Mike Naylor
BBC Three Counties Radio

There's going to be something of a homecoming for Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone from The Zombies band when they return to St Albans for a one-off show at St Albans Cathedral - where Rod sang as a boy.

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The pair, now both 71, who founded the group in the early 60s, are playing an acoustic performance in their hometown on 21 October which will include some of their early Zombies hits including She’s Not There, Tell Her No and Time of the Season.

He said: "This is something very, very different and it's something very close to my heart, because I grew up as a chorister in the Abbey."  

You can hear the full interview tomorrow on BBC Three Counties Radio at midday.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

A ceremonial sword from WW2, external has been stolen from a house in Iver, South Buckinghamshire. 

The Polish General's weapon, was given to the victim's father following his service in the Police Air Force as a Spitfire pilot. 

The sword is 3ft (0.9m) long, with curved blade, has the name ‘"General Mieczyslaw Sawicki", written on it along with the Polish Air Force motto "Bog Honor Ojczyzna".

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Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

What you can see below is the trailer for a new Hollywood documentary, charting the history of the universe and the evolution of life. 

Several sequences from The Voyage of Time were made possible because of Dr Jim Geach from the University of Hertfordshire's Astrophysics Department. 

He spent a year creating the animation to show the formation of a galaxy, the explosion of a star in a supernova and the coalescence of a colossal structure called a cluster.

A man who punched a colleague in a row at their work's Christmas party in Essex is found not guilty of manslaughter.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

A family is trying to raise £100,000 for a 12-year-old boy who needs pioneering treatment for a brain tumour.

Ollie Gardiner, from Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, was diagnosed in May 2015 and doctors have said the tumour is "incurable".

His family want to travel to Austria for further treatment.

Louise Hubball
BBC Look East

A memorial service will be held in Bedfordshire on Sunday to commemorate the victims of an airship disaster more than 80 years ago.

The R101 was the largest airship of its time but after taking off from its base in Cardington in 1930 it crashed the next day in France. The Air Minister was one of 48 people killed.

The accident ended British airship development and led to a period of national mourning.  

The service will be held at St Mary's Church in Cardington at 15:00.

Former England international Nicky Shorey is appointed as a coach by League Two strugglers Stevenage.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

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Ben Nye
BBC Three Counties Radio

A Buckinghamshire charity has sent two teams to Haiti to support the response to Hurricane Matthew. 

MapAction, external, based in Saunderton, are working closely with United Nations Disaster Assessment and Co-ordination teams on the ground to access the most up-to-date, accurate data and help coordinate the response.

It's now thought more than 300 have been killed in the most powerful Caribbean storm for a decade. 

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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Suzuka

Nico Rosberg edged title rival Lewis Hamilton, from Stevenage, by just 0.072 seconds to set the pace in second practice at the Japanese Grand Prix.

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The Brackley-based Mercedes drivers, with Rosberg 23 points ahead in their championship battle, were 0.323 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Milton Keynes-based Red Bull's Max Verstappen beat Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to third. 

Saturday's League Two match between Newport County and Stevenage is postponed because of a waterlogged pitch.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Thousands of signs are now back on the "straight and narrow" in Hertfordshire. 

Over the past few months every road sign in the county, external has been checked, fixed, spruced up and over 30,000 have been cleaned. 

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Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

It's "good to have it finally over". 

These are the words of Lianne Jones, the widow of Gareth Jones, who was killed when a wall fell on him in St Albans, after winning a civil action action against the company who employed him. 

She says the fight to win compensation has taken nearly four years.

"You can't put a price on death, no money will replace Casey's daddy or my husband but it will help towards our future," she says.

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She explains the fight was never about the money but about claiming Gareth's loss of earnings. 

She adds it took a "long time to prove what Gareth was worth".

Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio

A woman from Welwyn whose husband was killed when a wall fell on him while working on a building job in St Albans has won a civil action against his employers.

It follows a health and safety prosecution when the firm was found guilty.

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Gareth Jones, 28, from Welwyn Garden City, was working on the house building job in St Albans in 2013 when the tragedy happened

Two directors of the building firm who employed him, Linley Developments, were given suspended jail sentences after admitting corporate manslaughter.

Now Gareth's widow Lianne has won an undisclosed amount of money as compensation to help provide for their young son who was two-and-a-half when his father died.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Strictly contestant and Woburn Sands athlete Greg Rutherford has rubbished reports in some of yesterday's papers that he fears he can't have children after an accident in training for the BBC One show.

The Mirror, external reported that a planned lift while practising the jive "went terribly wrong" and the Evening Standard, external said he "suffered an unfortunate mishap".

Greg has tweeted, external that everything had been taken "massively out of context" after an interview and that while his professional dance partner had come "into contact" with a certain part of his anatomy, he was "fine".

BBC News England

Experts at the University of Buckingham have discovered that humans have kept dogs in Britain for at least 7,000 years.

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Tests on a domesticated dog's tooth dug up near Stonehenge show that it most likely came from the York area. It's believed that the animal journeyed with its owner to the ancient stone circle.

Mr Jacques, a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, said: "We know it was probably born in the area of York.

"It was drinking from the area when it was young, it went on a journey of about 250 miles to the Stonehenge area with people and it ate what the people were eating on this site at Blick Mead.

"You would not get a wolf travelling 250 miles but you're much more likely to get a dog doing that because it's travelling with its people."

Follow BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and local radio coverage as Wasps take on Zebre in the European Rugby Champions Cup.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

We've just had an update on PD Finn, the police dog who was stabbed in Stevenage on Wednesday morning. 

The dogs unit, external says the '"fighter dog" had a good night and his medical team are looking to reduce his pain relief and remove some more fluid drains. 

They even say Rob, the "amazing vet", may need his own fan club soon!

They told us all the messages of love and support (including the one below) have been "amazing and very touching", and they "wouldn't be so upbeat and positive without it". 

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

A jury at the Old Bailey is due to begin a fourth day of deliberations in a trial of the facts against former Bedfordshire children's home carer James McCann, 80, from Norfolk.

McCann is charged with 50 counts of historic physical and sexual abuse against boys at the Shefford Boys Home during the 1960s and 1970s.

Due to sickness he was unable to attend the trial and the jury is only required to make a finding as to whether he did the acts alleged - rather than on his guilt or innocence.

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Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

The vet who carried out a four-hour emergency operation on police dog Finn said he's "recovering fantastically".

Finn and his handler PC Dave Wardell were both stabbed in Stevenage in the early hours of Wednesday. 

Veterinary surgeon Rob Adams (pictured right) said: "He's been very, very lucky and he's done really, really well. 

"Surgery's gone very well and he's recovering fantastically so far. 

"We're not out of the woods yet, but so far, so good."

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