0:00:04 > 0:00:05Welcome to Wales Today.
0:00:05 > 0:00:06Our headlines tonight:
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Four health boards ?146 million in the red.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13Welsh Government says no more bailouts.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16The mother of Khalid Masood -
0:00:16 > 0:00:18who lives in Carmarthenshire says - she is numbed by his actions.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20And flames burning at the back door -
0:00:20 > 0:00:27more than 100 grassfires across the country since the weekend.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Good evening.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44Health boards in Wales have been told there will be no blank
0:00:44 > 0:00:45cheque to bail them out.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Four health boards here seeing their overspend
0:00:48 > 0:00:50treble in the past year has prompted the health secretary
0:00:50 > 0:00:53to tell them to do more to live within their means.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55Health accounts for almost half of the Welsh government's ?15 billion
0:00:55 > 0:00:56annual budget.
0:00:56 > 0:01:03Here's our political editor Nick Servini.
0:01:03 > 0:01:09We knew the NHS in Wales was under intense pressure.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12We now know what the impact has been on the budget of some
0:01:12 > 0:01:13of our largest health boards.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17The deficit forecast for Hywel Dda University Health Board,
0:01:17 > 0:01:23which covers West Wales, is ?50 million.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26In ABMU which covers a Bridgend and Swansea, it is 35 million.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Cardiff and Vale, 31 million.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And Betsi Cadwaladr, which covers North Wales,
0:01:29 > 0:01:34?30 million, for the financial year just coming to an end.
0:01:34 > 0:01:40Overall that is around three times higher than the previous year.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Smiles all round as the Health Secretary meets staff
0:01:42 > 0:01:52at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff - one of the health
0:01:56 > 0:01:58boards that has failed to balance the books.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00As a result, the message was a serious one -
0:02:00 > 0:02:02there will be no bailout.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Every health board itself, the independant members should be
0:02:04 > 0:02:06challenging and looking at the financial plans that
0:02:06 > 0:02:08are coming forward because we cannot have a position that the health
0:02:08 > 0:02:11service gets an additional sum of money at great expense
0:02:11 > 0:02:14to the rest of public funding in the rest of Wales and we do not
0:02:14 > 0:02:16deliver a properly acceptable performance and also financial
0:02:16 > 0:02:20performance as well.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23The director of nursing at ABMU catches up after the weekend
0:02:23 > 0:02:24at Morriston Hospital in Swansea.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27This is part of ABMU, where the deterioration has
0:02:27 > 0:02:29been particularly stark, going from a break even position
0:02:29 > 0:02:31to a ?35 million overspend.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34A figure that is enough to run the entire health board
0:02:34 > 0:02:39for nearly a fortnight.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44It has responded to the problems by focusing on recruitment to cut
0:02:44 > 0:02:50down on the cost of taking on agency staff.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52If you are using premium rate agency, undoubtedly that
0:02:52 > 0:02:55will have a drain on the financial resource, however it is really
0:02:55 > 0:03:00important that we utilise and keep the staff we have got
0:03:00 > 0:03:08and keep our ongoing recruitment programmes and actually get more
0:03:08 > 0:03:11staff to work for us in the health board, and we have seen that
0:03:11 > 0:03:16over the last few years.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21Up until this point, the Welsh Government has had
0:03:21 > 0:03:23a we are all in this together partnership approach,
0:03:23 > 0:03:25however the hard-hitting response from ministers,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28calling the finances and acceptable, is a reflection of frustration felt
0:03:28 > 0:03:30at very senior levels of the Welsh Government in the way
0:03:30 > 0:03:32some of the hospitals are being run.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35From the health board's perspective they have the big job now in trying
0:03:35 > 0:03:37to introduce savings in the next year without effecting services.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41The think tank The Health Foundation analysed a potential black
0:03:41 > 0:03:44hole in the Welsh NHS in a report last year.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47We have been going since around 2010 with this need to make
0:03:47 > 0:03:57continual savings every year, so the low hanging fruit,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04as it were, would have been taken and we need a real system look
0:04:04 > 0:04:07at how we can work together as an NHS and as a combined
0:04:07 > 0:04:13health service to really release these savings.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16At a time of rising demand these figures reflect the ever-growing
0:04:16 > 0:04:17problem for health bosses and Government ministers
0:04:17 > 0:04:20of coping with the spiralling costs in the NHS.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21The mother of the Westminster attacker Khaled Masood,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23who lives in Carmarthenshire, says she's shocked, saddened
0:04:23 > 0:04:25and numbed by his actions.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Janet Ajao released a statement earlier.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29It's five days since her son killed four people
0:04:29 > 0:04:30before being shot dead.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Sachin Krishnan reports.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34SIRENS
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Within 24 hours of the attack in Westminster,
0:04:36 > 0:04:42officers were at Janet Ajao's home in the small Carmarthenshire
0:04:42 > 0:04:43village of Trelech.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46Hers was a number of properties searched across the UK as part
0:04:46 > 0:04:47of the extensive investigation.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Tonight Janet Ajao, who it is believed had not been
0:04:49 > 0:04:52in contact with her son for some time, released a statement.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54In it she said she was deeply shocked, saddened and numbed
0:04:54 > 0:04:58by the actions of Khalid Masood and she had shed many tears
0:04:58 > 0:05:00for the people caught up in this horrendous incident.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03She added she wanted to make clear she does not condone his actions,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07nor support the believes he held that led him to committing
0:05:07 > 0:05:09this atrocity.
