13/11/2013 BBC Points West

Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. Our headlines tonight:

From Gloucestershire Police to international drug smuggler. Andrea

Waldeck pleads for mercy as she tells a court that she was forced to

become a drugs mule. I will have noticed on the arrest of three

people in connection with the death of Richard Miles 20 years ago. Help

on its way ` west country charities work round the clock to get aid to

the Philippines. And Bath Abbey as you have never seen it before ` a

glimpse of its unique under`floor heating.

Good evening ` a former police worker from Gloucestershire today

admitted she was an international drugs smuggler ` but claimed she was

forced into the role and should not be executed. Andrea Waldeck strapped

the drugs to her body in order to evade detection, but she was

arrested in an Indonesian hotel In her police work back home, she gave

talks to youngsters on the dangers of drugs. Here's Andrew Plant. In

the dust and heat of the Indonesian summer, the white`shirted figure of

Andrea Waldeck is just visible here arriving for another court

appearance In the Indonesian city of Surabaya, just over 100 miles from

the capital Jakarta. Andrea Waldeck was arrested here earlier this year

for smuggling the drug, crystal meth, into the country. A class A

drug that's highly addictive. Today she appeared again, the charges

against her translated by an interpreter. And she admitted

smuggling 1.5kg of drugs from China. I don't know where I was on that

though... `` that day. But said she was coerced ` forced to carry

narcotics after being threatened, by a Nigerian man. It was threats

against me, my family, Michelle and Michelle's family. Michelle, it s

believed, is a friend in China. If the Indonesian judges don't believe

her defence, Andrea Waldeck could face the death penalty. They very

rarely put people on death row. . Dr Bharat Malkani is an expert in

international law. And he says Indonesian authorities have used the

death penalty as a deterrent to drug smugglers. They would have to be

very worried. Indonesia has a track record of imposing the death penalty

for drugs offences, even on foreign nationals. Earlier this year

Gloucestershire grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death for

smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali. Andrea

Waldeck worked for Gloucestershire Police until February last year How

she came to be smuggling crystal meth into a country with the death

penalty just 14 months later is still unclear. She's due back in

court on the 25th November. A coroner has ruled that two boys were

unlawfully killed by their father who then took his own life.

11`year`old Jack and three year old Bryn were attacked by their dad

Graham Anderson, at home in Tidworth last year. The inquest heard how

Anderson was involved in a custody battle for the boys after splitting

up from their mother. Both sets of grandparents were at the Coroners'

Court in Salisbury today. When we heard the news of what this man had

done to our grandson is, the world changed for us, and it will not be

the same again. To sit at the inquest and listen to what

transpired in Ted Worth over those two days which shocked and upset

anyone regardless of their relationship with Jack and Bryn Our

oldest daughter's life has been ruined and the knock`on effect on

our family is to decide ago `` too difficult to describe. Three men

have been arrested as part of an investigation into a murder, which

has been unsolved for twenty years ago. Richard Miles, who was 29, was

found stabbed in his garden near Stonehouse. Today it emerged that

officers from the cold case team made the arrests earlier this month.

Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. Richard Miles' mother

found her son with a knife in his chest in the garden of their home

near Stonehouse 20 years ago. His death prompted a huge murder

inquiry. At its peak, 50 officers worked on the case. They spoke to

hundreds of people. At the time members of Richard's family appealed

for help. I think somebody knows something. If they are frightened,

then they have got to be giving confidence. Detectives learned that

Richard appeared preoccupied in the months leading up to his death. But

with leads coming to nothing ` they launched a major appeal on

Crimewatch. We can find no reason why anyone would want to harm

Richard at all. He was a very quiet individual. Occasionally he

travelled to Bristol and Cardiff to listen to live music. Richard worked

for ten years at this garage in Frampton on Severn. He died after

being stabbed by a knife from his own kitchen after leaving here for a

lunch break. Today the owner told me staff have never forgotten what

happened to him. He was a viral `` very quiet and retiring lad, good

worker, he never let you down. It is one of those things that goes out of

your mind, and then it runs back in and you go over everything again. At

Richard Miles' inquest, the coroner recorded an open verdict ` saying

there wasn't enough evidence either way to prove what had led up to

Richard being stabbed. Police have always kept an open mind since then.

