League One-bound MK Dons agree the signing of Millwall midfielder Ed Upson on a two-year contract.

Hundreds of staff at nine BHS stores across Beds, Bucks and Herts are set to lose their jobs. 

In all, 11,000 jobs will go across the country after the company went into liquidation. All 163 stores will hold closing down sales over the next few weeks.

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The director general of the Institute of Directors, Simon Walker, has accused the former owners of BHS of "lamentable failures", saying its collapse has fuelled public distrust in UK PLC.

That's all from our live coverage of the sentencing of Carl Langdell. 

To recap, he has been jailed for a minimum of 26 years for the murder of teacher Katie Locke on Christmas Eve. You can read the full story here. 

We'll now take a look at other stories happening where you live. 

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The main thing to come out of court today is just how controlling 26-year-old Carl Langdell is. 

I heard only this week that he sacked his own defence team, so for the past few days he's represented himself. 

After the sentencing Langdell, from Roundmoore Drive in Cheshunt, asked the judge if he could correct him on one thing. Judge Andrew Bright responded by saying "you will have to go through your legal team."

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Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

We've just heard from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) how the family of Essex teacher, Katie Locke, made a "concerted effort to identify Langdell" after she didn't return home on Christmas Eve.

Adrian Foster, from the CPS, said friends and family searched the internet and contacted 26-year-old Langdell, from Roundmoore Drive, Cheshunt via Facebook.

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He told them Miss Locke had left in a taxi and he didn't know where she was. Her father, Bill, worked out where Langdell lived and drove there. 

They found out Langdell had admitted the murder to his mother. Police were called, and he was found and arrested.

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The detective at the heart of the Carl Langdell murder case said a previous conviction for threats to kill a nurse had been "taken seriously".

Langdell, 26, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt, today sentenced to 16 years for killing Essex teacher Katie Locke, had been given a suspended sentence for the threats to kill offence - just 22 days before he murdered Miss Locke.

Det Insp Fraser Wylie said while Langdell had a "behavioural disorder," there had been no need to have him locked up as many people who have issues like that "do not go on to kill".

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Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

A "vile, evil, controlling fantasist".

That is how police have described Carl Langdell, who sexually assaulted and murdered Essex teacher Katie Locke.

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Langdell, 26, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, was today sentenced to 26 years in jail.

Det Insp Fraser Wylie said Langdell used dating websites to "target young women".

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The parents of Essex teacher, Katie Locke, have paid tribute to a precious, beautiful, bright, funny, and caring young woman.

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They say they've been "robbed of a precious daughter," whose trusting nature was her "downfall".

Carl Langdell, 26, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, was today sentenced to life for murdering Miss Locke.

Her parents said he will "forever be a danger to the public.”

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The judge at the sentencing hearing of first date murderer Carl Langdell said he doubts the killer will ever be released from prison.

Judge Andrew Bright told St Albans Crown Court he was pessimistic psychiatric treatment would bring about any long term change in the 26-year-old from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

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He said Dr Philip Joseph - "arguably the country's most experienced consultant forensic psychiatrist" - had said Langdell suffers "from an emotionally unstable and dissociate psychopathic personality disorder" meaning he poses a risk to women that  "is likely to remain significant for the foreseeable future".

Langdell murdered Essex teacher Katie Locke at a five star hotel on Christmas Eve.

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

A man who murdered a young teacher on their first date was serving a suspended sentence for threats to kill.

Carl Langdell, 26, sexual assaulted Essex teacher Katie Locke before taking pictures of her corpse.

Langdell, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt, who appeared at St Albans Crown Court via a video link from Bedford Prison, was jailed for life today.

In March last year, he was sentenced to nine months in jail, suspended for 24 months, for threats to kill - just 22 days before he murdered Miss Locke.

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The serious sexual nature of the murder of teacher Katie Locke "increased the depravity" of the offence, according to the judge sentencing Hertfordshire man, Carl Langdell.

Speaking at St Albans Crown Court, Judge Andrew Bright told Langdell, 26, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt, that he poses "a very great danger to women and young girls".

He added: "I note that you have described yourself to others as a monster and a psychopath."

Langdell pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to murdering Miss Locke, from Buckhurst Hill, Essex in the four star Theobolds Park Hotel in Hertfordshire and dumping her body under a bush in a ditch near a skip.

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Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

A man who murdered a teacher on their first date has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 26 years.

Carl Langdell, 26, from Roundmoor Drive, Cheshunt, pleaded guilty to killing 23-year-old teacher Katie Locke, from Buckhurst Hill in Essex, at a hotel in Waltham Cross on Christmas Eve.

The sentence was made at St Albans Crown Court just a few moments ago.

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Carl Langdell, from Hertfordshire, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 26 years for the murder of Katie Locke from Essex. 

More to come. 

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

The sentencing of a Hertfordshire man for the sexually motivated murder of a woman he'd met through a dating site is expected at St Albans Crown Court later.

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Carl Langdell admitted killing 23-year-old teacher, Katie Locke, on Christmas Eve at Thebalds Park Hotel in Waltham Cross.

He pleaded guilty at a hearing in March.

As soon as we have the result I'll bring it to you.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

There's still no word on the identity of a severed human head believed to have come from a construction site in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.

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The head was discovered in a quarry in Mepal, Cambridgeshire, over a fortnight ago. It had been taken there from Sharnbrook, but police don't know how it came to be on the construction site.

Police are still unable to confirm the gender of the victim and say further DNA checks are taking place.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

It's a largely dull and cool start to the day, with some spots of rain.

Through this afternoon, it will remain cloudy. Maximum Temperature: 14C (57F).

Hurst Grove in Bedford will be closed today from 09:00 and 15:30 so repair works can be carried out. 

Nicola Haseler
BBC Three Counties

Two Hertfordshire police officers will find out later the outcome of their misconduct hearings. 

PCs Stuart Francis and Rishi Patel both deny using excessive force when dealing with injured 15-year-old Christian-Lee Thomspson, who came off his moped in Hemel Hempstead.

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The officers deny trying to arrest him using unnecessary force and providing misleading accounts. 

The hearing in Hatfield is due to finish today and I'll be there bringing you the latest news.

Greg Rutherford has just tweeted that he'll make a decision tomorrow as to whether he'll jump in Birmingham on Sunday.

He doesn't sound happy about the new field event rules either. 

Woburn Sands long jumper Greg Rutherford has thanked his fans for all their support after winning in Rome last night...