30/10/2016

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:00:11. > :00:14.A woman from Cardiff is fighting to stop her 19-year-old

:00:15. > :00:18.boyfriend being deported to Afghanistan tomorrow.

:00:19. > :00:21.Bashir Nadir arrived here as a child ten years ago,

:00:22. > :00:25.and was put into foster care, but is now due to be sent back.

:00:26. > :00:26.His girlfriend, and his foster mother, spoke

:00:27. > :00:28.to us from Oxfordshire, where he's being detained,

:00:29. > :00:36.Nicole Cooper with her boyfriend of two years, Bashir Nadir.

:00:37. > :00:39.Today, fighting back the tears, she told me how she was

:00:40. > :00:44.about to visit him for what could be the last time.

:00:45. > :00:53.Are here now with his foster mum...

:00:54. > :01:02.She says he fled Afghanistan after his father who was in the army

:01:03. > :01:12.His mother sold his father's land to provide the money to support

:01:13. > :01:16.Bashir to get out of harm's way and danger and came

:01:17. > :01:20.in the back of a lorry, things like that.

:01:21. > :01:22.He was educated in Cardiff at a Catholic school

:01:23. > :01:28.His foster mother, who has travelled the Oxfordshire

:01:29. > :01:30.immigration detention centre where he is being held,

:01:31. > :01:37.When he first come to me, we got told after five

:01:38. > :01:38.years he would be given a British passport.

:01:39. > :01:42.That hasn't been the case and he has fought ever since.

:01:43. > :01:44.He has had a long battle on his hands trying

:01:45. > :01:52.If he goes back to Afghanistan with that, he hasn't got a hope.

:01:53. > :02:01.Bashir's MP Jo Stephens says she believes his life will be

:02:02. > :02:06.She is working with his solicitor to try to suspend his deportation

:02:07. > :02:09.so that he can make a fresh application for leave to stay.

:02:10. > :02:17.The Home Office says it cannot comment on individual cases.

:02:18. > :02:20.Three people have been arrested in connection

:02:21. > :02:29.with the alleged murder of a man in a Denbighshire car park.

:02:30. > :02:31.48-year-old Mark Roy Mason was assaulted outside Home bargains

:02:32. > :02:34.The people arrested are NOT from the area.

:02:35. > :02:38.A recovery board is needed, to improve how the Welsh

:02:39. > :02:41.government's education department implements its policies.

:02:42. > :02:44.That's the call from the former head of one

:02:45. > :02:47.Dr Philip Dixon told BBC Wales' Sunday Politics

:02:48. > :02:49.programme that head teachers, schools and councils have been taken

:02:50. > :02:51.to task over standards in the last ten years -

:02:52. > :02:53.but not the department that runs education.

:02:54. > :03:00.Here's our Political Correspondent, Arwyn Jones.

:03:01. > :03:03.Over the past decade there have been concerns about how Wales s results

:03:04. > :03:09.at GCSE and A-level have lagged behind other parts of the UK.

:03:10. > :03:15.At the same time, Wales has slipped down the international league table

:03:16. > :03:17.which compares pupils from over 60 countries around the world.

:03:18. > :03:20.The tests are sat by 15-year-olds every three years concentrating

:03:21. > :03:29.In the last set of results, in maths, Wales fell three places

:03:30. > :03:33.In reading, the nation was ranked 41st, down from 38 and the biggest

:03:34. > :03:39.fall came in science where Wales dropped six places to joint 36.

:03:40. > :03:43.Over the past six years or so here at Welsh government HQ

:03:44. > :03:46.in Cardiff there's been a focus on driving up standards in schools

:03:47. > :03:49.in an attempt to improve those Pisa rankings.

:03:50. > :03:53.Headteachers have been sacked, schools and councils education

:03:54. > :03:56.departments have been placed into special measures

:03:57. > :04:03.and recovery boards coming in to take over control.

:04:04. > :04:06.But now a former teaching union rep says the problem may be

:04:07. > :04:07.with the Welsh government's own education department.

:04:08. > :04:10.He says it's failed to implement its policies well enough

:04:11. > :04:18.You set up a recovery board so you get those with track

:04:19. > :04:22.records in jurisdictions, the UK from Northern Ireland,

:04:23. > :04:26.Scotland and from England who can turn government departments around.

:04:27. > :04:29.You have some world leading experts as well and some experts from Wales

:04:30. > :04:32.but they would not be the dominant ones.

:04:33. > :04:35.And they will be focused on delivering.

:04:36. > :04:37.The next round of Pisa results are expected in December.

:04:38. > :04:40.The Welsh government says it has asked an international organisation,

:04:41. > :04:47.the OECD, to assess if its education reforms and strategy are working.

:04:48. > :04:50.World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier has won the Wales Rally GB

:04:51. > :04:56.The event came to a close in Llandudno this afternoon.

:04:57. > :04:59.For the last three days, around a hundred and fifty cars have

:05:00. > :05:03.sped through woodland in north and mid Wales.

:05:04. > :05:06.I like watching the finish, or to bring our grandson down

:05:07. > :05:10.I have heard loads of different accents, cars from all over

:05:11. > :05:18.It is local to me so I come and watch every year.

:05:19. > :05:20.Wales forward Gareth Bale has extended his contract

:05:21. > :05:27.The 27-year-old arrived at the Bernabeu in 2013,

:05:28. > :05:29.after signing what was then a world-record fee of eighty

:05:30. > :05:35.Time for a quick look at the weather forecast

:05:36. > :05:38.and after a fairly mild night, tomorrow any early fog and low cloud

:05:39. > :05:40.will lift through the morning, to leave some sunny spells

:05:41. > :05:48.I'll be back with our next update at 20 past ten.

:05:49. > :05:51.For now though, from everyone on the team, do enjoy your evening.

:05:52. > :06:08.abuses his power and he uses the system and he doesn't care

:06:09. > :06:15.Good evening. It has been a mild and a bit of a murky day. A lot of mist

:06:16. > :06:16.and low cloud, but also some warm