Up to 100,000 A6 passengers a year can travel on a bus displaying the wrong destination - and operators will still have hit targets.

As part of a scheme to improve journey quality firms such as Stagecoach must display 'the correct destination and route information on the outside' of at least 99 per cent of buses.

At a Stockport council it was said that the A6 corridor, which runs from Hazel Grove into Manchester, has 10 million passenger journeys annually.

Which means under the quality partnership scheme - also involving the council, and Transport for Greater Manchester - as many as 100,000 travellers could be directed wrongly.

Councillor Ian Roberts, executive member for transport, told the meeting: "Ninety-nine percent of buses will have to display the correct information, we will have to look at that one per cent."

Under the agreement, 90 per cent of buses will have CCTV and Stockport council could be handed responsibility from the police for enforcing illegal use of bus lanes.

At the meeting executive member for children and young people Stuart Bodsworth put another nail in the coffin of Fir Tree Nursery, in Reddish.

He said a second consultation on the nursery, on Browning Road, came to the same conclusion as the first - that it should shut in March next year.

A new primary school at Vale View would have nursery provision from April but the closure has sparked huge opposition.

Coun Bodsworth said: "I understand the concerns but this is the best decision for the early years education in the borough. Vale View School will go from strength to strength."

A final decision will be made at a full council meeting later this month but all executive members agreed with recommendations.

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