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Thursday, 25 September 2014

BBC News

• Consultation begins on 'rapid' Slough bus serviceResidents and businesses are being asked for their views on plans for a "rapid" bus service along a busy commuter road in Berkshire.
• Bus sign problems in Ipswich and Lowestoft to be tackledProblems with bus information signs across Suffolk will be solved, according to county transport planners.

The Mirror

• Routemaster 60th anniversary: 8 things you didn't know about London's iconic big red bus This morning's Google doodle celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Routemaster, the iconic red London bus. But how much do you know about the famous vehicle?

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

• Remember When: Newcastle's Marlborough Crescent bus station in 1977 - then and nowPassengers heading to North West Durham, the Tyne Valley and Cumbria would leave from Newcastle's Marlborough Crescent

The York Press

• Council steps in to save under-threat bus service A BUS service from Acomb to York has been saved after City of York Council agreed to provide a £1,000 a week subsidy.

Doncaster Free Press

• New bus for Isle Shopper serviceNorth Lincolnshire Council has brought in a new bus to deliver the Kirton Klipper and Isle Shopper bus services to ensure that the best possible facilities are provided for residents.

East Anglian Daily Times

• Video: Bus collides with building in Ipswich town centrePublic transport users had to be diverted around the centre of Ipswich yesterday morning after a bus hit a building in Great Colman Street.