This is not just any bus... it's an M&S bus

03 September 2009

A Welsh council is launching a bus service on 28 September, using money provided by Marks & Spencer.

In 1999, the retailer offered to pay Vale of Glamorgan Council £150,000 for improved public transport, as a condition of planning consent for a store extension at Culverhouse Cross, west of Cardiff.

M&S did not pay the money until a council officer recently reviewed historic Section 106 obligations, and discovered the omission.

Rob Thomas, the council’s head of planning and transportation, said the hourly bus service would connect Barry to Culverhouse Cross, while also serving an area currently without buses.

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