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BBC Weather

It will be mainly cloudy and dry overnight, with a risk of some localised hill fog on the Chilterns.

Temperatures will remain mild for the time of year, but strong southwesterly winds will give a fresher feel with lows of 9C (48F).

BBC Weather has your local forecast. 

Mariam Issimdar
BBC Beds, Herts and Bucks Live

A policeman pursued vulnerable women for sex after meeting them through the course of his work, Luton Crown Court heard today.

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Simon Salway, 39, who was based at Hatfield station, is said to have targetted seven women after they contacted police for help; some were victims of domestic violence.

The officer has pleaded not guilty to seven charges of misconduct in a public office and the case is continuing.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC Beds, Herts and Bucks Live

This is the picture for pupils attending a good or outstanding secondary school, external across the three counties:

• Luton 92% (up 9pts) 
• Bedford 80% (up 3pts) 
• Central Bedfordshire 76% (up 4pts) 
• Hertfordshire 84% (up 5pts) 
• Milton Keynes 75% (no change) 
• Buckinghamshire 74% (up 2 pts) 

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

The main stories this tea-time: 

• A transgender prisoner serving life has been found hanging at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes
• Detectives have re-opened an investigation into the murder of an accountant 25 years ago
• Police are searching for a 17th Century Roundhead helmet stolen from a civil war re-enactor in St Albans

Mariam Issimdar
BBC Beds, Herts and Bucks Live

Junior doctors at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital have been seeing patients after a national strike was called off following a temporary agreement with the Government.

The British Medical Association has suspended the first of three walk-outs, along with two more which had been scheduled for the end of the month.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Wycombe Wanderers will move into the League Two play-off places if they win at Bristol Rovers tonight. 

The Chairboys will be without suspended defender Aaron Pierre. 

There will be full commentary tonight on Three Counties Sport from 19:00.

A Luton jazz bar has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to soundproof the venue after it was served with a Noise Abatement Order.

The Bear Club, external says it needs £9,400 to meet the requirements set out by Luton Borough Council.

In an email, owner Justin Doherty writes: "4,500 people signed the [#savethebear] petition. That's just over £2 each."

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Plans to open a railway line between Bicester and Bletchley are still on track after the Transport Secretary accepted a recent review into the East-West Rail programme. 

The project includes direct links to Aylesbury.

Conservative MP for Aylesbury, David Lidington, says it will provide valuable extra capacity and an improved service for people in the area.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks Live

This is the picture for pupils attending a good or outstanding primary schools across the three counties: 

• Bedford 95% (no change)
• Central Bedfordshire 88% (down 1pts)
• Luton 79% (up 2pts)   
• Hertfordshire 85% (up 1pt)
• Milton Keynes 82% (no change)

• Buckinghamshire 90% (up 5pts)

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Bucks Free Press

A pile of burning commercial waste, external was reported near a main road in Beaconsfield this morning.

Mariam Issimdar
BBC Beds, Herts & Bucks Live

The family of a Hertfordshire businessman found strangled and beaten in a fire at his home 25 years ago say their father's death hangs like a "black cloud" over them.

Detectives are to re-interview witnesses spoken to at the time in connection with the murder of Patrick Hurling.

BBC News England

Thames Valley Police must improve how it records data on Gypsies, Roma and travellers "as a matter of urgency", an independent review has said.

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It found the problem was compounded by the force's outdated and disjointed IT systems, one of which was at least 25 years old.

But it also praised the "high quality training" offered by the force.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

Hertfordshire Police have appointed Chief Inspector Stephen O'Keeffe to lead their team of volunteer police officers.

Image source, Hertfordshire Constabulary

The new head of Hertfordshire's Special Constabulary says he's "delighted to take on the role" after starting his career as a Special Constable 21 years ago at Hertford Police Station. Ch Insp O'Keeffe joined the regular force just a year later.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

The stories we're looking at this afternoon:

• A transgender prisoner has been found hanged at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes 
• The family of a Hertfordshire businessman murdered 25 years ago today are appealing for help to find his killers
• Plans to open a railway line between Bicester and Bletchley are still on track after the Transport Secretary accepted the recent review into the East-West Rail programme

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

A transgender woman found hanged in her cell at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes has been named as Joanne Latham.

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The 38-year-old was found unresponsive on Friday morning before being pronounced dead at 06:20.

"As with all deaths in custody there will be an investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman," a Prison Service spokesman said.

A post-mortem examination is yet to be carried out on a transgender woman found dead in her cell in Milton Keynes' Woodhill Prison, a spokesman for the coroner's service has said.

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The death of the prisoner, who was serving life for attempted murder, is the second recently of a transgender woman in a men's prison.

Last month inmate Vikki Thompson, 21, was found dead at HMP Leeds.  

Thames Valley Police have confirmed they are aware of the death of an inmate at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes.

A transgender woman was found hanged in her cell in the early hours of Friday morning.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

A transgender woman has been found hanged in her cell at the all-male Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes.

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Staff found that the observation panel on the prisoner's cell was covered just after 04:00 on Friday, and after getting no response from her, they forced entry through the door, which had been barricaded. 

The staff administered CPR until paramedics arrived, but the prisoner was pronounced dead at 06:20.

A Prison Service report seen by the BBC said a transgender prisoner found hanged in her cell at Woodhill Prison had barricaded the door of her cell.

The ligature was removed but the inmate, serving life at the Milton Keynes prison for attempted murder, was pronounced dead at 06:20 on Friday.

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