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There was much to celebrate for CoachMarque members at the  UK Coach Awards 2013, which took place on Saturday 20 April at Alton Towers Resort. It was part of a two-day celebration, with the UK Coach Rally taking place over the same weekend. Amongst the winners were Maynes Coaches of Buckie who won the award for Top Large Fleet Operator, and for the 2nd year in succession,  Excelsior Coaches of Bournemouth won the Medium Fleet category. Gavin Scott of Stanley Travel in County Durham won the award for Young Coach Industry Professional, while the Top UK Coach Driver was named as Mike Fitzgerald …

Cylch Meithrin Seren Fach nursery has benefited from some heartwarming community spirit, after callous thieves stole cash and equipment  A generous community response has helped a nursery bounce back after a heartbreaking burglary. Burglars broke into the Welsh-medium pre-school in Mountain Ash, which is run as a charity and has more than 50 pupils aged two to five, at around 5am on Wednesday, March 6.  But on hearing that the heartless thieves had stolen the children's Easter eggs, those old softies at Edwards Coaches sprang into action and made a surprise delivery of 56 chocolate eggs …

  Maynes Coaches have recently been awarded 4 stars in the new Ecostars fleet recognition scheme. Maynes are very proud to be associated with the Edinburgh ECOSTARS Scheme and are one of the First Scottish Coach Operators to join up.   Kevin Mayne says; "Our company envisage many advantages to being part of this scheme, it goes further than the criteria that a lot of our existing clients expect from their coach supplier. This scheme will continue to enhance our environmental credentials and keep our business at the forefront of Quality Assured Scottish Coach Operations."   ECOSTARS is a free, …

Suffolk based CoachMarque member, Galloway Travel Group, one of the UK’s leading coach operators and school travel specialists has taken delivery of its first new Volvo based Plaxton Panther coaches. The two new vehicles with distinctive First World War inspired graphics support the vision of Managing Director David Cattermole, ‘As a progressive company, we have a vision of delivering high standards to the school travel market and the acquisition of the Panthers supports this. They represent good value for money and offer the combination of 53 seats with good luggage capacity and a toilet on a …

Advertising on prime time, terrestrial TV is a luxury that few, if any, coach operators can manage but CoachMarque members, Stotts Coaches of Huddersfield recently achieved just this.  Those tuning in to the ITV early evening news on the night of 8th January would have seen a coach with the Stotts livery, and a proudly displayed CoachMarque logo, centre stage on their TVs.  The event was the semi final of Capital One Cup and Stotts were providing transport for Bradford City fans to the match, and ITV cameras were there to record the occasion.  Although major underdogs against Premiership Aston …

Scotland and Bates, based down in the beautiful Kent village of Appledore, are proud to announce the purchase of a 13.26m Van Hool Alizee-bodied Volvo B13RT, the company's first tri-axle.  Specification includes 53 Grand Luxe recliners, electrically operated roof vents, Sutrak air conditioning and centre sunken toilet.    …

Our sincerest congratulations to Robert and the whole team at Eastons as 2013 is the company's Diamond Jubilee!  As Robert himself puts it "60 years of providing coach travel to the wonderful people of East Anglia".  Here's to the next 60 years! …