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STUB IT OUT! Stagecoach Workers Have Joined Forces to Quit Smoking STUB IT OUT! Stagecoach workers have joined forces to quit smoking. Find out how you can kick the habit with a little help from your friends. SPECIAL FEATURE PAGES 8&9 The newspaper of Stagecoach Group Issue 70 Spring 08 Drivers’ blaze rescue 6 Megabus soap stars 11 60 years on the road 13 Reader offer 16 SCHEME DELIVERS BUMPER PAYOUT Employees benefit from Stagecoach success and share £15.1 million as SAYE matures MORE than 2,400 Stagecoach Group share in the success of the business employees are set to share in a £15.1 through this scheme. million payout under the company’s “Giving employees a stake in their Travellers find love on the line Save As You Earn scheme. company and offering them an Bus and rail drivers, engineers and effective way of saving for the future A COUPLE who started chat- other workers will receive average is part of our wider reward package ting on a train didn’t realise they payouts of around £6,300, making that recognises the key role our were en route to marriage. average gains of more than £3,600, people play in making Stagecoach a And the happy couple’s journey after the Group’s 2005 SAYE scheme market-leading transport group.” of love was celebrated on matured on 1 April. Meanwhile, Stagecoach Group gave Valentine’s Day when they were Under the SAYE scheme, staff can a positive update on its trading at the presented with the very seats set aside a fixed sum of up to £250 end of February. they met on! from their salary every month for a An Interim Management Statement, Jacqueline and Jonathan three-year period. When the scheme covering the period since October Roberts began chatting on their matures they have the option to buy 31, 2007, said trading had remained journey from London Waterloo Stagecoach shares at a price set when strong and the Group’s overall to Gillingham in Dorset. And a they joined the scheme. financial performance had been “at passing comment from transport Stagecoach Group’s share price has the top end of management’s expec- lobbyist Jonathan (57) about his more than doubled over the period, tations”. dodgy knee was to prove fateful. rising from around 115p in April 2005 Like-for-like revenue growth in the Jacqueline, who’s a physiothera- to 242.0p on 31 March, and at that main divisions was 7.4% at UK Bus pist, explained: “I suggested share price employees would achieve (40 weeks ended February 3, 2008), Jonathan make an appointment a return of around 145% on their 14.0% at UK Rail (40 weeks ended with me, so he booked the last investment under the scheme. February 3, 2008), 4.2% in North appointment of the day so we At a share price of 242.0p, staff who America (nine months ended January could travel back together. saved the maximum amount of £250 31, 2008) and 12.4% at Virgin Rail “It went from there. We went per month in the company’s scheme Group (40 weeks ended February 3, out a few times and, before too will receive payouts of £22,000, rep- 2008). long, Jonathan proposed…and I resenting a gain of more than £13,000 said yes!” each. Their wedding, in September John Hamilton, Director of Pensions 2006, had a rail theme running and Benefits, said: “Our employees throughout, including a huge have been at the heart of the cake in the shape of a train and growth of our company and some South West Trains guards it is right that they can invited as wedding guests. Then, when South West Trains was refurbishing its Class 159 train fleet, it agreed to A first-class marriage: Jacqueline and Jonathan receive their seats from Salisbury Depot give the pair their First Class Manager Lisa Hindley and South West Trains Engineering Director Mac Mackintosh. compartment seats in return for a donation to charity. Pettitt with £1,000. South West Trains Engineering They chose the Railway The seats now have pride of Director Mac Mackintosh to Children, which supports street place in the Roberts’ sitting present the seats to the couple – children living in and around room. added: “This is a bit of a fairytale railway stations, and presented Salisbury Depot Manager Lisa and, like all fairytales, it has a charity representative Gordon Hindley – who accompanied happy ending.” The increase in Stagecoach Group’s share price could give staff a return of 145%. STAGECOACH has thrown its weight as much work out of them as they behind a new Samaritans campaign to Putting the emphasis on stress possibly can, even when they see Stations have reduce workplace stress in Scotland. they are already very stressed. The company sponsored pocket- More than 20% have also taken time Steven Stewart, Director of Almost three quarters of people a brush with sized ‘emotional health cards’ off sick due to work-related stress, half