Andy Burnham gives update on potential Bee Network shake-up for thousands as EIGHT MPs tell him to change

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Andy Burnham has given an update on a potential Bee Network shake-up for thousands of passengers after EIGHT MPs told him to change things.

The Manchester Evening News is calling on the mayor to give homeless children a free bus pass if they are placed in temporary accommodation more than a 30 minutes’ walk from school.

Current rules say Greater Manchester’s children are only eligible for free transport to school if they live more than two miles from class, and there is no ‘suitable school’ nearer. But it’s almost-impossible to be further than three miles from a school in the city.

As many of the city’s 8,000 homeless children in temporary accommodation are in facilities miles from home, that presents their parents a difficult choice: Pay for buses they previously didn’