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Competition Law in spotlight
THE heads of the UK and French competition authorities will be in Jersey next week to mark the fourth year of the Island’s Competition Law. The chairman of the UK Competition ...
Source: Jersey Evening Post

UPDATE 1-London taxi maker Manganese warns on losses, jobs
LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Manganese Bronze Holdings ( MNGS.L ), maker of London's trademark taxi cabs, issued a profit warning on Wednesday and said job losses were likely as ...
Source: Reuters

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Shares in ITE Group Plc fall 3 percent after the exhibition and conference organiser forecasts full-year volume sales to be 18 percent below last year but profits to be slightly ...
Source: Forbes

Eco City Vehicles narrows losses
Rising demand for a new version of London’s traditional black cab helped Aim-quoted Eco City Vehicles narrow interim losses. The company, which launched it Mercedes-Benz Vito ...
Source: Financial Times

STOCKS NEWS UK-Renishaw rises on positive trading
Renishaw shares rise as much as 4 percent to their highest point in 2009, after reporting positive trading since the end of June and plans to restore salary reductions that were ...
Source: Forbes

Police appeal for burglary witnesses (From Salisbury Journal)
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a commercial burglary at a taxi firm. At some time between 2-8am on Sunday September 27, unknown persons forced entry into City Cabs taxi ...
Source: This is Salisbury

Fate of EU treaty hinges on Irish voters
DUBLIN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The European Union's hopes of greater global clout hinged on Friday on Ireland, where voters decided on the Lisbon Treaty for a second time in a ...
Source: The Guardian

UPDATE 2-London taxi maker Manganese warns on losses
LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Manganese Bronze Holdings ( MNGS.L ), maker of London's trademark taxi cabs, issued a profit warning on Wednesday, and said job losses were likely as ...
Source: Reuters UK

Taxi maker Manganese warns on losses
LONDON (Reuters) - Manganese Bronze Holdings, maker of London's trademark taxi cabs, issued a profit warning on Wednesday, and said job losses were likely as part of a ...
Source: Reuters UK

Twitter set to rival black cabs on London streets
LONDON - The familiar cry of 'Taxi!' on London's streets could become a thing of the past, with the launch of a new Twitter booking service. Green cabs could challenge black cabs ...
Source: Revolution

REDBRIDGE: Black cab drivers say ban could put hundreds out of a job ...
BLACK cabbies in Redbridge say plans to ban older taxis from central London will put hundreds of experienced drivers out of a job. Boris Johnson's plans to introduce a 10-year age ...
Source: Epping Forest Guardian

Taxi move was simply not fare’ (From Wiltshire Times)
Two taxi drivers have joined forces in a bid to keep a taxi office open in Bradford on Avon after their employer was taken over by a Bath firm. Drivers Mike Brigham, 54, and Terry ...
Source: This is Trowbridge

Barrow businesses concerned by taxi rank proposals
SHOP owners are concerned about plans for a taxi rank in a busy shopping street. Last month, businesses in Cavendish Street received a letter from Cumbria County Council informing ...
Source: North West Evening Mail

Taxpayers fund taxi rides home for drinkers in police crackdown on ...
Police are set to use taxpayers’ cash to give drinkers free taxi rides home - in a bid to cut down on late-night street violence. Officers believe the controversial scheme to ...
Source: Daily Mail

Cabbie given licence back after assault
TAXI driver David Clift has been allowed his licence back after magistrates overturned a council ruling. Stafford Borough Council had refused the cabbie a licence after he was ...
Source: This is Sentinel

Mexico's pink taxis cater to fed-up females
Associated Press Writer= MEXICO CITY (AP) â Each pink taxi comes with a beauty kit, a GPS system and an alarm button. The new fleet of 35 cabs in Mexico's colonial city of ...
Source: The Guardian

Green Taxi Service, Green Tomato Cars Makes Waves in the UK
Every industry is taking steps to adopt greener methods, and it’s become particularly important in businesses that provide transportation services to consumers because this is ...
Source: CleanTechnica

Your letter is in the cab: Royal Mail bosses beat strike using taxis ...
Royal Mail bosses today attempted to beat the three-day national strike by delivering post in black cabs. Managers were forced to leave their offices to keep the mail moving as ...
Source: Daily Mail

Patons Taxiworld Break America With Revolutionary In Car CCTV System
PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 29, 2009 – William Paton, Chief executive at Paton’s Taxiworld, who also offer cab insurance and used cabs for sale, said, “We are really ...
Source: PRLog (free press release)

Goblins, a dentist and the worst movie ever
On the streets of Alexander City, Alabama, you won't find a single person with a bad word to say about Dr George W Hardy. "He is just the most authentic, alive person", rhapsodises ...
Source: The Independent

The windswept Yorkshire moors in the footsteps of the Bronte family
Nestled amid the bleak Pennine moors, overlooking the Worth Valley, lies the quaint hilltop village of Haworth. It’s a picturesque little place, with its cobbled main street ...
Source: Belfast Telegraph

Drivers stump up cash for taxi survey
TAXI drivers have stumped up £7,000 for a survey to assess the need for cabs – after calling for a cap on the number of drivers in the borough. As reported, taxi drivers ...
Source: Grimsby Telegraph

Autistic Artist Draws NYC From Memory
Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed with autism at age three, and he was mute until age five. His drawings, which began as a way to calm him down from tantrums, have made him into a ...
Source: Pop Eater

Our diversity is our strength’
The Mizzi Organisation, certainly Malta’s most diversified family business, is issuing a fresh bond, earmarked for the partial redemption of the Mizzi Organisation Finance plc 6 ...
Source: Malta Independent Daily

Autistic artist finds inspiration in New York city
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stephen Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at aged three, did not speak until five but as an adult sells his art for thousands of pounds. Wiltshire was ...
Source: Reuters UK

Yours for £1,000: a Caribbean cruise, or a return ticket to the Kyle ...
It is a sinking feeling familiar to thousands of rail passengers. Packed and ready to travel, their optimistic expectations of a trip on Britain's railways can be swiftly quashed ...
Source: The Independent

DARTFORD: Police road check closes in on taxi drivers
MOTORISTS were tested for drugs and their vehicles for any defects during police road checks. On October 22, Kent police stop-checked 58 vehicles including Hackney cabs and private ...
Source: News Shopper

EPPING FOREST: Taxi drivers call for action over illegal cabs (From ...
TAXI drivers have slammed the district council's “crackdown” on illegal minicabs, saying the measures do not go far enough. The authority announced it would take strong action ...
Source: Epping Forest Guardian

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Drivers win taxi age court fight
A new rule had said Hackney cabs must be less than 12 years old, and private hire cars less than eight from 2010. A judge in Cardiff ruled that the council failed to consult ...
Source: BBC UK News

Eight sex attacks a month in London minicabs
Eight women are sexually attacked by minicab drivers, some of them unlicensed, every month in London , according to figures released today. The Met recorded 93 minicab-related ...
Source: Evening Standard

Bay cabbies hit back at their critics in the council
CABBIES have hit back at claims they are breaking parking rules by saying there are not enough taxi rank spaces in Torbay. Hackney cab drivers working in Torquay town centre ...
Source: This is South Devon

Arrest after dead woman found injured at Leicester community centre
A woman has died after being found with serious injuries at a community centre. Police cordoned off the area around Manor House Neighbourhood Centre, in the West End of Leicester ...
Source: Leicester Mercury

Where do we draw the peace line now?
Artists work on the Peace wall in west Belfast, which separates the Shankill (Protestant) from the Falls Road (Catholic) area of the city. The general consensus that Belfast's ...
Source: Belfast Telegraph

'Rude' cabbies face crackdown
RUDE and rule-breaking cabbies in Torbay are to face a blitz, councillors have warned. Torbay Council licensing officer Steve Cox said: "We want to make it clear if their behaviour ...
Source: This is South Devon

London Mayor's transport advisor Kulveer Ranger answers your questions ...
Q1: Why can't Twickenham have a direct bus service to Kingston on Thames? Kingston is only three miles away but to take a bus you have to go via Teddington and the journey takes 45 ...
Source: Hounslow Guardian

