:00:11. > :00:11.Good evening. for the news where you are.
:00:12. > :00:14.A gang of men who stole more than three million pounds' worth
:00:15. > :00:16.of jewellery from shops right across Britain including Oxford,
:00:17. > :00:19.Bicester Village and Milton Keynes, have today been jailed for a total
:00:20. > :00:23.The men cycled to raids to avoid their cars being picked up
:00:24. > :00:26.on number plate recognition systems and left traps so that the police
:00:27. > :00:30.Armed with sledgehammers, they smash their way
:00:31. > :00:38.into Goldsmith's jewellery shop in Oxford's Clarendon centre.
:00:39. > :00:40.Caught on CCTV on New Year's Eve 2015, stuffing expensive
:00:41. > :00:45.Suspects carried umbrellas to protect their identities,
:00:46. > :00:50.and this man in the high visibility jacket used a wheelie bin to carry
:00:51. > :01:00.This Romanian crime gang targeted 11 jewellery stores across the country.
:01:01. > :01:03.Today they've been sentenced at Stoke on Trent Crown Court
:01:04. > :01:10.to a total of 47 years for conspiring to commit burglaries.
:01:11. > :01:12.The gang used delay tactics to prevent the police from getting
:01:13. > :01:18.Here they set up metal cables between the lampposts
:01:19. > :01:20.and at the other end of Queens Street.
:01:21. > :01:23.The barricade prevented police from reaching the Clarendon Centre
:01:24. > :01:30.It's a tactic they used across the country in raids netting
:01:31. > :01:36.The gang launched their spree in Milton Keynes in November 2015
:01:37. > :01:38.targeting the Fraser Hart jewellers in Centre MK.
:01:39. > :01:41.They started a fire and padlocked a chain across the road to delay
:01:42. > :01:53.They also carried out a burglary on the Mont Blanc store
:01:54. > :01:56.That level of criminality, how highly organised,
:01:57. > :01:58.military precision of how they actually executed,
:01:59. > :02:00.sophistication and planning around it, clearly not acceptable
:02:01. > :02:02.within the United Kingdom and I think the sentencing
:02:03. > :02:11.reflects the severity of the crimes themselves.
:02:12. > :02:13.The burglars cycled to some of the jobs to avoid being
:02:14. > :02:21.Today they're beginning prison sentences ranging from six and half
:02:22. > :02:38.One further man is due to be sentenced later this month.
:02:39. > :02:41.An ex-Formula One motor racing driver from Oxfordshire has failed
:02:42. > :02:42.to get a driving ban for speeding overturned.
:02:43. > :02:45.Susie Wolff, who drove for Williams between 2012 and 2015,
:02:46. > :02:48.was caught doing 35 miles per hour in a 30 zone in a South
:02:49. > :02:52.Oxford Crown Court heard she already had nine points on her licence.
:02:53. > :02:54.She was banned for six months last November.
:02:55. > :02:56.More than 3,000 people have signed a petition calling
:02:57. > :02:59.for a trunk road to be built around Aylesbury.
:03:00. > :03:00.At the moment, many commuters have to drive
:03:01. > :03:04.Residents say the problem is getting worse as more homes
:03:05. > :03:13.Traffic, often a daily nightmare for drivers across Aylesbury.
:03:14. > :03:17.You never know how long it's going to take you to get to work.
:03:18. > :03:19.Some days it's 20 minutes, a journey which should take 20
:03:20. > :03:23.minutes can take you up to two hours.
:03:24. > :03:25.Kevin says commuters are having to travel through rather
:03:26. > :03:31.Any hiccups, like a burst watermain on the A41 last week,
:03:32. > :03:39.More than 30,000 homes are planned for Aylesbury
:03:40. > :03:47.over the next 16 years, and that means more cars.
:03:48. > :03:49.A relief road has already been built in the west, paid
:03:50. > :04:00.Another one in the east would depend on new houses there too.
