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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Helen Gregory

'Intense disruption': Hunter nine-year-old's long walk home amid bus chaos

Disrupted: Dr Heather Sharp said the bus cancellations had caused "chaos" for her family, including Lily, aged nine, Michael aged 10 and Lara, aged one.

A Hunter mum had to bring her nine-year-old daughter to the university class she was teaching while a boy in year four walked five kilometres alone in the rain, such is the "intense disruption" bus cancellations are causing to families' lives.

As previously reported in the Newcastle Herald, pressure is mounting on Hunter Valley Buses after a string of both school and service bus cancellations with little or no notice or replacement services, which have left students as young as five stranded on the side of the road.

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