Sarah Foster
BBC Radio Northampton

One of Northampton's best-known open spaces, Delapre Park, has been left with damaged grass and piles of rubbish after a group of travellers was told to leave the site.

Delapre Abbey is due to open to the public for the first time in 900 years this summer, but a clean-up outside will have to take place first - at a cost of about £5,000.

Image source, Northampton Borough Council

Phil Larrett, deputy leader of Northampton Borough Council, said: "We've spent several years lovingly restoring this property to create a new tourist attraction, and it is particularly galling to see a green flag park defaced in this way".

The council will now consider whether further security measures are needed to be put in place at the park.

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Caroline Densley
BBC Radio Northampton sport

Rob Page, who was sacked as the manager of Northampton Town in January, has been appointed as the new Wales Under-21s manager.

He's on a four-year contract and will also take change of the Under-17 and Under-19 teams.

During his playing career, he won 41 caps for Wales.

After leaving Sixfields, he spent a few weeks as first-team coach at Nottingham Forest.

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Stuart Linnell
BBC Radio Northampton

A campaigner says she'll carry on her fight for improved facilities at Northampton's Victoria Street coach station, even though the borough council says it will provide some of the extra seating she requested.

Dagmar King, who's 70, is a regular user of the coach station, which consists of two shelters with no seats and a single coin-operated toilet. 

She's collected nearly 900 signatures on a petition calling for six benches and two working toilets.  

She says she's pleased there'll be two seats, but she's demanding that an extra four are provided inside the bus shelters, so passengers don't have to stand out in all weathers.

She's also still determined to see the toilets improved.

The borough council says it recognises the current arrangements for coach passengers are not ideal and better facilities will be provided as part of the Greyfriars development.

BBC Weather Watchers

People across Northamptonshire have been enjoying the sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures today.

Here are some of the scenes they've snapped across the county...

Sarah Foster
BBC Radio Northampton

A woman who lives in Northampton says she's worried about her relatives in famine-hit Somalia.

The Disasters Emergency Committee has launched an appeal to help those affected by the shortage of food across east Africa.

Shukri Dhaibaas runs the Somali Women and Girls Group in Northampton and has a sister in Somalia.

Fellow Somalians in Northampton have been telling Ms Dhaibaas about the fate of their relatives. 

She recalled the story of one orphan: "He tried to wake up his mother. She thought she was sleeping, but his mother is gone.

"It's not only my family. I'm talking about a whole generation of Somalia which is in a very bad situation now and they need help."

Sarah Foster
BBC Radio Northampton

The number of jobless people in the East Midlands has fallen by 9,000 in the last quarter, to 103,000.

The unemployment rate of 4.3% is lower than the national figure of 4.7%.

The latest figures also show the number of workers on zero hours contracts has risen by just over 100,000 in the last year to 905,000.

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Willy Gilder
BBC Radio Northampton

A private company has started emptying rubbish bins in Northampton on the weeks when the council doesn't collect them.

Mick George, based in Huntingdon, is charging £260 a year for the fortnightly service.  

Householders put all their rubbish into one bin and the company then removes any recyclable waste so it doesn't go to landfill.

A similar service has also been introduced in Rochdale. 

The borough council says there's no need for it in Northampton as its collection service is working well.

Martin Heath
BBC Radio Northampton

Althorp House, the ancestral home of the Spencer family, is to display 15 of the most famous photographs of the late Princess of Wales taken during the last year of her life.

Her brother, Earl Spencer, is staging the exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana's death.

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The pictures were taken by the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino in 1997 for the magazine Vanity Fair and became the last official portraits of the princess, who was killed in a car crash in August of that year.

They will go on show at Althorp in May.

Martin Heath
BBC Radio Northampton

Two men and two boys have been jailed after admitting a series of robberies at bookmakers and convenience stores in several towns.

Security cameras captured the masked offenders bursting into shops armed with an axe, a knife and an incapacity spray.  

Eight raids were carried out in September and October last year in Kettering, Wellingborough, Thrapston and Raunds.

