:00:00. > :00:21.Sunday. Make the most of Saturday because Sunday looks pretty
:00:22. > :00:26.Welcome to BBC Points West with Alex Lovell and David Garmston.
:00:27. > :00:29.Our main story tonight: the former police worker who turned into a
:00:30. > :00:32.drugs smuggler. Andrea Waldeck is spared the death sentence but gets
:00:33. > :00:41.14 years inside a prison in Indonesia.
:00:42. > :00:44.The other stories making the news tonight: emergency plans are drawn
:00:45. > :00:53.up for Somerset as more rain threatens even more flooding.
:00:54. > :00:54.And how the Army is hoping to beat a world record for eating egg
:00:55. > :01:06.soldiers. Good evening. A former Police
:01:07. > :01:08.Community Support Officer has been sentenced to fourteen years in
:01:09. > :01:13.prison, for smuggling drugs into Indonesia. Andrea Waldeck ` who
:01:14. > :01:16.worked in Cheltenham ` was also handed a ?100,000 fine. She claimed
:01:17. > :01:20.she was forced into carrying the drugs after she was caught in a
:01:21. > :01:24.police sting with 1.5 kilos of crystal meth hidden in her
:01:25. > :01:30.underwear. It had been feared she might receive the death penalty
:01:31. > :01:41.Andrew Plant is in Cheltenham for us tonight. What more can you tell us?
:01:42. > :01:46.Rewind the clock two years and their woman was working here. She was a
:01:47. > :01:51.police committee support officers here and was very well known and
:01:52. > :01:56.liked. She even helped to raise the cash to get this centre open to help
:01:57. > :02:02.young people. That ordered two years and she has fallen from grace. From
:02:03. > :02:06.an upstanding citizen to a smuggler convicted of carrying class a drugs.
:02:07. > :02:10.Andrea Waldeck appeared pale and weary as she walked to her trial. In
:02:11. > :02:14.a country with some of the toughest anti`drug laws in the world. Today
:02:15. > :02:20.she shook hands with her three judges on a case that's captured the
:02:21. > :02:24.attention of the world's cameras. Her lawyer, Roberto Kaligis, told
:02:25. > :02:27.the BBC He was disappointed with the sentence and had hoped his client
:02:28. > :02:35.would get just ten years behind bars. Today was the final chapter in
:02:36. > :02:38.a very long story. Andrea Waldeck was arrested in April last year in
:02:39. > :02:47.the Indonesian City of Surabaya carrying 1.4 kilograms of the class
:02:48. > :02:50.A drug crystal meth. Into a country that has a crowded death row made up
:02:51. > :02:56.of those convicted of similar crimes. Andrea Waldeck's former
:02:57. > :02:59.career is now a lifetime away but just two years ago she was a Police
:03:00. > :03:03.Community Support Officer, pictured here proudly in uniform, her former
:03:04. > :03:14.beat ` the streets of Cheltenham's Up Hatherley Area.
:03:15. > :03:17.All I knew is that she was going backpacking.
:03:18. > :03:21.She left her job to travel the world. When her arrest was
:03:22. > :03:25.announced, her friends couldn't believe whose face was making the
:03:26. > :03:28.headlines. It was almost disbelief, really I
:03:29. > :03:36.wondered if they had the right person. Thinking about her previous
:03:37. > :03:40.role, and her knowledge of law and order, that is what made At some
:03:41. > :03:46.point on that trip Andrea Waldeck went from good cop to bad.
:03:47. > :03:49.It so difficult to understand. In court she claimed she'd mixed with
:03:50. > :03:51.drug dealers in China and been forced to carry crystal rocks
:03:52. > :04:03.through customs. In the ten months she has spent in
:04:04. > :04:06.custody, she has faced the constant prospect of the death penalty. In
:04:07. > :04:09.front of her mum and her brother Mark, who'd travelled to the island
:04:10. > :04:14.from the UK, prosecutors asked judges for a 16 year sentence. Today
:04:15. > :04:26.in court judges said her cooperation and guilty plea meant they gave her
:04:27. > :04:31.just 14. Andrea was surprised that this
:04:32. > :04:34.sentence because last week and Indonesian national connected to the
:04:35. > :04:36.case was sentenced for ten years. She was hoping for something
:04:37. > :04:39.similar. On a Facebook post updated after her
:04:40. > :04:44.arrest Andrea Waldeck posted a message to friends: "Your support
:04:45. > :04:47.means the world to me. I'm so very sorry I've disappointed you all "
:04:48. > :04:50.Today is likely to be Andrea Waldeck's final court hearing. In
:04:51. > :04:53.each one, she's held closely onto her bible, often seen reading
:04:54. > :04:56.passages through her long and humid appearances here. It's not yet clear
:04:57. > :05:06.where she will serve her sentence or how she will pay the fine.
