ON October 1, 1969 Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time.

Now 45 years later there are plans to open a major aviation heritage museum and learning centre at the site of the former RAF base on Filton Airfield in Bristol – where the Bristol Concorde, Alpha Foxtrot, has been preserved since it made the last flight in 2003.

Here are five things you need to know today

1. The first tickets for next year’s Glastonbury Festival go on sale tonight, Wednesday, at 7pm. As part of the Festival’s continued commitment to green travel 15,000 coach and ticket packages are being sold in advance of the general sale. General weekend tickets go on sale from 9am on Sunday. Tickets available at glastonbury.seetickets.com.

2. The disappearance of teenager Alice Gross is now being treated as a murder inquiry after a body was found in a west London river.

3. From today motorists will no longer have to display a paper tax disc in their car. The disc was introduced in 1921 but officials say it is no longer needed with the DVLA and police now relying on an electronic register.

4. On the last day of the Conservative Party Conference David Cameron is expected to promise to protect the NHS in England from spending cuts until 2020. Once again the conference has been overshadowed by the growing threat of UKIP as Conservative donor Arron Banks defected to the party.

5. And finally for all you football fans Forest Green Rovers won 2-1 last night against Torquay United. The win has moved them up to eight in the table.