Little is known about this latest investigation into what happened 20

years ago, although detectives from the cold case team were looking at

the files as little as six weeks ago and recently, a member of the public

called them with recent, new information. Earlier this month a

53`year`old man from Quedgeley and 44`year`old man from Longford were

arrested on suspicion of murder and a 66`year`old man from Stonehouse on

suspicion of perverting the course of justice. They've all been bailed

until early next month. You're watching your regional news

programme, BBC Points West on this Wednesday evening. Stay with us as

there's much more still to bring you. Including, find out which

unlikely chefs created these festive masterpieces. Charities across the

West say they're working flat out to get aid to the Philippines, five

days after Typhoon Haiyan killed at least two thousand people. Thousands

of Filipinos work here in the West ` mainly in the health service. And

tonight there are signs that supplies are beginning to get

through to their relatives back home. Scott Ellis reports. The West

Country comes to the rescue. In Taunton, aid is being gathered

through a high`street oriental food shop. Anyone who wants to donate

items like clothing, tins and stuff. They say that the response has been

overwhelming. But there is sadness. This couple have just learned today

they have lost three of their cousins. Apparently it is just

horrific, there. And after what happened last Friday, it started

raining again and they just don t have anything, no food, no water,

nothing. More than 2200 people have died, with 11 million people

directly affected by the typhoon. These are impregnated with

insecticide. This ex`stockbroker in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, has

helped out in the Philippines twice before. She is ready to go again,

delivering tents and water filters. If they can salvage any sheets of

corrugated iron, timber or nails, they managed to knock up shelters

quickly, and where we come in as where people 's houses have

completely gone and there is no alternative. 175 staff at Valdata

are bracing themselves for processing cash and cheques for the

disasters emergency committee, which has raised ?30 million in its first

24`hour was. 11 million people being displaced is a huge amount of

people, so we are expecting a huge response to something that is quite

extraordinary and shocking. We believe that this campaign will

provide significant funds. But, demands for a dent cash will

continue for months to come. The government of the Philippines says

it is facing its biggest ever logistical challenge with those who

have survived the typhoon now facing death from disease and starvation.

Just update you. You might remember this woman. We spoke to her in

Wiltshire yesterday. She was desperate for news of her parents

and grandparents. Well, today, she has heard ` via her aunt ` all of

them are alive and doing as well as can be expected in the

circumstances. A three year old boy has died after being hit by a

tractor on a farm in Somerset. The accident happened yesterday morning

on at farm at Whatley near Frome. The boy was rushed to the Royal

United Hospital in Bath but he died. The Ministry of Defence has been

ordered to take action to improve the safety of its military selection

exercises, after the death of Corporal James Dunsby from Bath He

died alongside two colleagues in the Brecon Beacons in July while taking

part in tests to join the SAS. Today the Health and Safety Executive

issued a formal notice on the MoD to improve. A police investigation into

the deaths is continuing, and an inquest will be heard next year A

social worker has been struck off after not responding to concerns

that vulnerable adults were being abused at Winterbourne View. Brian

Clarke ` who worked for South Gloucestershire Council ` repeatedly

failed to act after being told that patients were being assaulted by the

people who were supposed to be caring for them. Here's our Health

Correspondent, Matthew Hill. The revelations about what went on here

` at Winterbourne View became a national scandal. Brian Clarke was

one of the two social workers who families were supposed to be able to

turn to ` and trust ` if they had any concerns. But instead, he let

them down. It was in 2008, three years before Panorama went in

undercover to expose the abuse, that Wendy Fiora first raised concerns.

