Reading Buses annoucement of increased ticket prices has been warmly welcomed by a leading figure in the town.

Mohammed Ayoub, Lead Councillor for taxi drivers, told us: "As vice-chair of the Reading Taxi Driver's Association, I warmly thank the council for their help in promoting the use of black cabs in Reading by this punitive rise in bus fares. Now it really is cheaper for five people to share a cab into town and back than get a bus and the council are also issuing fines when my fellow members report mini-cabs for picking up fares on double yellow lines, my colleagues in the council can look forward to the whole hearted support of the RTDA and free lifts to the polling stations for their voters come next election day."