STAFF from the Kyrebrook Day Care Centre has been raising money in Tenbury to enable them to keep vital services going.

They were in the town centre selling all kinds of different cakes and other things in order to try to raise the money that is needed to fund a mini bus.

A community mini bus promised by the Government for Tenbury has been delayed and this is threatening services at a day care centre in the town.

Tenbury Transport Trust thought it was just the ticket when it learned that it was to receive a new mini bus under a Government community transport initiative.

It has been expected that the bus would be in service by July but it is now expected to be many months before it is delivered.

The implications of this are very serious as the Tenbury Transport Trust struggles to meet its obligations and has already told the Kyrebrook Day Care Centre that it has to terminate an agreement at the end of September.

As a consequence of this the centre will have to turn away a large number of elderly and disadvantaged people who are dependent upon bus transport.

Ria Baxter, a director of the Day Care Centre, fears that unless a solution can be found at least 17 of the 60 people who attend the Day Care Centre each week will have to be turned away.

An attempt is being made to see if an alternative bus can be secured from Worcestershire County Council.