Corporate Communications for feel unable to cope with distressed encouraging people to ‘Speak up, Step say their jobs are getting more stressful Stagecoach Group, said: “We are colleagues and 34% say employers greatness Up’. and 32% feel work rules their lives. delighted to be able to work closely do not take workplace stress The cards, which were handed Samaritans Scottish Development with Samaritans for Stress Down seriously, turning a blind eye to the VIRGIN Trains has teamed up out to mark Stress Down Day on Manager Frances Simpson said: Day. As a business, we take stress problem. with Staffordshire University’s February 1, urged people not to bottle “Job-related stress has a serious and in the workplace very seriously and Samaritans are experienced in Art, Media and Design depart- up emotions and to share them with unrecognised impact on the health of feel it’s important to be there to help workplace issues and run WorkLife, ment to provide an artistic others where they can. the nation and the economy, affecting people when they need it most.” a training course to tackle stress welcome to customers using New figures from Samaritans reveal concentration and efficiency. Samaritans found that more than in the workplace and provide Stoke-on-Trent station. that Scotland’s workers are so stressed “Positive workplaces are a big factor half of Scottish workers have seen practical skills for managers and Students from the BA(Hons) a quarter of them dream of quitting in keeping everyone emotionally colleagues cry over pressure and team members. Log on to www. Photography course were the country for a life abroad. healthy. “ 45% say their employers try to get samaritans.org for more information. invited to come up with a series of images that would enhance the newly refurbished station. An exhibition, appropriately entitled ‘The Waiting Room’, and documenting the everyday life and work of the station, is now MEGabus HEADS on display in the waiting room on Platform 1. Meanwhile, jewellery and ceramics created by the students – and reflecting the rich craft traditions for which Stoke- EAST IN THE USA on-Trent is famous – are also on STAGECOACH Group has announced a Since its launch in the United States in display in the First Class Lounge. major expansion of its growing megabus. April 2006, megabus.com has welcomed Virgin Trains Station Manager com budget coach operation in the United on board more than 900,000 passengers, Karen Grimshaw said: “It has States with a new network of routes on including commuters, students and been a pleasure working with the East Coast. business and leisure travellers. the students from Staffordshire From May 30, customers will be able to Research by Stagecoach Group has found University. The results of many travel for as low as $1 from New York City that 52% of megabus.com passengers have hours of work are now available to seven key cities. switched from using the car as the high for everyone to enjoy as they New services will run to Boston, price of oil continues to put pressure on pass through the station.” Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, fuel prices and climate change concerns Buffalo and Atlantic City, New Jersey, as increase. A megabus.com coach filled to well as a cross-border service to Toronto, capacity, removing 56 cars from the road, Canada. saves around 1,750kg of carbon emissions Appreciating megabus.com will offer up to 55 daily for every 100 miles travelled. departures from New York in new greener, The latest expansion of megabus.com apprentices state-of-the-art coaches, with free wi-fi and in the United States comes only days on-board video. after services started running to four new WOULD-BE apprentices have All seats reserved for the first week of locations in the Midwest. Sam Dixon, Operations Manager at Stagecoach Leamington, even more reason to train with service are being given away free as an The budget express coach service now presents the prizes to the lucky students. Stagecoach. introductory offer, with passengers paying operates daily services between its hub Stagecoach UK Bus was only the standard 50 cent booking fee. in Chicago and 16 other Midwest cities, recently awarded Centre status The expansion means the growing including Ann Arbor, Mich.; Bloomington- Prize students by the Institute of the Motor low-cost coach network will cover 31 key Normal, Ill.; Chicago; Champaign, Ill.; Industry – a role normally cities across 17 states – seven locations in Cincinnati; Cleveland; Columbia, Mo.; THREE university students from Warwickshire won great reserved for educational institu- the East Coast, 17 Midwest cities and seven Columbus, Ohio; Detroit; Indianapolis; prizes simply by riding the buses to their place of learning.
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