:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to the programme. Tonight's headlines.
:00:00. > :00:08.Figures obtained by Wales Today show more GP surgeries than ever
:00:09. > :00:12.are closing or being taken over by their Local Health Board.
:00:13. > :00:18.A gang is jailed for more than 43 years.
:00:19. > :00:23.And it's 50 years since the opening of the first Severn crossing.
:00:24. > :00:40.The dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
:00:41. > :00:44.More GP surgeries in Wales are either closing or being taken over
:00:45. > :00:46.by their local Health Boards than ever before.
:00:47. > :00:49.And according to figures seen by this programme
:00:50. > :00:52.gathered by the grassroots organisation GP Survival
:00:53. > :01:02.An empty waiting room at a doctor's surgery is normally a welcome sight
:01:03. > :01:07.GP, Dr Naoko Koto, has been running the Horeb
:01:08. > :01:09.surgery in Treorchy on her own for a year.
:01:10. > :01:15.She is handing back the surgery's contract to the Cwm Taf Local
:01:16. > :01:20.Health Board, her thousands of patients have to find a new GP.
:01:21. > :01:25.Looking after 3,200 patients on my own, I felt
:01:26. > :01:33.It was not sustainable as a long-term option.
:01:34. > :01:35.Difficulties around recruiting new GPs across Wales is
:01:36. > :01:42.Last year, locum GP, Sophie Quinney, sent Freedom of Information
:01:43. > :01:46.requests to all seven local health boards in Wales.
:01:47. > :01:50.She wanted to know how many GP surgeries have closed since 2010.
:01:51. > :01:55.She also asked how many had handed back their contracts and
:01:56. > :01:57.were now run directly by the health boards.
:01:58. > :02:00.12 months on, she has asked the same questions again and the
:02:01. > :02:03.figures suggest the situation is getting worse.
:02:04. > :02:07.In the past year, eight surgeries in North Wales have been taken over
:02:08. > :02:12.In Cwm Taf, five surgeries have given
:02:13. > :02:17.up their contracts or are closing. More than in any year since 2010.
:02:18. > :02:20.But in Cardiff and Vale, there was some better news.
:02:21. > :02:23.No surgeries have been taken over by the health board
:02:24. > :02:29.Across Wales, 20 GP surgeries had to close or be taken over
:02:30. > :02:32.in just one year compared to 33 in the previous five
:02:33. > :02:40.If we are not understood and supported now, I think the sad
:02:41. > :02:45.news is that for patients and communities it's going to spell
:02:46. > :02:48.the end of what we understand to be the family doctor.
:02:49. > :02:52.The GP appointed by the Welsh Goverment to solve the problem says
:02:53. > :02:55.recruiting more GPs is just part of the solution.
:02:56. > :03:01.In order to enable the GP to have enough time to see the patients
:03:02. > :03:04.who really need to see the GP, and the GP really wants to see
:03:05. > :03:08.a more proactive way then we need to use the range of other health
:03:09. > :03:12.professional services and the other services in general.
:03:13. > :03:16.Whatever happens to solve this problem it will come too
:03:17. > :03:22.She's leaving Horeb and Treorchy to work at another GP surgery.
:03:23. > :03:28.A trend health professionals say needs to change and fast.
:03:29. > :03:32.An organised crime gang has been jailed for a total of more than 43
:03:33. > :03:35.years following a spate of burglaries across north Wales
:03:36. > :03:43.The men from the traveller community stole items worth more than ?100,00.
:03:44. > :03:50.This was the moment one of the gang was arrested,
:03:51. > :03:53.part of a co-ordinated series of raids involving more than
:03:54. > :03:57.John James Purcell was detained at a travellers site in Wrexham.
:03:58. > :04:00.He and his colleagues carried out a series of burglaries in spring
:04:01. > :04:03.and summer last year in north Wales, the north west of England,
:04:04. > :04:06.and the Midlands targeting predominantly Asian families
:04:07. > :04:09.who were storing high value jewellery at their homes.
:04:10. > :04:12.Often the gold is purer than in Western jewellery.
:04:13. > :04:17.Burglary is a traumatic instance for anybody.
:04:18. > :04:20.The impact of these burglaries was potentially more
:04:21. > :04:22.because of the mess they created and the items
:04:23. > :04:27.That is why it is a priority, any offence of burglary is a priority
:04:28. > :04:30.It'll remain a priority to the police.
