BBC Local Live: Beds, Herts and Bucks

That's it from all of us here at Local Live for Beds, Herts and Bucks. 

We'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with more news, sport, travel and weather. 

In the mean time on Sunday night we'll be watching to see if a former Luton teacher has won a Bafta.

Writer Mike Carey is up for Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer for his part in the zombie film, The Girl with all the Gifts.

The film stars former Bond girl Gemma Arterton, Hollywood legend Glenn Close and Paddy Considine.

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See you again next week.

Further outbreaks of rain, sleet or snow and this could lead to a covering of snow in places across the BBC East region tonight.

It's also likely to turn quite murky at times with the risk of frost and ice, as temperatures fall. 

Minimum Temperature: -1C (30F).

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Saturday will be cold and cloudy with further wintry showers feeding in on a light-to-moderate north to north-easterly wind. 

These showers are likely to turn mainly to rain by the afternoon. 

Maximum Temperature 4C (39F).

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Today's sentencing of the four Luton men for terror offences follows an intelligence-led operation by Bedfordshire Police and the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command. 

Cdr Dean Haydon, head of the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command, said: "My officers and those of Bedfordshire Police worked hard to gather the evidence needed to ensure this group's conviction. 

"They and Luton Social Services have also worked to safeguard the vulnerable children we identified were taken to the meetings and subjected to the radical speeches."

Det Supt Glen Channer, from the Eastern Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit, said: "Luton is a fantastic town with great diversity and strong communities; however we are aware there are elements with extreme views who prey on the vulnerable. 

"We simply will not tolerate those who spread fear and hate in our communities and will continue to target, arrest and disrupt anyone with extreme views."

Earlier we brought you the story about how a crime scene had been set up in Ware after Humpty Dumpty fell at St Edmund's Nursery School. 

We said we would bring you the result of the investigation. 

East Herts Rural Police has confirmed that "a few implements were used by the suspect, these were found by the little investigators". 

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"After lots of careful investigative work, they worked out the offender was a PIG, he turned Humpty into an omelette. 

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"Mr Pig is currently still at large, Sgt Wallace is extremely happy for the help provided by the little investigators in solving the crime."   

He's described as "one the most radical and influential forces on the world’s stages" and a "world-renowned theatrical pioneer and artist".

I'm talking about Edward Gordon Craig, who is now the subject of a new exhibition at Stevenage museum. 

He was born in the town in 1872 and was commemorated when the town's theatre was named after him in 1975. 

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Rare and valuable items from his life including marionettes, which I was lucky enough to hold, will be on show from tomorrow until 3 June.

You can see more by watching Look East tonight at 18:30. 

One in five students in independent schools received extra time to complete GCSE and A-level exams last year.

The proportion was significantly higher than those who received the special measure in state schools where the figure is fewer than one in eight.

The difference has come to light following an analysis of official exam data by the BBC. 

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Peter Hamilton, headmaster of The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, Hertfordshire, believes serious cuts in the "maintained sector" makes it hard for schools and colleges to ask as for more time.

But he added: "In a funny way by identifying these problems, the independent sector is raising I suppose a sort of a flag, because it should in fact be the other way round."

Anglian Water has apologised for the smell coming from a sewage works in Letchworth. 

The company says it is working on trying to minimise the odour and has installed odour removal spray units at various locations on site and is also hoping to permanently cover two wells. 

It has successfully appealed against an abatement notice served by Central Bedfordshire Council. 

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Residents in the nearby Fairfield Park area have been telling me they've been complaining for weeks and that it's "really bad" and just "awful". 

Finnish-style baby boxes are to be handed out to some expectant mothers in Watford.

The boxes were first introduced in Finland in the 1930s. They are a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed, and some say they helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates.   

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Alternatives Watford - a preganancy crisis and support centre - says its boxes will be given free to anyone who is 32 weeks pregnant and claiming universal credit, living in temporary accommodation or under 16-years-old.

It has been given a grant by Watford Borough Council to get the project off the ground but the idea is that it will eventually sustain itself and the charity is looking for people to sponsor boxes and donate items.

