Wrights Group Ltd has today announced the retirement of their Chairman and CEO, Mark Nodder OBE, with effect from 31 March 2019. On making the announcement, Sir William Wright CBE stated: “The board of Wrights Group will always be grateful to Mark for his long and dedicated service to Wrights Group. The regard in which […]

Part one of six is on BBC2, 10pm, Tuesday 9 April Toby Jones has followed the lead of his Detectorists co-star Mackenzie Crook and penned his own TV comedy series, BBC2’s darkly funny Don’t Forget The Driver, Radio Times says. Co-written with playwright Tim Crouch, the series is set in Bognor Regis, and follows Peter […]

Optare is to supply 21 electric-powered Metrodeckers to York. York will soon be home to one of the biggest fleets of double deck electric buses outside of London, thanks to a significant investment by First York and funding secured by City of York Council from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV). To be operated […]

ADL is to supply up to 25 hydrogen buses to Liverpool for a trial of these vehicles. The Liverpool City Region is set to be the first place in the north of England to trial hydrogen buses following a successful £6.4m bid to the government’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles. The bid was put forward […]

Administrators of Accessible Transport Group Limited, Ring and Ride West Midlands Limited and ATG Contract Services Limited, have secured new funding for the 600-vehicle community bus charities. The huge West Midlands community transport operator was placed in administration last week, causing turmoil to bus services including the 80-vehicle igo – with some routes placed with […]

Durham’s coach park is due to move to a site 2 and a half miles outside of the city centre. Durham City Coaches alerted the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) to the situation. Its MD, Michael Lightfoot, said: “It doesn’t affect us too much, but it does if we have inbound tourists into Durham. A […]

Plans for Bath to levy swingeing charges on coaches and buses to enter its Clean Air Zone after 2020 have met with concern about schools services. The Confederation of Passenger Transport’s Regional Manager, John Burch, attended a meeting with Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) council last week, and said that an option for school […]

Cutting a vogueish figure, Tazio Puri Negri certainly seems a fitting character to bring Italian style to the UK coach and bus industry. The young, Italian-born entrepreneur has started B.Bus, an airport transfer minibus operation, ferrying passengers between London Luton Airport to their homes in north and central London. “The idea behind it is very […]