:00:00. > :00:00.Coming up: A ten-year jail term for the lorry driver who killed
:00:07. > :00:08.a mother and three children on the A34.
:00:09. > :00:23.Use of his mobile phone while driving from Florida and Mulligan.
:00:24. > :00:28.Calls for rent to be waived for community groups hoping
:00:29. > :00:33.to save children centres from closure.
:00:34. > :00:36.There will be rain at times but drier days, I had the weathdr
:00:37. > :00:40.shortly. Police have released footagd
:00:41. > :00:45.of a fatal crash caused by a distracted lorry driver
:00:46. > :00:47.who was using his mobile Four people were killed -
:00:48. > :00:51.including three children - when Tomasz Kroker's lorry smashed
:00:52. > :00:55.into stationary traffic He has been jailed for ten xears
:00:56. > :01:04.at Crown Court. Video released by police
:01:05. > :01:08.in conjunction with the victim's families shows Thomasz Krokdr
:01:09. > :01:11.scrolling through his His lorry closing rapidly on a queue
:01:12. > :01:18.of stationary traffic. Moments later, children, Ethan,
:01:19. > :01:23.Josh and Aimee were dead together with the boy's mother,
:01:24. > :01:26.Tracey Houghton. Their car crushed to
:01:27. > :01:29.a third of its size, In the moments Thomasz Krokdr chose
:01:30. > :01:34.to look at his phone, he caused a multiple vehicld
:01:35. > :01:37.accident that endangered all surrounding road users
:01:38. > :01:42.and took the lives of Tracy, To all intents and purposes,
:01:43. > :01:52.Mr Kroker's use of his mobile phone whilst driving turned his lorry
:01:53. > :01:56.into a lethal weapon. Videos seen by the judge exposed
:01:57. > :02:00.the wider family's emotional trauma. I thought that was the
:02:01. > :02:03.worst day of my life. But I think it was three wedks later
:02:04. > :02:10.when I went to the funeral directors and actually saw them dead,
:02:11. > :02:16.cold, in their coffins. Witnesses said Mr Kroker
:02:17. > :02:20.was in tears after the crash but insisted his brakes had failed
:02:21. > :02:24.until he was confronted The death toll could
:02:25. > :02:28.have been far higher. Adam Pearson's was thrown upside
:02:29. > :02:32.down in the crash, breaking Using your phone while drivhng
:02:33. > :02:36.is not something minor, it It is the only good
:02:37. > :02:45.thing to come out of this, that it will changd public
:02:46. > :02:48.attitudes when using a phond The family said it could never
:02:49. > :02:56.be compensated for the Earlier I spoke to our transport
:02:57. > :03:12.correspondent Paul Clifton and asked him how
:03:13. > :03:15.realistic that might be. There is no evidence to suggest
:03:16. > :03:18.the number of people using ` hand held mobile phone at the whdel
:03:19. > :03:22.is going down. Yet the number of drivers ptnished
:03:23. > :03:27.for doing so fell by half since last year alone,
:03:28. > :03:31.and by 84% since 2011. There are fewer police
:03:32. > :03:37.are out on the road looking There are far fewer traffic police
:03:38. > :03:42.than five years ago - every force in this region has cut
:03:43. > :03:46.the size of its roads polichng unit. It is not because people ard
:03:47. > :03:49.using their mobile phones bdhind the Many studies have
:03:50. > :03:52.described it as shocking. The RAC called it
:03:53. > :03:56.an epidemic of use. The cuts that police forces have
:03:57. > :04:00.seen, and they have had to make difficult choices,
:04:01. > :04:04.road traffic policing has bden seen These officers save lives
:04:05. > :04:10.and we need to see investment to make sure
:04:11. > :04:13.people think they will be caught when they use
:04:14. > :04:15.a Having two cameras inside
:04:16. > :04:21.a lorry cab is unusual. Having one facing the
:04:22. > :04:29.driver is more unusual. It is the boss watching
:04:30. > :04:32.everything they do. Many drivers welcome it
:04:33. > :04:38.because it exonerates them at the time of an incident
:04:39. > :04:43.and demonstrates they were doing the right thing or not doing solething
:04:44. > :04:46.they might be accused of. We know that texting whilst driving
:04:47. > :04:53.impairs reaction times more than being at the legal
:04:54. > :04:56.drink drive limit. IAM Road Smart, the Institute
:04:57. > :05:00.of Advanced Motorists, said the courts seem
:05:01. > :05:04.to be playing catch up with society's views on this,
:05:05. > :05:09.and said sentencing was out It wants stronger
:05:10. > :05:13.penalties and more police. The drink driving battle
:05:14. > :05:18.has largely been won. That's because it is widely regarded
:05:19. > :05:23.as socially unacceptable. Using a mobile phone whilst driving
:05:24. > :05:29.does not have the same Until it does, and until drhvers
:05:30. > :05:37.fear they might actually be caught breaking the law,
:05:38. > :05:39.there will be more terrible Police are investigating after a man
:05:40. > :05:48.was seriously injured at a Halloween The man was stabbed at
:05:49. > :05:53.Bottelino's Restaurant in the early He was taken to the John
:05:54. > :05:57.Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where he remains in a seriots
:05:58. > :05:59.but stable condition. Three men have been arrested
:06:00. > :06:04.and released on conditional bail. Community groups hoping to step
:06:05. > :06:07.in to save some of Oxfordshhre's children's centres are clailing
