:00:00. > :00:00.fan. Indeed, Joe. Joe Wilson there for us with the
:00:07. > :00:09.Tonight's headlines: The trial begins of a former
:00:10. > :00:11.North Wales Police superintendent accused of historic sex abuse.
:00:12. > :00:14.In his last address before retiring, the Archbishop of Wales urges
:00:15. > :00:16.the Church to embrace same-sex marriage.
:00:17. > :00:21.And could we see four longer days and one half-day in the school week?
:00:22. > :00:38.The changes explored in research for the Welsh Government.
:00:39. > :00:42.A court has heard how a former senior North Wales police officer,
:00:43. > :00:46.who faces sexual charges, was seen at a house frequented
:00:47. > :00:52.Gordon Anglesea denies three charges of indecent assault and one serious
:00:53. > :00:56.sexual offence dating back to the 1980s.
:00:57. > :01:00.A jury at Mold Crown Court heard how one of his alleged victims claims
:01:01. > :01:04.he was handed between abusers like a handbag.
:01:05. > :01:09.Gordon Anglesea arriving at court today.
:01:10. > :01:13.Once a senior police officer rising to the rank of superintendent,
:01:14. > :01:18.now facing claims he sexually abused teenage boys.
:01:19. > :01:21.The architecture of St Joseph's School in Wrexham has changed
:01:22. > :01:25.in the last 30 years but, here in the early '80s,
:01:26. > :01:28.there was a Home Office attendance centre for young offenders.
:01:29. > :01:31.It was run, the jury was told, by the then
:01:32. > :01:34.Inspector Gordon Anglesea and it was there that three
:01:35. > :01:38.of the alleged offences are said to have taken place.
:01:39. > :01:42.Opening the case, the prosecution told the jury the alleged victim
:01:43. > :01:46.He'd been sent to the attendance centre by a juvenile
:01:47. > :01:51.He claims Gordon Anglesea indecently assaulted him
:01:52. > :01:57.On a third occasion, there was a serious sexual assault.
:01:58. > :01:59.The second alleged victim, the prosecution said,
:02:00. > :02:02.had been a resident at the Bryn Alyn children's home in Wrexham.
:02:03. > :02:07.There, he said, he was sexually abused by the owner, John Allen.
:02:08. > :02:12.In 2014, Allen was jailed for life after he was convicted of sexually
:02:13. > :02:19.In her opening speech, Eleanor Laws QC said the man
:02:20. > :02:22.describes how John Allen trafficed him to other men.
:02:23. > :02:26.He says he was handed around like a handbag, she said.
:02:27. > :02:28.He's recently identified one of those other men
:02:29. > :02:34.The jury's also been told that, later in the trial, it will hear
:02:35. > :02:37.from a witness who said he saw Gordon Anglesea at a house
:02:38. > :02:44.Gordon Anglesea denies all the charges and the case continues.
:02:45. > :02:49.Roger Pinney, BBC Wales today at Mold Crown Court
:02:50. > :02:52.News just in this evening from the Paralympics in Rio,
:02:53. > :02:56.and within the past half an hour, Aaron Moores from Swansea has won
:02:57. > :03:04.The current world record holder said it was a dream come true.
:03:05. > :03:09.His Great Britain team-mate, Scott Quin, won silver.
:03:10. > :03:12.In his last address before retirement, the Archbishop of Wales
:03:13. > :03:16.has urged the Church to embrace same-sex marriage.
:03:17. > :03:19.Retiring after 14 years leading the Church in Wales,
:03:20. > :03:22.Dr Barry Morgan chose to focus on homosexuality
:03:23. > :03:27.He told the church's governing body they must not be selective
:03:28. > :03:36.Kate Sidford and wife Del Harris would have loved a full
:03:37. > :03:41.church wedding with hymns and all but it was not to be.
:03:42. > :03:45.I believe that marriage should be open to everybody.
:03:46. > :03:50.And you should have the choice of how to do it.
:03:51. > :03:54.A civil wedding in a registry office if that is what you want
:03:55. > :03:59.or the chance of marrying in a church.
:04:00. > :04:01.When members of the Church in Wales' governing body voted
:04:02. > :04:05.on the issue last September, the result showed a majority
:04:06. > :04:10.in favour but not a big enough majority to change the law.
:04:11. > :04:14.After that, the Archbishop told me that he believed it would be foolish
:04:15. > :04:17.for the bishops to bring forward a bill to try to change
:04:18. > :04:23.But a year on, he's returned to the subject and made it the focus
:04:24. > :04:26.for his final address to the governing body.
:04:27. > :04:31.It is, in fact, about freedom from all that diminishes
:04:32. > :04:37.No Christian, I hope, today would ever argue
:04:38. > :04:42.that slavery worked but, for 19 centuries, the Church
:04:43. > :04:48.It was a speech which brought out strong reactions.
