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Tuesday, 03 July 2012

BBC News

• Bus is named after blind runnerA bus is named after West Midlands marathon runner Dave Heeley, who has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.
• Talks to avert Games bus strikesTalks aimed at stopping fresh strikes by London bus workers in a row over Olympic bonuses are held at Acas.

The Guardian

• Transport in Leeds and Manchester gets that London feeling Both northern cities have today revealed moves that show some of the lessons learned in capital - Manchester is thinking Oyster while Leeds wants to take on the buses

The Herald

• Serious defects found in school trip busesNINE buses that were used to take school pupils to a safari park were taken off the road after police found serious mechanical defects on the vehicles.

The Scotsman

• Police swoop on defective busesNine buses that were being used to take school pupils to Blair Drummond safari park, near Stirling, were taken off the road after a police operation found serious mechanical defects on the vehicles.

Other Regional Press

• Mums raise stakes in school bus rowA group of mothers who have been campaigning for a school bus to be reinstated to their village were visited by a Whitehall representative on Friday in a bid to change national legislation.