Coach industry pleads for £370m bailout

Coach operators are pleading for a £370m taxpayer bailout amid fears for the future of more than 40,000 jobs across the industry. A letter from the Confederation of Passenger Transport to Rishi Sunak, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, warns school bus services could grind to a halt if ministers fail to act quickly. Industry chiefs want a cash injection of £65m a month until the end of the year, a bespoke job retention scheme and coach tour operators to be reclassified as leisure business