DRIVER STORY * UK - What I see on my No 18 bus tells me Britain is still a decent place
Heart-warming New Year message from driver awarded the MBESunderland,UK -The Daily Mail, by The Reverend DAVID HANDS -29 December 2007: -- The 62-year-old Sunderland bus driver and Church of the Nazarene Minister awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to transport – and for his impromptu guided tours that delight passengers... I never wanted to be a bus driver. I only did it because I'd moved to a new town and I needed to make ends meet. That was eight years ago... Since then I've met the young and old, poor and wealthy. I've driven through every street of Sunderland from the rundown council estates to the seaside cottages on the coast... You might think that in that time I have seen all sorts of trouble. After all, it is easy nowadays to think that our teenagers are all drug addicts, our citizens rude, unfriendly and selfish... Yet Britain is still a wonderful place to live, full of good and decent human beings. I know. I see them every day on my bus. It's not a job that is often appreciated, so when it was revealed yesterday that I'd been given an MBE, I was delighted... (David Hands behind the wheel of his bus in Sunderland)
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