She was one of four families from Devon whose complaints were

escalated by the NHS to south Gloucestershire Council's social

services, where Mr Clarke worked. I complained early on about restraint

being used far too often, often with no legal justification, used in the

wrong way so that it caused injury to my daughter who had injuries on

several occasions and had to have surgery on her knee. In the

meantime, patients considered `` continue to suffer abuse. It is a

complex web. There was a danger that individuals could be scapegoated

and, clearly, as the Serious Case Review said, there needs to be a

root and branch sorting of why people are held in these sort of

institutions and treated in that way. I think it is a good move,

because so many people have got away with so much and no authority

figures have been held accountable for any of this disgraceful abuse

that went on. And it is time now that that changes. That somebody is

having to take responsibility. Brian Clark and the team manager in his

office where dismissed last year after a council invests the gates

and into how they had handled concerns at Winterbourne View. In a

statement today, the council said they had cooperated with the

professional hearing against Brian Clark. Children's centres in Bath

and North East Somerset look set to lose 40% of their funding. Senior

councillors are meeting this evening to decide on a controversial

programme of cuts. Opponents say they're too harsh and could result

in some centres closing. Let's join our political editor Paul Barltrop,

who's at the council offices in Bath. At the Guildhall, the Cabinet

meeting started a short time ago. Councillors arrived to be met by

protesters, angry that ?2.3 million could go from children's centres,

40%, one of the biggest cuts this council has ever made. The problem

is, more than half of the annual budget is spent on social services

on things like care for the elderly and child protection, vital

statutory services, so optional extras like children's services can

more readily be cut. It's story time at Parkside Children's Centre in

Bath, one of 11 run by the council. The Wolves came to the new baby

lamb. But the ruling Liberal Democrats want to cut their funding

by nearly 40%. It's sparked strong opposition. These centres provide

huge range activities, universal services all parents, targeted

services for needy parents. If there's ?2.3 million cut then 5 % of

most services will go cos %50 staff will be cut. Mother of two Nettie

Williams got help after suffering post natal depression. She now

volunteers at Radstock children s centre. They want to do more not

less, area needs more not less, we'd be missing a trick if we let this

really valuable centre be cut. It would be devastating. The council

hope all will stay open with the help of volunteers and other

organisations. Spending will be targeted at the most needy.

Unfortunately if you look elsewhere, other authorities cutting children's

services. We're trying to retain them, but make them as efficient and

effective as possible. In Radstock, Nettie Williams hopes other families

can benefit as she did. I know what it was like before we had children's

centres. I really don't want that for them because that's quite a

scary prospect, if these cuts come it will be targeted, but don't think

that's good enough, every child should get support. For many

councils the easy cuts have been made. Now even the next generation

may start to feel the effects. Councillors will be voting shortly,

but even if they press ahead, it could yet be stopped. More than 1000

people have signed a petition that has forced it on to the meeting ``

the agenda for a full council meeting in the New Year, which could

force a rethink. In the summer we told you about urgent work to stop

the floor in Bath Abbey to not collapse. The first stage of the

work has been completed and today an unseen part of the building went on

show for the first time ever. Ali Vowles reports. It is a tense

moment. You do not want to drop this pane of glass. It lets the public

see below the ancient Roman pillars, exposed because the floor

of the Abbey is slowly collapsing. As the graves below have given way,

so has the floor. It has taken almost six months to stabilise it,

and repairs that this section in the north aisle are just 5% of the work

that needs to be done in the next five years. It has acted as a test

area for the rest of the Abbey and much has been learned. It has been

more difficult than we thought, the work, so we are expecting the

equivalent work once we get going, to take 10`12 weeks. The spark of a

job to heat this ancient old building. An underfloor heating

system has been put in. Modern cables have been laid, and the

stones re`laid. This test area will be powered by a normal boiler but if

it proves successful, the Abbey will use the hot spa water from them

Roman baths are heating for the floor. This is the spa water that

has made Bath so famous coming into the Roman baths at the rate of a

million litres a day, coming in at a temperature of 46 Celsius. It is no

wonder that Bath Abbey wants to tap this potential to reduce their

heating bills. It is coming through this normal drain. They will have

the piping hot Roman baths, we will have the typing what Abbey floor and

use the heat to keep tapping `` topping up the temperature of the

system. And with an annual heating and lighting bill of ?53,000,

cutting the costs for Bath Abbey would be a modern miracle. This

Friday, it is Children In Need, and today students from Bath spa

University got the fundraising under way. They allowed colleagues to pelt

them with guns, including baked beans and liquids. `` with gunge.

