(11 May 2026, 3:54 pm)morritt89 wrote Does anyone know if City still providing some shuttle buses for the Radio 1 Weekend?

Only if there's decent twinkage at the bus stop, so I've heard.

(11 May 2026, 3:54 pm)morritt89 wrote Does anyone know if City still providing some shuttle buses for the Radio 1 Weekend?

Last I heard, yes and resourcing it doesn't appear to be going well, turns out that some of the staff that were let go don't wish to provide any assistance.

(11 May 2026, 5:44 pm)Jimmi wrote Last I heard, yes and resourcing it doesn't appear to be going well, turns out that some of the staff that were let go don't wish to provide any assistance.

I'd be wanting payment up front.

(11 May 2026, 5:44 pm)Jimmi wrote Last I heard, yes and resourcing it doesn't appear to be going well, turns out that some of the staff that were let go don't wish to provide any assistance.

Classic FAFO. And wot he said ^^^

(11 May 2026, 6:08 pm)Adrian wrote I'd be wanting payment up front.

 
Payment up front then no show whilst claiming you're on a humanitarian mission abroad. Tell him he can seek reimbursement from the event organisers. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Came across this scene from a television show, wouldn't it be lovely if people could just speak their mind...

https://youtu.be/v9hudvmnByg?si=3pqUIxT2xezMfS6u

(20 Apr 2026, 11:00 am)Jimmi wrote Post from their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ae9C4UetP/

In today's Sunderland Echo, Helen Mathews, the commercial director of Nexus, said:

"Following an ongoing review of performance of the 700 and 701 Sunderland Connect bus services, we've taken the decision to end the contract with the current operator".

This was part of a front-page story (and whole of page 5) about the ongoing issues regarding TUPE.

(10 hours ago)cr51xln wrote In today's Sunderland Echo, Helen Mathews, the commercial director of Nexus, said:

"Following an ongoing review of performance of the 700 and 701 Sunderland Connect bus services, we've taken the decision to end the contract with the current operator".

This was part of a front-page story (and whole of page 5) about the ongoing issues regarding TUPE.

I'm pleased to see this story get some coverage in the local press. Hopefully, it will shine a spotlight on City Transport (and others), and discourage businesses who take pride in their reputations from using them for contract work in future.

(9 hours ago)MurdnunoC wrote I'm pleased to see this story get some coverage in the local press. Hopefully, it will shine a spotlight on City Transport (and others), and discourage businesses who take pride in their reputations from using them for contract work in future.

To be fair, they (or more specifically, Mr Fairchild personally), have something of a reputation within the industry anyway. I am also pleased it's getting out to the public too, though.

Booted from the contract because of reliability issues yet they said on their sob story facebook post it was to do with fuel costs, they also want GNE to pay the employees the wages owed by city for the hours worked, the mans evil and doesn't care about HIS employees, i wonder if they did this - Employers must inform/consult staff and share Employee Liability Information (ELI) at least 28 days prior, it sounds like as they were only told a week before, GNE has no liability for them

(4 hours ago)N1cholas wrote Booted from the contract because of reliability issues yet they said on their sob story facebook post it was to do with fuel costs, they also want GNE to pay the employees the wages owed by city for the hours worked, the mans evil and doesn't care about HIS employees, i wonder if they did this - Employers must inform/consult staff and share Employee Liability Information (ELI) at least 28 days prior, it sounds like as they were only told a week before, GNE has no liability for them

Pleased Nexus has finally put a statement out, as for the last month some still associated with them insist that it was a contract hand back with pride and that it was all Nexus' fault, somehow?!

(4 hours ago)N1cholas wrote Booted from the contract because of reliability issues yet they said on their sob story facebook post it was to do with fuel costs, they also want GNE to pay the employees the wages owed by city for the hours worked, the mans evil and doesn't care about HIS employees, i wonder if they did this - Employers must inform/consult staff and share Employee Liability Information (ELI) at least 28 days prior, it sounds like as they were only told a week before, GNE has no liability for them

It seems to me credible that higher fuel costs could have been the last straw in making the contract unviable (having been priced too sharply to survive that headwind). They would not have been the first businesses to misjudge things in situations when a contract is mainly awarded on lowest price. 

IF he had withdrawn from the contract in a more orderly way - by giving some reasonable notice, and kept performing in the meantime - Nexus would not have had to award a short term temporary contract to keep the service going. 

If the operation had moved straight to a normal 1 year contract, drivers specifcally working on 700/1 would have been in scope of TUPE. GNE would have been required to take them on with conditions no worse than they had with City, and if they subsequently had been made redundant, the years of service with City would have counted in the payment that GNE would have to make. However, pay for the work they did for City would have remained City's responsibility. (For completeness, I suspect there are rules about how holiday pay works too.)

Under the short term contract arrangment, GNE has no responsibility under TUPE, and the drivers are presumably redundant from City (unless offered suitable other work - see details at https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-right...ndancy-pay. ). 

If the drivers have sufficient service with City to have entitlement to statutory redundancy payment, City will be responsible - so it might end up costing them more than it would have done if they had maintained the service during a notice period.

All in all, City seem to have been a right mess. And fuel prices might have just been only part of the problem. All bad luck for the drivers affected, hope it has worked out ok for them.