An Australian couple have made an Edinburgh Lothian bus their home almost 9,500 miles from its usual route.

Kim Ricardo and Ted Dwight made the decision to transform the retro service 16 double-decker bus into a home after discovering it online, decaying in a garden in Australia, the BBC reports .

Kim said they were both "instantly hooked" and bought the bus for AU$ 35,000 (£18,277) and a further AU$ 60,000 (£31,332) to give it a new interior.

Kim, told the BBC: "We were initially looking for a single-decker bus, but we saw this one for sale online and were instantly hooked.

"It was in a pretty sorry condition when we found it. It needed a lot of work done.

“But we love it, the more we went into the history, we realised how amazing it was.”

The bus was sold off in the 1980s aft

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