Green buses will be making a comeback on Brighton and Hove's streets.

Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company is repainting the double-decker buses on the Metro Line 25 route to Brighton and Sussex universities in a new bright green and cream colour scheme.

The new livery replaces the jade colour introduced in 1996.

Twelve buses will be painted during the next few months.

Green and cream coloured buses were once a familiar sight in the area on routes run by the famous Southdown bus company.

The original green buses were revived for a short while in the late Eighties when Southdown was taken over by its management team and it sold the business to Stagecoach.

Brighton and Hove Buses' managing director Roger French said: "Southdown once ran regular bus services to areas of Brighton such as Coldean and Woodingdean.

"Their green and cream buses were fondly remembered and we are pleased to reintroduce them as part of our colour-coded Metro bus network."

The scheme also includes blue buses on Line 49 in recognition of the colour carried by the former Corporation-owned buses for a time.

There will be 24 new tangerine-coloured buses soon to arrive for the Line 5 route.

The rest of the Brighton and Hove bus fleet carries the red and cream colours traditionally associated with the city's buses for more than a century.