20/09/2016 BBC Wales Today

More childcare, more apprentices, and keep more of your money

But what will the Welsh Government cut to pay for all of this?

The Pontypridd MP Owen Smith warns Labour is at a crossroads,

as the leadership contest draws to a close.

And Newport, Maesteg... Now Coity.

all owned by the same company. recycling sites,

More free childcare; more apprenticeships; more money

for schools; and keep more of your money if you move into care.

They're among the Welsh Government's pledges for what it'll do for us

over the next five years - but can it really afford it?

The First Minister says the plans will make a tangible

The opposition says - they're lacklustre

Our political editor, Nick Servini, has the lowdown on what exactly

Insured, from the cradle to the grave.

That is the purpose of this national insurance bill.

From cradle to the grave was a familiar mantra

Help people live healthy lives, make the most of opportunities,

That was echoed by Carwyn Jones today, in some of his claims

So, Mother Hurd and apple pie,

or realistic over the next five years?

One thing we do know is that it will affect people at different

For families, there will be 30 hours of free childcare a week,

available for parents of three and four-year-olds.

For those seeking a first job, a minimum of 100,000

apprenticeships are pledged, but these will also be

There will be a new fund which the Welsh government

says will provide access to new and innovative treatments,

and the value of assets elderly people can keep when entering

residential care will more than double, to ?50,000.

This programme for government gives us what we need to tackle the major

challenges that lie ahead, and to make tangible

difference to people's lives that they want to see.

It enables us to approach the next five years with confidence,

We've set the ambition, and we have set out what we will do

to achieve it was up and now, we will get on and deliver.

The main opposition, Plaid Cymru, has been involved

in setting some of these priorities, as part of a deal with Labour,

We were led to believe that you were unveiling a five-year plan

to take Wales forwards today, and as such I had hoped to learn

in greater detail how exactly your government

However, as was the case with your previous programmes

for government, we are offered an exhaustive list of objectives

and priorities, but very little by way of detail,

Also on that list is the M4 relief road, at Newport.

Although the controversial decision on the exact route will be made

Also there is the metro, bus and rail project

but the Conservatives and Ukip both latched onto what they felt

was a lack of detail in the programme.

It is somewhat disheartening to see that the collective intellectual

might of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Labour Party

and the Liberals have come up with a document

that runs to 15 pages, and that includes the front cover,

15 pages for five years' worth of government.

15 pages for five years' worth of government.

I'm sorry to see from the foreword to this document

that the First Minister is still the miserablest

about Brexit, because he's still talking about every objective

analysis of the potential impact of Brexit, saying,

we should be prepared for a shrinking economy.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

All the economic figures that have been released since the summer

In the background, of course, to all of this, is Brexit.

Now, ministers are saying it has created a degree of financial

uncertainty which means that big cuts will have to be made in other

programmes in order to fund some of the more expensive items,

We won't know exactly which until the budget is published

Warm words are all well and good but one thing that hasn't changed

over the years is that governments of all descriptions are not judged

on the plans were but whether they are delivered.

More than 30 firefighters are tackling a large blaze

The Fire Service was alerted of the incident at around seven

There are no reports of any injuries.

Plans for a specialist vascular unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital

in Denbighshire have been approved by Health Chiefs.

The decision comes after some clinicians warned it could put

But Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board says the unit will be used

for the most complex surgery, and the majority of its vascular

services will still be carried out at other hospitals

The condition of buses operated by a Wrexham coach company

was so poor that a wheel flew off one - whilst

it was carrying school children - a public inquiry has heard.

The directors of GHA Coaches, which went into administration

in July, have been told they may be disqualified

The company admits some maintenance was neglected

The Pontypridd MP Owen Smith has warned that the Labour Party

Mr Smith, who is challenging Jeremy Corbyn for the party

leadership, says - members face a choice

between renewing Labour under him or continuing

Here's our parliamentary correspondent, David Cornock

I am so proud to be stood here before you today.

It has, the challenger admits, been a long and bruising contest,

one that he launched in his constituency back in July.

Owen Smith may since have won over MPs who lost

confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, but getting the support of rank

and file party members has been more of a challenge.

So, there's 24 hours to go, I'm still going to be fighting up

right up to the last minute for every single vote, I still think

we've got an opportunity to save the Labour Party,

Owen Smith says he would be just as radical as Jeremy Corbyn,

but he's better placed to unite Labour and to win elections.

But here at Westminster, the signs are that MPs are preparing

The former Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith is among senior MPs

expected to return to the front line if Jeremy Corbyn wins.

