17/03/2017 South Today - Oxford

Six men will serve between six and eight years after a series

of raids on jewellers including in Oxford, Bicester

How highly organised, the military precision, and I think the sentences

reflect the severity of the crimes themselves.

Also, a way round the problem, thousands back a plan

And scientists say they've invented an artificial intelligence system

that can lip-read better than humans and it's thanks in part to BBC News.

And later on, a test of endurance on the Thames for the famous

newlyweds raising money to save part of the rainforest in Borneo.

A gang of men who stole more than ?3 million worth of jewellery

from shops right across Britain, including Oxford and Milton Keynes,

have today been jailed for a total of 47 years.

The men cycled to raids to avoid their cars being picked up

on number plate recognition systems and left traps so that the police

Armed with sledgehammers, they smash their way

into Goldsmith's jewellery shop in Oxford's Clarendon centre.

Caught on CCTV on New Year's Eve 2015 stuffing expensive

Suspects carried umbrellas to protect their identities,

and this man in the high visibility jacket used a wheelie bin to carry

This Romanian crime gang targeted 11 jewellery stores across the country.

Today they've been sentenced at Stoke on Trent Crown Court

to a total of 47 years for conspiring to commit burglaries.

The gang used delay tactics to prevent the police from getting

Here they set up metal cables between the lamposts

and at the other end of Queens Street.

The barricade prevented police from reaching the Clarendon Centre

It's a tactic they used across the country in raids netting

The gang launched their spree in Milton Keynes in November 2015

targeting the Fraser Hart jewellers in Centre MK.

They started a fire and padlocked a chain across the road to delay

They also carried out a burglary on the Mont Blanc store

That level of criminality, how highly organised,

military precision of how they actually executed,

sophistication and planning around it, clearly not acceptable

within the United Kingdom and I think the sentencing

reflects the severity of the crimes themselves.

The burglars cycled to some of the jobs to avoid being

Today they're beginning prison sentences ranging from six and half

One further man is due to be sentenced later this month.

A five-year-old boy who died in a stabbing in Faringdon

Tyler Warmington suffered knife wounds to the chest in the incident

A 40-year-old woman who was arrested at the scene has been released

A former Formula one motor racing driver from Oxford has failed

to get a driving ban for speeding overturned.

Susie Wolff, who drove for Williams between 2012 and 2015,

was caught doing 35 miles per hour in a 30 zone.

Oxford Crown Court heard she already had nine points on her licence.

She was banned for six months last November.

More than 3000 people have signed a petition calling for a trunk road

At the moment commuters travelling to London Bicester and other

destinations are having to drive through the middle of the town.

Residents say the problem is getting worse as more homes are built.

Traffic, often a daily nightmare for drivers across Aylesbury.

You never know how long it's going to take you to get to work.

Some days it's 20 minutes, a journey which should take 20

minutes can take you up to two hours.

Kevin says commuters are having to travel through rather

Any hiccups, like a burst watermain on the A41 last week,

More than 30,000 homes are planned for Aylesbury

over the next 16 years, and that means more cars.

A relief road has already been built in the west, paid

Another one in the east would depend on new houses there too.

Kevin started an online petition a week ago.

So just tell me exactly where you want the trunk road to be.

The A41 dual carriageway just the south of town,

needs be extended all the way around to the north of the town

over Bierton, around the north of the town,

skirting the new developments and then joining back up with the A41.

Reality is, it's only through the link road

because a trunk road would cost far, far more money and we

So we're doing what's deliverable, what's affordable, and actually

One councillor says an answer can't come quick enough.

She says the area's been gridlocked four times in the past three weeks.

I don't know if it's realistic or optimistic, but it's

definitely something that needs to be looked at.

There's got to be some highway improvements.

With no solution on the horizon, drivers and other residents

The Cotswolds MP has warned the Prime Minister that she's facing

defeat over a new funding formula for schools.

Conservative Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has spoken out against

It comes as a new report by the Educational Policy Institute

warns that changes over the next few years will leave almost

One thing you can't fail to notice if you travel

to the Cheltenham Festival are the number of ticket touts,

both in town and at the entrance to the racecourse.