Curbside Classic: 2001 Toyota Prius
A happy marriage isn’t exactly the easiest thing to engineer. Gasoline and electricity are about as compatible as Donald Trump and Mother Theresa. I know, Ferdinand Porsche built ...
Source: Truth About Cars

Elyas Haidari has Southampton taxi licence revoked
That level of threat " you die tonight" would be a shock to anyone, yet alone pensioners, and further that they are visually impaired - what a low life he must be. Were the police ...
Source: This is Hampshire

My 2009 by Seasonal Suicide Notes writer
You’ll remember the Rokeby Venus — I was the one holding the mirror. Suffice it to say, looks have been lost since. I know this because I’ve been pestered throughout the year ...
Source: Times Online

Big man, big hands, big heart: remembering Robert Mensah, one of ...
This is a tribute to a hero on the anniversary of his death, but it began, I confess, with a moment of idle, almost facetious, curiosity, for who could not be fascinated by a team ...
Source: The Guardian

Abusive cab driver loses licence
A cab driver has lost his licence after being filmed on his own security camera verbally abusing three elderly women. Elyas Haidari was taking the women, who were in their 80s, to ...
Source: BBC UK News

Taxi driver sacked after he was captured on hidden CCTV telling a ...
A taxi driver has been sacked after a hidden in-car camera caught him swearing at three terrified pensioners and telling one: 'You die tonight.' Elyas Haidari, 24, hurled abuse at ...
Source: Daily Mail

Warning on bogus taxis
RESIDENTS have been warned to only use official cabs after a night out after a woman was assaulted. The woman was walking in High Street, Banbury, when a cab pulled up alongside ...
Source: Oxfordshire News

Banbury assault prompts warning on unlicensed taxis
PEOPLE have been warned to use only licensed taxis after a woman was assaulted on a night out. The woman was in High Street, Banbury, when a driver pulled up and offered her a lift ...
Source: Oxfordshire News

Rogue cabbie fired over abuse
Taxi driver Elyas Haidari, 24, hurled abuse at the shocked women — who were all partially sighted — and even told them to "shut up" as they chatted while he took them to a day ...
Source: The Sun

British dossier on Iraq’s WMD was based on a gossiping taxi driver ...
LONDON - The British government’s 2002 dossier claiming that Saddam Hussain could target UK with chemical missiles on 45 minute’s notice was based upon information provided by ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Diary of a Brit OFF Broadway: Actress Nichola McAuliffe's New York ...
When actress Nichola McAuliffe was invited to take her latest play to New York, she dreamed of the history, the glamour, the sophistication of Broadway. And then she got there ...
Source: Daily Mail

London taxis to showcase rear-window ads for LTDA
LONDON - The Licensed Taxi Drivers Association is to become the first business to advertise on the rear windows of London cabs, following the introduction of new advertising ...
Source: Media Week Online

Crackdown on 'unsafe' taxis
A CRACKDOWN on unsafe and poorly-maintained taxis led to eight drivers out of 19 checked having their licences suspended by Derby City Council. Enforcement officers worked with the ...
Source: This is Derbyshire

Fury after Green chief Darren Johnson tweets from illegal cab
A senior London politician was forced to apologise today after taking an illegal minicab home from the City Hall Christmas party. The revelations are sure to anger the Mayor, as ...
Source: Evening Standard

Warning over illegal taxi cabs in Carlisle
Carlisle City Council has warned Christmas revellers to be cab-conscious when going home from a night out and only use approved vehicles. They say people should only use hackney ...
Source: News and Star

For some, Christmas is just another work day
For most families Friday will have followed a familiar pattern: children waking up excitedly before dawn; wrapping paper strewn around the floor as presents are ripped open ...
Source: The Guardian

Bucharest is simply monumental
As a monument to one man's hideous ego, the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest is, frankly,monumental. It was built in 1984 on the orders of the Romanian communist tyrant Nicolai ...
Source: Daily Mirror

A deal that’s more roadworthy than it might appear
There is much that is ironic about the proposed acquisition of Volvo by Zhejiang Geely, the Chinese firm best known on these shores for its 23 per cent stake in Manganese Bronze ...
Source: Times Online

Minicab mogul has tight grip on wheel
John Griffin, founder and chairman of minicab company Addison Lee, London. Photograph: Graeme Robertson John Griffin, founder of Addison Lee, the largest minicab firm in Britain ...
Source: The Guardian

New bid to stamp out taxi-fare dodging in Coventry
A POLICE crackdown on taxi-fare dodgers has swung into gear after cabbies complained of being attacked and abused. The new zero-tolerance policy was launched in Coventry on Friday ...
Source: Coventry Telegraph

Clubber fights for life after being stabbed in eye with umbrella in ...
A CLUBBER suffered horrific brain injuries after being stabbed through the eye with an umbrella following a row in a taxi queue. Ross Hamilton, 21, was fighting for his life ...
Source: Daily Record

New Year! Send us your pictures
Revellers in Shropshire and across the UK are gearing up to give a warm welcome to 2010 even though sub-zero temperatures are expected tonight. Hundreds of thousands of revellers ...
Source: Shropshire Star

Southampton taxi fares double for New Year's Eve
EXPECT to pay higher fares, but don’t get ripped off. That is the message to New Year’s Eve revellers planning on using taxis to get about tonight. Fares for all Southampton ...
Source: This is Southampton

Stay safe party people
New Year revellers are urged to make sure they know how they are going to get home. The Safer Reading Partnership has launched its Get Home Safely campaign. The aim is to make ...
Source: Reading Evening Post

Make the Anna's Campaign pledge
IT will be the biggest night for drinking and partying of the year, with thousands of revellers heading for the city's pubs and clubs to see in the new decade. Party-goers are ...
Source: Exeter Express-Echo

Travel Photo of the Day
Pioneer Elevator. Taken somewhere between Olds and Minaret, Alberta. One of the many beautiful flowers you will see in the Burmis area. Explore a land of mystic peaks, enchanted ...
Source: StarPhoenix

Italy made easy: how to get the most out of your holiday
"Twenty-five years?" said a young Italian to me the other day when I disclosed how long I had lived in Rome. "How have you managed to put up with the place for so long?" Good ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Here come the dubsteppers
Gq.co.uk ... Here come the dubsteppers. It may not be the sound of the underground as those countercultural philosophers Girls Aloud once perceived it, but Britain's grass-roots urban ...
Source: GQ Magazine UK

Council taxi decision flawed
The introduction by the local authority of an age limit on taxi cabs in Newport, so as to prohibit cabs more than 12 years old, was flawed. The authority had failed to take account ...
Source: Times Online

A night on the town: Vomit, violence and God
The beat is pounding; blue neon lights are flashing. It's another night of sin at Syn nightclub in Derby city centre. But the disco flicker is coming from an ambulance. An ...
Source: The Independent

No Mr Denham, our lives are still blighted by racism
Whoa, steady now, I say to Communities Secretary John Denham. Ten years after the amendments to the Race Relations Act, he says that while race discrimination does still ...
Source: Evening Standard

Bangladeshi cabbie in NY returns cash left in taxi
A Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City has gone out of his way to track down the person who left thousands of dollars in cash in the back of his cab. Mukul Asadujjaman, a ...
Source: BBC South-Asia

Women urged to sign up to Ladies Driving Challenge (From Wiltshire ...
Wiltshire women are being invited to take part in a driving challenge in March to help raise £30,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Daring participants are being urged to sign up ...
Source: This is Trowbridge

Should all taxis have cameras or protective shields in them?
The Government is looking at forcing taxi companies to install cameras or screens in cars after the murder of taxi driver Hiren Mohini. Transport Minister Stephen Joyce met with ...
Source: New Zealand Herald

International Cab Swapping as a New Business Concept?
Sometimes in order to stand out from the crowd, the business just needs to break out of the mould and shake things up a little. Unfortunately, sometimes an image revamp can come ...
Source: Inventorspot

Eco City Vehicles launches electric London taxi
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Eco City Vehicles has launched an electric prototype of the Mercedes Vito taxi, which will it trial later this year to test its suitability for use as ...
Source: Reuters

Expenses stories are cash for old rope
BBC executives have helped keep a lot of black cabs in business over the years. Photograph: Helmut Meyer zur Capellen/Corbis Any half-competent BBC journalist knows about balls of ...
Source: The Guardian

