13/02/2017 BBC Wales Today

Our headlines tonight: The murder of April Jones made

Tonight her sister tells us of her family's campaign for tougher

And all three emergency services under one roof.

Could this be the future for police, fire and ambulance?

The sister of the murdered schoolgirl April Jones has told this

programme the family feel they've taken a step forward

in their campaign for tougher sentences for sex offenders.

Jazmin Jones's petition for April's Law has now reached

over 100,000 signatures, and will be debated in Parliament.

It calls for sex offenders to remain on the register for life.

Jazmin's been speaking to our reporter Matt Murray.

April Jones' sister Jazmin and her boyfriend Scott have kept

Jazmin started last October in a bid to get tougher sentences for people

Five years ago, her sister April was murdered by paedophile

Mark Bridger after being abducted from near their home.

Before April's disappearance her killer was looking

Jazmin is now petitioning for April's Law, it calls for sex

offenders to remain on the register for life and better policing

So he was found with I think over 500 indecent images of children.

If the search engine had that policing with them or he had been

caught with them, he would have been on the Sex Offenders' Register and

when this incident happened, the police could have gone to him

first and it could have been a different outcome.

You believe that the authorities were aware of this and what was on

his computer and what he was searching for, you therefore think

your sister could have been alive today?

We could have had her back alive or her body back and not had

The Home Office said that the UK has some of the

toughest powers in the world to deal with sex offenders and those who

remain a rest would remain on the register for life.

Jazmin was just 16 when her sister was abducted.

She has since battled a problem with alcohol for

18 months before designing the focus on this campaign and

I woke up one morning and thought if I carry on drinking

I could end up killing myself, I just could not kill

It would not be fair on your family and did you think what would your

She would have been very, very disappointed

and that's another thing that kicked me into it.

Everyone was like, what would your sister think?

Five years ago, this town was rocked by the horrific

events surrounding April Jones' disappearance.

Her family are pleased this petition will they be

Westminster but realise there is a long way to go before

be debated in Westminster but realise there is

they will know whether the idea of April's Law

Even if we managed to save one life one child,

it will have done its job, it will have done more

For me, it could save another sibling.

Jazmin Jones speaking to our reporter Matt Murray,

and Parliament will debate the April's Law petition

There was regularly chaos outside a school in Bridgend county

where a boy was killed by a minibus, an inquest has heard.

It was told 15-year-old Ashley Talbot was running

for his bus home, he didn't use use a pedestrian crossing,

when a vehicle driven by his teacher, Christopher Brooks,

collided with him at Maesteg Comprehensive in December 2014.

A man accused of murdering his girlfriend in their Cardiff flat has

told a jury he didn't mean to cause her serious harm.

Jordan Matthews admits manslaughter, but denies the murder of She-She Bee

He told the court he threw her against a door frame

following an argument, and punched her, but

A woman's body has been found on a beach on Anglesey.

Emergency services were called to Newry Beach on Sunday night.

Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.

Officers believe the woman lived locally, but her body is yet to be

Police, fire and ambulance services are under the same roof for the very

The change sees the creation of Abertillery Emergency Services

Station in the Gwent Police Force Area.

The aim, reducing costs and providing better service.

And it could lead to more shared facilities in future.

Three blue lights all under one roof.

Here is a demonstration of what difference it could make.

A mock-up of a car crash, a drink-driver and a

The Ambulance Service sends a rapid response vehicle, the police

Finally, the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service

arrive to help remove the casualty to a waiting ambulance.

We do joint exercises with them at the station,

so when we got out on the road it just works really well.

Gwent Police has said it is easier to receive and

share intelligence from their colleagues in the Ambulance

or Fire Service just up the corridor from them.

It cuts out the bureaucratic processes for us

which sometimes you have to go through and trying to get a meeting

can take some time, so to be able to speak

to someone, they share the canteen facility as well so I can have a cup

of tea with someone, often when you get

Police community support officers are based here as well, the eyes and

ears of the operation on patrol in all weathers.

Helping with some long-standing local issues.

Very small streets, doubled parked, so they will use their resources

to remove the double parking for us for access for firefighters,

which would not have happened if they were not present.

That is a massive thing for us to get to the scene

Flintshire is the only other place doing this in Wales, here in

Queensferry, they say real potential to help people

To identify people who could be at risk from a variety of different

vulnerabilities and to work together to resolve those risks, to work

Back in Abertillery, it's frontline staff,

not just managers, sharing ideas around the table, each server

suggesting how best to improve the response to arson,

anti-social behaviour and other very local issues.

perhaps a more common sight in the future.

Protestors campaigning against plans to build overhead power lines

in parts of Conwy and Denbighshire have won the right for a judge

The UK government approved SP Manweb's proposal to put up 11

But a local pressure group says the pylons would be an eyesore

A judicial review will take place in Llangefni in April.

Our smallest city, St David's, is hoping to become the UK's next

Pembrokeshire Council's cabinet has voted to proceed with a bid,

and councillors will now consult on putting a formal

If successful it will follow in the footsteps of Hull,

Football, and Gareth Bale has returned to training

He's been out of action since damaging his ankle in November.

Wales manager Chris Coleman is hoping he's fit in time

for their crucial World Cup qualifier against the Republic

Thank you. It was a very windy day across Wales with gusts of 50 miles

an hour along Cardigan Bay. The winds will ease tonight and it will

turn milder in the next few days. Overnight lighter winds but

remaining gusty along Cardigan Bay. Mist and fog developing, but

remaining largely dry. Lows of two to five in towns

and cities, it could be cold enough High pressure over Scandinavia has

been keeping things dry and cold, but as it breaks down this low

to the south-west starts to move in, so turning more

unsettled later tomorrow. Tomorrow early mist

and frost patches. Some sunny spells but turning

increasingly cloudy For much of the UK a bright morning

but that front starting to push in, bringing thicker cloud and patchy

rain across Wales, Northern Ireland 12C in Cornwall, still

just in the colder air Mainly patchy drizzle

across Wales later. Still quite blustery,

but strong winds easing. Greyer than today though,

and temperatures Highs between six in Wrexham

and nine in Swansea. Tomorrow night that first cold front

moves north-eastwards. Dry for a time early on Wednesday,

then another trough pushing from the south-west,

bringing thicker cloud and some rain, but as winds turn more

southwesterly also slightly milder. Could be a little

brightness early Wednesday. Often misty and murky,

then some rain pushing up from the south, mainly patchy,

with winds turning more southerly Temperatures were two

or three over the weekend. Then it should be more like spring

at the end of the week. From all of us on the

programme, goodnight. I've got enemies in

Bourton-on-the-Water.