April 7, 2008
- Cab cameras could record everything you do and say
HIDDEN microphones would record all private conversations in the back of Worcester taxis under Big Brother proposals laid out by the head of a key council group. (…)
April 4, 2008
- Taxi drivers show they've got The Knowledge
THE first set of taxi drivers to complete Doncaster's answer to The Knowledge received their certificates at a ceremony in March. (…)
- To customers a taxi is a taxi
RE: Private hire taxis breaking the law (Echo, March 20). I was fined £60 plus costs, a total of £95, for breaking such a ridiculous law. (…)
- Drunk taxi driver banned
A DRUNKEN taxi driver who was preparing to ferry passengers while twice over the drink-drive limit has been banned from trading for at least five years. (…)
- Cabbie takes Earl Spencer's daughter to 'wrong' Stamford Bridge
When you hop in a taxi and ask to be taken to Chelsea's home ground in London, the last place you'd expect to end up is a sleepy Yorkshire village. (…)
April 2, 2008
- Blackberry Cab
Blackberry is set to launch a new taxi advertising campaign with Cabvert Media, offering Blackberry Smartphone users discounted cab fares. (…)
April 1, 2008
- Minicab touts face losing licence
Hordes of night time revellers jump into their cars, wrangling over fares outside nightclubs but minicab drivers could find themselves without a licence if they are caught touting three times. (…)
- Beaconsfield taxi drivers threaten strike action
TAXI drivers say they will strike over plans to make them put large door stickers on the side of their cabs. (…)
March 31, 2008
- Rovk in black cabs of London
Look at the group of five friends in London who are rocking while rolling. Bands are playing intimate gigs in the backs of London's black cabs. (…)
- Taxi driver assaulted outside club
A taxi driver was assaulted outside a club in Northampton. (…)
March 29, 2008
- 'Scouse Kev' cabbie nickname banned
A CABBIE in Hemel Hempstead has been banned from writing his nickname on the side of his taxi in case people find it offensive. (…)
- Tragic cabbie's widow boosts teenage girl's charity drive
Money raised in memory of a veteran taxi driver has been donated to a leukaemia sufferer determined to help other cancer victims. (…)
- Cabbies snapping up ‘driving tests’
TAXI and private hire drivers in Kirklees are getting qualified.
They have been snapping up 300 free places available through which they can gain a recognised qualification for the job they do. (…)
March 28, 2008
- Cabbies, start your engines
Cabbies will battle it out this weekend for the prestigious title of Taxi Driver of the Year 2008. (…)
- Teen denies taxi driver killing
A teenager has denied killing a taxi driver after appearing in court today. (…)
March 26, 2008
- Lexington gets a new taxicab franchise
The Lexington City Council unanimously approved a license for a new cab service within the city at its meeting Monday night, after going more than a year without a local taxi franchise.
Bob H. (…) - Taxi driver offered to let me off fare for a kiss
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If I'm ready to go home but my friends aren't, I get a cab. (…) - Council campaign to drive up taxi safety
WEST Norfolk Council is launching a poster campaign to remind local people to check both taxis and drivers are licensed before using them. (…)
- Man badly hurt in taxi crash
A 28-year-old man has been seriously injured when he was in a collision with a taxi in Northampton. (…)
March 25, 2008
- Text service to cut minicab rapes
A new text service has been started to reduce the number of sex attacks on women by illegal minicab drivers. (…)
