Atomic Kitten star Natasha Hamilton got behind the wheel of a Stagecoach bus in Liverpool as part of a recruitment campaign by the operator.
The event at the company’s Gillmoss depot highlighted the career options the bus industry can offer working mums.
Currently only 10% of Stagecoach Merseyside employees are female, and the operator wants to attract more women into the industry.
Natasha said: “As a working mum, I think it’s important that women who want to get back into work after having children have the opportunity to do that – employers like Stagecoach can offer a stable job, decent salary and flexibility around shifts where possible so, even though women might have thought in the past that bus driving was a job for men, that’s absolutely not the case anymore. If I can do it, so can they.”