County council budget in tatters
THE beleaguered Liberal Democrat administration at Northumberland County Council had its carefully crafted budget torpedoed at County Hall on Wednesday. Despite a number of late ...
Source: Hexham Courant

Limp EU support for Greek crisis
Germany and France have dangled a limited promise of "political support" - but no financial aid - for debt-burdened Greece at a meeting of European Union leaders. They made the ...
Source: Morning Star

Eco City Vehicles reveals upcoming all-electric taxi
For a over a year, Eco City Vehicles ( EVC ) has successfully been offering London taxi drivers a more modern choice of vehicle in the shape of the Vito from Mercedes Benz ...
Source: autoblog

London’s Black Cabs May Go Green
The British love their traditions: the Queen, tea, quaint gardens and the like. One of their most visible traditions, the black London taxi, could be going green. Britain’s Eco ...
Source: Wired News

Black cab drivers hire security guards to see off illegal minicab ...
Black cab drivers have hired security guards to prevent illegal minicabs taking their business. They are recruiting “taxi marshals” to stand at their ranks and escort ...
Source: Evening Standard

STH WOODFORD: Man convicted of "taxi touting"
A MAN has been convicted of illegally “taxi touting” in South Woodford. Abdi Mohamed Afrax, of Cann Hall Road in Leytonstone, was found guilty at West London Magistrates' Court ...
Source: Epping Forest Guardian

Taxi! Take me to a green empire
Slumped in the back of a cab at 4am, Jonny Goldstone had a moment of clarity. “I was looking up in the sky at these buildings with all their lights on, and it all seemed so ...
Source: Times Online

Tips for tourists from Brecon Beacons taxi drivers
A national park is using taxi drivers' natural gift of the gab to pass on helpful tips to tourists about the Brecon Beacons. Some cabbies are tested on their "knowledge" of a town ...
Source: BBC UK News

Greek taxis halted, customs staff extend strike
ATHENS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Taxi drivers parked their cabs and walked off the job for 24 hours on Friday in the latest protest against the Greek government's EU-driven austerity ...
Source: Reuters UK

Najaf airport tussle shows risks in Iraq investing
AP Business Writer= NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — Najaf's airport was meant to be a symbol of Iraq getting back to business, and in many ways it's been a success, creating jobs and spurring ...
Source: The Guardian

59p iPhone app that calculates taxi fare and the fastest route
It is a dilemma faced by many Londoners— do you have enough cash for the cab ride home? A new 59p iPhone app claims to provide the solution. Called London Taxi, users click a ...
Source: Evening Standard

Watford Borough Council agrees taxi fare rises and 'knowledge test ...
Passengers using the town’s fleet of taxis will now be asked to pay more for their journeys. Watford Borough Council , responsible for licensing and regulating the cost of ...
Source: Watford Observer

Readers' Best Comments
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. The director of the Sick Kids appeal is questioned over her credit card use and two black cab ...
Source: Edinburgh News

'We've got Mos Def, Lou Reed and half of the Clash!'
"Some people I had to physically smuggle to Plastic Beach," says the Gorilla known as Murdoc. "I had them drugged and FedExed over. Then there were people like Snoop and his ...
Source: The Guardian

Taxi rule change for 'eco cabs'
The Citroen C3 1.4hdi diesel taxis are only allowed to carry a maximum of two passengers at any time A cabbie has persuaded a city council to depart from its usual taxi licensing ...
Source: BBC UK News

Cab licence freeze takes pressure off drivers
Hard-up cabbies have backed the council’s decision to impose a further freeze on new taxi licences in Reading. The limit on the number of Hackney carriage licences on offer was ...
Source: Reading Evening Post

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Transport Freight Air Sea Rail Cargo Warehouse Shipping Logistic Co. India USA UK. AITD is Biggest Directory of Transport, Logistic, Rail-Air-Sea Cargo, Freight, Shipping ...
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DARTFORD & BECKENHAM: Pair accused of taxi driver assaults (From News ...
POLICE have charged two people in connection with alleged assaults on three taxi drivers in Dartford. Christopher Cole, aged 25, of Coopers Mews, Beckenham, and a 17-year-old boy ...
Source: News Shopper

DARTFORD: Calls for better security after 'terrifying' attack on taxi ...
TAXI drivers are demanding better lighting at a train station and CCTV in their cars after three cabbies were attacked. Eddie McCann and Owen Palmer, both 65, were beaten up by two ...
Source: News Shopper

Hydrogen taxi cabs to serve London by 2012 Olympics
A taxi cab that runs on the latest hydrogen fuel cell technology is being developed with the aim of being ready for full road trials in time for the 2012 Olympics. The car looks ...
Source: The Guardian

Fixed Mobile Convergence
NEW YORK, March 2, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Near Field Communications (2010-2015 ...
Source: TMCnet

How We Met: Xochi Birch & Penny Rudge
I first met Penny when we both started jobs as computer programmers in London; we sat next to each other in our training sessions. We clicked right away. She was easy to talk to ...
Source: The Independent

GARY LINEKER AND DANIELLE LAND A STARRING (BREAD) ROLE IN NEW AD
GARY Lineker enjoys a slice of the action as he films the latest Walkers crisps ad – dressed as a sarnie! Football pundit Gary Lineker has proved a real ham taking to the streets ...
Source: Daily Star

Greek workers to stage new general strike
Greek unions have called another national strike after PM George Papandreou unveiled yet more public-spending cuts in a bid to appease EU officials and international financiers ...
Source: Morning Star

Police hunt for Edinburgh black cab sex attacker
A MANHUNT has been launched to find a taxi driver who sexually assaulted a young woman in his cab. The 23-year-old victim had jumped into the black cab by mistake, thinking it was ...
Source: Daily Record

Greece faces more strikes as PM plans more cuts
ATHENS, March 2 (Reuters) - Greece's biggest public sector union called a strike for March 16 to protest new austerity measures expected within days as the price for securing ...
Source: The Guardian

Black cab lottery draw will 'discriminate against Muslims'
Proposals to make black cab drivers enter into a lottery for their licences would discriminate against religions that strictly forbid gambling, a politician has claimed. Qassim ...
Source: South Manchester Reporter

EPPING FOREST: Cabbies claim deregulated fares 'rip off' public (From ...
RESIDENTS are getting ripped off by taxis in the district because of the council's failure to regulate fares, a coalition of independent cab drivers has said. The group say that ...
Source: Epping Forest Guardian

Taxi driver pledges compensation to charity
A TAXI driver who was awarded compensation after being attacked by a drunken passenger says he will give the cash to charity. Fakher Amin, 39, who trades as Keadby Cabs, was ...
Source: This is Scunthorpe

London taxis get the Bermuda 'Feel the Love' treatment
Tourism lift: A London taxi outside Buckingham Palace displays the predominently pink colours of the new Bermuda advertising campaign, a design which will be used on many of the UK ...
Source: the Royal Gazette

NYC: Taxi drivers overcharged riders by $8.3M-plus
Associated Press Writer= NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of New York City taxi drivers overcharged passengers by more than $8.3 million over the past two years by setting their meters ...
Source: The Guardian

Plea after Southampton Taxi drivers told to pay for spy ...
A TAXI trade body in Southampton is requesting fare hikes after council bosses ordered drivers to pay for spy cameras in their cabs. The Southampton Hackney Association (SHA) wants ...
Source: This is Southampton

Southampton taxi drivers told to pay for spy cameras ...
A TAXI trade body in Southampton is requesting fare hikes after council bosses ordered drivers to pay for spy cameras in their cabs. The Southampton Hackney Association (SHA) wants ...
Source: This is Southampton

Police: Woman again tries using cabs to steal TVs
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Police said a North Pole woman accused in December of stealing televisions and hiring a cabbie as her getaway driver is now accused of trying it again ...
Source: The Guardian

Daylight robbery: Motorbike gang strike in central ...
A motorcycle gang carried out a smash and grab raid on a West End jewellers today, snatching handfuls of gems and watches worth at least £50,000 each. Five men on three bikes ...
Source: Evening Standard

