:00:10. > :00:10.Good evening. It's claimed crime in the papers on
:00:11. > :00:14.Good evening. It's claimed crime in the Thames Valley is at its lowest
:00:15. > :00:17.level in 25 years. That's according to new figures released by police.
:00:18. > :00:20.The report points to a drop in burglaries and theft, althotgh
:00:21. > :00:23.there's been a sharp rise in the number of recorded sexual offences.
:00:24. > :00:27.Some crime experts say the figures can't be relied on as they lay not
:00:28. > :00:29.take into account cyber crile. Jeremy Stern's been looking into
:00:30. > :00:33.this story. On the surface, these figurds make
:00:34. > :00:36.for excellent reading both for the police and, of course, people who
:00:37. > :00:42.live in the Thames Valley. There were 127,500 reported crimes in the
:00:43. > :00:49.year ending March 2014. That's the lowest amount since 1989, when there
:00:50. > :00:53.were about 119,000. You may think this means we're now much s`fer but
:00:54. > :00:57.I've spoken to some criminologists and they say, not necessarily. These
:00:58. > :01:03.local figures don't take into account an explosion in onlhne
:01:04. > :01:06.crimes like credit`card fratd. I asked the Deputy Chief Constable if
:01:07. > :01:11.today's report just proves criminals have simply changed their t`ctics.
:01:12. > :01:14.The reality is with a lot of the online crime, it could be committed
:01:15. > :01:18.anywhere in the world but the victims could be based withhn this
:01:19. > :01:21.country. My own view is that what most people think about when they're
:01:22. > :01:26.thinking about crime are, "@m I safe in my community? Am I safe on my
:01:27. > :01:30.street? Is my car safe when I leave it there?". And all the figtres that
:01:31. > :01:33.are released today show that in the Thames Valley, you are safer than
:01:34. > :01:37.you ever have been for the last 40 years. The report shows violent
:01:38. > :01:41.crime is at about the same level as last year. Car theft is down. There
:01:42. > :01:45.was a sharp rise in recorded sexual offences, from fewer than 2,000 last
:01:46. > :01:48.year to more than 2,500 this year ` an increase of 30%, which police say
:01:49. > :01:54.is reflected in other parts of the country. A lot of this is hhstoric
:01:55. > :01:59.cases that might have happened decades ago which are only just now
:02:00. > :02:02.coming under our crime records. So it's not an indication that people
:02:03. > :02:07.are not safe within the Thales Valley. Officers say they'vd managed
:02:08. > :02:11.to cut crime despite cuts to their own budget. The debate about how
:02:12. > :02:17.reliable their figures are will go on.
:02:18. > :02:21.The use of tasers by police has more than doubled ` with more officers
:02:22. > :02:26.being armed with the weapon over the past 12 months. Thames Valldy Police
:02:27. > :02:30.now has five times as many officers carrying Tasers on the stredts each
:02:31. > :02:33.day, compared with just a ydar ago. An Oxford man has been jaildd in
:02:34. > :02:37.America after admitting child`sex charges. Nicholas Cheese, who is 27,
:02:38. > :02:44.will serve 17 years in a federal prison for producing indecent images
:02:45. > :02:47.of a child. Police in Maine say they arrested him after complaints from
:02:48. > :02:52.the parents of a 13`year`old girl who he had met online. He arranged
:02:53. > :02:56.to meet her in a hotel room in the US, where he filmed a series of
:02:57. > :02:59.sexual assaults. Police in Swindon have launched an
:03:00. > :03:02.investigation after cars, road signs and some pavements were spr`y
:03:03. > :03:05.painted with swastikas. 20 were identified in various locathons in
:03:06. > :03:10.the town, including Frobishdr Drive and Norfolk Close. Officers have
:03:11. > :03:16.been talking to residents and are studying CCTV footage to find out
:03:17. > :03:19.who is responsible. A new military centre near Swindon,
:03:20. > :03:21.which will teach service personnel foreign languages and cultural
:03:22. > :03:25.differences before they travel abroad, has been officially opened
:03:26. > :03:30.today. His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent led the cerdmony and
:03:31. > :03:34.took a tour of the site. Tol Turrell was there too.
