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The lunchtime news from across Beds, Herts and Bucks.

The High Court is to hear a case this afternoon which campaigners hope will stop the eviction of more than eighty families living at the UK's biggest illegal travellers' site in Essex. Dr Anne Foley, a lecturer from Middlesex University who has researched gypsy and traveller communities, talks to Jessica Cooper.

Hertsmere council has suspended allowing Defra to carry out a cull on parakeets following a campaign by thousands of people in Borehamwood. Simon Richardson, who's leading the campaign, has handed a petition to Downing Street.

Tributes have been paid to one of the key figures in saving Bletchley Park, Tony Sale, who has died at the age of 80. The director at Bletchley Park, Simon Greenish, looks back at his life.