PEOPLE living in West End, Horton Heath, and Bishop's Waltham can now benefit from evening bus services to Southampton.

Hampshire bus operator Solent Blue Line has introduced the new services as part of its network changes, which came into effect on January 7.

The company's operations director, Peter Shelley, said: "The new evening services will be ideal for people going out to the various leisure and entertainment facilities in the area."

Solent Blue Line has recently spent £8.5 million on new buses and is currently halfway through a scheme to refurbish 30 double-deckers over six years old.

But there's bad news for passengers in Chartwell Green, as services to the area introduced six months ago have been axed because of "poor consumer feedback".