AN enhanced summer bus timetable between Teesside and Whitby and Scarborough began at the weekend.

From Monday to Saturday, there are five morning departures from Middlesbrough between 8.55am and 11.20am, with five return journeys from Scarborough between 3.40pm and 6.10pm, on the Arriva North-East services 93 and 93A.

There is also an additional late bus from Middlesbrough to Scarborough, at 9pm.

The service between Whitby and Scarborough runs half-hourly for the main part of the day with most buses also serving Robin Hoods Bay.

One journey each way, numbered 93B, serves Margrove Park, Boosbeck and Lingdale, giving these villages a summer link to Whitby and Scarborough.

Timetable information is also available from Traveline on 0870 608 260.