0:05:09 > 0:05:17Janet Ajao thank her friends, family and the wider
0:05:17 > 0:05:22community for their support.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26The Metropolitan Police, who are leading the investigation,
0:05:26 > 0:05:30have stressed there is no threat to the area.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32The remains of Sandie Bowen,
0:05:32 > 0:05:36who was murdered by her husband 20 years ago,
0:05:36 > 0:05:38were found tied to a porcelain sink at the bottom of Wentwood
0:05:38 > 0:05:40reservoir last month, the inquest has heard.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45The reservoir near Newport hadn't been drained for 100 years.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Michael Bowen was jailed for her murder in 1998, but never
0:05:48 > 0:05:50revealed where he hid her body.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53The clean-up of the Wylfa and Trawsfynydd nuclear sites
0:05:53 > 0:05:56in North Wales has been halted because of the rising
0:05:56 > 0:05:58cost of the project.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00The ?6 billion contract to decommission 12 redundant nuclear
0:06:00 > 0:06:04power sites in the UK was awarded to the Cavendish Fluor
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Partnership in 2014.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09But the UK government's scrapped the deal and will investigate
0:06:09 > 0:06:14its "flawed" tendering process.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16Grassfires are still burning in every corner
0:06:16 > 0:06:20of the country tonight.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22After a weekend where firefighters were called to more than 100 grass
0:06:22 > 0:06:24fires across Wales - most of them deliberate -
0:06:24 > 0:06:26the emergency services are warning that
0:06:26 > 0:06:28lives are being put in danger.
0:06:28 > 0:06:33Caroline Evans reports.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Flames creeping ever closer to houses in the
0:06:36 > 0:06:39area of Swansea.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42The latest in a series of grass fires across the country
0:06:42 > 0:06:44since the beginning of the weekend.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46This was Penrhys Mountain in the Rhondda at the height
0:06:46 > 0:06:47of the blaze on Saturday night.
0:06:47 > 0:06:48Dramatic and dangerous.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52The flames leaping, powered by the strong east wind.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56As you can see from the scorch marks, a relatively small fire,
0:06:56 > 0:06:57but with the windy conditions, spread quite quickly
0:06:57 > 0:06:59across the mountainside.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04As you can see behind us there.
0:07:04 > 0:07:09Up to the roadway, a lot of spectators there,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11so we had to go back with the roadway but more
0:07:11 > 0:07:14worryingly, burned down towards the side of the mountain
0:07:14 > 0:07:16towards the houses and going right close to the backs
0:07:16 > 0:07:17of some of the houses.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Eileen is part of a team who rescues animals,
0:07:19 > 0:07:23but there aren't any to rescue from scene like this.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26The animals don't survive.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Now is the start breeding season, so we have got baby animals,
0:07:29 > 0:07:35maybe undercover, which aren't going to survive those kinds
0:07:35 > 0:07:37of fires, the adults may be run away from the scene,
0:07:37 > 0:07:41but if they are injured, they are not found,
0:07:41 > 0:07:43they just crawl off and die and that is heartbreaking.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46We can use the Polaris on a lot of this.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51The fire services adopting new approaches and as Craig
0:07:51 > 0:07:54explained to me, this vehicle is not only helping them get water
0:07:54 > 0:07:56to the scene, it also means they can fight fire with fire.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59So we have drip torches.
0:07:59 > 0:08:06This contains a mixture of petrol and diesel and we actually put it
0:08:06 > 0:08:09together and we have along with coming out with a burning torch
0:08:09 > 0:08:12on the and that we can walk along and actually light fires.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15We have a tool box of tools, we have water, a leaf blower,
0:08:15 > 0:08:20with no flames with a leaf blower.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22And exacerbating the problem is the sheer amount of dry bracken
0:08:22 > 0:08:26now covering the hillside.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Harris is involved in a project looking at what can be done
0:08:29 > 0:08:30from an environmental perspective.
0:08:30 > 0:08:31By reintroducing traditional management like this,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35in the long term, you will get more varied habitat, the seed
0:08:35 > 0:08:40bank will build back up again on the hills,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42because at the moment, it is getting devastated by these fires.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44And the problem isn't going away.
0:08:44 > 0:08:51Near Llangollen, a blaze which has been extinguished reignited.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53And in Swansea, it could be hours before these claims
0:08:53 > 0:08:54are brought under control.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Delays along North Wales' main road, the A55,
0:08:56 > 0:08:58are being kept to a minimum, the Welsh government
0:08:58 > 0:09:01has insisted tonight.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Yesterday there were reports of drivers queueing for hours
0:09:03 > 0:09:04to travel just a few miles.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Some businesses say they've lost thousands of pounds.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Here's Roger Pinney.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Well, at least today, the traffic was moving, most of the time.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14There were hold-ups at the rush hours
0:09:14 > 0:09:15and mid-afternoon.
