SHIVERING bus users from Link Top are appealing to Malvern Town Council to give them back their shelter.

The bus shelter on Worcester Road, opposite Holy Trinity Church, was closed down in March last year for safety reasons.

Barbara Brown, of Hospital Bank, is a regular user of the stop. She said: "Have you ever stood up there on Link Top with all the winds of the world blowing at you, in the pouring rain with only an umbrella for shelter and the bus comes late?"

Sylvia Carpenter, of Cowleigh Road, said: "We use the bus stop each week to get to Gloucester and we sometimes have to wait quite a while for it."

However, solving the problem would involve more than refurbishing and reopening the old shelter, since the bus stop itself has moved some distance down the road.

Town clerk Rosemary Lansdowne said a project to tackle the problem is in the council's budget for January next year. The plan is to demolish the old shelter, put a small remembrance garden on the site and put up a new bus shelter.