Cut Off Point

So, that's that, then. After 29th May, the bus between Durham and Consett, via Lanchester, will not run after leaving Consett at 8:27pm or Durham and 9:05pm, and will not run at all on a Sunday or a Bank Holiday.

For some reason, the bus that goes to Newcastle during the day between Monday and Saturday (and long may it remain), but only to Stanley in the evenings or on Sundays, is to be kept going despite almost no use at the times in question, so that a round trip via Stanley Bus Station will now be needed at those times in order to reach either Consett Bus Station (and thus Shotley Bridge Hospital), or what everyone still calls Dryburn Hospital, or the railway station in Durham. To which last is caught the bus by everyone who is not planning on coming home the same day, and even by many who are but who do not fancy paying the ludicrous parking charges.

Thank you, George Osborne. After all, it serves us right for causing the economic crisis, all the fault of bus users, train users and NHS users.