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Councils in Newcastle and Gateshead have been planning to introduce a Clean Air Zone (CAZ), in response to a Government legal order, which would have meant non-compliant buses, coaches and HGVs paying £50 per day.

The Government’s plans to cut thousands of jobs in the civil service and put restrictions on new recruitment has not been well received by one of the UK’s leading business groups.

Mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west or central Africa, and first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970, monkeypox has suddenly appeared in 14 countries with, for the first time, the virus being found in people with no clear connection to the usual countries of origin.

Demand for new buses and coaches grew by 45.2% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022, but still remains well below (-44.4%) the pre-pandemic five year average.

Passengers boarding any West Yorkshire bus from September would pay no more than £2 per journey under proposals announced by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire.

UK public transport technology provider, Passenger, has announced a major new partnership with Transport for Wales (TfW) as it prepares to unveil a new bus app and website for its TrawsCymru long distance bus network.

A report designed to provide fleet operators with easy-to-digest technical information on zero emissions vehicles available in the bus, truck and van markets is now available.

Tradition dictates that it is the Queen’s Speech although, of course, it is written by the Government, setting out the legislative programme for the parliamentary session ahead, and this year it was read to MPs by the Prince of Wales because of the Queen’s mobility problems.

As live testing begins for project CAVForth, the UK’s first full-sized autonomous bus has taken to the roads of Scotland with Stagecoach and its partners carrying out two weeks on-road testing.

In total, 51 projects have been awarded a share of £1.95 million in funding from the Department for Transport (DfT) as part of the Government’s Transport Research and Innovation Grant (TRIG) programme, the largest number of projects backed in the programme’s history.