GO SOUTH COAST - The story behind this two times UK Operator of the Year
HANTS & DORSET TRIM - Go South Coast's refurbishment business
BRITAIN'S BREATHING SPACES - Bob Hind explores Snowdonia and Northumberland
GREAT LEAP FORWARD - The world's longest bridge crossing by double-decker
EASTERN PROMISE? - The challenges facing Stagecoach in Cambridgeshire
COMMENT - Gifts and platitudes
NEWS - Funds unleashed for more electrics, hydrogen fuelcells and biogas double-deckers; uncertain future for First Manchester; Konectbus quits Suffolk; Stagecoach awaits traffic commissioner's verdict on Coventry crash; Diamond squeezed in Solihull; John Smith & Son folds; Kinchbus pioneers contactless touch-in/touch-out; Unite threatens strikes over ‘bullying culture' at First Yorkshire; Lothian flies flag for investment and de-congestion; honour for Sir William Wright; Cummins developing small engine solution; bus stamps from Isle of Man; death of Grey-Green's Tom McLachlan
INSIDE TRACK - Could do better - rail replacement
GLOBAL NEWS - KMB orders Wright StreetDecks; Citybus retires last Hong Kong Olympians; Hanover pins faith in electrification; California mandates zero emissions by 2040; revival in prospect for Bergen trolleybuses; Volkswagen ride sharing shuttles to start in Hamburg; Berlin's BVG rejects call for network to be subject to route tendering
LOOK IN ON LONDON - End in sight for Arriva's Pulsar Geminis; last Caetano Nimbus Darts withdrawn; GLA alarmed by silence over future fares freeze; relocation plan for Victoria Coach Station; Chariot closes as TfL limbers up for DRT trial; celebrations planned to mark 40 years since last RTs and RFs
MILLAR'S TALES - Was Chris the Mule's Man from the Ministry? Why you need a mac on a Macau open-topper. A Billy Liar Daimler in Bradford. Locked up for failing to drive.
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PUBLICITY MATTERS - Faresaver is an engaging example to all
ALL CHANGE - Aberystwyth since the days of Crosville
FENTON FILE - A controversial Quest 80 that went to Cyprus
YOU WRITE - Why English free travel should be left undisturbed; timetabling inconsistencies; why Centrebus stopped a Lincolnshire link; Stagecoach wrong to drop all its casual drivers; union/management collusion does sometimes happen; Newbury Wharf now and then; Welsh language translations of company names are correct; the Plaxton Paramounts built without feature windows
PRESERVATION UPDATE - Brooklands prepares for a summer show of hidden gems; British-built double-deckers help mark Australia Day
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES - Compiled by John G. Lidstone
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND - Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND - Compiled by Paul Savage and Ian Molloy
REVIEWS - Books on Leatherhead garage, Italian trolleybus exports, Preston, rural and coastal western Scotland, half of Ireland and fleet handbooks detailing English independents, Stagecoach West and Go North East

Cover - Go South Coast 1111 (VDL 744), a Scania OmniCity rebuilt as an open-topper following fire damage, operating a Southern Vectis Island Breezers service in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.