:03:35. > :03:37.Standing amongst the large collection of military hardware one
:03:38. > :03:43.could be forgiven for thinkhng war speaks only one language. Btt here
:03:44. > :03:46.at the new Defence Centre for Languages and Culture on thd
:03:47. > :03:49.outskirts of Swindon, they'll be teaching up to 40 languages to
:03:50. > :03:59.service personnel who are going overseas. And today is its official
:04:00. > :04:02.royal opening. APPLAUSE
:04:03. > :04:08.This opens up a whole new r`ft of languages. It enables peopld to
:04:09. > :04:12.start much earlier in their careers learning the language. This is going
:04:13. > :04:16.to be a huge benefit to everybody in the future. I very much hopd that it
:04:17. > :04:21.will be possible for more l`nguages to be taught here. And the puality
:04:22. > :04:26.of the teaching is such that it s going to, I think, be very
:04:27. > :04:28.infectious. His Royal Highndss is not unaccustomed to the milhtary's
:04:29. > :04:31.language training courses ` he studied Russian at the formdr
:04:32. > :04:37.Defence School of Languages in Beaconsfield. But with the tse of
:04:38. > :04:40.role play to compliment the classroom lessons, it seems this new
:04:41. > :04:43.centre has been tailored to equip the Armed Forces with the ctltural
:04:44. > :04:47.knowledge and linguistic skhlls needed for the 21st century. So what
:04:48. > :05:15.do they think of their new college? In all, around 200 men and women
:05:16. > :05:19.from the RAF, Army and Navy will be taught here at any one time. The
:05:20. > :05:27.hope is that the better thex get at talking, then the less need they'll
:05:28. > :05:30.be for weapons like these. `` the less need there will be.
:05:31. > :05:33.Work to build a new community hospital in Henley is now dte to get
:05:34. > :05:36.underway. The ?10 million redevelopment of the existing
:05:37. > :05:39.Townlands site will take two years. The new hospital will have
:05:40. > :05:43.in`patient and out patient care along with X`rays and dentistry NHS
:05:44. > :05:46.Property Services, which owns the site, has confirmed all the partners
:05:47. > :05:53.involved in the scheme are now signed up. The facility has been the
:05:54. > :05:56.subject of a local campaign. A multi`million pound schemd to
:05:57. > :05:59.create thousands of new jobs and attract more investment in science
:06:00. > :06:02.in Oxford has been launched today. The MedCity project aims to join up
:06:03. > :06:07.medical research between Oxford Cambridge and London. It will build
:06:08. > :06:10.on work at Culham, Harwell `nd the University ` and encourage hi`tech
:06:11. > :06:19.firms to move into the region. More than ?3 million is being spdnt on
:06:20. > :06:22.the scheme. There's lots of joint research project between us and
:06:23. > :06:27.Cambridge, between us and Ilperial and UCL. So in that sense, ht is
:06:28. > :06:31.more about raising the visibility for the good of the region `nd the
:06:32. > :06:36.UK as a whole rather than changing fundamentally the way we do
:06:37. > :06:42.business. Of course, we do have competitive rivalry we with
:06:43. > :06:46.Cambridge but we do have a lot of corporation and that is a vdry
:06:47. > :06:50.fruitful tension. `` a lot of cooperation.
:06:51. > :06:53.That's it from us for now. We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow
:06:54. > :06:54.morning, but for now goodnight, and with the weather here's Alexis
:06:55. > :06:59.Green. Good evening. Under clear skies and
:07:00. > :07:03.with lighter winds than last night, the risk of a touch of mist and fog
:07:04. > :07:06.as well as some patchy frost out in the countryside, with temperatures
:07:07. > :07:09.falling to around four to fhve Celsius. We will see that low cloud
:07:10. > :07:13.start to lift tomorrow mornhng and once it does, we will see some sunny
:07:14. > :07:16.spells develop. So in the stnshine, pleasantly warm ` certainly warmer
:07:17. > :07:20.than today with lighter winds. The slim chance of a shower but in the
:07:21. > :07:23.afternoon sunshine, highs of 13 to 14 Celsius. There will be more cloud
:07:24. > :07:27.tomorrow afternoon than the middle part of the day. So we are dxpecting
:07:28. > :07:30.highs tomorrow of 14 Celsius. As we look ahead to the rest of the week,
:07:31. > :07:35.a fair amount of cloud dry. Maybe a bit of light rain on
:07:36. > :07:40.Friday. A quiet spell for us. Not so on the other side of the world. As
:07:41. > :07:44.you have been hearing, there is not a great deal happening in the
:07:45. > :07:48.weather over the UK over the next couple of days.
:07:49. > :07:51.Meanwhile, we have been attacked thing -- tracking an active spring
:07:52. > :07:57.storm in the US. There have been reports of flash flooding and
:07:58. > :08:02.tornadoes. You can see a narrowband which is weakening and heading out
:08:03. > :08:05.to the Atlantic. It is the Atlantic tonight that will pick up whether
:08:06. > :08:09.funds to the north of the UK, bringing with them or cloud and
:08:10. > :08:14.outbreaks of rain. Meanwhile, pressure remains relatively high to
:08:15. > :08:18.the south. There is a small chance of patchy mist and fog and low cloud
:08:19. > :08:26.by the end of the night. But temperatures will fall away again. A
:08:27. > :08:33.chilly start to Wednesday morning. There will be a bit of a breeze
:08:34. > :08:40.blowing in the north. But it will be a fairly cloudy and wet affair first
:08:41. > :08:44.thing in the morning here. The rain will be sticking to the north-west
:08:45. > :08:47.of Scotland. Further south after a bright start to the day, the cloud
:08:48. > :08:48.will increase