This is fictional sample content, created to demonstrate the layout. The places, people and figures in it are invented. It is not reporting.
The 46 connects Netherby Cross to the hospital at Marrowby, crossing two boundaries on the way. Each authority budgeted on the understanding that another was leading.
The gap surfaced in a year-end reconciliation. By then the operator had absorbed the shortfall and was asking to be made whole.
What makes this more than an accounting story is the timetable. The route was reduced twice during the year, and neither reduction went to any committee, because no committee believed it owned the service.
All three authorities now say a joint agreement is being drafted. None would say who pays for the eleven months already run.
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