Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

A fine end to the day and a clear start to the night across the BBC East region.

Gradually turning cloudy from the south with the risk of some heavy and possibly thundery downpours.  Muggy, humid conditions will make it feel much milder than last night, with lows of 8C (46F).

Friday morning will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain, some heavy, possibly thundery.

Becoming brighter but turning showery later in the day, with the odd heavy downpour.

Top temperature: 19C (66F).

Get a full forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

The teenage boy stabbed PD Finn, leaving the German shepherd with life-threatening injuries.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

The second man accused of a murder in Stevenage when a flat screen TV was used as a weapon has chosen not to go into the witness box.

Peter Shickle, 58, was found lying in a pool of blood at his flat in Silam Road on 6 November 2016. 

Graham King, 36, from Harrow Court in the town, and John Jamieson 36, from Wigram Way deny charges of murder.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Today at Luton Crown Court, Mr King's lawyer Abbas Lakha QC, said there was no evidence that he went into Mr Shickle's flat to cause him serious harm.  

Earlier in the trial, Mr Jamieson said he thought Mr Shickle had a Stankley knife in his hand when he swung the TV at him, hitting him twice. 

Mr King's defence said earlier evidence suggested the only thing his client did was to kick Mr Shickle to release the dead man's grip on Mr Jamieson.

The case continues.

Sara Varey
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

A much-loved tiger is to be put down at Shepreth Wildlife Park tomorrow morning. 

The park says Rana, 19, who has been at the park since 2001, will be put to sleep before Friday's opening. 

The action is being taken as the big cat has been suffering from chronic arthritis for the past two years. 

Image source, Shepreth Wildlife Park

A statement from the park said: "His legs have finally reached the end and so we have made the painful decision, under the guidance of our specialist vet, to let him rest now.

"As you can imagine the staff are all very upset and we would appreciate your understanding that we will be cancelling the daily Tiger Talk tomorrow." 

Relive the action from Sunday's League Two play-off semi-finals where 11 goals are scored in the two matches.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a police dog and his handler.

The 16-year-old from London, who can't be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced next month.

Image source, Hertfordshire Police

Police Dog Finn was stabbed in the head and chest while on duty in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in October.  

The police dog and officer, PC Dave Wardell, have since made a full recovery. 

Today at Stevenage Magistrates' Court, the district judge Jo Matson found the 16-year-old boy from Lewisham guilty of assaulting PC Wardell and of a charge of criminal damage which relates to the attack on Finn.

The high price paid by police dog Finn and his handler after a teenager turned his knife on them.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Last month we told you how "significant" archaeological finds from the Roman town of Verulamium had been uncovered during gas main works in St Albans.

Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain, external and has been mapped by various excavations over the years - the new holes revealed the location of the corner of the town wall and a previously unknown house which led archaeologists to redraw the map of the city. 

Well, now more of its secrets have been discovered by archaeologists during the works.

The burnt remains of a 1,800-year-old potter's kiln have been unearthed.

Image source, St Albans Museums

Image source, St Albans Museums

It is the fifth kiln to be found at the historic site close to the others, which were found when the Abbey View running track was built in the late 1980s.

The kiln’s burnt remains have given the soil a deep red-orange colour while some shards of broken pottery, known as wasters, were also detected.

District archaeologist Simon West said: "The pottery kiln is another exciting discovery that gives us a greater understanding of how Verulamium was set up. 

"The old gas main would appear to cut through the middle of it.

"It is further evidence of just how advanced and productive the Romans who settled in Verulamium all those centuries ago were.

"The relaying of the gas pipe gave us a chance to discover new things about our past and we are certainly doing that."

Let's have a look at what some our local papers are saying:

• The Hertfordshire Mercury, external report that the judge in the case of stabbed police dog Finn has barred journalists from the court room
• The Watford Observer, external reports that the man accused of killing Bradley Cresswell outside a nightclub tells court he was acting in self-defence
• The Milton Keynes Citizen, external say residents are being invited to ‘break the taboo’ and talk about death

A Bedfordshire marketing company which made nearly 100 million nuisance calls has been hit with a record fine. 

