Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

People in St Albans are being asked to check the pockets of their winter clothes for a missing £1m EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker prize.

Image source, National Lottery

The National Lottery said runners dressed as "memory-jogging butlers" will join those taking part in the St Alban's Half Marathon on 11 June.

The lucky winner bought their ticket in the St Albans area for the 27 December 2016 draw but has still to check their ticket which bears the winning code TKKW 52614. They have until 25 June 2017 to claim their prize.

Andy Carter from The National Lottery, said: "The ticket was bought... just a couple of days after we'd celebrated Christmas and when we were all wrapped up warm against the winter chill, so try checking in the pockets of winter clothes or in wallets, bags, and even down the back of the sofa – someone could quite literally be sitting on a fortune and the clock is ticking."

If no-one comes forward with the winning ticket before the prize claim deadline, then the prize money, plus all the interest it has generated, will go to help National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

The candidates for the seat of Bedford and Kempston are gathering at Bedford Rugby Club for a live debate on the local and national issues in the general election campaign.

We'll be bringing you live coverage from 17:00 of what the candidates have to say right here, so there's no need to go anywhere else. Unless you want to listen live on BBC Three Counties Radio, who are co-hosting the event with Bedfordshire on Sunday, external.

The candidates taking part are (in alphabetical order): Lucy Bywater (Green), Richard Fuller (Conservative), Henry Vann (Lib Dem) and Mohammad Yasin (Labour). Roberto Perrone is presenting the debate for BBC Three Counties Radio.

Jane Killick
BBC Three Counties Radio

Tonight, BBC Three Counties Radio in conjunction with Bedfordshire on Sunday, external will be hosting a debate involving the candidates standing for the seat of Bedford and Kempston in the general election on 8 June.

Those taking part, in alphabetical order, will be: Lucy Bywater (Green) Richard Fuller (Conservative) Henry Vann (Liberal Democrat) and Mohammad Yasin (Labour).

As well as being broadcast live from 17:00, we'll be bringing you live coverage, as it happens, on this very page. So stay tuned later.

League Two side Luton Town agree to sign midfielder Alan McCormack on a free transfer from Brentford.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Herts Police has asked people to come forward if they have any information about damage to an emergency defibrillator in Buntingford.

Murder victim Natalie Hemming's family say her son is coming to terms with partially seeing the killing.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Natalie Hemming's body was found on 22 May last year, 21 days after she disappeared. Here's the timeline of events.

Image source, Channel 4

• 1 May 2016: Natalie Hemming, 31, was last seen in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, at about 15:00 after visiting her mother
• 3 May 2016: Natalie - who shared a surname with her partner but was not married to him - was reported missing from her Milton Keynes home by her mother, who voiced concerns to police about Paul Hemming
• May 2016: At some point between these two dates Paul Hemming beat the mother-of-three to death in the lounge of their home in Alderney Avenue, Newton Leys, while their children slept upstairs

• 6 May 2016: Paul Hemming was charged with her murder
• 22 May 2016: Miss Hemming was found dead in woodland at Toms Wood, Chandlers Cross, Hertfordshire
• 25 October 2016: Paul Hemming admitted concealing the body of his partner 30 miles from their home but denied her murder. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter but the prosecution did not accept this plea and it was agreed he would stand trial for murder
• 4 November 2016: Hemming received a life sentence for murder at Luton Crown Court and was ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Zoe Applegate
BBC News

Ahead of tonight's Channel 4 documentary about the murder of Natalie Hemming, a detective has spoken about how he had suspect Paul Hemming in custody weeks before they found the missing mother-of-three's body.

Paul Hemming was jailed for beating his 31-year-old partner to death in the lounge of their Milton Keynes home while their children slept.

Det Supt Simon Steel, of Thames Valley Police (below), said blood in the house and car led him to charge Paul with murder.

The inquiry was the first time the now Det Supt Steel had someone in the cells suspected of murder, but no body.

"Some of the key evidence in the first few days informed the decision to charge him," he told the BBC.

"Some blood was found on the coffee table and also some blood in the rear of his vehicle.

"It was quite clear it was airborne blood - he'd assaulted Natalie in that room.

"What I did find was no proof of life of Natalie because all of us would leave a footprint in our lives, particularly a mother-of-three."

