30/03/2017 BBC Wales Today

Tonight's headlines, it's believed husband and wife,

named locally as Kevin and Ruth Burke, were killed

in the helicopter crash in Snowdonia, alongside three

The wreckage was found following a difficult air and land

Poor weather has been hampering the search with horrendous

conditions reducing visibility to less than ten metres at time.

In the past hour, police have said recovery of the five bodies may be

suspended due to the worsening weather here.

With rising costs and an expected drop in students, almost 140 jobs

are being lost at the University of South Wales.

Sarah Williams from Usk needed specialist care.

Now Cardiff and Swansea both bid to become Wales' first

A warning tonight that a clear decision is needed to help Wales

Hello, in tonight's sport: Move with the times,

or cricket will die, the stark message from Glamorgan.

Why the Welsh County wants Cardiff to be a part

Following a major air and land search for a helicopter that went

missing over north Wales last night, it's been confirmed that a crash

site has been found, along with the bodies

It's understood they were members of the same family, named locally

as Kevin and Ruth Burke and three of their relatives.

The privately-owned helicopter vanished yesterday evening, en route

The wreckage was found in the Rhinog Mountains,

Our reporter, Roger Pinney, is near the crash site.

This is as close as we are allowed to get to that crash site. That is a

few miles up into the hills behind me. The terrain is said to be

extremely hazardous. Last night, the search operation focused on the sea

around Caernarfon Bay. But this morning, that changed. Narrowing the

search to South Snowdonia allowed a concentration of effort.

The military joining civilian volunteer teams.

It must have felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Mid-morning, they found the crash site and the five bodies.

The news was given at a police press conference.

Poor weather has been hampering the surge,

with conditions reducing visibility to less than ten metres at times.

I can sadly now confirm that a crash site has been located and that five

people have lost their lives during this incident.

I am sure you will appreciate this is an agonising time

for the families and friends of all involved.

Our thoughts are very much with them at this time.

Carol Jarvis was camping in the area.

Conditions for the search teams were appalling, she told me.

The conditions around the lake have been absolutely shocking.

I've been camping for a couple of weeks and it has been quite nice

but it has just got really, really quite bad the last couple

You can't see the top of any of the hills.

Yes, and the weather doesn't look like it is going to calm down yet.

The helicopter is a twin squirrel, manufactured by Airbus.

It took off from the Luton area yesterday afternoon to make

At some stage, it disappeared from the radar.

I did some of my helicopter flying training in Snowdonia.

It is awesome scenery but you don't go up there lightly

if the cloud is low, you can't see, you don't go

because obviously the higher you get, the more the cloud

is going to be a due can't see forward and there are big lumps

of granite in the way and you don't really want that.

So you have to take the weather very much into account in North Wales.

It does surprise me that an experienced pilot would be

in that position in that weather at that time.

The helicopter was owned by Kevin and Ruth Burke

Mrs Burke is believed to come originally from Dublin.

Conditions on the ground improved marginally during the day.

The investigation into what happened will have already begun.

The wreckage antibodies yet need to be recovered.

-- and the bodies. A flight like this should have been relatively

routine for such an aircraft. Focus will now return to exactly what went

wrong and members of the Department for Transport air accident

investigations Branch are on their way. They will have to do

painstakingly remove the wreckage from the scene. That won't be easy

and then reconstruct as much of the aircraft as possible to try to put

together their picture. Now the police say that members of the

search and rescue teams are still up on the site tonight and they are

asking other people to stay away. 139 jobs are going at

the University of South Wales. It says costs are rising and it

expects student recruitment to fall. The institution was formed four

years ago following a merger of Glamorgan and Newport

universities and has around Our reporter Paul Martin

is at the main campus in Treforest. Well, the University of South Wales

is Wales' second biggest university in terms of numbers and has around

3000 staff and we are told that today's cuts will proportionately

affect senior management more than others but what we don't have is a

breakdown of numbers, how many senior management affected, how many

academic staff and how many support staff. The University is going to

look for voluntary redundancies. One of the trade unions representing

people working here will says it wants a commitment to what it calls

front-line workers. We are aware that yes,

within the number of staff that will be cut, it looks

proportionately like senior managers, however, this

is on the back of year-on-year cuts. Front line staff have

already been affected, so we really don't have any more

space for any more cuts. So, can we put this down to Brexit?

