Public-safety campaigners lament the loss of the avuncular bus conductor, surplus to requirements on modern vehicles.

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The jury in a trial of two women accused of torturing and murdering a former bus conductor at his Norwich home has retired to consider a verdict.

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We addressed the importance of installing security cameras at school gates, assuring a woman driver or conductor is on every school bus, and having clean, working toilets at schools so girls and boys are not forced to go outside to relieve themselves.

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