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Saturday, 27 August 2016

Mail Online

• A TV show about a bus ride around the Dales? It's just the ticket writes JAN MOIR Welcome aboard the Northern Dalesman, the bus service that runs from Middlesbrough to Ingleton, across some of the most stunning countryside in England.

The Mirror

• Tory plan to ban councils from running their own buses given thumbs down by votersNearly six out of ten voters think Town Halls should be able to set up new public bus companies

Belfast Telegraph

• Wrightbus jobs freeze could be down to 'pragmatic planning' or response to UK's Brexit voteA blanket recruitment freeze at Ballymena bus making giant Wrightbus could be down to "pragmatic planning" or a cautious response to Brexit, it has been claimed.

Sheffield Star

• VIDEO: Bid to stop passengers ‘surfing’ on back of Sheffield buses with new deviceA Sheffield bus firm has revealed it will being fitting ‘anti-surf’ devices to some of its buses after footage emerged of two men clinging onto a moving bus.
• New plans for bus services to be put to residentsNew plans for buses in Penistone are to be put to residents next month.

Other Regional Press

• New rural bus service to be introduced between Coventry and SolihullNew No.89 service replace an old service where people had to pre-book their journeys

Other News Sources

• Public disagree with banning councils from running their own bus servicesNearly six out of ten people think councils should be allowed to run their own bus services, despite government attempts to ban them from doing so.