SNP under attack after bus U-turn

THE SNP yesterday denied dropping a commitment to bus re-regulation because it could hurt the interests of a major financial backer.

By The Newsroom

Published 23rd Apr 2007, 01:00 BST

A commitment to re-regulate the bus network was made at the party's 2006 conference but it was not in the manifesto, published after Brian Souter, the owner of Stagecoach, donated 500,000 to the party.

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