Image source, Northamptonshire Police

Lee Cole (left), 26, of Allen Road, Rushden, was sentenced to six years and eight months after pleading guilty to robbery. 

Brett Trevor (right), 25, of Church Mews in Kettering, pleaded guilty to a single count of joint robbery on 8 October and received a sentence of three years, eight months.

A 17-year-old and a 16-year-old were also given custodial sentences.

Martin Borley
BBC Radio Northampton

The leader of the Conservative opposition on Corby Borough Council says responsibility for the £13m overspend on the Cube building rests with the Labour administration.

The £48m development opened in 2010 and includes a theatre and a library, as well as council offices.

The council has confirmed to the BBC that it's given up trying to recover the overspend.

The Conservative leader Rob McKellar says the money can't be clawed back because there's no compelling evidence that the costs are attributable to any party other than the council.

The council has declined to comment.

BBC Weather

Once the mist and fog clears this morning, it'll be a bright and sunny day for most across the region.

Any cloud should break to reveal a pleasant, hazy day.

And staying mild - highs of 15C (59F). 

Martin Borley
BBC Radio Northampton

Corby Borough Council has publicly admitted for the first time that it's given up trying to claw back the £13m overspend on the Corby Cube.

The £48m civic building containing council offices, a library, theatre and register office was opened in 2010.

A decision about whether to pursue litigation was made in private in January, but the statement issued afterwards was unclear about whether any court action was still on the cards.

The council has now provided the answer.

Action may still be taken to recover remedial costs for the roof of the Cube, which had been leaking, but as to whether the council is still hoping to recover any of the costs associated with the overrun, the answer is a simple "no".

When the Cube opened more than six years ago, long term loans were taken out to cover the costs and these will have to be paid off by council tax payers.

The council has declined to comment further about the situation.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found in the River Nene in Northampton this week.

Image source, Google

A member of the public made the discovery at about 15:00 on Monday, near the Avon headquarters on Nunn Mills Road.

The man has now been formally identified by police and his family has been notified.

Katy Lewis
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome to another day of live updates from Northamptonshire.

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

This morning we'll be looking at how Corby Borough Council has publicly admitted that they've given up trying to claw back the £13m overspend on the Corby Cube.

But first, a full regional weather forecast.

Matt Taylor scores from 30 yards late on to give Northampton Town victory over Port Vale in League One.

PC Declan Gabriel was cleared at trial but now faces an investigation from his force .

Live updates have now finished for Northamptonshire.

If you want to follow Northampton Town's game against Port Vale tonight from Sixfields,  head to our Twitter feed for updates, external .

We'll have a round-up of the action tomorrow morning, in what could be the 100th Cobblers game in a row for defender David Buchanan .

See you tomorrow.

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Pete Cooper
BBC Local Live

Formula 1 team Force India will race in pink this season after unveiling a radical new design for their 2017 car.

The Silverstone-based constructor has made the change to mark a new sponsorship deal.

Image source, PA

The team, which finished behind only Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari in the constructors' championship last year, operated a predominantly silver car in pre-season testing.

However, they will run with their striking new colour scheme at the season-opening race in Melbourne a week on Sunday .   

Pete Cooper
BBC Local Live

Following news the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is to take no further action in the case of PC Declan Gabriel, Northamptonshire Police says an internal investigation will now take place by its professional standards department.

Last month PC Gabriel, 28, was cleared by a jury of raping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl while on duty. Earlier we mentioned the CPS dropped a charge of misconduct against him, which he denied, after the same jury failed to deliver a verdict.

Northamptonshire Police has also revealed a referral was made to the  Independent Police Complaints Commission, external  (IPCC) on 24 September 2015 in relation to the case, but the IPCC advised a local investigation should be carried out.

BBC Weather

Tonight will be largely dry and cloudy with some clear spells, light winds and temperatures no lower than 7C (45F).

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Tomorrow will see a largely cloudy start with some mist and fog but eventually it should become brighter with spells of sunshine developing. 

Highest temperatures around 15C (59F) and the wind remaining light in strength.

BBC Weather  has more local forecasts.