:00:00. > :00:00.scientists have to say. That and a lot more on BBC Two
:00:00. > :00:08.Former Police superintendent Gordon Anglesea on trial
:00:09. > :00:16.And the number of obese people being rescued by the fire service
:00:17. > :00:35.We go behind the scenes with the emergency services.
:00:36. > :00:38.One of the alleged victims of the retired police
:00:39. > :00:41.superintendent, Gordon Anglesea, who's on trial for sex offences,
:00:42. > :00:46.He told Mold Crown Court he'd been scared to name
:00:47. > :00:49.Mr Anglesea as an abuser because he was a powerful
:00:50. > :01:00.Gordon Anglesea denies the four charges against him.
:01:01. > :01:03.Today in the witness box, one of his alleged victims was asked
:01:04. > :01:06.to explain how he had come to identify the former senior
:01:07. > :01:13.The witness, now in his 40s, can't be named for legal reasons.
:01:14. > :01:16.He gave his evidence from behind a screen.
:01:17. > :01:18.He says he was a teenager when he was abused.
:01:19. > :01:22.He told the jury he saw a man with a birthmark on his face
:01:23. > :01:27.He had been taken there because he had run away
:01:28. > :01:34.Its owner, John Allen, is serving a life sentence for child abuse.
:01:35. > :01:38.Allen, the witness says, took him to a sandstone house,
:01:39. > :01:43.There, he says he was indecently assaulted by the same man
:01:44. > :01:48.A man he now says is Gordon Anglesea.
:01:49. > :01:51.For the prosecution, Eleanor Laws QC asked the witness
:01:52. > :01:54.why he had not named the man in a number of police interviews.
:01:55. > :02:06.The jury was told that it wasn't until 2014 in a prison therapy
:02:07. > :02:11.session that the witness filly identified Gordon Anglesea.
:02:12. > :02:16.For the defence, Tania Griffiths QC drew attention to
:02:17. > :02:23.More than 60 burglaries, four robberies, drug dealing.
:02:24. > :02:26.She asked the witness why he hadn't identified Gordon Anglesea as his
:02:27. > :02:30.abuser until relatively recently, and there were angry exchanges
:02:31. > :02:33.when she questioned him about compensation.
:02:34. > :02:36."You knew he'd won over one third of ?1 million in compensation
:02:37. > :02:43."I don't want compensation, I want justice," he told the jury.
:02:44. > :02:45.Gordon Anglesea denies all the charges,
:02:46. > :02:54.An investigation is underway after two men died in a microlight
:02:55. > :02:59.The crash happened yesterday in Cwmbach,
:03:00. > :03:05.The men are from the North West of England, and have been named
:03:06. > :03:10.locally as Scott Penlington and Nick Jefferies.
:03:11. > :03:11.People are quite surprised and shocked that this
:03:12. > :03:18.This is usually a low-flying area for military aircraft,
:03:19. > :03:21.there has been military aircraft that have crashed in the area,
:03:22. > :03:23.Elan Valley a few years ago, but not a light aircraft.
:03:24. > :03:27.So, tragically, two people have died, and we mustn't forget
:03:28. > :03:36.North Wales businesswoman Stephanie Booth has died
:03:37. > :03:39.after a crash involving a tractor on a farm in Denbighshire.
:03:40. > :03:42.Ms Booth was well known in the area for running several
:03:43. > :03:45.hotels in North East Wales and an unsuccessful bid to take over
:03:46. > :03:50.Ms Booth was one of the first people in Britain to speak publicly
:03:51. > :03:53.about her sex change and ran businesses
:03:54. > :04:00.Police are appealing for information after a 12-year-old girl
:04:01. > :04:02.was assaulted by three teenagers in Rhyl.
:04:03. > :04:06.The incident is alleged to have happened near to 'Mr Bees Arcade'
:04:07. > :04:10.on the seafront at around 6pm on Tuesday 6th September.
:04:11. > :04:13.The teenagers, two girls and a boy, are believed to have attacked
:04:14. > :04:19.the girl by hitting her in the legs with a metal bar.
:04:20. > :04:22.The number of obese people having to be rescued by the fire service
:04:23. > :04:26.in a medical emergency, because of their size, is going up.
:04:27. > :04:29.Last year South Wales Fire Service attended the largest number
:04:30. > :04:35.Its specialist crews carried out 77 bariatric rescues.
