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In Points West tonight: Submerged after another night of heavy rain. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
The villagers in Somerset calling for solution to stop this happening | :00:21. | :00:21. | |
again. If if if Our other stories tonight: | :00:22. | :00:42. | |
The growing problem of gang culture in Gloucester. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
How some are studying to stem the tide. If The unexpected cost of | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
shooting a badger. Why the government's cull has | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
returned a hefty bill. And the Facebook appeal for a | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
wedding in a hurry. The Swindon bride gets a special kiss from her | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
father. Good evening. | :00:58. | :01:15. | |
A Gloucestershire woman, facing a long prison sentence in Indonesia | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
for smuggling drugs, has appeared in court again today. Andrea Waldeck, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
who was a Police Community Support Officer in Cheltenham, says she was | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
forced to carry Crystal Meth into Indonesia from China. Today she had | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
a chance to respond to demands to send her to prison for 16 years | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Will Glennon reports. Back in court in the Indonesian town | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
of Surabaya, Andrea Waldeck is fighting for her freedom and | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
possibly her life. The 43`year`old, who used to be a Police Community | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Support Officer in Cheltenham, has admitted smuggling Crystal Meth into | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
Indonesia from China. If if The maximum sentence is death, but the | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
prosecution has asked for 16 years in prison. Today, as her defence | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
began outlining their case, Andrea Waldeck was visibly emotional as she | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
asked for leniency. You said she was sorry for how much she has | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
disappointed herself, her family and her country, and said shopping is a | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
shame that her former workplace have become. She maintained she was | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
coerced into doing what she did Andrea Waldeck was arrested in | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Surabaya last year but the Indonesian legal process is long and | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
drawn out. After several court appearances already, she'll be back | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
again next week and it will then be another few weeks before a decision | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
is made on her sentence. But with Indonesian drug laws, some of the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
toughest in the world, no`one is ruling out a harsh punishment. | :02:46. | :03:02. | |
It's being claimed that the government's controversial cull of | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
badgers cost millions more than expected. Figures from a wildlife | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
charity suggest each badger shot in Somerset and Gloucestershire last | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Autumn cost more than ?4,000. Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
What price a dead badger? We know far fewer animals than planned were | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
shot in Somerset and Gloucestershire during last Autumn's cull. Official | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
targets were repeatedly missed, even as extra time and resources were | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
allowed. Now detailed estimates for the amount spent are emerging. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
According to the charity Care for the Wild, carrying out the cull cost | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
farmers ?1.49 million. Policing it cost the Gloucestershire and Avon | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
and Somerset forces ?2.6 million, money they should get back from the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Home Office. And other government expenses are reckoned to reach 3.2 | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
million. The total for just the first year of the cull is over 7 | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
million. We've done our own research and these figures look credible | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
Taxpayers have had really bad for it. The expense of coal on record. | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
If you look at the Welsh, but that did all those animals for 1.2 | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
million It's very disappointing for the government. Ministers have long | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
talked about the cost to the country of bovine TB. They said the cull | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
would help dent the disease and bring down the billion`pound bill | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
but today's figures suggest it could actually end up costing taxpayers | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
more. Part of the problem was that the techniques used to shoot badgers | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
proved problematic. The National Farmers Union recently hinted there | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
would be changes. Will have learnt a phenomenal and out with the two | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
pilots and it would mean that when we go forward, with the fifth and | :04:45. | :04:58. | |
have made is that this off season The next crunch point may be within | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
weeks when leading scientists produce a report for the government, | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
giving an expert view on how this costly cull is going. | :05:05. | :05:26. | |
If Overnight wind and rain brought more misery for many across the | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
West. Though not as bad as some had feared, the flood waters have taken | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
over farmland, houses and shops closed roads and cut off villages. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
If There are still flood alerts and some warnings in all parts of our | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
region this evening. The Environment Agency has flood warnings in place | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
along rivers like the Severn, Avon, Yeo, Frome and Parrett, with more | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
