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Manchester depot's first female bus driver sacked for being 'too short'

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Tracey Scholes is no stranger to battling adversity in the work place. When she started on the buses 34 years ago, she was the only woman driver at the Queens Road depot, and among the first to take on the role in Greater Manchester.

On her first day in 1987, she recalls a very frosty reception and says there weren’t even female toilets on the Cheetham Hill site. READ MORE: 'Passengers try to kiss and cuddle me, it's not easy': What Cabbies think of the new Covid laws But trailblazer Tracey has remained at the depot for decades, initially with First bus and then with Go North West, when they took over in 2019.

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