Judge Michael Topolski QC described how Mohammed Alamgir, 37, of Kenilworth Road, Luton, spoke in St Margaret's Church "of the sun setting on the British Empire and the sun trying to rise on the Islamic State". 

Jailing him for six years, he said: "You are in my judgement deeply committed to an a extreme and violent jihad mindset. You are in that sense a dangerous man." 

Rajib Khan (left), 37, of Biscot Road, Luton, had said that a captured Jordanian pilot burned alive by IS "deserved to die". He was jailed for five years.

Yousaf Bashir (middle), 38, of Dane Road, Luton, was sentenced to four years and six months. 

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The court heard how Ziaur Rahman (right), 39, of Ferndale Road, Luton, was also convicted of arranging the meetings at which there were children present. 

He was sentenced to two years and six months.

Mohammed Choudry, 23, of Laggan Road, Maidenhead, had said that non-Muslims "should die in their rage".

The judge described how at the end of a long speech by Choudry there was "a truly chilling passage that imagined, through the mouth of another, 40 trucks driving down Oxford Street (in central London) full of explosives". He was jailed for four years.

A judge has praised the courage of an undercover police officer who infiltrated a group of British supporters of so-called Islamic State (IS) to gather evidence against them.

Today the leader of the group, Mohammed Alamgir (below), 37, was jailed for six years after being convicted at the Old Bailey of inviting support for IS. 

Alamgir and four other men - three from Luton and one from Maidenhead - either arranged or spoke at closed meetings in a marquee and a church hall in Luton. 

Speeches made in support of IS were secretly recorded by the undercover police officer, known only as Kamal.

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Judge Michael Topolski QC said Kamal displayed "considerable resourcefulness and even greater courage in slowly infiltrating the group" from March 2014 to November 2015. 

He said "the evidence he gathered played a pivotal role in this case" and that it was not difficult to imagine the fate "that might befall him had he been exposed". 

A 44-year-old man from Hertfordshire has been arrested at Gatwick Airport on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, Scotland Yard said.

Officers from the MPS Counter Terrorism Command stopped the man on Thursday after he got off a flight from Iraq.

He has been taken to a central London police station where he remains in custody.

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A short while ago Arline and Peter Sparrow were able to go back into their Stevenage home after volunteers spent days renovating it. 

Their home was left in a terrible state after a builder took more than £1,000 from them but never completed the work he was meant to carry out. 

It was very emotional for them and a few tears of happiness were shed.

All the work was organised by Give Back to Stevenage.

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Even the Mayor of Stevenage, John Lloyd, was on hand to welcome them home. 

At last I may have the answer to the question that many people in Bedfordshire have been wanting to know since August. 

On only its second test flight over the skies of Bedfordshire, the Airlander 10, the world's longest aircraft, had a "heavy landing" and its cockpit was damaged, taking it out of action.

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Repair work has now been completed and the craft is currently undergoing tests inside Hangar 1 at Cardington. 

Steve McGlennan, the chief executive of Hybrid Air Vehicles, told me that "come March time or about then, we should be leaving the hangar again for our 2017 flight test programme, and then we will begin working with customers doing trials and demonstrations". 

A man snared by self-styled paedophile hunters has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.

At his trial at Luton Crown Court last year, Mark Porter, 55, said he thought he had been in contact with a 14-year-old girl called Jenny. 

But when he arrived at the town's railway station in March he was confronted by Katie and Neil Ivall, who target paedophiles.

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Porter, of Amersham Hill, High Wycombe, was found guilty of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

The court heard the couple found his profile on Facebook and, posing as Jenny, began exchanging messages with him in January.

He's been made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years, restricting his contact with anyone under 16 and his use of the internet for sexual purposes. 

He must also register as a sex offender.

This afternoon it will stay cloudy with occasional wintry showers, though these will gradually fade away. It will be feeling very cold in the brisk winds. 

Maximum Temperature: 3C (37F). 

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Into this evening there could be occasional snow showers, which could turn heavier for a time.