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Dear Editor,

Three weeks into the school term, the number 16 bus service from Hawkinge is still unable to cope with the numbers of passengers, mainly school children, trying to get to Canterbury for 9.00am.

Bus services to Canterbury from Hawkinge village are consistently late and frequently arrive too full to take on any more passengers, leaving them at the stop.

My daughter has been late for college several times now, in spite of allowing plenty of time and even trying to get the bus before. As a result I will have to drive her there every day by car.

The bus company say they are "looking into the situation", yet surely it cannot have come as a surprise to them that children go back to school in September.

They also do not seem to think that it is a problem if children are late for school occasionally - what sort of message does that give to our youngsters?

Am I the only irate parent?

Wendy Dowden