EVENING and Sunday buses are being slashed on many Huddersfield routes.

Services are being axed after West Yorkshire passenger transport authority Metro cut its cash support.

Changes from April 23 will leave some areas unserved at night and on Sundays.

The village of Blackley, near Elland, is one area that will be without buses.

Metro said there were very low passenger numbers on the services.

The changes are:

202, 203 Leeds - Tingley - Dewsbury - Deighton - Huddersfield: Revised Monday to Saturday timetable with changes to intermediate times along the route.

219, 229 Huddersfield - Heckmondwike - Leeds: Revised timetable. Service 219 between Heckmondwike and Mirfield will operate hourly. Slight changes to Saturday times. On service 229, a revised Monday to Friday morning and afternoon peak period timetable will be introduced.

220, 221 Leeds - Morley - Batley - Dewsbury - Deighton - Huddersfield: Changed times Monday to Fridays. On service 221 the section between Cleckheaton and Huddersfield will be reduced to hourly.

262, X62 Huddersfield - Kirkheaton - Mirfield - Dewsbury - Leeds: Revised Monday to Saturday timetable to improve service reliability.

303, 338 Huddersfield - Golcar - Scapegoat Hill: Will run at two - hourly intervals evenings and Sundays, rather than hourly. Sunday journeys on service 338 withdrawn.

305 Huddersfield - Milnsbridge - Linthwaite - Blackmoorfoot: Evening and Sunday service withdrawn and replaced by new service 351 which continues to Marsden Hard End. Milnsbridge, Causeway Side and Waingate sections no longer served evenings and Sundays. On Mondays to Saturdays the 1855 journey from Huddersfield is retimed to operate 15 minutes earlier.

306 Huddersfield - Newsome - Taylor Hill: Most evening and Sunday journeys will run five minutes earlier.

310, 313, 314 Huddersfield - Honley - Holmfirth - Holme: Minor changes on some Monday to Friday morning peak buses.

312 Huddersfield - Newsome - Honley - Netherthong - Holmfirth: Minor time changes late evening.

314A Huddersfield - Bradley: Saturday service withdrawn.

317 Huddersfield - Grosvenor Road - Kirkheaton - Upper Heaton: Evenings and Sunday journeys will be replaced by service 371 which will be extended from Dalton to Upper Heaton. Section between Grosvenor Road and Albany Road will not be served.

321, 324, 325 Huddersfield - Netherton - Marten Nest - Meltham: Minor changes evenings and Sundays.

321A Huddersfield - Netherton - Marten Nest - Meltham: Revised timetable and route. The service will also serve Marten Nest on journeys to Meltham.

324A Huddersfield - Netherton - Meltham: Revised timetable.

327 Ashenhurst - Huddersfield - Birkby - Fartown - Bradley Business Park: Revised daily timetable. Evening and Sunday journeys after 1900 will end at Bradley. Route 363 will serve section between Fartown and Brackenhall evenings and Sundays.

332 Huddersfield - Old Fieldhouse Lane: Revised daily timetable.

336, 337 Huddersfield - Almondbury - Beaumont Park Circulars: New services running evenings and Sundays only as partial replacement for 387 and withdrawn services 394 and 395. Service 336 will operate in a clockwise direction serving Almondbury, Newsome, Beaumont Park, Yews Hill and Lockwood Road. Service 337 will operate in the opposite direction.

341 Huddersfield - Almondbury - Stocksmoor: Changed route and timetable, with improved journey times. All journeys will operate to Stocksmoor station direct via Thurnstonland after leaving Farnley Tyas. As a result Storthes Hall Dean Bottom, Highburton, Kirkburton and Thunderbridge will no longer be served by this service.

343, 344 Halifax - Elland - Blackley - Huddersfield - Kirkheaton - Upper Heaton: Evening and Sunday journeys withdrawn and replaced by new service 501 between Huddersfield and Ainley Top, continuing to Halifax. Blackley will no longer be served during evenings and Sundays. An extra bus to Upper Heaton from Huddersfield at 1804 Monday to Saturday is also introduced.

345, 346 Huddersfield - Milnsbridge - Wilberlee: Service 345 will no longer be run. Service 346 will continue every two hours with revised route in Slaithwaite.

348 Huddersfield - Slaithwaite - Hill Top: This is a new Monday to Saturday hourly daytime service between Huddersfield and Hill Top, Slaithwaite, replacing rerouted service 351.

349, 350, 351, 352 Huddersfield - Slaithwaite - Marsden - Hard End/Dirker: Revised times. In the evening and on Sundays revised service 351 will operate via Linthwaite Church and Blackmoorfoot to Marsden Hard End replacing journeys on withdrawn service 305.

353, 356 Huddersfield - Longwood: Changed times evenings and Sundays. The 2220 journey will operate daily as service 356 to Longwood only.

363 Huddersfield - Brighouse - Bradford: During evenings and Sundays a new section of route will run serving Ashbrow Road, Bradley Boulevard and Long Hill Road in Brackenhall. Section of Bradford Road between Fartown and Asda will not be served evenings and Sundays.

370, 371 Lindley - Huddersfield - Rawthorpe - Dalton - Upper Heaton: Changes to evening and Sunday times. Service 371 will be extended from Dalton to Upper Heaton to replace withdrawn service 317 and will also extend beyond Lindley to serve Moor Hill Road and Crosland Road.

372 Lindley - Marsh - Huddersfield - Waterloo - Almondbury: Revised evening and Sunday times.

380, 381 Huddersfield - Rastrick - Brighouse - Clifton: The 2155 journey from Huddersfield will run five minutes later.

387 Huddersfield - Beaumont Park: Some changes to daytime timetables Mondays to Saturdays. Evening and Sunday buses will be withdrawn and replaced, in part, by new services 336 and 337.

394, 395 Huddersfield - Almondbury - Milnsbridge: Withdrawn and replaced in part by new services 336 and 337 in the south Huddersfield area and service 501 in the Lindley area.

501 Huddersfield - Lindley - Ainley Top - Elland - West Vale - Halifax: This is a new hourly evening and Sunday service between Huddersfield and Halifax. Between Huddersfield and Ainley Top it will operate via Trinity Street, Westbourne Road, New Hey Road, Acre Street, Lidget Street, West Street, Weatherhill Road and Lindley Moor Road to Ainley Top from where it will follow the route of service 503 to Elland and Halifax. Co-ordinates with service 503 to provide a half-hourly frequency between Huddersfield and Halifax and provides a partial replacement for withdrawn service 344.

503 Huddersfield - Edgerton - Ainley Top - Elland - West Vale - Halifax: Revised times evenings and Sundays. Will run operate hourly but is co-ordinated with new service 501 to provide a half-hourly frequency between Huddersfield and Halifax.

537 Halifax - Elland - Outlane - Huddersfield - Kirkheaton - Upper Heaton: Sunday bus at 0640 from Huddersfield to Outlane withdrawn number.

908 Outlane - Wilberlee - Slaithwaite: Minor changes early mornings and early evenings.

X61 Huddersfield - Deighton - Mirfield - Dewsbury - Leeds: New hourly Monday to Saturday daytime service between Huddersfield and Leeds via Deighton, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Shaw Cross, Tingley and the White Rose Centre. This service is not limited stop and will observe all stops along the route.