BBC Local Live: Northamptonshire

Tonight it'll be milder than it has been over the past few nights. It should stay dry with long clear periods. Minimum temperature: 13C (55F).

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Tomorrow morning will be bright, dry and warm with plenty of sunshine, but it will become cloudier in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 20C (68F).

For a more detailed forecast for where you live, go to BBC Weather.

Force India's chief operating officer has been speaking about his hopes for this weekend's Formula One Grand Prix - including that the Great British weather might be favourable.

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Otmar Szafnauer said: "Well, we've gone well at Silverstone before - we anticipate to do the same again. 

"So if we qualify with both cars in the top 10 and finish strongly in the points, that would be a result for us.

"The weather is never predictable, especially at Silverstone, I think it even has a micro-climate around here.

"So we'll have to be on our toes, depending on what the weather does, have a good strategy, qualify well, and race well."

The recent vote in the referendum by the British people to leave the EU is likely to have little effect on the work of Force India, its chief operating officer says.

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Otmar Szafnauer told the BBC the team has no plans to move from Silverstone.

"We'll stay here, I'm not sure Brexit will have a big impact on what we do," he said.

"Many of our employees are non-UK citizens, including myself, but we do get work permits for even those that aren't from the UK. We have Americans working here as well as some Japanese nationals and some others. 

"So I would imagine, even when Brexit eventually happens, we'll still employ the Europeans and the talents that we need."

Bill Parker, the Northamptonshire County Council cabinet member for adult social care, says the plans for the care homes are to "meet the growing demand for adult care services over the next five years".

"We know that there is a growing demand for extra care housing, retirement villages and supported living, and there's also an increasing number of people needing specialist dementia services," he said.

"The closure of Ecton Brook will be carefully planned with individual residents, their families, staff and medical professionals to ensure a smooth and sensitive transition to new accommodation."

Northamptonshire County Council has also announced plans for five other homes, which will be discussed at a meeting on Tuesday.

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• Boniface House in Brixworth will be developed alongside the adjacent sheltered housing to increase facilities
• Evelyn Wright House in Daventry will remain open until a new fit-for-purpose care home is built in Daventry, at which point all residents and staff will move into the new premises to ensure consistency of care
• Obelisk House in Northampton (pictured) will be developed into a specialist dementia care centre
• Ridgway House, Towcester, will be developed to create an extra care village 
• Southfields House in Northampton will be developed into a care facility offering respite, intermediate and dementia care services

Full business cases including timetables will be developed for each of the five homes for cabinet approval.

Proposals to close a care home for elderly people in Northampton go before councillors next week.

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Northamptonshire County Council is looking to shut Ecton Brook as part of plans to overhaul its care homes.

If approved at a meeting on Tuesday, Ecton Brook would be closed over a three-month period and alternative suitable accommodation would be found for the 18 residents.

The home is one of six county council homes run by Olympus Care Services that the authority has been looking at. Some of these homes will be made specialist homes, for example for people with dementia.

South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom, who came second in the first round of the contest to become the next Tory leader and prime minister, is to publish her tax returns, her campaign manager says.

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The front runner in the leadership race, Theresa May, has published hers - meaning Mrs Leadsom is the only remaining candidate yet to do so.

Her campaign manager, Tim Loughton MP, said it was "not an issue" and told the BBC she would publish a summary "as soon as she gets time away from speaking to colleagues and fighting this campaign".

Mrs May won the first round, with 165 of 329 votes cast by Conservative MPs. Mrs Leadsom got 66 votes and Michael Gove got 48.

Liam Fox was eliminated in fifth place, while Stephen Crabb came fourth and dropped out. Both have since backed Mrs May.

Further voting will narrow the field to two. The eventual outcome, decided by party members, is due on 9 September.

A former Northampton parliamentary candidate has revealed he has received a death threat that appears to refer to the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox.

Derbyshire say it is the club's first total County Championship abandonment since 1981.

Another pitch inspection is due to take place at 15:00 to see if Northamptonshire's County Championship match against Derbyshire is likely to go ahead tomorrow.

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Earlier the game at Chesterfield was called off without a ball bowled for a third straight day because of a wet outfield.

Despite a dry 24 hours, umpires Neil Mallender and Ian Blackwell thought the Queen's Park ground was unplayable after an early morning inspection.

The main area of concern is still the bowlers' run-ups.

About half a million people died in Iraq as a result of war-related causes between the US-led invasion in 2003 and mid-2011, an academic study suggested in 2013.

The UK lost 179 servicemen and women during the campaign that followed the invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003. 

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Sally Keeble was the Labour MP for Northampton North at the time of the Iraq invasion and gave evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry.

Speaking after the publication of the report, she said: "The report is trenchant in its criticisms and I hope that for the families that gives them some sense of closure.

"I think what needs to happen for the UK is to learn lessons, and that's about the international relations and doing proper aftermath planning."

Tony Clarke, the former Labour MP for Northampton South, voted against military action in Iraq.

He said he'd been party to transcripts of some of the conversations between Tony Blair and George W Bush, who he believed "was not fit for office".

In a confidential memo from July 2002, Mr Blair wrote to Mr Bush: "I will be with you, whatever."

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Mr Clarke said: "Tony Blair shouldn't have been in a position where he is promising somebody that he can deliver the lives of British servicemen, where he can agree to regime change and to the killing of innocent civilians, just because a prime minister has promised a president he'll back him."

Sir John Chilcot's Iraq war inquiry report, which has been published this morning, consists of 12 volumes and is 2.6 million words long.

The BBC is running a live page with updates and reaction - you can find it here.

Police are not releasing any further details regarding an assault in Hardingstone in the early hours of Monday morning.

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Officers cordoned off an underpass at the top of Hardingstone Lane for most of the day following the incident.

Northamptonshire Police said officers received a call at 11:00 on Monday to a report of an assault, but have since refused to release any more details, only saying that "inquiries are ongoing".

That's despite concerns from residents, who have told me they would like to know the nature of the assault particularly as the underpass is regularly used by single runners.

Sir John Chilcot has finished outlining his findings on the UK's involvement in the 2003 Iraq War and the lessons to be learned from it.

You can read the full details as the 2.6 million word report is digested.

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Rockingham Slot Car Club has recreated the Silverstone circuit ahead of the British Grand Prix.  

Racer Matt Tucker said: "It's different from a Scalextric... it's a bit more technical but actually the basics are exactly the same."  

The weather's not great and the place is so flat it feels like you can see the curvature of the earth, but Silverstone remains one of the world's truly great grand prix circuits.

For Lewis Hamilton, it offers a chance to create history this weekend.

On Sunday, the driver will attempt to equal Nigel Mansell's British record of four F1 wins at the Northamptonshire circuit.

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Today we've been talking about the Tory leadership race and how South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom came second in the first round.

If you're not sure exactly what that means - here's a handy diagram to explain the whole process.

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The eventual leader should be named in September.