Not really news because he's been saying for ages he'd retire around his 70th birthday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/wales_politics/8283538.stm

Shame though, I'll miss ol' Rhodri. He's a good egg. And he always comes out with some funny soundbites. Just a few days ago he told the party conference that they needed to re-discover the 'magic recipe' mixing the "mushy peas of old labour, with the guacamole of new labour".