07/04/2017 BBC Wales Today

The Welsh Conservative leader maintains he hasn't suspended any

of the party's Assembly rules to welcome Ukip AM Mark

And the Champions League final will be the biggest sporting event

Police say there'll be a ring of steel around Cardiff.

The leader of the Conservatives in Wales has denied

that he suspended the party's rules in the Assembly to allow the former

Andrew RT Davies says it wasn't in his gift to do so.

It comes after UK Conservative sources told BBC Wales

that Tory AMs have now put their positions in jeopardy.

Here's our Political Correspondent, Arwyn Jones.

The leader of the Conservatives in Wales welcoming the latest

There's no love lost between the Conservatives

and Mark Reckless after he defected to Ukip three years ago and

Only party members can be Assembly Members.

It's been made very clear that Mr Reckless won't

Even his new leader didn't want him two years ago.

There will be collection buckets at the door so that you can give

generously so that we can boot him back over to you.

But instead of booting him out, he's welcomed Mr Reckless back in.

The answer we were told was that the group in the Assembly

suspended the constitution, bypassing the rule book to allow

Reckless into their ranks and become the largest opposition party.

But surely, a political party can't just bypass the rule book?

He's got to explain himself and explain what his group are up to.

You know, this is a key ingredient for an elected politician that

Sources within the UK Conservative Party told BBC Wales

they were furious that any AM who voted to bypass the rules

could be refused the right to stand again at the next election.

But today, during a radio interview, the leader in Wales said

It wouldn't be in our gift to suspend the Conservative Party

constitution anywhere and Mark Reckless has not

applied to be a member of the Conservative Party.

Mark Reckless has said that, we have said that.

Yes, this is what's confusing a lot of people.

You've got a nonmember of the party sitting in your group.

Will he be subject to the whip? How will it work?

It happens in democracies across the world and council

chambers across the world as well, that people come to

Last year, they got seven AMs selected to Cardiff Bay.

Mark Reckless wrote the manifesto and is now the second AM

Mark Reckless is a regional Assembly Member for South Wales East,

an area which includes Newport and the theatre where they launched

That means he wasn't voted in as an individual.

So how do voters here feel, now that he's turned his back on that party?

Just not very nice. I mean, he's a traitor, isn't it?

I don't think he should have done it.

On one hand he's right, in that Ukip, they were set up

to get us out of Europe and effectively, we've done that

now, so Ukip really should pack up their bags and cease to exist.

There is an overused saying that a week is a long time in politics.

The past 24 hours have shown that events can move a lot more quickly

There'll be a ring of steel in Cardiff when the city hosts

the Champions League final on the third of June -

that's according to the officers in charge of policing the biggest

sporting event in the world this year.

More than 170,000 fans are expected to travel

It'll be broadcast to 200 million people around the world.

And around 12,000 staff will be working at the event.

On the ultimate stage, the Champions League final

at the Principality stadium in Cardiff on June the 3rd.

Today, organisers revealed detailed plans for the biggest sporting event

Wales has ever hosted, a four-day festival

starting with the women's final on June one.

If you're a small city, you don't have the infrastructure, you don't

have the 24-hour underground, for some reason,

So we always knew from the outset that we had to find solutions.

We worked with the Uefa on that from the outset.

100 private jets will transport VIPs to Cardiff to watch the match.

Fans will make 60,000 train journeys.

That's 15,000 more than during the Rugby World Cup and 1,500 officers

from around the UK will police the event.

They say they've never planned for anything like it.

to stop the vehicle type attacks road closures

that we saw in Westminster, Merlin and Nice and also

consideration around pedestrians and also ticket holders

Wales is no stranger to hosting global events

Nearly three years, the Nato conference brought road

closures and security fences from Cardiff to Newport.

Most of the roads in the city centre were closed at midnight on Saturday

June the 3rd and reopen in the early hours of Sunday morning. This was

Milan last year. There were 65,000 hotel rooms in the city. Cardiff is

4000. The festival will take up a lot of space. This Cardiff park will

transform into account items not everyone is happy.

We're going to get thousands of people coming in the parks, hundreds

of vehicles parking, tents, lose, refreshments, all of the

paraphernalia that goes on. Organisers say this is an event for

the whole of Wales with bilingual branding for the first time ever.

That will be seen around the world by a reported 1.3 billion people.

The journey to the final, the teams, fans and public is well under way

until June. All roads lead to Cardiff.

The owner of a Port Talbot nursery and two members of staff have been

found not guilty of causing cruelty to chilren.

Bright Sparks in Taibach closed last year, following

claims young children were force-fed and restrained.

Owner, Katie Davies, deputy manager Christina Pinchess

and nursery worker Shelbie Forgan were cleared of all charges.

A woman has been killed after being struck by a van on the M4

The motorway remains closed Westbound between

The Ambulance Service said there were reports the woman

had chased a loose dog onto the carriageway.

Also this evening, eight people have been injured in a four-vehicle

It happened on the A4043 near Pontypool at around seven o'clock.

Two casualties have been flown to hospital

It's being called Wales' largest living art installation.

Around 100 people gathered on Pen y Fan earlier to outline a map

of of the country on the slopes of the mountain.

It's part of a project called Get Creative, encouraging people

There are more than 200 events happening across Wales over

Creativity is seen as something that often elitist and what we're trying

to do is try to open that up to everybody. We're saying come on,

join us, let's be creative together. We're saying come on, join us,

let's be creative together. Rugby and a frustrating evening

for the Blues against Ulster Despite a seven-point lead

following Ray Lee-Lo's second try - Luke Marshall crossed the line

for Ulster bringing Well, plenty of sunshine today -

is it staying for the weekend? Most of the weekend, Lucy, yes.

There is a fly in the ointment for Sunday but tomorrow is going to be a

super spring day. Lots of strong sunshine and warm as well. Tonight,

a dry story. The sky is clear. Temperatures are falling away,

another chilly night, called rural spots. A few mist and fog patches

forming as well. A beautiful day to come tomorrow means mist and fog

patches will soon learn off. The sun is strong now, the whole of Wales

basking in sunshine. Across the rest of the UK, a similar story. Truly

sad first thing, mist and fog patches were left but a lot of sense

and the many places, warm, too bit cooler across Northern Ireland and

Scotland, a few spots of rain in the far north-west. A beautiful day for

the Grand National at Aintree, highs around 18 Celsius, lots of sunshine

there. In Wales, tomorrow afternoon, glorious, bags of sunshine, warmer

than today, refreshingly cooler on the coast. Tomorrow night, financed

right, the sky clear again so it will turn a little bit nippy in the

countryside. Sunday, that fly in the ointment, more dry weather, sunniest

and warmest in the East but low cloud will spread from the West

stealing the afternoon, cooler in the north-west and on southern and

western coast, with the breeze out to sea. Next week, cooler but

strike, but tomorrow, a super spring stunner, Lucy!

We're back with our next update tomorrow evening.

For now, from all of us here, have a good weekend.

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