03/04/2017 BBC Wales Today

Ukip in the middle of a ferocious row.

The party's Assembly Member Michelle Brown is to face a vote of

no-confidence among party members in North Wales.

And Matthew Williams killed Cerys Yemm at this B

An inquest hears there was no system in place between police,

One of Ukip's Assembly Members is to face a vote of no-confidence

among party members across North Wales.

Party activists met this afternoon to discuss a letter referring

to concerns about what they say is Michelle Brown's

She declined an invitation to attend the meeting,

and her spokesman described it as "petty infighting".

Our political reporter James Williams has the story.

She's only been in the job for less than a year but, to date,

Michelle Brown has regularly hit the headlines.

It is a cause for concern for these Ukip members and supporters.

At their meeting today, they passed a vote of no-confidence

in the Assembly Member for North Wales.

There'll also be a wider vote of members in about a month's time

to see if they share the concerns raised at the meeting.

Bringing the party into disrepute by various actions she's done

I mean, she's only been there since May and the list

of things she's done is horrendous really.

She's not engaging with the population across North Wales.

In a letter sent to Michelle Brown ahead of today's meeting, local

It refers to claims by a Cardiff hotel that she smoked

Something likely to bring the party into disrepute, they say.

It also mentions an e-mail exchange discussing how an advert for a job

in her office could be changed to help her brother get

Not behaviour becoming of an upstanding member

Michelle Brown said she acted with complete propriety.

There's concern that she leased this shop to act as her regional office,

but it has never been opened, despite the Welsh Assembly having

paid over ?2,000 for the rent up to March of this year.

And the allegation that, "We have not seen you attend one

Michelle Brown was invited in this letter to today's meeting so that

she'd be given what members say was a fair opportunity

She declined via e-mail this morning, while her spokesman said

that this letter represents nothing more than petty infighting.

But with the Ukip AM now facing a vote of confidence amongst party

members in North Wales, it also represents another headache

The party entered the chamber as a group of seven after last

May's Assembly election, but they're already down to six

following Nathan Gill's decision to sit as an independent

because of clashes with Neil Hamilton, who remained

This meeting has no constitutional significance at all.

It was organised largely by people who are not members of Ukip

and it is a culmination of a long and bitter campaign,

personal campaign against her, and she has my full support.

Comforting words for Michelle Brown, who couldn't attend the party

meeting because she was working in the Senedd this afternoon.

We will see shortly if there is as much support for our amongst

-- We will see shortly if there is as much support for her amongst

A housing officer at Caerphilly Council has told

the inquest into the deaths of a young woman and her killer

at the Sirhowy Arms hotel in Argoed near Blackwood

that there was possible weakness in the way information on former

Matthew Williams killed Cerys Yemm in 2014, two weeks

From Newport Coroner's Court, Caroline Evans.

Today, the inquest into the deaths of Cerys Yemm and Matthew Williams

at the Sirhowy Arms in Argoed heard from Caerphilly Council,

the authority which housed Matthew Williams when he was

At that time, the court was told, a prison leaver was considered

So when Matthew Williams turned up at his local authority,

But the housing officer called to give evidence

when someone was released not on licence, but having

served their entire sentence, the probation service would not

automatically share information with the council, and the council

wouldn't share information on the background of

offenders with the B where individuals were placed.

22-year-old Cerys Yemm was killed by Matthew Williams just two weeks

He died shortly after being tasered by police at the scene.

Since that time, the court was told there has been a significant change

in the way information about possible risk is shared,

brought about by the new Wales Housing Act.

A jury has now heard all the evidence and

Tributes have been paid to five people who died after a helicopter

crashed on a mountainside in southern Snowdonia.

Donald and Sharon Burke were two of those killed

Their daughter said the family had changed in the space of a day.

Kevin and Ruth and Barry Burke also died in the crash.

Their bodies were recovered on Friday.

Firefighters have been tackling a large blaze tonight

Five fire crews were called to the Severn Arms hotel

in Penybont, near Llandrindod Wells, at half past three this afternoon.

Everyone who was inside the hotel has been accounted for.

A mountain biker has been rescued by a Coastguard helicopter

after injuring her leg at the BikePark Wales site

The search and rescue helicopter was called out

because of the difficult road access for emergency services.

Tributes have been paid to a 27-year-old man who died

Henry Ayabowei was found dead outside a nightclub

Another man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

The club where Mr Ayabowei played football said

He has represented four or five teams and he played

lots of Sunday League football prior to that as well.

But our thoughts must be with the family because, you know,

whereas we think about football as being the main concern

at this very moment, but after this event then obviously

the family are the ones, and I knew the family from his in-laws.

The Football Association of Wales has more than doubled their turnover

This is primarily down to their progress at

The turnover for the year was ?21 million, an increase of

Chief executive Jonathan Ford says the FAW will re-invest the profit

Rugby, and France's controversial substitution in the closing stages

of their Six Nations win over Wales last month has been referred

to the tournament's Untoward Incident Review Group.

Rabah Slimani, a superior scrummager, was allowed to return

to the field when France's team doctor sent Uini Atonio

Let's see what the weather has in store.

A largely settled week, a lot of dry and bright weather to look forward

to but it will not be sunshine all the time. Tonight, low-level crowd,

all eggs of rain continue throughout the night. -- alt breaks of rain.

Temperatures not dropping too much linked to the cloud -- thanks to the

cloud. High pressure building from the West settling the weather down

through the week. Tomorrow morning, not great for the rush hour,

low-level cloud, mist and Fog, like rain and drizzle, but then we can

look forward to try and brighter weather as the day goes on. A few

showers across northern part of Scotland and in the south-east of

England. The best practices further west, and in Wales tomorrow

afternoon and it looks lovely, some brightness, light winds and feel

unpleasant in the sunshine. -- feeling pleasant. Tomorrow night is

colder compared to tonight. But light winds so we could see a touch

of frost. In the countryside temperatures perhaps down to two

Celsius. Wednesday morning, the odd isolated shower but most of us

having a bright day. A lot of dry weather to look for to enter

Thursday. We're back in Breakfast

from six tomorrow morning. From all of us on the

programme, good evening. Stacey and Chris are preparing for

marriage by spending a few days living alone with

their in-laws to be,