New York taxi drivers overcharging passengers
Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Is it a 'fare' rule for taxi drivers?
SHOULD taxi and hackney carriage drivers be allowed to show their support for England by wearing football shirts during the World Cup? Today we are asking for your views after it ...
Source: Grimsby Telegraph

Taxi driver targeted disabled passenger
A TAXI driver who took advantage of a disabled passenger and had sex with her in the back of his car dreamt up an “incredible” story when he was arrested. Married father ...
Source: The Northern Echo

Carnage and curfew in Bangkok
Thai authorities imposed a curfew on a jittery Bangkok after a weekend of violence that left 25 people dead. The Government has also ordered schools to be closed from Monday as ...
Source: Times Online

City taxi fares set to rise as the cost of fuel hits drivers
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. TAXI fares in Edinburgh are set to rise as the cost of fuel and the global economic slowdown hits ...
Source: Scotsman

Officials: 633 NYC cabbies routinely overcharge
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City commission says 633 taxi drivers have been routinely overcharging riders, and those drivers could lose their licenses. The city's Taxi and ...
Source: The Guardian

Officials: Fraction of NYC cab drivers overcharge
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City commission says 633 taxi drivers have been routinely overcharging riders, and those drivers could lose their licenses. The city's Taxi and ...
Source: The Guardian

Cabbies in poignant tribute to town's soldier
TAXIS slowly paraded through the streets in a dignified tribute to fallen soldier Mark Turner. Around 60 cabs made the poignant gesture after the drivers were saddened by the death ...
Source: Chroniclelive.co.uk

Black cab maker blames ash for sales fall
Black cab maker cuts 60 staff as sales slump Manganese Bronze blames downturn on end of car scrappage, new showroom tax and impact of volcanic ash on airport traffic Robert Lea ...
Source: Times Online

OLASAL's State of the Hangover
'It wont be much good but it has to be better than here' Neil's words were slightly slurred. I wondered how many he had been out for before I joined him. Shrugging then chugging ...
Source: Vitalfootball

Many facing a big loss over theatre debts
A HOST of local businesses are among the creditors facing losses totalling thousands of pounds as the Exeter Northcott goes into voluntary liquidation. The theatre had debts of ...
Source: Exeter Express-Echo

Station taxi limit 'ridiculous' - MP
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. Angry Hackney carriage drivers have branded a decision to allow only 10 cabs into Northampton ...
Source: Northampton Chronicle

A new ''green'' bus for London
London has long been famous for its retro-style taxi cabs and bright red double-decker buses. The urban landscape will slightly change with the arrival of new ultra-modern buses in ...
Source: Auto123

Sri Lanka: Once off-limits areas are reopening to ...
You can rarely drive more than a couple of blocks in Colombo before a soldier extends an arm to your taxi or tuk-tuk, and subjects car and driver to a security check. So far, so ...
Source: The Independent

Council orders removal of fan flags
A council ordered an England football fan to remove St George's flags from a communal area outside his flat for health and safety reasons. Supermarket worker Karl Staples, 20, put ...
Source: Belfast Telegraph

One-eye Wenlock, our 2012 Olympic mascot
THE zany Olympic mascot for London 2012 was launched yesterday - a character called Wenlock with a camera for an eye. A second mascot, with Sonic the Hedgehog-style hair and named ...
Source: The Sun

Changes at Sheffield station to ease traffic problems
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. CHANGES to taxi and short-stay parking to resolve traffic problems at Sheffield railway station ...
Source: The Star

Fresh attempt to ease traffic jams at rail station
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. CHANGES are being made to try to ease traffic congestion at Sheffield railway station. After ...
Source: Sheffield Telegraph

Ousted Chester MP Christine Russell looking forward to being grandma
She was Chester’s first woman MP, elected in the 1997 Labour landslide. But now Labour are out of power – and Christine Russell has lost her seat. She tells DAVID HOLMES about ...
Source: Chester Chronicle

REDBRIDGE: Cab drivers allowed to fly the flag during World Cup
TAXI drivers in Redbridge will be able to fly the flag for England during the World Cup after getting the green light from transport bosses. Cabbies are normally barred from ...
Source: Epping Forest Guardian

Radio ads banned for depicting foreign minicab drivers as 'underhand'
The advertising regulator has banned a London radio campaign by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association for depicting foreign minicab drivers as "underhand and unreliable" and black ...
Source: The Guardian

The Morning Juberish
Jube am I pleased to see you, or do I have an RPG-29 in my pocket? (No, it's legal, I'm not in Washington State) - come on, how do you expect to have a "concealed" six foot+ weapon ...
Source: Ve3d.com

Nokia UK to Offer Free "Black Cab" Taxi Rides
Nokia UK is to sponsor a number of taxis, or "black cabs" in the UK for a week starting tomorrow as a promotion for its free Ovi Maps service. Members of the public that spot and ...
Source: Cellular-News

It’s a bummer for trainers as city fathers ban advert
It adorns screens in New York’s Times Square but, when it comes to Glasgow’s George Square, an advert for new trainers has been given the bum’s rush. City councillors, in ...
Source: Herald Scotland

Nokia launches fleet of free taxis
As you’ll know if you were reading this website back in January Nokia’s Ovi Maps service now comes free of charge, and to celebrate that thrifty fact the firm has commissioned ...
Source: Stuff.tv

Feature: Location, location, location
Like in any good movie or book, picking the perfect location for a video game can make or break a title. Be it in the real world or otherwise, having an interesting place to ...
Source: Digital Spy

Caerphilly cabbies fail to stop licence fee hike
TAXI drivers in Caerphilly lost their battle against an increase in licence fees. But after the meeting, members of the Caerphilly County Borough Taxi Drivers Association (CCBTDA ...
Source: South Wales Argus

Nokia: Free Cab Rides Powered by Ovi Maps
Well, it seems that Nokia is really intent in dominating the free sat nav service industry which Google is trying to take a piece of (quite successfully too). In order to promote ...
Source: Moby1 (blog)

Nokia offers free taxis to promote Ovi Maps
Here’s an interesting promotion from Nokia. The Finnish mobile giant is sponsoring free taxi cabs in four major cities: Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London. If you spot an ...
Source: Tech Watch

Businessman’s bid to put CCTV in cabs to deter thugs from committing ...
Taxi driver Robert Ives has launched a new CCTV-based cab security system to help combat the growing problem of violent passengers. Mr Ives, 27, of Wibsey , Bradford, believes he ...
Source: Bradford Telegraph Argus

Banned from flying the flag: Binmen threatened with ...
Binmen have been threatened with the sack if they fly England flags on their wagons during the World Cup. Drivers in Liverpool were ordered to sign contracts forbidding the St ...
Source: Daily Mail

At least five killed, 25 hurt in U.K. shooting rampage
A gunman killed at least five people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District of northwest England on Wednesday before police found a body they ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Taxi driver kills 12 in U.K. rampage
B ritish police said the death toll from a shooting spree in northwest England earlier on Wednesday had risen to 12. Police also said they they had found the body of the gunman ...
Source: Globe and Mail

Exciting New Developments in England’s Historic ...
New York City (June, 2010) – England’s historic region of Yorkshire, renowned as one of the country’s greenest regions, has announced a campaign to showcase the destination ...
Source: Travel Video

12 dead, 30 wounded in massacre by British taxi driver in Cumbria
A FAMILY dispute over a will may have sparked the rampage by a taxi driver who drove through north England villages yesterday shooting dead 12 people and leaving three more ...
Source: The Australian

Taxi driver kills 12 then shoots himself
Pre-Budget report 2009 | World, business and political news from the Financial Times - FT.com UK, providers of the latest economic, political, business and companies news from the ...
Source: Financial Times

Gunman kills five in UK Lake District rampage
LONDON (Reuters) - A gunman killed at least five people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District of northwest England on Wednesday before police ...
Source: star.com.my

Gunman kills five in northern England
LONDON — A gunman killed at least five people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District of northwest England on Wednesday before police found a body ...
Source: comcast.net

At least 12 killed in Cumbria shooting
A Cumbrian taxi driver shot dead 12 people on Wednesday before turning his gun on himself in one of the worst mass shootings to take place in Britain. Police said a body believed ...
Source: Financial Times

