was introduced by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater.

Unison official and nurse Linda Hobson said the cuts would affect the ability of NHS staff to arrive to work on time and "will leave many staff members at both [hospitals] stranded"."[This] can affect patient care and overall hospital operations," she said.

Staff would be forced to seek alternative transport, which was likely to be "more expensive and time consuming", she said.She said the union urged Stagecoach to "reconsider" its decision.West Denton resident Donna Marie, who regularly uses the number 7 bus, said the loss of the evening service would massively affect her social life.

She said she regularly took the bus to meet friends but after the service was cut, that same journey would take two buses."I'll probably just stop going and not do what I enjoy doing," she said. "I'm not going to pay for a taxi."

She said the cuts would also impact locals who relied on the service to go to social clubs.

"People... are going to have to leave earlier or they just won't go out," she said.Actor and disability-rights activist Liz Carr, who made

, also opposes the legislation."Some of us have very real fears based on our lived experience and based on what has happened in other countries where it's legal," she wrote on X.

Dr Gordon Macdonald, from campaign group Care Not Killing, said the bill ignores the wider "deep-seated problems in the UK's broken and patchy palliative care system".Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy, the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to Holyrood, said it could become "easier to access help to die than help to live".