:04:36. > :04:37.Mid and West Wales recorded the second highest
:04:38. > :04:43.North Wales was among the lowest with two.
:04:44. > :04:47.Caroline Evans watched the emergency services training.
:04:48. > :04:50.We are looking at the blood pressure, and if we get some
:04:51. > :04:56.Today, the patient is a 30-stone dummy.
:04:57. > :04:59.This a new type of training course for a problem emergency services
:05:00. > :05:12.In a medical emergency there is no time to lose,
:05:13. > :05:23.There is no rescue where we can go in and do this
:05:24. > :05:26.very quickly, when we rescue these patients, it has to be preplanned
:05:27. > :05:33.It makes it safer and minimises the impact on the patient as well,
:05:34. > :05:40.so it may be simple things, like we have to walk the route
:05:41. > :05:43.all the way that the patient is going to travel with a tape
:05:44. > :05:46.measure, because we need to know whether we need to take doors off,
:05:47. > :05:48.remove furniture, take windows out, etc, things like that.
:05:49. > :05:51.I've probably been involved in up to 20 of these incidents
:05:52. > :05:55.They are not a daily event for us with this complexity,
:05:56. > :05:57.but we do transport patients who would be categorised
:05:58. > :06:00.as obese on a daily basis, and that is reflected in the change
:06:01. > :06:07.Since 2013, we have introduced a new stretcher which is an extra
:06:08. > :06:11.100 kilograms capacity, it is wider, and it is electrically
:06:12. > :06:16.powered to make sure our staff are protected as well.
:06:17. > :06:19.The figures don't reveal why South Wales Fire Service were called
:06:20. > :06:25.They think the good relationship between ambulance and Fire Service
:06:26. > :06:28.makes such operations more likely here.
:06:29. > :06:33.Others claim that in some areas such incidents are going unreported.
:06:34. > :06:36.But it is also recognised that around one in four of us in Wales
:06:37. > :06:48.So obesity experts say these results are not surprising.
:06:49. > :06:50.It is getting worse and worse, as more and more fat
:06:51. > :06:54.It is all over the country, so South Wales, if you will,
:06:55. > :06:59.should not be terribly upset that they are unique.
:07:00. > :07:02.They are not unique at all, particularly in the north-west
:07:03. > :07:07.Some of the figures there, which in my belief have not
:07:08. > :07:08.been reported properly, will show the same
:07:09. > :07:15.This type of operation is the extreme end of what these
:07:16. > :07:18.specialist teams are required to do, but increasingly they say
:07:19. > :07:22.they are being called to people who get stuck not just in buildings
:07:23. > :07:26.but in cars and trains here in Wales.
:07:27. > :07:29.We'll get you out, get you in the ambulance, and get
:07:30. > :07:35.A PE teacher at Willows High School in Cardiff, has been cleared
:07:36. > :07:38.of raping a woman after a night out in the City Centre.
:07:39. > :07:41.Neilson Smith took the woman home in a taxi
:07:42. > :07:47.It took the jury four and a half hours to find him not guilty of rape
:07:48. > :07:51.after a week-long trial at Cardiff Crown Court.
:07:52. > :07:54.A ballot closed today on potential strike action at Welsh universities,
:07:55. > :07:59.Unison has accused higher education institutions of relying
:08:00. > :08:02.on temporary agency workers, and rewarding only
:08:03. > :08:07.In response, universities say the use of agency staff
:08:08. > :08:11.is widespread, and competitive salaries are needed to attract
:08:12. > :08:18.It's the busiest road through West Wales -
:08:19. > :08:21.used by tens of thousands of motorists every day -
:08:22. > :08:24.and roadworks starting tomorrow on the A48 near Carmarthen
:08:25. > :08:28.could mean severe disruption for the next six weeks.
:08:29. > :08:32.The eastbound carriageway between Pensarn and Nantycaws will
:08:33. > :08:38.High volumes of diverted traffic could cause long delays and disrupt
:08:39. > :08:47.Underneath this section of the A48 which heads eastwards
:08:48. > :08:51.from Carmarthen is a high-pressure pipeline carrying mainly diesel
:08:52. > :08:54.and aviation fuel from Pembroke refinery to terminals
:08:55. > :09:01.Tomorrow, work gets underway to repair a defect in the pipe.
