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A huge programme of engineering work over the Christmas period | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
is underway, with rail services disrupted across south Wales. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
A ?300 million re-signalling upgrade means there'll be no trains | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
between Cardiff and Newport and restricted services | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The final dash to get home to family in time for Christmas. But for some, | :00:23. | :00:40. | |
making journeys over the festive period will be harder. It is because | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
this Christmas the biggest rail upgrades ever taken on gets under | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
way. ?300 billion is being spent on modernising our railways. It | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
includes resignalling work across the whole of South East Wales. The | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
message, passengers hoping to travel to and from stations need to check | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
before making the journey. Services started thinning outcomes | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
experienced evening, and from 10pm tonight there will be no trains | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
between Cardiff Central, Bridgend and the valleys. After that, there | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
will be major disruption to services. Trains not running between | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Cardiff Central and Newport from much of the Christmas period. Travel | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
between Bridgend and Newport will also be disrupted. And there will be | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
disruption in the valleys. From today until the 2nd of January. But | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
the place and bus services will run across all affected stations. For | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
those travelling to and from London, Paddington Station is closed six | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
days. Trains going to and from Ealing Broadway instead. Our son is | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
going back on New Year's Day, and we found out he has to get a bus from | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Bridgend Newport which will make his journey up to London quite | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
disruptive. I expected a disruption in the Christmas period, but you | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
still want to get from a to B. Was distressing for those who need to | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
travel, where operators and experts say Christmas is the best time of | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
year to do a much-needed upgrade. There are fewer people using the | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
trains and therefore best billions of role. The signalling system in | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Cardiff and south-east Wales was last rebuilt in the 1960s. We are | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
now having a brand-new signalling systems which will also cope with | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
the electric trains. They say the signalling work will make services | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
more robust, whilst Network Rail say an army of staff will be working | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
around the clock over the festive period, all to deliver a better | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
railway. Is Parking fines have cost drivers | :02:44. | :02:44. | |
in Wales almost ?21 million over Welsh councils have given out | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
over 600,000 tickets, according to figures obtained by BBC | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Wales. The Strand in Swansea | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
was Wales' most fined street, Promoting places of worship | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
to tourists could boost the Welsh The Welsh Government say | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
600,000 people visit Wales' religious sites every year, | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
and its faith tourism action plan Swansea East AM, Mike Hedges, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
says Wales' rich religious we need to bring to wrists to Wales | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
to see some of the Greek chapels we have got here. The Tabernacle is the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
classic sample other wonderful chapel which isn't visited enough | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
people coming from abroad. Rugby, and George North's head | :03:38. | :03:38. | |
injury earlier this month "isn't a good image for the game", | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
according to the Chairman of the It comes after the governing body, | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
World Rugby, said it wants more information about the way | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
Northampton handled the situation, after a review found North should | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
not have played on after a knock Swansea City Boss Bob Bradley has | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
admitted there are vulnerabilities in the team's defence, | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
ahead of their Boxing Day game Ten games into his tenure, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Bradley's position has come under He says England striker Andy Carroll | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
will be the main threat. We have got to do a very good job to | :04:07. | :04:23. | |
make sure that our central defenders are aware when he drifts away. We | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
don't want to lead that responsibility always with the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
outside guys. Tactically, we got to get that part right. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
And now for a look at the weather forecast. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
Tonight it will feel chilly in the wind, with patchy rain. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Christmas Day will be rather cloudy and windy, but mild. | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
There'll be some bright spells and heavy rain will arrive later | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
A top temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Hello. Nice and toasty both inside and out. It even struggling to snow | :04:48. | :05:19. | |
across the Scottish | :05:20. | :05:20. |