A private school has been ordered to pay over £140,000 after a 13-year-old girl was permanently paralysed when a swing collapsed.

St Albans Crown Court ordered Queenswood School in Brookman's Park, Hertfordshire, to pay a £50,000 fine and £90,693 in costs after the pupil was hit on the head and neck by a heavy wooden cross beam in September 2011, leaving her with spinal injuries.

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Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

A centre for adults with learning disabilities in Letchworth could be forced to close after its building was sold.

Jackie's Drop-In Centre, external can move to a new building if £15,000 can be raised to refurbish it to make it fit for 200-plus members.

Founder Jackie Nealon says the centre knew the Letchworth Heritage Foundation (LHF), external would eventually sell the current premises. The LHF said it had given the centre another temporary building and a £10,000 grant to "give them time to start the long-term planning they need to do as they develop and grow."

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

Two men charged following a dog attack in Hertfordshire are due to enter pleas at St Albans Crown Court today.

A woman was seriously injured by two German Shepherds at Warren Farm in Great Amwell last October.

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Nijamul Islam, 42, from Edgware, and Mijanur Malik, 21, from Edmonton, are charged with owning dogs that were dangerously out of control and causing unnecessary suffering to animals.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

An inquest opens today into the death of a husband and wife in a crash on the A421 Bedford bypass last week.

Martin Spratt, 70, and his wife Evelyn, 68, from Buckden in Cambridgeshire, died on Tuesday, 12 January following a collision involving four cars and two lorries.

Ollie Bayliss
BBC Three Counties Radio

A centre for adults with learning disabilities in Letchworth could be forced to close, after its building was sold.

Jackie's Drop-In Centre, external is having to move premises, but hasn't got the funds to get their new home up to scratch.

The centre is currently based at St Michael's House, but the property has been sold by their landlords, the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, external.

Today's big picture is Houghton House, external in Ampthill.

Many thanks to Megan Wright, who is a student at Central Beds College, external, for this fantastic image.

Image source, Megan Wright

Gail Sanderson
BBC Three Counties Radio

A barrister from Buckinghamshire who falsely warned of a nuclear attack on the London Olympics has failed to clear his name.

Michael Shrimpton, 58, from Justins Glebe in Wendover, was jailed for a year for making a series of hoax calls which claimed a shadowy Nazi network was behind the plot and had acquired cruise missiles from a sunken Russian submarine.

At the Appeal Court yesterday, his legal team claimed his trial was unfair due to alleged repeated "interjections and exchanges" from the trial judge, but the court backed the judge's handling of the case.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

The A418 Bierton Road in Aylesbury is closed in both directions at the Manor Road junction due to a two-vehicle accident.

Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue has tweeted, external to say a woman was released from one of the cars.

Get the latest updates from BBC Travel.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Earlier we told you about the lorry which got stuck in Walkern yesterday after the driver's sat nav failed - here's another shot which shows just how wedged in it got.

A spokesman from haulage company D&R Hankins said the driver had been to a farm in Walkern and was on his way back to base when his sat nav had taken him through the narrow village streets.

He said there was "minimal damage" to the lorry and a recovery vehicle was sent to "manoeuvre" it out of its predicament.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

Mick Harford is back at Luton Town in a newly created role of chief recruitment officer.

Harford, who left the manager's job at Kenilworth Road in 2009, will work alongside new manager Nathan Jones and chief executive Gary Sweet.

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Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

Wycombe Wanderers FA Cup adventure is over after they lost their third round replay 2-0 at Premier League side Aston Villa.

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It was 0-0 for 75 minutes at Villa Park before defender Ciaran Clark opened the scoring for Villa and Idrissa Gueye guided in a second.

Chairboys manager, Gareth Ainsworth, said: "I just thought we ran out of steam towards the end... I've said to the boys, [if] you perform like that in League Two, we'll win a lot more than we lose."

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

A paedophile from Bedfordshire, who was part of a gang that attacked babies, toddlers and pre-school children, has died after being found unconscious in his prison cell.

Image source, National Crime Agency

Robin Hollyson, 31, from Luton, who had befriended a couple with a baby, was jailed for 24 years last September.

Hollyson, who had changed his name to James King, was found in his cell at Bristol prison on Friday and died in hospital on Sunday. The BBC understands his death is not being treated as suspicious.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

A 50-foot-long lorry got stuck in a Hertfordshire village street yesterday after the driver's SatNav failed.

Hertfordshire Police tweeted an image of the lorry stuck in Walkern.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

Latest figures show more than 70,000 drivers were fined for speeding in 30mph zones in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire last year.

In at least one case someone was clocked doing 90mph.

Insp Phil Bloor from the Beds, Cambs and Herts Road Policing Unit said: "There is no justification for driving too quickly in areas where there are a lot of pedestrians."

BBC Sport

MK Dons have booked a money-spinning FA Cup tie at home to Chelsea, after beating Northampton Town 3-0 in last night's third round replay at stadium:mk.

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Second half penalties from Ben Reeves and Simon Church sandwiched a Josh Murphy goal.

Dons manager Karl Robinson said: "I thought our play was good... we didn't panic and we didn't give them any chances either."

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

Here are the top stories we're looking at this morning:

• A paedophile from Bedfordshire has died after being found unconscious in his prison cell
• More than 70,000 drivers were fined for speeding in 30mph zones in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire last year
• Milton Keynes Dons are through to the fourth round of the FA Cup after beating Northampton Town 3-0

Kate Kinsella
BBC Look East weather

After a frosty start it will be a cold, but largely sunny day with a maximum temperature of 4C (39F).

BBC Travel

Commuters using London Midland and Virgin train services from Milton Keynes into London face disruption this morning. Damage to overhead wires further north, between Rugby and Northampton, are causing delays and cancellations.

Meanwhile, one lane is blocked on the anti-clockwise M25 before J23 for the A1(M) due to an accident involving a lorry and a coach.

Get the latest updates from BBC Travel.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

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