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Welcome to Wales Today - tonight's top stories. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Most Welsh councils are handed more money to spend next year - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
And will your council tax go up to help take the strain? | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
Some child migrants arriving here from Calais could | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
be adults according to the Monmouth MP David Davies. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
He's calling for dental checks - to verify they are under 18. | :00:22. | :00:39. | |
Most Welsh councils will have more money to spend next year on vital | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
services like schools, rubbish collections | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
But the increases set out by the Welsh Government are modest. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Gwynedd, the biggest winner - sees its budget go up | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
So, could this be an end to the era of big council cuts? | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Here's our Political Editor, Nick Servini. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Councils have taken much of the strain for public sector | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
While many organisations have had to make sacrifices, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
local authorities feel they've made the hardest yards. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
With many council budget starting to go up, rather | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
Andrew Morgan is the leader of Rhondda Cynon Taff, | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Despite the cuts he's Managed to invest in leisure like this | :01:31. | :01:44. | |
one which opened in Aberdare two years ago. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
But he's gearing up for another tight settlement. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
My own authority has had a slight increase. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
?100,000 extra, it's as good as we can hope for at a time | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Hopefully we can close the budget gap, as we call it, | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Unless you get a settlement increase of about 2 or 3%, | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
it doesn't cover the increasing costs for local authorities. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
So higher costs like energy and staff eat away at rises, | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
It will mean next year's crash increase will end up as a small cut. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
It's a sign of how things have changed that it wasn't that long ago | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
when councils used to complain when they got a 5% budget increase. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Now they are getting a slight reduction and using words | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
What about elsewhere in Wales? There was anger last year when brutal | :02:30. | :03:23. | |
councils got the biggest cuts. The biggest increases 0.9%. This is | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
equivalent to a 0.2% rise. The council with the biggest decrease in | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the last budget is one of the councils getting a reduction of | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
0.5%. The Finance Secretary has called for restraint. In previous | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
years, councils claim to have been hit hard by austerity. There will be | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
a softer side next year which they hope will continue for a long time | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
to come. Former Wales Goalkeeper Gary Sprake | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
has died at the age of 71. The Swansea born footballer won 37 | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
caps during his 12-year He was 18when he made his debut | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
against Scotland in 1963. Sprake also made more than 500 | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
appearances for Leeds United, His former Wales and Leeds team-mate | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Terry Yorath said football Cardiff Crown Court has heard how | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
an American who claimed to work for the FBI, | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
strangled a woman in a Cardiff hotel room - | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
because the 'voice of God' told him 44-year-old Sammy Almahri has | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
admitted the manslaughter Politicians in Cardiff Bay | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
and Westminster have been paying tribute to all those affected | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
by the Aberfan disaster, A minute's silence was held | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
in the Senedd - and in the Commons - where the tributes were led | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
by the Prime Minister, It is right that we pause | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
and reflect on this important anniversary and recognise | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
the solidarity and resilience of the people of Aberfan to overcome | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
this powerful tragedy. We offer them our support, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
and, I hope, some comfort as they When winter darkness came early | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
to the community of Aberfan. The Monmouth MP, David Davies, | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
has called for child migrants arriving in the UK | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
to have their teeth examined - Mr Davies says several unaccompanied | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
children who've arrived His suggestion has been condemned | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
by dentists as 'unethical.' The Home Office says rigorous | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
checks will be made, and today Neath Port Talbot Council | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
agreed to re-settle Here's our Political | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Reporter, Paul Martin. A place that's become | :05:14. | :05:27. | |
one of the symbols It's due to close, and the UK | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
is offering asylum to children at the camp who already | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
have relatives here. But pictures emerging of some | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
of them have led to questions So how can the authorities | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
checksum and is under 18? MP for Monmouth, David | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
Davies has an idea. I'd like the Home Office to issue | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
guidance to see where someone's appearance gives rise to questions | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
that they may be over 18 they must undertake a simple medical test, | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
x-ray or dental check if we want to help | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
children not great. I'm not in favour of allowing people | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
in their 20s to say I am a child and coming to the UK making a mark | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
we have our laws. Cardiff dentists have done | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
aid work in the jungle. One showed me how the | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
procedure would work. He thinks the idea is flawed, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
practically and ethically. I'm totally against any unnecessary | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
exposure to radiation. Number two is accuracy, | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
it's not accurate. You will never determine | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
the age exactly. David Davies says he's dealt | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
with a case in his constituency whereby a migrant was placed | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
with a foster family but turned out So what do people here think | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
of the idea of dental testing? You can see yourself they are older | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
than they say they are. If David Davies thinks | :06:57. | :07:06. | |
that they should be I just don't agree | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
with what he's saying. The Home Office says it doesn't | :07:10. | :07:22. | |
carry out stencil tests, Around 1,000 people | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
were checked it up to June, Home Office sources told the BBC | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
it's unlikely that any overage migrants will be returned to France, | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
as they will be able Some football news - | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
and Cardiff City were hoping for their second victory under | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
new manager Neil Warnock tonight, but they had to settle for a 1-1 | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
draw at home against Sheffield Peter Whittingham scoring | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
the Bluebirds' only Let's take a look at the weather - | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
Derek has the forecast. Sometimes October can be wet and | :07:50. | :08:08. | |
stormy but the next few days are looking dry and settled. Drive for | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
most of us tonight, one or two showers likely in the far north and | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
west, brushing through Pembrokeshire. Quite a chilly night | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
with some ground frost and the temperature falling as low as 2-3dC. | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
A chilly start but looking dry across the country, plenty of | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
sunshine for most of us although some cloud has been likely on the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
far north and east. Across the rest of the UK, mist and fog patches will | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
slowly left and clear and most places bright with sunny spells but | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
not everywhere and a few showers likely in the East. Later in the day | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
some rain may reach the far north-west. Here in Wales, not | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
looking too bad with a mixture of clouds and sunny spells and wouldn't | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
rule out the odd light shower but no more than that. Light winds and a | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
top temperature of 11-14. The sky clear tomorrow night saw at times | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
quite cold with a fairly widespread growing fast and some fog patches | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
forming. Those slowly left on Friday and then looking fine and settled | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
with sunny spells and a few patches of cloud and little if any wind. Not | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
much change over the weekend meaning more dry weather and cloud coming | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
and going with us seeing some sunshine and a chilly breeze picking | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
up. Quite strong on Sunday and that will make it feel cold sore a winter | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
coat may come in handy. That's all from me and I'll leave you with | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
tonight's picture. Good night, nos da. | :09:51. | :09:50. | |
The Wales Report is on next - but we'll be back in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
In the meantime, from all of us on the programme - | :09:54. | :09:58. |