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Some of Arriva's bus drivers based in the Medway Towns will be swapping their steering wheels for a rope at 8pm on Friday 17 November as part of a series of events they will be undertaking to raise money for the BBC Children in Need appeal.

 The rope will be used to pull a 10-ton double decker bus around Chatham bus station as many times as they can, collecting money as they go.

Arriva staff at Gillingham depot will be carrying out other events amongst themselves to raise funds, but the bus pull will let the public join in by cheering them on.

Organiser, driver Colin Adcock, said:

The staff at Gillingham depot have been raising money for Children in Need for several years now and we like to organise different events each year to capture people's imagination. The Bus Pull is something very different and can be watched by the public. It's a bit of fun and it's all done for charity.

Notes to editors

• Arriva is one of the largest private sector providers of passenger transport in mainland Europe . Employing more than 30,000 people and providing more than one billion passenger journeys every year.
• Arriva provides transport services including buses, trains, commuter coaches and water buses in eight European countries - Denmark, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK .
• Arriva is the largest private bus operator in Italy , Denmark and the Netherlands and is London's largest operator. Arriva was the first private company to be awarded rail contracts in Denmark .
• In the last five years, the turnover of Arriva's mainland European operations has increase by more than 250 per cent to £514.8 million (Euro € 746 million).
• Arriva was the first UK transport company to become a signatory of the European Road Safety Charter.