10/04/2017 BBC Wales Today

Our headlines tonight: Music therapy.

Who should pick up the bill for residential care?

From today, you keep more of your savings, so what

do those providing social care make of it?

It is a positive step but like everything else, it masks a much

deeper problem. Teaching others about

Parkinson's, Sharon Martin was The row over where

electicity pylons should A High Court judge

and the granddaughter In tonight's sport,

Swansea's slipping closer The warning tonight

from the head coach. History has been made. What a

tremendous moment for the scholars. tributes to David Parry Jones

who has died at the age of 83. Who should pay for us if we go

into care and how much of our savings should

we have to spend? It's expensive and for some,

care costs mean selling your home and emptying

bank accounts. Today the limit on the amount

of savings that can be kept has been lifted from ?24,000

and will eventually rise to 50. Local authorities will be

for funding the difference. The Minister for social services

visiting a care home. She says the changes announced by the government

today it will enable more people to keep more of their money. Until now

people have only been able to keep ?24,000 silk on the day that goes up

to ?30,000 but over the course of this assembly, we will take extra

steps to take that up to ?50,000 that people can keep before starting

the paper residential care. The most recent census shows that 16,500

people over the age of 65 are in residential care homes in Wales.

1,000 should benefit one is the limit is lifted to ?50,000. There

are worries about the pressure it will put on cancelled. I only

concern is the fact there is going to be enough money in the local

authorities budgets to be able to fund people properly and not the

spread their limited resources to thinly and then providers find they

haven't got a viable business and have the close and the distress that

causes the people. Residential care can cost ?30,000 a year, forcing

some people to sell their homes were depleted a lifetime of savings.

Cynthia's mother is in a care home in Wrexham after developing

dementia. She says the increase in it will take some of the worry away

from those arranging Kevin Rudd once. That is a big consideration

for families when looking for care homes and looking at these. The fact

it is likely to go up again will be good news for them. Using therapy is

part of the timetable at this home in Wrexham but some in the industry

have concerns about things like this could be at risk. It is a ?49 a year

in funding gap and eager steps are needed. It is a positive step but

like everything else, it masks a much deeper problem. Social care is,

as the government rightly stresses, a sector of national strategic

importance. It currently is in something of a dysfunctional state

even though it underpins the NHS in Wales and what we need to do is see

a much better planned approach. In improvements to social services have

been promised with an extra ?55 million in the next year. Today's

Welsh government announcement is music to the ears of many residents

and their relatives. There are those in the social care sector and local

government who feared a less than major financial shortfall was

addressed, it could ring hollow. 8,000 people in Wales

live with Parkinson's disease and there is

warning tonight that unless more investment

is found for research and

treatment, it is unlikely a cure will be found.

Parkinson's UK said urgent action is needed to help

Sometimes people with Parkinson's have this problem with their hands.

Sharon was just 39 when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

It started with a small tremor in her arm. She wants people to

understand that now tasks that look simple but difficult for her and

there's no escape. I can't ever take my club of. It ensure world upside

down. It is a feeling of grief. It sudden grief. Parkinson's disease is

a progressive neurological condition. The nerve cells a

messages to the price of the brain that coordinate movement die.

Currently it cannot be prevented or cured. The main drug people with the

disease rely on has not changed in over 50 years. The charity

Parkinson's UK say there are many misunderstandings about the disease.

45% are unsure or wrongly think it is to prevent Parkinson's disease.

77% think there is no limit to the amount of time medication works for

and 60% incorrectly believe medication does more than mask

symptoms. The starting point for researchers at Cardiff University is

to find out more about the disease itself. Parkinson's disease is a

complex genetic disorder but we hope that the work we're doing at Cardiff

University will integrate the understanding into the biology that

is underpinning this disease that will be useful for future research.

There is ground-breaking research already underway. Sharon is part of

a study which sees 41 patients have for magnitudes paste into their

brains. A protein known to support the survival of brain cells,

including the ones most in Parkinson's, I pumped into the brain

with pinpoint accuracy. The results are not yet known. Detailed medical

research costs money and those supporting the charity want more.

What we all want is to find a cure for a lot more research needs to be

going in and trying to get all different bodies to put money into

research so we can find a cure. Sharon says she will continue to

fight while she waits for the next is very medical advances but even

being part of trials in these early stages has given her help. I'm very

optimistic for the future. I'm 47 and I need to live my life and I

need to live my life Parkinson's free.