:04:31. > :04:33.Most of the victims were originally from the Indian subcontinent,
:04:34. > :04:38.Many follow the custom of passing valuable jewellery to their children
:04:39. > :04:41.but these burglaries have caused many to change their ways.
:04:42. > :04:45.Dr Farook Jishi from Wrexham knows some of those who were targeted.
:04:46. > :04:51.Many of these items are handed down generation after generation so they
:04:52. > :04:55.have got a lot of sentimental value in addition to the fact they are
:04:56. > :05:00.gold from the Asian subcontinent which is high carat and people have
:05:01. > :05:09.They hire safe deposit boxes or whatever.
:05:10. > :05:13.The members of three families made up the majority
:05:14. > :05:17.of the gang which was well coordinated and used stolen
:05:18. > :05:19.high performance cars to carry out their thefts.
:05:20. > :05:21.They tried to destroy evidence by using bleach
:05:22. > :05:25.And they wore clothes, hats and even Beatles style wigs
:05:26. > :05:26.from charity shops to disguise themselves.
:05:27. > :05:30.But thanks to information from witnesses and CCTV cameras
:05:31. > :05:34.the gang aged from 18 to 47 was identified and caught.
:05:35. > :05:37.Nine men were jailed for between two and six and a half years.
:05:38. > :05:40.The judge Niclas Parri told them this was professional criminal
:05:41. > :05:44.conduct which left homeowners terrified.
:05:45. > :05:47.A man accused of murdering a schoolgirl from Flintshire 40
:05:48. > :05:50.years ago has appeared at Mold Crown Court.
:05:51. > :05:52.Stephen Hough, who's 57 and from Flint, is charged
:05:53. > :05:56.with the rape, sexual assault and murder of 15-year-old
:05:57. > :06:01.He spoke only to confirm his name via video link.
:06:02. > :06:04.The case was adjourned until December.
:06:05. > :06:19.A head teacher has defended excluding 72 pupils from regular
:06:20. > :06:25.The driver and his passenger also known as Jodi died when the Ford
:06:26. > :06:29.Fiesta collided with a Peugeot in the Conwy Valley last October. 82
:06:30. > :06:32.drill Paul Gardner who was a passenger in the Peugeot also died.
:06:33. > :06:35.A head teacher has defended excluding 72 pupils from regular
:06:36. > :06:36.classes for not complying with uniform rules.
:06:37. > :06:39.Pupils at Denbigh High School were disciplined on the first day
:06:40. > :06:42.of term on Monday for breaches of policy including "the wearing
:06:43. > :06:45.of inappropriate trousers, skirts, and footwear".
:06:46. > :06:48.The school's head says its uniform policy had been outlined
:06:49. > :06:55.It was designed to usher in a new economic era for South Wales
:06:56. > :06:59.and today marks 50 years since the original Severn Bridge
:07:00. > :07:04.It was cutting edge at the time, improving on American designs
:07:05. > :07:08.and is credited with having a profound impact on the economy.
:07:09. > :07:16.To commemorate the first crossing of the Severn bridge I have great
:07:17. > :07:23.It was a moment of national significance and
:07:24. > :07:28.While the Queen became one of the first to cross,
:07:29. > :07:32.reporters spoke to very patient paying passengers.
:07:33. > :07:35.A man from Cardiff was first in the queue.
:07:36. > :07:38.Well, by the time the vehicles start-up
:07:39. > :07:45.How have you managed to pass the time away?
:07:46. > :07:50.I brought plenty of my own entertainment with me.
:07:51. > :07:57.The bridge replaced this, the Ost Ferry.
:07:58. > :07:59.At a squeeze, it could carry 19 cars.
:08:00. > :08:02.Before we went on holiday Mike would take the car
:08:03. > :08:06.with all the cases in and leave it so we would be first or second in
:08:07. > :08:11.That is what most of the locals did, wasn't it?
:08:12. > :08:15.Construction was a high wire act using these catwalks, it took
:08:16. > :08:28.The deck which carries the cars was ground-breaking.
:08:29. > :08:30.It was designed as an aerodynamic foil.
:08:31. > :08:35.The same kind of thing you see on aeroplanes.
:08:36. > :08:38.It is designed to make sure it doesn't flap around and it was
:08:39. > :08:43.Its cost was to be recovered through a toll.
:08:44. > :08:46.Originally, two shillings and sixpence.
:08:47. > :08:52.The tolls are all too familiar for motorists
:08:53. > :08:58.There was a poem written about them at the time.
:08:59. > :09:01."Two lands at last connected, across the waters wide.
