Here are some photos of the destruction Storm Doris has caused in Hertfordshire.
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Tony Fisher
BBC Three Counties Radio
Storm Doris has been causing significant travel disruption across Beds, Herts and Bucks.
No trains are running on the Thameslink line from Bedford and Luton into London, after damage to overhead wires in the St Albans area.
There's severe disruption on London Midland, which operates services from Milton Keynes into Euston.
In Hertfordshire there's been a trackside fire in Ware, after a fallen tree damaged overhead cables on the rail line.
Greater Anglia says no trains are running on the line.
Orla Moore
BBC Local Live
Here's where the strongest gusts are at the moment across the East - with Weybourne in North Norfolk clocking up a powerful 81mph.
Weatherman Dan Holley, external says it's the strongest wind gust in the region since 28 October 2013.
Wittering near Peterborough isn't far behind, with winds recorded this afternoon at a rapid 74mph.
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The formal go-ahead has been given for the first phase of the HS2 high speed rail link through Buckinghamshire and south Northamptonshire, between London and Birmingham.
After three years of debate in Parliament, royal assent has been approved today.
Image source, ContributedThe government says it'll boost the economy and encourage investment away from London.
But Joe Rukin, from the campaign group Stop HS2, says the project is a "fast train for fat cats" and the group will "continue to fight".
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A fallen tree has damaged overhead cables on the rail line at Ware in Hertfordshire.
The 13:09 train from Hertford East to Liverpool Street has been stranded and there's a trackside fire which is being tackled by the fire and rescue service.
Abelio Greater Anglia, external says "all lines are blocked". We'll bring you more information as we get it.
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Helen Bailey was already a popular author, but it seems many new fans are discovering her work.
As you can see from this screen grab from Amazon, sales of Ms Bailey's autobiographical book When Bad Things Happen In Good Bikinis have soared by over 13,000% in the past 24 hours.
Image source, AmazonIn the book, she writes about life after the death of her husband, who drowned while on holiday in Barbados.
In a twist of fate, the author dedicated the book to the man who would go on to kill her - "Gorgeous Grey-Haired Widower" Ian Stewart.
"You are my happy ending," she wrote.
Ian Stewart was the chief heir to Helen Bailey's fortune and gained power of attorney over her affairs.
He stood to inherit millions from her estate, including their £1.2m home in Royston.
Because of this, and to make sure Stewart does not profit from his crime, proceedings are now to commence in seizing his assets.
Judge Andrew Bright QC set a timetable for him to list the assets he presently holds.
There will be a further hearing later this year.
We reported earlier that trains will be disrupted all day between St Albans and London.
Image source, South Beds News AgencyA Network Rail spokesperson said: "We received an emergency call from a train driver at around 08:15 that the overhead power lines had come down in the St Albans area, which resulted in all four rail lines through the area being closed.
"Once engineers arrived on site it appeared that the wires had come down after being struck by a fallen tree.
"Engineers have been working to restore power since and we are aiming to reopen two of the four lines this afternoon. We apologise for the inconvenience caused to passengers by this incident and advise passengers to check with nationalrail.co.uk before they travel."
Image source, South Beds News AgencyWhile we await reaction to the sentencing of Ian Stewart, here's a quick round-up of how Storm Doris is affecting the area.
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Judge Andrew Bright QC said Ian Stewart, who decided to remain in his prison cell and not attend the sentencing, had been overcome by greed.
"You knew Helen Bailey to be a wealthy woman but were not content with having to share in her wealth as her husband," he told Stewart.
"Instead you wanted it all for yourself. She had assets well in excess of £3m and had taken out a life insurance policy in the sum of a further £1.28m, which you stood to receive in the event of her death.
"Although her will created a discretionary trust of which you were only one of a number of beneficiaries, you knew very well that Helen Bailey had made clear to the sole executor and trustee that she wanted him to ensure that you took her share of the substantial property in Royston in which you both lived, her second home in Broadstairs and a capital sum that would provide you with a very comfortable lifestyle."
Continuing his sentencing remarks, Judge Andrew Bright QC explained why he was handing Ian Stewart a minimum of 34 years in prison:
"There are two aggravating features which substantially increase the seriousness of your offence, namely the significant degree of planning and premeditation in which you engaged beforehand and the fact that you went to considerable lengths to conceal the bodies of Helen Bailey and her dog in the hope that they would gradually decompose and never be found.
