Cover picture:Eavesway is the first operator in Europe to buy the new wheelchair accessible low-entry Van Hool Altano. Full story, p10.

Contents

NEWS
Centrebus and Arriva form joint venture in Huddersfield; Stagecoach eyes up Rapsons; First and Stagecoach orders detail; Darwen announces orders; new Van Hool coach; Vista and Metrobus farewell days

BUS PEOPLE
Optare and Travel Dundee managing directors leave; deaths of Gwyneth Dunwoody and traffic commissioner John Mervyn Pugh

INSIDE TRACK
Staff hold the key to providing good information

GLOBAL NEWS
More European expansion for Arriva; US think tank slams bus feeders on rail systems; Enviro500 double-decker demonstrated Down Under

IN LONDON
Rebuilds all round for bus stations; election silences artic developments; new incentives put whole garages at risk

MILLAR'S TALES
Historic names in unlikely places; when Moir Lockhead met Ian Paisley; what Daniel's in-laws found on Madeira

WHO BOUGHT WHAT IN THE UK LAST YEAR
Paul Heels plots which bodybuilders and models sold best last year