A charity bus service threatened with the axe is fighting for survival.

Bluebird Community Transport provides a door-to-door service for anybody who has difficulty getting around, whether because of old age or physical disability, for as little as 70p.

People can phone the charity, which is based in Burgess Hill, 24 hours in advance and a driver will pick them up from their homes and take them where they need to go.

Three buses serve people throughout Mid Sussex and make about 2,000 journeys per month.

The Argus reported in April how the original start-up grant from the Countryside Agency is set to run out in March.

The charity has so far found no way to raise the £80,000 it needs to keep going.

However, Mid Sussex Tory MP Nicholas Soames has intervened to try to make the county council guarantee the future of the service.

He said: "It would be a disaster if the Bluebird scheme was not able to carry on."

Tex Pemberton, West Sussex county councillor for Highways and Transport, said: "We will work with Bluebird to try to ensure its continued survival on a sustainable basis but we do not have money in our current budget to meet the funding previously provided by the Countryside Agency."