People in Poole made half a million more bus journeys last year.

The council says the town's services carried 9-point-6 million passengers in 2011/12 - an increase of eighty percent since 2004.

They reckon the rise is largely down to them improving bus shelters, providing raised kerbs for disabled and elderly passengers - and supporting real time information at stops and via mobile phones and the internet ... as well as the recent hikes in fuel prices.