Owen Smith, though, wouldn't be among them.

I'm not going to sit in the Shadow Cabinet with Jeremy,

But I'll sit on the backbenches, I'll continue to make these

arguments, I'm not going anywhere of absolutely determined

that the Labour Party needs to have people fighting to unite

the party, but crucially people who are determined

Polls close at noon tomorrow, with the result due to be

Fire fighters have been tackling a blaze of around six thousand

tonnes of woodchip at a recycling plant in Coity near Bridgend.

It's the third fire at a site owned by South Wales Wood Recycling

The company says - in light of the suspicious

circumstances around the fire, it's withdrawing an application

The smoke could be seen billowing for miles,

Bloody ridiculous! Is it?

The smoke was billowing from the north last night,

and for many nearby it meant staying indoors, trying to escape

It's really choking, it's like, you know,

plastic, when plastic is burning, you know?

We had to close all the windows, for a start.

You know, I mean, my husband got a fan out, but that didn't seem

It was seeping through everything obviously, it was coming

The water bowsers have been ferrying water back and forth to the site

They hold around 9000 litres each, but it's proved a tough job

It's a well-developed fire, and its deep-seated,

so using heavy machinery to pull the wood shipped out of the fire,

and for us to damp down, to make the area safer.

There's a lot of heat coming from the fire,

and obviously there's the smoke coming out from afar,

so it's arduous working conditions for the crews,

but we are rotating crews every three to four hours.

At the end of last year, a similar fire at the wood recycling

centre at Alexandra docks in Newport Road over the whole

month, and in March it was the old power station

in Maesteg that was affected, when 2,000 tonnes of wood

Firefighters have been working around the clock to try and get

the blaze under control, but it may be a few days yet before

And with fires previously at the company's to other sites

in Newport and Maesteg, local residents are increasingly

concerned about plans for yet another plant a few miles

Those plans have been put on hold this afternoon, with news from south

Wales would recycling Limited that in light of the suspicious

circumstances surrounding the fire, they've decided to withdraw

their planning application for the safety of their employees.

Local councillor Geoff Tillsley, who's chaired meetings with hundreds

of concerned local residents recently says any further

developments of such sites will come up against opposition.

These people are wanting a 365 day a year operation.

Heavy goods, bringing things and taking items away at night,

and the wood chip going on in the daytime.

The local residents are concerned on three grounds.

So, the end of one application, but the company has said it hopes

the community will work with it to deliver renewable Welsh power

to benefit local areas and businesses.

Back in Coity, it may be some time before we know

The Anglesey-based artist Wilf Roberts,

famous for his landscapes of the island,-

After teaching art in London, he returned to North Wales

in the 1970s, working in local government,

before retiring in 1996 to devote his life to painting.

His work is displayed across Wales and worldwide.

Let's see what the weather has in store.

Not much happening at the moment, Jamie, but a different story by the

weekend, when things stir things up, bringing rain and stronger winds.

That's the gum, in the meantime staying dry tonight, as he breaks in

a cloud, missed forming here and there and also quite chilly in rural

spots, temperatures though holding up in towns and cities. It may start

of Gray admitted tomorrow morning, much of the country dry, just the

light shower, perhaps, and should be bright in places with a little bit

of sunshine for real and Wrexham. Now, across the rest of the UK

economist and fog patches should disappear by about ten o'clock in

the morning, Bentley cloud around, but some spells developing, along

with a scattering of showers in the afternoon, and at the same time a

front will spread rain across the north of Ireland, accompanied by

strong winds particularly in the north-west of Scotland. It averages

range from 15 in Belfast, quite warm in London, 22, 70 two Fahrenheit.

Close to home, there will be a few showers around tomorrow afternoon,

and they could be on the heavy side but they will be hit and miss,

meaning lots of places will stay dry. If you Sunny intervals as well,

as to which is not bad for the time of year, 16 to 20 Celsius, itself

the south westerly breeze. Shell stairway tomorrow evening, dry for a

while, but then showery rain spreads across the country overnight, and

some of this could be on the heavy side. Now it's a special day on

Thursday, the autumn equinox, that's when the Sun crosses the equator,

day and night almost equal in length. Weather-wise, showers first

thing will soon disappear then it will dry brighten up with some

sunshine. More dry weather on Friday, the odd shower perhaps, and

again sunshine, breeze refreshing as well that heralding a change for the

weekend where we will all see rain and strong winds, clearing to

showers on Sunday. Jamie. Derek, thank you very much.

From all of us on the programme, goodnight.