17/02/2017 South Today - Oxford

Three days since an explosion destroyed a block of flats

in Oxford, rescue teams are still searching for a man

who's believed to be buried under the rubble.

Guido Shooter, who's 48, hasn't been seen since

Firefighters are still trying to make buildings safe in the area.

Piles of bricks and mortar surrounded by shards

of shattered glass - the carnage caused by Tuesday's

explosion still lays untouched in the gardens of Gibbs Crescent.

This was the home of 48-year-old Guido Schuette -

a man police fear may be found dead, buried beneath the rubble.

But as the search for a body continues, what is happening

The first thing that occurs to me is, I can't hear the sound

So it's unlikely they've actually got heavy equipment

My guess is they are still going through manual handling and looking

around at this point. Obviously a digger is a lot less

controllable than a man, so if there is a body under there,

they'll be doing it delicately instead of going

in with all guns blazing. If we look, there is a tree

here on the left, there's a piece In fact, I'd have expected to see

more debris over this far. The blast seems to have

been directed this way, I'd have expected

to find more, really. The homes in Gibbs Crescent

are all one-bedroom flats. Three have been destroyed,

with four others left badly damaged. This evening, specialist machinery

has been brought in to support surrounding buildings,

as more than 40 personnel continue to gather evidence and look

for any signs of life. The structure that it is connected

to it would be their first concern, making sure that is stable and safe,

but the second concern would be There are gas explosions every year,

but not to that degree. Decent demolition contracts are well

equipped to deal with that - making the site safe and making sure

the recovery process can be done Residents of the 20 flats

within the cordon are staying in emergency accommodation

while the safety of their homes is assessed, with police sniffer

dogs now expected to visit the site as the search for Guido

Schuette continues. A murder investigation is underway

after a woman in her 60s was attacked in her home

in Milton Keynes and Detectives say the woman was pushed

to floor after a group of men One of the men held her down

with a hand over her mouth A man's pleaded guilty to raping

a woman at knifepoint near Mark Pearton, who's 44

and from East Sussex, admitted the assault in a park

near Harcourt Hill last month. He also pleaded guilty to possession

of a knife in a public place. A UK space company, based in Oxford,

is playing a crucial role in the next mission towards humans

living on the moon. A team of engineers at the Harwell

campus has won a contract to design a new landing sensor

for an unmanned mission. Angela Walker has been

finding out more. It's hard to believe,

but the key to humans living on the moon could be inside this

small silver box. It's a radar laser being developed

by scientists at Neptec Inside this box we have a laser

and some scanning mirrors. The laser will send out pulses

of light, and we measure the time And we use this to build up

a 3D map of the terrain. The Lidar will be used to help

an unmanned craft land on the moon in a mission to locate water that

could eventually be used to make fuel and oxygen to support future

manned lunar missions. It's a stepping stone

to future exploration, so Lidars and the other sensors that

we're building at Neptec UK, like infrared cameras,

can be used for many missions, both to the surface

and for rovers, and for automated The Luna Resource Mission

is a joint effort by the Russian Federal Space Agency

and the European Space Agency. It's scheduled to launch in 2021 -

52 years after the Americans As well as being the next step

towards humans living on the moon, the Lidar technology being developed

here can also be used on Earth. It can be applied in the development

of autonomous vehicles, which is an international growth

industry worth millions. Thousands of Oxford United fans are

preparing to make the long journey The team are hoping for another

upset tomorrow as they visit the Premier League side in the fifth

round of the FA Cup. This was the goal against Newcastle

that put Oxford United in the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first

time since 1994. And now they're ready

for the challenge. You know, it's

a massive game for us. If we can go with the same mentality

and that little bit of belief, with 20,000 supporters there,

I'm sure, as a boy growing up, that's the type of support

you want to be playing in front of. So now it's going to be

a great day, and hopefully And here's where they'll be playing

- the Riverside Stadium. More than 3,000 Oxford fans will be

travelling more than 230 miles up to Middlesborough

to support their team. Much of the Oxford squad is made

up of players released by Premier League teams early

in their careers - There will be a lot of our players

that will impress a few We've got players that we believe

can play at a high level, and hopefully, you know,

it will be Oxford at some point. Moments like this -

their promotion party last year in Oxford -

prove that Us fans are well known So while Teesside may not rank high

in UK's top tourist destinations, Oxford United fans are preparing

for a day out to remember. The weekend weather

forecast is next. Well, after a very pleasant,

springlike day, it's set to stay That cloud as we go through

the night breaking here and there. So we might see some mist

patches forming by dawn. Overnight lows not dropping

much below six Celsius. Onto tomorrow, then, and that dawn

is rather dull and grey. But as we go through the morning,

any low cloud will lift, and we'll start to see some brighter

spells develop, perhaps some And it'll be a mild day again -

11 Celsius the high. And then looking ahead

to the next few days, Sunday starts dreary,

but we will see some And for Monday, a warm but cloudy

day - 14 Celsius the high. Coming next, the national

weather forecast. part of next week, we could see 16

Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit with the National output.