Updates for Monday, 11 April 2016
Luton Labour councillor resigns over anti-Semitic tweet
Export ban placed on £1.5m Italian table tops
Man rescues "battered and bruised" swan from flyover
Robinson hints at departure if Dons go down
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The main image at the top of our live page today shows Great Linford, external in Buckinghamshire.
Thank you to Weather Watcher "Oldboy" for sharing this photograph with us.
Image source, BBC/OldboyThe National Trust has confirmed it's moved on a group of travellers from Dunstable Downs.
The group moved to the beauty spot last week, after leaving a car park in the town centre.
The National Trust says it "employed enforcement officers to serve notice on the travellers who then left of their own accord."
Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live
Earlier we mentioned Anthony Joshua... well Watford's new world heavyweight boxing champion has been filming with BBC Three.
He has given an exclusive insight into his life inside and outside of the ring in a documentary called Anthony Joshua: A Legend in the Making.
Follow AJ throughout the days leading up to title fights, the programme meets the people who are closest to him and just what it takes to become a lean, mean, boxing machine.
Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio
A body believed to be that of a missing junior doctor with links to Royston in Hertfordshire has been found according to police.
Image source, Devon and Cornwall PoliceRose Polge, 25, worked at Torbay Hospital in Devon and went missing in February.
A woman's body recovered from the sea in Dorset is thought to be that of Dr Polge. Her family have been informed.
Rather cloudy this evening. It will become dry for a time, before further showery outbreaks of rain through the early hours of the morning.
Minimum temperature: 6C (43F)
A couple in Bedfordshire awoke in the early hours of this morning to a fire in their kitchen.
Image source, Bedfordshire Fire and RescueFirefighters were called to the property in Lodge Road, Sharnbrook, at 02:12 where they found a dishwasher on fire.
One of the firefighters said the couple were "fortunate" as they were woken by their smoke alarm and quickly managed to alert the emergency services.
Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio
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Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio
Milton Keynes Dons' manager Karl Robinson has hinted he may leave the club at the end of the season as they look set to return to League One.
Image source, Getty ImagesSaturday's 4-0 home defeat by Championship relegation rivals Rotherham left Robinson's side nine points from safety with five games to play.
He said if the club was relegated, where it went from there onwards was "down to me and the chairman to get right - if that's what the chairman wants".
Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio
A woman's in a critical condition after a crash on the A1 Barnet Bypass, near Borehamwood, at the weekend.
Image source, GoogleA silver Toyota Yaris lost control at about 16:30 on Satuday and crashed into the nearside barrier on the southbound carriageway.
The driver of the car, a woman in her 30s, suffered serious head injuries and was airlifted to hospital.
Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live
More now on the swan that was rescued in Milton Keynes earlier and is now in the care of a wildlife rescue centre.
Image source, Richie EvansTracey Walker, from Shires Wildlife Care, external, told me the young swan, who was rescued from the Caldecotte flyover by Richie Evans, is "battered and bruised" from a possible crash landing and could potentially have botulism, external.
The swan has been given a charcoal flush to get rid of toxins, along with fluids and antibiotics.
Ms Walker said the swan is "very skinny" and all fluids are being administered by tubes so the bird will have to be monitored over the next few days.
A speed camera has been set on fire and stolen from Soulbury Road in Leighton Buzzard.
The fire was started in the early hours of 2 April and the camera was stolen from inside the housing, police said.
"Not only was this a needless act of vandalism, there was also a theft of the camera itself, which costs thousands of pounds," a spokesperson for the Beds, Cambs and Herts Cameras, Tickets and Collisions team said.
Ben Nye
BBC Three Counties Radio
A man rescued a swan today from the Caldecotte flyover in Milton Keynes.
Image source, Richie EvansRichie Evans took the swan, which he said was wandering along the road with a bad limp, to a local vet where it is now being treated.
Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live
The decision to place a temporary export bar on a pair of Florentine table tops worth £1.5m follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, external (RCEWA).
Image source, Todd-White Art PhotographyIt made its recommendation about the tops, which had been housed at the country home of the 3rd Earl Cowper in Panshanger until the mid-20th Century, on the grounds they were of "outstanding significance for the study of pietre dure" - a mosaic technique.
Christopher Rowell from RCEWA said: “Each piece of coloured stone... had to be cut precisely and fitted into the composition. Imagine designing and making a jigsaw from stone and cutting every piece meticulously without modern cutting machinery."
It looks like Luton enjoyed some blue skies this morning thanks to Weather Watcher "It's Dave!" for sharing this photograph with us of Wardown Park.
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Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live
A temporary export ban has been placed on a pair of Florentine table tops worth £1.5m so a buyer can be found to keep them in the UK.
Image source, Todd-White Art PhotographyThe ornate tops - which had belonged to George Clavering-Cowper, external, 3rd Earl Cowper, a renowned 18th Century art collector - had been at the family's house in Panshanger, Hertfordshire, until the mid-20th Century. The current owner has not been revealed.
The decision to defer the export licence was made on the grounds they were "closely connected with our history and national life" and of of "outstanding aesthetic importance".
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said they had "immense academic value".
Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live
All five gypsy and traveller sites in Buckinghamshire are to be sold due to "budget pressures", the county council say.
Buckinghamshire County Council made the decision to sell Green Park in Amersham, The Orchards in Chalfont St Peter, Mansion Lane in Iver, Wapseys Wood in Gerrards Cross and Bottom Waltons in Burnham last week.
Image source, GoogleQuote Message"We recognise this will be unsettling for residents. But in the end, it's the only viable option to properly safeguard the sites in the longer term."
Warren Whyte, Cabinet Member for Planning and Environment at Bucks CC
The council say, external there is a "lack of funding to invest in the sites" and the best option is to sell the areas to "residents or potential landlords".
Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live
A report of a dog on a lead being pulled along by a vehicle in Ware is has promoted a heartfelt Twitter response from rural police in Hertfordshire.
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East Herts Rural Police said such behaviour is "cruel, immoral and extremely dangerous", and that they have checked the area but cannot find any offenders.
"When we eventually catch the offenders unfortunately they would be driven to our custody block in a comfortable car, not attached to a lead," the police tweeted, external.
Turning increasingly cloudy through the course of the afternoon with outbreaks of rain.
Maximum temperature: 15C (59F)
