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| Charging points for cars backed |
| Charging points for electric cars could be installed in Bedford and Luton after the government short-listed a £5.6m scheme. |
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| Meningitis death 'preventable' |
| A woman died of meningitis at Milton Keynes Hospital after a "breakdown in communication" between doctors. |
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| Coroner raises rail safety fears |
| A points failure caused the Potters Bar train crash which killed seven people and injured others, an inquest jury decides. |
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| Pair forced six children to beg |
| A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest aged two, to beg on London's streets. |
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| Murder team arrest three more |
| Three men are arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who has been missing for four months. |
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| Mourners attend marine's funeral |
| The funeral of a Royal Marine shot dead in Afghanistan a day before his 24th birthday takes place in Hertfordshire. |
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| Knebworth decay |
| English Heritage reveals at risk listed buildings |
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