It's been a huge source of complaints, and this year

It does seem if you haven't got a ticket for the races,

getting one on the streets isn't a problem.

Tickets, anyone want tickets, tickets?

We saw plenty of people offering tickets and selling.

Something which isn't illegal but you do need a licence.

If you want to sell anything on the street, whether that be

tickets or if you've got anything, you need a street trading licence.

And from the work we've done this week, we know that the majority

of the touts out there don't have a street trading licence

or a pedlar's certificate from the police authority to sell.

So they are, the majority of them are selling illegally.

For the first time people suspected of ticket touting in Cheltenham

are being targetted by police and licencing teams.

He didn't have a pedlar's certificate which is an offence,

as a result we seized one ticket from him.

We seized that as the police and we've passed his details

onto the borough council who will make a decision

This man near the race course admitted selling tickets

If you fail to have a peddler certificate,

Officials at the racecourse say complaints about ticket touts

are high up the list, and with the problem of often

overpriced and some fake tickets, the time has come to do

We want our racegoers to come here and have an enjoyable time,

not be pestered by the nuisance and sometimes pretty aggressive

Not surprisingly, nobody suspected of touting that we spoke to wanted

to be interviewed on camera, although one man did tell me

he was upset his honest trade was being targetted,

but others were legitimate, like this man who had

But as the crackdown has gone on this week,

many of those suspected of being ticket touts

They've adapted, they've seen us out on the street,

we've spoken to them, given them the warnings

They've had information in paperwork.

But they are still out and no doubt they are still selling.

This year was a soft approach, a warning to the touts.

But the racecourse says they eventually want to try

Scientists have developed a machine that can lip-read with more

And Oxford United fan who had been suffering from cancer but who

travelled from America to see the club play last year has died. The

club and fans are planning tributes to him.

Scientists have developed a machine that can lip-read with more

Researchers at Oxford University used lip movements from thousands

of hours of BBC news programmes including Breakfast,

Here's our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.

At the Action for Hearing Loss charity, Edward is trying

to have a conversation with a colleague.

With lots of noise coming into the office from the street,

his lip-reading skills come in useful.

It can be very hard as well because sometimes some words can

sound the same or could be lip-read the same, and so it's

all about getting into context and seeing what people actually talk

But in Oxford, research is under way to teach computers

It's involved training an artificial intelligence system using thousands

So the box around the lips is the region that the AI system is seeing.

Joon Son Chung, whose project this is, shares Edward's view

So lip-reading is a very difficult problem because there are visual

For example pat, bat and mat are visually identical.

By endlessly watching clips of Breakfast, Newsnight and other

BBC News programmes, the computer teaches

What the system does is learn things that occur together.

So in this case they're the mouth shapes and the characters,

and what the likely upcoming characters are, given

Let's try it with some words it already understands.

The Prime Minister is at a European Union summit.

Now, the system has heard those words in that context before

But to get better, it will have to chew through a lot more data.

There's a long way to go but the hearing loss charity

This would help people with when they're watching

subtitles on television, this will help people when they're

out and about in very noisy environments and it's by no means

technology that will replace a professional lip-reader.

It's something that would very much support professional lip-readers

to improve the accuracy of the work that they do.

Right now the technology only works on full sentences in recorded clips.

The next stage is to make it work live.

But first the computer is going to be watching

I'm very self-conscious suddenly about the way my lips are moving!

Stay with us for weather details with Sam Fraser.

The windy weekend to come and the kickers in the Grand Slam match in

Dublin tomorrow will be advised that the wind is coming from the West.

She's one of the world's most infamous serial killers.

It's believed Amelia Dyer murdered as many as 400

A family in Reading has made an extraordinary discovery

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Peter Cooke has been investigating.

I was born in the bedroom just here. This is where we uncovered something

we didn't expect to. A clearout of a family loft

led Richard Anderson Inside materials used by Victorian

serial killer Amelia Dyer. Materials which helped Richard's

relative arrest her. When I found out that my

great-great-grandfather was the detective who arrested her, we put

two and two together and realised what a grisly thing we had up in the

loft. He's now donated it

to Thames Valley Police's Museum. This was the address of Amelia,

which was from a previous marriage. This is very macabre. This is the

tape that was used to strangle her victim.

