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Article: The 'spy' with a cheese sandwich and a bus ticketto the atom plant.(Column)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 9, 2002
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Byline: PETER DOBBIE
EXHAUSTED by the Royal jubilations and the excitement of the footie I decided to walk it off. A long, testing coastal hike seemed the order of the day, so I sought out a bus to deliver me to a start point from where I could walk back.
Bus services outside towns and cities are, at best, erratic and, thanks to deregulation, confusing. One company will not help another.
'No way will you find a bus to there mate,' I was told after telephoning a national help line.
Mr Blair may fantasise about riding in an open top charabanc after his coronation, but politicians do not generally use buses and therefore are careless as ...