Firefighters rushed to the Trafford Centre after a bus caught on fire near the shopping mall.
04.12.2021 - 16:39 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A bus driver who has been employed in the job for 34 years claims that she has been sacked for being "too short" after wing mirrors on the vehicles were re-positioned.
Tracey Scholes, who is 57 and measures five feet in height, states that she was one of few women in the job when she started driving buses in 1987.
On her first day on the job in Greater Manchester, she recalls being given a cold reception and says that there were not even female toilets on the site, as reported by The Mirror.
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Firefighters rushed to the Trafford Centre after a bus caught on fire near the shopping mall.
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Tracey Scholes is no stranger to battling adversity in the work place.
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