BBC Local Live: Northamptonshire

Local Live is finished for today, but we'll be back on Monday from 08:00 with all the news, weather, sport and travel for Northamptonshire.

For updates over the weekend do keep an eye on our Twitter feed.

It will stay largely dry through the rest of tonight, with clear spells and areas of high cloud at times. Lowest temperatures: 7C (45F).

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There is a chance of an isolated thunderstorm in Northamptonshire on Saturday, but apart from that it will be very warm with sunny spells. Temperatures reaching highs of 24C (75F).

A youth market is set to take place at Northampton Market later this month as part of the national Love Your Local Market campaign to celebrate markets across the country.

Here are our top stories this evening:

• Conservative Stephen Mold has been elected as Northamptonshire's new police and crime commissioner
• At least eight police forces, including Northamptonshire, are investigating whether election expenses for Conservative MPs were filed illegally at last year's General Election
• England captain Dylan Hartley is on the bench for Northampton Saints, for their final match of the Premiership season

It seems UKIP's police and crime commissioner candidate Sam Watts isn't that impressed with Tory rival Stephen Mold's win. 

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He finished third in the race behind Mr Mold and Labour's Kevin McKeever, but said the Conservative Party has such a core support in Northamptonshire it would have won "even if a donkey with a rosette had turned up".

He did row back slightly on his comments by adding that Mr Mold is a "very nice chap" and that a good turnout showed people "were engaged" with the election.

Stephen Mold, Northamptonshire's new police and crime commissioner, said it is "a bit surreal" he's been elected.

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Conservative Mr Mold told BBC Radio Northampton: "I genuinely think I can make a positive contribution and next week we get to work."

We've had a clarification on the number of votes won by police and crime commissioner winner, Stephen Mold.

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It was earlier announced that he polled 58,452 votes, but that figure has now been revised to 58,175 - 54% of the vote.

It's still a solid victory, with nearest rival Kevin McKeever getting 49,161 votes after the second preference count - while 8,099 ballot papers were rejected during the second count.

Labour's Kevin McKeever, who came second to Conservative Stephen Mold in the police and crime commissioner election, told me he was "very pleased how the vote was spread".

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Mr McKeever said the result was "at the top end of expectations" for his party and he was "proud" of what they had achieved.

He added that Northamptonshire was not quite a "true blue as some people think".

Jules Osmany, from Northampton, started 'Red Lippy Day' to raise money and awareness for Dementia UK.

She thought up the event a year ago because her mother Gloria has advanced vascular dementia.

Thanks to the power of social media the event has grown and was even endorsed by University of Northampton Vice-Chancellor Nick Petford, model Holly Matthews, and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips...

The Government's Anti-corruption Tsar, Sir Eric Pickles, says he is confident a police investigation into whether election expenses for Conservative MPs were filed illegally at last year's General Election won't find any wrong-doing.

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Northamptonshire Police is one of eight forces looking into allegations about overnight accommodation for the Conservative Party's "battle buses".

The Tories didn't file the hotel costs and say it was an administrative error. Sir Eric said he's been told the party "will successful demonstrate everything is above board".

It was a rather interesting experience this afternoon as I took a tour of Northampton's former Castle without leaving the studio.

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The Friends of Northampton Castle have launched a Virtual Reality tour of the site which uses the latest technology, including a mobile phone and a headset.

Stagecoach has apologised after a timetable error left passengers between Kettering and Market Harborough missing their bus to work.

Northamptonshire is one of eight police forces investigating Conservative election expenses from the 2015 General Election.

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The allegation is that hotel bills for the party's 'battle bus' activists, who were boosting campaigns in target seats, were not filed in as election expenses.

The forces will not say which constituencies they are investigating, but the claims which were first raised by the Daily Mirror and Channel 4 News named the Northampton North constituency won by Conservative Michael Ellis.

Northamptonshire's new police and crime commissioner, Conservative Stephen Mold, said he "may not always get it right, but it won't be for the want of trying".

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Mr Mold, who succeeds Adam Simmonds, said he takes the "trust" placed in him by the people of Northamptonshire "seriously," adding that he want to make the county "safer".

Stephen Mold, the new police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, said he is "truly humbled and honoured" by his election victory.

Conservative Mr Mold beat Labour's Kevin McKeever, with 57.5% of the vote (58,452), after the second preference votes of UKIP Sam Watts were counted.

Update: The number of votes for Mr Mold was later adjusted to 58,175.

UKIP police and crime commissioner candidate Sam Watts said his 24% of the vote was "very positive" despite it meaning he finished third behind Conservative Stephen Mold and Labour's Kevin McKeever.

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Mr Watts said he was hampered by "minuscule resources," adding that if it had gone to second preference votes he "had most of those" from what he could see.

Within moments of Conservative Stephen Mold becoming the new police and crime commissioner, the chief constable of Northamptonshire Police tweeted his congratulations...

The police and crime commissioner election has gone to the second preference vote after none of the candidate secured the 50% required.

Conservative Stephen Mold came first with 40.5%, while Labour's Kevin McKeever had 35.5%, with UKIP's Sam Watts third with 24%.

But how does the vote now work? This video from the Electoral Commission explains all...