Karl Morrissey at the taxi rank in Wellingborough town centre Taxi drivers say fees for their passengers may have to rise to help them offset the rising cost of their annual taxi licence fee. Cabbies in Wellingborough say they are annoyed about proposals to increase their plate charge to £187.80. The charge was £80 in [...]
Edinburgh’s ‘green’ taxi plan hailed by Kenny MacAskill Scottish justice minister supports local taxi firm’s carbon offsetting scheme, but opposes Leith biomass plans Local MSP Kenny MacAskill has backed an Edinburgh taxi firm’s plans to offset the carbon from every booked journey it makes. Central Taxis estimates it will save around 4,000 tons of CO2 [...]
A FORMER private hire driver from Birmingham has been banned from driving after illegally allowing a customer to get into his car when she hadn’t pre-booked the cab. Amar Aftab, 28, of Heathfield Road, Handsworth, was parked outside The Village nightclub in the city centre’s Hurst Street in July last year when he was approached [...]
A private hire driver has been put off the road – because his car is the wrong shade of silver. Asif Khan has worked as a private hire driver in Manchester for seven years. But when he decided to swap his private-hire car from a silver Volkswagen Passat to a silver Honda Accord, he hit [...]
A TAXI driver has been robbed by a passenger who he picked up outside a sports bar in Colchester. The driver picked up a man from outside the Dog and Pheasant in Nayland Road at around 5.25pm on Saturday February 26. The taxi driver was asked to take the man to the Greenstead Estate in [...]
TAXI drivers in Rossendale have quit a liaison group in protest at a controversial new licensing and enforcement policy which is being introduced across the valley. Moves to introduce penalty points schemes for driving misdemeanours and stricter tests on taxis have taken the trade to the brink of strike action in the past. Now 18 [...]
CONTROVERSIAL plans to lift a cap on the number of taxi licences in Reading could “drive cabbies out of business”. That was the view of taxi drivers in response to a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition initiative to claw back £3.4m to balance the books. It is part of the council’s Growing Revenue and Cost Recovery Project, [...]
A senior traffic warden walked free from court today after he admitted doctoring a map to frame an innocent motorist. Geoffrey Urwin, 43, (pictured) altered the wording on a map to make it appear as though Peter Harry had parked in a ‘no parking’ bay. Mr Harry, 67, successfully appealed the £60 parking ticket, before [...]
A TAXI driver was robbed at gunpoint before being tied up and locked in his garage. Derrick Thorner put his car away in his rented garage in Harbour View Road on Portland and was confronted by a six-foot-tall man wearing a balaclava and holding a handgun and a two-foot long spanner. The man stole around [...]
THE owner of a Private Hire firm has been banned from driving schoolchildren after he sexually touched a teenage girl. Sadiq Choudhry, who runs 24 7 Private Hire, in Swadlincote, was convicted by a jury of four offences of sexual activity with a child. Choudhry has now been sentenced to a three-year community order and [...]
