:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South Today. and Emily Thornberry of Labour.
:00:00. > :00:07.Coming up: 22 arrests in one morning - the dawn raids to tackle organised
:00:08. > :00:14.Also: The motorist who was using his mobile phone when he killed
:00:15. > :00:21.And from exploring virtual worlds to interacting with robots -
:00:22. > :00:23.the university hoping to benefit from Government
:00:24. > :00:40.Police have arrested twenty-two people in a major operation
:00:41. > :00:43.to tackle organised drug dealing in Oxfordshire.
:00:44. > :00:46.In a series of dawn raids, officers targeted almost 40 homes in Oxford,
:00:47. > :00:54.Organised policing tackling organised crime.
:00:55. > :01:01.This Oxford address is one of 37 raided by Thames Valley Police
:01:02. > :01:02.in Oxford, Abingdon and London this morning.
:01:03. > :01:05.180 officers were involved in what the force is calling
:01:06. > :01:14.The start of a campaign to stop the flow of Class A drugs
:01:15. > :01:24.We've made some really good arrests today.
:01:25. > :01:26.That'll have a disruption impact on the people
:01:27. > :01:29.One of the things we'll look at is working with partners
:01:30. > :01:36.We want to target key locations in future that we know these
:01:37. > :01:41.We want to make it very difficult for them to come back.
:01:42. > :01:43.Detectives say gangs from the capital come to the county
:01:44. > :01:49.These locations, the police say, are often the homes
:01:50. > :01:54.We have criminals that often operates through
:01:55. > :02:02.runners out into the counties, dealing drugs in our area.
:02:03. > :02:09.These operations are very organised and they target vulnerable people,
:02:10. > :02:11.probably the most honourable people in our communities.
:02:12. > :02:16.An obviously a real threat to local policing of the area.
:02:17. > :02:19.Police are continuing to patrol in the areas where the raids took
:02:20. > :02:21.place this morning in an effort to reassure the public.
:02:22. > :02:24.The force says there will be similar operations in the future to stop
:02:25. > :02:31.drugs gangs operating in the Thames Valley.
:02:32. > :02:34.A motorist from Oxford has admitted he was using his mobile phone
:02:35. > :02:37.when he caused a fatal crash on the A34.
:02:38. > :02:39.Lewis Stratford veered across the central reservation
:02:40. > :02:41.near East Ilsley last summer killing 28-year old Gavin
:02:42. > :02:45.He's pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
:02:46. > :02:57.It was late in the evening of Saturday 11th of June
:02:58. > :02:59.when Lewis Stratford seen here entering court today
:03:00. > :03:01.was going southbound on the A34 near East Ilsley.
:03:02. > :03:04.Over a 35-minute period, he was said to be speeding
:03:05. > :03:08.and to have made three emotional phone calls.
:03:09. > :03:14.It was on the third of these that he lost control of his car
:03:15. > :03:16.and crashed through the central reservation and into
:03:17. > :03:19.That car was being driven by 28-year-old Australian Gavin Roberts
:03:20. > :03:23.He was on his way to work for Network Rail.
:03:24. > :03:25.Mr Roberts was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital
:03:26. > :03:27.but died of his injuries four days later.
:03:28. > :03:28.Following his death, Gavin's girlfriend Meg
:03:29. > :03:33.I was due to wake him up at home on Sunday morning and I just wanted
:03:34. > :03:42.I wanted to stop him from going to work on Saturday night.
:03:43. > :03:45.It genuinely didn't feel real, sitting at his bedside.
:03:46. > :03:48.As much as the machines were keeping him alive,
:03:49. > :04:01.he was still warm and he still looked like Gavin because,
:04:02. > :04:07.head to toe, all he looked like was just a bruise
:04:08. > :04:10.and on his right eye and the rest of him was perfect.
:04:11. > :04:13.The defence argued that Stratford had not been holding his phone
:04:14. > :04:18.They it was in a cradle attached to his dashboard but admitted it
:04:19. > :04:22.Representatives from Thames Valley Police
:04:23. > :04:25.were also in court today, with the force keen to stress
:04:26. > :04:29.When we do a live at these scenes, people expect you have mobile phones
:04:30. > :04:32.seized if we believe they have been utilised at the time immediately
:04:33. > :04:45.We seize the phones and download the information kept on that phone
:04:46. > :04:47.to try and interpret whether it was in use
:04:48. > :04:53.Stratford has been disqualified from driving with immediate effect.
:04:54. > :04:56.He will be sentenced next month and has been told a custodial
:04:57. > :05:00.A mother whose baby daughter drowned after she left her in a bath has
:05:01. > :05:05.had her jail sentence increased by 18 months.
:05:06. > :05:07.Judges at the Court of Appeal said Jasmine Gregory's three-year
:05:08. > :05:11.sentence for manslaughter was too lenient.
:05:12. > :05:13.She'd been drinking cider on the morning she left 14-month
:05:14. > :05:18.old Robyn the bath at their home in Grove in 2014.
:05:19. > :05:20.Three people have appeared before magistrates, charged with the murder
:05:21. > :05:33.outside the Co-op in Great Linford early on Saturday morning.
:05:34. > :05:35.Thames Valley Police's response to his death has been referred
:05:36. > :05:37.to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
:05:38. > :05:40.Funding is to be stopped for most of the day centres run
:05:41. > :05:44.Money will only provided for 8 of the 22 centres which provide
:05:45. > :05:47.support for older people and those with learning disabilities.
:05:48. > :05:51.The change is to save more than ?3 million.
