10/02/2017 South Today - Oxford

A former Oxfordshire scout leader's been jailed for 16 years

after pleading guilty to child sex offences.

Gary Lane, who's 52, admitted two counts of raping

It happened in Kidlington two years ago.

Gary Lane came to know these boys in 2013.

The court was told he groomed them with toys and expensive

He occasionally took them away on fishing trips.

And, sometimes, they even stayed at his house overnight.

But, it was between January, and also November 2015,

that he raped both boys and committed other multiple sexual

They were aged just eight and ten at the time.

He was also a scoutmaster but it's important to emphasise that neither

After he was arrested and bailed, he fled to Scotland before

He'd missed two court dates during that time before he pleaded

guilty to all the charges, here at Oxfordshire

Now, the officer in charge of this case, who can't be identified

for operational reasons, gave me his reaction

These victims were cruelly robbed of a normal childhood

and even though the sentence could never repair the damage caused

by his heinous actions, I hope that the victims

and their families can now try to move forward with their lives,

knowing that this man is finally behind bars.

In victim impact videos played in court, both

of the boys said they were sad, upset, and angry about

The mother of one of the boys said that their lives had

In sentencing him to 16 years in prison, Judge Patrick Eccles QC

said there was something with Gary Lane's sexual

thinking and that he'd shown no remorse for his crimes.

A teenager from Aylesbury's appeared in court, charged

Brandon Lavender, who's 18, is accused of fatally stabbing

Brandon Lavender didn't enter a plea.

Police have named a man who died, when his car was hit by a train,

on a level crossing in the Cotswolds.

Colin Cameron, who was 60, was in his Landrover with two dogs

when the vehicle was struck by a train in Frampton

It's prompted calls about the safety of the unmanned crossing.

Network Rail says the number of deaths at level crossings

Next tonight - the Oxfordshire parents who were told their twin

boys only had a 50% chance of survival.

Charlie and Hayley Lampshire from Kidlington say they're

relieved their boys overcame risky health complications -

Serena Martin has been to meet the family.

In the Lampshire household, there's two of everything -

two toy monkeys, two sets of shoes and two identical baby boys.

But due to a risky pregnancy, there was a chance both wouldn't make it.

We went from shock to utter joy, finding out we were going to have

two and then finding out we were going to the twins

"Mo Mo" or monoamniotic twins are incredibly rare.

They share the same amniotic sack, so there's a high risk of them

strangling each other with their umbilical cord.

There's only a 50% chance of both twins surviving.

There was nothing we could do and if anything had gone wrong,

we wouldn't have necessarily know until we went for a scan.

They are quite tightly packed in the same sac.

They looked like they were cuddled up together.

We've always felt that they have always been very close,

Rowan and Blake defied the odds to be born healthy.

And their parents hope their story will bring a glimmer

Schoolchildren in Banbury have been given the chance to get hands-on

The high tech kit is now a permanent feature -

This is a VR headset and it's connected to

From a classroom to a make-believe castle.

Just about anything's possible with virtual reality.

and I have to defend the castle and shoot them with my

There's now a virtual reality room at the Space Studio

The pupils don't just play the games - they create them.

It's definitely like a more futuristic approach to life.

Something that I wouldn't consider back in my secondary school

but now I'm doing it, it's something I know

Until you actually start doing it, you learn so much and it's amazing

Today the local MP officially launched the suite.

Like everyone else, Victoria Prentis enjoyed visiting the virtual world,

but there's more to the experience than just having fun.

I've just been talking to the head about how

they can use it for history, how they can use it for drama,

how they can use it for all sorts of scientific exploration and it's

also great that the children in the space studio

who are into this sort of development and programming can

use their skills to help other students learn.

Critics of virtual reality say it's a gimmick,

Staff at the academy say their new suite is here to stay.

A company in Oxfordshire has successfully re-produced bones

from one of the biggest marine reptiles of the Jurassic era -

Half of the skull of a pliosaur was printed

Overnight it will stay cold and cloudy, with

We could even see a dusting of snow over higher levels through the early

The showers may become heavy for a time.

Temperatures in the countryside will dip the to around -1 or -2.

The snow showers will continue tomorrow morning.

We will continue to hold onto that cloud cover,

Through the afternoon, snow showers turn more to rain showers,

and there will be a lot of cloud through the afternoon,

feeling bitterly cold with the strength of the wind.

A high tomorrow of 2-3 Celsius, so a lot of cloud

But finally, we will see some sunshine on Monday

Next week, temperatures will slowly start to creep up.

exception to that rule probably over the hills where again there could be

a bit of snow, but not accumulating. Another cold

However I paint this weekend's picture, I'll need a palette of

grey. Thereby a a lot of cloud around but I managed to find some

sunshine. I don't know how but there was a couple of hours towards the

south-west in Cornwall, a beautiful day. The south-west saw glimpses of

sunshine. Further east, cloudy, cold and grey with winds off the North

seep and a scattering of wintry showers. Yes, rain sleet and snow, a

dusting at lower levels through the day. It brought this beautiful

picture on the outskirts