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4767 wasn't looking too happy today. I spotted it earlier this afternoon limping along Epinal Way in Loughborough with its hazard lights on as it was overtaken by 4436, and I found it parked on Greenclose Lane in the town centre shortly afterwards.
UPDATE: Now tracking on the 104.

Does anyone know what happens to 4752 in the Midland Fox livery did it just get scrapped

Was withdrawn last summer, so almost certainly scrapped now.
4750, 4753, 4762 and 4770 have been sold to an as-yet unknown customer, '50 being for spares as it was withdrawn due to accident damage.

As they've been produced later than Arrivas batch and the earlier firsts batch it would be nice to see them in facelift version, but honestly they've probably specified the old front when the order went in!

They might be inclined to keep on ordering the old version for parts commonality. That, though, would probably backfire eventually once they stop making the old version. Personally, I would switch as soon as possible. Needless to say, though, the former sort of behaviour has sometimes produced interesting results.

doubt theyd send a DB300 down to leicester, probably heading further south to kent to replace ALX400s since they already have a fairly sizeable fleet of vdl geminis

What I do know is that 4532 has gone to Liverpool in exchange for 4412, which will be renumbered 4437 once it arrives in Leicester.

Looks like 8000 has entered service today if Bustimes is correct

Has been tracking on Bustimes since Saturday

Based on the current plans it is looking like the longer term idea is for Leicester to have 162/163 buses (I assume 162 as I don't see one solitary Olympus staying despite the rumours so far talking about 12 leaving) including 1008 which isn't used in public service and 4 coaches for the X6. Given Leicester has an approximate PVR of 150 at a quick count and a lot of the fleet will still be on the verge of life expired this seems like a disaster waiting to happen as it gives approximately a 7.5% maximum rate of unavailability before services have to be cancelled which gives very little room for any issues.

We don't thank Liverpool for their bus age limit, it just drives older buses elsewhere, as has happened here in Leicestershire, with a rather large chunk of the double decker fleet being built before 2010.
Perhaps the lone Olympus might stick around as the two remaining Eclipse Geminis, also Volvo B9TLs, don't seem to be going anywhere at the moment. Besides that pair of Eclipse Geminis, we also still have three random Streetlites, so not impossible that the last Olympus will stay!

Probably not but insufficient deckers has been an ongoing problem for many years at this point. The bigger question is that with the 50/51 and 47/48 being the more regular routes to substitute with smaller buses whether the electroliners end up off route regularly or whether the impact of smaller vehicles is moved onto other routes.

Leicester seems to have overall lost buses in the past few years. Looking at Bustimes on the Wayback Machine, there were 174 buses at Arriva in Leicestershire in March 2023; today there are only 165. I think this is mainly due to the DB250s being progressively withdrawn without adequate replacements being brought in.

I see only 8 Pulsars tracking now has another 1 bitten the dust.
Wonder if the are planning a last running day event LOL

4746 was apparently withdrawn due to poor performance.
For the first time, their registration numbers are in the correct order!
4103 has been sent to Luton; twelve of the Olympuses in total are to be sent down to Luton and MK, according to another forum. We'll be getting a pair of E400s in exchange... which seems like a pathetically unfair exchange.

I didn't know if there was any Hydrogen Single Decks I thought there were electric.

Of the four hydrogen bus models currently available in the UK, two are single decker: the Caetano H2 City Gold, based on the Toyota Sora chassis, and the Wright GB Kite Hydroliner.

After six months, 8001-6 have finally entered service.

4753, 4762 and 4770 have all been marked as withdrawn on Bustimes due to MOT expiry.

4750 has reportedly been withdrawn due to a collision, leaving only twelve Pulsar Geminis remaining.

Remaining 21 buses are set for Kinchbus routes 2/5/9/11/12

I wonder if Kinchbus plan to put the frequencies of these services up. Presently the 5, 11 and 12 each have a PVR of 2, the 2 has a PVR of 1 and the 9 has a PVR of three, making a total of *ten* buses.

Olympus 4101 is tracking as its long-scrapped twin 4100 at the moment.

According to Bus times, 4529 has been transferred to Bootle, with NW's 4411 coming to Leicester.