LABOUR MP Greg Pope supported bus drivers as they began a series of one-day pay strikes. Drivers at Hyndburn Transport picketed the company's bus depot off Ellison Street, Accrington, and were joined for a time by the Hyndburn MP, who described morale on the picket line as "jovial and resolute".

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