:04:01. > :04:06.Kevin started an online petition a week ago.
:04:07. > :04:18.So, just tell me exactly where you want the trunk road to be.
:04:19. > :04:20.The A41 dual carriageway to the south of town,
:04:21. > :04:23.needs be extended all the way around to the north of the town
:04:24. > :04:25.over Bierton, around the north of the town,
:04:26. > :04:29.skirting the new developments and then joining back up with the A41.
:04:30. > :04:31.The reality is, it's only through the link road
:04:32. > :04:34.because a trunk road would cost far, far more money and we
:04:35. > :04:37.So we're doing what's deliverable, what's affordable, and actually
:04:38. > :04:41.One councillor says an answer can't come quick enough.
:04:42. > :04:45.She says the area's been gridlocked four times in the past three weeks.
:04:46. > :04:47.I don't know if it's realistic or optimistic, but it's
:04:48. > :04:50.definitely something that needs to be looked at.
:04:51. > :04:54.There's got to be some highway improvements.
:04:55. > :04:57.With no solution on the horizon, drivers and other residents
:04:58. > :05:07.Scientists have developed a machine that can lip read with more
:05:08. > :05:11.Researchers at Oxford University used lip movements from thousands
:05:12. > :05:15.of hours of BBC news programmes, to develop the software.
:05:16. > :05:19.Here's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.
:05:20. > :05:24.At the Action for Hearing Loss charity, Edward is trying
:05:25. > :05:26.to have a conversation with a colleague.
:05:27. > :05:28.With lots of noise coming into the office from the street,
:05:29. > :05:36.his lip-reading skills come in useful.
:05:37. > :05:38.But in Oxford, research is under way to teach computers
:05:39. > :05:42.It's involved training an artificial intelligence system using thousands
:05:43. > :05:51.So lip-reading is a very difficult problem because there are visual
:05:52. > :05:56.For example pat, bat and mat are visually identical.
:05:57. > :05:58.By endlessly watching clips of Breakfast, Newsnight and other
:05:59. > :06:02.BBC News programmes, the computer teaches
:06:03. > :06:08.What the system does is learn things that occur together.
:06:09. > :06:11.So in this case they're the mouth shapes and the characters,
:06:12. > :06:13.and what the likely upcoming characters are, given
:06:14. > :06:21.This would help people with when they're watching
:06:22. > :06:26.subtitles on television, this will help people when they're
:06:27. > :06:31.out and about in very noisy environments.
:06:32. > :06:34.Right now the technology only works on full sentences in recorded clips.
:06:35. > :06:37.The next stage is to make it work live.
:06:38. > :06:39.But first the computer is going to be watching
:06:40. > :06:43.The weather's next, starting with the regional forecast
:06:44. > :06:50.From everyone here have a great weekend, goodnight.
:06:51. > :06:56.We saw a few bright spells today but sunshine in short supply over the
:06:57. > :06:59.weekend I'm afraid. It's a very cloudy picture over the next few
:07:00. > :07:05.days and certainly through this evening we are cloudy and windy too.
:07:06. > :07:10.Through the course of the night the cloud thickens, the winds will pick
:07:11. > :07:15.up Thomas were strong westerly wind overnight but temperatures not too
:07:16. > :07:19.bad at all, thoughs not dropping below eight Celsius. Breezy and mild
:07:20. > :07:26.with a lot of cloud around through the day but it should stay mainly
:07:27. > :07:30.dry and top temperatures tomorrow 13 Celsius, 55 Fahrenheit. Looking
:07:31. > :07:33.is cloudy and windy, Sunday has the is cloudy and windy, Sunday has the
:07:34. > :07:40.it is rather breezy. Now for the national outlook.
:07:41. > :07:48.It was quite a wet day across many northern and western parts of the
:07:49. > :07:53.UK. This was the view in Lancashire not so long ago. For the weekend we
:07:54. > :07:54.are looking to see further rain, all coming from the