Fuel prices have reached a new record as instability in the Middle East continues, Iran’s decision to stop sending oil to the UK is bad news for motorists already hit by high pump prices and North East businesses now fear the worst. STEPHEN CAPE reports.

Can we win city bid? Yes we can 10:00am Tuesday 21st February 2012 in SOUTHEND is not a favourite with the bookies, but the campaign for the borough to made a city continues to galvanise people into action. The Echo, MPs, business and education leaders a

HOPE is in sight for Bishop’s Stortford’s bus users after plans were announced for a community service to replace routes axed by private operators. In recent years, a number of local buses have been culled because they were no longer turning a profit, in

A NUMBER of bus services have been changed or withdrawn following a row over funding. Wardle Transport, a subsidiary of Arriva, says it is being forced to make the changes to its timetable due to a withdrawal of local authority subsidies. The changes, wh

Extracts of a letter to Arriva re: High Wycombe bus 37. I AM writing because I am so fed up with the above bus either being late or cut off. I have to catch two Arriva buses each morning and evening to get to and from work. Since the times changed in Nov

Plaid Cymru has renewed its calls for the management of Welsh railways to be put in the hands of a 'not for profit' company when the current franchise contract with Arriva Trains Wales ends in 2018. The party’s transport spokesperson, Rhodri Glyn Thomas