Pensioner Norma Wheller turned to poetry in a bid to save her village bus service from vanishing.

Norma and her friends at Somerset Court, Hereward’s Sheltered Scheme at Cheveley, were all up in arms over plans to axe the buses which serve the village.

Cambridgeshire County Council planned to cut subsidised services to save money and among those under threat were the 901 and 902 buses.

But Norma, a sprightly 75-year-old, decided to act and penned her poem which she immediately sent to councillors and MP Richard Spring.

And the poetic protest paid off when the two threatened routes were among 13 bus services saved by transport chiefs after a public consultation process.

Another Somerset Court resident, Irene O’Brien, 73, said: “That’s wonderful news. All we wanted was one bus twice a day.”