McGill’s Bus Group has been shortlisted in five categories in the Scottish Transport Awards.

McGills owners the Easdales brothers blasted Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham for boasting about the performance of his franchised bus services which cost taxpayers £226m a year.

Greenock businessmen James and Sandy Easdale have given £30,000 towards the work of Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

Labour’s plans to reform bus services are ill-conceived and doomed to fail, the billionaire behind Scotland’s biggest independent bus operator has warned.