hen London Transport bought 10 new Ikarus-bodied Daf SB220 buses
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it hired Blakey of "On the Buses" fame to tour the five South London boroughs the buses will pass through, meeting each of their mayors. "On the Buses", you may recall, was a sitcom from the seventies, a decade which seems long ago. Let's hope LT's timetable is rather more up to date.
Fill eeds was faced with a five-tonne
avalanche of litter last week when a lorry driver unknowingly dropped his load on a windy overpass in the city.
The scale of the paper blizzard was unprecedented, say cleansing staff from the city council. Street cleaners from the entire southern half of Leeds were called in to clear up the mess.
City council principal cleansing officer Graham Hollings says: "It was blowing a gale and the overpass was 20 feet up so by the time we got people there it had become a mammoth task with the litter covering a really wide area. A bit of a nightmare really. The driver didn't even realise what had happened."
The waste paper was mostly Halifax Building Society leaflets, which were being carried by Walker Reclamation to its Manchester base for recycling.
Adrian Cockrem, the man who supervises Leeds City Council's cleansing service, says: "'The firm got in contact with us afterwards and has accepted responsibility."
The driver of the lorry, which apparently had a flaw in the seal at the back, did not realise what had happened until he reached his Manchester base. None of the load was confidential, but the two hour clean-up exercise, involving 70 street cleaners, nine lorries and three street-sweeping machines is estimated to have cost £1,800.
The city police had to cordon off one section of the road for the clean-up operation to be conducted safely. Now that's what I call a paper chase.