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Stevenage's Lewis Hamilton was second fastest in first practice for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix in Monza this morning, behind team-mate and championship rival Nico Rosberg.

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Hamilton, who leads the drivers championship by nine points with the Brackley-based Mercedes team, external, has been paying tribute to Felipe Massa, who is to retire from F1 at the end of the season.

"I wish him all the best and [am] super grateful that I got to race with a great driver like him," he said. 

You can read reports from the practice session on BBC Sport.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Inspired by the lighting of the Paralympic flame in Buckinghamshire today, I've been delving into the archives and found some pictures of the Games and its forerunner, the Stoke Mandeville Games, from the 1950s and 1970s.

We're not sure exactly what was happening here, but don't try it at home:  

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Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Events are being held at Stoke Mandeville Stadium all day to recognise the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, ahead of the lighting of the Paralympic flame there later.

Stoke Mandeville Stadium has tweeted, external that "everyone is welcome... to try loads of paralympic sport". 

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

As Rio prepares to host the Paralympics, we look at the role Stoke Mandeville played in the birth of a sports movement for the disabled.

• On 29 July 1948, 16 paralysed ex-serviceman gathered on the lawn of Stoke Mandeville Hospital to take part in the first ever Stoke Mandeville Games
• They were held to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Games in London
• The games were the idea of Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist, who had fled Nazi Germany to Britain and set up Stoke Mandeville's Spinal Injuries Unit in 1944
• He passionately believed his patients, with the right help and support, could lead fulfilling lives
• The hospital continued to host the Stoke Mandeville Games every year during the last week of July
• As the event grew in popularity, more and more competitors from all over Europe became involved
• In 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, Dr Guttmann travelled to the Italian capital with 400 wheelchair athletes from several countries
• Although officially known as the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, the competition we have come to know as the Paralympics was born that year

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

The family of an inmate who killed himself at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes have again demanded an investigation into the running of the prison following another death there.

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Thomas Morris, who was serving a ten-month prison sentence for shoplifting was found hanged in his cell in June, despite the family warning the management he was mentally-ill.  

Following his death, Thomas Morris's family told the MK Citizen, external the jail had "blood on its hands" after the deaths of 14 inmates in the last three years, but they have again called for a review following a death of another male inmate last Thursday.

Peter Clarke, HM Inspector of Prisons, external, said the Inspectorate could not say when its next inspection of HMP Woodhill will be as the majority of inspections are unannounced, but it does "take account of tragedies such as this in deciding when to undertake our next inspection of any prison".

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

The Paralympic flame will be lit in Buckinghamshire today, ahead of next week's Paralympic Games in Rio.

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After the ceremony, a virtual flame will leave Stoke Mandeville Stadium and lead a carnival procession through Vale Park in Aylesbury. 

The flame will then be combined with others travelling to Rio from across Brazil.  

It will be lit by Paralympic legend Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson who spent most of her childhood at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and said it's important it's recognised for its role in the Paralympics movement., external.

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

After yesterday's sunshine, today is due to be mostly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and a maximum temperature of 19C (66F).

Get the regional forecast from BBC Weather.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome back to Local Live for Beds, Herts and Bucks where we'll bring you news, sport, weather and travel, including details of the lighting of the Paralympic flame in Buckinghamshire later today.

Shortly, we'll see what today has in store with a full weather forecast.

The Premiership rugby union season begins on Friday, with Saracens looking to win the title for a third consecutive year.

That's all from the live team for today.

We'll be back with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel for Beds, Herts and Bucks from 08:00 tomorrow.

In the meantime, any breaking news will appear on this page. 

If you'd like to get in touch, you can email us, contact us via Facebook, external or send us a tweet, external.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

It will turn cloudier later, with some showery rain across the north of the region and a low of 12C (53F).

Tomorrow it'll be rather cloudy with the chance of some showery rain, possibly turning heavy at times.

There will be a high temperature of 21C (70F).

More details on the BBC Weather website.

This is the scene of a collision involving a car and four parked vehicles in High Wycombe.

A man and a woman are in the care of paramedics following the incident.

Emergency services were called to the scene near Tesco Express in Hatters Lane at about 16:30.

The NHS is seeking to encourage more families from black and Asian communities to allow organs to be donated when relatives die. 

Six in 10 people agree to donate their organs across the country, but it's less than four in 10 in minority ethnic communities. 

Prof Gurch Randhawa (pictured), from the University of Bedfordshire, says some communities don't trust the NHS "because of historic issues around racism... but also fears that people may be incorrectly pronounced dead when they may not be".

"What we find is that unless these issues are tackled head on in the community and these conversations are led by the community, we're not going to see progress on this issue," he said.

Paul Scoins
BBC Three Counties Radio political reporter

A secondary school in Hertfordshire has been told it can no longer be funded by the local council after running up a significant budget deficit. 

Cheshunt School also has just a fraction of the pupils it needs to fill its classrooms, but says it's in "positive" discussions about its future. 

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The school has been in trouble before - just five years ago it was in special measures - but this announcement by Herts County Council raises a question over its future. 

It is projected to run at a deficit of more than £500,000 a year, which the council says is "unsustainable".

But the school says closure is not likely and the council has written to parents to consult on its future, which could see it form part of a multi-academy trust or other educational partnership.

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A pensioner who needed a skin graft after being savaged by a dog claims he is still waiting for £500 promised by its owner, external – a world-champion boxer.

CCTV footage has been issued of a man police want to speak to in relation to a knife-point carjacking in Kempston at the weekend.

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The robbery happened on Spring Road at about 12:40 on Saturday morning, after the victims had parked their car near the College Street junction.

Two men threatened the victims with knives before driving off in a silver Vauxhall Astra.

Police said the pictured man "may have information which can assist our inquiries".

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Members of the public are being praised by police after they helped find a woman who had fallen from her horse on the Ashridge Estate near Berkhamsted. 

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A woman who was out walking on bank holiday Monday called police when she found a white horse wearing a saddle, wandering alone in College Road in Berkhamsted. 

Police also received a call from a man who said his wife, in her 50s, had phoned him to say she'd fallen from her horse and was disorientated.

Officers and members of the public then carried out the search and were able to find the woman and call an ambulance. 

Her injuries were not serious and she was discharged from hospital on the same day.

A dog walker has been rescued from the River Great Ouse in Stony Stratford this afternoon.

The woman was rescued by firefighters just after midday in Toombs Meadow. She was assessed by paramedics.

Bucks Fire and Rescue Service tweeted a water safety message: