CAMPAIGNERS have united to demand public control of buses in the run-up to a crunch meeting of Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) chiefs on Friday.

Trade unions, climate activists and anti-poverty groups got on board with the Better Buses for Strathclyde campaign, urging SPT to use newly restored powers to follow Manchester and Wales in adopting a franchising model.

With West Yorkshire doing the same today and South Yorkshire looking set to follow suit in the coming weeks, Get Glasgow Moving’s Ellie Harrison insisted that “councillors and members of the SPT board simply can’t allow Strathclyde to be left behind.”