The latest figures on whether hospitals hit waiting times targets for A&E, cancer care and planned operations have been published.

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust, external and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, external, which runs Stoke Mandeville, Amersham and Wycombe hospitals failed to reach waiting time targets for A&E and planned operations and care.

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All hospitals in Buckinghamshire did manage to meet targets for cancer care waiting times, with the majority of patients being seen within 62 days.

You can see the full breakdown of figures on the BBC's NHS Tracker.

A mother, who last year released footage of her teenage son being thrown into the air by a car from his bicycle in order to warn others about a "dangerous game", has joined forces with Hertfordshire Police to send a "strong message" to young cyclists.

In the police video, external, Lesley Belcher from Borehamwood explains how her son – Paul – played the "swerve the car game" and was involved in a collision in Park Street in St Albans in October 2017.

His bicycle was destroyed and it cost more than £1,200 to fix the car, which his mum paid for. Ms Belcher said Paul and those in the car were very lucky to have come away with relatively minor injuries.

"The impact of such a stupid game could have been a loss of life in so many situations," she said.

Sgt Leah McDermott said: "This so-called game just doesn’t make sense. Those who attempt to swerve in front of cars are not only putting themselves in real danger, but also those in the vehicles.

"I and other officers don’t want to have to knock on parent’s door to tell them their child has been seriously injured or worse.

"This 'game' must stop."

The latest figures which show if your local services are meeting waiting time targets for cancer, routine operations and A&E have been published.

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West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, external, which includes Watford General, Hemel Hempstead and St Albans hospitals, did not meet the national A&E target of 95% of patients being seen within four hours, as 72.1% were seen within this target.

It also did not meet the target for planned operations and care as 85.7% of patients were seen within 18 weeks instead of 92%, but it did meet the cancer care target by seeing 86.6% of patients within 62 days, just over the 85% target.

There is no data for planned operations and care for the East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, external, which includes the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, the new QE2 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertford County Hospital and the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood in Middlesex, but it has not met targets for A&E or cancer care.

It saw 79.6% of A&E patients within four hours and 71.4% of cancer care patients within 62 days.

The latest figures which show how your hospital is faring on waiting times have been released and you can see how your local hospital is faring on the NHS tracker.

We've done the work for Bedfordshire so you don't have to.

The hospital which has come out best is the Luton and Dunstable which reached its A&E and cancer care targets, but it did not reach its planned ops and care targets.

It has come out the second best hospital in the country for A&E and its current CQC rating, external is "good".

At Bedford it is slightly different, as they have failed to reach all their targets and the trust is graded as "requires improvement."

NHS Blood and Transplant has started an appeal for more living kidney donors in Milton Keynes to mark World Kidney Day.

There are currently 15 people waiting for a kidney in Milton Keynes and six people have died while waiting for a transplant in the last five years.

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In Buckinghamshire there were 11 living kidney donors in 2017, compared to 14 in 2013.

Lead nurse for kidney donation at NHS Blood and Transplant Lisa Burnapp said the figures showed a "worrying decline" and urged people to consider donating one of their two kidneys while they are still alive.

Up to six offenders threaten victims with a knife and metal bar and take cash and jewellery.

A motorist seemed completely oblivious to a police car haring up behind them in the outside lane of a motorway at 90mph with its blue lights flashing...

...So officers filmed the driver as they closed in, desperate to get by, after reports of a broken down lorry further ahead on the M1 in Hertfordshire on Thursday morning.

Despite there being room for the motorist to move over, they stayed where they were.

The driver's "actions could easily have resulted in a fatal collision", officers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire's road policing unit wrote on Twitter.

They stopped the driver near St Albans and discovered the car was not insured - so they seized it, and the motorist will have their day in court.

Although this police team didn't make it to the stranded lorry, others did, together with officers from Highways England.

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Former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull, who has a home in Suffolk, paid homage to his favourite football team, Wycombe Wanderers, on Channel 4's Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer last night.

Alongside Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and comedians Harry Hill and Roisin Conaty, Bill had to make 12 identical cupcakes for judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.

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The presenter, who recently revealed he has prostate cancer, decided to decorate his cupcakes in the colours of the Wycombe Wanderers strip, but said the show's producers were concerned about branding issues so they were named "Pitchside Cupcakes", which he said was "a bit strange".

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"The simple design turned out to be more complicated than I anticipated," Bill said speaking to Andy Collins on BBC Three Counties Radio.

"I had my heart in my mouth while the judges had my cake in their mouth," he said.

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