London's lost icon

London's most famous bus has turned its last wheel. The Routemaster, an icon for half a century, has given way to soul-less bendy buses. I still look up when I hear a bus in the distance, hoping that I'll glimpse a real bus. Then I remember. Sad to think we'll never again smile at the sight of a red bus on the streets of London.

Christmas in Oxford Street, 2003: Routemasters reign