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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Liverpool Echo

• Local control over Merseyside bus services could 'end constant price hikes and improve services'Labour plans to bring bus services back under local government control would end constant price hikes and improve services in Merseyside, it was claimed.

Yorkshire Evening Post

• YEP LettersAs a retired public sector programme manager I have sat shaking my head for some years over the continuing farce that is the proposed trolleybus system.
• Leeds trolleybus inquiry could cost £2.6mThe public inquiry into Leeds’s trolleybus scheme could end up costing as much as £2.6m, the Yorkshire Evening Post can reveal.

Yorkshire Post

• Leeds trolleybus scheme public inquiry could cost over £2mTHE PUBLIC inquiry into Leeds’s trolleybus scheme could cost up to £2.6m, it has emerged.

Sunderland Echo

• Shadow minister backs bus overhaul plansShadow transport secretary Mary Creagh has given her backing to plans for an overhaul of Tyne and Wear’s bus services.

The Shields Gazette

• Shadow minister backs bus overhaul plansShadow transport secretary Mary Creagh has given her backing to plans for an overhaul of Tyne and Wear’s bus services.

Other Regional Press

• Preston bus station price tag to reach £23mIt cost just £1 to buy, but the new owners of Preston’s listed bus station will have overseen the spending of a cool £23m by the time it emerges from its magnificent makeover.