Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

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The full weather forecast will be with you shortly and, as this photo of Dunstable shows, it's a rather foggy morning across Beds, Herts and Bucks. 

Shortly, we'll be finding out more about Luton Borough Council's plans to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Also, one of our reporters will be live at the testing of a driverless car in Milton Keynes.

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Three bystanders swim to the aid of an elderly man and his dog stuck in a car on a boating lake.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

It's been a busy news day... Scroll down for updates on the child abuse scandal at a Bedfordshire children's home, which has been revealed in full for the first time today.

And you can watch an amazing video of have-a-go heroes managing to save an elderly man and a dog from a lake.

We'll be back to do it all again tomorrow. See you from 08:00.

Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather

Showers will gradually become confined mostly to coastal districts overnight, with many inland areas becoming dry with clear spells. Temperatures will fall to 2C (36F).

Mist patches will clear tomorrow morning to leave some sunny spells, especially at first, but cloud and occasional showers will tend to feed inland, most frequent near the coast. 

It will feel cool in the noticeable north-easterly breeze, with temperatures peaking at 16C (61F).

There are more details on the BBC Weather website.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

A video has caught the moment three bystanders dived into a Hertfordshire lake to rescue an elderly man and his dog from a car that plunged into it...

The two men and women are seen punching the windows of the Nissan Qashqai at Stanborough Lakes, Welwyn Garden City, after it careered down a boat ramp.

The driver, who is in his 70s and from Potters Bar, was shaken, but not hurt, and the dog was unharmed.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Details of systematic child abuse that went on at a home for boys in Shefford have been revealed for the first time today, despite three previous failed police investigations. 

Most of the perpetrators are dead or too old to prosecute for the crimes, which took place in the 1960s and '70s.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

The Old Bailey heard victims as young as eight were abused at St Francis Boys' Home, run by "nuns and priests from Hell". Two of the worst offenders, Father John Ryan who ran the home and Father Wilfred Johnson, died before this latest investigation.   

The wider investigation covered:

• 60 victims 
• 103 offences  
• 13 now dead suspects

The seven men and six women police identified as suspects, who are now deceased, held varying roles in the home, including a teacher, choirmaster and handyman.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Image source, South Beds News Agency

James McCann, 80, of Swaffham (above), was ruled unfit to stand trial for his many crimes. Only John Cahill (below), a scoutmaster at the Northampton Catholic diocese-run home, has been jailed - for three and a half years in May.   

Image source, South Beds News Agency

The victims will try to bring civil action against St Francis Children's Society which ran the home. The victims' lawyer, Tracey Emmott, said it's due in part to the "Savile effect" that they were finally taken seriously.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Image source, Bedfordshire Police

Bedfordshire Police seized this dog, George, after he entered the garden of a property in Sharnbrook and attacked two young children who required hospital treatment. The owner hasn't been traced.  It's one of a series of attacks that have taken place across Bedfordshire.

• On Sunday 2 October, a teenage boy suffered arm injuries after he was attacked by a dog in a park located just off Albert Street in Luton.

• On Monday 19 September, a guide dog was attacked by another dog in Mentmore Road, Leighton Buzzard. 

• Two days earlier, on Saturday 17 September, a woman was walking along Barkers Lane, Bedford, at approximately 10.30pm, when she was attacked by a Rottweiler – causing serious injuries to her arm. 

• A man has been arrested after a Shih Tzu was attacked by another dog in Wigmore Lane, Luton on Thursday 15 September. 

Anyone with information about any of the above incidents is asked to call police on 101. 

The Willow Emerald damselfly has been spotted at Tattenhoe Valley Park in Milton Keynes. It is the first time it has been sighted in Buckinghamshire.

It has slowly spread along the east coast and through East Anglia, increasing its range in the UK with climate change.

Image source, Parks Trust

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A man in his 70s and his dog are pulled from a car that plunged into a lake in Hertfordshire.

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Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

The 80-year-old housemaster found to have abused 25 boys in his care won't face prison. 

