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