he was found guilty at luton crown court last year. five years in prison. michal kisier is a very dangerous individual, we know from his previous history that he has been convicted of serious offences like false imprisonment and kidnapping. he was willing to use a weapon against members of the prison service for his escape, we are concerned about the level of danger that he poses. but tonight, he is at large, believed to be on his way back to luton. a terrifying thought for the mother and daughter subjected to such a frightening ordeal. just to remind you that it is the bbc election debate this evening. that begins in about 30 minutes time but before that, we will be heading to cambridge and joining our colleague clive myrie for a look ahead to what we can expect. live pictures from cambridge, a lovely evening there. and what is interesting about this debate tonight is thatjeremy corbyn will appear in that bbc tv debate, along with representatives of the six other major parties. he said he changed his mind about taking part, because he

luton is that rarest thing in southern england. a labour town outside london. the south outside the capital. the local mp of luton, gavin shukla, has a majority ofjust under 6000 from the tories and that puts him in the cross hairs of theresa may's conservative party. so how are labour mps like gavin shukla planning to defend themselves? normally in an election what you would want to do is identify where your labour vote is and turn them out. in this election, we are doing it slightly differently. we are trying to identify where the people that are wobbly about voting labour are and persuade them. there's always a bit of both in both campaigns, but with maybe one in five labour voters with question marks about how they're going to put the x in the box, that is the absolute priority for us. the message that we are delivering on the doorstep, you can have a great local mp, but you do not want to give theresa may a blank cheque. so you have got theresa may, don't give her a blank cheque. that sounds like you're not particularly confident that you're going to this

i wa nt small—business owner in luton.late it to how this country will be. do we want our nhs funded? do we want schools to teach our children? do we want a syste m teach our children? do we want a system where we are going downhill? in the 19205, roosevelt introduced a new deal. they didn't have money because they were in a worse state than our country in the 205, but they invested and the tories are going on a downward spiral. so would you be happy to see for example labour are promising to borrow £250 billion over a decade to invest in infrastructure, you would be happy to see that added to the borrowing because you think it is a price worth paying? the price you pay for growth in the economy is having better wages, better investment, having the money to finance schools. emily, how much would the economy grow if you invested 250 billion pounds over a decade? that is hypothetical, i cannot tell you, but ican hypothetical, i cannot tell you, but i can tell you austerity is not working. did youjust... i can tell you auster

blackpool are through to the league 2 play—off final after beating luton town in 6—5 on aggregate atextended their overall lead through nathan delfonso. luton then staged a comback and then managed to get themselves in front from the spot — danny hylton converting after he was controversally fouled in the area. blackpool levelled then in dramatic style with a goal that will probably be given as a stuart moore own goal. exeter city beat carlisle 65 on aggregate. the match will take place, the showpiece event, on wembley on sunday, the 28th of may. championship side nottingham forest has been sold to shipping magnate evangelos marinakis. his 100% takeover has been confirmed by the efl after he passed their owners' and directors' test, and brings to an end fawaz al—hasawi's tumultuous five—year stint in charge. marinakis has faced allegations of match—fixing and criminal involvement. however, he denies all of the claims. we have already been cleared by the football league, by the authorities. they asked us questions and, at the end of the day, or this has taken place in the last two mon

ramona, at luton. en route to poland now.nal five because of the large amount of customers inside. terminal five on the main ba terminal at heathrow. we will keep you updated on that. one of the founding members of the rock group, the allman brothers band, gregg allman , has died. gregg allman, has died. 0ne one of their best—known songs as the 1973 hitjessica, used as the opening theme tune to top gear. let's get the weather now. we have got a few storms waiting in the wings now. some thunderstorms around the channel islands. this rain here as well. it will work its way northwards, the main focus being the south—west through the afternoon. we could see some showers arriving in the south. this is where we will sue the highest averages. cooler across the north east of scotla nd cooler across the north east of scotland than in recent days. away from those storms in the south most places will be dry with sunshine. lighter winds than yesterday. gusty winds with showers, though, and they will work their way northwards overnight. b

i am helena from luton, i run a small business.solutely fed up with the immature backstabbing between parties. it is undermining your credibility, please get on with yourjobs. hi, iam mark from luton, i am worried about affordable housing for local people and building on all of those green spaces. hello, i'm selma. i'm from edinburgh. i'm not happy with the choices we have for next prime minister. jeremy corbyn — weak leader, weak opposition. theresa may — maybe here, maybe there, maybe nowhere. if she is not prepared to stand on a platform and take questions from her peers and the audience, then she doesn't deserve our votes. i have got a progressive option in scotland. i am not voting for either of them. i am voting snp. applause. hello. good morning. welcome to the programme. we're live until ”am this morning with an audience of 120 people, and live on stage at the grove theatre. you can see the empty auditorium behind us. we wanted to get everybody together so we've put everybody on stage. it was 41 days ago that theresa may su

