Fewer in the North can afford its fares right now, and that's costing the buses giant as the area provides two-thirds of its revenues. Lucy Tobin looks at the prospects of the company getting back on the right route

FirstGroup put more of its bus services on the block today after admitting fuel costs, lower demand and reduced subsidies were hurting the division.

Director Michel Gondry brings New York teenagers to a world they'd never seen

West Ham's captain knows what it feels like to win a play-off final. He tells Martin Hardy why it is vital he succeeds again.

A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 passengers and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents.

Thousands of bus workers are to vote on strikes in a row over payments during the Olympic Games.

A minibus driver has been suspended after an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's was left locked in his vehicle overnight, leading a council chief to admit something had gone "seriously wrong" within its care service.

Any hope that the 21st-century, high-tech corporate giants might be more ethically aware than their older, dirtier cousins has been sadly scotched.

Team GB star Niall Stott is part of a unique experiment that has introduced London youngsters to a new sport

The minicab firm run by Conservative donor John Griffin is to lose a lucrative contract with the Government, it emerged yesterday, hours after the company was banned from encouraging its drivers to illegally use bus lanes.

Minicab company Addison Lee, which urged its drivers to use bus lanes, has lost its Government contract, it was announced today.

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London’s leading minicab firm has instructed its drivers to risk fines of up to £1,000 by using the capital’s bus lanes.