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The lunchtime news from across Beds, Herts and Bucks.

Barnfield College, which has campuses in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, has been banned from bringing foreign students into the UK under Government plans to crack down on abuse of the immigration system. It's one of more than 450 colleges which either failed to sign up to the new inspection system or had their licences revoked. Barnfield say they are not pursuing the international market and are withdrawing from applying to have an intake of foreign students.

Millions of pounds is to be spent on building two new lanes at London Luton Airport to improve traffic ahead of the 2012 Olympics. Jason Ivey, director at Cranfield Airport, talks to Jessica Cooper about how flight restrictions next year will affect them.

Union leaders are considering an improved offer from the Government on public sector pensions. Nye Hathaway, the County Secretary for the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Hertfordshire, gives his reaction to the offer.