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15 Dec
2005 - TSUNAMI – ONE YEAR ON
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22 Nov
2005 - RELUCTANT WITHDRAWAL OF ASIA BUS RESPONSE 2
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02 Nov
2005 -
DECEMBER SHIPPING DATE FOR SECOND BUS CARGO TO AID CHILDREN IN POST-TSUNAMI
SRI LANKA
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14 Jul
2005 - SECOND SHIPMENT ‘LIKELY’ AS DONATED UK
BUSES ARRIVE IN TSUNAMI-STRICKEN AREAS
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7 Jun
2005 - 100 DONATED BUSES ASSEMBLE FOR SHIPMENT: FOR USE
BY CHILDREN IN TSUNAMI-HIT AREAS
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27 May 2005 - 6-MONTH APPEAL
COMES TO AN END: 100 BUSES TO BE PASSED TO ISLAMIC RELIEF FOR USE
BY CHILDREN IN TSUNAMI-HIT AREAS
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17 May 2005 - ‘MAGNIFICENT’ UK
BUS INDUSTRY’S TSUNAMI RESPONSE ON WAY TO ASIA: 100 BUSES
TO BE HANDED OVER ON 8 JUNE
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5 April 2005 - FIRSTGROUP JOINS
BUS INDUSTRY’S HUMANITARIAN TSUNAMI RESPONSE, DONATING 10
BUSES AND MORE TO FOLLOW
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15 March 2005 - BUSES RECEIVE
IMPORT APPROVAL! ROGER HEARD COMES OUT OF RETIREMENT TO MANAGE
SPARES FOR ALEXANDER DENNIS
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17 February 2005 - NATIONAL
EXPRESS GROUP PLEDGES VEHICLES FROM
UK & USA TO TSUNAMI BUS APPEAL
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8 February 2005 - ALMOST
100 BUSES DONATED BY ‘HUGELY GENEROUS SECTOR’ TO HELP
MID TO LONG TERM POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION
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25 January 2005 - GENEROUS
UK BUS & COACH INDUSTRY GOES ON PLEDGING VEHICLES TO HELP REBUILD
TSUNAMI-HIT COMMUNITIES
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18 January 2005 - PRACTICAL
BUS INDUSTRY PLEDGES 65 BUSES IN ONE WEEK BUT MORE ARE WANTED TO
HELP SHATTERED TSUNAMI COMMUNITIES
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11 January 2005 - IN THE WAKE
OF THE TSUNAMI THE BUS INDUSTRY ASKS: DONATE BUSES & HELP REBUILD
SHATTERED COMMUNITIES
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 11/11/2005 p. 20
Asia Bus Response - The industry response
to an overwhelming disaster
The pictures of the Indian Ocean tsunami flashed around the
world on Boxing Day
2004 and for weeks afterward. Like many
others, I found myself watching the media footage
in disbelief; the water, the debris, the indiscriminate
loss of so many lives. The scale of the tragedy was
almost too much to take in....
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Buses August
2005 p. 8
Over 100 Tsunami buses shipped from
Southampton
The British and Irish bus industry has finalised its response
to the Boxing Day tsunami disaster in Indonesia and Sri Lanka
by shipping out 100 ‘mid-life’ buses....
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Transit no.
262 17/06/2005 p. 7
100-strong Asia Bus Response fleet sets sail
The 100 buses donated by UK operators and local authorities
to the Asia Bus Response appeal to help communities hit by
the Boxing Day Tsunami were officially handed over to the Islamic Relief charity last week before setting sail for
Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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Asia Bus Reality
Prior to Boxing Day 2004, much of the UK population had not
heard of a tsunami and was unaware of the devastation that
one
could cause.
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one magazine issue 82 16/06/2005
p. 16
Asia 100 handed-over
The Asia Bus Response – the British and Irish response
to the tsunami disaster on Boxing Day – reached its culmination
with the handover of 100 buses and coaches to the Sri Lankan
and
Indonesian Governments at Marwell Zoo near Winchester,
last Wednesday.
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BBC
News Online 08/06/2005
100 buses to aid tsunami children
One hundred
buses from across the UK are to be shipped
out to Indonesia
and Sri Lanka as part of the Asian tsunami relief effort.
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Business
in the Comunity March 2005
Buses donated to help Tsunami victimns
Buses and spare parts will be shipped and distributed by development
agency, Islamic Relief to those areas affected by the tsunami.
As well as providing vital transportation for people and supplies,
Islamic Relief will arrange skills training for drivers and
engineers in the countries of destination and pay those people
a living wage.
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Busweb.co.uk March
2005
Asia Bus Response for Tsunami
Communities stricken by the Asian tsunami have lost everything.
The areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia that bore the brunt of
the devastation will need vast amounts of help to rebuild.
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Buses March
2005 p. 14
British donate over 80 buses for tsunami
relief
Several major British operators have donated redundant
step-entrance buses, parts and equipment to Asia Bus Response,
a bus industry appeal to help restore public transport in Indian
Ocean communities devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami disaster...
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BBC
News Online 12/02/2005
Old buses donated to tsunami aid
An Isle of Wight bus company is donating 10 of its fleet to
help the tsunami relief effort in Asia...
