[Margaret Pilkington]

Royboy, in many ways you are right....the young have been brought up to accept that they have the right to certain hand outs......whereas, we the older section of the community, were taught to stand on our own feet and not ask for anything.

Although we have a car, we do use our bus passes.......mainly because it costs money to go places, and then money to park...so using the bus now and then allows us to travel to places that my hubby would not drive to.
Whatever we would have paid in the cost of travel is spent on lunch, so we are improving the economy of the places we visit by patronising the pub or restaurant....and I thought the government wanted more of us to leave our cars at home.....if that is the case they had better make the transport system much more economic and user friendly.
It now costs nearly £2 to get from Clayton le moors to Accrington...one way.
If that is not highway robbery I don't know what is.