:00:00. > 3:59:59Syria? And we speak to Howard Jakonson on his novel about Donald
:00:00. > :00:00.Trump. Here on BBC One, it's Picking up the bill
:00:00. > :00:11.for residential care - now you can keep more
:00:12. > :00:13.of your savings. Power games - the row
:00:14. > :00:19.over where electricity pylons should run,
:00:20. > :00:21.involving a High Court judge and the granddaughter
:00:22. > :00:25.of King Henry Tudor. And he was the voice
:00:26. > :00:28.of sport for a generation. Tributes to David
:00:29. > :00:43.Parry-Jones, who has died. Who should pay for us
:00:44. > :00:46.if we go into care, and how much of our savings
:00:47. > :00:49.should we have to spend? Changes allowing people to keep more
:00:50. > :00:52.of their savings when they move into residential care have come
:00:53. > :00:54.into effect, with the limit But some in the industry fear care
:00:55. > :01:03.homes could lose funding. The Minister for Social Services
:01:04. > :01:09.visiting a care home. She says the changes announced
:01:10. > :01:12.by the Welsh Government today will enable more people to
:01:13. > :01:15.keep more of their money. Until now, people have only been
:01:16. > :01:18.able to keep ?24,000 before paying But over the course of this
:01:19. > :01:25.assembly, we'll be taking extra steps to take that up to ?50,000
:01:26. > :01:28.that people can keep before starting The most recent census shows that
:01:29. > :01:36.16,500 people over the age of 65 are in a residential
:01:37. > :01:39.care homes in Wales. Up to 4,000 of them pay
:01:40. > :01:44.for the whole of their care, and 1,000 should benefit once
:01:45. > :01:47.the limit is lifted to ?50,000. But there are worries
:01:48. > :01:51.about the pressures put on care. My only concern is the fact that
:01:52. > :01:54.there's not going to be enough money in the local authorities'
:01:55. > :01:57.budgets to be able to fund people properly, and not just spread
:01:58. > :02:01.the limited resources too thinly. Then providers find
:02:02. > :02:04.that they haven't got a viable business and have to close,
:02:05. > :02:07.and the distress that Residential care can cost,
:02:08. > :02:12.on average, ?30,000 a year, forcing some people to sell their homes
:02:13. > :02:16.or deplete a lifetime of savings. Cynthia Edwards' mother
:02:17. > :02:20.is in a care home in Wrexham She says the increased limit
:02:21. > :02:25.will take some of the worries away from those arranging
:02:26. > :02:28.care for loved ones. That is a big consideration
:02:29. > :02:30.for families when they're looking It is - and the fact
:02:31. > :02:36.that it is likely to go up again Music therapy is part
:02:37. > :02:44.of the timetable at this But some in the industry have
:02:45. > :02:50.concerns about the way things like this could be at
:02:51. > :02:53.risk under the changes. Care Forum Wales, which
:02:54. > :02:55.speaks for the sector, says there is already a
:02:56. > :02:58.?40 million per year funding gap, It is a positive step,
:02:59. > :03:03.but like everything else it masks You know, social care is,
:03:04. > :03:07.as the Government rightly stresses, a sector of national
:03:08. > :03:08.strategic importance. It currently is in something
:03:09. > :03:11.of a dysfunctional state, even though it underpins
:03:12. > :03:13.the NHS in Wales. What we need to do now is aim
:03:14. > :03:18.for a much more planned approach. A number of improvements to
:03:19. > :03:20.social services have been promised, with an extra ?55 million
:03:21. > :03:25.in the next year. Today's Welsh Government
:03:26. > :03:27.announcement is music to the ears But there are those in the social
:03:28. > :03:32.care sector and local government that fear that unless a major
:03:33. > :03:35.financial shortfall is addressed, A driver has told Cardiff Crown
:03:36. > :03:45.Court he doesn't remember the crash which killed his
:03:46. > :03:48.five-year-old step son. Joseph Smith suffered multiple
:03:49. > :03:50.injuries when the car he was travelling in
:03:51. > :03:53.hit oncoming traffic on The court was told he wasn't
:03:54. > :03:59.using a booster seat. Dean Collins denies causing
:04:00. > :04:04.death by dangerous driving. A 55-year-old man has been
:04:05. > :04:06.jailed for five years after he burned down his farmhouse
:04:07. > :04:10.in Whitland, in Carmarthenshire. Charles Chestnut set his
:04:11. > :04:14.?200,500 home alight Swansea Crown Court heard
:04:15. > :04:20.how firefighters found him having a barbeque
