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Helen Skelton is thought to have "grown close" to Strictly Come Dancing pro Vito Coppola. The TV presenter, 39, finished in second place on the show with dance partner Gorka Marquez and has been touring the nation with 'Strictly Come Dancing Live' - and according to reports, Helen has established a close bond with the professional dancer.

Strike action by cleaners and fuellers at two Lanarkshire bus depots has been averted - for now.

Strike action by cleaners and fuellers could force buses in Lanarkshire off the road warns a leading union.

Seven bus services across Greater Manchester have been saved as transport bosses announce funding worth £2.5m to keep the routes running. It follows Diamond's decision to cut bus services after missing out on a major contract.

While LGBTQIA+ activism in Australia did not start in 1978, the events of the first Mardi Gras Parade in 1978 were the most significant and far-reaching in Sydney’s queer history.The first activist organisations were the Australasian Lesbian Movement (originally the Daughters of Bilitis, named after the US organisation); the ACT Homosexual Law Reform Society formed in 1969; and CAMP Inc., established in 1970, which became the primary activist organisation.78ers march in the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.But how did the first Mardi Gras parade come about? Forty-five years ago, a letter from San Francisco asked Sydney activists to organise international solidarity activities in late June 1978 – the ninth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York.US activists were campaigning against the anti-gay Briggs Initiative on the California ballot that would have made it an offence for anyone employed in a school to speak positively about homosexuality.Sydney activists formed a coalition of lesbian and gay groups which became the Gay Solidarity Group. On 24 June 1978, they staged a Saturday morning protest march around the Sydney CBD, a forum on the international gay movement and a night-time, street party for our community.

Drivers face being caught out by a new 'bus gate' on Deansgate in Manchester city centre. Now operational 24-hours-a-day, the restrictions mean only buses, taxis and cycles can travel south - between the junctions for Blackfriars to King Street West.

A call for Falkirk Council to look at ways to improve bus services locally was rejected as councillors agreed they could not afford a report into the subject, let alone the cost of making improvements.

A woman who vanished from South Wales is believed to have travelled to Scotland.

Readers found themselves debating the introduction of a new bus lane in the centre of town, with opinion split over the benefits and drawbacks of the change.

sex act on a passenger in the back seat of a vehicle.The driver, who was married at the time of the incident, performed oral sex on a woman he met on a bus and even used his Transport for London (TfL) work jacket to cover her while the pair got busy on the top deck in February 2020.Although the driver wasn't working at the time, the shocking events took place along his regular route and in front of other passengers, prompting unhappy travel bosses to give him the boot.READ MORE: Man arrested for nicking booze at 'lowest point' thanks cop for turning life aroundThe driver, identified as "L" in court documents, admitted to engaging in the public sex act but also claimed he was drugged and sexually assaulted by the woman's husband when he went to their house later that evening.He also launched an unfair dismissal claim against his former employer and sued the company for race and marriage discrimination.But the disgruntled employee's story was dismissed by a judge during a hearing at Croydon Employment Tribunal and he was ultimately ordered to pay the firm's legal costs, amounting to an eye-watering £7,500.Employment Judge Gary Self said in the ruling: "The claimant [the driver] pursued a case which was genuinely hopeless and which he could not reasonably have expected to win."We find that the claimant sought to avoid the scrutiny on his activities by trying to put the blame on others by saying he had been drugged."The driver's questionable dalliance was brought to light after an anonymous member of the public made a complaint to the unnamed bus company shortly after the incident, claiming a man and a woman were at the back and the woman was "moaning and raising her voice".He was also caught on CCTV with his arm around the

A pensioner who died after being hit by a bus in Edinburgh has been named by police, as his family released a touching statement.

A Canadian bus driver is facing homicide charges after he allegedly crashed a bus into a daycare center on purpose, leaving six children injured and two dead.

Prue Leith was spotted in Glasgow after taking in the sights on an open top bus.

More than 50 contracts are to be scrapped as part of a radical plan to restructure bus services across the region.

A pensioner has died after being struck by a bus on a major road in Edinburgh.

If you want to experience the beauty of Scotland, you might not think a bus journey is the way to do it.

A number of bus routes vital for commuters in and around Wishaw have been saved.

A Lanarkshire councillor has hit out following the news that a vital Motherwell bus route could be discontinued by the end of this week.

The mum of a schoolgirl who was allegedly beaten on a school bus has spoken out against a spate of horrific attacks among youths in Scotland. Kaylynn Donald, 12, is receiving therapy for an alleged beating which took place during a journey on her way home from class at Bell Baxter High School in Ladybank, Fife, on October 25.

A second teen has been charged after a brick thrown through a Glasgow bus' window struck a baby. Two 15-year-old boys have now been arrested in connection with the incident on Battlefield Road on Tuesday, January 10 in the south side of the city.

A bus service through the centre of a Lanarkshire village will resume today after louts launched a missile at a window - with 43 people on board.