And, for the most part, complaints are often from people who have either misconstrued an article or just want to put their own twopennorth in to the mix.

Take last week. We had an irate bus driver claiming that never in a month of Sundays did 170 people get on the 236 bus at Stanstead.

Of course, we never said 170 people got on the bus, we said that 170 people had signed a petition asking for the bus to be reinstated.

We also printed that the operations manager of Beestons said that only two or three people used the service, which also upset some people.

The 236 bus, for those who don't know, runs from Haverhill to Sudbury.

It doesn't stop at all in Stanstead now, and the early and late services have also been scrapped, leaving people from villages such as Cavendish and Glemsford unable to get to and from work/school/ shops.

Beestons have made it quite clear that the lack of numbers boarding at Stanstead no longer justifies stopping in the village.

I have some sympathy for Beestons. If I was in their position, I would probably have made the same decision, on business grounds.

But, of course, running buses is no ordinary business. I don't think that I'm being too melodramatic in saying that for some people, particularly in the rural community, buses are their lifeline.

One group of people who could and should be helping, Suffolk County Council, has the capacity to subsidise routes.

It wouldn't take much, perhaps a mini-bus going around Stanstead and neighbouring villages at peak times. I have spoken to bus companies and they say they would be interested in such proposals.

But will county pull their finger out? Don't bet on it.

Let's hope those at the meeting at Glemsford village hall on November 27 can speak loud enough to force the county's hand.