Well, I suppose the day after Article 50 was triggered and given

how vocal universities were in last summer 's referendum campaign, I

guess that is the obvious question and earlier this month we heard the

chair of universities Wales Colin Riordan telling this programme he

expected the numbers of students from the European Union coming to

Wales to fall after Brexit. But we heard prominent leave campaigners

saying this is an opportunity for higher education, not least in terms

of the level of fees it can charge. But in its statement today, it did

reference Brexit and it did say it expected to affect recruitment but

that is not the full story. Costs are increasing year on year and it

feels it has maximised its domestic home student recruitment. I asked a

source at the university this afternoon whether this announcement

would be happening today without Brexit. They said it may not have

been happening today but either way there was some sort of restructure

coming down the track and I suppose the question now is whether other

universities will make similar announcements.

Wales is about to get its first specialist major trauma

unit to treat patients with life threatening injuries.

Senior doctors say the NHS here has fallen behind many developed

countries when it comes to treating the most serious injuries,

describing it as embarrassing that we don't have a dedicated unit.

Our health correspondent, Owain Clarke, has this

This is where my car was actually on its side,

This is where I was cut out of the car.

Sarah Williams can't remember much about the 10th of June 2015.

After her horrific crash, the air ambulance was sent

When I wasn't starting to regain conscious,

that was when the doctor who was the flying doctor,

started to realise that maybe something wasn't quite right and it

The doctor also decided not to take the nearest A,

as would have happened if a road ambulance had turned up.

Instead, she was flown straight to Wales' biggest hospital to have

surgery to relieve pressure on the brain.

The decision is likely to have saved her life,

but it's not always obvious wary seriously injured patient

Major trauma affects everybody but is the leading cause

We do have all of the constituent parts of the major trauma centre

What we don't have is them concentrated on a single site,

where we can manage these patients sufficiently.

In North Wales and part of mid Wales, there is a system which means

patients with life-threatening injuries are taken across

There are around two dozen major trauma centres

At these hospitals specialist teams are on stand-by 24 hours a day.

And survival rates increased dramatically.

It's actually embarrassing to be part of a system that doesn't have

We are falling behind, as you said, the rest of the modern world.

The University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and Morriston in Swansea

want to become dedicated major trauma centres.

But at the moment, neither has all the specialisms.

Each has been making its case and a recommendation is due soon.

Morriston is one of the leading centres in the UK, treating burns,

It has 55 acres of available land to expand and one of its bosses

Because Morriston is sitting on the motorway at the M4,

it means that it is much easier to access and you can get

to the other side of Haverfordwest, the other side of Brecon,

to the other side of Newport, easily within an hour.

But Cardiff argues it would serve a bigger population.

It is home to Wales' Children's Hospital

and the only one in Wales that performs brain surgery.

We aim to provide a fully comprehensive neurological service

and I think one of the examples from the data we submit

to the National registry is that of those patients affected by severe

trauma, 70% of those patients are going to

Southmead Hospital just across the Severn Bridge in Bristol

is one of two major trauma centres in the south-west of England.

Staff here say the benefits of having all the expertise

But we know now that we were OK at it and now we really are excellent.

Swansea and Cardiff in many areas of life have often been fierce

rivals but choosing a major trauma centre, it is argued,

shouldn't be about winners and losers if patients

across South Wales benefiting the end.

The mother of a man who died after he killed a 22-year-old woman

in a hostel has told an inquest the two would still be alive

if a police officer had got the psychiatric appointment promised

for her son when he was released from prison.

Matthew Williams attacked and killed Cerys Yemm in Argoed in 2014.

He died after being tasered by police.

Almost 150 people have lost their jobs after

a Barry-based scaffolding firm went into administration.

SHS Integrated Services also had sites in

Administrator Deloitte blamed poor trading over the past two years.

Three people have been released on bail after being arrested

in connection with a murder investigation in Wrexham.

67-year-old Nicholas Churton was found dead at a house on Monday.

Detectives have been given a further 36 hours to question

Ministers in London say it'll mean more powers

But Plaid Cymru say it's the biggest Westminster power grab since the Act

of Union between Wales and England nearly 500 years ago.

The row is over what happens to powers that currently rest

in Brussels after we leave the European Union.

Our parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock, is in Westminster.

David, what exactly is the UK Government proposing?

