Usman Azad
BBC Three Counties Radio

Rosemary and Derek Broom live right opposite where the sinkhole appeared, at about 01:30 on 1 October last year.

They were in bed at the time and didn't see it at first as it was pitch black, but knew something was wrong when firefighters and police arrived. 

They were told to leave the house that night and stayed in a hotel for seven weeks. 

Rosemary said her husband had driven on the road where the hole appeared just a few hours before it appeared.

She said the past year "hasn't always been easy", but they're feeling "positive as no-one was injured and it's probably the safest place to live in the country now" with the ground having being surveyed so much.

Usman Azad
BBC Three Counties Radio

I've come to Fontmell Close in St Albans to see for myself the new road all open and finished, after a giant sinkhole appeared last October. 

Richard Knight is a Highways Operations officer for Hertfordshire County Council and told me it's spent the last 14 months getting it ready.

He said the road is now "sorted and stabilised" with the giant hole filled in with concrete.

He added that although the houses were built on a former chalk mine, no-one knew it was there as it "wasn't mapped".

Usman Azad
BBC Three Counties Radio

I took a walk down Fontmell Close in St Albans to see what the road looks like now...

Sinkhole? What sinkhole?

Nic Rigby
BBC News

A silver-plated cross, valued at £6,500, has gone missing from a church in Hertfordshire.

Image source, Hertfordshire Police

The cross, which is about 2ft high, was discovered missing during a recent audit of property at St Mary’s Church in the High Street, Northchurch.

It dates from the 1970s and it is believed it could have been taken any time between March and July this year.

Mark Procter, of Hertfordshire Police, said: "I appreciate that the cross may have been taken several months ago, but the item is very distinctive so would stick in the mind of anyone who may have seen it.

"If you have any information on its whereabouts, please get in touch."

A road has reopened 14 months after a 33ft (10m) deep hole appeared.

A man convicted of murdering an off-duty policeman in 1988 tells London's Appeal Court he was stopped from giving evidence in his own defence.

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

So far today, community first responders from the East Anglian Ambulance Service have attended to 16 patients in the East of England.

The service as a whole has been called to 176 patients who have had falls today, and attended 22 road traffic collisions.

So far the service has had call-outs for 18 cardiac arrests.

Just another day...

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

As of 13:00 today, the East of England Ambulance Service has received 1,223 emergency calls:

• 115 in Bedfordshire
• 169 in Cambridgeshire
• 383 in Essex
• 229 in Hertfordshire
• 177 in Norfolk; and
• 150 in Suffolk

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Evidence against a former doctor accused of child sex offences is "unreliable", a court has heard.

Image source, PA

Michael Salmon, 81, from Salisbury, is accused of 26 offences alleged to have taken place at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the 1970s and 1980s.

His defence told Reading Crown Court a number of complainants' accounts were inconsistent and some may have "misremembered" events.

Mr Salmon, a former consultant paediatrician, denies one rape charge and 25 indecent assaults, involving 18 women and one man who are now adults.

The court was previously told the former doctor used his position to take advantage of young patients and in one case tied a 14-year-old patient to a couch and raped her.

Mr Salmon insisted he carried out normal medical examinations and that other incidents never took place.

As well as claiming a number of accounts were inconsistent, his defence barrister Nicholas Haggan QC told the jury some of the alleged victims only came forward after seeing media coverage linked to a previous conviction of Mr Salmon in 2015.

The trial continues.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Celebrations to mark the reopening of a street in St Albans where a sinkhole opened up will have to wait a few days. 

The official ceremony to reopen Fontmell Close will take place at 14:00 on Saturday. 

There will be the obligatory ribbon cutting ceremony and this honour has been bestowed upon one-year-old Finley Bagshaw, who was forced to move out of the area when his mother, Gemma, was expecting him. 

He'll be helped by the mayor of St Albans, Frances Leonard. 

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

When the 12m (39ft) wide and 10m (33ft) deep hole opened in Fontmell Close in St Albans, 52 properties were left without gas, electricity and water. 

Alternative shelter was arranged for the residents and temporary accommodation for some. 

Before any permanent repairs could be made, investigations were carried out and they found it was caused by old mine workings. 

Then when everything was found to be safe, work started to reconnect utilities to the homes and reinstate the road. 

This took more than a year to complete and is now finished. 

Nikki Fox
BBC Look East

One of the things that's most striking about today is the social care that the East of England Ambulance Service crews provide.

They spent an hour and a half with Larry, who needed his wound glueing after he fell and banged his head on a radiator.

They then called social services, relatives, the GP, the sheltered housing unit and spoke to a neighbour.

It all takes time. It's their responsibility not to leave until they are sure he is OK.

We hope Larry is back to his old self soon.

Evidence against a former doctor accused of child sex offences is "unreliable", a court hears.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

An early Christmas present has been given to the residents of Fontwell Close in St Albans today. 

When the sinkhole appeared five homes had to be evacuated, but only now are the occupants able to move back in.

Ben and Gemma Bagshaw own one of the affected homes. They had to relocate when Gemma was heavily pregnant and on Friday they'll be back home, with the latest edition to their family, Finley, who's now aged one. 

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Some normality has finally returned to Fontmell Close in St Albans, the place where a 33ft (10m) sinkhole appeared in October 2015. 

You can see the extent of the damage by watching the video below... 

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

On 1 October 2015 a 33ft (10m) sinkhole appeared on Fontmell Close, St Albans, closing the road. 

It meant families had to move out of the homes and the road was closed.

But finally after more than a year of waiting, it has now reopened. 

More to follow. 

Image source, Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

A man convicted of murdering an off-duty policeman in Hertfordshire in 1988 has told London's Appeal Court he was stopped from giving evidence in his defence.

Image source, Metropolitan Police

James Hurley (pictured), 54, from Luton, was the getaway driver in a £14,000 armed robbery outside a Barclays bank in Hemel Hempstead, during which PC Frank Mason was shot and killed with a handgun.

At his trial, Hurley pleaded guilty to robbery but denied murder and told the appeal court he was intimidated into keeping quiet by Charles McGhee, who pulled the trigger.

He was convicted of the murder, along with gunman McGhee and robber Perrie Wharrie, in May 1989 and the three were jailed for life, but Hurley claims he was not aware a gun would be used and had nothing to do with the killing.   

McGhee died in prison in 2009 and Hurley now feels safe to try to get the verdict overturned and clear his name.

The hearing continues.

BBC Weather Watchers

Extra blankets and bed socks were needed last night and it certainly was a frosty morning across Beds, Herts and Bucks.

Check out these fantastic wintry photos from the BBC Weather Watchers. 

For the rest of the day it will still be cold and some more frost is expected tonight, but the good news is it should be a little milder.   

English League One club MK Dons are set to appoint Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson as their new manager.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

So a research ship nearly got called "Boaty McBoatface", so could a Hertfordshire gritting lorry become "Gritty McGritface?"

Transport for Buckingham has set up a competition to name three of its new nameless lorries and needs your help. 

So far suggestions include Lambourgritti, Optimis Grit, Alfie the Grit, Gritty McGritface and just simply... Dave.

You can send your choices in via Twitter, external, Facebook, external or Email, external by 19 December. 

Image source, Transport for Buckinghamshire