WESSEX (Our Home) deplores the fact that First Group now has a near monopoly with regards to buses and trains across Wessex. That cannot be right.

Wessex (Our Home) proposes that local authorities within areas such as Southampton and Oxford should be able to come together to provide train services within their areas for commuters, in competition with First, where First is failing. They should also be able to re-open stations for commuters.

R SPRATT, provincial secretary for the Province of Bristol, Wessex (Our Home) Party.