:00:09. > :00:13.The Welsh Conservative leader maintains he hasn't suspended any
:00:14. > :00:15.of the party's Assembly rules to welcome Ukip AM Mark
:00:16. > :00:18.And the Champions League final will be the biggest sporting event
:00:19. > :00:36.Police say there'll be a ring of steel around Cardiff.
:00:37. > :00:42.The leader of the Conservatives in Wales has denied
:00:43. > :00:47.that he suspended the party's rules in the Assembly to allow the former
:00:48. > :00:52.Andrew RT Davies says it wasn't in his gift to do so.
:00:53. > :00:54.It comes after UK Conservative sources told BBC Wales
:00:55. > :00:56.that Tory AMs have now put their positions in jeopardy.
:00:57. > :00:58.Here's our Political Correspondent, Arwyn Jones.
:00:59. > :01:05.The leader of the Conservatives in Wales welcoming the latest
:01:06. > :01:15.There's no love lost between the Conservatives
:01:16. > :01:18.and Mark Reckless after he defected to Ukip three years ago and
:01:19. > :01:21.Only party members can be Assembly Members.
:01:22. > :01:23.It's been made very clear that Mr Reckless won't
:01:24. > :01:26.Even his new leader didn't want him two years ago.
:01:27. > :01:30.There will be collection buckets at the door so that you can give
:01:31. > :01:33.generously so that we can boot him back over to you.
:01:34. > :01:37.But instead of booting him out, he's welcomed Mr Reckless back in.
:01:38. > :01:42.The answer we were told was that the group in the Assembly
:01:43. > :01:46.suspended the constitution, bypassing the rule book to allow
:01:47. > :01:50.Reckless into their ranks and become the largest opposition party.
:01:51. > :01:54.But surely, a political party can't just bypass the rule book?
:01:55. > :02:00.He's got to explain himself and explain what his group are up to.
:02:01. > :02:03.You know, this is a key ingredient for an elected politician that
:02:04. > :02:09.Sources within the UK Conservative Party told BBC Wales
:02:10. > :02:13.they were furious that any AM who voted to bypass the rules
:02:14. > :02:18.could be refused the right to stand again at the next election.
:02:19. > :02:21.But today, during a radio interview, the leader in Wales said
:02:22. > :02:26.It wouldn't be in our gift to suspend the Conservative Party
:02:27. > :02:29.constitution anywhere and Mark Reckless has not
:02:30. > :02:31.applied to be a member of the Conservative Party.
:02:32. > :02:34.Mark Reckless has said that, we have said that.
:02:35. > :02:36.Yes, this is what's confusing a lot of people.
:02:37. > :02:40.You've got a nonmember of the party sitting in your group.
:02:41. > :02:43.Will he be subject to the whip? How will it work?
:02:44. > :02:48.It happens in democracies across the world and council
:02:49. > :02:51.chambers across the world as well, that people come to
:02:52. > :02:55.Last year, they got seven AMs selected to Cardiff Bay.
:02:56. > :03:00.Mark Reckless wrote the manifesto and is now the second AM
:03:01. > :03:06.Mark Reckless is a regional Assembly Member for South Wales East,
:03:07. > :03:09.an area which includes Newport and the theatre where they launched
:03:10. > :03:14.That means he wasn't voted in as an individual.
:03:15. > :03:20.So how do voters here feel, now that he's turned his back on that party?
:03:21. > :03:22.Just not very nice. I mean, he's a traitor, isn't it?
:03:23. > :03:27.I don't think he should have done it.
:03:28. > :03:30.On one hand he's right, in that Ukip, they were set up
:03:31. > :03:32.to get us out of Europe and effectively, we've done that
:03:33. > :03:36.now, so Ukip really should pack up their bags and cease to exist.
:03:37. > :03:40.There is an overused saying that a week is a long time in politics.
:03:41. > :03:46.The past 24 hours have shown that events can move a lot more quickly
:03:47. > :03:52.There'll be a ring of steel in Cardiff when the city hosts
:03:53. > :03:55.the Champions League final on the third of June -
:03:56. > :03:58.that's according to the officers in charge of policing the biggest
:03:59. > :03:59.sporting event in the world this year.
:04:00. > :04:02.More than 170,000 fans are expected to travel
:04:03. > :04:08.It'll be broadcast to 200 million people around the world.
:04:09. > :04:11.And around 12,000 staff will be working at the event.
:04:12. > :04:24.On the ultimate stage, the Champions League final
:04:25. > :04:27.at the Principality stadium in Cardiff on June the 3rd.
:04:28. > :04:29.Today, organisers revealed detailed plans for the biggest sporting event
:04:30. > :04:33.Wales has ever hosted, a four-day festival
:04:34. > :04:35.starting with the women's final on June one.
:04:36. > :04:38.If you're a small city, you don't have the infrastructure, you don't
:04:39. > :04:40.have the 24-hour underground, for some reason,
:04:41. > :04:45.So we always knew from the outset that we had to find solutions.
:04:46. > :04:47.We worked with the Uefa on that from the outset.
:04:48. > :04:50.100 private jets will transport VIPs to Cardiff to watch the match.
:04:51. > :04:55.Fans will make 60,000 train journeys.
:04:56. > :04:57.That's 15,000 more than during the Rugby World Cup and 1,500 officers
:04:58. > :04:59.from around the UK will police the event.
:05:00. > :05:04.They say they've never planned for anything like it.