A driver has told Cardiff Crown Court he doesn't remember the crash

which killed his five-year-old stepson.

Five-year-old Joseph Smith suffered multiple injuries when the

car he was travelling in hit oncoming traffic on Western Avenue

The court was told he was not using a booster seat.

Dean Collins denies causing death by dangerous driving.

Official figures show an increasing number of Welsh children are seeking

help for depression and suicidal thoughts.

Welsh government figures suggest more than 11,000 children

were referred for counselling last year and the number of counselling

sessions for suicide concerns increased by 25%.

A High Court judge is being asked to overturn a decision to allow 12.5

miles of electricity pylons in North Wales because of

their impact on an historic Tudor farmhouse.

The cables would run close to the birthplace of Katherine

of Berain, granddaughter of King Henry Tudor

who is also known as the

Lawyers for the UK Government insist the link to two

wind farms is of strategic importance.

The Queen 's High Court sitting in Anglesey, the setting for this

challenge to the UK Government's Secretary of State for energy. It's

a grade two start listed building and Katheryn of Berain used to live

here in the 16th century. John is the one funding the case, owner and

former at the farmstead in the hills north of Denbigh. He has been told

by his lawyer is not to talk about the dispute but he was happy to tell

me about his home and its place in the history of Tudor Wales. There is

and historical boundary that has been here for 500 years and there

are still the same, all the hedgerows are in the same place as

they wear 500 years ago. Here as custodians and as generations have

been here before us and it will be generations after us and we are only

here for a period and then we have the work with a grade two story

listed building and we got to look after what we've got. The line of

pylons running from two wind farms would pass close to the place, close

enough it is claimed to have a significant effect on the farmstead

and its setting. The project has faced opposition. This is beautiful

countryside, there is no argument about that. Not on a door here and

you often get this response. It should be underground, that's what I

think. You don't have to go underground on the way but when

accountabilities. That is the nub of it, should or could the cables be

put underground here? Developers say the pylons will look something like

these, wooden poles up to 15 metres tall and spaced 100 metres apart.

