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The lunchtime news from across Beds, Herts and Bucks.

The government has announced plans to freeze council tax in England for a second year. Christine Melsom from Is It Fair, a campaign to reform council tax, talks to Jessica Cooper.

Bedfordshire Police is changing the way it organises policing the county. There'll be three local policing districts linked to local authority areas and a new Response Policing Team.

Fire authority managers in Buckinghamshire have been explaining why they've decided to merge their fire control room in Aylesbury with one 50 miles away in Cambridgeshire. Mark Jones, the chief fire officer for Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, has been speaking to our reporter Simon Watts.