:05:05. > :05:09.to stop the vehicle type attacks road closures
:05:10. > :05:12.that we saw in Westminster, Merlin and Nice and also
:05:13. > :05:14.consideration around pedestrians and also ticket holders
:05:15. > :05:24.Wales is no stranger to hosting global events
:05:25. > :05:28.Nearly three years, the Nato conference brought road
:05:29. > :05:33.closures and security fences from Cardiff to Newport.
:05:34. > :05:39.Most of the roads in the city centre were closed at midnight on Saturday
:05:40. > :05:45.June the 3rd and reopen in the early hours of Sunday morning. This was
:05:46. > :05:51.Milan last year. There were 65,000 hotel rooms in the city. Cardiff is
:05:52. > :05:57.4000. The festival will take up a lot of space. This Cardiff park will
:05:58. > :05:59.transform into account items not everyone is happy.
:06:00. > :06:10.We're going to get thousands of people coming in the parks, hundreds
:06:11. > :06:13.of vehicles parking, tents, lose, refreshments, all of the
:06:14. > :06:16.paraphernalia that goes on. Organisers say this is an event for
:06:17. > :06:21.the whole of Wales with bilingual branding for the first time ever.
:06:22. > :06:27.That will be seen around the world by a reported 1.3 billion people.
:06:28. > :06:31.The journey to the final, the teams, fans and public is well under way
:06:32. > :06:31.until June. All roads lead to Cardiff.
:06:32. > :06:36.The owner of a Port Talbot nursery and two members of staff have been
:06:37. > :06:38.found not guilty of causing cruelty to chilren.
:06:39. > :06:40.Bright Sparks in Taibach closed last year, following
:06:41. > :06:41.claims young children were force-fed and restrained.
:06:42. > :06:43.Owner, Katie Davies, deputy manager Christina Pinchess
:06:44. > :06:50.and nursery worker Shelbie Forgan were cleared of all charges.
:06:51. > :06:55.A woman has been killed after being struck by a van on the M4
:06:56. > :07:00.The motorway remains closed Westbound between
:07:01. > :07:05.The Ambulance Service said there were reports the woman
:07:06. > :07:09.had chased a loose dog onto the carriageway.
:07:10. > :07:12.Also this evening, eight people have been injured in a four-vehicle
:07:13. > :07:17.It happened on the A4043 near Pontypool at around seven o'clock.
:07:18. > :07:18.Two casualties have been flown to hospital
:07:19. > :07:26.It's being called Wales' largest living art installation.
:07:27. > :07:29.Around 100 people gathered on Pen y Fan earlier to outline a map
:07:30. > :07:32.of of the country on the slopes of the mountain.
:07:33. > :07:34.It's part of a project called Get Creative, encouraging people
:07:35. > :07:37.There are more than 200 events happening across Wales over
:07:38. > :07:52.Creativity is seen as something that often elitist and what we're trying
:07:53. > :07:56.to do is try to open that up to everybody. We're saying come on,
:07:57. > :07:57.join us, let's be creative together. We're saying come on, join us,
:07:58. > :07:59.let's be creative together. Rugby and a frustrating evening
:08:00. > :08:02.for the Blues against Ulster Despite a seven-point lead
:08:03. > :08:05.following Ray Lee-Lo's second try - Luke Marshall crossed the line
:08:06. > :08:07.for Ulster bringing Well, plenty of sunshine today -
:08:08. > :08:23.is it staying for the weekend? Most of the weekend, Lucy, yes.
:08:24. > :08:28.There is a fly in the ointment for Sunday but tomorrow is going to be a
:08:29. > :08:35.super spring day. Lots of strong sunshine and warm as well. Tonight,
:08:36. > :08:37.a dry story. The sky is clear. Temperatures are falling away,
:08:38. > :08:44.another chilly night, called rural spots. A few mist and fog patches
:08:45. > :08:50.forming as well. A beautiful day to come tomorrow means mist and fog
:08:51. > :08:53.patches will soon learn off. The sun is strong now, the whole of Wales
:08:54. > :08:58.basking in sunshine. Across the rest of the UK, a similar story. Truly
:08:59. > :09:02.sad first thing, mist and fog patches were left but a lot of sense
:09:03. > :09:06.and the many places, warm, too bit cooler across Northern Ireland and
:09:07. > :09:13.Scotland, a few spots of rain in the far north-west. A beautiful day for
:09:14. > :09:19.the Grand National at Aintree, highs around 18 Celsius, lots of sunshine
:09:20. > :09:25.there. In Wales, tomorrow afternoon, glorious, bags of sunshine, warmer
:09:26. > :09:30.than today, refreshingly cooler on the coast. Tomorrow night, financed
:09:31. > :09:34.right, the sky clear again so it will turn a little bit nippy in the
:09:35. > :09:39.countryside. Sunday, that fly in the ointment, more dry weather, sunniest
:09:40. > :09:43.and warmest in the East but low cloud will spread from the West
:09:44. > :09:46.stealing the afternoon, cooler in the north-west and on southern and
:09:47. > :09:52.western coast, with the breeze out to sea. Next week, cooler but
:09:53. > :09:53.strike, but tomorrow, a super spring stunner, Lucy!
:09:54. > :09:56.We're back with our next update tomorrow evening.
:09:57. > :10:03.For now, from all of us here, have a good weekend.
:10:04. > :10:10.Hello! And a very warm welcome to the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.