Good news for commuters, South West Trains is to get 150 new carriages to help ease overcrowding on services into London Waterloo.

But the new trains, which are part of a £210m deal, won't arrive until three years' time.

That will trigger a complex juggling of rolling stock that should eventually mean every commuter service is 10 carriages long.

Three former Tesco executives have denied fraud charges in relation to a £326m accounting scandal at the supermarket chain.

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Carl Rogberg, 50, of Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire, Chris Bush, 51, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and John Scouler, 49, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, appeared at Southwark Crown Court charged with fraud by abuse of position and false accounting.

The supermarket's former finance chief, managing director and food commercial head pleaded not guilty and were released on bail.

A trial is due to start in September.

The meningitis ACWY vaccine is to be offered in all Hampshire secondary schools from January 2018.

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Currently the jab is offered through GP surgeries in the south of the county and school nurses in the north.

NHS England said there was "strong evidence that providing immunisation in schools increases uptake".

Hampshire is among 19 out of 152 English local authority areas where not all children are vaccinated through schools.

Police in the US say they "have an idea" of the whereabouts of an Oxford University treasurer who is suspected of stabbing a 26-year-old man to death in Chicago.

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Andrew Warren, 56, and his alleged accomplice, American Prof Wyndham Lathem, 42, have been urged to turn themselves in by police.

Restrictions are in place to prevent the pair leaving the country.

Trenton Cornell-Duranleau was found dead in Prof Lathem's flat on 27 July.

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