James McCann of Suffield Court, Swaffham, beat boys at St Francis Boys' Home with a belt or stick and punched one of them with full force in the face, the Old Bailey heard.

The jury was told he also forced youngsters as young as eight to engage in indecent acts for his own sexual gratification in a wash room, a bath and in bed.

However, as McCann, 80, suffers from dementia and has had a number of strokes, he was deemed unfit to stand trial and jurors were told only to decide on the facts of the case rather than his guilt.

Judge Rebecca Poulet told jurors the only course of action in the circumstances was an absolute discharge.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

An 80-year-old housemaster who worked at St Francis Boys' Home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, in the 1960s and '70s has been found to have been part of a sadistic and vindictive regime of abuse, involving priests and a paedophile scoutmaster.

James McCann (pictured), of Suffield Court in Swaffham, faced 50 charges relating to an 11-year period from 1963. The case is unusual because the judge ruled McCann was not fit to stand trial, so a trial of the facts alone was held at the Old Bailey.

Jurors decided he was responsible for 30 physical attacks and 12 indecent acts on the boys, who are now aged in their 50s and 60s.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

It can now be reported that John Cahill, 74, of Chandos Court, Bedford, an ex-scoutmaster at the Northampton Catholic diocese-run home (below), was jailed for three-and-a-half years in May this year. He abused boys aged between 10 and 15 in the 1960s.

The two main priests facing abuse charges, Fr John Ryan and Fr Wilfred Johnson, died before the present police investigation started.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

An 80-year-old former housemaster at St Francis Boys' Home in Shefford, Bedfordshire, has been found to have abused 25 victims.

James McCann, from Swaffham, Norfolk, was found unfit to plea at the Old Bailey, but a trial of the facts found in his victims' favour. 

He faced 50 charges in total, ranging from actual bodily harm to indecency with a child, over offences at the home run by the Northampton diocese of the Catholic church. Forty two counts were proven, eight were not proven.

At least one count was proven on all 25 victims.

More to follow.

Pete Cooper
BBC Local Live

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue says investigations are ongoing at Cosgrove Hall in south Northamptonshire, where a fire gutted the Grade II-listed 18th Century house.

It says it's too early to determine the cause of the fire, and couldn't confirm newspaper reports, external that artwork by Sir Joshua Reynolds was destroyed in the fire.

Over the weekend these shots of the blaze, from a hot air balloon, were sent to us...

Image source, M K Air Regatta

Image source, M K Air Regatta

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Reading Crown Court will be shown a video shot inside the lorry cab, which shows Tomasz Kroker on the phone and fast approaching a queue of vehicles.  

Kroker, from Andover, has pleaded guilty to numerous counts of causing death by dangerous driving after Tracy Houghton, who worked at Central Bedfordshire Council, and three children died on the A34 in Berkshire in August.

The family of those who died have been shown the video in advance.

Kroker is being sentenced at the High Court at the end of the month.

Nikki Jenkins
BBC Local Live

A lorry driver who killed a Dunstable mother and three children in a crash on the A34 in Berkshire has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.

Tomasz Kroker, 30, from Andover, was distracted by use of a mobile phone, Reading Crown Court heard.

Image source, Family handout

Tracy Houghton, 45, was killed alongside her two sons - 13-year-old Ethan and 11-year-old Josh - and her partner's 11-year-old daughter, Amy Goldsmith, after their Vauxhall Corsa was hit by Kroker's lorry last August.

Her partner, Mark Goldsmith, was following in the car behind with his son, Jake. The family were driving home from a holiday in the West Country.

One victim was flown by air ambulance to the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford with serious injuries and a further 11 people suffered minor injuries.    

Kroker, who admitted four counts of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, will be sentenced at the High Court on 31 October.

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The driver of a lorry which collided with a car on the A34 in Berkshire, killing a mother from Dunstable and three children, has pleaded guilty to four counts of causing death by dangerous driving at Reading Crown Court.

More to follow.

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