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Bus
Fayre vol. 27 no. 2 March-April
2005 pp. 46-7
Our thoughts are with them...
Words cannot even begin to describe the horrors that unfolded
on Boxing Day 2004 when news broke of the devastating tsunami
that swept across south-east Asia...
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 802 11/02/2005 p.
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Asia Bus Response near 100 buses
The UK bus and coach industry has so far pledged 97 vehicles
to the Asia Bus Response relief initiative to help rebuild
the worst-hit areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia following the
Tsunami catastrophe...
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one magazine issue 64 10/02/2005
p. 7
Nearly 100 buses donated to Tsunami
appeal to date
As Asia Bus Response enters its fifth week, further pledges
have taken the total to 97 vehicles...
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 801 04/02/2005 p.
8
Asia Bus Response update
Additional vehicle donations in support of the Asia Bus Response
appeal continue to be made, as the initiative nears its target
of 100 vehicles...
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Bus & Coach
Professional issue97 04/02/2005
p. 6
News briefs
Support continues to grow for the Asia Bus Response initiative,
which now has pledges from operators for the supply of 65 buses
for areas hit by December's tsunami...
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 800 28/01/2005 p.
8
Tsunami appeal - now 75 buses
Week two of Asia Bus Response has produced a further 10 vehicles
and the promise of many more to come...
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Transit no.
252 28/01/2005 p. 6
Asia Bus Response is pledged 75 vehicles
The Asia Bus Response campaign to help the communities hit
by the Boxing Day Tsunami has now been pledged 75 vehicles
for donation to the worst hit areas of Sri Lanka and Indonesia...
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BBC
News Online 27/01/2005
Buses sent to aid tsunami victims
Bus operators across the country have got together to donate
vehicles to the Asian tsunami relief effort...
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Coach
and Bus Week issue 663 27/01/2005
p. 8
Almost 70 vehicles are donated to
Asia Bus Response appeal
The Asia Bus Response appeal is gaining ground, with more than
60 buses now donated by operators around the country...
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one magazine issue 62 27/01/2005
p. 6
Asian Update
Week two of Asia Bus Response has produced a further 10 vehicles
- taking the total up to 75...
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 799 21/01/2005 p.
4
65 buses in a week pledged to
Tsunami Appeal
In one week, the Asia Bus Response initiative has received
pledges of 65 buses from the bus and coach industry...
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Bus & Coach
Professional issue 96 21/01/2005
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Helping the tsunami victims
In one week, the Asia Bus Response initiative has received
pledges of 65 buses from the bus and coach industry...
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Coach
and Bus Week issue 662 20/01/2005
p. 4
Help Tsunami appeal with buses by
donating spare ones
The Asia Bus Response campaign is seeking 'decent mid-life
buses' to help rebuild transport in areas damaged by the
Boxing Day tsunami in south Asia...
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one magazine issue 61 20/01/2005
p. 9
65 vehicles donated to tsunami appeal
Within days of the launch of Asia Bus Response, 65 vehicles
have been donated, and the campaign, launched last week in
routeONE, is now targeting councils and community groups to
increase the response...
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Bus & Coach
Buyer 798 14/01/2005 p.
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Asia Bus Response is asking the bus
industry to donate buses and help rebuild after the tsunami
Brian King, Managing Director of trent barton is fronting an
industry wide appeal to provide practical help to the survivors
of the tsunami that struck Asia on Boxing Day...
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Transit no.
251 14/01/2005 p. 32
Operators pledge to donate buses to
Tsunami aid efforts
A GROUP OF UK bus operators and local authorities has been
formed to offer practical assistance to the Asian countries
affected by the Boxing Day Tsunami, primarily through the donation
of redundant buses to help rebuild devastated communities...
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one magazine issue 60 13/01/2005
p. 3
What a brilliant initiative
It’s one thing donating money when we come across the
collecting boxes in supermarkets, service stations, banks,
etc, but such is the scale of the disaster that has devastated
communities stricken by the Indian Ocean tsunami that coins
and notes seem so inadequate...
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11 buses
with passengers missing...
Five SLCTB buses with passengers and six private buses with passengers
are still missing in the aftermath of the tsunami catastrophe officials
said. One of the five missing CTB buses was carrying 40 SLCTB employees
on a trip to Trincomalee and went missing at Kalutara. More than
500 private buses were reported damaged, some of them beyond repair...
Daily Mirror, 29 December 2004
Walls of water converge on Galle Bus Depot,
killing hundreds...
The tsunami that surged across the Indian Ocean on Sunday split into
two mighty rivers when it reached the formidable 17th-century Dutch
fortress that is the defining landmark of this southern port. The
two sides of the torrent enveloped the 40-foot-high walls of the
fortress and then met again behind them -- at Galle's bus station.
Police said at least 200 people were killed at the terminal, the
city's busiest crossroads, as buses were tossed about in the converging
cascades of water. Some drowned in their bus seats; some were stabbed
by shards of flying glass; some were crushed beneath sheets of metal...
Washington Post, 28 December 2004
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