Unpleasant happenings

The Golesworthy family attended a double funeral just before the Festival started - the old couple died within a few days of each other.
Towards the end of the Festival, the Granary, which is owned by the Golesworthy family, was broken into, and the day's takings were stolen.
This is something very unusual in Hay, especially so close to the burglary at The Old Curiosity Shoppe at the Castle.

Meanwhile, I've had another letter from Yeoman's Canyon bus company:

"I am sorry you feel the way you do regarding dogs on our service vehicles. We do not wish to prove awkward in this situation but we are looking at things as a whole. Your dog may be well behaved but there are some dogs that are not and passengers complain.
I have informed the Council so that it can be entered in the new timetable book."

I'm looking at things as a whole, too - what is so different about Yeoman's Canyon that they refuse to carry dogs, when every other bus and train company I've travelled with, all over the Midlands and the North West, are happy to carry dogs? I can't believe that they are the only bus company to have 'incidents' with dogs, as they claim.

Brian, who wanted to take his dog Belle on the bus, has also been onto the Herefordshire Council official who deals with the contracts for the bus routes - without much success. They gave the impression of being totally powerless in the situation. Even though they decide who is granted a contract, and they give a subsidy to the bus companies for certain routes, they said that bus companies have the power to refuse to carry any group of people (or dogs) if they want to.