A DIRECT bus service into Sevenoaks and Gatwick is to be axed due to lack of support.

Borough Green travellers were delighted last year when parish council chairman Cllr Steve Perry persuaded Excel Passenger Logistics to stop its Maidstone to Gatwick coach in the village.

But the two-hourly X11 coach will stop on June 25.

Holiday-makers and businessmen and women who have come to rely on the cheap airport service will now have to pay out £50 each way for a taxi.

Cllr Perry said: "I am surprised at the news. Although it is an unusual journey I thought more would use the service to Sevenoaks station.

"Perhaps more would have used it if the timings were different."

The bus leaves the Sevenoaks Road stop near the Western Road junction approximately every two hours from 3.20am.

Parish councillor Mike Yianni recently highlighted poor bus services to and from the village, particularly from Borough Green to Maidstone Hospital.

On hearing the latest news, about the X11, he said: "I don't know how much publicity there was for it. A lot of people didn't know about it.

"It won't be a good move for the village."

Residents have often complained to the councillor about the poor bus services to Sevenoaks, especially for people working there.