19/09/2016 BBC Wales Today

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Former Police superintendent Gordon Anglesea on trial

And the number of obese people being rescued by the fire service

We go behind the scenes with the emergency services.

One of the alleged victims of the retired police

superintendent, Gordon Anglesea, who's on trial for sex offences,

He told Mold Crown Court he'd been scared to name

Mr Anglesea as an abuser because he was a powerful

Gordon Anglesea denies the four charges against him.

Today in the witness box, one of his alleged victims was asked

to explain how he had come to identify the former senior

The witness, now in his 40s, can't be named for legal reasons.

He gave his evidence from behind a screen.

He says he was a teenager when he was abused.

He told the jury he saw a man with a birthmark on his face

He had been taken there because he had run away

Its owner, John Allen, is serving a life sentence for child abuse.

Allen, the witness says, took him to a sandstone house,

There, he says he was indecently assaulted by the same man

A man he now says is Gordon Anglesea.

For the prosecution, Eleanor Laws QC asked the witness

why he had not named the man in a number of police interviews.

The jury was told that it wasn't until 2014 in a prison therapy

session that the witness filly identified Gordon Anglesea.

For the defence, Tania Griffiths QC drew attention to

More than 60 burglaries, four robberies, drug dealing.

She asked the witness why he hadn't identified Gordon Anglesea as his

abuser until relatively recently, and there were angry exchanges

when she questioned him about compensation.

"You knew he'd won over one third of ?1 million in compensation

"I don't want compensation, I want justice," he told the jury.

Gordon Anglesea denies all the charges,

An investigation is underway after two men died in a microlight

The crash happened yesterday in Cwmbach,

The men are from the North West of England, and have been named

locally as Scott Penlington and Nick Jefferies.

People are quite surprised and shocked that this

This is usually a low-flying area for military aircraft,

there has been military aircraft that have crashed in the area,

Elan Valley a few years ago, but not a light aircraft.

So, tragically, two people have died, and we mustn't forget

North Wales businesswoman Stephanie Booth has died

after a crash involving a tractor on a farm in Denbighshire.

Ms Booth was well known in the area for running several

hotels in North East Wales and an unsuccessful bid to take over

Ms Booth was one of the first people in Britain to speak publicly

about her sex change and ran businesses

Police are appealing for information after a 12-year-old girl

was assaulted by three teenagers in Rhyl.

The incident is alleged to have happened near to 'Mr Bees Arcade'

on the seafront at around 6pm on Tuesday 6th September.

The teenagers, two girls and a boy, are believed to have attacked

the girl by hitting her in the legs with a metal bar.

The number of obese people having to be rescued by the fire service

in a medical emergency, because of their size, is going up.

Last year South Wales Fire Service attended the largest number

Its specialist crews carried out 77 bariatric rescues.

Mid and West Wales recorded the second highest

North Wales was among the lowest with two.

Caroline Evans watched the emergency services training.

We are looking at the blood pressure, and if we get some

Today, the patient is a 30-stone dummy.

This a new type of training course for a problem emergency services

In a medical emergency there is no time to lose,

There is no rescue where we can go in and do this

very quickly, when we rescue these patients, it has to be preplanned

It makes it safer and minimises the impact on the patient as well,

so it may be simple things, like we have to walk the route

all the way that the patient is going to travel with a tape

measure, because we need to know whether we need to take doors off,

remove furniture, take windows out, etc, things like that.

I've probably been involved in up to 20 of these incidents

They are not a daily event for us with this complexity,

but we do transport patients who would be categorised

as obese on a daily basis, and that is reflected in the change

Since 2013, we have introduced a new stretcher which is an extra

100 kilograms capacity, it is wider, and it is electrically

powered to make sure our staff are protected as well.

The figures don't reveal why South Wales Fire Service were called

They think the good relationship between ambulance and Fire Service

makes such operations more likely here.

Others claim that in some areas such incidents are going unreported.

But it is also recognised that around one in four of us in Wales

So obesity experts say these results are not surprising.

It is getting worse and worse, as more and more fat

It is all over the country, so South Wales, if you will,

should not be terribly upset that they are unique.

