For those travelling with First Essex, the rise from £2 to £3 means that the maximum single fare will be £3, however 36 per cent of fares will cost less than £3. Shorter distance singles will ...

Piers Marlow, Managing Director of First Bus East of England, said: "Our fares will be changing on the 1st January in response to the UK Government’s £3 fare cap.

FIRST Bus has announced it will be increasing fare costs across south Essex from next week. The bus operator is raising prices for tickets in Basildon and Southend beginning Saturday, November 19.