A RURAL bus service will be extended to Sambourne from Monday.

Hardings Coaches, which operates the 186 service for Warwickshire County Council, will now be dropping off at Sambourne, before journeying to Redditch and then Solihull from Mondays to Fridays.

The new service will run two buses a day from Sambourne leaving at 9.10am and 1.20pm, arriving in Redditch 25 minutes later.

Journeys to Solihull will then take another 50 minutes.

Return buses from Redditch leave at 11.20am and 3.30pm.