water expected in rivers that are already overflowing. In | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Gloucestershire, water levels on the River Severn are high, especially | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
around Tewkesbury and Minsterworth, where businesses have been counting | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the cost of the floods. In Wiltshire, rising river levels and | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
surface water have proved problematic for motorists over the | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
last few days, although flood waters are receding. And in Somerset, in | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
some of the worst affected areas, like Muchelney, people are | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
completely cut off and relying on boats for vital supplies. Our | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
reporter, Fiona Lamdin, has been on the Somerset Levels all day and | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
joins us now. This is the sixth night for the community. They are | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
three quarters of a mile up this road that is fast turning into a | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
steady river. You can see and lapping here. Right now, but not | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
required, but today, this resembled many mini port pedal boats bringing | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
food and prescriptions making nine or ten journeys. This isn't the only | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
community affected by flooding. An unusual commute to work. But with | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
the main road deep underwater, a tractor seems the best option. We | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
are getting into very deep water now. Only bought. If you, they used | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
to hire out wedding dresses. What do you, they used to hire out wedding | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
dresses. Of the you, that entire collection was written into the | :07:43. | :07:57. | |
door, things are good for the birth there is not a lot you can do. This | :07:58. | :08:18. | |
road which has turned into a fast flowing river. It has been cut off | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
for the last week, and for the first time today for the supplies were | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
taken by a third. Unloading on the other side, much | :08:26. | :08:38. | |
needed prescriptions were among the cargo. And here come the fittest | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
sense of how deep his water releases. As the wind picked up and | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
the Waterbury choppy, search and rescue decided to pull out. But one | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
man and his boat refused to leave into all supplies are being | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
delivered. He normally drives taxis. Today he became a hero for those | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
stranded on the island. Two more trips today. We are running out of | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
daylight. Jarrod had thought of everything. You will see he even | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
bought his own stepladder to deal with the deep waters. With heavy | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
rain forecast overnight, this river looks set to keep on rising. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Elsewhere, there is still a chance of flash floods of Severn and | :09:36. | :09:57. | |
the new way round the yes, it is varying them back and forward the | :09:58. | :10:22. | |
main was shot. Firefighters are warning drivers not | :10:23. | :10:36. | |
to take risks of crews have today, drivers and signs. It's a foolish | :10:37. | :10:49. | |
decision to make. But either water. If they are now on the | :10:50. | :11:11. | |
it is a part of life. We just hope it doesn't flood again. Back at the | :11:12. | :11:23. | |
river seven this evening, the final weight home after a day at school. | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
The river is still bursting over its bank here. The problem is not the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
tide, it is all the rain water coming down from higher ground | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
further up. Even in the last hour, we have seen torrential downpours | :11:40. | :11:51. | |
here. The skies above me right now are clear. In fact I can see the | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
moon, but the forecast for tonight is the more heavy rain. Search and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
rescue me to take one of the residents to hospital. | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
a man was found with several stab injuries at a property in | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Weston`super`Mare. Police say they were called to a building on Alfred | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
Street around 11pm yesterday following a disturbance. The man | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
remains in a critical condition An 18`year`old and a 41`year`old man | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
are being questioned. Police in Wiltshire are | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
investigating a crash on the M4 which involved one of their cars. It | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
happened on Sunday morning between junctions 16 and 17. Wiltshire | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Police say their car was stationary and on the hard shoulder at the | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
time. The driver was cut free and taken to hospital with shoulder | :12:48. | :12:57. | |
injuries. A new diploma in Gang Culture is to | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
be studied by police and other agencies who work with young people | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
in Gloucester. The number of gangs in the city is in double figures and | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
work is being done to try and tackle the problem. The new diploma will | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
give those working with gangs a better understanding of the issues. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
Here's our Gloucestershire reporter, Steve Knibbs. | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
A former member of one of Gloucester's biggest gangs. It's | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
easy to see how vulnerable people are attracted. The police's avenger | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
task force is targetting them to encourage them to change. Thanks | :13:35. | :13:50. | |
very much hour days. Most of these young people have issues of the | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
acting is something that it was built to. Police work alongside drug | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
