Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

"She can't be everywhere. She's taking the fight into areas that don't have a Conservative in."

Those are the words of the former Conservative MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, Peter Lilley, talking about Theresa May, after the Conserative leader failed to canvas in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire during the election campaign.

He said she's leaving the job to the local candidates, so "don't be hurt by her absence".

He said one of the main areas the party has been campaigning for is a strong "leadership", and she's the person to "negotiate" us out of the European Union.

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The other two main party leaders have been in our patch today, with the leader of the Liberal Democrats coming to St Albans and tonight Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, is in Watford.

Matt Lockwood
BBC Three Counties Radio

Friends of Koy Bentley have been laying flowers at the block of flats on Water Lane, Watford, where he was fatally stabbed on Monday.

One girl told me the 15-year-old was their "joker" who "didn't like seeing anyone upset".

Emotions were very raw, with others telling me they couldn't understand why "anyone would want him gone".

A vigil is being planned to honour him on Saturday.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

The bomb disposal unit has now arrived in Royston to assess the two suspected WW2 shells that were found this afternoon.

Police say they were called just before 13:00 to a garden on Kneesworth Street.

Image source, Kalvin Horabin

Kalvin Horabin, who's close to the cordon, says "nobody is panicking - everyone calm".

He states that the only "traffic chaos" is from "people trying to access the street as it's a main road".

A number of roads in Royston have been cordoned off and homes and businesses evacuated after two suspected unexploded WW2 shells were found by workmen in a garden on Kneesworth Street.

Specialist police officers are at the scene and the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team is expected to arrive shortly to identify and safely remove the objects.

A police cordon is in place and road closures are on Kneesworth Street at the junctions with Melbourne Road and Mill Road.

Kalvin Horabin took this photo of the scene a short while ago.

Image source, @kalvin_horabin

The teenage boy left German shepherd Finn with life-threatening injuries.

Investigators say the jet crashed killing 11 men because it was too low to perform a manoeuvre.

Lee Agnew
BBC Three Counties Radio

A teacher from Luton has been banned from the profession after running unauthorised wrestling lessons for Muslim boys.

The ruling by a professional conduct panel, external heard that in 2015 Azam Zia, a maths teacher at Icknield High School, ran the classes on Saturdays at the Tokko Youth Centre in Luton.

They found that although they were supposed to be maths classes, he used them to give practical instruction in wrestling without the school's knowledge, failed to obtain consent from parents and was uninsured and not qualified to teach it.

The sessions, which were only attended by Muslim boys, were used to settle conflicts between pupils.

Image source, Google

The panel heard he charged for the sessions, which he organised using WhatsApp, and transported the children home in his car.

After admitting unacceptable professional conduct he was banned from teaching. He can appeal in two years' time.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

It's just been confirmed a murder investigation has been launched after a 15-year-old boy was found with a fatal stab wound in a flat in Watford on Monday afternoon.

Police say Koy Bentley, from the Hertfordshire town, was stabbed following an incident inside a flat on Water Lane.

Image source, Hertfordshire Police

They've confirmed "despite the efforts of paramedics, Koy died at the scene".

Extensive enquiries are continuing to find out the exact circumstances surrounding his death.

Koy Bentley was found fatally wounded in a block of flats in Watford on Monday.

Maths teacher Azam Zia charged pupils between £15 and £20 to attend the unauthorised weekend sessions.

Simon Oxley
BBC Three Counties Radio

The Health and Safety Executive has confirmed it is investigating after the death of a Luton man who was found in a hole in the street.

Matt Wilmot, 40, was found in the excavation, dug by Affinity Water, near his home on 30 May.

An inquest is due to open today.

Image source, Tania Banks

The company released a statement saying: "HSE are investigating however we are unable to provide any further information at this time."

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

A new trial has begun over the death of a man who, after being attacked outside his home in Luton, spent 22 months in a coma before he died.

Image source, South Beds News Agency

Henry Huggins, 48, was injured near his flat in Luton on 8 August 2013 and died in June 2015.

Stuart Docherty, 42, who was jailed in November 2014 after admitting causing grievous bodily harm in connection with the attack now faces a charge of murder.

James Early, 43, who was convicted of causing actual bodily harm in November 2014, is now charged with manslaughter.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Police in Watford are continuing to investigate the death of a 15-year-old boy in the town on Monday afternoon, although no arrests have been made.

Image source, Google

He was found fatally wounded in a block of flats on Water Lane.

Hertfordshire Police says the teenager's death is being treated as suspicious, but the cause of death has yet to be confirmed.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

A brief bit of respite from yesterday's unsettled conditions.

It'll be mostly dry with some sunny spells, although there could be some rain first thing out towards the coast.

Elsewhere bright with some lovely sunny spells.

It'll still feel quite breezy but gradually that will become a little bit lighter.

Top temperature across the BBC East region: 19C (66F).

Watch my full forecast here:

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome to live updates about all that's happening in the three counties on this, the last day of campaigning before the General Election.

We'll be here from now until 18:00 bringing you the very latest news, sport, weather and travel.

After yesterday's rather wet and wild weather, today is due to be warmer and brighter although more rain is on the way this evening - a full regional forecast is coming up soon.

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

I'm afraid that's now it from the Watford Palace Theatre and the parties seeking your votes in Watford.

It's over to you, the public, now to choose who will be representing the town in the House of Commons in the future.

