06/09/2016 BBC Wales Today

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BBC Two. Ford Bridgend is to cut investment

and halve production of its new generation

of petrol engines. Tonight, grave concerns

from both unions and MPs. And inspecting damage to cars towed

out of the mud at Organisers defend their decision

to park vehicles on a flood plain. They make the engines for some

of our best-known cars, but tonight unions say

there are "grave concerns" about the future of the Ford factory

in Bridgend after it emerged the car-maker is halving the number

of engines it's to build there. The company had planned to make

250,000 of its new generation Dragon engines, but will now

make just 125,000. Ford insists no jobs are to be lost

but unions say it raises serious questions about the company's

long-term commitment to Bridgend. Here's our business

correspondent, Brian Meechan. It's been operating in Bridgend

since 1980, providing But Unite the union says

the plant is now in a very Ford announced last year that it

would invest ?181 million in the manufacturing

of a new generation of petrol The Welsh Government provided

?15 million to help bring It's emerged that Ford have now told

workers it will only be It's unclear what that means

for the taxpayer money Of course, Ford have given

an assurance that the jobs will be safeguarded but we recognise

that there is anxiety What's essential is that the Welsh

Government continues to do everything it can,

and we will do, to secure jobs The 1,800 people who work

there are amongst the most skilled and qualified in our economy,

so it is essential that there is a pipeline of new development

that can go to that plant. I don't think the signals a move

out of the UK as such. This is a very successful plant,

it has been in the Ford Group in many years and I don't think

they will be wanting to lose that plant or indeed some

of the flexibility it offers being in the Sterling zone

and outside the Eurozone. So I think they'll keep

it for the time being, but in the longer term,

the Bridgend plant has Ford say that no jobs will be lost

as a result of this decision to It says people will be redeployed

at the site but it's unclear how this would be the case given that

other manufacturing work there is coming to an end and has

not yet been replaced. Ford told workers this move

was about flexibility. There's so much going

on in automotive at the moment. Smaller engines, hybrid

engines, alternative fuel. I think this is Ford just saying,

"Hang on a second. We'll give ourselves

a little space here. Yes, we are making

the investment for Wales, yes, we will have the same level of jobs

but, at the moment, we are going to halve that number

that we thought we might need." The news will concern people

across the South Wales region. What the statement said is that

we'll go from 750 jobs to 550. They say there will not

be any redundancies. My concern is how

that actually works. They are saying redistribution,

but I'd like some confirmation And I think that Unite the union

have been clear that there Ford is one of the biggest employers

in Wales but it is operating Unions are increasingly concerned

about what that means A 57-year-old man from Flint has

been charged with the murder and rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl

