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TAXI DRIVER SNAPS AFTER BEING TOLD HIS PARKING WAS POOR.

A TAXI driver has dug his heels in over a battle of the seaside parking bays.

George Brodie pays 30 pounds a year to North Tyneside Council for a permit to park at seafront sites.

Mr Brodie and his wife Dawn, who live in Park Crescent in North Shields , had parked…..

Newcastle Council take six taxi drivers off city roads

SIX taxi drivers have been suspended amid concerns about the risk they pose to the public.

Newcastle City Council has taken four of the cabbies off the roads after receiving information from police about alleged criminal activity….

Taxi Driver gets parking ticket in taxi rank

A TAXI driver has been given a parking ticket in Lancing while helping an elderly passenger with her shopping.
Sean Ridley parked his ABCA taxi at the rank in……….

Taxi driver loses licence for speeding with child in car

A Carlisle cab driver with a string of speeding and other motoring offences has been stripped of his taxi licence.

Raymond Earl, of Webster Crescent, Currock, was judged not to be “fit and proper” to drive a cab when he appeared before a city council regulatory panel.Councillor David Morton, who chairs the panel………

Lighting up in taxi cost Swansea cab driver £625

Paul Alexander Watchman was caught lighting up three times in his cab, Swansea magistrates heard.Smoking in public places in Wales became illegal in April 2007.The ban includes pubs, restaurants and other public places where people congregate, as well as work-based vehicles such as taxis and buses.

North Shields shop issued with alcohol ban

Councillors heard from neighbourhood bobbies and trading standards officers and even visited the off-licence themselves. While there, they discovered a fire escape had been blocked and the alleyway next to it was littered with cans and bottles. And, after a short deliberation, they decided to revoke the Booze Stop’s licence. That was despite objections from licence-holder Tasawar Hussain, whose brother Munawar works at the store and was the one convicted of attacking a teenager. Mr Hussain said the shop was the main source of income for his family, despite the fact he also works as a hackney carriage taxi driver in Newcastle.

Private hire driver fined £2,500

A Private hire driver who tried to pick up revellers following one of this summer’s Oasis concerts at Heaton Park has been ordered to pay more than £2,500…………….

Driver Loses Badge “Taxicam” evidence

A CABBIE has had his licence revoked for “shocking” behaviour towards three elderly passengers.It is the first use of new “taxicam” evidence by Southampton City Council.

Name and Shame?

While I acknowledge that attacks against taxi drivers are abhorrent and racist attacks in particular are despicable. It is always entirely wrong to abuse……..

Cabbie caught in crackdown on illegal fares

An illegal fare ended up costing cabbie Colin Burnett hundreds of pounds.
The driver was hauled before the courts after being caught in a sting operation targeting taxi drivers who pick up work illegally………

North Tyneside Council swoop on illegal pick-ups

Magistrates have fined drivers of two private hire vehicles that picked up test customers in a North Tyneside Council clampdown.

Under national legislation private hire vehicles cannot ply for hire or stand at a taxi rank to attract business. They can only take customers who have booked in advance through the driver’s licensed operator.

This differs from the rules for taxis, who under their Hackney Carriage Licence can be hailed in the street and pick up customers from a taxi rank.

‘Drunk’ driver says he only ate liqueur chocs

A TAXI driver who went on a suspected boozed-up drive claimed he had only eaten chocolate liqueurs when police found him slumped at the wheel.

Out of control Dariusz Lech was spotted breaking the speed limit, driving without headlights on, breaking heavily, and swerving down Newbridge Street, Newcastle.

Cars travelling in the opposite direction tried to avoid the Blueline cabbie and flashed their lights in a bid to alert other road users, Newcastle Magistrates’ Court heard………

Operation targets illegal cabs: London

The Metropolitan police service’s cab enforcement unit, part of the Transport for London-funded Safer Transport Command, made forty arrests during a recent covert operation earlier this month

Cab enforcement unit officers patrolled touting hotspots in central London locations such as the Haymarket and in prevalent areas in south London.

They dealt with touting, illegal operating, illegal plying for hire, and unlicensed drivers and vehicles………..

Police ‘put half-naked rape victim in minicab and made her pay fare home’

A senior source said: ‘It should have been clear that she may have been sexually assaulted. To top it off, they put her in a cab with another strange man.’

…………………………..Police think the woman may have been raped by an unlicensed taxi driver who dumped her in the street.
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South Tyneside drivers’ “Honest Mistake”

A CABBIE banned from the roads for a year after ferrying passengers around in an uninsured car today said: “An honest mistake has ruined my life”.