:04:49. > :04:55.Whilst really encouraged by it, I wasn't expecting him to do this.
:04:56. > :04:58.After all, this was his last governing body.
:04:59. > :05:02.He had an opportunity to say what he liked.
:05:03. > :05:04.I was sorry that the Archbishop didn't take the opportunity
:05:05. > :05:07.to explore something new, that he returned to a theme
:05:08. > :05:10.that he has explored many times before.
:05:11. > :05:12.It was a missed opportunity to give us something
:05:13. > :05:17.fresh and new at the end of his time as archbishop.
:05:18. > :05:21.Afterwards, the Archbishop explained why he'd chosen to make gay marriage
:05:22. > :05:27.I think the fundamental issue I'm dealing with is not so much same-sex
:05:28. > :05:31.relationships as the way we interpret and read the Bible.
:05:32. > :05:35.It's a far deeper question than same-sex relationships.
:05:36. > :05:38.The Church has seen many changes since the Archbishop took up
:05:39. > :05:48.Where it goes from here will be for someone else to oversee.
:05:49. > :05:50.Unemployment in Wales has fallen again with the gap between Wales
:05:51. > :05:54.and the rest of the UK continuing to widen.
:05:55. > :05:58.The rate here fell to 4.1% between May and July compared
:05:59. > :06:04.The number of people unemployed is 10,000 lower than three months
:06:05. > :06:10.earlier and down 35,000 compared to last year.
:06:11. > :06:13.A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion
:06:14. > :06:16.of murder following the death of a woman in Swansea.
:06:17. > :06:20.The body of 42-year-old Alison Jane Farr-Davies was found
:06:21. > :06:23.at a house in the Hafod area of the city yesterday afternoon.
:06:24. > :06:29.The man remains in custody and police are appealing for witnesses.
:06:30. > :06:31.A woman accused of murdering her father by deliberately starting
:06:32. > :06:35.a house fire in Cardiff has appeared in court.
:06:36. > :06:37.Robert Sadler died at his home in the Llanrumney area
:06:38. > :06:41.Emma Sadler was initially arrested and detained under
:06:42. > :06:45.the Mental Health Act before being rearrested this week.
:06:46. > :06:49.She's due to appear in court again next January.
:06:50. > :06:52.The Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns, has suggested that Welsh Government
:06:53. > :06:56.ministers in Cardiff Bay should reduce the number of bureaucrats
:06:57. > :06:59.to help them manage cuts from Westminster.
:07:00. > :07:02.He was speaking after a report said the Welsh Government was facing cuts
:07:03. > :07:07.of 3% until 2020 and that the cuts could be made significantly
:07:08. > :07:12.worse if EU aid wasn't replaced after Brexit.
:07:13. > :07:14.We've seen across Whitehall significant cutbacks
:07:15. > :07:18.in the civil service, for example, but the output hasn't
:07:19. > :07:23.I'm not sure we've seen the same scale-back of civil service
:07:24. > :07:28.bureaucrats in Cardiff Bay or in the Welsh government.
:07:29. > :07:30.There are savings that can be made that don't impact
:07:31. > :07:37.A report has found that the death of a patient at Glan Clwyd Hospital
:07:38. > :07:39.in Denbighshire was potentially avoidable had he been given
:07:40. > :07:45.The Public Services Ombudsman says it was a travesty that the patient,
:07:46. > :07:49.who had a history of chronic renal failure, waited over 12 hours to see
:07:50. > :07:54.Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board has apologised for the failings and says
:07:55. > :08:00.changes have been made to the way patients are admitted and assessed.
:08:01. > :08:02.Businesses and people living in Carmarthen
:08:03. > :08:05.are being given their first glimpse of what two of the town
:08:06. > :08:09.centre's streets could look like if regeneration plans go ahead.
:08:10. > :08:11.All this week, Carmarthen Town Regeneration Forum will be
:08:12. > :08:15.consulting the public about plans to pedestrianise King Street
:08:16. > :08:21.and create a town square at the end of Jackson's Lane.
:08:22. > :08:24.A four-and-a-half day school week - that's one option explored
:08:25. > :08:26.in research for the Welsh Government.
:08:27. > :08:30.A report by the Public Policy Institute for Wales says changing
:08:31. > :08:33.the school week so there are some longer and some shorter days
:08:34. > :08:38.could save money and help free up time for training teachers.
:08:39. > :08:40.But it also highlights concerns about the impact
:08:41. > :08:43.on childcare and activities outside the classroom.
:08:44. > :08:46.Here's our education correspondent, Bethan Lewis.
:08:47. > :08:52.Science is the last lesson of the day for these new pupils.