:04:21. > :04:24.after he started the blaze. Workers at the Wrexham-based
:04:25. > :04:26.Dee Valley Water Company are in consultation
:04:27. > :04:29.with its new owners, Bosses say there are "areas
:04:30. > :04:34.of duplication", and they haven't been able to find
:04:35. > :04:39.alternative roles for 14 people. Concerns about the future
:04:40. > :04:42.of Dee Valley were raised before A High Court judge is being asked
:04:43. > :04:50.to overturn a decision to allow 12.5 miles of electricity pylons in rural
:04:51. > :04:54.North Wales because of their impact The cables would run close
:04:55. > :05:01.to Berain, the birthplace of Kathryn of Berain,
:05:02. > :05:03.a granddaughter of King Henry Tudor who's also known
:05:04. > :05:06.as the Mother of Wales. Lawyers for the UK Government insist
:05:07. > :05:09.the link to two windfarms The Queen's High Court,
:05:10. > :05:21.sitting on Anglesey, the setting for this challenge
:05:22. > :05:24.to the UK Government's Secretary It is a Grade II listed building,
:05:25. > :05:32.and Kathryn of Berain used to live John Jones is the one
:05:33. > :05:39.fronting the case, owner and farmer at Berain -
:05:40. > :05:42.a farmstead in the hills He's been told by his lawyers
:05:43. > :05:47.not to talk about the dispute, but he was happy to tell me
:05:48. > :05:50.about his home and its place There is historical boundaries
:05:51. > :05:58.that have been here for 500 years, All the hedgerows are in
:05:59. > :06:03.the same place as they were We are here as custodians,
:06:04. > :06:12.and as generations that have been here before us,
:06:13. > :06:14.there will be generations after us. If we're only here for a period,
:06:15. > :06:18.we have to work with what we've got, The line of pylons running from two
:06:19. > :06:26.wind farms north of Saint Asaph Close enough, it's claimed,
:06:27. > :06:31.to have a significant effect This is, after all,
:06:32. > :06:38.beautiful countryside. Knock a door in this area
:06:39. > :06:43.and you often get this response. It should be underground,
:06:44. > :06:46.that's what I think. They don't have to go
:06:47. > :06:50.underground all the way, that when they come to villages,
:06:51. > :06:52.you could put them And that's the nub of it -
:06:53. > :06:57.should or could the cables be put Developers say the pylons would look
:06:58. > :07:08.something like these. Wooden poles up to 15 metres tall
:07:09. > :07:15.and spaced 100 metres apart. They insist putting them underground
:07:16. > :07:16.would be too costly. They also argue they have
:07:17. > :07:19.considered all the options. This case is what's
:07:20. > :07:20.called a judicial review. It's a questioning of the
:07:21. > :07:23.procedure which led to permission for the pylons being
:07:24. > :07:25.given in the first place. In a nutshell, the UK
:07:26. > :07:27.Government and its advisers are being challenged about how much
:07:28. > :07:30.weight they gave to the historical significance of Berain,
:07:31. > :07:33.and whether they fully considered putting the cables at
:07:34. > :07:38.least partly underground. The judge, Mr Justice Lewis, has
:07:39. > :07:45.said he will reserve his judgment. The First Minister, Carwyn Jones,
:07:46. > :07:48.has promised a fair deal - at the Welsh Labour campaign launch,
:07:49. > :07:50.for the council The party controls more
:07:51. > :07:54.than half of the 22 local He admitted that divisions
:07:55. > :07:59.among senior Labour figures at Westminster,
:08:00. > :08:01.could have an impact on the way I'm not going to pretend to you
:08:02. > :08:09.that things are good in London - I don't think people would believe
:08:10. > :08:13.me if I said anything different. We've seen good examples of Labour
:08:14. > :08:17.councils delivering across Wales. Really good, energetic
:08:18. > :08:19.Labour councillors as well, and candidates, who were
:08:20. > :08:21.working for their communities. And in Welsh Labour,
:08:22. > :08:24.a party that's united. to the broadcaster,
:08:25. > :08:29.David Parry-Jones, who's died. In a career spanning many decades,
:08:30. > :08:32.he famously commentated on Llanelli's historic win
:08:33. > :08:36.over the All Blacks in 1972. He also presented
:08:37. > :08:38.Wales Today for many years. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's
:08:39. > :08:42.disease eight years ago, David Parry-Jones, a distinctive
:08:43. > :08:59.voice during the golden age And he was in the commentary
:09:00. > :09:04.box for that match - the day Llanelli humbled
