We welcomed the free bus travel for us over 60s then when it became national free travel we lost the half-price train fares in a bid to save money. Derbyshire eventually relented and saw sense.

Now the county council has stopped printing and supplying bus timetables. I subscribe to all three and was aware that I hadn't received the North East one.

I was told at my local post office, which had recently started selling the timetable, that the county council had stopped producing them and there were to be no more.

I phoned the council on my return home to find that this was the case and would be receiving a full refund and letter soon.

We pensioners rely on the bus timetables to get us to the shops, doctors and to see our family and friends. To stop producing them is like a death sentence to some of us old folk, not to mention many bus services around the county.

Is this a plot by the county council to stop over 60s travelling on the buses to save money? It certainly seems that way.

I am still waiting for my refund and letter of explanation.

MRS J. ALLEN,

Holymoorside,

Chesterfield.