• Cumberland County Council has offered a subsidy of £20
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per week to Blair and Palmer Ltd., Carlisle, towards the running of the Carlisle to Kirkbride service (CM May 301. The company has stated that every possible economy will be made in an attempt to keep the service going. A review of the position will be made by the County Council in December.
• Sunderland Corporation health committee has instructed Corporation officials to approach the National Bus Company with a view to granting concessionary fares to pensioners travelling on Northern group vehicles in Sunderland. Mr. D. Snow, acting town clerk, told the committee that the NBC has hitherto been reluctant to offer such fares (3d per single journey with a further 6d paid by the Corporation), because of possible repercussions elsewhere,
• The controversial Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority has announced that it will officially take over the running of the area's public transport system on January 1 1970. Dr. Anthony Ridley, newly-appointed director general, will take up his duties on September 1.
• A report by the Traffic Research Corporation setting out a £300m plan to meet Merseyside's transport requirements over the next 25 years was presented by the Merseyside Steering Committee on traffic and transport in Liverpool on Monday. Eight recommendations concerning the immediate transport needs of the area were approved by the committee. The Merseyside PTA is to be asked to co-operate with British Railways over the possibility of linking existing lines by means of a city-centre tube system.
• Magistrates at Morley. Yorks. on June 17, imposed the maximum fine of £50 on the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. for using a public service vehicle with a part in dangerous condition. They heard a case involving an accident in April when a schoolgirl fell through an inspection hatch in the gangway of a bus and was killed. For the defendants, Mr. P. Fingret said the company accepted full responsibility.