:05:07. > :05:11.The 43`year`old will be almost sixty by the time she's released. After 14
:05:12. > :05:27.years in prisons notorious for their hardship and difficult conditions.
:05:28. > :05:30.If she cannot pay that fine, she could face extra time on that
:05:31. > :05:35.sentence. There are surprising similarities between this case and
:05:36. > :05:38.that of Lindsay Thunderbird. She was a grandmother also from the
:05:39. > :05:42.Cheltenham area and exactly one year ago today she was given a death
:05:43. > :05:52.sentence in Indonesia for smuggling cocaine. Tonight, there is at least
:05:53. > :05:57.some comfort for her family. Although she has been given 14
:05:58. > :06:01.years, she has not been given that ultimate sentence. Her legal team
:06:02. > :06:14.now have exactly one week to decide whether to launch an appeal. A
:06:15. > :06:19.Wiltshire detective has been found guilty of gross misconduct. The
:06:20. > :06:24.detective did not read the suspect his rights and as a result, Howley
:06:25. > :06:27.well was not charged with murder because police rules were broken. He
:06:28. > :06:33.has not finished but we understand that he has been owned guilty of two
:06:34. > :06:42.counts of misconduct. The detective who solve the crime,
:06:43. > :06:49.but his actions as to how he interviewed her killer, look the
:06:50. > :06:53.guidelines. He confided that there was another body, but instead of
:06:54. > :06:58.taking Howley well back to the police station to read him his
:06:59. > :07:02.rights, they drove to the spot were this woman's body was later
:07:03. > :07:04.discovered. He was warned by colleagues that he was breaking
:07:05. > :07:10.police and criminal evidence guidelines. But he kept up with his
:07:11. > :07:15.interviews. He says it was to maintain a bond with Howley well.
:07:16. > :07:21.This mistake led to Howley well not been committed the second murder.
:07:22. > :07:25.Today, we understand that he has been found guilty of two charges of
:07:26. > :07:30.gross misconduct. Wiltshire Police refused to comment tonight. They
:07:31. > :07:42.will only speak once a decision has been reached on a third charge. Ian
:07:43. > :07:46.will be here shortly with more weather news. Also still to come:
:07:47. > :07:54.the Army practising with our soldiers, but will the crack record?
:07:55. > :07:59.Emergency plans are being drawn up in Somerset amid fears that heavy
:08:00. > :08:02.rain may make things even worse The fire brigade is playing an important
:08:03. > :08:04.role in the preparations and there are even rumours that the Army may
:08:05. > :08:13.have to be called in. Our Someset Correspondent Clinton
:08:14. > :08:21.Rogers has the latest. Not an emergency ` more information
:08:22. > :08:24.gathering. The Fire Service will spend the next two days creating a
:08:25. > :08:27.flood map of the whole area, establishing how deep are the
:08:28. > :08:30.waters, what roads are impassable and how many more are under threat.
:08:31. > :08:35.The BBC understands the information they gather could be used by the
:08:36. > :08:38.military in the days to come. We need to have these plans in place
:08:39. > :08:48.to enable a response. The County Council is in talks with
:08:49. > :08:56.the Army and they may well be called in to help if the situation here
:08:57. > :08:59.worsens. Here we are again, mopping up after
:09:00. > :09:01.the latest deluge and listening to the same lame excuses.
:09:02. > :09:04.Today the anger of flooded communities reached Parliament as
:09:05. > :09:12.one Somerset MP demanded the Government help now.
:09:13. > :09:15.It is not fair on people that in the 21st century in the UK we cannot
:09:16. > :09:18.find some money to dredge a couple of rivers to keep people safe.
:09:19. > :09:22.The marooned village of Muchelney as you've never seen it before. These
:09:23. > :09:25.new aerial pictures were taken today ` exactly three weeks since this
:09:26. > :09:34.community became isolated from the mainland. Their only way in and out
:09:35. > :09:41.is by what's called the humanitarian support boat ` provided by the
:09:42. > :09:47.County Council. We're incredibly grateful for everything everybody
:09:48. > :09:52.has done, but we need a road. The whole of the village is beginning to
:09:53. > :09:56.suffer. Today support for that mental well
:09:57. > :10:03.being came in the shape of the local vicar visiting her flock the only
:10:04. > :10:08.way she could. They are getting tired. It is hard
:10:09. > :10:13.for those who have to travel, it makes the day longer. And you can't
:10:14. > :10:17.even go straight across where you want to when you get off the island
:10:18. > :10:19.because some of the other roads are blocked.
