Lynne
I wouldn't disagree with you at all Margaret but if we don't complain to CC directly then they have the added excuse of saying they received no objections from the public.
Send comments to: consultation@cross-countrytrains.co.uk
I've been told, and it was also in the paper, that the person who won the tender subsequently pulled out of the deal. Who that was and why that was I have no idea and I doubt that it will ever be put in the public domain.
http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/all-but-one-train-a-day-from-south-devon-to-the-north-will-be-axed-in-new-timetable-plans/story-29893402-detail/story.html
In the same (overheard by me) conversation one of the women concerned stated that at 63 her husband could now claim pension credit. Well yes, so he might but that doesn't mean that it is at age 63 that all can do so because again who becomes eligible for what and when depends on date of birth and how that ties in with when women of the same date of birth reach their state pension age. Hope ...
This is all tied in with the state pension age and, more to the point, the state pension age for women. I know I've another thread going on about the rising state pension age for women (see http://www.dawlish.com/thread/details/45135 ) but I thought to start a separate thread about the bus pass issue because of what I overheard in a Dawlish shop the other day. One woman to another woman ...
check out page 8 - proposed no through service to/from Paignton. Travellers will need to change at Exeter. https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/media/1470/crosscountry-future-timetable-consultation-document.pdf
http://www.johnmason.com/news/new-zealand-government-receives-record-high-emigration-enquiries/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/10/move-to-new-zealand-us-migration-inquiries-rise-24-fold-after-election-day
The Canadian immigration website had so many hits overnight that it crashed.