Lucy, think of areas like farming, the environment and transport, areas

where the Welsh Government is in charge but operates under a

framework really set at the moment at European level. What happens

after Brexit? Alun Cairns says those powers will be brought back from

Brussels and they will be held at Westminster in a holding pattern

before it is decided how they should be shared out throughout the United

Kingdom. He says that although the Welsh Government will get a

significant increase in powers, there will still be a case for a UK

wide framework in some areas. The Welsh Government accepts the

argument that there will need to be UK wide frameworks but it says if

these are devolved powers, they should come back to Wales and Plaid

Cymru have gone further, Jonathan Edwards, their Brexit spokesman, has

said this is the biggest Westminster power grab since 1536 and he says it

is the first time since devolution that MPs from England will have a

say over devolved areas. You can say that -- you can see that just a day

after the formal process Brexit began, the arguments are already

kicking off. Still to come tonight:

Empty seats at Glamorgan. one of the reason why the county

wants to be a part of the biggest And some heavy rain in parts

of the north and west today. But in Cardiff the warmest

day of the year so far. I'll have the forecast

for the next few days. The number of reported domestic

violence offences in Wales increased by more than 20% between 2013

and 2015, according to new figures. Legislation which encourages victims

and perpetrators to seek support The Welsh Government says campaigns

to raise awareness of it are making good progress but there are calls

for greater awareness Controlling, threatening

or violent behaviour. It can cause emotional,

psychological or physical harm. A couple from Swansea told me

about their own experience. We've agreed to protect

their identity. For Sarah, increasingly regular

arguments with her partner eventually turned violent

and she was assaulted. Things just escalated and, you know,

it would be something little The last time, he grabbed my neck,

it was like the final straw. We could have been arguing

and I could have hit my head and then obviously my daughter

would have been without a mother. Not wanting to get her partner

arrested, the couple sought help. They turned to a local domestic

abuse hub which provided Her partner, Mark, says he deeply

regrets his actions. I feel terrible for the way that

I treated my partner. There are no words to explain how

how bad I felt straight after. I didn't learn from my

mistakes but now I have. Figures from North Wales,

Gwent and Dyfed-Powys Police forces show that in 2015,

more than 10,000 domestic violence crimes were reported,

compared to more than 8000 in 2013. Data from South Wales Police

was not comparable. But the force said it also

saw an increase of 48% Two years ago, a legislation was

introduced by the Welsh Government to improve the prevention

of gender-based abuse and to protect A national framework has since been

published but there are calls for greater awareness

of the guidance. We need the Welsh Government

and we need the local authorities to learn about the act,

understand what their duties are and start using the guidance

as it comes out, so that we know any survivor, anywhere,

or their children, can get that Today, new proposed sentencing

guidelines have been published They say that abuse in a domestic

setting should be regarded as more serious than in a non-domestic

setting, as it's likely to be a repeated offence,

which can have a lasting impact A new hangar where cutting edge spy

planes will be maintained has been Raytheon says the ?1 million

investment at its Broughton site could help to create 200 jobs over

the next three years. Sentinel surveillance

planes are being developed In the last 18 months or so,

we have added 50 jobs Great support from the Welsh

Government to do that. But as we look forward

and as we increase our export opportunities and start to win work

overseas then we'd be adding hundreds of jobs as we start

to fulfil that work. One of the authors of a major review

of our national parks, says the Welsh Government now needs

to make a clear decision Dr Ruth Williams has told this

programme that ministers needed to provide direction at a time

when Wales is trying to promote itself more than ever

on the global stage. Here's our environment

correspondent, Steffan Messenger. It's a row about the future

of our most iconic landscapes. Wales has three national parks -

Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Pembrokeshire Coast,

and five areas of Between them, they attract hundreds

of thousands of visitors each year. But back in 2015 a review,

commissioned by the Welsh Government, suggested they needed

to do more to help the people living in them,

attracting green businesses, A working group was set

up to look at how that It included figures

from the parks themselves, as well as environment and business

groups and local councils. Who look after areas

of outstanding natural beauty Their report was due to be

published this month and a debate scheduled to take place

in the Senedd for Assembly Members But then, this week we heard that

wasn't happening any more and the whole thing had been

postponed until the summer. Part of the problem,

BBC Wales has learnt, is that several of the conservation

charities taking part in the process found they couldn't support

the study's findings. We are not happy about the way the

report has been drafted. It is a mess. You can read it anyway you

want. And therefore, it could be interpreted as opening a door to

development in our national parks. Development of the kind that will be

detrimental to what is special about them.

Other charities like the RSPB and Wildlife Trusts Wales

The draft, which has been obtained by BBC Wales,

makes no mention, they say, of a long established principle

that the main purpose of a national park is nature conservation.

It's an omission that also concerns one

of the authors of the original 2015 review of protected landscapes.