:10:20. > :10:23.They're pumping water off the levels and moors as fast as they can ` yet
:10:24. > :10:26.in some areas the water is still rising. The hamlet of Oathe, 29
:10:27. > :10:36.properties, the latest to become cut off. Late this afternoon, it was
:10:37. > :10:42.announced in Parliament that this has been declared a major incident.
:10:43. > :10:45.And then, civic leaders said that the minister was wrong and that was
:10:46. > :10:58.not the case. Such confusion can only fuel the anger here.
:10:59. > :11:01.More people are finding work in the west as the economy improves.
:11:02. > :11:04.Figures out this morning showed that unemployment has fallen by three per
:11:05. > :11:07.cent across the Points West region. Our business correspondent Dave
:11:08. > :11:11.Harvey has crunching the numbers, to find out what they mean to us.
:11:12. > :11:15.Let's start with the big total ` the number of people out of work in the
:11:16. > :11:19.West and signing on for benefits: a little over 36,000 people. Is that a
:11:20. > :11:25.lot? Well it's fewer than the previous month ` down by 3%.
:11:26. > :11:30.In fact, this is what happened to unemployment throughout last year
:11:31. > :11:37.across the West Country. A sharp rise at first and then a steady
:11:38. > :11:40.sustained decline. Queues at the West's job centres are getting
:11:41. > :11:49.shorter. But beneath that graph of good news, there's another stubborn
:11:50. > :11:52.number: people out of work for more than a year. We learned today there
:11:53. > :11:56.are 9,215 people facing long term unemployment ` that's a quarter of
:11:57. > :12:01.the total. I've been out to see what can be done for them.
:12:02. > :12:09.This computer is not ideal to sell on its own, straight out of the box.
:12:10. > :12:12.Simon loves taking the backs off computers and ripping them apart.
:12:13. > :12:16.This one is broken. Its owner took it to be recycled, but for Simon it
:12:17. > :12:24.is the raw material of a new business. BIn its present state
:12:25. > :12:28.this computer would probably be worth about 40 or ?50. But if I
:12:29. > :12:31.strip it down and sell the parts, I could probably sell it all together
:12:32. > :12:35.for about ?150. I thought you'd be best suited to
:12:36. > :12:42.this room. What do you think? That would be great, yeah.
:12:43. > :12:45.Simon is building a workshop for his 'baby business' here in a brand`new
:12:46. > :12:47.centre for start`up companies with a difference.
:12:48. > :12:51.This is the beginning of a brand`new adventure. This is going to be an
:12:52. > :12:54.incubator unit for those who are currently unemployed, who need a
:12:55. > :12:59.job, and maybe will set their own job up. That is our hope.
:13:00. > :13:05.The builders are nearly done. Soon, the new entrepreneurs will move in.
:13:06. > :13:08.Working for themselves may well be their only option. There are more
:13:09. > :13:11.jobs available now, yes. But long`term unemployed people often
:13:12. > :13:13.find themselves at the back of the queue.
:13:14. > :13:17.They are finding that jobs still are not paying enough for them, it is
:13:18. > :13:21.hard for them to give up the benefits to take up a lower paid
:13:22. > :13:25.job. Or they simply do not have transport to get to the positions.
:13:26. > :13:28.And there are a lot of people still applying for the same roles, so they
:13:29. > :13:32.are one of many. It's got to be good news that we are
:13:33. > :13:36.seeing some signs of recovery at long last. But for those who have
:13:37. > :13:40.been out of work for a long time, it is still pretty desperate and it is
:13:41. > :13:44.a long`term legacy that we have to pay unless we have projects like
:13:45. > :13:46.this to help people get back into work.
:13:47. > :13:49.My real desire is that over the next... I don't know how many years,
:13:50. > :13:52.new businesses will be started here. That will create more jobs,
:13:53. > :13:58.particularly for those who I think deserve a chance.
:13:59. > :14:01.More jobs then, yes. But with unemployment still twice what it was
:14:02. > :14:16.before the recession, plenty of work still to do.
:14:17. > :14:21.Bristol City Football Club hope to start work on redeveloping their
:14:22. > :14:24.Ashton Gate home in May, drawing a line through plans to build a brand
:14:25. > :14:27.new stadium nearby. The scheme would see two sides of the ground
:14:28. > :14:30.completely rebuilt and capacity increased to 27,000. The club are
:14:31. > :14:33.now waiting to see if any application is made for a judicial
:14:34. > :14:42.review into the council's decision to approve the plans.
