DANGERS OF BOGUS TAXIS Inside Out exposes the dangers of illegal taxis prowling our city centres and the woman who found a rapist was driving her home. In the UK there are 150,000 licensed taxi drivers. But if you get into one of the growing numbers of illegal cabs, you put your life at risk. [...]
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A NORTHWICH Hackney Cab driver has won the fight to put a patriotic sign back on his vehicle. Former serviceman John Woodward, of JJ’s Taxis in Winnington, was left upset when Cheshire West and Chester Council asked him to remove the phrase ‘British by birth, English by the grace of God,’ from his black Renault [...]
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A BLIND couple were “disgusted” to be turned away by a Stafford taxi driver because of their award-winning guide dog Doreen and Ernest Dix were refused entry to a cab parked at the pick-up point behind Stafford market last week. The Great Haywood pensioners claim the driver did not want Blake, the current West Midlands [...]
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A TAXI rank in the heart of Bournemouth’s club land could become “explosive” if two nearby ranks stay closed. That’s the warning from driver’s chief, Ashley Miller, who predicted trouble at the “volatile” rank in Horseshoe Common. He spoke out because the ranks in nearby Fir Vale Road and St Peter’s Road have been shut [...]
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A lunchtime protest by a group of taxi drivers sought to raise awareness of the high rate of suicide within the industry. Michael Blanch of the Taxi Drivers Right to Life and Livelihood campaign told The Irish Times up to 34 drivers had taken their lives in the previous two years. Drivers attached black ribbons [...]
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AN undercover crackdown on private hire cars in Hyndburn has led to four drivers being accused of operating illegally. Plain clothed police, licensing officers from Hyndburn Council and Lancashire County Council’s Safer Travel Unit, targeted drivers who flout the law by picking up passengers at the side of the road. Four drivers have been ordered [...]
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More then one in four taxis checked during an York safety operation were stopped from carrying passengers. Eighty hackney carriages and private hire cabs were stopped during the operation which ran during the evenings of Thursday 18 and Friday 19 November. It involved officers from the North Yorkshire Police Roads Policing Group, City of York [...]
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Terms of reference and call for evidence The Transport Committee is to hold an inquiry into issues relating to the licensing of taxis and private hire vehicles. The Committee is interested, in particular, in cross-border hire problems caused by private hire vehicles picking up passengers on a large scale outside of the area in which [...]
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A MAN who punched the wing mirror off a taxi when the driver refused to take him to a friend’s house will spend the next 10 weeks in jail for breaching the terms of his licence. Thomas Lewis, of no fixed address, was also given a two- year criminal anti-social be-haviour order (crasbo). Leslie Ashton, [...]
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FIVE taxi drivers have been charged with illegally touting for trade, in breach of insurance laws. Two private-hire drivers from Liverpool and three from Knowsley were charged with plying for hire, with associated insurance offences. All five were men. One of the drivers was unlicensed and faces additional licensing and operating charges. Another faces an [...]
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