City bus station work is to start

Demolition work at Wolverhampton's bus station is set to start on Tuesday it has been announced.

The Pipers Row site is being flattened to make way for a £22.5 million replacement and has been shut since Easter Sunday.

Workers have been on site since then preparing for the work which will see the shelters demolished first.

Babs Coombs, spokeswoman for transport authority Centro, said: "We have been getting the site into a suitable condition to start the new building works. It is almost creating a blank canvas."

She said the new development would be a state-of-the-art bus station.

The bus station is phase one of the long-awaited Wolverhampton Interchange project, a £176m scheme to re-build the bus and rail stations and to build new offices, canalside bars and two hotels.The second phase is still short of funding.