luton finished third in the league, by far the strongest tea m in the league, by far the strongest teamre into the wembley final and they will be playing exeter, who played carlisle last night. very similar, this finished 6—5 on aggregate. carlisle had just equalised, the tie was heading for extra time, that man celebrating there, jack stacey, he spent a bit of time on loan at carlisle last season, of time on loan at carlisle last season, so of time on loan at carlisle last season, so they are heading to wembley to face blackpool on may the 28th, nervous occasions, those wembley finals. i meant to ask you about a meaningless match in the premier league involving leicester! recovered the leicester story last year, with all those celebrations but not much riding on this. leicester tried to defend their title but just hoped leicester tried to defend their title butjust hoped to finish in the top half of the table. spurs, some unfinished business, they missed out to leicester to the title last year and they went to the king power last night and absolutely thrashed leicester 6—1. harry kane

blackpool have the advantage in their tie against luton. 3—2 was the score at bloomfield road last weekendgham forest has been sold to greek shipping magnate and 0lympiakos owner evangelos marinakis. his takeover has been confirmed by the english football league after he passed their owners' and directors' test. let's speak now to sports news correspondent richard conway. and under the current ownership it has been a period of turmoil, will it bea has been a period of turmoil, will it be a period of change? reaction on social media has been positive towards this news, that evangelos marinakis has been successful in leading champions league appearances and now he is the owner of nottingham forest. he will bring with him several key personnel from the club, and wants to establish stability, he says. i've been speaking to him, his only interview after completing the takeover. but i did have to ask him about his controversial past. there are allegations based about match fixing, being part of a criminal organisation and, at one stage, being involved in the bombing of a ba kery being involved i

he is originally from poland but committed his offences in luton. drone in their search for him, warning the public not to approach him. our correspondent andy moore's been following the story — he's with me now. tell us about him and what he was inside for? this story becomes more worrying and concerning as we find out more, initially we thought simply he escaped from his guards in some way but now we hear he actually overpowered them. we don't know how many guards were with him, he escaped with a razor blade. we are discovering more about his history, the police nor the ministry of justice would comment but we have records from the crown prosecution service that show he was jailed in luton for more than five years last year because he held, he tied up a mother and her daughter and subjected them to what the judge called a terrifying ordeal for more than eight hours. he held a large kitchen knife to the throat of the mother and threatened to kill her and both of them feared for their life for quite a long time. that is why he was in jail. the life

today she has been to luton. and asking about the question of security.y not about kicking people out but making sure everyone is equal and that is why i choose labour. evenif and that is why i choose labour. even if we did not know he was a politician he is a genuine person. who makes you feel safer? neither. i do not feel they make you feel safe at all. when it comes to the idea of national security, i would trust people who have been taking care of it previously rather than throwing my lot in with the new guys. it previously rather than throwing my lot in with the new guyslj really like the red rose, the flower. nothing to do with national security? love and unity and care. it is difficult on security because of the tried and playing with jeremy corbyn, but i don't trust the conservatives with anything at the moment. conservatives. why? jeremy corbyn said he would impress the regular button. labour. definitely labour.|j labour. definitely labour. iagree with theresa may but i will vote for jeremy corbyn. i like the way the jeremy corbyn. i like the way

elsewhere, on the trains there‘s major disruption too between luton and st pancras, which is affectingat weather, again, if you are a gardener or a duck, but not much good for anybody else. a continuation this morning of the rain we saw last night. further outbreaks of rain and lots of surface water on the roads and pavements. a rather dismal start to the day. temperatures in double figures, a lot of low cloud around. if it‘s dry where you are, the rain will never be too far away for at least the first half of the day. in the second half we may see it dry out and brighten up, perhaps, particularly towards southern areas, but there will be heavy showers developing. further south there will be some thunderstorms around. top temperatures between 14 and 16 celsius. so some drier interludes as we head into the evening. then a few showers around overnight. tonight, it will feel cooler than it did last night, with temperatures away from the towns possibly dipping down into single figures. it‘s looking a lot nicer over the weekend. tomorrow we should see some good spells of sunshine around. te

