Stagecoach likely to face competition probe but was the competition actually healthy?

So Stagecoach has swooped in and has acquired south coast bus firm Cavendish Motor Services and promptly announced the business will be closed.

There is little doubt that the prospects for Cavendish were weak with the news that the Perth-based group was the winning bidder at the auction of Eastbourne Buses. After all, the operator would no longer be competing with a somewhat down-at-heel municipal operator. It would be fighting the commercially savvy Stagecoach which, after all has deep...