Graffiti grabbers
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• South Yorkshire bus chiefs have tracked down almost 500 graffiti vandals after employing two expolice officers. They say they have smashed major "tagging" gangs in the past 11 months. Magistrates have ordered the parents of four teenagers found guilty of vandalism to pay a £2,800 cleaning and repair bill.
Easy listening
• Reading Transport has introduced an in-bus information and entertainment service on 10 of its buses. A 60-minute cassette plays 'easy-listening' music, advertisements and community announcements.
Wider training
• The Bus and Coach Council has recruited two training consultants for members in South Wales and the South-West. The BCC already has consultants in Scotland and Yorkshire.
First flight
• Ballymena-based Robert Wright & Son Coachworks has completed its first order for 9m Dennis Darts — 15 of the single-deckers have been delivered to London Buses' Westiink subsidiary.
Beavering in
▪ Thamesway of Basildon has taken six Reeve Burgess Beaver minibuses into service on its Chadwell Heath to Barkingside London Transport tendered route in East London.
Supertram sale
Illi The Government is providing most of the £230m needed for Sheffield's 'Supertram' project, on condition that when it is completed by 1995, it will be sold to the private sector.
Ensigning due
IN Up-for-sale Ensign Bus of Purfleet is in "advanced stages" of negotiations with an unnamed foreign bidder.