TRANSPORT Minister Glenda Jackson - the former actress from Wirral - is urging local parents to consider alternative modes of transport before driving their children to school.
"The increasing number of children being driven to school, instead of walking, or walking, is cause for concern."
She is pictured at the Bus Industry Awards giving Steve Ellis, of PMT Stoke, the runner-up trophy.
Here on Merseyside, the Bus Regulator has called seven of Liverpool's bus operators to disciplinary hearings for failure to keep up to timetables.
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