RESIDENTS have slammed the closure of a twice-weekly bus service which leaves them "completely lost."

Childswickham locals have lost their NN Cresswell service which ran from the village into Evesham on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Vera Oliver, 79, one of the residents of the area, says that elderly people are now forced to walk over a mile to Broadway to get the service, in order to get food shopping and visit local amenities.

She said: "I think it is completely unfair, people have to walk over a mile now to get a bus into Evesham from Broadway and these are elderly people.

"We need the service to visit the shops and things like the optician and the dentist, we are completely lost without it.

"It used to leave at around 10am on a Tuesday and come back at 1 which gave me plenty of time to do what I needed to.

"About nine people get on the bus in Childswickham regularly on a Tuesday, and plenty more are picked up on the route into Evesham, I don't normally get the Friday service but I have heard that it is busier.

"It will affect a lot of the other residents as well, Cresswell, the bus company says that they cannot afford to run the service sow we have to walk a mile to get the Marchants service.

"It will be even worse on the way back as we'll have to carry shopping all that way.

"There isn't even a local shop in Childswickham so I don't know what to do, there is only a pub there.

"We have even asked Nigel Huddleston (the MP for the area) but he has not been able to help."

NN Cresswell were unavailable for comment.