Wales is trying to promote itself more than ever on the global stage,

so there are inherent risks. If this isn't done very meticulously to our

nature, to our wildlife, I think there is definitely more work to be

done and certainly in terms of tightening up the next steps. I

mean, there's been review upon review and inevitably, this report

is now recommending certain things have further reviews. I think the

Welsh Government needs now to make a decision.

who chairs the working group in charge of the report, didn't

The Welsh Government told us the report was just a draft

and discussions on the future of our national parks were ongoing.

If cricket doesn't move with the times, it may die,

the stark warning tonight from Glamorgan's chairman.

The counties been outlining why Cardiff should have a team

in the new proposed 20 overs tournament.

The competiton will feature fewer teams, based in cities.

But some traditionalists fear it could threaten

These pupils part of a grassroots programme, the idea,

Growing the game, a key priority for those behind

While Glamorgan won't be playing in it, it set out today

at the Senedd why Cardiff should be represented, With games played

The cricket supporter tends to be somebody

just like me, mid-60s, white, we need to

It will be the sort of cricket that the purist

This is going to be slam bang cricket.

Those behind the tournament want to rival the IPL in India

That's where this man played for the Hobart Hurricanes.

While Test cricket is the purist's favourite, he says, it's T20,

the shortened form of the game, that drives audiences

It has increased interest in general in cricket in Australia.

I think it will only be a positive thing on county cricket.

It has brought in crowds that we've never seen before.

Glamorgan are preparing for a new season but just a few

dozen were watching today's friendly at the stadium.

Blue empty seats is also the norm for County Championship games.

Glamorgan made a loss of more than ?300,000 last year

but will receive 1.3 million if this tournament goes ahead.

We budgeted this year to make a loss, we've actually

So, in that regard, it's a reasonable result.

But, you know, the new competition, as far as the money is concerned,

it's going to be critical not just to Glamorgan but to 17 other

From 2020, there will be eight teams.

We don't know what they'll be called.

It has been suggested that Cardiff could merge with Bristol

and Gloucester to create a south Wales and West team.

The England and Wales Cricket Board has unanimously voted to formally

start a process that will bring about this new 20 overs tournament.

It is undoubtedly a real gamble, a gamble worth taking,

say Glamorgan, while others see it as a real threat to the future

The new tournament should launch by 2020.

It is a new beginning that will change the

World football's governing body, Fifa, has opened proceedings

against Neil Taylor following the Wales full-back's

challenge on Republic of Ireland defender Seamus Coleman.

The Everton player suffered a broken leg in a tackle that saw Taylor sent

off during last Friday's World Cup qualifier in Dublin.

The Welsh Rugby Union says it's held a pitch inspection

at Pontypridd's Sardis Road, with further tests planned

It comes after players from Merthyr suffered friction burns caused

after playing on the the 3G pitch last weekend.

Time for the weather forecast with Derek.

A big contrast in the weather across Wales today. Wedding parts of the

North and west. Heavy rain and low cloud. A different story in the

south-east. Dry and write this afternoon and warm. Temperatures in

Cardiff soaring to 18 Celsius. The warmest day of the year so far in

the capital. This evening, some places dry but rain anime west and

north-west will spread eastwards overnight. Again some heavy rain.

Dry error infringer and another mild night. This is the picture for eight

o'clock tomorrow morning. -- in Flintshire. Further west, some rain

and showers. Heavy in places. I'm feeling mild. A south to

south-westerly breeze. 12 Celsius in Llandudno. The rain and showers will

spread north-eastwards. And then things will start to improve.

Showers coming into the south-west late afternoon. Top temperatures

12-16 C with a south to south-westerly breeze. In Ceredigion

tomorrow, a few showers but drier and brighter than today. Tomorrow

night, showers and more rain will spread across the country. Again,

some heavy rain likely. On Saturday, a mixed bag. Heavy showers, April

showers, hey and thunder. Some dry weather and sunshine as well. Sunday

the best day of the weekend. Feeling pleasantly warm. Next week, most of

Monday dry with a little rain on Monday night and more dry weather to

come. It's believed five people

from the same family were in a helicopter which crashed,

following a major air and land Two have been named locally

as married couple Kevin and Ruth Burke and three

of their relatives, The wreckage was found

in the Rhinog Mountains Pool weather has been hampering the

search with conditions reducing visibility to less than ten metres

at times. A crash site has been located, along with five people, all

of whom are deceased. We are now preserving the scene for a joint

investigation with the area investigation Branch.

We'll be back with a quick update at eight, and more

From all of us on the programme, have a good evening.