Full story and video
A gunman killed at least 12 people during a rampage through quiet towns in and near the scenic Lake District of north-west England on Wednesday before police found a body they ...
Source: Independent Online

No escape from all the cameras
The new coalition Government has announced plans to limit CCTV, so Shropshire Star writer Alex James took a trip across Shropshire to see if he could evade the prying eyes of our ...
Source: Shropshire Star

CER-Climate Change Update: Emissions dip at FIFA
The World Cup 2010 kicked off on Friday is expected to have a carbon footprint six times the size of that of the last tournament in Germany four years ago. According to a study ...
Source: Commodity Online

Cabbies need protection, too
TAXI drivers go through vigorous checks before they are licensed to carry passengers. Those protective safeguards are needed to give confidence to anyone being driven off into the ...
Source: south wales.co.uk

Newquay woman leaves taxi driver £250,000 in her will
A Cornish taxi driver is £250,000 better off thanks to the will of a grateful customer. For 20 years Don Pratt and his wife Gill ferried Mary Watson to and from the shops, to the ...
Source: BBC UK News

Terror on Table Mountain (From The Northern Echo)
AT the time, it sounded like a really good idea. Get out of bed early, book a taxi to the foot of Table Mountain and get the cable car to the top to get a perfect view of Cape Town ...
Source: The Northern Echo

Funeral of gunman's taxi colleague
Hundreds of cabbies have turned out to say goodbye to taxi driver Darren Rewcastle - shot in the face by his colleague Derrick Bird. The grounds of Distington Crematorium in west ...
Source: The Guardian

New comedy full of talent
NEW BBC comedy Candy Cabs looks set to be sizzling - if this sexy snap of Nichola Burley in a cowgirl costume is anything to go by. The Drop Dead Gorgeous star donned some tiny ...
Source: The Sun

Sigmar Polke – sorry I missed you
Weirdly inimitable … Sigmar Polke in front of one of his paintings. Photograph: Alessandro Della Bella/EPA When Sigmar Polke was preparing his retrospective for Tate Liverpool in ...
Source: The Guardian

Gun massacre victim, 66, who loved animals is laid to rest
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. TRIBUTES were paid to Cumbria gun massacre victim Jane Robinson at her funeral yesterday. Her twin ...
Source: The Scotsman

Day out cancelled for underprivileged kids
A CHARITY event which takes underprivileged children from Bristol for a day out at the seaside has been cancelled because of a lack of drivers. The Bristol Taxi Charity, which has ...
Source: Bristol Evening Post

Derrick Bird victim Darren Rewcastle buried
HUNDREDS of cabbies turned out yesterday to say goodbye to taxi driver Darren Rewcastle – who was shot in the face by his colleague Derrick Bird. The grounds of Distington ...
Source: Journal Live

Airport no stranger to controversy after taxi wars flared
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. REGULAR visitors to Edinburgh over the last 10 years could be forgiven for longing for the days ...
Source: Scotsman

June 2010 Archives
The constant din at the World Cup games has maddened players and fans, but UK supermarket Sainsbury's has sold 40,000 of the plastic trumpets at £2 each. For the pitiful England ...
Source: ICIS Chemical Business

Sue is the tops (From Malvern Gazette)
A TAXI driver who “goes the extra mile” for her customers was just one of the Malvern winners at a county-wide tourism awards. Sue Penny, owner of Sue’s Taxis and Classic ...
Source: This is Malvern

Leicestershire Taxis Carry Behaviour Message
campaign taxis and Shahzad Muhammad, its driver. That's the message which will be taken round the streets of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland on a fleet of taxis over the next ...
Source: AboutMyArea

Crime gangs funded by tax payers
Councils are paying “millions” of pounds every year to front companies run by Glasgow crime groups, police warned today. Detectives have long warned that major gangland figures ...
Source: Glasgow Evening Times

Anti-social behaviour message on cabs in Leicestershire
Black cabs in Leicestershire and Rutland are being used to tackle anti-social behaviour. A total of 25 taxis will carry the slogan: "Tackling not tolerating: We're tackling crime ...
Source: BBC

Bus axe forces staff to cab it
STRANDED workers swapped the bus for a taxi early this morning as sweeping changes to First Cymru's timetable took effect. Early-risers Emma Patterson, Donna Vaughan and Malcolm ...
Source: south wales.co.uk

Football: Jonathan Wilson on Robert Mensah, one of Africa's greatest ...
This is a tribute to a hero on the anniversary of his death, but it began, I confess, with a moment of idle, almost facetious, curiosity, for who could not be fascinated by a team ...
Source: The Guardian

CHARLTON: Albany Taxi Charity's Hastings trip from The Valley (From ...
A CHARITY took 400 people on a taxi ride they would never forget. The Albany Taxi Charity uses black cabs every year to take youngsters with special needs from Bexley, Bromley ...
Source: News Shopper

Ambulance trust spends £3.4m on taxis
Taxis blow Welsh ambulance service budget and cost £3.4m in five years THE Welsh Ambulance Services Trust has spent more than £3.4m on taxis in the past five years, blowing its ...
Source: WalesOnline

The significant seven (From The Northern Echo)
A patchwork of old and new, there are posh cars and ragman’s horses, boarded houses and smart housing estates in the area now known as the Dene Valley. The column follows a ...
Source: The Northern Echo

Joy at gaining 7lb after losing 23 stone
A couple who underwent life-saving gastric bypass operations have gained another 7lb 9oz – but they say they couldn’t be happier. That’s because Rob and Nicola Willis, from ...
Source: Lancashire Evening Post

Cabbies hand in lost thousands
Two Oldham taxi-drivers who reunited distraught owners with large amounts of cash left in their cabs have been given special awards. Shahzad Hussain, who drives for Borough Taxis ...
Source: Oldham Evening Chronicle

'Mum sat on park bench drinking'
It is the stuff of Victorian melodrama - children terrified of their drunken parents, their lives destroyed. And according to a survey for the BBC's Newsround programme it is still ...
Source: BBC UK News

Our cash is wasted
H AVING read through my Evening Post, it's so easy to see that employees of these councils still think they have a never-ending pot of money to spend as they like, and do not want ...
Source: Bristol Evening Post

A Life on the Ocean Wave: Osaka
Hello. My name is Emma and I go on cruises. Mostly, so far on P&O ships out of Southampton, but other perfectly good cruise companies are available. ;-) When I can, I con my ...
Source: BBC

A play of giants
To many Nigerians and others across the world, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is a mentor and role model from whom they draw inspiration. Disciples and admirers of the man also ...
Source: NEXT

Santos close gap at top of Cue World Summer Pool League
CLEE Social Santos took the chance to close the gap at the top of the Cue World Summer Pool League . With league leaders Matrix Reloaded postponing their match this week, second ...
Source: Grimsby Telegraph

Humber gets £1m business boost from Clipper race
The Clipper Round The World yacht race which ends in the Humber this weekend has generated £1m in trade deals for the region, business leaders have said. And they believe business ...
Source: BBC

BBC boss spent £5,000 on trip to World Cup
To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. BBC deputy director general Mark Byford spent almost £5,000 flying to South Africa for a World Cup Final visit ...
Source: yorkshirepost

BBC executives spend thousands on expenses
Jana Bennett, the BBC's Head of Vision, claimed more than £7,000 in flights on expenses. Photo: MARTIN POPE Mark Byford flew to Johannesburg in business class and then spent a ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

I’M SICK OF MY SPONGEING PAL
FOR as long as I can remember, my mate has ponced off me. When we were kids in primary school, I always had to give her half of my sweet money because her mum had “forgotten ...
Source: Daily Star

Selby cabbies’ anger at closure of Millgate (From York Press)
TAXI drivers have reacted with dismay at yet another road closure in Selby . From today, Millgate is to be closed for five days. A spokesman for North Yorkshire County Council said ...
Source: The Press in York

Cabbies' farewell to Grimsby's golden voice Maggie Lee
"SHE was not just Mum to us, but to the taxi drivers in the town who she loved like they were her own children." Those were the emotionally-charged words of the son of Maggie Lee ...
Source: Grimsby Telegraph

Rainwater 'gushing like torrential river'
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. BUSINESSES and householders were yesterday assessing the damage after a freak storm caused havoc ...
Source: NewsLetter