:09:05. > :09:08.the mighty All Blacks. He was equally as proud
:09:09. > :09:12.of commenting on the game as I was as a player to
:09:13. > :09:15.have played in the game. He was so kind, because I didn't
:09:16. > :09:21.have a clue as a novice. His contribution to rugby union
:09:22. > :09:31.football is incredible. His contribution to
:09:32. > :09:33.the BBC, outstanding. You know, he spoke
:09:34. > :09:36.fairly about Wales. When he did a game,
:09:37. > :09:39.he was down the middle, 50-50. But beneath it he was
:09:40. > :09:42.a very proud Welshman. He was born in Pontypridd,
:09:43. > :09:45.proud of his education at Merton College, Oxford,
:09:46. > :09:48.and started out as a journalist with the times, before
:09:49. > :09:50.working in television. Well, this is one answer
:09:51. > :09:53.to the closed bank problem. Not just on a Saturday morning,
:09:54. > :09:57.but any day of the week, really. A familiar face on a BBC Wales Today
:09:58. > :10:03.in the '60s, '70s and '80s, David Parry-Jones's
:10:04. > :10:06.eloquence and charm made him popular with colleagues
:10:07. > :10:11.and the occasional celebrity. He was a wordsmith,
:10:12. > :10:14.and he was always looking for new ways of describing things,
:10:15. > :10:17.even describing a simple thing like, you know, a catch in cricket,
:10:18. > :10:23.or a pink in rugby. This is David Parry-Jones,
:10:24. > :10:26.about to set off on the second A class act, he was a class
:10:27. > :10:42.act, David Parry-Jones. Yeah, I'm just trying
:10:43. > :10:45.to make a note... In later years he was cared
:10:46. > :10:47.for at his home in Cardiff by his long-term partner,
:10:48. > :10:50.the Radio Cumbria presenter, Betty George, after being
:10:51. > :10:52.diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The couple filmed a documentary
:10:53. > :10:55.together, raising awareness of the challenges of living
:10:56. > :10:59.with a condition, prompting a Betty George described him
:11:00. > :11:10.as a kind, gentle and handsome man. David Parry Jones, who's
:11:11. > :11:15.died at the age of 83. Let's see what the weather
:11:16. > :11:28.has in store - Derek's Thanks very much. Good evening. Last
:11:29. > :11:32.weekend was the warmest of the year so far in Wales. The temperature in
:11:33. > :11:38.a few places soared up to 21 Celsius. A different story today, of
:11:39. > :11:44.course. Much cooler and a reminder that it is still only April. A dry
:11:45. > :11:49.story tonight. A few clouds and the odd isolated light shower, but no
:11:50. > :11:53.more than that. A cool night. Chilly in the wool spots with a touch of
:11:54. > :11:57.ground frost. I pressure on our doorstep tomorrow. -- chilly in the
:11:58. > :12:03.role spots. -- high pressure on our doorstep. Dry white refund shall not
:12:04. > :12:09.much in the way of winds tomorrow. Across west of the UK, many places
:12:10. > :12:13.dry with a mixture of broken clouds, bright with sunny spells. Not dry
:12:14. > :12:16.everywhere - windy in the North with some rain for the north and
:12:17. > :12:21.north-west of Scotland. The temperature in London should reach
:12:22. > :12:25.15 Celsius. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, looking pretty good. Dry
:12:26. > :12:31.and bright with sunshine and a few clouds which tend to increase in the
:12:32. > :12:34.North later in the afternoon. Temperatures 10-14 Celsius with a
:12:35. > :12:39.west or south westerly breeze. Tomorrow evening cloud will spread
:12:40. > :12:43.across the country. Generally dry overnight rain approaching the north
:12:44. > :12:46.coast. Later in the night the breeze will pick up as well. The rain is
:12:47. > :12:52.tied to the conflict which will slide its way southwards during the
:12:53. > :12:58.course of Wednesday. Wednesday, more unsettled, breezy. Rain spreading
:12:59. > :13:02.south during the afternoon. Behind that, brighter skies and a
:13:03. > :13:05.sprinkling of showers. For later in the week, Thursday and Friday,
:13:06. > :13:10.plenty of cloud with them dry weather. Also a few spots of rain,
:13:11. > :13:14.but not amounting to much. Then it's not looking too bad for the Easter
:13:15. > :13:18.holiday weekend. Not that one, but a lot of dry weather and sunny
:13:19. > :13:21.intervals, too. That's an funny, I wish you a good night. -- that's all
:13:22. > :13:22.from me. That's Wales Today,
:13:23. > :13:24.thank you for watching. From all of us on the
:13:25. > :13:30.programme, good night.