darlington at lunchtime today — an abundance of bus services covering the town and many places beyonde's a bus about every ten minutes into town, and then on the way coming back, yes, so it's excellent. so frequent and reasonably priced? yeah, i would say so. smashing, yeah, no problems. i'm going to catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again there is a decent regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus over to kirkby stephen, which isn't too far away, there's one at three o'clock, that's all right. but there is a c next to it, which is... ah, wednesdays only. we headed over the snowy tops into the neighbouring county. welcome to cumbria, where rural bus services in some parts of the county are virtually nonexistent. many services have been axed over the last few years as the county council withdrew funding due to budget cuts. this bus from kirkby stephen to penrith and back is tuesdays only. the operator says it's a private company providing a public service. we don't

darlington at lunchtime today.vering the town and many places beyond. where we live, there's a bus about every ten minutes into town, and then a way of coming back, yes. it's excellent. so, frequent and reasonably priced? i would say so. smashing, no problems. i'll go and catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again, there's a decent, regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus over to kirkby stephen, which isn't too far away, there's one at three o'clock, that's all right, but there is a c next to it, which is... ah, wednesdays only. we headed over the snowy tops into the neighbouring county. welcome to cumbria, where rural bus services in some parts of the county are virtually nonexistent. many services have been axed over the last few years, as the county council withdrew funding due to budget cuts. this bus from kirkby stephen to penrith and back is tuesdays only. the operator says it's a private c

darlington at lunchtime today — an abundance of bus services covering the town and many places beyondes into town, and then on the way coming back, yes, so it's excellent. so, frequent and reasonably priced? yeah, i would say so. smashing, yeah, no problems. i'm going to catch this one. head out of darlington to barnard castle, and again there is a decent regular service linking this rural community to its bigger neighbour. but getting elsewhere is problematic. so if i wanted to get a bus over to kirkby stephen, which isn't too far away, there's one at three o'clock, that's all right. but there is a c next to it, which is... ah, wednesdays only. we headed over the snowy tops into the neighbouring county. welcome to cumbria, where rural bus services in some parts of the county are virtually nonexistent. many services have been axed over the last few years as the county council withdrew funding due to budget cuts. this bus from kirkby stephen to penrith and back is tuesdays only. the operator says it's a private company providing a public service. we don't make money off the bus service

thunderstorms as well, and that is why there are delays on the east coast main line between york and darlington an eye on the transport situation. in york city centre today, the real efforts are around preparation for the next few days, but it is not expected to be as bad as in the past. thank you very much. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here'sjohn watson. sam skinner and matt fagerson have been added to the scotland squad for the rest of the six nations. they've both recovered from injury. glasgow warriors back row fagerson last played a test in august, while skinner missed out on the world cup injapan after sustaining a hamstring problem in the summer test win over france. the lock forward has been impressive for exeter chiefs, helping them to the top of the premiership. after two defeats in the six nations, scotland are away to italy on saturday. well, today's football action is under way in the scottish premiership with the league leaders celtic — currently ten points clear taking on aberdeen. callum mcgregor giving the away side an early lead. that's one of thre

there are towns like crewe and darlington that are big winners from northern powerhouse royal that aren difficult for the pm to explain how he would build enough capacity of the north without hs2. there isn't another way to get the same additional capacity north to south without building new lines. that makes hs2 essential. it is most useful when built alongside an east — west railway, but if it had been cancelled, the prime minister would have made sure that the country paid an economic cost, but his party would have paid a political cost as well. good to talk to you. we can speak now to james mitchinson, the editor or the yorkshire post, who's in leeds. what do you think your readers will be making of this announcement today chris mike i think most of the readers will welcome the development, welcome investment in the north. we have long campaigned for a fairer dealfrom the north. we have long campaigned for a fairer deal from government in this region, but there will also be a sense of government needing to be more responsible around hs2. there is genuine concern about the fiscal ar