:00:00. > :00:19.Wales' Finance Secretary has urged the Treasury to abandon austerity,
:00:20. > :00:23.and boost cash for public services and the economy ahead
:00:24. > :00:28.Mark Drakeford has outlined his concerns about the UK Government's
:00:29. > :00:33.planned spending cuts, which he says could see a
:00:34. > :00:35.?175 million cut to the Welsh budget.
:00:36. > :00:36.Here's our Political Correspondent, Arwyn Jones.
:00:37. > :00:39.The budget is the big chance for the UK Government to prioritise its
:00:40. > :00:44.So, it's a the first run out for the new Chancellor, Philip
:00:45. > :00:48.In the past, it's meant that big-ticket items like the M4
:00:49. > :00:51.relief road can get the green light, although motorists will know these
:00:52. > :01:00.Now Wales' finance secretary has written to his
:01:01. > :01:03.counterpart in the UK Government urging him to announce extra funding
:01:04. > :01:06.for health and social care services, which he said had faced significant
:01:07. > :01:09.Well, there are ?3.5 billion worth of
:01:10. > :01:16.Cuts that have already been announced, but where the
:01:17. > :01:18.Chancellor has not yet said were those cuts will fall.
:01:19. > :01:21.Now, a share of those cuts could be as much as
:01:22. > :01:24.And I urge the Chancellor to turn his back on those
:01:25. > :01:32.cuts, to say, "No, they will not be happening."
:01:33. > :01:34.Mr Hammond said this morning there wouldn't be a big
:01:35. > :01:37.spending spree and that the job of reducing the national debt is
:01:38. > :01:40.Those who know the Chancellor said the challenge
:01:41. > :01:42.will be to show him the numbers add up.
:01:43. > :01:45.This is where the challenge is for Welsh politicians in terms of
:01:46. > :01:50.securing more investment into Wales, make winning economic arguments.
:01:51. > :01:52.With George Osborne, it was much more about the politics,
:01:53. > :01:59.particularly in the run up to the 2015 general election.
:02:00. > :02:01.We are now in a phase where actually cold hard
:02:02. > :02:03.economic arguments will sway the Treasury, probably little else.
:02:04. > :02:06.Many politicians in Swansea will be hoping that the Tidal Lagoon gets
:02:07. > :02:09.the nod, but they will have to wait until Wednesday, like the rest
:02:10. > :02:15.It isn't just about the huge billion pound projects.
:02:16. > :02:17.Carolyn Harris's eigh-year-old son Martin died
:02:18. > :02:22.She had to borrow money to pay for his funeral and now won the
:02:23. > :02:24.Chancellor to help families in a similar situation.
:02:25. > :02:27.I tried to give him an insight into just how painful
:02:28. > :02:30.that time is and how you don't consider
:02:31. > :02:31.the cost and anything, you
:02:32. > :02:33.just consider how you're going to get through every day.
:02:34. > :02:36.So, to remove the cost would be doing such a
:02:37. > :02:39.marvellous thing for any family, not even have to consider that.
:02:40. > :02:43.So, on Wednesday, all eyes will be on 11
:02:44. > :02:49.Downing St to see what Philip Hammond manages to pull out of his
:02:50. > :02:53.More than 300 taxi drivers in Denbighshire have completed
:02:54. > :02:56.training to help spot the signs of child sexual exploitation.
:02:57. > :03:00.The council introduced the compulsory course last year,
:03:01. > :03:02.after the Rotherham abuse inquiry found taxi drivers had played
:03:03. > :03:09.Emergency services led by Central Beacons Mountain Rescue
:03:10. > :03:12.have carried out a major operation to rescue two walkers swept over
:03:13. > :03:22.After a four hour operation, they were winched out by helicopter
:03:23. > :03:28.New research by Cardiff University has revealed that ancient footprints
:03:29. > :03:30.discovered on a Gower beach are 7,000 years old.
:03:31. > :03:34.When the prints were first uncovered back in 2014,
:03:35. > :03:36.researchers believed they were from the Bronze Age,
:03:37. > :03:39.but a special scientific technique has suggested they could be
:03:40. > :03:41.thousands of years older and could belong to
:03:42. > :03:45.With the shifting sands and rising tides, the printer difficult
:03:46. > :03:52.What they found, frozen in the form of fresh water marshland peat,
:03:53. > :03:54.is a snapshot of one moment in time seven millennia ago.
:03:55. > :04:00.So, it's not just human footprints here, we also have
:04:01. > :04:07.And there is also one possible wild boar
:04:08. > :04:16.So, we think they were probably walking through
:04:17. > :04:18.this landscape, perhaps stalking their prey as they are walking
:04:19. > :04:22.Initially, it was believed they were Bronze Age, but scientific
:04:23. > :04:23.research has proved it was far earlier.
:04:24. > :04:27.What we did was we took samples from the peat that they are
:04:28. > :04:29.set within and we did radiocarbon dating of those samples.
:04:30. > :04:31.That gives us an earlier state that they could
:04:32. > :04:34.have been made and they must be made soon after the formation of those
:04:35. > :04:37.For archaeologists, the challenge now is
:04:38. > :04:39.to preserve the prints before the lost again.
:04:40. > :04:42.Here in the museum, we do have a number of plaster casts
:04:43. > :04:46.that have been taken of some of these footprints and really,
:04:47. > :04:50.They last just a matter of days, maybe even hours,
:04:51. > :04:53.because of the weather and the tides.
:04:54. > :04:57.So, it's a great challenge to be able to preserve them and
:04:58. > :05:04.These footprints were literally lost in the sand of time.
:05:05. > :05:07.Now uncovered, they give us an incredible snapshot into an ordinary
:05:08. > :05:21.Thousands of runners braved the rain this morning in two separate events
:05:22. > :05:25.More than 2,000 people took part the Newport Half Marathon,
:05:26. > :05:27.and around 3,000 descended on Cardiff's Bute Park
:05:28. > :05:38.The winds and showers will ease overnight, leading
:05:39. > :05:41.to some clear spells by the early hours.
:05:42. > :05:43.Apart from some rain across southern parts during the morning,
:05:44. > :05:46.it'll be a dry and bright day with some decent sunny-spells
:05:47. > :05:52.and a few isolated showers. Top temperature, around ten Celsius.
:05:53. > :06:19.Hello, as was the case on Saturday there was a lot of whether around
:06:20. > :06:20.today. Showers for some, some saw