Clayton Jones loses in court
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• The bus-stand battle between Clayton Jones and Merthyr Borough Council was resolved in court last week after the council successfully applied for its injunction against Jones' Shamrock Coaches to be lifted.
The coach firm has agreed to pay the local authority's legal costs, which amount to several hundreds of pounds.
The saga began when Clayton Jones launched a cutprice shoppers' service from Merthyr to Gumos Estate. The bus station was undergoing reconstruction work and the coach firm was temporarily moved to Stand 13 by the council.
Jones refused to accept the move and instructed his drivers to pick up passengers at the stop used by municipally-owned Merthyr Tydfil Transport — which also runs a service to Gurnos Estate — says the council.
Shamrock Coaches was accused by the council of causing dangerous traffic congestion and an injunction was sought to force it to comply with the new stand instruction.
At the same time as the injunction came into force, Shamrock Coaches was moved to another bus stand. Methyr Borough Council says: "Jones' operations were all run from the appropriate stand after the injuction, so we decided to apply to have it lifted."