If you want a re-cap on any of the positions taken by those hoping to fill that role you can simply scroll down this feed to get their views on issues as varied as Brexit, the NHS, the youth vote and the Croxley rail link.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Penny asked the panel what they would do to try and control immigration.

Gary Ling (UKIP) said: "Controlling immigration and having planned immigration is one of the main reasons people voted for Brexit.

"We will allow skilled immigration as we did in 2015, we don't want any unskilled immigration whatsoever for a moratorium period of five years.

"Even when we have asylum seekers, there will be a lot of people there to take up the jobs where unskilled labour is necessary. What we need to do is invest more in our own people."

Richard Harrington (Conservative) said: "I think immigration has been very good for Watford and the economy.

"The system that we now have needs expanding to the EU countries when we leave.

"There is a labour shortage and at the moment employers are faced with the consequences of having to take labour from abroad because they haven't got people here. There's got to be a sensible control to it."

Ian Stotesbury (Lib Dem) said: "We should be looking at our immigration controls available to us now and properly implementing them.

"When it comes to freedom of movement, we have to be really cautious about setting arbitrary limits, I would be opposed to arbitrary limits.

"Let's take this at a very rational and long-term approach, any short and dramatic knee-jerk reaction would be bad for Britain."

Chris Ostrowski (Labour) said: "Because freedom of movement will come to an end on or before March 2019, there will be a clear before and after period.

"In the after period we can set the immigration policy that best suits the economy and that best suits the businesses that need foreign labour.

"One of the things that we can really do now is make sure that wages are not undercut."

Alex Murray (Green) said: "Immigration is a concern for people but we would make sure that any policy is humane and fair.

"Immigration comes from workers, asylum seekers and refugees.

"We would look to sort the problems out so that people didn't need to come here to seek asylum and refugee status."

Each of the candidates were asked to give their views on climate change.

Alex Murray (Green) said he would "ensure any Brexit deal keeps environmental protections" to EU standards as a minimum.

He added failure to do so could result in "a bonfire of European rights".

Gary Ling (UKIP) said his party would get rid of the 2008 Climate Change Act – a move he called "absolutely essential" – but added: "What we want is the continued use of renewables as part of an energy policy."

Ian Stotesbury (Liberal Democrats) said climate change was "phenomenally real" and the reason why he got into politics.

He said European protections have to be maintained as a bare minimum.

Richard Harrington (Conservatives) said it was "so obvious what we have to do we have to do with the EU, whether we are in it or out of it as we are so near to them".

Chris Ostrowski (Labour) said he recognised climate change "is real and it is important the Paris targets are stuck to and met".

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Roberto Perrone asks the panel whether they would campaign to re-develop the existing Watford General Hospital site or build a new hospital outside Watford to serve the people of West Hertfordshire.

An independent survey recently said it would be cheaper to build a new one than redevelop Watford General.

Gary Ling (UKIP) said: "Redevelop Watford General, no question about it.

"There's been so much work done on that with the Health Campus, we need to find the money.

"With the new road already going in, that's where the hospital needs to be."

Alex Murray (Green) said: "We need to see how a fully-funded Watford hospital could perform before we talk about redeveloping it or moving it.

"If we had an NHS which was not creaking at the seams and not being under-funded and privatised, I might talk about moving the hospital.

"But what we've got is an under-funded NHS and we need to put more money into the hospital first."

Chris Ostrowski (Labour) said: "In 2008 when the previous Labour MP was in place in Watford we brought in the redevelopment plan, but the coalition scrapped that plan.

"The hospital is hugely important to me and every single staff member says the same thing, they're under-resourced and some of the buildings are crumbling.

"So redevelop it on the current site as the previous Labour government had committed to."

Richard Harrington (Conservative) said: "There's been a clinical review by the management of the trust and it has been decided that the best alternative is to redevelop the hospital on the current site.

"That is a £400m alternative and the trust is making a business plan in order to do that.

"This was not stopped by the coalition or anyone else, it's part of the process of deciding the next 20 years of healthcare."

Ian Stotesbury (Lib Dem) said: "If I'm elected as Watford's Liberal Democrat MP I'll be singing in concert on the redevelopment of the current site and the Health Campus.

"It's absolutely essential for our town, but also we're already well along with this discussion, and, like Richard said, there's been a clinical review of this.

"If we want to see our health facilities expanded in Watford we need to pick that site and keep going for it."

Craig Lewis
BBC News

Labour's Chris Ostrowski said he had spoken to London mayor Sadiq Khan about the rail link. He said Mr Khan told him money for the scheme from his budget was ring-fenced and had "not been reduced or held back".

However, he said the cost had increased and that an extra £50m needed to come from central government.

"It is the job of the Watford MP to bang on the secretary of state's door and make sure this happens," he said.

But Richard Harrington, for the Conservatives, said this was an issue he had been dealing with for seven years and that Mr Ostrowski had "no idea about this at all".

He said any uplift in prices was contractually agreed to come from Mr Khan's budget.

UKIP's Gary Ling said the issue had become a "bun fight", adding that in his view central government would ultimately have to stump up the money to make the rail link work.

And Ian Stotesbury, the Liberal Democrat candidate, was also critical of the political arguments around the rail link, blaming Labour and the Conservatives for playing politics.

"How dare they play politics," he said. "It is an outrage to put it on pause."

The Green Party candidate, Alex Murray, preferred to concentrate on the benefits of the scheme, saying he would campaign for it to happen: "We need to do this and get cars off the road."