Anger as Northumberland rural bus service shuts while big players prosper

Residents of Northumberland and Cumbria – where bus budget is now zero – decry system that takes away their vital routes At 66 years old, Duncan Foster thought his hitchhiking days were over. As a young lad growing up in Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria he would regularly thumb a lift to watch football matches as far away as Leeds (60 miles as the crow flies).But as a pensioner, now living alone in the nearby village of Whittington, he was happy to rely on the bus to go for a few pints wit