Given these services were procured by Nexus and NCC - it has nothing to do with Arriva on what tickets should have been made available.

I've asked one of the team I know who work for Arriva and they told me that they provided fare tables only - at request from NCC. Absolutely no advice on what day tickets to offer was provided, as It was not their remit to do so, on the basis these were local authority supported services rather than an operator drafted in 'on hire'.

He said that Arriva had advised NCC and Nexus if their intention not to operate Boxing Day, so the procurement of services is wholly an arrangement between the authority and the operating operators. Nothing at all to do with Arriva as they didn't operate under their service registration or operating licence.

If GNE have been told to only sell specific tickets, questions need to be asked of NCC and Nexus, but then again, that doesn't fit the agenda of this forum to always prod Arriva?