A COMMUNITY group can travel in comfort after being presented with a new 16-seater minibus.

Members of Dene Valley Community Partnership travelled to Birmingham to collect their Convoy minibus from Leyland DAF's (LDV) headquarters.

The group was having problems with its original bus, which it bought three years ago. In desperation, the partnership wrote to Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster for help. He approached Darlington LDV Dealership Tyne Tees Commercial Vehicles, which supplied the first bus.

In turn, directors at LDV, in Birmingham, agreed to build a minibus specifically to the requests of the partnership.