Helena Fry just one of hundreds of victims.

A lack of social support for single mothers led to the creation

People acting as fostering agents to take care of children.

There was a trade going on. How much would it cost to kill a child?

Anywhere between ?5 and ?80. Amelia Dyer used to advertise her

services in local papers but killed many of the infants given

to her within days. If the mother paid a weekly fee, the

child would more likely survive. But if she paid a one-off premium it was

effectively a death sentence. Dyer never fully

admitted what she did. As recounted by crime writer

Angela BuckleyHer crimes resonated Her accounts left no doubt that she

was guilty of the murders. And her crimes resonated throughout

the country. The idea of women killing anyone was

shocking but killing babies was beyond the pale. Victorian residence

of Caversham were particularly horrified by the events on their

doorstep. Amelia Dyer was a mother

who became known as a monster. She was hanged for her "baby

farming" murders in 1896. Extraordinary story. On to support

no hand, my goodness, it was a great Gold Cup race. I don't know if you

were watching it. And the same outcome as last year.

There was to be no fairy tale for

In fact they saw a remarkable moment as history repeated

Kris Temple is live at the course, Kris, high hopes for the Tizzard

runners, but the champagne corks popping elsewhere tonight.

Yes, 12 months ago we were stood here and it was about as cold as it

is now and we were hoping it would be Cue Card for Colin Tizzard. But

it was not Cue Card's here again. His warrior like attitude mean the

public are fallen in love with him but unfortunately for Cue Card,

falling was again the story of the day.

Both of Colin Tizzard's horses had questions to answer ahead of the

race. In one of the most wide-open Gold cups for years, racegoers were

split. I think Cue Card this year.

He seems to be the People's horse. I think so. He missed his chance

last year so we will what happens. Native River. Colin Tizard -- Colin

Tizzard has a strong hand. Cue Card. I bet on him last year and

am looking to get my money back this year.

He took them along in the early stages. Last year, Cue Card fell

three from the finish as the race hotted up. 12 months on at the same

fence, with the temperature increasing, Cue Card again came a

cropper again. He has fallen again! Cue Card falls

for the second year running. The trainer's course just pipped by

the winner, native John. I'm sad that Cue Card fell but he is

absolutely fine. Paddy is fine so there's no reason why we can't have

another day. That might be the end of Cue Card's

career but for the second year in a row, the people's darling found that

fence just a step too far. You heard, to there from John Hunt,

who joins us now. Was Cue Card is going to be the favourite before he

fell? I would love to say yes but I think

you are starting to feel the pinch. Unlike last year when he was the

favourites, he was only six at best this year. Sad to see but I don't

think it would have happened anyway. Do you think we will see him back

for another go at this? I think that is hard to see. The

finishers were all seven-year-olds and he is 12. It is a young man's

game. I would love to see him but I somehow doubt it.

And a word for Native River. He has done well, the Welsh

National, a real terrier. I called him the prize fighter and he was

there all the way but couldn't quite sustain it. What a super horse. Only

seven, he could go on to greater things.

I'm sure we will see Native River here again. Will we see Cue Card? We

asked Colin Tizzard how he would relax and he said he was for a few

pints of Guinness for St Patrick's Day. The gauges is out I did not get

your message, Sally, to put your bet on so you have saved a few pounds.

The Football League weekend kicks off tonight with Reading's trip

to Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship.

the table but coming off defeat at Preston last week.

Sheffield Wednesday are just a place below them.

Defenders Liam Moore and Paul McShane could both

Reading have struggled in recent weeks but the manager

We are in the position we are now because we played well

Of course you want to win every game but we are realistic as well.

We are not in a position to say we can beat everybody.

The thing is, in how we played in the last couple of games,

the games we lost as well, is the mistakes we made,

not because the other teams were better than us.

As well as that big clash at Hillsborough tonight,

Brighton have a tricky test at a Leeds side who are

The Premier League action sees Bournemouth host Swansea at 5:30.

Another win for the Cherries and they'd see

Among the league one fixtures Oxford hope to close the gap

on the top six when they host Scunthorpe and Portsmouth go

for a fourth consecutive away win as they keep up the pressure

Follow al the games, across BBC platforms tomorrow

including live commentary on local radio.

