Scottish bus company FirstGroup has continued its “strategic” acquisition drive with the purchase of a family-owned coach and bus operator in Ireland founded about three decades ago.
FirstGroup plc (the `Group') is pleased to announce that it has acquired Matthews Coach Hire Limited (`Matthews'), an independent, family-owned coach and bus operator in Ireland, founded in 1995.
A “lively, lovely boy” who was murdered in the Omagh bomb was so badly disfigured by the blast that his father had to identify him by his watch, the inquiry into the atrocity has heard.
Campaigners fighting plans to run trams on Edinburgh's Roseburn cycle path have argued the city should adopt a Bus Rapid Transit scheme for the Granton corridor rather than trams.
The Mandeville Road in Craigavon has been closed during Friday's evening rush hour after a crash. Diversions are in place but road users have been advised to seek an alternative route. Three people ...