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​Senior driver, June Slater.
​Senior driver, June Slater.

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Pensioner drives her long lasting ambition

A vivacious Durham lady is overjoyed to achieve her life-long ambition of driving a bus – at the grand old age of 70.

June Slater, from Newton Hall, says taking the wheel of a bus is something she has wanted to do since she was a young woman when she first saw United drive through Durham City’s Market Place down Silver Street. But she says “women drivers were sadly unheard of in those days”.

We were delighted to help June tick another event off her bucket list.

One of our driving instructors supported June to negotiate a bus through a challenge course at our Family Fun Day in Gateshead.

June wrote in a letter to Go North East: “What a feeling to control that huge vehicle. It is a lifetime ambition fulfilled. You all made an elderly lady very, very happy.

“Thank you Go North East and all your staff – that Family Fun Day was a credit to your company.”

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Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.

For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.

Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.

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