Golden bus for Paralympic heroes Mickey Bushell and Danielle Brown

A golden post box is one thing – but Shropshire’s Paralympic stars Mickey Bushell and Danielle Brown are going one better with their very own golden bus.

Telford & Wrekin Council has recognised the achievements of wheelchair racer Mickey and archer Danielle by painting one of its fleet of community buses gold.

Mickey won gold in the T53 100m in a new Paralympic record on Monday and Danielle, originally from Yorkshire but who now lives in Telford, took gold in the individual compound archery.

Council leader Kuldip Sahota said: “Everyone in Telford and Wrekin is incredibly proud of both their efforts and I am delighted that we have been able to do something tangible to reflect that.”

The single decker bus will be launched at 9am on Tuesday close to the Bushell family home in Arleston Lane, Wellington.

It has been painted by Paintmaster on Stafford Park and will remain gold in honour of Mickey and Dani.

Last night Mickey agonisingly missed out on a bronze medal as he finished fourth in front of 80,000 fans at the Olympic stadium. His dad Pete, mum Shelley, brother Jason, 10, and sister Chloe, four, were at the stadium.

Mr Bushell said: “The 100m was always the one he was going for so to get the gold in that was immense. We always thought the 200m may have been a step too far and so it proved to be, but it doesn’t change anything, Mickey’s delighted and so are we.

“We are so unbelievably proud of him.”