Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome to Local Live for Beds, Herts and Bucks where we'll be bringing you the news, sport, weather and travel for the area, including news of football players at both ends of the sports' age spectrum playing for local clubs last night.

But first, after another sunny day yesterday, we'll see what today has in store with a full weather forecast.

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Watford sign Chelsea's Kenedy on a season-long loan deal and re-signed defender Adrian Mariappa on a three-year deal.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

Regular updates for the three counties have now finished today, but check back throughout the night for any breaking news stories. 

Today we've covered concerns over the lack of housing in Milton Keynes and the proposed £323.3m takeover of Pinewood Studios - home to James Bond and Star Wars movies - being given the green light.

We'll be back with regular updates from 08:00 tomorrow morning.

Have a good evening.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

A fine afternoon with sunny spells across the Eastern region.  Staying fine and dry overnight with the chance of mist and fog patches forming later. 

Temperatures falling to 10C (50F).

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Another fine and dry day on Wednesday with sunny spells. It'll turn cloudy later, with the risk of patchy rain or drizzle in western counties.

Temperatures reaching: 24(C) (75F).

There's more information available on BBC Weather. 

A drugs den in Luton has been closed down after concerns were raised by neighbours, Bedfordshire Police has said.

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The flat in Wellington Street was being used for the taking of Class A drugs and there had also been reports of anti-social behaviour.

The flat has been closed for three months due to a court order.  

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Sgt Dick Cunningham, who led the operation, said: “This is an excellent result for the neighbours of this property who have had to endure all the trappings of a drug supply operation - dangerous drugs paraphernalia near their homes, people coming in and out of the property at all times of the day and night, and associated noise and anti-social behaviour."

Scunthorpe United midfielder Jack King joins League Two side Stevenage on loan until January 2017.

Bedfordshire on Sunday

A former Sharnbrook Upper School pupil has died, external following a road traffic collision in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

This month 94 years ago, Luton Town Football Club's goalkeeper Henry (also called Harry) Bailey was photographed making a catch during a training session.

He also played for Exeter City, Brentford and Thames during his professional career between 1920 and 1932.

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Wycombe Wanderers left-back Joe Jacobson is set to be out for 10-12 weeks, leaving more than a third of the squad injured.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

A pet therapy dog is hanging up his coat for the last time today as he retires after 10 years of bringing happiness to patients across Milton Keynes.

Coco, a cross between a Staffordshire bull terrier and a chocolate Labrador, has been volunteering with owner Joan Harrington, 70, at Windsor Intermediate Care Unit (WICU) in Bletchley since he was just three-years-old.

"I'm definitely going to miss this," Ms Harrington said. "It's a really nice feeling being able to help others, but this is the right time for Coco to take a well-earned rest."

Joan rescued Coco when he was about 10 months old - she only intended to house him at the weekends but instantly fell in love.

Three years later, Ms Harrington saw an advert for Pets as Therapy and says Coco took to it like a duck to water. The rest, as they say, was history.

Wasps' Kurtley Beale says he will enjoy the pressure of being one of the highest-profile signings in Premiership history.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Five months since a dog was found hanging from a tree in Milton Keynes, the RSPCA is appealing for people who saw the animal before its death to come forward.

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It wants to talk to anyone who may have seen the female tan Staffordshire bull terrier, which is thought to have been walked by two men by the canal near Newport Road and Stanton Low Park in New Bradwell on the way to the park where she was later found dead.

The RSPCA believes she was strung up between the 15 and 31 March. 

Despite speaking to several witnesses, the animal charity believes there may have been other people, especially people fishing in the canal, who may have seen something. 

A murder investigation begins after a man died from head injuries following a "brutal" late night attack.

The East of England Ambulance Service received more than 9,100 emergency calls during the long weekend – 9% more than the 2015 August bank holiday weekend.

The busiest day of the weekend was Saturday, with 3,299 calls across the East. 

In Bedfordshire, the ambulance service received 873 calls, just up from the 849 received on August bank holiday weekend last year.

But Hertfordshire saw a decrease, with 1,463 calls compared to 1,491 last year.

BBC News England

The chief executive of a troubled NHS trust has quit over "media attention".

Katrina Percy said "the effect ongoing personal media attention has had on staff and patients" had made her position as boss of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which covers parts of Buckinghamshire, untenable.

Ms Percy had faced calls to quit after the trust was criticised over the way it investigated patient deaths.

An NHS England-commissioned probe found 272 of the 722 deaths over the past four years were dealt with properly.

The theft of six glass butterflies from a grave in St Albans has left a mother "extremely upset".

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Police are investigating the theft from St Albans Cemetery, on Hatfield Road, which is believed to have taken place between 14:45 on 21 August and 21:30 on 25 August.

The victim was visiting her daughter's grave when she found the items had been stolen. Officers say this "has understandably left her extremely upset".

Two men involved in running a cannabis factory in Hertfordshire have been jailed.

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Seth Sari, 30, of Greenwood Avenue, Enfield, and Dapson Talabi, 28, of Kentish Town Road, London, were jailed for two and a half years each for their part in a "planned and sophisticated" operation.

St Albans Crown Court heard how a suspicious neighbour raised the alarm about the four-bed terraced house in Macer's Lane, Wormley.

Police raided the home and found four rooms converted into a "cannabis factory", with a watering and lighting system, and 80 plants - with a street value of up to £67,000.

On the day his trial was due to begin, Sari pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis, abstracting electricity and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Talabi pleaded not guilty but was convicted by the jury of cultivating cannabis.

Correction 3 December 2019: An earlier version of this story reported that Talabi pleaded guilty and this has been amended to make it clear that he was convicted after pleading not guilty.

Luton on Sunday

The former leader of the English Defence League has said he was "treated unfairly" by police after they asked him to leave a pub in Cambridgeshire, external.

Gareth Lloyd
BBC Three Counties Radio

Actor Rusty Goffe visited our studios in Dunstable earlier to speak about his memories of Gene Wilder, who's died aged 83.

Goffe worked with Wilder on the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where he played an Oompa Loompa.

Watch his recollections of making the film, his first, and his memories of an actor who he describes as a "comic genius"...

A man is due to stand trial today for causing the death of a five-year-old boy in Milton Keynes by careless driving. 

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The 41-year-old is accused of knocking down Riley Ferguson at Woodspring Court in Monkston.

The boy died four days after the collision in June last year.