Press Releases

First Bus Essex is thrilled to announce its official sponsorship of Essex Pride 2024, taking place on Saturday 22^nd June in Chelmsford, celebrating the event's 20th anniversary.

• Denise Harrison awarded MBE in King's Birthday Honours
• Head of Health and Safety recognised for service to bus after four decades in the industry. 

• Today, June 11th saw First Bus unveil it's dedicated bus design to kickstart Pride celebrations in Doncaster
• The main Pride event in Doncaster will take place on 10 August at Townfields in Doncaster, First Bus will be offering free travel to the event.

Leading bus provider hires Dave Grohl lookalike to highlight shuttle bus service for fans travelling to Hampden for Foo Fighters gig

• First-ever Matinée Mingle held with plans for more events
• Space to socialise before performance of Northern Ballet’s Beauty & The Beast

• Introduction of new Service 10L for evening journeys
• New 1A service to West Nooks maintains combined four buses an hour Chapelfields-Wigginton

Buses of Somerset is making timetable changes to some services in Somerset. The changes, which have been added to improve service and capacity, come into force on June 3, 2024.

• Special ticket for all-day travel to support festival-goers and families

• Bus operator First Wessex has joined forces with Weldmar Hospicecare as Transport Partner for the Stampede by the Sea art trail 
• First Wessex’s Jurassic Coaster will take passengers along the trail 
• Partnership will encourage bus usage as a sustainable travel option to the trail 

• First Bus Leicester 'Official Fan Travel partner'.
• Services 88 and 88A travel to the ground every 10 minutes throughout the majority of the day.

• Teams spends a week helping set up new facilities
• Support to encourage customer collections from Asda on 23 & 24 May