:14:43. > :14:44.The wait is finally over for the West's Winter Olympic hopefuls as
:14:45. > :14:48.Team GB have officially announced who's going to Sochi next month And
:14:49. > :14:59.to talk us through who's made the squad, Ali's here. I am certainly
:15:00. > :15:04.excited. It is the largest team since the late 1980s and with a West
:15:05. > :15:08.Country influence. We have athletes involved in several events and with
:15:09. > :15:12.good chances of medals. Today they will receive the news of their
:15:13. > :15:15.inclusion. This is picturesque Winterberg in
:15:16. > :15:18.Germany ` where Pewsey's Shelley Rudman and partner Kristan Bromley
:15:19. > :15:21.are getting ready for the final World Cup event of the season later
:15:22. > :15:28.this week. And today, confirmation Shelley will compete in a third
:15:29. > :15:34.olympics. I am really excited. This is what
:15:35. > :15:38.everybody looks up to. When you finally get there and you represent
:15:39. > :15:45.your country and you are wearing that it at the opening ceremony it
:15:46. > :15:47.is so magical. You feel so unbelievably proud.
:15:48. > :15:51.Practice in Germany too for Lizzy Yarnold who's hoping to be crowned
:15:52. > :15:59.World Cup champion on Friday. She's heading to the first Olympics as the
:16:00. > :16:03.woman to beat. It has been something I have been waiting to save for such
:16:04. > :16:10.a long time, but I am going to the Winter Olympics. I started as an
:16:11. > :16:17.athlete at the age of about 13, training several times a week.
:16:18. > :16:22.The Bobsleigh athletes have been recieving their kit for Sochi this
:16:23. > :16:25.week. Thermals, gloves, boots. It's a process Trowbridge's John Jackson
:16:26. > :16:28.thought he might not make. He's spent six months recovering from an
:16:29. > :16:36.operation on his ruptured achilles which threatened to end his career.
:16:37. > :16:41.Nobody said that winning a medal is meant to be easy. With my injury, if
:16:42. > :16:46.we are going to win a medal it will be the hardest way possible to do it
:16:47. > :16:47.but it will make a good comeback story!
:16:48. > :16:50.John's partner Paul Walker has also made it to Sochi, he'll be competing
:16:51. > :16:54.in the two`man team. Craig Pickering will join an elite
:16:55. > :16:57.group of athletes to have competed in a Summer and Winter Olympics He
:16:58. > :17:01.was in the relay team in Beijing, but then suffered with back
:17:02. > :17:08.problems. 18 months ago he took up bobsleigh.
:17:09. > :17:18.It has been a real shock. I had no idea about Bobsleigh, and now I am
:17:19. > :17:25.more of an expert. It gets better the more that you do it.
:17:26. > :17:29.Snowboarder Jenny Jones from Bristol is a former Games Champion. Her
:17:30. > :17:40.event, the snowboard slopestyle is making its Olympic debut. For every
:17:41. > :17:44.athlete there is a whole army of support. This is a fitness coach
:17:45. > :17:51.working with the Bobsleigh team Thank you for coming in. You must be
:17:52. > :17:55.excited. Tell us about the work that you have been doing.
:17:56. > :18:03.I have been working for two years with Paula. I have been working on
:18:04. > :18:12.her strength and conditioning. It is a massive part of Bobsleigh to be
:18:13. > :18:15.strong and fast. You were involved in the Winter
:18:16. > :18:29.Olympics four years ago in Vancouver. There was a pretty
:18:30. > :18:38.spectacular crash. He has done really well. He has done
:18:39. > :18:44.fantastic. Just to get back from the injury and make the Winter Olympics
:18:45. > :18:49.as well is awesome. Clearly speed is very important for
:18:50. > :18:53.you. Click Pickering has taken the same path as you from Summer
:18:54. > :19:02.Olympics to Winter Olympics. Is that an easy transition? Bit is a normal
:19:03. > :19:15.transition. He has made the transition really well it was the
:19:16. > :19:25.film about the Jamaican Bobsleigh team that made me make the
:19:26. > :19:36.transition! It adds a nice story to the games.
:19:37. > :19:45.Are the Bobsleigh? I think so. We have seen a couple of
:19:46. > :19:50.good results and perhaps we might see a gold.
