We rode into Paris in the mornings and had to stand in line on the bus for hot water.

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The bus company owned the park until the 1970s which included a wooden tea house, band stand and kiosks before the county council turned it into a country park and which includes a popular cafe.

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But he promised to stand by his promise not to cut universal benefits for pensioners - such as free bus passes and winter fuel payments.

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"With wireless charging, the buses are charged at the end of the route, where they change direction and stand for about five to ten minutes - and those little rechargings allow you to keep the bus in operation from 7am till 8pm, " he told the BBC.

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It's the difference between the idealised rural England (slivers of tour-bus Oxfordshire) and the real countryside of bungalow-sprawl, derelict factory units, impromptu rubbish tips in woodland glades, sinister hamburger-tossers in laybys, empurpled stand-offs over travellers' sites and local people who find themselves stranded by everyone from bus companies to banks.

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