How it seemed those pesky rattling minibuses would be here for ever, but alas almost as quickly as they arrived the disappeared again. There was some variety  too like this former M&D Mercedes that found it's way to Stafford and C218EKT looked both quite smart and much brighter than the buses of today in it's much more sunny red and bright yellow Midland Red North livery. At the time the whole pedestrian main street and it's area was being redone to make the town better I suppose.