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Article: Disabled bus driver Robert just the ticket for customers
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- March 17, 2008
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A DISABLED man who feared he would never work again is
Edinburgh's favourite bus driver.
Robert Skeldon, 45, of Danderhall in Midlothian, drives the
number 22 between Ocean Terminal and the Gyle every day.
He was recognised alongside over 100 Lothian Buses employees at
the company's annual award ceremony on Saturday night.
Alongside awards for trainee, engineer and the apprentice of the
year, the highlight of the night is the Favourite Bus Driver, chosen
by colleagues and bosses.
Mr Skeldon was born with a condition called Perthes, which
attacks the joints, and had to have an operation to correct it when
he was five.
He later trained as a painter and decorator, but injured himself
when ...