Newcastle will again come alive with colour for this year’s Pride festival and the region’s largest bus company, Go North East, will be proudly showing its support for the annual celebration with its two branded rainbow-emblazoned buses.
This year’s LGBT event will take place from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July, with its annual parade through Newcastle city centre, as well as an outdoor concer
Riding the bus home at the end of the evening is typical for many bus passengers, but for Colin and Kayleigh Thompson, choosing the final Go North East Drifter 60 service on 5 May marked the beginning of their lives together as husband and wife.
Eager to make their special day ‘a wedding to remember’, after the traditional nuptials at St John’s Church in Seaham, the County Durham couple held a
Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.
For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.
Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.
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