agencies, social workers and housing associations to tackle gangs. Now a | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
new gang diploma is will be used to help them understand the issues | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
Social work comes with a protection of children ethic. Putting it | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
together in a poor academic and robot on games we are from the same | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
based that you understand works But you can't help those at risk without | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
knowing who they are, so a screening tool will be used to spot the signs. | :14:34. | :14:43. | |
Family history and that is in family members and it combines with two | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
factors. The gang behind this and a string of other armed robberies in | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Bristol were jailed in 2010. Peter Miles was one of them. Now out on | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
licence, he works to stop criminals re`offending. He welcomes the | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
diploma because fully understanding gang culture will be better for | :14:58. | :15:11. | |
those caught in it. First to say, I need to do it big now. What we do to | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
change that? Gang culture in Gloucestershire isn't yet a serious | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
problem but the potential is there. This diploma one of many measures | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
being used to prevent it spiralling out of control. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
There are warnings that fruit producers in the West could suffer | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
after new rules about immigration came into force over the New Year. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
Workers from Romania and Bulgaria regularly travel here each summer to | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
pick fruit. But from now on, people from those countries can come to the | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
UK to work all year round and some farmers are concerned that will mean | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
the best workers will opt for full`time jobs rather than the | :15:53. | :15:53. | |
seasonal work. Laura Jones reports. It's a hot topic whenever the | :15:54. | :16:14. | |
subject of increased immigration comes up. Six days ago, on January | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
first, the rules about migration in the European Union changed. People | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
from Romania and Bulgaria are now free to live and work here in the | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
UK. The changes prompted the usual questions about how many people from | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
those countries would come and what that would mean, but also some more | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
unusual questions about the knock`on effect it could have here in the | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
West. Yionuts Chupietu is from Romania but he's been working here | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
on and off for seven years, helping to harvest raspberries on a farm in | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Somerset. He's a qualified accountant but has been working here | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
on a temporary seasonal visa. The worry for his employer is that | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
because workers like Yunitz will no longer need any work permit, they | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
will seek more permanent work here instead. If I were to January, they | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
can be in the UK, working as long as they like. The temptation will be | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
for the better people to search for full`time jobs. A leading migration | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
expert in Bristol, though, says those fears may prove to be | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
unfounded. Workers who have come in the past on the seasonal schemes can | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
still come under the existing system. They may be tempted into the | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
lines of work, but I would think that so long as the wages are right | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
and the conditions are right, it is still a very attractive option for | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
numbers of Eastern European workers to come and work in agriculture in | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
the UK. No`one knows how many Romanians and Bulgarians will take | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
advantage of the new rules but the hope here on the farm is that the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
pickers keep on coming. And you can see the full story when | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Inside Out West returns for a new series at 7:30pm here on BBC One. | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
Bristol City will become the first British football team to play in | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
Botswana when they head there for pre`season training later this year. | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
The African country's high commissioner was at the club today | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
to discuss the tour. City will play a mini tournament in the country in | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
July as well visiting local schools. It's a lovely country. Great people. | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
They are football mad as well. A really good preseason tour. | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
Something to really look forward to. And Bristol City's FA Cup replay | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
with Watford will take place a week tomorrow. The winners could be away | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
to Premier League Manchester City if THEY win their replay with | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
Blackburn. Rugby. Bath players Anthony Watson | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
and George Ford improved their chances of a first England call`up | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
with eye`catching performances in yesterday's nail`biting draw against | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
Leicester. 19`year`old Watson scored one of the tries that helped Bath | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
establish a ten`point lead over the reigning champions, which they | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
surrendered as the game finished 27`27. Alistair Durden reports. | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
