Quarter of bus routes axed in England in last decade

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More than one in four bus services in England have been cut in the last decade, with the pandemic accelerating the decline, a transport charity has found.

Almost 5,000 routes have been axed since 2012, with the north-west and east of England the two regions worst affected.