Remember the Routemaster - the double-decker bus that was an 'iconic' image of London, which was finally taken off the road back in December? Remember the wailing and the gnashing of teeth amongst the hordes of spotty bus anoraks who, as they wiped a tear from the corner of the eye, seemed to implicitly blame all those silly requirements of accessibility for causing the demise of their beloved Routemaster? I mean, why should disabled people want to be able to get on buses anyway, eh?

Well, smell the irony of this story, then: London bus turned into clinic for disabled. Yep, one of those familiar Routemasters has made its way to Malaysia, where it's soon going to be travelling from town to town as a mobile clinic offering free prosthetic services "for the handicapped", courtesy of the British charity organisation Hapee. And since the driver is a wheelchair user and the people who will be visiting the bus are disabled, the vehicle has been "specially modified".

Crippled Monkey's devious mind is whirring away now. So if this bus has been specially modified for use by disabled people, does that mean that all those Routemasters could have been modified too, so that they could have stayed on London's roads? Oh dear, I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for the bus anoraks now . . .