Image source, Channel 4

Mr Steel said the search for her body was one of the biggest in the force's "corporate memory", with about 100 officers covering hundreds of square miles across Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

The naked body of Miss Hemming - who shared a surname with her abusive partner but was not married to him - was found in a Hertfordshire woodland 30 miles away, three weeks after she disappeared.

Catching a Killer, external will be shown on Channel 4 at 21:00 tonight.

Image source, Channel 4

Andy Collins
BBC Three Counties Radio

The sisters of Natalie Hemming - whose abusive partner is serving a life sentence for her murder - have been telling me about the lengths Paul Hemming, 43, went to in a bid to control her.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Mother-of-three Natalie, 31, was murdered by her partner at their Milton Keynes home after she met another man and was planning to leave him. The two never married, but Natalie took Paul's surname.

Tonight a documentary on Channel 4 will show how the police eventually brought Hemming to justice.

Kerry Hammond and Joanne Beverley are still coming to terms with their loss but told me that while to everyone he was a "very charming, smiley, happy guy that could quite frankly sell ice to eskimos", there were hints that all was not well.

Joanne said: "From about a year in there were probably little things that now when you look back you think, 'oh my goodness, why didn't we realise?'"

"One of the comments she made was that Paul had two faces so there was the side that we all saw, then there was the side that she lived with.

"But to be honest I think she was very careful about what she told us so we never really got the full picture."

Kerry remembered how Paul reacted when Natalie got a birthday greeting on a text message from a former boyfriend.

"He saw this text message and then went off the handle and basically threw her phone across the room, which then hit her on the head," she said.

"It ended up with them going to hospital, but she had to beg and plead [with] him to take her to hospital because he refused to start with.

"And then when he did take her, he wouldn't leave her side.

"A few weeks down the line, after she'd reported it to the police, she then retracted her statement."

Her sisters also told me how he cancelled their wedding in secret as "an element of control" because "that's how these relationships work".

She managed to get away from him to Barnsley to be near her sisters, but he followed her and told her he was a changed man and would buy a new house and change his job.

He put their other house up for sale and on the day they were due to exchange contracts he pulled out of the whole thing.

"It was a pattern that went on for a long, long time," Joanne said.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

This morning we've heard from Capital and Regional - the owners of Luton's shopping centre - The Mall who have said say they don't want Luton Town's new stadium located at Power Court in the centre of the town because the site is "not necessarily appropriate".

The football club's sister company 2020 Developments have submitted plans for a 17,500-seater stadium on the site.

Meanwhile, Luton Borough Council said Capital and Regional had indicated it wants to the develop the site into an "urban park".

The project director for Luton Town's stadium, Michael Moran, said 2020 Developments has a "different opinion".

"Capital and Regional are a rival property company, they've asked a planning consultant to try to object in any way possible," he said.

"We did a big extensive study about where a stadium could go, we looked at over 30 sites, and it came down to sustainability and accessibility.

"We certainly have a different opinion to The Mall, put it that way."

Mr Moran also said that Capital and regional's claim that the planning inspector had indicted that a stadium was not appropriate was "not correct".

"The planning inspector has very carefully said he's not forming and opinion at this point in time," he said.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Earlier we told you that the owners of The Mall shopping centre in Luton have again argued that the Power Court site in the centre of the town was not a suitable site for a football stadium.

Image source, 2020 Developments

The football club's sister company, 2020 Developments, have submitted proposals for a 17,500-seater stadium on the site.

Ken Ford, from Capital and Regional, who own The Mall, have said the "urban park concept for Power Court will contribute far more".

The chief executive of Luton Borough Council Trevor Holden has confirmed that there are two developers who want to build on the site - 2020 and and Capital and Regional.

They want to develop an "urban park" although a planning application for that had not yet been received.

"There's a commercial aspect to this, both for Capital and Regional and 2020 but ultimately any decisions on planning applications submitted by [both organisations] will be decided at planning and development control committee," he said.

"What really good for the town is that Power Court which has not been developed for ten years plus... now we've got two competing developers saying we want to do something with that site."

Andy Collins
BBC Three Counties Radio

The sisters of Natalie Hemming, whose abusive partner is serving a life sentence for her murder, have been telling me how their six-year-old nephew unwittingly provided the evidence to charge Paul Hemming with Natalie's murder.

Image source, Channel 4

Last year, Paul Hemming, 43, was convicted of beating mother-of-three Natalie Hemming, 31, to death in the lounge of their Milton Keynes home while their children were upstairs.

