Kate Kinsella
BBC Look East weather

It's a chilly start to the new working week and this morning will be mainly dry with sunny spells.

It's due to turn cloudy later and there could be some heavy rain, hail and thunder in the Beds, Herts and Bucks area.

Maximum temperature: 15C (59F).

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Workers on Virgin Trains East Coast have begun a 24-hour strike this morning in a long-running dispute over jobs.

Image source, PA

The RMT, external union said about 1,800 members, including train crew and some drivers, are taking action against threatened job cuts and disputes over working conditions and safety.

Virgin Trains East Coast, external, which operates services between London, eastern England and Scotland, said it was making changes to customer-facing roles. 

The company said, external it would be running a full timetable during the strike but there will be some changes to on-board catering and it may not be able to open the food bar or run a trolley service in standard class, and the first class menu will be reduced.

I think the message is to stock up on food before you travel.

Pete Cooper
BBC Local Live

Good morning.

It's the start of another week and there is plenty going on, including a 24-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast.

We'll soon bring you a round-up of the weekend's sport and today's weather forecast too.

Bit foggy this morning isn't it... best take care on your travels.

St Peter's church, a 13th century jewel, is empty.

Inside, the workings of the clock tick ominously, moving the hands towards midnight. On the street outside a group of people, maybe a hundred, huddle against the cold, waiting for the clock to strike.

This is the scene on the second Sunday in December, every year, in the village of Broughton, near Kettering in Northamptonshire. This is a quiet village, the bypass takes traffic away, the few commuters leaving town early in the morning. The few pubs are jolly, but not rowdy, and the Co-op acts as an unofficial meeting point for the locals.

Not much to distinguish it from the other villages nearby; flat, farmland stretching from one village to the next, with the odd superstore or garden centre between them. But come midnight something different happens; something unique, ancient, mysterious; something rather noisy. For every year for as long as anyone can remember, and even further back, the devil is beaten out of Broughton, by the tin can band - a collection of villagers who patrol the streets after midnight, banging, pots and pans, milk churns and hip baths, drums and hammers, colanders and frying pans - anything that makes a noise in fact, and for one night a year, Broughton becomes the noisiest place in Northamptonshire. And no one quite knows why... Alan Dein joins them with a microphone.

Producer: Sara Jane Hall.

Charlie Colkett hits a stoppage-time winner as Bristol Rovers beat Northampton Town in a see-saw League One affair.

Relive live text commentary of Saturday's action in the rugby Premiership as it happened, as Harlequins beat Northampton.

The BBC's Mike Cartwright sees a drone net in action - for use in bringing down and disabling drones.

Lawyers warned that a council's decision to sell off a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue should not be "financially motivated", it emerges.

Wales wing George North stars as Northampton Saints come back from 13-0 down to beat Exeter Chiefs in the Premiership.

Helen Popham
BBC Local Live

That's the end of our rolling updates for today, but any breaking news will still appear here.

Stories we've covered today include:

• A Northampton borough councillor says more needs to be done about the growing problem of Japanese knotweed.
• South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom says she is still looking at whether farming subsidy can be maintained at its current level after 2020.  
• Northampton's "Chatty Man" Alan Carr has thanked fans for their messages of congratulations, after he revealed he has got engaged to long-term partner Paul Drayton.  

Don't forget to join us again from 08:00 on Monday when we'll have all the latest news, sport, weather and traffic updates for Northamptonshire.

Here's a lovely picture of Long Buckby sent in to BBC Weather Watchers by Keen Camper. 

Have a great weekend.

Mike Cartwright
BBC Look East

And finally... a Northampton graduate has launched one of the first anti-drone security companies, offering products such as a firing net, similar to Spider-Man's web, to capture nuisance flying machines.

Sales of the unmanned flying devices have dramatically increased over the past two years, but it has led to a three-fold increase in drone-related incidents being reported to police.

Richard Gill said: "After seeing reports of drones being used irresponsibly near airports and flying drugs into prisons I thought that I should do something about it."  

Here it is in action. You can see more tonight on BBC Look East at 18:30 on BBC One.

Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather

Isolated showers this evening will fade away to leave much of the night dry with clear spells, and perhaps a few mist patches. Turning chilly with light winds, as temperatures fall to 6C (43F) in prone rural spots.

Sunny spells on Saturday, particularly at first, but an increasing risk of showers or longer spells of rain developing, some heavy with hail and thunder, and perhaps some local flooding. 

Feeling notably cool with light and variable winds, and temperatures only reaching 16C (61F).

Get your full local weekend forecast from BBC Weather.

Helen Popham
BBC Local Live

The Wildlife Trust has been busy with its bat monitoring programme today.

Forty bats were found in Stoke Wood End Quarter, an undisturbed woodland two miles from Desborough.

As the footage shows, the bats are placed in the bag temporarily before being checked by qualified bat surveyors, and then released as part of the annual bat survey.

A homeless man was repeatedly kicked while he slept in a recreation ground in Towcester.

The attack off Islington Road happened sometime between 22:00 and midnight on Wednesday. 

He was kicked in the upper body, causing bruising to his torso.

It's believed the offenders ran away along Islington Road. Anyone with information can contact Northamptonshire Police on 101.

Image source, Google

Sam Read
BBC Radio Northampton politics reporter

South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom says she is still looking at whether farming subsidy can be maintained at its current level after 2020.

The Secretary of State for the environment has been speaking to BBC Radio Northampton on a visit to Wellingborough today.

She leads the department that is looking at what farming subsidy should look like after leaving the EU.

Mrs Leadsom says she wants to think about ''how can we really support the brilliant work that our farmers and fisherman do?"

She always wants "our generation to leave the environment in a better state than we found it, but at the same time focus on the UK rather than 28 EU members of state. There's a lot of work to do to get to that".

Sam Read
BBC Radio Northampton politics reporter

Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Andrea Leadsom, has praised the work of microbreweries in the county.

The number of small independent breweries in Northamptonshire has more than doubled in the past six years.

On a visit to Hart Family Brewers in Wellingborough, the South Northamptonshire MP said it was "fantastic" news that new businesses were on the increase.

''It's a real growing activity... they're popping up all over the place. It's so important. We're seeing so many new businesses starting up right across the board.''

Saints' hooker Mikey Haywood is part of the line-up facing Exeter this evening, but did you know he could draw too?

Mikey came into BBC Radio Northampton to draw a picture of next week's special guest on the radio station's sports programme.

Can you guess who it is? 

See the full video and post your comments on BBC Northampton's Facebook, external page.

Helen Popham
BBC Local Live

She's currently hard at work practising in the training room, but how will she do this week on the dancefloor? 

Northampton-born Lesley Joseph and dance partner Anton will be dancing the cha-cha to the Pussycat Dolls' version of "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" tomorrow on Strictly Come Dancing.

See how all the couples fare this Saturday at 18:20 on BBC One. 

Helen Popham
BBC Local Live

Northampton's "Chatty Man" Alan Carr has thanked fans for their messages of congratulations, after he revealed he has got engaged to long-term partner Paul Drayton.

The couple were enjoying a holiday in Indonesia last week when actor Paul popped the question during a meal.

Alan said Paul hid the engagement ring in his dessert - what a delicious surprise!

In honour of Women's Sport Week (3-10 October), BBC Get Inspired and Radio 1Xtra have teamed up for an intimate and interactive discussion on body image issues for women in and around sport.

Full details about how you can be there, get involved and watch it live can be found here.