Veterans and UK Armed Forces free bus travel for Remembrance

FREE: First Bus services will offer a free service for veterans and Uk Armed forces on remembrance weekend. <i>(Image: NQ)</i>
FREE: First Bus services will offer a free service for veterans and Uk Armed forces on remembrance weekend. (Image: NQ)
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VETERANS and UK Armed Forces personnel will be eligible for free bus travel in the city to mark Remembrance weekend.

First Bus services in the West of England, including Worcester, is offering free travel during Remembrance weekend (November 11 and 12).

To claim the free travel, passengers can either wear their military uniform or show the bus driver their service ID card on Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday.

It is available on all First Bus services.

First Bus said the free travel offer is being made available to make it as easy for customers to get to and from remembrance services and events.

Rob Pymm, Commercial Director for First West of England and Cymru, said: "Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday are important and solemn reminders of the sacrifices made by so many in our armed forces, and we want to do something to mark these occasions.

"Across First Bus, a number of our colleagues are veterans, and we're very proud of their efforts and sacrifice.

"This is our way of saying thank you to them, as well as honouring the men and women who choose to serve and protect the freedoms we now enjoy.

"We want to make bus travel to and from remembrance events as easy as possible for people who are attending, and I am pleased that our business can play our part in supporting and remembering those in military service past and present."

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