Keurboom Communications, which is registered in Dunstable, will have to pay £400,000 for bombarding people with recorded messages encouraging them to make insurance claims. 

The company called people, sometimes at night, to see if they were eligible for road-accident or PPI compensation, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), external said. 

It breached privacy laws by calling people without their consent.

Image source, Getty Images

The company has since gone into liquidation, but the ICO said it was committed to recovering the fine.

"The unprecedented scale of its campaign and Keurboom's failure to co-operate with our investigation has resulted in the largest fine issued by the Information Commissioner for nuisance calls," said Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the ICO.

Keurboom director Greg Rudd told the Mirror newspaper, external that he found cold-calling "annoying" but said it was "part of life".

"I don't enjoy receiving them but that doesn't make them illegal," he said.

However the ICO said making automatic marketing calls without people's consent was illegal.

BBC Weather

Staying partly cloudy this afternoon with the chance of a few showers across the three counties, possibly turning heavy with a risk of thunder, although many of us staying dry. 

Warm in any sunshine and feeling a little more humid. 

Maximum temperature: 21C (70F).

For the full forecast where you are, visit BBC Weather.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

About 40 firefighters have tackled a blaze at a thatched cottage on the Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border overnight.

Image source, @Bucksfire

The two-story cottage, on Bulls Lane in Ickford near Thame, has been severely damaged.

Firefighters from both counties were called just before 21:30.

The former Celebrity Big Brother star was allegedly carrying a knife and threatened a woman.

Dani Bailey
BBC Local Live

The world's longest aircraft has successfully flown for the first time since it crash-landed nine months ago.

The Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - took off at 17:30 yesterday near its base in Cardington, Bedfordshire and landed safely at about 20:15.

The £25m aircraft nosedived during a test flight on 24 August.

Dean Media has taken this footage:

Paul Le Vallois says he was inspired by Blue Peter to bury a number of time capsules around his Welwyn home in the early 1980s.

Former N-Dubz rapper Dappy has been arrested in Hatfield after reports of a man allegedly having a knife and threatening a woman.

Armed police were called to an altercation between a man and a woman in a residential street at about 16:30 yesterday.

Hertfordshire Police said "no-one was seriously hurt" in the incident in Roe Green Close.

The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, whose real name is Costadinos Contostavlos, was arrested in nearby College Lane.

He is being questioned on suspicion of actual bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon in public. 

A spokesman for Hertfordshire Police said: "The man threatened the woman before leaving the scene. It is believed he had a knife.

"A 29-year-old man was arrested in the local area around 6pm on suspicion of assault ABH and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

"He has been taken to custody for questioning. He remains in custody at this time."

BBC Business News

A Bedfordshire marketing company which made nearly 100 million nuisance calls faces a record fine from the Information Commissioner (ICO).

Keurboom Communications - registered in Dunstable - will have to pay £400,000 for bombarding people with recorded messages encouraging them to make insurance claims.

It made unsolicited automated calls relating to road accident and insurance policy compensation, the ICO said.

It breached privacy laws by calling people without their consent.

The company has since gone into liquidation but the ICO said it was committed to recovering the fine.

It said it had received more than 1,000 complaints about automated calls from the company.

Northampton Town's League One season finished less than a fortnight ago, but judging from this picture on the club's Instagram feed preparations for 2017-18 are beginning in earnest.

Striker Leon Lobjoit signed on a two-year deal from non-league side Buckingham Town in March and is pictured being put through his paces in the sunshine at Sixfields.

Meanwhile, in other Cobblers news, centre-back Lewin Nyatanga, who spent last season on-loan at Justin Edinburgh's side has been released by his parent club Barnsley.

After three years of work, a £160m project to bypass a town is now open to traffic.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Hybrid Air Vehicles, external chief executive Stephen McGlennan has said he hopes yesterday's test flight of Airlander 10 signals a busy summer.

"[There will be] another few short test flights, then some longer test flights, and then hopefully a really exciting summer showing the aircraft off around the UK and maybe Europe," he said. 

Image source, Terry Harris