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The lunchtime news from across Beds, Herts and Bucks.

The former Labour MP for Luton South, Margaret Moran, is to face 21 charges relating to allegations that she fiddled her parliamentary expenses by more than 拢60,000.

A woman from Hertfordshire has been recovering in hospital after falling overboard from a ferry in the North Sea. She was airlifted to safety last night.

The planned high speed rail line between London and Birmingham could cause "huge and irreversable" damage to the Chiltern Hills, MPs have been told. Countryside groups are giving evidence to the Commons Transport Committee on the environmental impact of the route which would reduce journey times.