Special report-Saving Volvo:Geely buys brand and management test
DETROIT/GOTHENBERG/NINGBO (Reuters) - It was a miserable winter day in January 2007, the kind that makes auto executives in the Motor City wonder why they hold the Detroit Auto ...
Source: Interactive Investor

There'll always be an England
Hundreds of feet below the steep cliffs, seven dogs chased one another across the sands of Mawgan Porth Beach until they were exhausted, as their human companions ...
Source: Denver Post

London drivers will have to give way to Olympic traffic in 2012
London drivers face major delays during the Olympics as key routes will be blocked to the public, it was revealed today. Mayor Boris Johnson warned the city to expect congestion as ...
Source: Evening Standard

Bhutan cabbies urged to show more passenger courtesy
Cab drivers in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan have been urged to improve their manners and show more courtesy. The Police and Road Safety Transport Authority (RSTA) has warned ...
Source: BBC

Hackney carriages to park in spaces protest
Angry taxi drivers are planning a city centre protest line as they battle for more official ranks. Members of the Hackney Drivers’ Association Ltd, who work from Preston’s ...
Source: Lancashire Evening Post

Gang violence forces councils to ferry teens in taxis
London: Gang violence in cities has reached such high levels that councils are ferrying teenagers around in taxis — because they are too scared to walk through dangerous areas ...
Source: Gulf News

Is this the end of the road for New York's taxis?
Like the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, New York 's sedan-style yellow taxis are iconic symbols of the city. But now the Ford Crown Victoria – the traditional ...
Source: The Guardian

Council's £400k taxi bill to take teenagers through the ganglands
Gang violence in cities has reached such high levels that councils are ferrying teenagers around in taxis – because they are too scared to walk through dangerous areas. One inner ...
Source: Daily Mail

London taxis ranked world's best
London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll. The survey by travel website ...
Source: Canoe

Forgetful patrons hound axe firms for lost property
A South Korean looks at drivers’ photos at Vinasun Taxi Company in Ho Chi Minh City after leaving his bag in a car After leaving US$26,500 in a Ho Chi Minh City taxi cab, last ...
Source: Thanhnien

London taxis are world's best
Taxis at the junction of St. James’s Street and Piccadilly. London's taxi drivers are the world’s friendliest and most knowledgeable, according to a recent survey. Image Credit ...
Source: Gulf News

Bristol cabbies feeling blue
Taxi drivers are fighting demands from Bristol City Council that they repaint their black hackney cabs “Bristol Blue.” The legislation also bans whole body advertising on cabs ...
Source: The Drum

Jersey business leaders will examine taxi fares
Business leaders will examine taxi services in Jersey Business leaders in Jersey are to review Jersey's taxi and cab services. Gordon Forrest, the new chairman of the Chamber of ...
Source: BBC

London taxis ranked world's best, NY/Parisians the rudest
SYDNEY (Reuters) – London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll ...
Source: YAHOO!

Taxi passenger jailed for 'savage' attack on driver in row over fare
A TAXI driver has been left feeling physically sick every time he goes to work after he was subjected to a savage attack. He was punched more than 20 times in a row over a fare ...
Source: south wales.co.uk

Microsoft updates Bing Maps with 'taxi fare' calculator
Microsoft has updated Bing Maps with a slick new interface and an innovative app that calculates cab fares in major cities. The overhauled version of Bing Maps is available now ...
Source: PC Advisor

Hope for travellers over Spanish air traffic controller ...
Holidaymakers caught up in the uncertainty surrounding the Spanish air traffic controllers' strike have been given a ray of hope in the ongoing dispute. The workers, who have been ...
Source: Daily Mail

Hotels.com survey finds London's taxis ranked best in the world
The Hotels.com annual taxi report* has revealed that London taxis have been voted the best in the world** for the third year running. The majority of travellers (59%) who were ...
Source: TravelDailyNews.com

Geely drops £14m funding for Manganese Bronze
Shares in Manganese Bronze , the London black cab maker, slipped by a nearly 20 per cent on Friday after it confirmed that plans for a £14m cash injection by leading ...
Source: Financial Times

Not game for incredible India
The applicant should possess and maintain a fully furnished office with adequate staff to attend to the need of the customer to look after their luggage…maintain ...
Source: Hindustan Times

TV REVIEW: Dannii Minogue: Style Queen
I'm not really a fan of shiny celebrity documentaries, where the camera follows a star to the painful point of tedium, and out from behind that perfect smile, emerges a spoilt brat ...
Source: Leicester Mercury

Colleagues drive in tribute parade
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. A procession of taxis turned out to mark the death of a well- known Northampton Hackney cab driver ...
Source: Northampton Chronicle

Dozens of taxis stopped for police checks
Nearly 50 taxis were stopped and inspected in Newcastle city centre during a police operation. The operation was aimed at vehicle safety with both private hire and Hackney taxis ...
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Call for more checks on rogue cabbies (From Bradford Telegraph and ...
thecitygent wrote: Simple. Boycott the inner city cabs and hire cars and book out of city firms. I won't let my daughters use them so end up taxi-ing myself if an alternative is ...
Source: Bradford Telegraph Argus

Cab driver’s attack fears
A TAXI driver says he may stop working nights after being robbed while dropping off a fare. Babar Khan (40), a driver with Silver Cabs in Silver Lane, Stamford, was pushed against ...
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

London taxis ranked world's best, NY/Parisians the rudest
SYDNEY (Reuters) - London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll. The survey by ...
Source: Reuters UK

'Predatory' cab driver gets ten years for rape of young mum
A predatory mini-cab driver who repeatedly raped a young mother on an isolated farm track at dead of night has been jailed for ten years. Mohammed Ahmed targeted the vulnerable 19 ...
Source: Bradford Telegraph Argus

Hotels.com Survey Finds London's Taxis Ranked Best in the World
The Hotels.com annual taxi report* has revealed that London taxis have been voted the best in the world** for the third year running. The majority of travellers (59%) who were ...
Source: PR-USA.net

Warning after bogus taxi driver assaults woman
Police have issued a warning following the case of a woman who was indecently assaulted after getting into the car of a bogus taxi driver. The incident happened at 0200 BST on ...
Source: BBC

The bombers looked so majestic... then death rained ...
The familiar wail of the air raid siren had sent porter Robert Baltrop clambering on to the roof of a Sainsbury's store in East London on that never-to-be-forgotten warm and ...
Source: Daily Mail

Paste masters: the art of the Edinburgh fringe poster
Talking about the shows themselves is all very well, but given the enormous amounts of money being spent every year on the fringe by punters and performers alike, it's ...
Source: The Guardian

Warning after cabbies terror at knife attacks
Taxi firms were today warning cabbies to be extra careful after two drivers in the city were robbed in their cabs at knifepoint in separate incidents. A Miller Taxis driver had a ...
Source: Lancashire Evening Post

Cabbies hit out at losing school run contract to firm linked to ...
BLACK cabbies protested yesterday over losing school runs to private hire firms - including one linked by cops to organised crime. And bosses of Glasgow Taxis, who ...
Source: Daily Record

BBC storm over pay and pensions threatens Proms
It has been 30 years since a BBC Prom was cancelled because of industrial action. But now the annual music festival could be hit by a strike as the BBC's director general, Mark ...
Source: The Guardian

Details revealed of a new look for the town
... between King Street and Kings Street West to buses, cabs and ... via email to wigan.observer@lancspublications.co.uk or ... e.g Florist, Taxi or a company called... e.g Johnston Press ...
Source: Wigan Today

A TEENAGER has been locked up for four years for ...
The slashing of the Yellow Cabs ... of a serious assault on a taxi driver, you can phone for a car from jail and get picked up and do the same again."
Source: south wales.co.uk

Guilty: illegal cabbie raped student
UK; WORLD; BUSINESS; SHOWBIZ; SPORTS; LIFESTYLE; WOW! ... the jury that while he admitted to being an illegal taxi ... often warned of the dangers of taking unlicensed mini-cabs ...
Source: ITN

Illegal cab driver raped student
... six years after attacking the 22-year-old student when he was stopped by police for taxi ... the woman said she was now afraid of going out alone and would take only black cabs ...
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

