:00:00. > 3:59:59that fans will hope is just half as good as the old one. That is all
:00:00. > :00:07.from us. There is
:00:08. > :00:12.from us. Good evening. A teacher from Swindon
:00:13. > :00:15.has been told he could be jailed for encouraging four teenage pupils to
:00:16. > :00:18.have sex with him. Alexander Thomas, who's 30, befriended the girls on
:00:19. > :00:22.Facebook before asking them to send him images of themselves in their
:00:23. > :00:26.underwear. Police say he abused his position of trust. Katharine Da
:00:27. > :00:30.Costa reports. Alexander Thomas, seen here with his
:00:31. > :00:36.father, had a promising career as a PE and business studies teacher at a
:00:37. > :00:39.secondary school in Wiltshire. But the court heard how the 30`year`old
:00:40. > :00:46.used the social media networking site Facebook to target four teenage
:00:47. > :00:49.girls aged 16 and 17. Thomas would gain their confidence and trust
:00:50. > :00:54.before asking them to send pictures of themselves in their underwear.
:00:55. > :00:56.The prosecution said one of the girls sent him five photographs of
:00:57. > :01:02.herself, including one topless image. Two of the girls claimed they
:01:03. > :01:07.met up with Thomas outside of school and that he touched them indecently.
:01:08. > :01:11.Today, a jury of seven women and five men found Thomas guilty of five
:01:12. > :01:14.counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity whilst in a
:01:15. > :01:19.position of trust, but cleared him of two counts of sexual activity.
:01:20. > :01:24.Thomas pleaded guilty to possessing an indecent image of a child earlier
:01:25. > :01:27.in the trial. Outside court, the investigating officer said Thomas
:01:28. > :01:37.abused his position of trust for his own sexual gratification. He
:01:38. > :01:42.targeted his victims and encourage them to engage in sexual activity
:01:43. > :01:46.and gained their trust. He has refused to take any responsibility
:01:47. > :01:50.for his actions and has forced his victims to give evidence in court. I
:01:51. > :01:55.would urge anyone who has been the victim of any sexual offence to
:01:56. > :01:58.contact will ship lease immediately. We have officers who are specially
:01:59. > :02:02.trained to help those who have been abused. The judge said these were
:02:03. > :02:06.serious offences and warned Thomas that he could face a jail term when
:02:07. > :02:11.he's sentenced next month. A woman's body has been found in
:02:12. > :02:13.woodland in Buckinghamshire. It's believed to be missing police
:02:14. > :02:17.officer, Louise Gibson, who hasn't been seen since last Thursday. The
:02:18. > :02:19.body was discovered in Little Kingshill, but hasn't been formally
:02:20. > :02:23.identified. Thames Valley Police say the death is being treated as
:02:24. > :02:27.unexplained. New figures show that more than half
:02:28. > :02:31.the homes in Oxford are rented out, rather than owned by the people that
:02:32. > :02:33.live in them. The report by the Office of National Statistics also
:02:34. > :02:37.shows private landlords own a quarter of homes in the city, the
:02:38. > :02:44.highest number in the last 20 years. The average property price in Oxford
:02:45. > :02:47.is around ?250,000. A trial scheme in Berkshire, where
:02:48. > :02:50.patients carry out their own medical tests at home, has halved hospital
:02:51. > :02:53.admission rates for heart failure. Patients record their readings
:02:54. > :02:57.online and they're checked by a team of nurses. The Government hopes
:02:58. > :03:01.so`called ?telemedicine? will help save the NHS millions of pounds in
:03:02. > :03:13.the future. Here's our health correspondent, David Fenton.
:03:14. > :03:17.Marcus Cox has heart failure. His heart pumps only half the blood it
:03:18. > :03:23.should so everyday checks how it is doing at home. I get up in the
:03:24. > :03:31.morning and you are measured and monitored. If anything is wrong,
:03:32. > :03:35.that is a medical practitioner at the other end looking at the
:03:36. > :03:39.results. In this case it is shallow and who is 12 miles away in Reading.