They are not unique at all, particularly in the north-west

Some of the figures there, which in my belief have not

been reported properly, will show the same

This type of operation is the extreme end of what these

specialist teams are required to do, but increasingly they say

they are being called to people who get stuck not just in buildings

but in cars and trains here in Wales.

We'll get you out, get you in the ambulance, and get

A PE teacher at Willows High School in Cardiff, has been cleared

of raping a woman after a night out in the City Centre.

Neilson Smith took the woman home in a taxi

It took the jury four and a half hours to find him not guilty of rape

after a week-long trial at Cardiff Crown Court.

A ballot closed today on potential strike action at Welsh universities,

Unison has accused higher education institutions of relying

on temporary agency workers, and rewarding only

In response, universities say the use of agency staff

is widespread, and competitive salaries are needed to attract

It's the busiest road through West Wales -

used by tens of thousands of motorists every day -

and roadworks starting tomorrow on the A48 near Carmarthen

could mean severe disruption for the next six weeks.

The eastbound carriageway between Pensarn and Nantycaws will

High volumes of diverted traffic could cause long delays and disrupt

Underneath this section of the A48 which heads eastwards

from Carmarthen is a high-pressure pipeline carrying mainly diesel

and aviation fuel from Pembroke refinery to terminals

Tomorrow, work gets underway to repair a defect in the pipe.

It will mean a 3.5 mile stretch of the eastbound carriageway will be

Diversions will be in place, and one of the main alternative

routes will be eventually bringing motorists back onto the A48

This is the main road which links West and East Wales,

it is also the main road which links the West with the rest of Europe.

Every single day, heavy goods vehicles travel along the A48,

but tomorrow when it closes and traffic is diverted to the

side roads, it is believed it could significantly

We are the sort of largest roadway that spans through.

We understand we get a lot of Irish ferry traffic,

and also from the whole of West Wales anyway.

There is a lot of commerce that happens, and with anything

that lasts up to six weeks you want to make sure

One local councillor says there are concerns in his ward

about how the diverted traffic along this road will affect

The last time it was used as a diversion it had three lanes,

but since then it has been reduced to just two.

It is believed this could compound traffic problems

I think we will face total chaos, especially after 3pm

We are turning back into a village with only one lane up the hill.

And we're introducing a 30mph speed limit, there are concerns

I don't think there will be room for any speeding tomorrow.

Today, temporary traffic lights were put out along the road

to help people cross it, particularly schoolchildren.

This bike shop and cafe is situated on what will be one

It is anticipating the road closure to affect business to some extent.

We get a few people dropping in to get their coffee,

and we also have quite a few people coming in for their morning meeting,

so potentially the congestion could put them off.

Mainline Pipeline Ltd says repairs are essential, but it will endeavour

to reduce the six-week closure as much as possible.

The advice for motorists is to leave plenty of time

Wales' paralympians will fly home tomorrow with Team GB,

Welsh athletes contributed seven medals to Great Britain's

record haul - four golds, a silver and 2 bronze.

Let's see what the weather has in store -

In a bad times less week -- after some warm weather last week, fresher

and autumnal with some rain. Largely dry, fairly quiet, Mr patch is

developing. Where we have clear spells, temperatures will drop into

single figures across rural mid Wales, 7-13dC. The rain moves

eastwards with high building from the South West. A few early mist

patches and a few chilly start, some sunny spells around, and across the

UK in the south and east, where that weather front lingers, cloudy with

patchy rain. Elsewhere, largely fine with dry in sunny spells, variable

cloud, the odd shower pushing into Northern Ireland and western

Scotland. High of 15 Celsius, 18 across much of central and southern

England. For Wales, largely dry, fine and settled. " Can in the

afternoon. Light winds and high of 15 Celsius -- cloud will thicken.

Variable cloud, mist and fog patches, lows of 8-13dC in towns and

cities, cooler in the countryside overnight. Some changes as we head

into Wednesday. It starts dry but low pressure in the Atlantic edges

closer, this cold front pushing in later in the day. Wednesday should

start fine and dry with bright spells, a few showers developing,

winds pick up, and turning increasingly cloudy from the West is

that front edges in by Wednesday night. Fresher autumnal feel this

week good sunny spells at times. Thank you very much.

That's Wales Today thank you for watching.

From all of us on the programme, goodnight.