blackpool have extended their lead, they 4—2 up at luton after their victory at home at bloomfield lastt a range of reforms at a meeting of its stakeholders at wembley. the changes now mean the governing body will meet the new code introduced by sports minister tracey crouch, enabling it to continue to receive public money. our sports correspondent katie gornall has more. they will streamline the board and introduced term limits for fa council membership. the idea is to make it more diverse and more reflective of the people who played the sport. greg clark, the chairman, who threatened to resign if these reforms will pass, called it a good start, but he wanted to go further. you have to remember the pressure the fa was under to reform. there was a threat of public money being withdrawn if they didn't. although people feel these reforms don't go far enough, given the glazier pace of change we have seen at the fa previously, it is a significant step forward. one of the other measures approved by the fa at their agm is a move from next season to introduce retrospective bans for players who

for a terrible attack ona year in luton for a terrible attack on a mother and her daughter.is dangerous, and there is a very large operation underway to find him. we have been showing images of him but give us the description and what the advice to members of the public is if they think they spot. he is white, five tall with blonde hair, originally from poland. of medium build with very distinctive tattoos on his neck. he was wearing grey tracksuit items and the black t—shirt with blue trainers. he didn't have any idea on him or any money, but if he has assistance of course, that may not be such a big problem. the advice from the police is not to approach, just call immediately. thank you very much. next to kabul, let's get the latest on that car bomb that has exploded in the diplomatic quarter, killing at least 80 people and wounding 300 others. our 80 people and wounding 300 others. 0ur correspondence 80 people and wounding 300 others. our correspondence from the bbc afg ha n our correspondence from the bbc afghan service, tell us what you know at this stage. the latest is

have had a suggestion from bedfordshire police, where this man, michal kisiel, one slipped in the lutonn attack on a mother and daughter, that he might have gone back there and they are searching there as well. you get the sense that hour by hour this is becoming a bigger search, for a man who police is dangerous and who they believe was armed with a razor blade when he left this hospital. is any great idea of how he actually managed to overpower his prison guards? the police in the hospital won't give much information but we know he was found with a head wound in his cell at erlestoke prison and was brought to this hospital on medical advice to receive treatment. we understand he was accompanied by prison guards, that they brought him here, that he was handcuffed at the time but somehow we are told he overpowered, the weather police are using, overpowered the prison guards and managed to escape with this weapon, with this blade. the language the police are using has changed a bit, notjust in where they are searching but also this afternoon they change their tack in what might be highne

it is understood he is from bedfordshire, luton. i imagine they are looking there as well.de the city centre, they are looking there but you get the impression they are widening their search as time goes on. it is almost 2a hours since he was last seen at this hospital. thank you very much. the democratic unionist party has launched its election manifesto, saying that maintaining the union is by far the most important issue in next week's vote. the dup leader arlene foster said returning a majority of unionist mps would keep the idea of a vote about a united ireland off the agenda for generations. speaking at the launch in antrim she outlined the party's key commitments. 0njune the 8th, i'm asking people to get northern ireland back on the right track. to vote to get the best deal for northern ireland. to strengthen our hand in the upcoming negotiations. to get the assembly back up and running. to protect our place within the united kingdom. and to unite behind one strong unionist voice. for the first time, a british police force is to recruit people directly to become dete

and their tie against luton was heading for extra time at kenilworth road until this happened in injury stuart moore own goal... so blackpool are heading to wembley after winning 6—5 on aggregate that was the same score over two leags between exeter and carlisle. .. thr cumbrians had leveleed the tie in the 90th minute at st james park but jack stacey got the exeter winner. so they head to wembley...to face blackpool on the 28th may for a place in league one celtic are still unbeaten in the scottish premiership with one game to play — 1898 was the last time they went through a whole league season without defeat but they only played 18 matches back then, last night's 5—nil victory at partick thistle was their 33rd win in 37. that saw them equal their record points tally as well, they are up to 103, 30 points clear of second placed aberdeen, they've got hearts on the last day of the season this sunday british rider geraint thomas has pulled out of the giro d'italia — he was involved in a nasty crash on sunday. — he'd actually been in second place overall going into that stage but he injur

do you want to come to dunstable in luton on bank holiday monday at the end of may.ood day. we have a string of heavy showers, some of which will be thundery. further north, temperatures closer to 2121. a decent evening here. overnight, we will keep the showers going across southern parts of england and wales, possibly into the midlands, and some rain will move northwards into northern ireland. still largely dry at this stage, with scotland and northern england. ona with scotland and northern england. on a whole, it will be warmer than for quite. a little sunshine around, brightening up across northern ireland. not many showers for the far north of england or scotland. through the day, we will see more widespread heavy and thundery downpours developing across england and wales. a very humid feel to the weather over the next few days. this is bbc news — and these are the top stories developing at 11. labour‘s leaked manifesto — the bbc obtains draft plans which promises to nationalise the railways and abolish tuition fees. this is an extremely modern, progressive set

i am helena from luton, i am fed up with the immature backstabbing between parties.