Injury-hit Wasps score a try in each half to move up to second in the Premiership with a victory at lowly Worcester.

West Brom move up to sixth in the Premier League by beating Watford at The Hawthorns for a third win in four league games.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

That's it for this week from all the team here at Local Live for Beds, Herts and Bucks. 

We'll be back with all your regular updates of news, sport, travel and weather from 08:00 on Monday.

In the meantime, it's going to be a busy weekend for one-year-old Finley Bagshaw. 

Tomorrow he'll officially open Fontmell Close in St Albans, the location of a giant sinkhole that opened up in October last year. 

The road actually opened on Wednesday, but a special event is happening on Saturday.  

When the hole appeared Harry was in his mother Gemma's tummy. 

The family was set to move into their home today, the first time they've been able to live there since Finley was born. 

Have a great weekend.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

This evening will be rather cloudy with some showers clearing eastwards. 

Clear spells will develop and bring the risk of a frost in places and the odd fog patch. Lows of -1 to 4C (30 - 39F).

Saturday will be a little cloudy at times, but staying dry with some bright or sunny spells. 

Chance of an isolated shower in eastern counties, with highs of 7C (45F).

There's more at BBC Weather.

The club statement continues, with Neilson saying he's "delighted" to take up the vacant job at Stadium MK.

"It's great to be here and I'm looking forward to developing the club, developing the players and moving the club forward. 

"The most important thing for me was picking the right chairman and the right club and this was the right match at the right time - it's a club that's going places. 

Image source, Getty Images

"Hopefully the fans are ready for the ride. We want to create excitement but, most importantly, win football matches."

Chairman Pete Winkelman added: "I'm hugely excited. Robbie has been on our list from day one - he's the most exciting young manager in the UK, by a country mile."

The 36-year-old leaves Hearts second in the Scottish Premiership, replacing Karl Robinson at a side currently 19th in England's third tier.

He will be joined at the Dons by Stevie Crawford, who has been Neilson's assistant since he took his first job in management at Tynecastle in 2014.

Neilson will take charge after Sunday's FA Cup game with Charlton.

English League One side MK Dons appoint Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson as their new manager.

Signed, sealed, delivered - a statement has just appeared from MK Dons that reads:

"Milton Keynes Dons Football Club are delighted to confirm the appointment of highly-rated Robbie Neilson as first-team manager. 

"After the club agreed terms with Heart of Midlothian on Thursday evening, Neilson travelled to Stadium MK to finalise his move to become MK Dons' sixth manager."

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

A very special race will be run by a Bedford family this Sunday. 

Ella Russell, aged five, has been given the honour of starting the Santa Run on the town's Embankment, in memory of her three-year-old brother, Harry, who died last year. 

She'll be running the race with her dad Mark (left) and mother Julie to raise funds for Keech Hospice Care, external, where Harry spent his last days.

Ella told us: "I love seeing all the Santas having fun as they run and walk around the Embankment. Last year after Harry died, me, mummy and daddy went to watch all the Santas, it was brilliant."  

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Four Albanian men suspected to be involved in the smuggling of people into the UK as part of an international organised crime group have been arrested in Luton.

Police raided four properties in Falconers Road, Mallard Gardens, Trent Road and Stockwood Crescent yesterday.  

The four were remanded in custody following an appearance at Westminster Magistrates' Court and face extradition to Belgium for further investigation.

Airbus Defence and Space, the company behind the Mars rover that was built in Stevenage, have today "applauded ESA's decisions to further develop Europe in space".

EU ministers today agreed to fund the outstanding €400m euros (£337m) needed to complete the Exo Mars mission.

The company said: "European citizens will benefit greatly from our new innovative solutions", adding that "Europe’s ambitions in space have received another boost".

Image source, ESA

Lee Agnew
BBC Three Counties Radio

Three legal shotguns have been stolen in a burglary in Cranfield.

Bedfordshire Police says they were locked away but taken at about 19:00 on Wednesday, along with some jewellery and a number of Christmas presents.

Two of the guns are described as a Sabel and a woman's shorter barrelled AYA model.

Two bags of cannabis have been found by Hertfordshire Police after being dumped by the side of the road in Brent Pelham. 

Geoff Doyle
BBC Three Counties Radio sport

Watford have serious injury and suspension problems ahead of the Premier League visit to West Brom tomorrow. 

With Valon Behrami and Miguel Britos both banned, the Hornets , externalalso have injury concerns over Younes Kaboul, Adrian Mariappa and Ben Watson to add to longer term injury victims Craig Cathcart and Isaac Success. 

Image source, Getty Images

"Since I've been here for sure it's one of the moments I have most doubts," said manager Walter Mazzarri. "Sometimes you need the emergency moments; players who haven't played as much can prove they are important members of the team."  

The "big battery" is the first grid-scale battery storage project in the UK. 

If you want to know what that means, watch this video made two years ago when the testing was just about to start...

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

After two years of testing, a giant battery housed in an average looking warehouse in Leighton Buzzard has been declared a success.

UK Power Networks designed the impressive 6MW/10MWh battery to store electricity when demand is low, then release it back into the grid at peak times.

It's the size of three tennis courts and can store enough electricity to power 6,000 homes for one and a half hours. 

UK Power Networks says it will continue to operate "the big battery" to "meet the continuing demands for electricity in the Bedfordshire town".

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Earlier we brought you a report about a woman and a baby who were treated at the scene of a fire in Bletchley this morning. 

South Central Ambulance Service has just confirmed it sent a specialist paramedic and an ambulance crew to the flat on Nevis Grove as they were suffering from smoke inhalation. 

They were then transferred to Milton Keynes Hospital. 

BBC Weather Watchers

Stop and look carefully at the picture below.

At first glance you might think it's Berkhamsted-by-the-Sea, but it's actually the mist creating an optical illusion in the Hertfordshire town.

Thanks to BBC Weather Watcher "The Stranger" for the picture.

The cloud is set to stay this afternoon, but the winds will be light.

It will feel a little chilly, with a maximum temperature of 8C (46F). 

Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News

Europe will push ahead with its plan to put a Stevenage-assembled robotic rover on the surface of Mars in 2021.

Research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, have agreed to stump up the outstanding €400m euros (£337m) needed to take the project through to completion.

The mission is late and is costing far more than originally envisaged, prompting fears that European Space Agency member states might abandon it.

Image source, ESA

Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio

Winter Night Shelter , externalis the charity that's helping to give 15 homeless people a place to sleep in Milton Keynes, which will happen until mid-March. 

Homeless people turn up at The Buszy building in the new city every evening and they are taken to a location where they can sleep and get a three-course meal. 

It's a different place every night in church halls and churches across MK and surrounding towns. 

Image source, Reuters

Douglas McCall is the coordinator and he told me it's "excellent" so many people were helped on the first night of the service, but as it already has a waiting list it hopes to get some people into "permanent accommodation" so "those waiting to get in can get in".  

Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio

Last night in Milton Keynes 15 homeless people were taken off the streets by the Winter Night Shelter and given a place to sleep at a local church.

Andy sadly wasn't one of them and is still on the streets where he's been homeless for six months now. 

The shocking news is he was robbed and attacked on Wednesday night. You can watch his story below.