:09:02. > :09:05."And all the tolls collected on the English side."
:09:06. > :09:09.50 years on and the bridge has carried hundreds of
:09:10. > :09:13.millions of vehicles and employs a small army of engineers.
:09:14. > :09:17.This, one of the giant concrete anchors.
:09:18. > :09:22.Robin Shaw is a former Welsh Government director
:09:23. > :09:24.of transport and founded the website,
:09:25. > :09:30.What that bridge and bridges do is open up South Wales
:09:31. > :09:37.There are many companies particularly companies that are
:09:38. > :09:40.involved in distribution, that I have no doubt
:09:41. > :09:44.would not be based in South Wales if it weren't for the bridges.
:09:45. > :09:54.It continues to impress half a century on.
:09:55. > :09:59.The Football Association of Wales' bid for Laura McAllister to join
:10:00. > :10:02.Fifa's ruling council has been halted.
:10:03. > :10:08.A former Wales player and former Chair of Sport Wales,
:10:09. > :10:11.Professor McAllister hoped to become the first Brtiish
:10:12. > :10:14.A regulation, dating back to the 1940s, prevents any home
:10:15. > :10:17.nation having more than one representative on the council.
:10:18. > :10:23.Britain's David Gill is already a vice president.
:10:24. > :10:25.At the Paralympic Games in Rio Cwmbran's Keiron Duke
:10:26. > :10:30.is currently competing in the final of the F41 shot put.
:10:31. > :10:33.It was a disappointing day for Welsh athletes with London 2012 silver
:10:34. > :10:37.medallist Aaron Moores from Swansea failing to reach the final
:10:38. > :10:45.The Tour of Britain cycle race has left Wales after its second day
:10:46. > :10:48.Stage five started this morning in Aberdare,
:10:49. > :10:57.where hundreds of people lined the route.
:10:58. > :11:01.You see them on TV and we don't get to see them in our area.
:11:02. > :11:04.It is pretty cool for the Valleys here.
:11:05. > :11:06.We watched the Olympics and my husband
:11:07. > :11:07.keeps banging on about Bradley Wiggins.
:11:08. > :11:10.I live across the road from the park.
:11:11. > :11:13.It is just something you will not see again.
:11:14. > :11:24.Derek, a mixed picture at the moment?
:11:25. > :11:31.It is looking changeable over the next few days. That means some dry,
:11:32. > :11:35.brighter spells but there is some rain in the forecast and watch out
:11:36. > :11:39.for some gusty winds. A few showers around tonight, rain in places.
:11:40. > :11:45.Pembrokeshire should become dry and clear by the end of the night. The
:11:46. > :11:49.humid night but not as sticky as it has been. Lower temperatures around
:11:50. > :11:54.13 Celsius. Tomorrow morning, that is the best part of the day. Showers
:11:55. > :12:03.in places will clear leaving it to dry. Some cloud. Across the rest of
:12:04. > :12:07.the UK, we have a sprinkling of sour words. Most places dry, some
:12:08. > :12:12.sunshine but turning wet and windy across Northern Ireland. That rain
:12:13. > :12:16.across the Irish Sea reaching Cumbria and Anglesey during the
:12:17. > :12:24.afternoon. The rain accompanied by strong to fail -- gale force winds.
:12:25. > :12:27.In Wales tomorrow afternoon, some dry weather but a few showers around
:12:28. > :12:33.as well. Rain will reach the north and west late in the afternoon with
:12:34. > :12:37.strong to gale force winds. Temperatures are little higher than
:12:38. > :12:43.today, the humidity rising again. Solano night we will see a spell of
:12:44. > :12:52.rain. Rain heaviest in the hills. Part of me to -- mid Wales will see
:12:53. > :12:57.some rain. Saturday a little rain at times in the south-east, elsewhere
:12:58. > :13:01.dry and bright. A little sunshine, light winds and feeling cool. It
:13:02. > :13:06.looks like there will be a fine evening for the Proms in the park in
:13:07. > :13:12.Colwyn Bay on Saturday evening. It will turn to Lisa take a blanket.
:13:13. > :13:17.Sunday, a lot of dry weather with a freshening breeze. Highs of 70 and
:13:18. > :13:19.Wrexham. It changeable mix over the next few days, warmer on Monday.
:13:20. > :13:21.We'll be back with updates from 6.25am.
:13:22. > :13:36.From all of us on the programme, thanks for watching. Goodnight.
:13:37. > :13:42.The Pro12 season's kicking off, so it's game on for our Welsh regions.