A Gravesend coach driver has denied causing the deaths of three men by dangerous driving.

Alan Peters, 78, from Valley Drive, was driving a group of Kent cheerleaders on the M1 when the Travel Masters coach crashed into an Audi, near Flitwick, Bedfordshire, at 7.45am on February 14 last year.

Allan Evans, 59, from Islington, London, Nathan Reeves, 23, and Tom Aldridge, 20, both from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, died as a result of the smash.

Peters is also accused of causing serious injury to Jake Dowling, the fourth man in the car, another charge he pleaded not guilty to at Luton Crown Court today (July 19).

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