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Sorry to sound presumptuous but what was it doing parked outside the driver's house in the first place? I can't think of many houses in Whitmore Reans that would fit a bus in front of!

I like it other than Princess Street - which I presume they've just reported wrong; it sounds like they're just making it bus-only as the photos clearly show a bus stop where the current one is outside Betfred. The Queen Street works will make it much easier to walk to the bus station.

Making Lichfield Street one way will mean buses have to move but the street just does not work in it's current form, it is a major bottleneck, and this is much needed.

I don't like the change. Well, I do, to be honest, but it's that multiple routes have the same number that bothers me more than the change in numbers, and that it hasn't been done all the way - the 529 is still the 529 (even though it began as the 29!).

I would go further if we have to keep what they've changed to, and change the 76 to service "7", the 88 to service "8", and the 878 to service "9", because I probably have OCD...

We still have: 529, 530, 531, 535, 545, 558, 560, 584, 585, 586, 587 - I guess they kept 5's on tendered services or something like that, other than the 529.

The new buses (?) are on Breakfast this morning in an interview with someone from NX:WM and someone from ADL. They look too big to be midibuses though? Unless they're sitting in a different model. They said they've ordered 30 and that they'll be on the West Midlands network.

Caught the 63 today. Still in Midland colours, but all the interior posters have been removed and replaced with the usual aquamarine Arriva posters. Solo; not sure if they just used to use different solos on the route but the chairs appeared to be different, more comfortable than the usual. I guess they might have just moved the buses around a bit. Same driver as usual.

No advertisements inside either.

I thought this might interest you: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Leicester-bus-depot-site-set-student-flats-block/story-17175614-detail/story.html

The old Arriva depot at Southgates is going to be a plaza with the old archway retained, and "an old double-decker bus" in the middle of it turned into a cafe.

Ah sorry,
I was referring to "NXWM Spectra"'s mention of it, which I assume is that on some smart phones you can hold down your thumb on an image longer than a normal press to pop up a save menu or something like.

If you don't have a right click menu, depending on your browser, you may be able to click and drag the image into the url bar which will give you the address of the image. This works in Firefox, I am not sure about Internet Explorer.

There's no way at all. If the user can view it, they can manipulate it. The image is already downloaded, all that happens when a user long presses or right click saves, is that the file is moved from Temp to a proper directory.

It's not just mobile devices though. Javascript is an optional feature of a browser, so any of the things above only apply if a user, browser, or device has javascript.

If you think an image is stolen:

-> right click, and click "properties", and right-click-copy the address of the image
-> go to www.google.com
-> click the camera in the search box
-> right-click-paste the address of the image and press enter

Google will show you any other sites with the same image or images very similar.

Other than adding a watermark there is absolutely no way to stop it. This is because to show an image the computer has to first download it. In a way by viewing an image a user has already took it.

Disabling right clicking can stop people who don't know any more, but it also makes it difficult for some users to use the computer - accessibility and all that.

The best way is simply to ask people not to, explicitly on every page. Ok, it won't stop everybody, but will at least stop people who aren't doing it to cause harm and might tell them that while their intentions might be good it's not what you want them to do.

I'd imagine most people who know how to copy images also know how to print screen.

Also, you could name your file names something like

brian_blessed_583.jpg

That way if your image is saved and shared around, there's a chance your name is still in the file name, which means somebody more admirable straying upon it can then see who took it.

Not sure any other ways.

I am of the unpopular opinion that high taxes are a good thing if the services they provide are equally high.

Competition isn't working. I'd rather have regulation.

I was under the impression the operators have to pay to have timetables in the NWM shops.

6/6A now do this at i54.

The 526 used to do a long one but I think it's replacement just carries on now.

The general opinion of my Leicester friends was that it basically has no bus service. Don't most services stop after 6pm anyway? They spoke of buses to Wigston turning around half way every time so those villages didn't actually have a service, they're constantly running off timetable (but then it's the same here too), and they do have some very poor buses. The bus station had no timetables or anything when I was there, no idea where buses even went from leicester, and the shelters have little information on them.

Leicester really needs better management of all of it's buses, it's a joke. It's just surprising that Arriva have a hold in Centrebus Holdings.