SPECIAL timetables for Christmas and New Year bus services across Wyre Forest are now available.

The changes begin on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, and there will be no bus services on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Other services will be reduced or have timetable changes during the festive season.

The timetables for the bus service are as follows:

Wednesday 24th December 2014

Normal Wednesday timetables will operate, except:

Services 125, 192 & 291 will operate a Saturday timetable.

Service 3 – journey at 1949 from Areley Kings, 2018 from Stourport, High Street to Kidderminster will not operate.

Service 12 – last journey at 1115 from Sainsbury's and 1120 from Kidderminster Hospital.

Service X3 – last journey at 1554 from Areley Kings, 1603 from Stourport, High Street, 1636 from Kidderminster, Town Hall to Redditch and at 1728 from Redditch Bus Station, 1752 from Bromsgrove, 1820 from Kidderminster, Town Hall and at 1848 from Stourport, High Street to Areley Kings.

Saturday 27th December 2014

Normal Saturday timetables will operate.

Sunday 28th December 2014

Normal Sunday timetables will operate.

Monday 29th December 2014

Normal Saturday timetables will operate, except:

Services 7A, 12 & 133 will operate a normal Monday timetable.

Tuesday 30th December 2014

Normal Saturday timetables will operate, except:

Services 7A, 12 will operate a normal Tuesday timetables.

Service 133 will NOT operate.

Wednesday 31st December 2014

Normal Saturday timetables will operate, except:

Services 7A, 12, 133 & 220 will operate a normal Wednesday timetables.

Friday 2nd January 2015

Normal Friday timetables will operate, except:

Services 125, 192 & 291 will operate a normal Saturday timetable.

All services will revert to normal by Saturday, January 3, but there will be new timetables introduced for some routes from Monday, January 5.

In Wyre Forest, service 4A will have a new route and timetable introduced from Monday, January 5. Services 7, 15, 125, 192, 831, 833 and S15 will have new operators, routes and timetables introduced and service 580 will have new timetables from the same date.

Details of all the changes are available on the Worcestershire County Council website www.worcestershire.gov.uk

For timetable and journey planning, contact Traveline on 0871 2002233.

For printed timetables, call the Worcestershire HUB on 01905 765765.