Dorset golfer Georgia Hall made a stunning start to the world ladies

The 20-year-old player, who has recently changed her clubs,

shot a first round of 67, that's six under par to lead

the event which has a total prize pot of half a million pounds.

Well done and keep it going over the remaining two rounds.

Can you imagine how I would have felt if I had picked the winner and

he had not put my ticket on. Now, staying with sport,

Olympic golden girl, Helen Glover, has already proved she's got what it

takes in the world of rowing. Luckily help is at hand

from her TV presenter Together the couple are taking

on one of the toughest contests on the water -

paddling nonstop along the Thames It's all to raise money to a cause

very close to their hearts - Early morning on the Thames

and this husband and wife Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall

has been kayaking since he was 13. When the day is like today

and it is blue skies and sunshine all you want to do is get

on the water but so far we have had In the dark, at night,

early in the morning. It's horrible,

it's absolutely horrible. Olympic rower Helen Glover has

certainly proved her skills on the water but canoeing

through the night from Devizes to Westminster will be like nothing

she has done before. I'm used to racing a seven minute

race and this is going to be, So it is entirely different and that

has been part of the fun of it because I've been trying to perfect

a sport for ten years. I've been trying to be the best

in the world at it and this This is trying to learn a sport

within about six weeks. The race starts 125 miles upstream

from here and en route competitors must carry their canoes around

77 locks in a feat that has been compared to the equivalent

of running a marathon with a boat When you hear that around a quarter

of those who started last time didn't make it to the finish line,

you understand why many describe This mossy forest is one of the most

mystical environments on the planet. Steve Backshall has toughed it out

before around the world and closer This time he is competing with

Helen to raise funds to buy an area of rainforest in Borneo to stop it

being turned into It's this gallery forest that runs

alongside a river and stretches At present it functions

as a perfect wildlife corridor, a way that pygmy elephants

and orangutans and proboscis monkeys can move around and disburse

between two environments. But it is under threat

and it will be cut down We saw this opportunity

and we thought we have to do a big challenge if we are going to raise

enough money to make a difference. But also for me, coming off

the back of an Olympic year, a challenge like this gives me

a goal, keeps me focused. The couple have just four weeks

left before the embark You can't see much more about that

challenge on our Facebook page. Time for the weather. I've saved a bit of

money, he has made a lot of money and it is your birthday. I wonder

where that could go. At ?10 will buy where that could go. At ?10 will buy

me a glass of Pacifico. A stunning start to the day

in Bournemouth, captured here by Viktoria Korosi

but it wasn't long before This is the weir at Durweston,

thanks to Tony Gaffney. St Patrick's Day donned bright with

some sunshine but it wasn't long before the cloudy and windy weather

came in. You will really notice that westerly breeze as the wind picks

up. But it shouldn't be too cold under the cloudy skies. And we stay

largely dry. Tomorrow dawns cloudy and breezy. Temperatures are mild

and other cloudy skies. As we go through Saturday evening, we keep

the cloud and the winds. You are going to notice those strong

westerlies tomorrow evening but we are at least try again and with mild

temperatures. As we head into Sunday, the cloudy and mail team

continues. We will start to see strong winds, especially through the

coast, so you will notice those and may just see some rain loan and on

those westerly winds. Mostly dry before the evening before a band of

rain makes its way into our patch. For the weekend, a big sporting

weekend, Saturday is mainly dry but it will be very windy so anybody

kicking a football or a rugby ball will need to bear that in mind.

Sunday we stay cloudy. Mainly dry but the chance of rain later. Breezy

as well. Monday is a cooler of fear. It will be cloudy but it will also

be showery. On Tuesday, skies brightened, when disease and we see

some sunshine and that should stay until the middle of the week.

It is getting colder. That is all from us. I don't know what sport you

are watching but I know what I am doing. Only one place to be. The

rugby. Enjoy your weekend. Goodbye. It was the most beautiful view

I've ever been through. For one second, I was swimming on my

back, and I was looking to the sky. I was swimming across

the Aegean Sea. I was a refugee,

going from Syria to Germany. This is my life, my career!

I did not frame him. This is my life, my career!

I did not frame him.