:06:08. > :06:10.they're being kept in the d`rk about how much rent they'll be
:06:11. > :06:13.charged to use council buildings. Funding cuts mean more than half
:06:14. > :06:18.of the council-run centres are set to close in March -
:06:19. > :06:21.unless other groups Now some councillors are calling
:06:22. > :06:25.for rents to be waived The Doorstep Family Centre hn Oxford
:06:26. > :06:33.is one step ahead of other similar It's managing to stay
:06:34. > :06:37.afloat without depending on council funding -
:06:38. > :06:40.that's exactly what Oxfordshire County Council wants
:06:41. > :06:44.to happen elsewhere. But managers here are worridd
:06:45. > :06:46.about how other community groups will cope if they're charged rent
:06:47. > :06:49.when they take over If they spend their first ydar
:06:50. > :06:54.raising money to save rent, they They need that step
:06:55. > :07:00.for the right Fundraising is very
:07:01. > :07:04.difficult in itself. from closure by a charity
:07:05. > :07:10.is Britannia Road in Banburx. But those trying to take ovdr say
:07:11. > :07:14.Oxfordshire County Council hasn t been clear about how much
:07:15. > :07:17.rent it will charge. At the moment we are in the dark
:07:18. > :07:23.about information we need to include We still need to find out
:07:24. > :07:30.what the rent will be, we are still waiting to find out
:07:31. > :07:33.lots of different things like what Tomorrow Oxfordshire County Council
:07:34. > :07:39.will debate whether or not to waive rents for children's centres
:07:40. > :07:42.for the first year - something called for by
:07:43. > :07:45.the Green party. This is a false economy
:07:46. > :07:49.because if you close the children's centres,
:07:50. > :07:52.the number of children taken into Taking a child into care
:07:53. > :07:56.costs a fortune and that money can be better spent kdeping
:07:57. > :08:00.the doors of the centres opdn. Meanwhile, local
:08:01. > :08:03.churches are being urged by the Diocese of Oxford to help run
:08:04. > :08:06.services like this. What we are saying is this hs
:08:07. > :08:11.a fabulous opportunity to t`ke your place at the heart
:08:12. > :08:14.of community life. In terms of doing things
:08:15. > :08:17.that are for the common good,
:08:18. > :08:19.for the community good. The County Council says
:08:20. > :08:22.it's now received bids from 17 charities and
:08:23. > :08:25.communities hoping to take over children's centres
:08:26. > :08:27.across Oxfordshire and has insisted the discussions
:08:28. > :08:30.it's had with those groups have The Ashmolean Museum has bedn
:08:31. > :08:40.granted just over a million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Ftnd
:08:41. > :08:44.to help it secure a hoard The rare find of Viking coins
:08:45. > :08:48.and artifacts was discovered in a field near Watlington by metal
:08:49. > :08:52.detectorist James Mather The weather's next starting
:08:53. > :08:58.with the regional forecast looking The weather for the week ahdad
:08:59. > :09:04.is set to turn colder. Temperatures by day could rdach
:09:05. > :09:07.a high of 10 There will be some rain at times,
:09:08. > :09:12.brighter spells as well aftdr a fairly mild start
:09:13. > :09:14.to the week today. Overnight tonight, mist and fog
:09:15. > :09:21.patches will develop. The fog may be stubborn
:09:22. > :09:25.to clear and could linger up until around
:09:26. > :09:30.ten in the morning but once it is clear,
:09:31. > :09:31.we're looking at one or two bright spells,
:09:32. > :09:35.increasing cloud and the possibility It won't amount to too
:09:36. > :09:41.much and a lot of places will stay dry with a high
:09:42. > :09:45.tomorrow of 11 to 12 Celsius Tomorrow night the cloud
:09:46. > :09:49.eventually disappears and under clearing skies with lhght
:09:50. > :09:52.winds, there is the chance of one the countryside, possibly
:09:53. > :10:01.down to freezing, so the risk of a touch
:10:02. > :10:03.of That's also the case
:10:04. > :10:06.through Wednesday. Wednesday is a lovely day whth clear
:10:07. > :10:10.skies and barely a cloud in the sky and it will stay dry
:10:11. > :10:14.with temperatures reaching ` high Quite a fresh feeling
:10:15. > :10:18.day with that light High pressure starts
:10:19. > :10:22.to move away from Thursday and we will start to
:10:23. > :10:24.see increasing cloud during the afternoon
:10:25. > :10:26.with this weather front expected to arrive
:10:27. > :10:30.during Thursday evening so Thursday will start on a dry and bright note
:10:31. > :10:33.with sunny spells but we ard Even the chance of a frost first
:10:34. > :10:39.thing on Thursday morning. Eventually the rain
:10:40. > :10:43.will clear and following it and scattered showers with ` high
:10:44. > :10:47.of just nine Celsius. As a look ahead to the weekdnd,
:10:48. > :10:50.it will be unsettled Isolated showers through Saturday
:10:51. > :10:54.and for bonfire night, it Up next is the national
:10:55. > :11:06.weather forecast. side. Strong northerly winds, some
:11:07. > :11:12.sunshine and also some rain for the weekend. The National weather coming
:11:13. > :11:16.up now with Louise. Halloween 2 16 has almost come and gone but it has
:11:17. > :11:21.left some spookily interesting statistics. It has been a third
:11:22. > :11:25.consecutive mild Halloween. The warmest was in 2014, 20 four
:11:26. > :11:26.Celsius. Today we have been