£20 FINES FOR UNOFFICIAL OPERATORS
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TWO UNOFFICIAL bus service operators were each fined £20 and severely reprimanded when they appeared last week at Stornoway Sheriff Court.
Donald Angus Macdonald, weaver, of Bernera, and John Murdo Morrison, van driver, of Gravir, both admitted using their vans for carrying passengers without road fund licences and without valid certificates of insurance.
Both told Sheriff Hamilton Lyons that they had done so because their villages had no bus service. They did not realize that their certificates of insurance did not cover passengers for hire or reward.
The fiscal told the court they had both been stopped during checks by traffic examiners on the Stornoway-Harris road on June 23.
• STRATHMORE area bus services are being revised in view of the withdrawal of rail services between Stanley Junction and Kinnaber. Revised rail services will operate through Dundee and bus links will be provided to serve towns on the now cut off Strathmore route.