Plans to withdraw a number of local bus services due to budget pressures have been dropped by Aberdeenshire Council.
Two of the services due to end on 17 July were the 103 Cookney to/from Bridge of Dee and the 108 Muchalls to/from Chapelton Park and Choose.
The 103 which leaves Cookney at 7.20am and returns from Bridge of Dee at 5.45pm has on average of fewer than two passengers per journey. That service will continue until at least the end of the current financial year.
The 108 will be retained on Tuesdays and Thursdays, again until at least the end of the financial year, however the Friday service will no longer operate from w/c 17 July. Passenger figures show no-one uses the services on Fridays.