Bath haven't won at Welford Road for ten years. With 11 wins out of their | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
last 12 games, many sensed this was their best shot. England's coaches | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
are keeping a close eye on Bath s talented back`line. The speedy | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Anthony Watson is certainly on their radar. He glided in to score their | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
first try. Young fly`half George Ford is another who could also get a | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
first call`up. He set up Francois Louw for Bath's next score, putting | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
them in front. Ford, who's been in sparkling form since moving from | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Leicester, then put in another England prospect Jonothan Joseph | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
under the posts. It gave Bath a 10`point lead with half an hour | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
still to go. But when Bath's captain Stuart Hooper was sin`binned, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Leicester fought back. Thomas Waldrom cut the lead and then with | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
the last play of the match, Bath were denied a famous victory as | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
Jamie Gibson made it to the corner. Owen Williams had the chance to win | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
it for Leicester but his conversion sailed wide. While Bath couldn't | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
hold on for a landmark win, this was further evidence that they're a | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
growing force which could be recognised when the latest England | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
squad is named on Thursday. Now for a story of a bride's wish | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
and the online community coming to her rescue. After finding out her | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
dad was terminally ill, a woman from Swindon appealed on Facebook for a | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
wedding dress so she could bring the ceremony forward. Her dream was to | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
have her dad walk her down the aisle. Well, Facebook went wild and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
in the end, the whole wedding was donated by the good people of | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Swindon. Sally Challoner was there. It's a moment Gary Savory thought he | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
might not live to see, walking his daughter Hayley up the aisle. But | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
this wedding was put together in just a month, thanks to the Facebook | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
community. Hayley's friends Louise and Mark put out an appeal after she | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
said she wanted the wedding to be earlier so her dad could be there to | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
give her away. But weddings are expensive and there's so much to do. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
But in just days, they were overwhelmed with offers of help | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
Everything you see, everyone has donated. Just before Christmas, | :21:54. | :22:07. | |
everybody saw something on Facebook. Do you know what? I've got a free | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Church and not doing anything on that Monday. Let's see they want to | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
get married in the church. It made for a very special day for father | :22:22. | :22:33. | |
and daughter. I didn't think he would be here today but he is doing | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
it. After a difficult night and morning, Gary was able to hand | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
Hayley to his new son`in`law, Will. Everyone who has helped make this | :22:50. | :23:03. | |
day is to reflect. Wonderful. I didn't think I would make it today. | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
I wasn't feeling too good on my feet this morning. But I made it. If ever | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
there was a day to celebrate old traditions fused with new | :23:19. | :23:19. | |
technology, it was this. Now, just before we go to Ian, we | :23:20. | :23:38. | |
thought we'd bring you some of the most dramatic pictures of the power | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
of the elements from the last week. These shots from across the West | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
show some of the rage and beauty of our weather. | :23:47. | :25:13. | |
Although the images were beautiful, over the next few days, the key | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
emphasis will be to drag that threat further out towards the east and | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
south`east. It will take a while to get to that stage, though. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Tomorrow, another windy day. Heavy showers around. All courtesy of low | :25:37. | :25:47. | |
pressure close at hand. For some of you, drier and brighter faces. The | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
threat of further, more meaningful heavy rain starting to push up | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
towards the south coast. Still some heavy showers around for many of you | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
at the moment. As we run through the night, it remains windy and showery. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
You will see these clusters of heavy showers around daybreak tomorrow. A | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
lot of those will show its hand in Dorset, South Wiltshire and | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
Somerset. Temperatures would be particularly cold tonight. Tomorrow | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
will be a windy day. But further northwards, the showers will tend to | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
be fewer and further between. You will notice a window with less | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
showers anyway. But as we run through towards the tail end of the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
day, we start to introduce this next feature from the south. It | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
introduces the threat of this more heavy cluster of rain. We will have | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
to keep in mind that. Temperatures tomorrow will be mild, despite the | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
wind. A further, showery story. If you want to know more, follow Ian | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
on Twitter because he doesn't sleep, he just tweets! | :27:20. | :27:53. | |
TOM: # And if there's anybody left in here | :27:54. | :28:13. | |
# That doesn't want to be out there... # | :28:14. | :28:17. |