that took place 40 years ago. More than 100 police officers

were involved in the investigation. Stephen Anthony Huff

is expected to appear North Wales Police say he was not

arrested when the original investigation took place

in the 1970s. A man accused of murdering his

ex-girlfriend has told a jury at Swansea Crown Court

it was she who attacked him. Natasha Bradbury died in her flat

in Haverfordwest in February. The prosecution claim Luke Jones

beat her to death in a jealous rage after finding out she had

slept with another man. But Mr Jones, from Milford Haven,

said Natasha tried to headbutt him. The organisers of Festival Number

Six in Portmeirion have finally broken their silence,

to defend their decision to site a park-and-ride facility

on a known flood plain, after hundreds of

vehicles became stuck. Scores of music fans were stranded

and had to spend the night Fewer than 100 cars

left on the site now. Gwynedd Council say they have warned

of flood risk over a number of years and this is what Natural Resources

Wales told us yesterday. All those together makes this area

somewhere that is risky But today, Jon Drape,

festival organiser, said they have been victims of the weather,

not bad planning. That's not to say that

we shouldn't use it. The use of this has been

going on for four years and it's not a decision that we take lightly -

where will we put our car park? It's done as part of

a multi-agency decision. We attend safety

advisory group meetings. Over the past few years,

Festival Number Six has built for itself a good reputation

but performing line-ups to match These were the views

of callers to BBC Wales. I didn't think I needed a canoe

and my own personal tractor. The Festival organisers,

well, what an absolute bunch They jet-washed the car off,

it seemed drivable, but I'm carrying along and it has a nasty shudder

so I've literally pulled in and I'm waiting on the AA now to hopefully

recover me back home. The organisers say they are

talking to their insurers. Steph Hall has come from Manchester

to collect her partner's car. He was told it could be a two-day

wait to get them out. So we have come back

from Manchester, driven him back, and they've pulled his bumper

off his car this morning. It got stuck in mud and the bumper's

completely off so we're just waiting for someone to come and pick us up

and probably write You can see how much of the car park

site has been cleared now. I asked the organisers

whether they had an alternative, They said they had but it was

problematic and had to be ruled out. For now, there's more

work for the tractors. The organisers say they

will be back next year. A company owned by Rhondda Cynon Taf

Council has been criticised by a union for using what it

describes as 1960's-style Amgen Cymru, near Aberdare,

process waste for local authorities. The GMB Union says agency workers

at the site are being sent home at short notice,

and are afraid of speaking out On strike in the 1960s,

but are some of those kind of working practices

still with us today? The GMB Union is unhappy

with the treatment of agency staff here at Amgen Cymru,

near Aberdare, which processes I'm hearing of employees turning up

to work in this organisation, working for an hour and then

being tapped on the shoulder to be sent home with no pay

because they filled their quota. That's 1960s-type employment

practices. It shouldn't happen

in the 21st-century. Rhondda Cynon Taff Council set up

Amgen Cymru back in the 1990s. The council pays Amgen

for waste services. Amgen employs some of its workers

through an agency - That agency also used another

company to pay staff in the past. The union says this

is confusing for workers. It says some were told to pay

for replacement equipment, told to pay for copies of pay slips

and lost out on national insurance payments because they were paid

partly in expenses. The agency which supplies staff

here says this is the first it has ever heard of any concerns

about its practices at the site. It said it has never charged

employees for a payslip and only charges for personal protection

equipment if it's repeatedly The company says it always complies

with all the relevant employment rules and there is no

suggestion at all it has done But it also says it is now holding

surgeries at the site with employees It's a move from the public sector

to the private sector It is inevitable that we will see

more creativity, perhaps, Some of those could be

for the benefit of employees but, at the same time, human labour

is one of the biggest Rhondda Cynon Taff Council said

contracts are a matter for Amgen as it is a privately run company

but the council also said it has received reassurances about

the matters the union has raised. The future of salmon fishing

in some of our best-loved Experts say the number of young fish

in some rivers has reached Natural Resources Wales say young

salmon are at critically-low levels. This is unprecedented,

this reduction in abundance of fish and, of course,

these are of the fish which, in three or four years' time,

will be the adult salmon returning to our rivers to repopulate them and

to offer sport to some fishermen. And we are urging a lot

of restraint with anglers at the moment, because the stocks

are under pressure throughout. The Flintshire-based construction

company Redrow has reported a rise It announced the annual

return of ?250 million. The company's chairman says demand

for new homes is stronger than ever. We have had a rising

population now for decades, we have had an undersupply

of housing for decades, Mortgages are at their lowest rate

than they have been ever, Football, and Wales Under-21s

saw their hopes of reaching the 2017 European Championship come to an end

despite Jake Charles scoring a stoppage-time

equaliser to earn a 1-1 draw This draw in their penultimate

qualifier means Wales can no longer claim a top-two finish

in group five. It will feel more like summer

tomorrow. Hopefully we will see more sunshine converted to recently.

Warmer than today, and humid again. Tonight is dry with plenty of cloud,

perhaps mist and fog patches, and unusually warm for the time of year.

Tomorrow morning start cloudy, Misty in places, hopefully some sunshine

in the North. Across the rest of the UK, a great start for many areas,

mist and fog patches will lift and it will gradually brighten up.

Southern England tomorrow afternoon has the best sunshine. A few spots

of rain in the far north and north-west of Scotland. A dry

afternoon in Wales, cloud breaking, hopefully seeing more sun than

recent days, and higher temperatures. A south-easterly

breeze. For the Antiques Roadshow visiting Pembroke Castle, it will be

fine and warm with a south-easterly breeze. Thursday, a few spots of

rain will soon clear and then it will try and brighten up with some

sunshine, cool and fresh with a south-westerly breeze, some showers

reaching Pembrokeshire by evening. Friday, sunny intervals and heavier

showers at times. On Friday night, is band of rain moves across Wales

but it will clear the thing sunshine on Saturday.

From all of us on the programme, goodnight.

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