One operates a luxury touring-bus company, while another runs a growing, franchised moving and junk-removal business.

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Steve Westly has been touring California by bus.

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Respect's Yvonne Ridley, a former Fleet Street journalist and now anti-war campaigner, has been touring the town in an open-topped bus with the indefatigable Bradford West MP George Galloway at her side.

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Now that the festival is over, some of the duct tape creations will be touring the country in the Duck Tape Rolls Across America bus, filled with duct tape, craft videos and duct tape outfits.

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