Insist putting them underground would be too costly and also argued

they have considered all the options. This case is what is called

a edition review, a questioning of the procedure which led the

progression of the pylons being given the priceless. In a nutshell,

the government are being challenged about how much weight they gave to

the historic significance of the place and whether they fully

considered putting these cables underground. The judge has said he

will reserve his judgment. A 55-year-old man has been jailed

for five years after he burned down his farmhouse in Whitland

in Carmarthenshire. Charles Chestnut set his

?250,000 home on fire after Swansea Crown Court

heard how firefighters found him having a barbecue

after he started the blaze. Workers at the Wrexham-based Dee

Valley water company are in consultation with its new owners,

Severn Trent Water, over job losses. Bosses say there are areas

of duplication and they haven't been able to find alternative roles

for 14 Concerns were raised before

the takeover in February. The First Minister has attacked

the record of Independent council candidates in Wales,

accusing them of not having any principles

or He was speaking at the Labour

campaign launch for next month's council elections in which

he also admitted that there were problems caused by the party's

divisions at Westminster. They may be enthusiastic but are the

voters keen to keep Labour in control in more than half of Wales

Ceredigion County Council? It was more cappuccino and croissants and

beer and somebody's but Carwyn Jones insisted Labour is still a party for

working people before turning his fight on the threats from rival

parties and the many hundreds of independent candidates that are such

a feature of Welsh council elections. We know that in some

parts of Wales there will be a ragbag of independence, they have

been members of other parties humming together without a coherent

programme and no principles. Labour-controlled 12 out of 22 Welsh

local authorities. These are heavily concentrated on the M4 M corridor

and in the South Wales valleys. Results in Ceredigion County Council

collections can swing dramatically. In 1995 for example, Labour had 725

councillors elected. In 2008, it went down to just 345. Then it

bounced back up to 577 in the last Ceredigion County Council but in

2012. It's all very pleasant here in Newport but no one pretends within

Labour ranks they got anything other than a tough fight ahead. The

combination of the high water mark five years ago and troubles at

Westminster will all contribute but what the party is holding on to is

that many predicted substantial losses in the assembly election last

year and those losses never came. Because of the current backdrop,

Carwyn Jones has admitted it will be difficult to avoid losses. I don't

think there's been a huge amount of excitement, it seems to be more

damage limitation than anything else. I don't think that's right,

given we have 944 candidates, by far the biggest number of candidates of

any party. It's going to be tough. Not as it was in 2012, a lot of work

to do. We've got good candidates, a good track record and people are on

the street listening to people and through that hard work, we want to

do well in May. Whether it's glass half-full or empty for Labour, it's

going to be a busy month ahead. Still to come, are Swansea running

out of time to stay in the Premier After the warmest weekend

of the year so far, what is in store There's been a boom in books that

you can read online and these days all the information you need can be

found at your fingertips but it seems young people haven't been put

off using local libraries. that number has been growing over

the last five years. But on the whole,

regular library use has Libraries gave us power, so say the

manic Street preachers. This library in that respect is a powerhouse.

Around half a million items were in the last year, is one of the best

performing library is in the UK. It's about as far removed from a

dusty old library as you can get. After major renovations in 2012.

There are plenty of young users here. I like the facilities because

there's so much variation for different people and there's

computers so if I need to look something up quickly, I can do that

and it all with books! I've been brought up using the library. The

type of work I do, the library has become quite vital for my type of

work. I think it's about taking advantage of what's available.

Research shows there's been an increase in library usage across

Wales. Up from 45% in 2011 to 46% last year. But there has been a

sharp decline in frequent use, down from 57% 2011 to 41% last year. In

the last seven years, one in six library is across Wales has closed.

Tumble used to have a library but there are now just empty shelves

here at the village hall. The library workers just sat here. There

were a couple of computers to the side. Volunteers like Pat tried to

run the service but ultimately, there were not enough users. We just

didn't get the footfall. We tried very hard. I used to do a Friday

afternoon myself. We were open twice a week as the original library had

been. Tuesdays and Fridays. We just didn't get the footfall. It had

closed so to reopen in Italy difficult. Over the border in

Pembrokeshire, a new county library is being built at the old market.

The aim is to attract more new breeds users by providing more

services under one roof. In order to get more visitors to libraries, they

talk about having more services under one roof and that is what we

are doing here so as well as a county library will also have a copy

shop, it will have a national quality gallery with their

collections on display. The truce information Centre or under one

roof. With the squeeze on Ceredigion budgets set to continue, if slightly

more robust revisiting bigger libraries in future to get lost in a

good book. Swansea City's boss has

warned his players they will be playing championship football next

season unless they vastly

improve their performance. Paul Clement says his side

is finding it difficult to perform due to anxiety over

the club's predicament. They have just six games

left to ensure their Just a few weeks ago, it looks like

Swansea City would escape a relegation fight. They were scoring

goals, sitting five points clear of the drop zone and celebrations like

this by the manager should the Passion and belief he had brought to

the club but things have changed. Swansea are back in trouble and now

find themselves in a situation where they need teams above them the slip

up. The table shows just how tight things are. Swansea said two points

behind how and Crystal Palace Campolo six points clear from them

the night if they beat Arsenal. The defeated the West Ham on Saturday

was their whisper form and is under Paul Clement. He says the side are

playing with fear. They are clearly anxious. That showed in the way that

they played. The rhythm of our football, a conference with the

ball. We made a massive amount of mistakes, but we have to deal with

that. Otherwise we're going to be playing in championship next year.

There is still, I believe, a lot that can happen. Time is running out

on the road to survival won't be easy. There are six games left

Swansea City to ensure their Premier League pitcher. That's 18 points

left to play for the teams around them of course could decide fate.

But these other matches Swansea have left. Watford away their Saturday,

followed by Stoke at home and then Manchester United away at next

month, their last three games of the season see them play Everton at

home, followed by bottom of the table Sunderland away and could all

come down to the very last game of season, West Brom will be the final

game at Liberty Stadium. Could that 90 minutes decide their destiny?

Paul Clement has spoken about his players feeling the pressure and at

the ground today, many supporters were despondent although some feel

the job can still be done. After that performance at West Ham, I

don't know if we have, I don't know if the fight is there. They are

feeling the pressure at the moment. I can see them staying up. I hope

they do but were up against it. It's going to be close. Hopefully they

have enough to get through. Swansea now they have a huge fight on our

hands and training this week will undoubtedly be intense but football

is a funny old game and it's not over yet.

