Sue Mcgrane campaigned to save the bus

The local authority tried for the second time in two years to stop the service for youngsters from Summerhill who attend Ysgol Plas Coch.

Two months ago the authority wrote to parents again outlining their plans to stop the service.

On Thursday local councillors visited the proposed route children would have to walk and unanimously agreed that it was not safe.

We're very, very grateful that there appeared to be a lot of people with common sense there Sue Mcgrane parent

Sharon Darlington, who has three children at the school, said her son, aged eight, would have been forced to walk if the council had not backed down.

Hazardous route

"I'm just waiting to have written confirmation that my child is still allowed on the bus," she said.

"If everyone could see it was a hazardous route, how have we got into this situation where we've had to do what we've done today?" she added.

Sue Mcgrane, who has led the campaign to save the service and has three children aged 10, eight and two, said she was "relieved" by the decision.

"We're very, very grateful that there appeared to be a lot of people with common sense there," she added.

The local authority is required by law only to provide free transport for children living three miles away from their chosen school.

"Having responded to the appeals lodged by a number of parents in respect of this matter, the authority has reassessed the route by which children would travel to Ysgol Plas Coch," said council spokesman Wynford Thomas

"It has been agreed that this is indeed a hazardous route and free transport will be reinstated."

The school bus would have been withdrawn from 27 October but will now continue.