03/10/2016 BBC Wales Today

Welcome to Wales Today. Tonight's top stories:

Prime Minister Theresa May says she'll listen to the Welsh

but they won't have a seat at the negotiating table.

And Francesco Guidolin is sacked as Swansea City's head coach

and replaced by the American Bob Bradley.

Will Wales' voice be heard when it comes to negotiating Britain's exit

The Prime Minister has told BBC Wales the Welsh Government WILL be

involved in discussions, but she stressed it'll

be HER government that'll negotiate with the EU.

There'll be no seat at the table for the Welsh Government.

From the Conservative conference in Birmingham, David Cornock.

In question, and no one can be certain of the answer, or how to do

it while keeping the United Kingdom together. The Prime Minister told me

the Welsh government would be involved in discussions preparing

for Brexit, but... Of course, it will be the UK who is

negotiating with the European Union in terms of the terms for Brexit. I

want to make a real success of it, but in doing our preparations, I

want to listen to the devolved administrations to hear the

particular issues in different parts of the UK, so they are fully

engaged. So, if the Welsh government thought

it was going to get a seat at the wrecks it stable, it can think

again. Theresa May is clear that it is her government and the government

alone that will be negotiating Britain's departure from the

European Union. The First Minister insisted his voice would still be

heard. What the UK Government said is

effectively that they have to leave the negotiations. I agree with that,

but it makes perfect sense to get as much planning as possible across the

UK. The UK Government not looking to impose a final settlement, when they

might have this agreement from elsewhere in the UK. So, so far, we

have had the level of engagement that we would expect.

But Plaid Cymru said it was an affront to democracy.

I have been quite critical of the First Minister, and particularly in

comparison with the effort and action that has gone in on the part

of the Scottish Government. Wales is unique in its economic position, and

it needs to have a very strong and loud voice in the middle of this,

including a voice in the negotiations.

Back in Birmingham, the Conservatives are preparing for

Britain to leave the EU. Conservative MEP meants? They will

be around for long. Theresa May's plan to start the

Brexit process early next year means Britain's MEPs, including four from

Wales, will lose their jobs, but a clear message from the new Prime

Minister that when it comes to leading the United Kingdom's nations

out of the EU, she is in charge. An 18 year-old-man has pleaded

guilty to the kidnap and rape of a 62 year-old-woman

who was walking her dog Jack Karl Thomas Williams appeared

at Mold Crown Court. The woman needed hospital treatment

after the assault in August. It's emerged a nursery worker has

been dismissed after a young boy was left alone for more than

two hours in a minibus on one It happened outside Camau Bach

in Aberystwyth in July. In a separate incident,

police have confirmed a man entered the nursery without

permission last week. There were no children

in the room at the time. There's a new man in charge

at Swansea City, after the club The former USA national team boss

Bob Bradley is his replacement, becoming the first American to take

charge of a Premier League side. Swansea Supporters Trust says it's

frustrated and angry with the way the club handled the sacking.

Ben Price reports. He is the fourth manager to leave

the club during his six seasons in the Premier League. This lunchtime,

Swansea city announced it is to part company with Francesco Guidolin.

Despite an improved performance, Saturday's 2-1 defeat against

Liverpool meant time was up for the Italian after nine months in the

job. I saw my team play 95 minutes with

character, with good quality overall in the first half, and I think if we

play in this way, we can turn the situation.

But it will be the job of this man to turn the situation around.

Bob Bradley will become the Premier League's first American manager when

he takes over before next weekend's trip to Arsenal. So, who is Bob

Bradley? Unusually, Bradley started his managerial career at the age of

22 in the US. He has experience of managing club sides around the

world, including in France and Norway. He also coached the men's US

national team, who topped their World Cup group ahead of England in

2010 before losing in the last 16 of that tournament.

He is a no-nonsense manager. He is a guy who likes to have what badly

calls "Real conversations" with people, whether it is players,

media, anyone. Sometimes, those can be uncomfortable conversations, but

he is fearless. The Premier League years have been

up and down for the Swansea faithful. There have been relegation

battles, but also top ten finishes, and League Cup win, and top European

football. Familiarise themselves with new managers has also become a

trend. So what are they make of the new management?

I'm not sure Bob Bradley knows enough about a club and our way of

playing to reinstate that at the moment, because I don't think anyone

knows what our best 11 is, even at the moment, within the club.

The Liberty Stadium has already welcomed two American businessmen,

with plans to improve the club's future off the field. Fans will now

help I would hope another American will be able to improve performances

and results on it. He's been called the King of

Painters and the Painter of Kings. Once one of the world's richest

living artists, Andrew Vicari died He's best known for painting some

of the world's wealthiest Sarah Hibbard looks

back at his life. Andrew Vicari first thought of

becoming an artist when he won a gold medal Abbey National Eisteddfod

at the age of 12. There was a telegram for my father

saying I had one. I receive ?10 and a gold-medal. I said, that is the

life for me! So easy! Born in Port Talbot, he attended art

school in London before deciding to tour Wales to paint the faces of

Welsh people, but it was outside Wales that he found fame and

fortune. After being introduced to the Arab world by a friend at the

Foreign Office in the 1970s, he was adopted as the official artist to

the Saudi royal family. In 1991, he painted over 200 canvases depicting

the Gulf War. They were later bought for millions by an anonymous Arab.

He is a guy who wanted adventure in life. He was born into a fairly grey

landscape in post-war Neath, but his dreams were in Technicolor, and they

wanted adventure, and he travelled the world.

In 2002, he was commissioned to paint a mural to break an apparent

curse and the South stand dressing room of then Stadium in Cardiff,

where teams had lost 11 matches in a row. At the height of his fame, he

was estimated to be worth ?92 million, and listed as Britain's

18th richest person. It was not to last. In 2014, he filed for

bankruptcy. But his legacy will live on in the Middle East, where there

are three museums dedicated to his work.

The life of the artist Andrew Vicari.

The weather forecast for Wales now - here's Sue Charles.

Good evening. It is a pretty quiet week. Looking largely dry with sunny

spells, often breezy, but with chilly nights. A blocking ridge of

high pressure over Scandinavia is keeping our weather settled over the

next view days, dominant enough to keep these friends in the Atlantic

at bay. So overnight, staying dry with clear spells, some patchiness

and fog forming, not to dance, because of the breeze, and

temperatures in single figures in towns across mid Wales, but colder

in rural areas. Tomorrow, more of the same after a chilly start. It

will be fine and dry with sunny spells, and that the area of high

pressure keeps things fine and settled for most of the UK, just

some patchy Fairweather cloud at times, breezy, maybe some drizzle

across the Northern Ireland and western Scotland, and coolest here

as well, nearer the front, 15 Celsius in north-west Scotland, 18

in south-east England. Across Wales, bright and breezy, south-easterly

winds, but again, feeling quite pleasant in the sunshine. I is a 15

Celsius, 17 Swansea. Tomorrow night into Wednesday, dry and chilly

overnight. A subtle change of these isobars moved from a south-easterly

to a more easterly direction, a cooler wind direction. Similar on

Wednesday, sunny spells, the best in the West, variable cloud. It should

stay dry and that easterly breeze develops strongest along the coast,

just a slight dip in temperature of 14-16. Then looking largely fine and

dry for the rest of the week. Chilly nights, plenty of autumnal sunshine,

a bit cooler later in the week, maybe a bit more cloudy as well.

Could be thick enough for the odd spot of drizzle, but no significant

rain in the forecast. That's Wales Today.

Goodnight.