:09:02. > :09:04.It will mean a 3.5 mile stretch of the eastbound carriageway will be
:09:05. > :09:10.Diversions will be in place, and one of the main alternative
:09:11. > :09:15.routes will be eventually bringing motorists back onto the A48
:09:16. > :09:22.This is the main road which links West and East Wales,
:09:23. > :09:26.it is also the main road which links the West with the rest of Europe.
:09:27. > :09:30.Every single day, heavy goods vehicles travel along the A48,
:09:31. > :09:33.but tomorrow when it closes and traffic is diverted to the
:09:34. > :09:36.side roads, it is believed it could significantly
:09:37. > :09:44.We are the sort of largest roadway that spans through.
:09:45. > :09:47.We understand we get a lot of Irish ferry traffic,
:09:48. > :09:49.and also from the whole of West Wales anyway.
:09:50. > :09:52.There is a lot of commerce that happens, and with anything
:09:53. > :09:55.that lasts up to six weeks you want to make sure
:09:56. > :09:59.One local councillor says there are concerns in his ward
:10:00. > :10:01.about how the diverted traffic along this road will affect
:10:02. > :10:08.The last time it was used as a diversion it had three lanes,
:10:09. > :10:11.but since then it has been reduced to just two.
:10:12. > :10:13.It is believed this could compound traffic problems
:10:14. > :10:19.I think we will face total chaos, especially after 3pm
:10:20. > :10:25.We are turning back into a village with only one lane up the hill.
:10:26. > :10:29.And we're introducing a 30mph speed limit, there are concerns
:10:30. > :10:33.I don't think there will be room for any speeding tomorrow.
:10:34. > :10:39.Today, temporary traffic lights were put out along the road
:10:40. > :10:43.to help people cross it, particularly schoolchildren.
:10:44. > :10:46.This bike shop and cafe is situated on what will be one
:10:47. > :10:52.It is anticipating the road closure to affect business to some extent.
:10:53. > :10:55.We get a few people dropping in to get their coffee,
:10:56. > :11:03.and we also have quite a few people coming in for their morning meeting,
:11:04. > :11:09.so potentially the congestion could put them off.
:11:10. > :11:13.Mainline Pipeline Ltd says repairs are essential, but it will endeavour
:11:14. > :11:17.to reduce the six-week closure as much as possible.
:11:18. > :11:19.The advice for motorists is to leave plenty of time
:11:20. > :11:25.Wales' paralympians will fly home tomorrow with Team GB,
:11:26. > :11:31.Welsh athletes contributed seven medals to Great Britain's
:11:32. > :11:36.record haul - four golds, a silver and 2 bronze.
:11:37. > :11:38.Let's see what the weather has in store -
:11:39. > :11:52.In a bad times less week -- after some warm weather last week, fresher
:11:53. > :11:58.and autumnal with some rain. Largely dry, fairly quiet, Mr patch is
:11:59. > :12:03.developing. Where we have clear spells, temperatures will drop into
:12:04. > :12:10.single figures across rural mid Wales, 7-13dC. The rain moves
:12:11. > :12:15.eastwards with high building from the South West. A few early mist
:12:16. > :12:19.patches and a few chilly start, some sunny spells around, and across the
:12:20. > :12:25.UK in the south and east, where that weather front lingers, cloudy with
:12:26. > :12:29.patchy rain. Elsewhere, largely fine with dry in sunny spells, variable
:12:30. > :12:33.cloud, the odd shower pushing into Northern Ireland and western
:12:34. > :12:37.Scotland. High of 15 Celsius, 18 across much of central and southern
:12:38. > :12:42.England. For Wales, largely dry, fine and settled. " Can in the
:12:43. > :12:49.afternoon. Light winds and high of 15 Celsius -- cloud will thicken.
:12:50. > :12:56.Variable cloud, mist and fog patches, lows of 8-13dC in towns and
:12:57. > :13:00.cities, cooler in the countryside overnight. Some changes as we head
:13:01. > :13:04.into Wednesday. It starts dry but low pressure in the Atlantic edges
:13:05. > :13:09.closer, this cold front pushing in later in the day. Wednesday should
:13:10. > :13:13.start fine and dry with bright spells, a few showers developing,
:13:14. > :13:15.winds pick up, and turning increasingly cloudy from the West is
:13:16. > :13:23.that front edges in by Wednesday night. Fresher autumnal feel this
:13:24. > :13:24.week good sunny spells at times. Thank you very much.
:13:25. > :13:26.That's Wales Today thank you for watching.
:13:27. > :13:31.From all of us on the programme, goodnight.