An on-demand bus service is being expanded to another area of Nottinghamshire as hundreds protest against the scrapping of a "vital" route there. Nearly 600 people have signed an online petition calling for the Skylink Nottingham line, which runs from East Midlands Airport to Loughborough, to be saved.
Service operator trentbarton said last summer that the Skylink line would no longer run as part of a "streamlining" of the company to help its post-Covid recovery. Nottinghamshire County Council stepped in to fund the service until April this year, but the authority says it does not intend to extend the contract beyond this point.
Those signing the petition have expressed their opposition to the end of the Skylink service. One resident said: "This service is crucial for older persons and people who cannot walk to the village centre; it links QMC, Nottingham, Long Eaton, village centre, Sutton Bonington and Loughborough. To lose this service would affect the quality of life to some vulnerable people."
