1.   Sparsity of population in some rural counties of Britain can create considerable problems for bus operators.

2.   Raids on farms were also reported and public transport was paralysed in the capital, Lima, as bus operators withdrew services.

3.   FoE pollution campaigner Karen McVeigh says that such allowances should be made conditional on the bus operators including a requirement for low-sulphur diesel in their fuel specifications.

4.   Coun Foster said the county council had written to bus operators telling them to abide by the rules and regulations or face disciplinary action.

5.   Bus company operators insist they will lose custom if the plan to move bus stops from the High Row to Crown Street goes ahead.

6.   In the context of deregulated bus services, it was important that strenuous efforts at informal co-ordination between bus operators and local planning authorities should be encouraged.

7.   Bus operators, again, oppose any changes, saying the relative rarity of fatal accidents means regulators should not fix what is not broken.

8.   But no one expects the squabbling between the bus operators and City Hall to go quietly away.

9.   But two bus line operators set out to sabotage the effort.