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Licence increase may see taxi fares rise

August 9, 2010

TAXI drivers may be forced to pay more to stay on the roads if councils merge their hackney carriage licences.
Cabbies in Hartlepool currently pay more than £200 just to get on the road…………

Have your say on taxi changes

August 8, 2010

CHANGES to the way taxis are regulated are being put out to consultation.

Durham County Council inherited responsibility for licensing the industry from the county’s seven former districts – each of which laid down rules such as the colour of vehicles.

Now the council is considering whether to make the entire county a single zone, which would allow drivers to operate anywhere in the county, to introduce a vehicle colour policy and have limits on the number of drivers.

Driver says increase will affect firms

August 8, 2010

AN INCREASE in Hackney cab fares in the former Vale Royal area will bring higher costs to taxi firms, according to a Northwich driver….The move means taxi passengers in Northwich and Winsford will be charged an extra 20 pence on the basic charge ‘flag tariff’, rising from £2.30 to £2.50, and an additional 15 pence on the second tariff, which has risen to £3.60 and starts at 11pm each night

Sex attacks taxi driver sent to jail

August 7, 2010

A TAXI driver preyed on vulnerable women who were “held captive” in the back of his car, a court heard.

Ali Hassan, aged 35, of Bertrand Road, Bolton, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison for two separate offences against young women………

Tyneside Taxi firms involved in name row

August 5, 2010

A NAMING row has broken out between two rival South Tyneside taxi companies.

Ray Hunter, who owns Marsden and Cleadon Taxis, in Fulwell Avenue, Marsden, and Alan Ashton, who owns Express Taxis, based in Jarrow……

Taxi firm boss slams council following branding change demand

August 4, 2010

THE owner of a taxi firm is angry after being told he has to remove the word “cab” from his cars………

Call for change to Waveney taxi licences

August 4, 2010

Taxi drivers in Lowestoft and Waveney are appealing to the district council to reduce the number of licences being issued……..

Cabbie stripped of taxi licence because he has no driving licence

August 2, 2010

A CABBIE has been stripped of his taxi licence – because he does not have a driving licence.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council revoked the taxi licence after the driver was hauled before a disciplinary hearing.

He was one of two drivers to have their licences revoked at a private meting…….

Taxi group to take action over regulation Act

August 2, 2010

A COUNTRYWIDE taxi driver organisation is to challenge the legislation under which the taxi industry is regulated.

At a meeting to be held in Dublin later this week, the newly formed Tomanai Tacsaí na hÉireann, which has over 1,000 members, will tell drivers it will bring legal action against the Minister for Transport on the grounds of failures….

Funding cuts see Oxfordshire speed cameras switched off

August 1, 2010

Plans are in place to start switching off speed cameras in Oxfordshire as part of council plans to cut £13m from its budget.

All 72 fixed and 89 mobile camera sites cameras will be switched off from 1 August after £600,000 was axed from the road safety budget.

Hammer gang rob £50k from taxi firm owned by wife of Tam ‘The Licensee’ McGraw

July 31, 2010

MASKED bandits robbed £50,000 from a taxi firm owned by the widow of gangster Tam McGraw yesterday.

The hammer-wielding gang attacked a car taking Glasgow Private Hire’s cash to the bank. They smashed the windows, grabbed money bags from two terrified employees then fled in a waiting motor.

The cab firm were once owned by the late crime boss McGraw – known as The Licensee……..

Shropshire taxi drivers’ attacks fear

July 31, 2010

Taxi drivers across Shropshire are refusing to work on Friday and Saturday nights after suffering a barrage of threats, abuse and violence from drunken louts………

TooManyTaxis in Lowestoft ?

July 30, 2010

TAXI drivers in Lowestoft and Waveney are appealing to the district council to reduce the number of licences being issued after fears were raised that lives could be put at risk.

Representatives of the Waveney District Council Hackney Taxi Drivers’ Association made their plea to this month’s licensing committee but their request was turned down by councillors……..

Residents’ anger over urinating Slough taxi drivers

July 30, 2010

Angry residents have claimed taxi drivers are ruining their “quality of life” by urinating outside their homes.

People living in Kenilworth Close, Slough, have put up a sign saying, “This is not a public toilet……….”

Cambridge taxi fares to rise as council backs 2.3% hike

July 24, 2010

The cost of getting a taxi in Cambridge will go up in September – and it could soar further if fuel prices continue to rise.

Licensing chiefs approved an increase in the basic hackney carriage fare, and also created a new 40p surcharge which will be brought in if fuel hits £1.47 a litre.

They declined a request for a new add-on of………

Passenger enticed minicab driver into back seat of cab, court told

July 21, 2010

A taxi driver accused of raping a young mother in the back of his cab told a jury she begged him for sex.

Mohammed Ahmed, 42, of Clifton Villas, Manningham, Bradford, said he picked up the woman in his minicab……

Taxi driver died after drinking pure liquid cocaine

July 20, 2010

A man has gone on trial for manslaughter after a tragic chain of events led to a cab driver dying from a cocaine overdose.

Woman in taxi ‘terror’ is cleared

July 20, 2010

A woman who bit the hand and ear of a taxi driver who locked the doors and drove off with her trapped in the car has been cleared of assaulting him.

Mother-of-two Holly Burnett, 24, fought against taxi driver Terry Thornton after he trapped her in his car and drove away from her home at high speed……….

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