Burnley bus driver plans wedding after wooing passenger

A love-struck bus driver and a passenger he spent six years trying to woo are set to tie the knot.

Transdev driver Jarrod Spedding said he used to get butterflies when he saw Charlene Liversidge, 33, waiting to board his Witchway X43 bus.

The couple from Burnley finally went on a date after spending years exchanging glances over the ticket machine.

Three years on, they are planning their wedding and even had a bus-shaped cake made to mark their engagement.

Mr Spedding, 43, who has worked for the bus company for 11 years, said: "I used to write my phone number on her bus pass.

"Eventually, five or six years on, we met up on a night out and hit it off. The rest is history."

Carer Ms Liversidge said: "I didn't know his name, but whenever I saw him I would tell the girls at work.

"Now we're engaged and planning our wedding - it's just surreal."

Ms Liversidge said: "It was my idea to have something that represented how we met, it's part of our story. It was a real talking point."

Richard Jackson, development director at Transdev which runs services around Burnley, Pendle, Blackburn, Darwen and Hyndburn, said: "Everybody at Transdev is very happy for Jarrod and Charlene and we wish them a wonderful future together."