A 78-year-old coach driver has denied causing the deaths of three men by dangerous driving.

Travelmasters driver Alan Peters, from Valley Drive, Gravesend, was driving a team of cheerleaders from Kent when the Queenborough-based coach collided with an Audi car.

The crash happened on the M1 in Bedfordshire near Flitwick at 6.45am on February 14 last year.

Allan Evans, 59, from Islington, Nathan Reeves, 23, from Newport Pagnell, and Tom Aldridge, 20, from Newport Pagnell all died as a result of the incident.

Mr Peters pleaded not guilty to the charge of causing their deaths due to dangerous driving during a hearing at Luton Crown Court today.

He also pleaded not guilty to causing serious injury to Jake Dowling, a fourth man in the car.

The trial will take place at the same court on November 7.