City cab firm faces fight for licences
Police want to have dozens of cabs operated by a Glasgow private hire firm taken off the ... Black taxi operators withdrew their services to the NHS in protest at the Network contract
Source: Glasgow Evening Times

Doha, Qatar: Middle East luxury special
Once I had realised that hailing cabs in Doha doesn't work, I found the dedicated taxi rank at the end of the souk ... MORE FROM TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Source: Daily Telegraph

Taxi association warns of delays during Eid festival
Taxi association warns of delays during Eid festival ... made up of Hackney carriage drivers and private hire cabs ... 2010 Newsquest Media Group. http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk
Source: Bucks Free Press

York taxi drivers call for cameras as protection against violent ...
York taxi drivers call for cameras as protection against ... the cameras out further among the city’s fleet of cabs. ... 2001-2010 Newsquest Media Group. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk
Source: The Press in York

Warning after bogus taxi driver assaults woman
UK; Africa; Asia-Pac; Europe; Mid-East; South Asia; Business ... Warning after bogus taxi driver assaults woman. Police have ... Police have warned the public not to use unlicensed cabs.
Source: BBC

The bombers looked so majestic... then death rained from the sky ...
With pumps drawn by vans, taxi cabs and anything else that could be pressed into service ... Cancer Research UK Get expert advice from our Cancer Research UK nurses Volkswagen Eos ...
Source: Daily Mail

Power struggles: Charging tomorrow's cars
Since earlier this year, the eco firm has been running a trial in Tokyo using three taxi cabs ... Goldman fined £17.5m by UK regulator. Source: ft.com. Lights Out in Wonderland
Source: MoneyControl.com

Special Report: Power struggles: charging tomorrow ...
Since earlier this year, the eco firm has been running a trial in Tokyo using three taxi cabs ... capex back is a bit of a stumbling block," concedes Calvey Taylor-Haw, founder of UK ...
Source: msnbc.com

How good software makes us stupid
Imagine for a moment that you have thumbed a ride in one of London's iconic black cabs. "Where to, guv?" he asks, in typical cockney-twang. You tell him. After all, a taxi ...
Source: BBC

Tokyo's electric taxi experiment
... programme aims to test the feasibility of all-electric cabs ... While the electric taxi's maximum range of just 100 km (62 ... Inside guardian.co.uk blog | About guardian.co.uk|
Source: The Guardian

Turkey headscarf ban 'humiliating' - student
Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk search; Help; Accessibility Help ... "She said: 'You should only use horse carriages not taxi cabs, who are you to deserve a taxi?"
Source: BBC

EVs Need Maximum Exposure for Success
UK ... possible audience through car-share, car rental, and taxi ... get a feel for the Volt or Leaf if they were used as cabs in ...
Source: Reuters UK

Council lays down language rule for cabbies
TAXI drivers have been told they may need to take classes in English before they can drive cabs. The new rules mean cabbies will have to take a Skills for Life entry level ...
Source: WalesOnline

Drivers free to park in taxi ranks thanks to incorrect signs and lines
When used by three cabs, one vehicle has to mount the pavement to get into the rank, which is becoming more difficult when non-taxi vehicles take up valuable space.
Source: this is plymouth

Smash ’n cab raid
Police want dozens of cabs run by the company taken off the roads. The taxi bosses' lawyers asked for talks to be ... said: "Inquiries are ongoing." robertmcaulay@the-sun.co.uk
Source: The Sun

Are we ready for the electric car?
Since earlier this year, the eco firm has been running a trial in Tokyo using three taxi cabs ... capex back is a bit of a stumbling block," concedes Calvey Taylor-Haw, founder of UK ...
Source: The Vancouver Sun

Power struggles: charging tomorrow's cars
Since earlier this year, the eco firm has been running a trial in Tokyo using three taxi cabs ... capex back is a bit of a stumbling block," concedes Calvey Taylor-Haw, founder of UK ...
Source: Reuters India

Cuba announces mass layoffs in bid to spur private ...
... private employment to give them work in the biMSN World News - MSN UK ... include, among other things, workers hired by the small businesses, taxi drivers who will now lease their cabs ...
Source: MSN UK News

EVs Need Maximum Exposure for Success
UK ... possible audience through car-share, car rental, and taxi ... get a feel for the Volt or Leaf if they were used as cabs in ...
Source: Reuters UK

Guoman Hotels Group brings luxury British hospitality brands to China
Established in 2002, Guoman Hotels Group owns and operates 41 hotels in the UK ... distinctively British flavour to the new hotel include a fleet of black London Taxi Cabs to ...
Source: TravelDailyNews.com

Special Report: Power struggles: charging tomorrow's cars
Since earlier this year, the eco firm has been running a trial in Tokyo using three taxi cabs ... capex back is a bit of a stumbling block," concedes Calvey Taylor-Haw, founder of UK ...
Source: msnbc.com

1940s style entertainment at Nene Valley Railway
... Matt Page, from More Muzic, has also arranged a deal with a Peterborough taxi firm - City Cabs ... For more information visit www.nvr.org.uk or www.moremuzic.com. Email to a friend
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Mumbai's taxi drivers to change colour
Mumbai's taxi drivers to change colour ... the vehicles were as synonymous with the city as black cabs ... to eating victim's flesh A mental health patient in the UK ...
Source: ninemsn

A journey home to the north east for Melanie Hill
After Joe Maddison’s War, we’ll next see her in a new comedy series called Candy Cabs about a firm of women-only taxi drivers who only accept female passengers.
Source: Hampstead & Highgate Express

Cops drop cab licence ban fight
Police have dropped all licensing objections to a Glasgow taxi firm they once branded a ... by Network to the council’s licensing committee for dozens of individual cabs.
Source: Glasgow Evening Times

Hello Joe (From The Northern Echo)
She’s been in Manchester of late filming a new series for BBC2, Candy Cabs, about the ... “It’s a comedy and I’m a taxi driver. I love driving, although half the time the ...
Source: The Northern Echo

Wirral Council to remove 170 bylaws from statute books
UK & World News; Hillsborough Remembered ... it is decades since a horse pulled a taxi cab through the borough. There are dozens of laws specifically relating to hackney cabs and ...
Source: Liverpool Daily Post

You can't blame the rich for paying as little tax ...
... they're giving me a reference number for an online taxi ... digits you can plaintively cite to a stranger when your cab ... It was published on guardian.co.uk at 00.07 BST on ...
Source: The Guardian

Fireman: I’ll make a fortune driving cab on ...
... at his Knightsbridge base and takes to the road in his taxi ... watched on Thursday evening as he parked his blue London cab ... for switching to new shift patterns. a.west@the-sun.co.uk
Source: The Sun

In a taxi with... Lulu, Heather Small and Anastacia ...
In a taxi with... Lulu, Heather Small and Anastacia, AKA Here ... we’re louder,’ yells Lulu, as they clamber into the cab. ... Coleen Rooney style as she and Wayne jet back to the UK ...
Source: Daily Mail

The two-jobs firefighters: How a THIRD of striking ...
... station at 6pm on Friday, where the cab had been parked since midday. A total of 163 London firefighters give their second jobs as taxi ... style as she and Wayne jet back to the UK ...
Source: Daily Mail

RTA celebrates its 5th anniversary in style
... per 100 thousand of population compared to 5 cases in countries like the UK and ... Currently the fleet of Airport Taxi comprises 350 cabs deployed on Terminals 1, 2 and 3 manned by ...
Source: Zawya.com

Disabled teen death case back in court
UK News ; Yorkshire News; Local Business ; The Beat; The Student ... Taxi driver Rahim Dad, 45, was charged after Rastrick ... thrown from his wheelchair while travelling in Dad's cab in ...
Source: Halifax Today

One Direction Fan Taken To Hospital
My Super Sweet 16 UK ; Laguna Beach; More Shows; News. Latest News ; The X Factor News ... One Direction fans who surged forward when the boyband arrived in a taxi. In the chaos, the cab driver ...
Source: MTV UK

Much ado about Dubai
Everyone here travels by car, and thankfully cabs are cheap ... A water taxi or abra will transport you across to the Deira ... 21:27 Suspicious packages spark US and UK security alerts
Source: Irish Times

