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Good evening. Avon and Somerset police say it's been a record year | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
- with more than four million pounds worth of property and cash | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
being seized from convicted criminals. Yachts, jewellery and | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
cars have all been handed over. In the past, convicted offenders would | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
have kept the items - but that's all changed. Our Home Affairs | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Correspondent Steve Brodie reports. Just some of the yachts, expensive | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
cars and assorted jewellery confiscated and sold in the West. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
These luxury items belonged to members of organised crime gangs - | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
but not any more. Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, a court can | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
calculate how much illegal benefit a man or a woman has made from his | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
or her criminal lifestyle. All the trappings of a life of crime can be | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
seized and sold off. Quite simply, the law can now ensure that crime | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
doesn't pay. It's now quite normal for the prosecution here at the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Crown Court to tell the judge after he has passed sentence that there | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
will be a confiscation hearing to investigate how much cash and | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
assets a criminal has managed to stash away over the years. The aim | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
of this is to take a cash out of crime and to make sure that people | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
that commit the crimes that affect our communities are not allowed to | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
come out of prison and enjoy the lifestyle but they committed the | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
crimes to have. They will not drive in luxury cars and living nice | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
houses. Over the last nine months, criminals jailed for various drug | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
and fraud offences have been ordered to pay back �4.2 million. | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
And since 2006, 720 successful confiscation orders have resulted | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
in more than �12 million being retrieved by the Crown. James | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Waithe, an organised crime gang enforcer and former judo champion, | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
was hit with a million pound order. And drugs dealer Damien Ramsey was | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
forced to pay more than half a million pounds. Both were also | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
jailed. We look at their finances when we execute search warrants. We | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
look for high-value assets, and the evidence of money-laundering, we | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
look at bank accounts and we applied to the court to take away | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
any assets that they have. Money recovered through confiscation | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
orders is firstly used to compensate victims of the offences | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
and some of what's left goes to the police to fund operations against | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
crime. A candlelit vigil is to be held in | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
North Somerset in memory of a young soldier who died after being hit by | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
a car on Christmas morning. Edward Heal was based at Tidworth in | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Wiltshire and was due to go to Afghanistan in March. Candles will | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
be lit in Clevedon on Saturday, to highlight what friends and | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
residents say is a lack of street lighting in the area. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
And tributes have been paid to a promising young rugby player from | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Wiltshire who was killed in a road accident just two days after his | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
17th birthday. Toby Hearne was knocked down after leaving a | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Christmas party in the village of Stanton St Quintin last week. His | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
family say he was a generous and sensitive young man. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
The family and friends of two west country servicemen killed in | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Afghanistan have begun a 300 mile cycle ride in their memories. | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Lieutenant Daniel Clack who was based with 1 Rifles in | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Gloucestershire and Lieutenant David Boyce from Bath died within 3 | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
months of each other. Their friends are raising money for Army | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
charities - as John Maguire reports. Several hours in the saddle down, | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
but many more ahead. The group will spend three days on two wheels, | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
including this Boris bike - built for many things but not long | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
distances. Their marathon effort is in memory of two soldiers who died | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
in separate bomb blasts just months apart in Afghanistan. Lts Dan Clack | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
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and Dave Boyce, who were friends from the University of Exeter. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
inspirational chaps, great characters. Has it been so far? | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
Very cold, but a great experience. We have not done much training. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Also riding from London to Cornwall is Dave Boyce's younger sister | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
Charlotte - three weeks to the day since her brother's funeral. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
last few weeks, obviously Christmas is an odd time, especially the | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
first one we allowed them, but it has been good to have the bicycle | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
ride to focus on and everyone has been very supportive. It is nice to | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
give something back to the charities. And they are the Army | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Benevolent Fund and the Rifles' charity from Dan Clack's regiment. | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Under the title Dave and Dan's Memorial Cycle, their online | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
donations have already doubled their �1,000 objective. And as they | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
clock up the money and the miles - with aching muscles and bottoms - | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
their targets draw ever closer with their friends as their inspiration. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
The NHS in the West is warning that blood stocks may be hit by major | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
events in 2012 - like the Olympics and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Staff at the NHS Blood and Transplant Centre at Filton say | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
there could be a significant drop in donations because of extra bank | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
holidays and a hectic sporting calendar. Most people usually give | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
blood during the working week. the UK, 2012 will be an exciting | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
period and we are concerned that stocks may drop in this period. | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
There is the culmination of a sporting event and the Queen's | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Jubilee, so we want to raise awareness in terms of donors are | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
not being around to give blood during the normal period of time. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
The Olympic bob skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams is a | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
registered donor and is the face of the campaign in the South West. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
One of the longest in-situ roman mosaics in Britain is to go on | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
display in Gloucestershire for the first time in 150 years. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Archaeologists uncovered the 35 metre long work at Chedworth Roman | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
Villa as part of a �3 million redevelopment. | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
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Time for the weather now and Jemma It is a windy picture for the next | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
few days and for the end of the year and beginning of next year, | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
the wind will dominate. Some cloud moving away, and clear skies, so | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
temperatures well below with a cold night ahead and a cold start. The | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
wind will dominate, Thursday, showers propelling him and | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
temperatures remaining in single figures through the day. Unlike | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
today, we will not see any brakes, blue or brightness. There was some | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
nice sunshine this afternoon, not tomorrow. Some showers of the back | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
of the westerly wind which will give gusts of over 35 mph. Cloud, | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
showers, wind, mixing together to give a date with highs in single | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
figures. Colder than a mile to run of Christmas, but a subtle change | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
on the way. Tomorrow night, cloud, showers and wind. Eventually it | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
will swing around and come from the south-west signalling a very subtle | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
change and a gradual warming trend in to Friday. Friday will be windy | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
and at times West. The air from the south-west would bring the moister | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
and it shows temperatures by Friday creeping back up and continuing the | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
mild weather of the autumn and winter. New Year's Eve, the same, | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
temperatures a little bit better. The first step 2012, the mild run | :07:42. | :07:45. |