0:00:14 > 0:00:15Good evening.
0:00:15 > 0:00:18Rail passengers in south Wales have faced significant disruption
0:00:18 > 0:00:21throughout the day after major resignalling work overran.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24There were cancellations between Cardiff and Newport,
0:00:24 > 0:00:28with some valleys lines also delayed or cancelled.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Carys Notley reports.
0:00:30 > 0:00:35A ?300 million resignalling project fully under way.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39But delays to the work today meant delays for passengers.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Some travelling to and from Cardiff Central
0:00:41 > 0:00:44waited for more than an hour.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46Others found their trains cancelled.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Now we are just trying to get back to Cwmbran by getting
0:00:49 > 0:00:52a bus to Newport and then a train from Newport to Cwmbran.
0:00:52 > 0:00:56Because my wife is breast-feeding our newborn baby, obviously we have
0:00:56 > 0:00:58to carefully plan when we are able to feed her.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03It threw our plans quite a bit.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Our train was cancelled so we have had to make a phone call
0:01:05 > 0:01:08now to get a lift home.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11It's a bit of an issue to wait around in the cold now
0:01:11 > 0:01:12with the little one.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Bus services replaced most journeys to Newport.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18Some valleys' lines were also delayed or cancelled.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21With works planned until the 2nd of January, some disruption
0:01:21 > 0:01:26to services was expected here today at Cardiff Central, but with that
0:01:26 > 0:01:31work running behind schedule, the disruption was worse than hoped.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Network Rail say they are getting the work back on track
0:01:34 > 0:01:37in time for the start of the first working week of the New Year.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41We were never going to open the lines until we were 100%
0:01:41 > 0:01:43confident that everything had been tested and was fully
0:01:43 > 0:01:44safe for passengers.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47We've got a huge amount of complex work left to go,
0:01:47 > 0:01:49but we are confident that on the first working day
0:01:49 > 0:01:52of 2017, we will be open and ready for customers.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Some services to and from Cardiff are still affected
0:01:54 > 0:01:56by the delays tonight.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58With the resignalling work continuing over the next few days,
0:01:58 > 0:02:00the advice for passengers
0:02:00 > 0:02:06is to check their journey details before setting off.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08A Health Board says a new emergency pharmacy service has prevented more
0:02:08 > 0:02:11than 8,000 unnecessary visits to GPs and hospitals in north Wales.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board says it's helped
0:02:14 > 0:02:20save around ?300,000.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Police looking for a man from Monmouth who's been missing
0:02:23 > 0:02:25for six weeks say they're concerned for his safety.
0:02:25 > 0:02:2746-year-old teaching assistant Liam Stubbs was last seen
0:02:27 > 0:02:32in the town's WH Smith store on the 19th of November.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34Doctors and nurses at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen
0:02:34 > 0:02:38could be bussed into work from a supermarket car park to help
0:02:38 > 0:02:39ease parking problems.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Hywel Dda Health Board says it's one option being considered,
0:02:41 > 0:02:47but no firm decision has yet been made.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51The funeral has taken place of a Welsh soldier
0:02:51 > 0:02:56who was captured in France during the Second World War
0:02:56 > 0:02:59but saved from the firing squad by Nazi commander Erwin Rommel.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Roy Woolridge's remarkable story emerged when he appeared
0:03:01 > 0:03:02on the Antiques Roadshow.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06Caroline Evans reports.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08That was his prison cell in paris.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12He did not talk much about the war.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Afterwards, Roy Wooldridge pursued his life's work
0:03:13 > 0:03:16teaching maths, but at 95, he shared his story
0:03:16 > 0:03:19on the Antiques Road Show, revealing how he was captured
0:03:19 > 0:03:23while on a top-secret mission spotting mines.
0:03:23 > 0:03:32I was taken to a French chateaux and shown into
0:03:32 > 0:03:40a big room and standing there was Field Marshal Rommel and
0:03:40 > 0:03:46looking out of the window was Field Marshal von Rundstedt.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48They were two of the most powerful men in Germany.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51It was Rommel, he felt, who spared his life.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53He said, "Is there anything that you require?"
0:03:53 > 0:04:00So I said, "Yes, I'd like a pint of beer.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03"I'd like a packet of cigarettes and I'd like a good meal, please."
0:04:03 > 0:04:12And I was served in his mess and on the table was a stein
0:04:12 > 0:04:15of beer and there was a packet of cigarettes.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16This packet?
0:04:16 > 0:04:17That's the empty packet.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21Good grief!
0:04:21 > 0:04:22His sons Ian and Peter say in later years,
0:04:22 > 0:04:24he wrote to Rommel's son.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26He always regarded Rommel as a man of honour,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28who fought a clean war and despite the fact that Hitler
0:04:28 > 0:04:36had ordered that anybody captured without nametags and all that,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39which our father was,
0:04:39 > 0:04:42was to be shot, Rommel didn't agree with that and so,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44Dad always reckoned it was Rommel who saved his life.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47His collection was valued at around ?10,000,
0:04:47 > 0:04:50but he told the Antiques Road Show it was not for sale.
0:04:50 > 0:04:56It will now be donated to the Imperial War Museum.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Football and Swansea City's caretaker boss says the next manager
0:04:58 > 0:05:02should have experience of the Premier League.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04Alan Curtis says he has no idea how long he'll
0:05:04 > 0:05:06be holding the reins, after Bob Bradley
0:05:06 > 0:05:10was sacked on Tuesday.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13The BBC understands Ryan Giggs and Chris Coleman have been ruled
0:05:13 > 0:05:15out as his successor, with Bayern Munich's Paul Clement
0:05:15 > 0:05:18and former Birmingham City boss Gary Rowett now the frontrunners.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Let's take a look at the weather forecast now.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Here's Derek.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25We've had a real mix of weather across Wales today and a wide
0:05:25 > 0:05:26range in temperature.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Freezing in Newbridge on Wye, up to 11C in Milford Haven.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35Most places dry tonight, a few mist and freezing fog patches,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39frost inland, but milder on the coast and in the west.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42Tomorrow, fog patches will lift.
0:05:42 > 0:05:46A lot of cloud around tomorrow but it will brighten up in places.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49The odd spot of light rain or drizzle in the west,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52but no more than that - most places dry and feeling
0:05:52 > 0:05:54milder, up to 11C.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57For New Year's Eve, it's a similar story.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01The mild weather continues, plenty of cloud, sunshine in places
0:06:01 > 0:06:04and dry, apart from the odd spot of light rain.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Then it's all change on New Year's Day -
0:06:06 > 0:06:09rain will clear, followed by dry and brighter weather,
0:06:09 > 0:06:11soem sunshine with showers in the north.
0:06:11 > 0:06:18So it looks like we are in for a cold start to 2017.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20And that's all from us for this evening.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22Nicola Smith will be here with all the latest
0:06:22 > 0:06:24in our breakfast bulletins, but until then, nos
0:06:24 > 0:06:24da - goodnight.