FIRST Bus has announced its Christmas and New Year timetables including special Boxing Day services.

The transport company is introducing special services on Weymouth Service 1 and 10 on Boxing Day. Both will run every half an hour between the hours of 8.30am and 6.15pm.

Service 1 runs from Portland to Weymouth, via Wyke Regis, and Service 10 runs from Weymouth to Dorchester via Upwey and Broadwey.

General Manager of First Wessex, Simon Newport, said the new services would help people get round to see their relatives and friends and get to the Christmas sales.

He said: “Service 10 also calls at Dorset County Hospital so this will be ideal for any customers who work there or have friends or relations in there that they would like to visit over the holiday period.”

He added: “We have not offered bus services in Weymouth on Boxing Day for many years but we now believe the time is right to run them again. We have selected the key routes where we feel the customers will like to travel. These services are being operated on a commercial basis without financial support from the local authority and we hope customers and those who do not usually use the bus will give them a go.”

The services over Christmas and New Year are:

Weymouth Sunday 21 December 2014– Normal Sunday service

Monday 22 December 2014 – Saturday service

Tuesday 23 December 2014 – Saturday service

Christmas Eve, Wednesday 24 December 2014– Saturday service with early termination around 20.00

Christmas Day, Thursday 25 December 2014 – No service

Boxing Day, Friday 26 December 2014– Special half hourly services on Services 1 and 10.

Saturday 27 December 2014– Normal Saturday service.

Sunday 28 December 2014– Normal Sunday service Monday 29 December 2014: Saturday service.

Tuesday 30 December 2014– Saturday service. New Year’s Eve, Wednesday 31 December 2014: Saturday service until 2000hrs.

New Year’s Day, Thursday 1 January 2015– No service.

Friday 2 January 2015– Saturday service.

Saturday 3 January 2015– Normal Saturday service.