:05:52. > :05:57.The council says it will still help people in need of support.
:05:58. > :06:00.Staff and students at Oxford Brookes University are hoping
:06:01. > :06:03.to benefit from a Government pledge to invest an extra ?2 billion a year
:06:04. > :06:07.They showed off their work in the robotics laboratory
:06:08. > :06:09.to the chair of the MPs' Science and Technology Committee.
:06:10. > :06:18.Robot Tai Chi - just one display on show for MP Stephen Metcalfe
:06:19. > :06:21.on his tour of Oxford Brookes University.
:06:22. > :06:24.This was a chance for the chair of the Science
:06:25. > :06:29.and Technology Committee to see some of tomorrow's technology today...
:06:30. > :06:36.It's really important that universities and particularly
:06:37. > :06:38.scientists in universities have a good connection with Government,
:06:39. > :06:45.which will open the way for future development and funding sources.
:06:46. > :06:48.A quick gear change from robots to racing in the university's
:06:49. > :06:52.Students here hope they'll benefit from an extra ?2 billion a year
:06:53. > :06:56.of Government funding for research and development.
:06:57. > :07:01.Oxford Brookes is in the perfect location,
:07:02. > :07:04.right in the heart of the Valley, teaching hands on experience
:07:05. > :07:16.Back in the robotics lab, students are taught about artificial
:07:17. > :07:19.intelligence, a robot's ability to think and act like a human.
:07:20. > :07:25.You'll like what experience will you be taking away with you today?
:07:26. > :07:27.Apart from having the opportunity to sit in a Formula 1 car,
:07:28. > :07:30.I will take some information back to Parliament about where this
:07:31. > :07:37.The robotics team has now applied for funding for its next project,
:07:38. > :07:39.and now have all eyes on the Government to
:07:40. > :07:48.This week we're looking at the life-saving work carried out
:07:49. > :07:50.at the Oxford Children's Hospital as it marks its ten
:07:51. > :07:56.Tonight, how the staff helped four-year-old Alan from Banbury,
:07:57. > :07:58.who was diagnosed with blood cancer last year.
:07:59. > :08:06.A chance to play with his friends and enjoy himself.
:08:07. > :08:10.Up until last September, he was a healthy, boistorous,
:08:11. > :08:15.young boy, but when Alan's stomach swelled up and he had trouble
:08:16. > :08:18.breathing, his parents took him to the doctor in Banbury.
:08:19. > :08:25.Within days, Alan was in intensive care at the children's hospital.
:08:26. > :08:30.He made no fuss about anything that was done to him,
:08:31. > :08:33.which is amazing, considering some of the things he went through.
:08:34. > :08:37.Some of the side effects of the first two rounds of chemotherapy
:08:38. > :08:43.I think a grown adult would probably cry and lose patience
:08:44. > :08:48.His mum has no doubt that the commitment of staff
:08:49. > :08:55.at the children's hospital went a long way towards saving her son.
:08:56. > :08:57.Friends and parents at Alan's nursery group in Banbury also
:08:58. > :09:06.He is part of the nursery family, and a lot of the families here know
:09:07. > :09:11.It was really important for them to feel like they were
:09:12. > :09:16.We are really pleased to see him do what a four-year
:09:17. > :09:24.Alan is still here with us and he's pretty much back to normal.
:09:25. > :09:26.We could see that quite early on in the treatment,
:09:27. > :09:29.that Alan was starting to come back, but there were periods
:09:30. > :09:32.I hope the worst times are over now and there
:09:33. > :09:39.Alan's mother ending that report by Jeremy Stern.
:09:40. > :09:43.A tough 2016 - we wish Alan and his family well for 2017.
:09:44. > :09:48.Overnight tonight we're expecting some freezing fog patches
:09:49. > :09:52.and the possibility of ice as well, which is why the Met Office have
:09:53. > :09:55.issued a fog and a nice morning through the course of tonight
:09:56. > :09:58.There's the possibility of disruption to travel.
:09:59. > :10:07.Widespread fog overnight tonight and also freezing in places
:10:08. > :10:11.with temperatures dropping to around -1 Celsius in towns and cities,
:10:12. > :10:16.Widespread frost tomorrow morning and that freezing
:10:17. > :10:21.Once it does, we're expecting one or two bright spells,
:10:22. > :10:25.more likely the further west you are, slightly more cloud
:10:26. > :10:28.for eastern areas and generally it's quite a cloudy day all in all,
:10:29. > :10:31.with temperatures reaching a high of 4 to 6 Celsius with light,
:10:32. > :10:38.Through the course of tomorrow into Thursday, we're expecting some
:10:39. > :10:41.very cold air to push up from the south-east and the breeze
:10:42. > :10:43.will increase as well, so on the face of it,
:10:44. > :10:46.on the thermometer, we're expecting a high of 4 to 5 Celsius,
:10:47. > :10:48.but feeling more like freezing with the wind strength
:10:49. > :10:54.As we look ahead to the rest of the week, a cold day tomorrow.
:10:55. > :10:58.Sunny spells, but bitterly cold on Thursday, and the chance
:10:59. > :11:22.For all of us, it'll get colder and then milder again come the weekend.
:11:23. > :11:27.This shot taken earlier by a weather watcher in East Anglia. The fog
:11:28. > :11:30.becoming extensive over the next few hours in many south-eastern parts of
:11:31. > :11:38.England. Much, much milder, further north and
:11:39. > :11:39.west. Let's concentrate on that fog. I think it is going to be a problem