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20 Oct 2009 16:05

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The struggling bus and coach operator has received an all-share merger proposal from rival Stagecoach, after a takeover bid fell through in the eleventh hour. The news may have stopped a rout in the National Express share price. But it doesn’t address the company’s real problems.

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