:00:00. > :00:13.Now it's time for
:00:14. > :00:18.Five robbers are beginning sentences totalling 82 years tonight
:00:19. > :00:21.for their part in a crime unseen before in the UK.
:00:22. > :00:25.Four of them were from Mersdyside and convicted of conspiracy to cause
:00:26. > :00:27.explosions after dozens of `ttacks on cash machines last year.
:00:28. > :00:29.The judge described them as having posed
:00:30. > :00:37.The gang attacking a bank cash machine, one of 31
:00:38. > :00:43.After prizing the ATM free, explosive gas is pumped
:00:44. > :00:47.into the bank and ignited with a simple m`tch
:00:48. > :00:49.As far as I'm aware, this is the first prosecution for this type
:00:50. > :00:53.There have been similar att`cks on the continent but never
:00:54. > :00:58.The effects are devastating and lucrative.
:00:59. > :01:01.The spree started in late winter last year.
:01:02. > :01:04.First it was banks in the Mhdlands, then some closer to Merseyshde,
:01:05. > :01:09.including branches of Barcl`ys, NatWest and Santander.
:01:10. > :01:12.On one evening in September, the gang carried out two rahds
:01:13. > :01:15.simultaneously, netting a total of ?250,000.
:01:16. > :01:20.Judge Mark Brown told the ddfendants that it was fortunate that no one
:01:21. > :01:26.He said the explosions had occurred in
:01:27. > :01:30.an uncontrolled way and that public safety must have been put at risk.
:01:31. > :01:33.He also said that the defendants must have known
:01:34. > :01:37.about the risks that they wdre taking and posing to the public
:01:38. > :01:38.During one raid in Leicestershire, nearby families were woken
:01:39. > :01:46.I heard the loudest bang, like a bomb going off.
:01:47. > :01:49.It woke me up and I thought, what on earth was that?
:01:50. > :01:50.Of course, the next morning, the bank was taped off,
:01:51. > :01:58.Today, the ringleaders, Craig Cartwright from Coventry,
:01:59. > :02:01.and Kurt Beddoes of Huyton, got 17 years after pleading guilty to
:02:02. > :02:04.Ian Ellis from Rainhill was given 13 xears.
:02:05. > :02:08.Thomas Whittingham from West Derby and Anthony Bushell
:02:09. > :02:10.of no fixed abode got 18 and 17 years respectively
:02:11. > :02:18.All five got eight years for conspiracy to burgle.
:02:19. > :02:20.Evidence found on the defendants' phones and at the premises they
:02:21. > :02:25.They were caught after being tracked with a stolen cash box.
:02:26. > :02:27.Summing up, Judge Mark Brown said that these
:02:28. > :02:29.offences had been committed by an organised crime group
:02:30. > :02:37.He also said that their financial rewards had been
:02:38. > :02:42.considerable but he said th`t the losses to the banks had been too.
:02:43. > :02:45.Mark Edwardson, BBC North Wdst Tonight, at Liverpool Crown Court.
:02:46. > :02:50.New video has emerged showing a former rugby player from Wigan
:02:51. > :02:54.struggling with police officers shortly before his death in Spain.
:02:55. > :02:56.Some who claim to have seen what happened say Luke
:02:57. > :03:01.Luke was on a stag do in Ibhza weeks before his best friend's wedding.
:03:02. > :03:08.Through the noise and the anxious voices, a m`n can be
:03:09. > :03:15.This mobile phone video is said to show police officers restrahning
:03:16. > :03:17.Luke Rhoden minutes before his death.
:03:18. > :03:19.Luke was in Ibiza for a stag do weeks
:03:20. > :03:25.He is the best person you could ever meet, obviously.
:03:26. > :03:33.Luke was staying at this hotel, known for live music
:03:34. > :03:38.He appears to have leapt from a balcony before
:03:39. > :03:42.But while they were still in Ibiza, his friends became suspiciots about
:03:43. > :03:49.A lot of them were really different stories.
:03:50. > :03:52.What were they saying, what kind of things?
:03:53. > :03:54.Just things like everyone else has heard, the police beat him tp,
:03:55. > :04:03.The hotel where Luke was st`ying describes his death as deeply sad
:04:04. > :04:07.news and they say they're hdlping the police with their investigation.
:04:08. > :04:10.But when we spoke to the police in Spain yesterday they told us
:04:11. > :04:15.So how much confidence can Luke s family here in Wigan have
:04:16. > :04:23.At the moment it's not been great, because it feels like, with Luke's
:04:24. > :04:25.friends that were out there, they were asking for evidence of what had
:04:26. > :04:32.gone on, CCTV, and apparently they were very unhelpful.
:04:33. > :04:35.But since MPs have got involved and various media bodies, lhke
:04:36. > :04:40.yourself, I think they have realised it is snowballing a bit now,
:04:41. > :04:47.Norman Rhoden is now waiting to hear from the Spanish authorities
:04:48. > :04:54.Stuart Flinders, BBC North West Tonight, Wig`n.
:04:55. > :04:57.The Hillsborough inquests today heard claims that
:04:58. > :05:00.a critical report into the disaster by a man who'd help plan policing
:05:01. > :05:04.Frank Breyford also claimed the most senior officer in charge
:05:05. > :05:07.as the disaster unfolded had twice refused to attend a crucial planning
:05:08. > :05:16.270 people have so far used a new law piloted in Greater Manchester to
:05:17. > :05:20.find out if their partner h`s a history of domestic violence.
:05:21. > :05:24.Clare's Law was introduced two years ago after the murder
:05:25. > :05:26.of 36`year`old Clare Wood by her ex`boyfriend, who had
:05:27. > :05:33.In the Super League tonight, Wigan Warriors took a step towards a top
:05:34. > :05:37.Tries from Joe Burgess and Matty Smith gave them
:05:38. > :05:49.That Ben Flower try in the second half secured victory.
:05:50. > :05:50.Clitheroe's Samantha Murray is the modern pentathlon world chalpion.
:05:51. > :05:53.She powered through the field on the final run to add
:05:54. > :05:55.the world title to her Olympic silver medal from London 2002.
:05:56. > :06:03.You always get to a point as an athlete where,
:06:04. > :06:06.once you've been on the podhum, if you're not on the podium ag`in, then
:06:07. > :06:11.And I've thought about walkhng away and giving it all up.
:06:12. > :06:16.That's it from me. Here's the weather.
:06:17. > :06:22.I'm off to a festival in Morecambe this weekend, will there be
:06:23. > :06:31.sunshine? Yes, apart from a little rahn on
:06:32. > :06:36.Saturday morning. The rain loving in now will slowly
:06:37. > :06:46.through Saturday with some brightening sky is looking
:06:47. > :06:56.week weather front giving skies and also wet skies.
:06:57. > :07:10.morning. The blanket of clotd keeping
:07:11. > :07:29.Isle of Man and Cumbria. Through the day, the
:07:30. > :07:32.Temperatures slightly lower than the last few days,
:07:33. > :07:45.Hello. I am sure you cannot wait to find out what the weekend wet ler be
:07:46. > :07:50.like. I have to say -- weather will be like. I have to say it is looking
:07:51. > :07:54.good for most of us. Some of us may have to use our umbrellas, but
:07:55. > :07:58.hopefully for a short moment. This is the
:07:59. > :08:02.hopefully for a short moment. This notice this cloud, this is a weather
:08:03. > :08:06.forecast we have said for the past couple of days. Here it is, through
:08:07. > :08:09.this evening, it is affecting the north-east of England, the
:08:10. > :08:10.north-west of England, nudging into