Warrington Borough Council has secured more than £20 million in Government funding for an all-electric bus fleet.

As part of the Chancellor’s Budget announcements, the Department for Transport has confirmed the town has been successful in its application for £21.5m in zero emission bus regional area (ZEBRA) funding, first announced by the Prime Minister in 2020, to support the introduction of up to 4,000 zero-emission buses across the country.

It paves the way for the replacement of Warrington’s Own Buses’ entire fleet of diesel buses with 120 new electric buses.