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Steel workers, their pension offer and the future of Tata here. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Politicians are told, let workers decide - | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
And down the pub for the dementia patients' social gathering. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Now a new strategy to listen to patients and their families. | :00:14. | :00:33. | |
Politicians are being told not to interfere with Tata workers' vote | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
on whether to accept less generous pensions in return for | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
One of the biggest unions at the site, Unite, was reacting | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
to the Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson, Adam Price, who called | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Tata's workers are being asked to accept a much worse pension then | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
they have at the moment but it's better than many other | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
Tata says it's explaining to its staff what the changes | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
They say if workers accept the deal, it will allow them to invest | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
an extra billion pounds over ten years in the Port Talbot plant | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
but only if other savings can be made at the site. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Tata's also pledged to keep the two blast furnaces | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
operating for five years and to try and avoid compulsory | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
It's a huge about-turn by the company that had planned | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Adam Price accuses Tata of opportunism and brinksmanship, | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
and is urging workers to renegotiate on pensions. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Workers that have contacted me have real concerns, | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
over the guarantees that have been offered in terms of future | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
employment and investment and also in terms of the current and future - | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
any future deficit in the existing pension scheme and I think those | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
But have conditions in the steel industry really improved? | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
Well, the value of steel has risen on the world market. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
It was $395 per tonne of hot rolled coil last January, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
when Tata announced over 1,000 job losses. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
But by August, when the company put the sale of its Welsh operations | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
on hold, it had gone up to $536 per tonne, | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
China had been accused of producing too much steel, | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
driving down the price but last summer, the European Union | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
continued imposing tariffs on foreign imports, with up to 22% | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
levied on cold rolled steel, which is used in cars | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
And the turnaround plan, put in place at Port Talbot, | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
saw all the reported losses of ?1 million a day | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Adam Price says this means the situation has been radically | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
transformed from this time last year. | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
Mark Turner has worked at Port Talbot for the last 15 years | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
and he says staff should be left to make their own decisions. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Each person there will have their own feelings, their own ways | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
of looking at things, depending on age, depending | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
There's lots of things that people have to weigh up. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
I was looking to retire, possibly at 55. | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
That's all been thrown up in the air. | :03:26. | :03:26. | |
Unfortunately, this is not a political issue | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
so we'd like the politicians, really, to keep their opinions | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
The steel committee which represents all the unions across Tata says | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
it is vital the workforce fully understands the proposal. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Tata says it won't comment while it's still consulting workers. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Police have arrested three more people on suspicion of murder, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
following the death of a man in Old Colwyn last week. | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
A post mortem examination found David James Kingsbury died | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
The police say three men are in custody. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
A woman who was arrested earlier has been released on bail. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
A body found in the Talgarth area of Powys has been confirmed as that | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
of the missing jogger, David Skeen. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
He was last seen leaving his home for a run last Tuesday. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Mountain rescue teams, firefighters, police and a drone | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
People affected by dementia are being asked for their experiences, | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
to help shape Wales' first ever national dementia plan. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
It affects memory and language and is now the leading | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
It's thought between 40,000-50,000 people are living with dementia | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
here and today, the Welsh Government launched a two-month consultation. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Kath's husband John was diagnosed with dementia five years ago. | :04:40. | :04:51. | |
John now lives at a specialist facility for people who | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
But Kath says things were far from easy at the start. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
At the day of diagnosis, we were just sent home. | :04:59. | :05:08. | |
Therefore, what that meant, as you can imagine, | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
is that for a number of | :05:12. | :05:12. | |
I didn't feel that actually, there was | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
I don't think that it was until much later on, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
Now the Welsh Government aims to change that. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
It has worked over the past five years to improve diagnosis | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
rates in particular, but over the next two months, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
people like Kath and John who were affected by the | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
condition are being asked for their experiences to help inform | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
a new dementia strategy for Wales, which focuses on a number of | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
key themes, such as diagnosis, helping dementia | :05:42. | :05:42. | |
patients to live well, and approving access | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
to specialist care and support, particularly in the community. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
No two individuals are exactly the same. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
Their experiences about who they are will be different | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
and the impact of the condition will slightly differ with them as well. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
So that individualised understanding is really | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
important and it really is about health care | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
and the wider third sector joining up around | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
Conwy council funds the service called Trio, provided by | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
It partners people in the early stages of dementia | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Every week, they meet for days out, or catch up over coffee. | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
We match the people to their needs and | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
their choices of what they do, so it's individual based | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Because my wife takes me out most of the time so it | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
