Under fire Conservatives have released more details of their back of a fag packet transport plans after coming under pressure to tell people exactly what they have been plotting for the last nine months. Shadow Environment and Transport Spokesman Cllr Richard Willis excitedly revealed: : "We will have a new in-bound bus lane on London Road to improve access to the hospital and ensure that buses were able to provide the best possible service."

A spokesman for Reading Buses told us: "I'm now very worried about the Tory plans to keep council ownership. They are proposing a nice shiny new bus lane down London Road... but we don't run any buses down London Road. It would probably been a good idea if they'd asked us first instead of making up transport policy over a few beers in The Sun Inn."