0:09:15 > 0:09:20This is BBC Radio Wales.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22The A55 continues to crawl eastbound from Dwygyfylchi at 16A
0:09:22 > 0:09:27all the way through towards Old Colywn.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30It's a bit slow heading west toward Old Colwyn on the 55 as well.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34That's what listeners to BBC Wales heard yesterday.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37If anything, the situation on the ground was worse.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40There were reports some drivers were stuck in the queue several hours.
0:09:40 > 0:09:45It was Mothering Sunday
0:09:45 > 0:09:48and at the Mulberry Pub and restaurant on Conwy Marina,
0:09:48 > 0:09:49they were booked out.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Debbie Taylor, the manager there, says the traffic
0:09:53 > 0:09:55disrupted staff, customers and cost the business thousands.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58A lot of our tables didn't turn up
0:09:58 > 0:10:00or were ringing to say they were going to be
0:10:00 > 0:10:04at least an hour, an hour and a half late, which set us back.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07We had a lot of empty tables for a time because most
0:10:07 > 0:10:09of our tables were booked between one and half two.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Staff, same with staff, coming in to do service,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15they were late, stuck in the traffic,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17so it kind of effected trade.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Traffic Wales, the roads arm of Welsh Government,
0:10:19 > 0:10:21says work is going on around the clock to clear
0:10:21 > 0:10:25the delays by Easter.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27At Conwy tunnels, its planned improvements, but further east
0:10:27 > 0:10:29of Colwyn Bay, there's what's described a semi-emergency
0:10:29 > 0:10:32work on a bridge.
0:10:32 > 0:10:37Delays are unavoidable, it seems.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39The A55 was just like a parking lot.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41It was just solid, it didn't move.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43We do understand that these important maintenance
0:10:43 > 0:10:46works have to take place.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48It is better that they are done in the winter rather
0:10:48 > 0:10:50than the summer months.
0:10:50 > 0:10:54I think we've probably just got to put up with it and hope that
0:10:54 > 0:10:59it finishes as possible.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01No one would disagree with that.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04For now, though, it's a case of just grin and bear it.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06It's been confirmed a 12 millimetre long millipede,
0:11:06 > 0:11:08described as the Mardy Monster, is a new species.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11Experts say the brown bug - which was found crawling under
0:11:11 > 0:11:14stones at the old colliery site in the Rhondda - is completely
0:11:14 > 0:11:16new to science and is distinct from other millipedes.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19But it's not known how it came to be in South Wales.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Let's get the weather - Sue Charles has tonight's forecast.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26After a warm weekend and a dry start to the week
0:11:26 > 0:11:27it is turning more unsettled.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Dry at times, still some brightness but becoming blustery.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32Overnight, it remains dry with clear spells and light winds.
0:11:32 > 0:11:37Turning chilly in rural areas with cloud thickening in the early
0:11:37 > 0:11:40hours and fog forming, so not quite as cold
0:11:40 > 0:11:44as recent nights.
0:11:44 > 0:11:49Tomorrow we see some changes with low cloud and fog
0:11:49 > 0:11:53in mid and North Wales, that will slowly clear to leave
0:11:53 > 0:11:54a mix of sunny spells and showers.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57And across the UK, still dry and bright for much of eastern
0:11:57 > 0:12:01England and Scotland but a weak front edging in from the south
0:12:01 > 0:12:04and west bringing blustery showers across Northern Ireland,
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Wales and south-west England, with top temperatures tomorrow nine
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Celsius in north-east Scotland and 17 in the milder air
0:12:11 > 0:12:17in south-east England.
0:12:17 > 0:12:22Tomorrow afternoon for Wales, showers, heavy in places,
0:12:22 > 0:12:25still some sunny spells and more so later on with the winds
0:12:25 > 0:12:26turning south-westerly, quite gusty along the coast
0:12:26 > 0:12:31with highs of 12 Celsius.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Tomorrow night, thicker cloud, rain pushing in from the west
0:12:34 > 0:12:36and a noticeably milder night with mist and fog forming overnight.
0:12:36 > 0:12:40This big area of low pressure in the Atlantic
0:12:40 > 0:12:42will influence our weather from the mid-week onwards.
0:12:42 > 0:12:47More rain pushing inward with stronger winds as well.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Wednesday, some dry spells, often cloudy, with showers
0:12:49 > 0:12:51and longer spells or rain pushing in from the west.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Heaviest on western-facing hills.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55Gusty winds bringing in mild air from the south.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57Temperatures still above average on Wednesday.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01It will turn more unsettled from midweek onwards.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Thursday is a mix of sunshine and showers, often quite windy
0:13:05 > 0:13:15and still relatively mild but it will be frost-free by night.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23That's Wales Today.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Thank you for watching - from all of us on the
0:13:25 > 0:13:30programme goodnight