He may have been harbouring misgivings, but Ross Newman, Ensignbus's operations director, was smiling as he began operating the open-top seafront service in Southend- on-Sea in July. 'I just love everything about it, except checking the weather every day. I haven't done that for years.' Not that he need have worried about the weather in what - in this part of the world - was one of the longest sustained periods of sunshine since the summer of 1976. There only were two rainy days.
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