AT a time when many buses are under threat, Rail for Herefordshire – which also supports buses – is delighted that service 34 between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth has just started running on Sundays and bank holiday Mondays all through the summer until September 29.

This service already runs on Mondays to Saturdays and the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is to be congratulated on its decision to subsidise it on Sundays.

Bus users, both locals and visitors, will now be able to visit this spectacular part of the Wye Valley on any day of the week.

Anyone unfamiliar with the area could start their exploration of it by taking the bus to Kerne Bridge and then going on the walk described by Garth Lawson in the Hereford Times on April 25 – details are available at herefordtimes.com.

The 34 Sunday timetable isn’t in the current printed Herefordshire bus guide, but it’s on both the Herefordshire Council and Stagecoach websites.

The 32 bus between Hereford and Gloucester also runs on Sundays, so anyone who lives near this bus route could travel to Ross and then change there onto the 34.

Rail for Herefordshire is run by volunteers working for improvements to public transport. For details, visit railforherefordshire.org.uk or email failfh@aol.com.

MIKE LEDLIE, Secretary, Rail for Herefordshire, Green Street, Hereford.