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Country Focus - Sunday 16th October at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 17th October at 0530

The new Porthmadog by-pass will be officially opened this Monday complete with a bridge costing £650,000 to help bats to cross over it. The "bat bridge" is designed to save the rare lesser horseshoe bats from being killed by vehicles - but like many wildlife crossings it is not without it's critics. We discuss the cost both financial and environmental of a wildlife crossing.

A conference on the future of next week will look at how we can make the most of current opportunities and create more energy supplies from Wales.

One of the last big shows of the agricultural calendar - the takes place next week at the Nantyci showground in Carmarthen. We look at the state of the industry in Wales

and it's that spooky time of year - we meet the Wales Woman farmer of the year, who runs a 250 acre dairy farm at Malpas just over the North Wales border with Cheshire. Barbara Hughes diversified and turned one of her empty fields into a "