With just ten days to go until the Lions

squad was announced, Sam

Warburton has had a scan on his knee.

The 28-year-old scored his side 's first try but came off during

Ospreys fly-half Dan Biggar is still being assessed

following a knock to the head during Saturday's Pro12

The Olympian and two-time world triathlon champion Helen Jenkins has

ruled herself out of the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast

The 33-year-old is expecting a baby at the end of July.

The Cardiff Devils will have to settle for just the two trophies

They lost to rivals Sheffield Steelers yesterday in the

After securing the regular-season title

and the Challenge Cup, they were hoping to

become the first team to

He was known as the voice of Welsh rugby.

Tributes have been paid tonight to the broadcaster David

In a career spanning many decades, he

famously commentated on Llanelli's historic win over

He also presented this programme for many years.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease

eight years ago and died in a hospice in Penarth this morning.

But the breath. Assured, authoritative, is married. David

Parry Jones, a distinctive voice during the golden age of Welsh

rugby. He was in the commentary box for that match, the day Llanelli

humbled the mighty all Blacks. He was equally as proud of commentating

the game as I was as a player to have played in the game. He was so

kind because I didn't have a clue. I was a novice. He was knowledgeable

about rugby, he loved the game he was a gentleman. His contribution to

Rugby Union football is incredible. His contribution to the BBC,

outstanding. He loved Wales. He spoke fairly about Wales. When he

did a game, he was 50 50 and believe that, he was a proud Welshman. He

was proud of his education at Merton College, Oxford, and started out as

a journalist with the times before working intelligent. -- in

television. A familiar face on BBC Wales today in the 60s, 70s and 80s,

David Parry Jones Oglaigh na hEireann elegance and charm made him

popular with colleagues and the occasional celebrity. He was a

wordsmith and David was always looking for new ways of describing

things, even describing a simple thing like a catch in cricket or a

punt in rugby. He lived life to the full. He loved people generally. He

was really a very special guy, a very class act. In later years, he

was cared for at his home in Cardiff by his long-term partner, Betty

George, after being diagnosed with hot summers. The couple filmed a

documentary together, raising awareness of the challenges of

living with the condition. It prompted a public debate about

dementia care. Betty George described him as a kind, gentle and

handsome man. David Parry Jones who has

died at the age of 83. The weather is next.

We enjoyed a taste of summer over the weekend. A few places recorded

21 Celsius. It's going to be a while before we see temperatures that high

again. Cool and cloudy this afternoon. Some lovely sunshine,

ideal for a walk around the lakes. This evening, fine and dry the most

of us, just the odd isolated shower. Generally dry overnight. A cool

night to with temperatures in a brawl sports dipping low enough for

a ground frost. Tomorrow, France will bring rain to the north and

west of Scotland, further south high pressure will keep things drive.

Here's the picture for eight in the morning. Quite pleasant. Cool but

dry and bright. Some sunshine and light winds. More cloud in the north

and breezy on the coast. The temperature around 9 degrees. Not a

bad day tomorrow. Dry with bright or sunny spells. It may cloud over in

the North later in the afternoon. Some cloud spelling in from the

Irish Sea. Temperatures up to 14 Celsius. The best of the sunshine in

the morning. 11 degrees. Tomorrow evening, cloud will spread down from

the north. Dry overnight but rain not too far from the north coast by

the end of the night. Then on Wednesday, a cold front will slide

its way southwards so Wednesday, a little more unsettled, breezy and a

few showers. Some dry weather glimpses of sunshine as well. On

Thursday, we may see spots of light rain in parts of mid and North

Wales. Elsewhere, dry with sunny intervals. Good Friday, a little

rain, most of it in the north-west. Very little rain in the South East.

Eastern weekend, a little bit mixed. A few showers, a cold breeze but

some reasonable weather as well. But is caught your but it could be a lot

worse. The headlines: funeral of PC Keith

Palmer who was killed in last month Westminster attack has been held at

London. Thousands of police officers from all over the country lined the

route as the funeral cortege set out from the Palace of Westminster. He

was guarding the Houses of Parliament when he was stabbed by

Khalid Masood. I will have an update

for you here at 8:00 and again That's all for today,

thank you for watching.