Cover picture:Among the buses set to return to Arriva ownership following its purchase of Tellings-Golden Miller are four East Lancs-bodied Volvo Citybuses in the Network Colchester fleet. This is 214 (G614 BPH), which was numbered 334 in May 2006. MARK LYONS

Contents

NEWS
Go North East sells tickets by phone; new NatEx bus livery; Arriva buys TGM; Cardiff says farewell to its Ailsas; bus war in Norwich; Red Rockets shot down; Glos operator folds

BUS PEOPLE
First Bristol MD resigns; SYPTE director general retires

INSIDE TRACK
This is a book you can really judge by its cover

GLOBAL NEWS
Brian Souter buys New Zealand bus company; Arriva wins Stockholm franchise; Phileas in Istanbul; trolleybus expansion in Europe

IN LONDON
Big shocks for operators in latest tender round. Is a new Routemaster really necessary? Electric bus progress

MILLAR'S TALES
Unitrans RTL 40 years on; men of Albion; First in space

THE STATE OF THIS NATION'S BUSES
The latest health check on the operating industry

MILTON KEYNES AT A FUZZY CROSSROADS
How Arriva and its partners are raising the profile of bus travel

HERITAGE TO STAY, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IN 2016?
How are London's Routemaster routes performing two years on?

PICTUREVIEW
Hong Kong's tri-axle double-deckers

JERSEY DUO CARRIES ON COACHING
Traditional operators cater for a diminished leisure market

PUBLICITY MATTERS
Small but perfectly formed, Rutland dresses to impress

SERVICE EXTRA
Look to Lothian for lessons in cool, collected crowd control

YOU WRITE
Ashford, Paisley, the East and West Midlands and picture problems