The project in Conwy is now also being | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
piloted in Denbighshire but the Welsh local government | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Association says the financial pressures on | :06:48. | :06:48. | |
social care budgets are already unsustainable. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
There are many good things appearing out there presently | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
in terms of local government, particularly in terms of things | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
like dementia friendly communities, but this | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
will add massive pressures into | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
the system which is already struggling, with some of the | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
financial challenges we currently face. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
The government's consultation will close at the end of March but | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
the debate about how best to care for dementia patients and how much | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
A wild duck has died from avian flu at an RSPB reserve in Conwy. | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
The teal was found last week in an area that's out of bounds | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
to the public and tests confirm it had the H5N8 strain. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
The Welsh Government says the latest finding is not unexpected. | :07:35. | :07:47. | |
Please still come to the reserve because risk is infinitesimally | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
small. We ask people if they see a dead bird on the reserve, and most | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
areas are out of bounds anyway, reported to the reserve centre. | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Labour support in Wales has reached new lows, | :08:07. | :08:07. | |
according to an opinion poll by YouGov, for ITV Wales | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
It suggests that 31% of people would vote for Labour in Assembly | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
constituency elections, that's down three | :08:15. | :08:15. | |
That's the lowest rating since YouGov's first | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Both Tory and Plaid Cymru support rose by one point to 25% | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
UKIP are down one to 12% and the Liberal Democrats up two, to 8%. | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
Staff at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are being urged to take | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Three wards have been closed at the University Hospital of Wales | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
in Cardiff to prevent the spread of further infection. | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
Up to the end of December, less than half of the health board's | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
Residents in a south Wales valley say they're overjoyed that plans | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
for a waste-processing plant have been rejected by | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
They were concerned that any emissions from the plant | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
in Cwmfelinfach may be trapped in the valley, because of a weather | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
phenomenon that can hold cloud over the village for days. | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
A blanket of fog over the steep, green Sirhowy Valley. | :09:09. | :09:20. | |
Locals say it can linger here for days. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
And they were concerned that any emissions from a planned new waste | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
processing plant to be built here would also be | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
But today, those plans were rejected by the environment body, | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
We will believe that this was in the wrong place and we've been | :09:34. | :09:48. | |
vindicated. They told us that it was not going to be a problem. They told | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
us we would only have steam out of the chimney and it's going to be | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
nitrogen dioxide. We were proved right. | :09:57. | :09:56. | |
Locals fought from the outset to stop the development, | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
And this - it's called temperature inversion. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Where cold air is trapped in the valley by warm air above. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Locals were worried about the effect the plant may have | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
The Aneurin Bevan Health Board had already raised concerns | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
about the amount of nitrogen dioxide that could be released. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
It can affect people's breathing and lower their resistance | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
The plant would have turned thousands of tonnes of waste - | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
that would have normally gone to landfill - into fuel. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
The company behind it, Hazrem Environmental Limited says | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
it's extremely disappointed with the decision and that no air | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
quality limits would have been breached and they will be appealing | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Natural Resources Wales believe the plant could of had a negative impact | :10:43. | :10:54. | |
on people's health. Rugby, and Wales international | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
Liam Williams will join Saracens next summer from the Scarlets | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
on a three-year deal. It could limit his international | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
appearances, because the senior selection policy only allows three | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
non-Wales-based players Warnings of snow on the | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
way later this week. Sue's got tonight's | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
weather forecast. After the miles and relatively | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
unsettled start to the week, it will turn colder and we've got wintry | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
showers to end the week. Overnight, after today's heavy rain, scattered | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
shadows will continue, Saint dry spells and feeling colder in the | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
winds overnight. This friend brought today's rain a brief respite and | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
then another arise from the West through tomorrow so some dry spells | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
and just a few early showers tomorrow and then the clouds | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
thickens as the French stars to arrive from the West and across the | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
UK, that band of rain, slowly moves eastwards, further east, those North | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Sea ghosts hanging onto any brightness for longer. Wind is | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
picking up, two, especially across northern Scotland. The rain this | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
clears eastwards across Wales tomorrow afternoon but very | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
blustery, temperatures staying above average at nine Celsius and Wrexham. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
On Wednesday, some dry spells, a few showers, chance they could be wintry | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
in the hills but also very strong north westerly winds, could reach | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
gale force along the coast. The wind chill will make it feel cooler than | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
this. Those isobars, close together, signalling the strongest winds. They | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
started to feel more north-westerly with cold air from Iceland. Any | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
friends from the West, could bring wintry showers, so by Thursday, | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
we're into that colder air, very blustery, try and bright for many, | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
but cold enough for a warning that any showers could fall with rain, | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
sleet and snow for some. Not like the scenes we've seen across Eastern | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Europe, just more typical January weather to come for the end of the | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
week. It's unusually mild at the moment, but more typical | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
temperatures and the return of snow for some by the end of the week. | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
From all of us on the programme, good night. | :13:27. | :13:29. |