuries but a source at the club say they have no issue | :21:36. | :21:37. | |
with the Sardis Road pitch. BBC Wales understands the WRU | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
will inspect it tomorrow. The game's international | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
governing body, world rugby, says research into artificial | :21:44. | :21:44. | |
pitches will continue but studies indicate the risk of injury is not | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
greater compared to grass. Merthyr officials, | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
who have their own artificial pitch, say there's no hard | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
feelings towards Pontypridd. They play them in the league | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
at home this weekend. Private letters between Lord Harlech | :21:54. | :22:13. | |
and Jackie Kennedy were among items from his family home in Gwynedd | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
auctioned in London today. Mrs Kennedy rejected Lord Harlech's | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
proposal after the death of JFK. Secluded and elegant, Glyn Cywarch | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
has been home to generations The current Lord Harlech, | :22:22. | :22:35. | |
Jassett has decided to fund major renovations here with the sale | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
of many of its contents. Among the hundreds of paintings, | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
vehicles and pieces of furniture was a red dispatch box belonging | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
to Jassett's grandfather, David filled with correspondence | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
to and from the Kennedys. David Ormsby Gore was | :22:49. | :23:00. | |
the British ambassador Already friends with John F Kennedy | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
he worked closely with the president David Ormsby Gore's own wife | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
was killed in a car crash in 1967. Jackie Kennedy flew from the states | :23:07. | :23:38. | |
to London and to North Wales to attend my grandmother 's funeral. I | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
think that was the level of the deep ties. These two couples suddenly | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
became to people who shared a terrible grief and these letters | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
that we have shown an insight into that relationship they had. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
reveals how Jackie Kennedy rejected her friend's proposal, | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
saying "If ever I can find some healing and some comfort, | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
it has to be with somebody who is not part of all my | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
In the end, she married Aristotle Onassis. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
The Kennedys left the churchyard obviously moved by the simple | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
service in a Welsh church. She remained close and attended | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
Lord Harlech's funeral But the depth of their feeling would | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
remain private until their letters Let's return to our main story, the | :24:18. | :24:31. | |
triggering of Article 50 and the formal beginning of Britain's | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
departure from the European Union. What is your assessment then of | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
today's events? Hugely symbolic. I think anecdotally, Wales voted to | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
leave, there is a strong sense out there of people wanting the process | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
to get underway and will be very pleased as a result of what they | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
have seen. Nevertheless, real concern that we cannot ignore in | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
areas like agriculture and industrial sectors. Interesting | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
response from the Welsh Government, quite bad-tempered at the start, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
saying they had been persistently ignored but then after that, if you | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
really look at the substance, looking for a trade free deal, the | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
conciliatory tone of the letter, even saying the Welsh Government | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
will get further powers, I am not sure that the two sides are that far | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
apart. Inevitably, a big part of this will be the intergovernmental | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
relations but really we shouldn't lose sight of the wider picture | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
here, huge questions in Wales on trade, on immigration, and of course | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
the phoney war has come to an end and the real process is about to | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
start. And you can join Nick and Andrew | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
Neil for a special programme, with interviews with Theresa May, | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
Carwyn Jones and other That's in a few minutes, | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
at 7 o'clock, here on BBC 1 Wales. There is more rain and showers on | :25:42. | :25:56. | |
the way but some sunshine in the mix as well. And that goes for the | :25:57. | :25:58. | |
weekend. No Sunshine in Pembrokeshire today. Wet his | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
afternoon near Tenby. Cloudy in Rhuthun in Denbighshire. This | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
evening, this heavy rain will clear away, dry overnight but still a few | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
pockets of rain and showers about which may be heavy in places. A mild | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
night, temperatures staying in double figures. Here is the picture | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
for eight o'clock tomorrow morning. The north coast may be dry and | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
bright. Elsewhere though it is a cloudy picture. There will be patchy | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
rain. Misty in places. Parisi in the West. Top temperature 11 Celsius in | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
Caernarfon. Rain will spread northwards. Some of this rain could | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
be on the heavy side. Most of the country should dry and brighten up | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
through the afternoon. Some hazy sunshine and quite warm. More rain | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
for Pembrokeshire and Anglesey. Temperatures rising as high as 18 | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
Celsius. On Anglesey tomorrow, outbreaks of rain. Some of it heavy. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
In Monmouthshire, dry and bright in the afternoon and warm. Tomorrow | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
evening, much of the country dried grain in the West will spread | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
eastwards overnight. The wind picking up as well. On Friday, rain | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
will clear. Some sunshine and it will turn fresher. As for the | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
weekend, sunshine and April showers on Saturday. Heavy showers in | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
places. Sunday, dry and bright with sunny spells and feeling a little | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
warmer with lighter winds. We will have a quick update at 8pm and more | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
after the BBC News at ten. Good evening. | :27:38. | :27:42. |