(18 May 2014, 8:45 am)robisdave wrote It is illegal to smoke on any part of Middlesbrough bus station therefore standing next to their buses remains so. Likewise smoking in the cabs of the buses. It is illegal to smoke while driving and who wants to get on a bus, passenger or driver, that reeks of smoke and is covered in ash !

As it is in Gateshead Interchange, and the sheltered entrance to Durham. The problem is that it's up to the councils to enforce, and to issue FPNs, but councils are that short of staff nowadays that they can't spare the resource to do so.