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Local elections are coming up and we're exploring some of the issues you care about.

We all hate a long wait for the bus, but Derby's bus operators say that because of both customer and driver shortages, they'll struggle to keep many services at current levels beyond this month.

We've been hearing from some of our local election candidates on this, and from Daniel, who says his journey to college in Derby has become a lot more difficult since the Spondon Flyer was suspended last year.

Our Political Reporter Georgia Roberts has been looking into it.

Trentbarton sent us this statement: 鈥淯nfortunately we are still being affected by the significant national shortage of bus drivers and are not yet able to reintroduce the Spondon flyer. The service was stopped during lockdown due to low customer numbers and the vast majority of the route is being served by an alternative and more frequent service, the Ilkeston flyer.

You can see a full list of all the candidates standing for election in all Derby's wards on the Derby City Council website.

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