"A further aggravating feature in this case is that you deceived Helen Bailey's family and friends for a period of over three months by a calculated and callous series of lies which meant that they had to endure the anguish and misery of not knowing her whereabouts or her fate for a long time before the appalling truth emerged.
"I have read the impact statement of Helen Bailey's brother John dated 14 February 2017, in which he sets out the effect which the cruel murder of his sister has had and will continue to have on him, Helen's mother and father and her many close friends, who all feel an enormous sense of outrage at the way she and her dog Boris met their deaths at your hands.
"As John Bailey rightly observes, the world has lost a gifted author and her family and friends will have to live for the rest of their lives with the deep sense of loss your wicked crime has inflicted upon them."
Image source, SBNABefore announcing details of the sentence, Judge Andrew Bright QC told Ian Stewart:
"You have been convicted after a trial of murdering your fiancée Helen Bailey who was excitedly making arrangements for your wedding while you were planning how to kill her, hide her body and explain her disappearance as a case of an anxious woman running off because she could no longer cope with the more stressful aspects of her life.
"She was so devoted to her dog Boris that you decided that you would also have to kill him if the wicked lies you planned to tell were to sound credible to those who knew her well.
"Helen Bailey was only 51-years-old and at the height of her success as a writer when you brought her life to a cruel end and dumped her body and that of her beloved dog Boris in a foul-smelling cesspit to decompose.
"I am satisfied that your principal motive for killing her was to enable you to take advantage of the generous provision she had made for you in the event of her death which you knew the law would presume after she had remained a missing person for long enough.
"In the meantime and within a few hours of her murder you used your knowledge of her financial affairs and your computer expertise to substantially increase an existing standing order from her personal bank account to enable you to have immediate access to some of her money.
"You also attempted to use the Power of Attorney Helen Bailey had given you in order to take control of her financial affairs while she was still classified as a "missing person".
"You planned her murder well in advance and secretly administered to her Zopiclone tablets which you had obtained from your doctor in order to sedate her so that you could smother her at a time when she was too drowsy to fight you off.
"Having killed her, you then removed the pillow case from the pillow you had used to suffocate her and disposed of it in the cesspit under the garage along with the bodies of Helen Bailey and her dog Boris.
"You then set about attempting to deceive the police and Helen Bailey's family and friends into believing that she had left you a note in which she said that she needed some space and did not want you to contact her.
"You persisted in that callous lie for three months, repeating it to anyone and everyone who inquired about the circumstances of her disappearance."
Ian Stewart is "likely to end his days behind bars" after being sentenced to a minimum term of 34 years in prison, his defence said.
Judge Andrew Bright QC told Stewart: "Whilst we will never know whether you may have had some additional motive for killing the woman who loved you and wanted to be your wife, I am in no doubt this is a clear case of a murder done in the expectation of gain with aggravating features which make it difficult to imagine a more heinous crime."
Image source, Hertfordshire PoliceIan Stewart has been jailed for a minimum of 34 years for murdering the author Helen Bailey.
Stewart, 56, had denied murder, claiming two men called Nick and Joe had kidnapped Ms Bailey in April last year and blackmailed him for £500,000.
But the jury did not believe him, taking just over six hours of deliberating to convict him.
Image source, Hertfordshire PoliceHe refused to return to the dock for sentencing, instead appearing via videolink from Bedford Prison.
Judge Andrew Bright QC sentenced Stewart to life in jail, with a minimum term of 34 years.
He said: "I am firmly of the view that you currently pose a real danger to women with whom you form a relationship."
The fiancé of Helen Bailey, Ian Stewart, has been jailed for life by a judge who told him he will have to spend a minimum of 34 years behind bars.
At St Albans Crown Court, 56-year-old Stewart, who murdered the 51-year-old author and dumped her body in a cesspit, was branded "wicked" by Judge Andrew Bright QC.
As we await more on the sentencing of Ian Stewart, a quick reminder that #stormdoris is blasting through Hertfordshire.
This is Mildmay Road in Stevenage - a trampoline has been whipped into the street.
Please take it easy out there.
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Ian Stewart has been jailed for at least 34 years for the murder of author Helen Bailey.
More to follow.