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05/09/2014

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Now it's time for

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Five robbers are beginning sentences totalling 82 years tonight

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for their part in a crime unseen before in the UK.

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Four of them were from Mersdyside and convicted of conspiracy to cause

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explosions after dozens of `ttacks on cash machines last year.

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The judge described them as having posed

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The gang attacking a bank cash machine, one of 31

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After prizing the ATM free, explosive gas is pumped

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into the bank and ignited with a simple m`tch

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As far as I'm aware, this is the first prosecution for this type

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There have been similar att`cks on the continent but never

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The effects are devastating and lucrative.

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The spree started in late winter last year.

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First it was banks in the Mhdlands, then some closer to Merseyshde,

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including branches of Barcl`ys, NatWest and Santander.

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On one evening in September, the gang carried out two rahds

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simultaneously, netting a total of ?250,000.

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Judge Mark Brown told the ddfendants that it was fortunate that no one

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He said the explosions had occurred in

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an uncontrolled way and that public safety must have been put at risk.

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He also said that the defendants must have known

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about the risks that they wdre taking and posing to the public

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During one raid in Leicestershire, nearby families were woken

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I heard the loudest bang, like a bomb going off.

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It woke me up and I thought, what on earth was that?

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Of course, the next morning, the bank was taped off,

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Today, the ringleaders, Craig Cartwright from Coventry,

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and Kurt Beddoes of Huyton, got 17 years after pleading guilty to

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Ian Ellis from Rainhill was given 13 xears.

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Thomas Whittingham from West Derby and Anthony Bushell

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of no fixed abode got 18 and 17 years respectively

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All five got eight years for conspiracy to burgle.

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Evidence found on the defendants' phones and at the premises they

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They were caught after being tracked with a stolen cash box.

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Summing up, Judge Mark Brown said that these

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offences had been committed by an organised crime group

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He also said that their financial rewards had been

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considerable but he said th`t the losses to the banks had been too.

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Mark Edwardson, BBC North Wdst Tonight, at Liverpool Crown Court.

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New video has emerged showing a former rugby player from Wigan

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struggling with police officers shortly before his death in Spain.

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Some who claim to have seen what happened say Luke

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Luke was on a stag do in Ibhza weeks before his best friend's wedding.

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Through the noise and the anxious voices, a m`n can be

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This mobile phone video is said to show police officers restrahning

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Luke Rhoden minutes before his death.

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Luke was in Ibiza for a stag do weeks

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He is the best person you could ever meet, obviously.

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Luke was staying at this hotel, known for live music

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He appears to have leapt from a balcony before

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But while they were still in Ibiza, his friends became suspiciots about

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A lot of them were really different stories.

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What were they saying, what kind of things?

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Just things like everyone else has heard, the police beat him tp,

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The hotel where Luke was st`ying describes his death as deeply sad

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news and they say they're hdlping the police with their investigation.

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But when we spoke to the police in Spain yesterday they told us

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So how much confidence can Luke s family here in Wigan have

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At the moment it's not been great, because it feels like, with Luke's

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friends that were out there, they were asking for evidence of what had

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gone on, CCTV, and apparently they were very unhelpful.

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But since MPs have got involved and various media bodies, lhke

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yourself, I think they have realised it is snowballing a bit now,

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Norman Rhoden is now waiting to hear from the Spanish authorities

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Stuart Flinders, BBC North West Tonight, Wig`n.

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The Hillsborough inquests today heard claims that

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a critical report into the disaster by a man who'd help plan policing

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Frank Breyford also claimed the most senior officer in charge

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as the disaster unfolded had twice refused to attend a crucial planning

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270 people have so far used a new law piloted in Greater Manchester to

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find out if their partner h`s a history of domestic violence.

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Clare's Law was introduced two years ago after the murder

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of 36`year`old Clare Wood by her ex`boyfriend, who had

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In the Super League tonight, Wigan Warriors took a step towards a top

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Tries from Joe Burgess and Matty Smith gave them

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That Ben Flower try in the second half secured victory.

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Clitheroe's Samantha Murray is the modern pentathlon world chalpion.

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She powered through the field on the final run to add

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the world title to her Olympic silver medal from London 2002.

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You always get to a point as an athlete where,

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once you've been on the podhum, if you're not on the podium ag`in, then

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And I've thought about walkhng away and giving it all up.

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That's it from me. Here's the weather.

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I'm off to a festival in Morecambe this weekend, will there be

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sunshine? Yes, apart from a little rahn on

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Saturday morning. The rain loving in now will slowly

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through Saturday with some brightening sky is looking

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week weather front giving skies and also wet skies.

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morning. The blanket of clotd keeping

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Isle of Man and Cumbria. Through the day, the

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Temperatures slightly lower than the last few days,

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Hello. I am sure you cannot wait to find out what the weekend wet ler be

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like. I have to say -- weather will be like. I have to say it is looking

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good for most of us. Some of us may have to use our umbrellas, but

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hopefully for a short moment. This is the

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hopefully for a short moment. This notice this cloud, this is a weather

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forecast we have said for the past couple of days. Here it is, through

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this evening, it is affecting the north-east of England, the

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north-west of England, nudging into

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