:03:40. > :03:46.Heart failure admissions are one of the highest causes of admission to
:03:47. > :03:49.hospital within the NHS. Obviously, if we can reduce the amount of times
:03:50. > :03:54.the patient goes in it's better for them to be at home with their
:03:55. > :03:57.family. Telemedicine is changing the way patients in Burke Berkshire are
:03:58. > :04:02.being cared for. These are hard beats, 100,000 of them, and that
:04:03. > :04:08.this from one person for one day. The girls and I can receive a
:04:09. > :04:12.recording in the morning and if it's really urgent we can analyse it in a
:04:13. > :04:17.day and it gets taken straight back through the Internet to the GP. It
:04:18. > :04:21.costs ?2300 for every emergency admission to hospital so keeping
:04:22. > :04:26.these patients at home makes financial sense for the NHS and the
:04:27. > :04:31.technology is improving all the time. For Marcus, it means peace of
:04:32. > :04:36.mind and a chance to enjoy the sunshine in his garden not from
:04:37. > :04:39.hospital bed. When it comes to elections, Swindon
:04:40. > :04:44.is seen a barometer for national results. And it's in that context
:04:45. > :04:48.that candidates have been canvassing in the town, knowing that Thursday's
:04:49. > :04:51.vote could be seen to have wider significance. Paul Barltrop reports.
:04:52. > :04:55.Navigate your way around Swindon 's Magic roundabout and it's reckoned
:04:56. > :05:00.the road to Downing Street lies open. The past 30 years whichever
:05:01. > :05:03.party has got MPs elected here as also got their man as Prime Minister
:05:04. > :05:19.Sylvie 's local elections are crucial. Labour turned out in force
:05:20. > :05:29.in one of their target seats. It puts all Labour councillors and
:05:30. > :05:39.activists on alert to turn out. In the town centre local Conservatives
:05:40. > :05:43.survey a regeneration project. We have had a majority of just one for
:05:44. > :05:49.the last few years and we have survived strong challengers from the
:05:50. > :05:53.Labour Party. We will be working very hard to keep this council
:05:54. > :06:03.Conservative. In the council chamber the only other party of four Liberal
:06:04. > :06:15.Democrats. What we have now potentially is a balanced council
:06:16. > :06:21.and we will want to hold control. If we had four, five or six councillors
:06:22. > :06:25.elected, we would have a say in which way this council is operating.
:06:26. > :06:30.If you have the sway and the power you can make sure you can get what
:06:31. > :06:36.people want. Swindon 's results will be watched this year and next.
:06:37. > :06:38.And you can find details of all of the candidates standing in
:06:39. > :06:41.Thursday's elections on the BBC website.
:06:42. > :06:43.Sarah Farmer is on the way with the regional weather forecast. We're
:06:44. > :06:44.back tomorrow morning in BBC Breakfast with the first bulletin
:06:45. > :06:56.just after 6:25am. Good night. Good evening. We start the night on
:06:57. > :07:01.a quiet note and things will get more lively as we move through the
:07:02. > :07:05.overnight period. There are some thunderstorms on the way. Heavy
:07:06. > :07:10.bursts of rain are arriving from the South. Some torrential downpours
:07:11. > :07:16.through the night. Overnight lows around 15 degrees. We start the
:07:17. > :07:21.morning with a damp feel. It will ease for a time before showers will
:07:22. > :07:26.arrive, once again heavy in nature. Some brighter skies to end the day
:07:27. > :07:30.and a little bit of sunshine and temperatures up to 19 degrees.
:07:31. > :07:32.Looking ahead, it stays unsettled for the coming days.
:07:33. > :07:36.the day. Hi if 21 Celsius tomorrow. And on the outlook, and settled
:07:37. > :07:45.conditions to come. Here's Nina Ridge.
:07:46. > :07:47.Good evening. Our hotspot today was Heathrow in London at 26 Celsius.