Perth-based transport group Stagecoach has announced its half year profits have increased by almost a third.

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Perth-based transport group Stagecoach is to launch a major network of overnight sleepercoach services from Scotland to London this summer.

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The following year, it was bought by Canadian businessman Matthew Hudson who sold it six years later to transport group Stagecoach.

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All routes on the sleepercoach network are expected to be launched during the summer and will be operated through the Scottish Citylink joint venture between Stagecoach and international transport group ComfortDelGro.

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He sold it in 1998 to transport group, Stagecoach.

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