:19:51. > :19:59.The Winter Olympics begins on February seventh, with full coverage
:20:00. > :20:09.here on the BBC. And, we are actually very excited! We wish them
:20:10. > :20:24.all well. The Army has been trying to break a
:20:25. > :20:28.world record today ` and as you would expect from the Army, it's a
:20:29. > :20:30.regimented affair. Jules Hyam went along to Imjin Barracks in
:20:31. > :20:33.Gloucestershire to observe the record attempt which involved two
:20:34. > :20:37.very different types of soldiers. They counted them all in, then they
:20:38. > :20:39.sat them all down. These guys have been challenged to eat breakfast.
:20:40. > :20:43.Soldiers dunking soldiers into eggs. All at the same time, to break a
:20:44. > :20:45.world record for charity. How do you go about limbering up and
:20:46. > :20:48.getting ready? It has taken weeks of mental
:20:49. > :20:51.preparation to do this. Weeks of preparation for the
:20:52. > :20:55.soldiers, but the eggs only need a few minutes. That is the first batch
:20:56. > :20:58.of 250 eggs for this vital world`record attempt. Many more eggs
:20:59. > :21:01.there, and then also, there are 500 soldiers here because every soldier
:21:02. > :21:05.gets two soldiers. And they are even cut to look like little soldiers,
:21:06. > :21:08.the kind of precision you would expect when there are rules to
:21:09. > :21:14.follow and a procedure to adhere to. That is why you need training,
:21:15. > :21:22.because it is quite complicated Up, dip, bite, dip, bite, stop. This
:21:23. > :21:25.private has been practising that. How confident are you?
:21:26. > :21:28.I'm quite confident. I've got loads of practice in, making my own at
:21:29. > :21:35.home. Love it! You can't beat that kind of
:21:36. > :21:41.home`made training, can you? The soldiers are ready and rehearsing,
:21:42. > :21:44.but where are the eggs? That's a nifty little gadget! Hang on, there
:21:45. > :21:48.is a problem now. The soldiers. It turns out that one of the soldiers
:21:49. > :21:53.is gluten intolerant and can't eat the toast. So, one man down, but
:21:54. > :21:56.there are still 179 soldiers here. Plenty enough to take the record,
:21:57. > :22:00.which currently stands at 100. So why are there so many nervous, even
:22:01. > :22:07.worried looks on the faces of the charity organisers?
:22:08. > :22:11.Things are getting a little bit tense. There are still 20 eggs to be
:22:12. > :22:14.done. But the ones that have come out are starting to get a little
:22:15. > :22:17.hard`boiled. That could make dunking a little difficult. But these
:22:18. > :22:22.soldiers are helping a national children's charity and it's time to
:22:23. > :22:29.set a record. Dip!
:22:30. > :22:33.Eat! Remember, they all need to eat at
:22:34. > :22:40.the same time. Well done!
:22:41. > :22:46.Quite a surreal morning. So how do the organisers feel?
:22:47. > :22:49.Relieved! Really relieved! But really happy, it all went really
:22:50. > :22:57.well. Hopefully we will be record breakers. Back to the office to pool
:22:58. > :23:02.all of our evidence together. Fingers crossed!
:23:03. > :23:14.They will find out if they have an official record sometime early next
:23:15. > :23:31.week. That really made me smile Fabulous. Now the weather.
:23:32. > :23:41.For tomorrow, it is a fairly straightforward story. Some rain
:23:42. > :23:50.first thing in the morning. It could be quite heavy but after that a dry
:23:51. > :23:59.and bright day. A Met Office warning for Friday and Sunday. For Friday,
:24:00. > :24:08.areas from South Gloucestershire. On Sunday it will affect all of our
:24:09. > :24:14.districts. The Sunday development could be heavier. Those of
:24:15. > :24:23.particular concern. Either way, this will be most unwelcome news. As far
:24:24. > :24:29.as tonight is concerned, some mist and fog around. Tomorrow, that line
:24:30. > :24:36.of showery rain is clearly its way eastwards. By Thursday, you will
:24:37. > :24:46.notice further rain moving in from the west. It will certainly be
:24:47. > :24:55.turning wet. One or two showers still left around at the moment but
:24:56. > :25:05.a dry night ahead. Tomorrow, a band of showery rain and perhaps some
:25:06. > :25:11.hail and lightning. Fairly promptly tomorrow, that area of rain will
:25:12. > :25:19.clear away towards the east. It should be a dry day tomorrow. It
:25:20. > :25:37.will feel chillier. Temperatures will reflect that. A lot of rain as
:25:38. > :25:38.we head into the weekend. We will keep you up`to`date on Twitter with
:25:39. > :25:53.details. Either way, have until tonight to
:25:54. > :26:04.clear your lottery wind. Goodbye.