The Government has announced £3billion of funding, which it says will improve bus journeys for millions of passengers. The cash, provided over multiple years, will be allocated to local authorities, which will then choose how to spend it. Benefits could include lower fares , more frequent and reliable services and safer journeys, officials say. Labour's buses and roads minister Simon Lightwood told the Express that the money could be used to improve rural links in particular.

When asked which areas of the country he thought needed the investment most, he said: "This is about making sure that the money goes throughout the country, actually. Under previous governments, they tended to do these funding rounds as competitions. So it was almost like the Hunger Games , where areas being

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