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Oct 2023
Business Breakfast: Connexions to withdraw Knaresborough-Harrogate bus service
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Connexions, the family-run bus operator based at Tockwith, is to withdraw its X1 service in two weeks' time.
The last X1 service, which runs from St James' Retail Park to Harrogate via Knaresborough High Street and Starbeck, will run on Friday, November 3.
Connexions managing director Craig Temple told the Stray Ferret:
He added that customers would not be left "high and dry" because the X1 route was serviced by other buses, and said that all the company's other routes remain unchanged.
Connexions currently operates 37 bus services, including many school buses, on routes around York, Leeds, Tadcaster, Otley, Harrogate and Knaresborough.
CNG liquidator appointed
A liquidator has been appointed to oversee the final chapter in CNG Group's saga.
The commercial gas supplier was once one of Harrogate's fastest-growing and most successful businesses, and a sponsorship deal with Harrogate Town AFC even saw the club's ground renamed the CNG Stadium.
But a surge in wholesale gas prices made it uneconomical for many providers to continue to trade, and CNG collapsed in November 2021 owing £82m, with the loss of all 145 jobs. At the time, it was the 19th energy supplier to fail that year.
The group's creditors have appointed Timothy Bateson, director of national business advisory company Interpath Ltd, as liquidator.
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