:08:53. > :08:55.The school day here starts at 8:40am and
:08:56. > :09:02.But could some longer and some shorter days be good for
:09:03. > :09:08.Headteacher Helen Jones says there are pros
:09:09. > :09:09.and cons but welcomes a
:09:10. > :09:16.It would definitely require the support of the workforce,
:09:17. > :09:19.parents and pupils to enable it to work but I think it
:09:20. > :09:24.We need to know it's going to impact positively on our young people
:09:25. > :09:27.so they really do get something from it.
:09:28. > :09:29.In parts of Scotland, schools have four longer days
:09:30. > :09:32.from Monday to Thursday and a half-day on Friday.
:09:33. > :09:37.That could give pupils and teachers free time on a Friday afternoon
:09:38. > :09:39.or could be an opportunity for teachers to go on training
:09:40. > :09:43.courses and, for the pupils, a chance to do out-of-school
:09:44. > :09:48.With tighter budgets, there's an argument too that it
:09:49. > :09:54.For parents at this Swansea primary school, any change would suit
:09:55. > :10:00.Very challenging for me as a single mother.
:10:01. > :10:03.Having to work around picking up at midday instead of normal time
:10:04. > :10:07.at 3pm, that would mean shortening my Friday.
:10:08. > :10:10.I'd be quite happy with it but, then again, I don't work.
:10:11. > :10:17.I'd quite enjoy the children being home on a Friday afternoon.
:10:18. > :10:20.By taking a shorter day and making other days longer,
:10:21. > :10:26.After-school rugby training's in full flow.
:10:27. > :10:30.The research by the Public Policy Institute for Wales notes concerns
:10:31. > :10:33.that a longer school day could make these sorts of after-school
:10:34. > :10:39.The purpose of the Public Policy Institute is to
:10:40. > :10:47.In that way, we enrich the debate around policy and we get to look
:10:48. > :10:51.at the possible impact of radical ideas, like this one.
:10:52. > :10:55.As well as arguments around varying the length of school days,
:10:56. > :10:57.some are also calling for shorter school terms
:10:58. > :11:02.The Welsh government says it's not going to introduce a policy
:11:03. > :11:06.across Wales of four-and-a-half day school weeks but it will look
:11:07. > :11:09.at some of the ideas raised in the report as it focuses
:11:10. > :11:14.And, in the end, that's the key issue.
:11:15. > :11:17.Making the school day longer or shorter is unlikely to happen
:11:18. > :11:21.without a strong case that it would improve the quality
:11:22. > :11:28.Let's get the weather forecast now with Behnaz Akhgar.
:11:29. > :11:31.Well, we had a taste of summer today with the temperatures up to 28
:11:32. > :11:39.More fine, warm weather heading our way tomorrow with the risk
:11:40. > :11:43.So, through the night, we will see some clear skies,
:11:44. > :11:46.especially across the South East, but all the while, the cloud
:11:47. > :11:50.We will see some low-level cloud, mist and fog with overnight lows
:11:51. > :11:56.Things a little bit more unstable as we go through tomorrow
:11:57. > :12:00.First thing tomorrow morning, we will see quite a bit of cloud,
:12:01. > :12:02.mist and fog but, through the morning,
:12:03. > :12:05.it will start to brighten up and most of us should see
:12:06. > :12:07.some bright sunny spells as we go through the morning
:12:08. > :12:18.For the rest of the British Isles, we have a weather front bringing
:12:19. > :12:22.rain into Northern Ireland. Quite a bit of sea fog for eastern parts of
:12:23. > :12:28.England and Scotland. The best of the sunshine across the south-east.
:12:29. > :12:32.Through tomorrow afternoon, we look forward to sunny spells but also the
:12:33. > :12:39.risk of a few showers. If you catch one, it will be heavy and thundery,
:12:40. > :12:43.especially in the south-east. Tomorrow night, those showers
:12:44. > :12:47.continue across the south-east. It could be heavy and thundery with the
:12:48. > :12:51.potential for flash flooding. Another stuffy night with
:12:52. > :12:56.temperatures 14-16dC. A weather front brings rain from the West
:12:57. > :13:00.which will play through early hours of Friday morning. Behind it,
:13:01. > :13:03.feeling pressure. We have sunshine to look forward to on Friday but
:13:04. > :13:08.with the temperatures around where they should be the September. You
:13:09. > :13:15.will notice the north-westerly breeze. On Saturday, feeling
:13:16. > :13:19.fresher. Those temperatures 16-18dC. Sunny spells and dry weather to look
:13:20. > :13:21.forward to. By the time we go into Sunday, thicker cloud and the risk
:13:22. > :13:23.of rain. We're back with updates
:13:24. > :13:26.in Breakfast from 6:25am.