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Discord over taxi drivers’ music rights

PLAYING a little background music during a journey with a passenger, could mean taxi drivers hitting a sour note with the law.
Cabbies in Kirklees are to be reminded that they need a licence to have recorded music in their cars or taxi offices. And this would set firms back up to £99.

Official: Speed cams ARE a Scam

FIXED speed cameras make no difference to road accident rates and are simply money-making machines, it was claimed last night.
The first council in the country to ban Gatsos revealed it has seen little change since making the move in the summer.
Chiefs in Swindon, Wilts, reckon…………..

Crackdown hits rogue traders in the pocket

“15 private hire and 36 Hackney carriages – were looked at.

A further 31 vehicles licensed outside the area were stopped and of those, 18 were Berwick Hackney Carriages, five were licensed to North Tyneside, three Derwentside and the remaining six licensed with other North East authorities.”

The Sophie Atay Appeal

Here’s a little Geordie lass who needs half a million quid so that she can have medical treatment in America to save her life. If any Taxi Driver would like to help click ‘read more’ and follow the link.

£400,000 Raised so far 01 Nov 09

Disappointed

I am Disappointed at Ians attitude to my posting the news item entitled ‘Drunk’ driver says he only ate liqueur chocs

He is quite happy to have his Logo on this site when it’s a free driver recruitment tool, he has also had the benefit of displaying a weeks call log on a site where Taxi drivers frequent…….

New Site is Sh*t !!!!

A professor of Taxi driving graced us with his presence today,using the comments system he proclaimed in one line of well thought out comment supremacy “Nah, the ‘new’ site is just sh*t”

Nissan Leaf: Electric Car

The Nissan Leaf, which runs a 100 miles on a single charge, excluding the cost of the batteries, will cost no more to buy and run than a traditional gasoline-powered car. Zero-emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, are a bonus. Charging time is seven hours, although a 30-minute quick charge can get batteries back up to 80% of full power.

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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Police Hunt Rapists in Newcastle

When this incident was reported on local radio, Michael Craik, Chief Constable, Northumbria Police, gave advice to clubbers and young women in particular.Part of that advice was to pre-book a Taxi for safety reasons. It would have been a good idea to also state that there are many Licenced Hackney Carriages in the City Centre. Newcastle Hackney Carriages are clearly identifiable in that they are Black in colour with red circular door decals bearing the words ‘City of Newcastle upon Tyne Hackney Carriage’ and the Licence number of the Carriage,a red plate is also affixed to the rear of the vehicle bearing the licence number of the Taxi. They also have an illuminated roofsign bearing the word ‘Taxi’ and the driver will be wearing an identity badge issued by Newcastle City Council. Hiring a Licenced Hackney Carriage and/or pre-booking a Private Hire car is always the safest way to get home………

NYC Taxi medallion sold for record $600,000

Forget the stock market. If you’re in the possession of a NYC taxi medallion, you’re sitting on a goldmine. A retiring Pakistani driver who’d been driving a cab in New York for the last 25 years sold his medallion Wednesday for a staggering $600,000 — an all-time record for such a sale. The medallion, which gives cab drivers the right to operate legally in the city, cost $30,000 when it was purchased in 1981. The new owner is a taxi fleet operator who already owns somewhere around 100 medallions………………..

Boston hack almost takes blame for forgotten child

BOSTON – A family picked up by a taxi at the airport left a sleeping 5-year-old child behind in the back of the minivan — and the cabbie almost took the blame for it……….

Police Appeal to Taxi Drivers in Murder case

Police in Worcester, investigating the murder of a man in the city believe A taxi driver may have driven the victim and another man to a park shortly before an attack took place…………

Mr Whitehouse’s last movements are being tracked and it is now known he was out in Worcester city centre on Tuesday evening………

Anyone who saw anything suspicious in and around Gheluvelt Park on Tuesday evening or through to Wednesday morning is asked to contact police on 0300 333 3000 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.