Tony Jones, chair of Reading Buses, has announced the ordering of a brand new fleet of eco-buses for Reading, but they will not be the ethanol powered buses prematurely announced in a Martin Salter press release.

"Although we've been running bio-diesel buses for sometime now, we have had to take another look at our plans to use ethanol powered buses after news of the type of fuel leaked out as we found that the cost of security to prevent our bus drivers siphoning off the alcohol would bankrupt us. However, we are pleased to tell you that Reading Buses has found an alternative source of fuel and still will be the first fleet in the country to run entirely zero-emission vehicles.

"We're going to install heat exchangers in the council chamber and run the entire fleet off hot air. We estimate that there will enough generated by councillors to run services for a whole month from a single planning meeting alone and if David Sutton turns up again we'll be able to let Street Care power their vehicles as well."