U-turn over bus route

A bus company in Dorset has backtracked on axing a route after a local pensioner offered to fund the service himself.

First Wessex had initially decided to cancel the X53 on Sundays due to ‘significantly less demand’.

Alan Williams stepped up and offered to pay £3,000 for the service to run twice a day until March.

First Wessex, however, has decided to fund the Sunday bus service for the X53 — which links Bridport, Weymouth, and Lyme Regis — over the remainder of its winter timetable.