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Bus service that costs taxpayer pounds 142 per passenger is axed.
(From The Journal)
A BUS service in Northumberland will be axed tomorrow after it emerged that taxpayers were paying the equivalent of pounds 142 per passenger on each journey.
The twice-daily 270 service, which runs between Alwinton in upper Coquetdale and Morpeth, carried a maximum of eight people at any one time. It had previously been claimed that the service provided an important public transport link for residents living in Rothbury and the smaller settlements of Harbottle, Holystone and Sharperton.
Royal Mail, which operated the service, asked Northumberland County Council to more than double the subsidy for the bus, from pounds 14,480 to pounds 33,400 a year.
But figures just released by the county claimed that ...
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