That's all from BBC Local Live for the first day of February 2016.

Join us for more of updates tomorrow from 08:00.

Geoff Doyle
BBC Three Counties Radio sport

Stevenage have signed former Luton striker Aaron O'Connor on a permanent deal from Forest Green. 

He's been on loan at the Lamex for the last two weeks.

Image source, Getty Images

Boro have also signed Oxford striker Pat Hoban on a month's loan.  

BBC Weather

Overnight, there will be a risk of gales in exposed locations. Skies will be mostly clear, although there may be the odd shower moving through at times. Minimum temperature: 6C (43F) 

Tomorrow it will still stay rather breezy at times, particularly in exposed locations such as The Chilterns, and it will feel colder. Maximum temperature: 8C (46F).

A bridge with a weight restriction is causing headaches for engineers trying to get repair materials to the site of a landslip near Leighton Buzzard which has disrupted train services. 

An emergency timetable was put in place on the West Coast Mainline this morning and will stay in place until at least Friday.

Two thousand tonnes of stone are needed to repair the embankment and can only be brought in using smaller vehicles, but Network Rail's Matt Danks said: "It's all hands to the pump and we're hopeful to get things sorted out later this week."

Jon Kaye
BBC Three Counties Radio

The top stories:

• Strike action planned at the Milton Keynes-based Open University tomorrow has been called off
• Millions of pounds of public money loaned to a football club was "misappropriated" by a Hertfordshire businessman, according to claims made in a legal document seen by the BBC
• A landslip near Leighton Buzzard is causing problems on the West Coast Mainline

Stevenage have sacked former England striker Teddy Sheringham as manager.

The 49-year-old took on the role of manager at Stevenage in May 2015 (pictured) when he replaced Graham Westley.

"Teddy has had the worst luck I've seen in the 16 years I've owned the football club," said chairman Phil Wallace., external

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Police have revealed that the woman who was stopped after driving "for miles" without a tyre on one of her wheels was stopped near St Albans.

Officers said she "had no idea that she'd lost the tyre and thought her car had broken down".  

BBC Sport

Teddy Sheringham has been sacked as manager of Stevenage with the club 19th in League Two.  

Helen Burchell
BBC News

A woman pulled over when police noticed she had just three tyres on her car was almost three times over the legal alcohol limit, police say.

She initially failed to provide a breath test at the side of the road, but was breathalysed later.

“Unfortunately the lady felt we should be doing more worthwhile tasks like arresting terrorists," Beds, Cambs and Herts road police wrote on Twitter, external. 

Geoff Doyle
BBC Three Counties Radio sport

Watford are on the verge of making a transfer deadline day signing. 

Rennes midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure is expected to join for around £8m.

Image source, Getty Images

There could still be more deals to happen at Vicarage Road - both in and out - before the window closes.

A strike at the Milton Keynes-based Open University, external, due to take place tomorrow, has been called off.

It follows talks between the university and the University and College Union.

The OU announced plans last year to close seven regional centres, including one in Cambridge, which covers Bedfordshire. The Milton Keynes base was not among them. 

Jon Kaye
BBC Three Counties Radio

The top stories:

• A Hertfordshire businessman "misappropriated" millions of pounds of public money loaned to Northampton Town FC, according to claims in a legal document obtained by the BBC
• A prisoner at The Mount jail in Bovingdon has been convicted of attacking another inmate who nearly bled to death
• Pupils at another school in Hertfordshire will find out today when they'll get to speak to British Astronaut Tim Peake

Sam Read
BBC Radio Northampton politics reporter

Millions of pounds of public money loaned to a football club by a council was "misappropriated" by a Hertfordshire businessman and his associates, according to claims made in a legal document seen by the BBC. 

Howard Grossman, from Bushey, has described the claim, relating to Northampton Borough Council's £10.25m loan to Northampton Town FC for the development of the Sixfields stadium and surrounding land, as "outrageous and deeply offensive".

Image source, Getty Images

High Court papers from 2014 contain allegations Mr Grossman used a "substantial part of the money for unrelated purposes". 

Jon Kaye
BBC Three Counties Radio

A prisoner at The Mount jail in Bovingdon, near Hemel Hempstead, has been convicted of attacking another inmate who nearly bled to death. 

Marlon Roban, 38, was found guilty of wounding Mohsine Koura, who was attacked with a shard of glass near the prison canteen last April. 

He'll be sentenced at St Albans Crown Court in March.

Lee Agnew
BBC Three Counties Radio

Pupils at a school in Hertfordshire will find out today when they'll get to speak to British astronaut Tim Peake. 

The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, external will be linking up with the International Space Station within the next fortnight.

Image source, esa

Sandringham School in St Albans was the first school in the world to make a link-up with him last month.

Tributes are being paid in Buckinghamshire to veteran broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan who died yesterday - he lived in Taplow for some 40 years. 

The Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, external, Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, said he was a great charity worker and ran an annual match at Denham Golf Club to raise money for the Buckinghamshire Community Foundation, external.

Image source, Bucks county council

Sir Terry was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 2007 and is pictured here receiving his certificate from Sir Henry.

BBC Weather

This afternoon will be cloudy and windy to begin with, and there may be a little light rain and drizzle for some. 

It will become brighter later on, but also colder with isolated showers possible.

Parking problems in Ridgway Road, Luton, where residents claim they have nowhere to park due to outsiders using spaces, stem from 2008 when people elected not to be part of a residents' parking scheme, according to Luton Borough Council, external.

"[In 2008], the council received two objections and a petition from Ridgway Road residents against the scheme and it was decided to drop Ridgway Road from the Controlled Parking Zone as a result," said a council statement.

"One of the options presented is to extend the residents' parking scheme to include Ridgway Road. We will consider the results during February and will be contacting residents with the outcome."

Network Rail engineers are at Linslade, near Leighton Buzzard, working to repair damage to an earth viaduct following a landslip on the West Coast mainline.

An emergency is timetable in force for trains between London, the Midlands, North West of England and Scotland, with services not expected to normal until Friday.

Image source, Network Rail

London-bound sections of track are shut to trains.

Frustrated residents of one Luton street says they've resorted to parking illegally because spaces outside their own homes have been taken up by other people.

"We have to park wherever we get a space and then we end up getting tickets a lot of the time, but I refuse to pay," one resident of Ridgway Road told the BBC.

Ridgway Road was originally left out of a parking permit scheme, but Luton Borough Council , externalsays it's looking at the possibility of including it.