You cannot beat a baked bean. Slap round your chops! We have been

looking at how your donations have been used to help youngsters in this

area. In Barton in Gloucester funding helps bring the whole area

together. You get together, you can play together. You can do whatever

you want. I think he organised it because he is helpful. He is nice.

We run three venues, the youth and community Centre, a gymnasium, and

city farm, which we are now at. They get stuck in and you can see them

clearing up, opening the tuck shop, whatever it is. It is just to play

around and make new friendships and relationships. Yes, relationships

and friendships. Some children have other issues. Some might not be good

academically. They might find one of our activities to be an outlet. Most

of them come from the Barton area of Gloucester city. And they come from

very different grounds. It is an area of high social deprivation In

terms of crime rate and educational achievement. And their aspirations

as well. We want to give the children here a chance. Today, we

went to Barton Gate police station and we talked about some of the

problems. As we saw how to solve a crime. You roll it, from left to

right, cross here. Remind us of your brilliant question. What if you have

identical twins? Could it be harder to investigate? It can be hard. They

have the same DNA. What difference does it make to your lives? We have

been meeting more friends. You see some children who have come in here

and been very shy, and to see them basically smiling and getting

involved, serving somebody, that gives me great satisfaction. I have

got a great idea for an activity. Lunch! Yes! They said that they

could not live without that. It was very sweet. We will be at the Roman

Bath on Friday for our Roman `` for our Children In Need extravaganza.

Yesterday, we had a bit of fun with Pudsey.

On Friday, we have a choir of 1 0 people, Bath rugby players, and for

the drummers with us. `` 40 drummers. It is six weeks till

Christmas. Today, some top cooks armed with risks and multiband

competed against each other to decorate the best Christmas cake to

be sent off from Buckley barracks. The art of cake decorating might be

one of the latest craze is, but the masters behind these creations might

surprise you. They are all Army chefs, taking time out from the

cookhouse. And unashamedly showing off their softer side. This year we

are making more of a traditional cake and something a bit more

skilful. We thought about some nice, intricate piping around the

outside. Mary Berry might not be here but that does not stop rigorous

scrutiny. We're looking for originality, visit their own idea,

and also, you can see from yourself looking around, they have put lots

of effort into it. From intricate retail to military humour, there was

also regimental pride at stake and the pressure could get to anyone. It

is my third attempt, the first two went wrong. I tried doing him as

full skill, but it was not working, and the second cake went wrong, so,

I decided to do a minion popping out of a present. Finally there has to

be a winner. It is good. It has given me a lot of confidence. If I

can impress these guys I can impress my brother, he is my number one

critic. It shows that even tough guys can get serious about cake and

passionate about piping. They look delicious. Shall we catch up with

the weather? It was a cold start this morning,

because of the clear skies, and we will have some sunshine tomorrow,

although not as much. We have some high`level cloud through the day. It

did break up across the region and temperatures responded well for this

time of year. It got the double figures in urban areas. Still not

too bad for mid`November. Change is on the way tonight. We have showers

on the way, lingering for the first part of tomorrow. Then we have some

sunny spells but a chilly breeze. That will take the edge of any

sunshine we're likely to see. Showers will push in from the North

and West. Very much an overnight feature. Temperatures anywhere

between 5`8 Celsius. That will depend whether you are in an urban

or rural area. Showers through the course of the day tomorrow propelled

by that westerly breeze, but equally, some very good spells of

sunshine. That north`westerly breeze packs a punch. Any wind coming from

the North at this time of year at a wind`chill. It will feel more at

times like seven Celsius. Because at times tomorrow will look like a very

pleasant day indeed. Any remaining showers die away tomorrow evening,

with temperatures dropping swiftly, with high pressure building, so

unsettled picture, but without that cloud cover temperatures will drop

enough to give us a touch of frost into Friday morning. Then high

pressure builds, and we have a ridge of high pressure keeping everything

static. The best of the sunshine tomorrow, and cloudy, great picture

Friday and Saturday. It is a shame because, we lose the winds, but we

also lose the sunshine on Friday and Saturday.

I think it is going to be called on Children In Need night. You cannot

wear your sandals. I will need something warm on beneath my toga!

Way back tomorrow. Good