He'd found out she was having an affair and was planning to leave him.

Tonight, Catching a Killer on Channel Four, shows how the police eventually brought Hemming to justice.

Natalie's sister Joanne Beverley (pictured far right with Natalie's mother) has revealed how Natalie's son helped the police.

"He's sitting on that chair swinging his legs and he just blurts out this whole little story about unfortunately seeing mummy wrapped in a rug," Joanne said.

"He drew this map of the living room and he showed them where he'd seen Paul cleaning the floor and actually that is exactly where they found the evidence that they needed to be able to charge him."

Image source, Facebook

Kerry Hammond (pictured far left) said her nephew now understands what his dad did to his mum.

"To start with our little man didn't believe daddy could have done this and now he actually believes that daddy did do it," she said.

"So it's a massive, massive leap for us to actually think, you know he actually believes what we've said is true, because obviously he could never have believed us before I don't think."

Miss Hemming was found dead in woodland at Chandlers Cross, Hertfordshire, on 22 May, 21 days after she disappeared.

Hemming, 43, was found guilty of murder at Luton Crown Court and told he must serve a minimum term of 20 years.

Justin Dealey
BBC Three Counties Radio

The owners of The Mall shopping centre in Luton have again argued why Luton Town Football Club should not relocate to Power Court in the centre of the town - and say the planning inspector agrees with them.

Luton Town's proposals for a new 17,500-seater stadium also include new apartments, restaurants, shops and a hotel.

Image source, Luton Town FC

A consultation into the town's Local Plan, which was revised to accommodate the option of a stadium there, ended last week.

Earlier this month Hatters chief executive Gary Sweet was confident that the stadium would eventually be given the go ahead there.

But Ken Ford, from Capital and Regional, who own The Mall, says it's the wrong place.

"As a town centre use, a football stadium is not necessarily appropriate," he said.

"The reality is these are big buildings which are fundamentally used perhaps for four, five or six hours a week... so they don't actually contribute too much to the economic vitality of a town centre.

"The planning inspector has already indicated it's not an appropriate use for Power Court, I think no sinew should be left unstrained to try to identify the appropriate site for the football stadium, the urban park concept for Power Court will contribute far more."

We'll be hearing from Luton Town shortly.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

A prisoner with links to Luton who went on the run has been recaptured after he was spotted by a member of the public.

Image source, Wiltshire Police

Yesterday we told you how Michal Kisiel, 30, was being treated for a head wound at Salisbury District Hospital on Tuesday when he managed to flee from prison guards. Bedfordshire Police said it was thought he could be heading to Luton, where his offences were committed.

He was arrested on Wednesday evening after he was seen in Nunton, Wiltshire, about 5 miles (8km) away from the site of his escape.

Wiltshire Police said he would be returned to prison "in due course".

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

Any early morning mist patches will soon clear, to bring a dry, bright and sunny day with light winds.

Feeling slightly cooler towards the coast, but inland we can expect temperatures to reach 23C (73F).

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome to live updates about all that's happening in Beds, Herts and Bucks. We'll be here from now until 19:00 bringing you the very latest news, sport, weather and travel, with updates from the BBC Three Counties election debate at Bedford Blues Rugby Club between 17:00 and 19:00.

This morning, we hear from the owners of Luton's Mall who have again argued why Luton Town Football Club should not relocate to Power Court.

Plus, the sisters of Natalie Hemming, whose abusive partner is serving a life sentence for her murder, have spoken to the BBC ahead of tonight's Channel 4 documentary about the case, Catching a Killer, external.

I had to put my fog lights on this morning but apparently most early mist and fog patches will quickly clear this morning leaving a dry, bright and warm day with a quite toasty maximum temperature of 23C (73F) - a regional forecast will be coming up shortly.

Meanwhile, you can contact us at any time via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.

Michal Kisiel was being treated for a head wound when he left Salisbury District Hospital.

An endangered giraffe born at Woburn Safari Park earlier this month has been named Arrow, after the Rothschild family's coat of arms.

Matt Wilmot's body was found by police at the bottom of the hole dug by Affinity Water.

That's it for our live updates today, we'll be back with regular updates from 08:00 tomorrow.

Scroll back through today's feed for anything you may have missed. Any breaking news stories will be published here overnight.

Have a great evening.