One Direction fan injured outside studio
UK USA Australia Remember my choice ... who had rushed to the side of the contestants' taxi as they pulled up at the building, and was hurt when the cab ...
Source: Digital Spy

One Direction fan injured in X Factor scrum
Back to Metro.co.uk Home ... her foot was somehow run over by the taxi One Direction were travelling in when they arrived at rehearsals in north-west London.
Source: Metro.co.uk

Bloomberg to promote electric taxis in cities
UK; Europe; US; China; Middle East; Africa; South ... Those cities' huge car and taxi ... in the coalition have oversight of taxi fleets controlling more than 1 million cabs.
Source: The Guardian

The golden age of documentary | feature
... MacDonald's examination of the YouTube phenomenon to a cab ... Burroughs, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and a taxi ... guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Source: The Guardian

Cheltenham taxi drivers have won a stay of ...
TAXI drivers have been granted a stay of execution in their fight against an impending EU ... feared the new policy would force them to buy new cars or in some cases give up cab ...
Source: This is Gloucestershire

Vintage vehicle society on lookout for rare 1980s ...
The Austin FX4, the archetypal black cab, was produced from 1958 to 1997. The private hire version, the FL2, came minus the front mounted taxi sign and was also used as a courtesy ...
Source: Lincolnshire Echo

Police appeal for witnesses after OAP hit by taxi ...
UK & World News; Business News; Education; Hillsborough ... after an 82-year-old woman was knocked down by a taxi. The pensioner, from Kirkby, was in collision with a black Hackney cab ...
Source: Liverpool Echo

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... prone to losing your BlackBerry down the back of the sofa or on the back seat of a taxi cab ... Crave, the gadget blog from CNET UK
Source: Crave

Licensing chiefs to debate increase in city taxi fares
... change is necessary because of the soaring cost of insurance, fuel and applying for taxi licences. But the Hackney Drivers’ Association, which also represents some Preston cab ...
Source: Lancashire Evening Post

Cab drivers in Croydon borough under siege from ...
By anna edwards anna.edwards@essnmedia.co.uk. A TAXI company is under siege from thugs who ... Now, the company's boss has resorted to fitting protective shields in his cabs to ...
Source: Croydon Advertiser

THE WIFE of a Plymouth Argyle director has been acquitted of ...
Mr Brammer, who had a 14-year-old daughter, Carly, lived in Southway and worked as a controller for city-based taxi firm Star Cabs. Mr Stapleton was chairman of Plymouth Argyle ...
Source: this is plymouth

A TAXI company is under siege from thugs who have ...
Cab drivers in Croydon borough under siege from thugs and robbers. By anna edwards anna.edwards@essnmedia.co.uk. A TAXI company is under siege from thugs who ...
Source: Croydon Advertiser

Edinburgh taxi boss targeted in twisted YouTube ...
EXCLUSIVE: A TAXI boss told yesterday how he has suffered gun and bomb threats after leaving a black cab company and joining a ... YouTube videos after moving from black cabs to ...
Source: Daily Record

In a taxi with... TV cooks the Hairy Bikers
Taking the Hairy Bikers for a taxi ride is like having two Father Christmases in the cab, what with all the hair and ... to encourage teenagers to use condoms The film, made by the UK ...
Source: Daily Mail

Prescription drugs go missing
During that time they remembered taking a taxi from Eastleigh to Winchester, officers said. However, the cab firm had been called and there were no signs of the drugs in any of its ...
Source: This is Winchester

Catch This - A blog about Deadliest Catch
Unassuming people enter the "Cash Cab" as simple passengers taking a normal taxi ride, only to be shocked when ... Sky is a company based in the UK, so this might not reflect the U.S ...
Source: MyNorthwest.com

48 Hours In: Sofia
UK. Home News; UK Politics; Crime; This Britain; World. Europe ... the usual fare is around 2 leva/90p) or hail a cab and ... south towards Mount Vitosha, by bus 63, minibus 21 or taxi ...
Source: The Independent

Fire crew contact police after late-night cab blaze
FIREFIGHTERS spent half an hour putting out flames on a brand new taxi on Thursday night. Crews rushed to Denmark Square, Aldershot, where the parked new London-style cab had ...
Source: gethampshire.co.uk

Inquiry launched as Asian cabbie refuses to carry RAF serviceman
Latest UK News; Features; Comment; Opinion; Columnists; Letters ... an Asian cabbie refused to take an RAF serviceman in his taxi ... hall in his RAF "blues", was turned away from the black cab ...
Source: yorkshirepost

Brighton taxi drivers will pay £700 for CCTV (From ...
Brighton taxi drivers will pay £700 for CCTV (From The Argus) ... Andy Cheeseman, managing director of City Cabs, supported the move but said he believed ...
Source: The Argus.co.uk

Brighton taxi drivers will pay £700 for CCTV
Brighton taxi drivers will pay £700 for CCTV (From The Argus) ... Andy Cheeseman, managing director of City Cabs, supported the move but said he believed ...
Source: The Argus.co.uk

Cabbie: Attack will live with me forever
A taxi diver who was attacked and racially abused by a thug said it took him more than eight months to get back into his cab after his ordeal. Mohammad Hossain was attacked by ...
Source: Kent Online

Doormen arrested for extortion
... police investigation,” said Benoit Jugand, head of the city’s taxi and towing office. A number of cab ... Zoo reaches out to UK for new animal care boss; NATO set for end-2014 ...
Source: Calgary Sun

Sutter punched cabbie: police
... Calgary Flames rookie Brett Sutter sucker-punched a cab ... “They stated . . . that as he left the club he punched a taxi ... Photos: 2012 London Olympic venues taking shape in UK
Source: The Vancouver Sun

John Simpson on Burma's democracy leader Aung San ...
... riding an orange moped and staying tucked in behind your taxi ... out, ran through the traffic, and jumped into another cab in ... MORE FROM TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
Source: Daily Telegraph

I'M A CELEBRITY: IT'S A BUSH TRIAL TO WATCH
It seemed as if his problems were over when he discovered £20,000 in the back of a cab and doubled it in one bet but returning the money to the taxi depot he found its original ...
Source: Daily Express

Life was hard enough for Amy Winehouse's dad ...
Former taxi driver Mitch Winehouse must have thought that ... When they touched down, the cab Mitch had hired to take them ... com; www.theguttrust.org; www.corecharity.org.uk
Source: Daily Mail

Patience is a virtue for cab drivers and passengers ...
As a taxi driver Floyd Kidd is always one call away, but ... “The real test will come when U of L plays UK,” he said ... Patience is a virtue for cab drivers and passengers ...
Source: WHAS 11

Motorcyclist dies after crash at Richmond
The cab collided with the motorbike, travelling south, as it ... The taxi driver and his passenger were not injured. ... Space chip: Corn chip shaped UFO filmed in UK ; Russia: Mum ...
Source: News.com.au

She was pleased with her new home. Days later, she ...
Mr Browne, who now runs a taxi firm, used to pick her up in his hackney cab quite frequently, and found her ... be buried later this week, after family members travel from the UK
Source: Independent

Hero's welcome for Chandler release negotiator
The Somali community in the UK are very happy the couple are back home, safe and alive. ... He owned a taxi cab firm in the Marble Arch area of London but sold it two years ago and has ...
Source: Dinnington Today

Murdered Brit-Indian woman’s hubby Dewani in 6.25 million pounds ...
... reportedly faces a cash crisis with his firm in the UK, as ... were two weeks into their Cape Town honeymoon when the taxi ... End of the road for yellow-black cabs in Delhi? - Jun 26, 2010
Source: Thaindian.com

Christmas sex message angers Church
UK; International; Sport; Business; Politics; Sci-Tech; Health; Education; Entertainment ... safely, it says, is best achieved by keeping a spare £20 note and some taxi numbers handy so that a cab ...
Source: Scotland on Sunday Online

N.Y. See
Fare play ... cabs in the Upper West Side ... And Sonny the barber was just like the city's cab drivers ... cut-throat razor, he proudly told how he once had that Taxi ...
Source: The Sun

NYC regulators want new dress code for cabbies
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's taxi regulators are planning a new dress code for cab drivers that requires them to "present a professional appearance." Taxi and Limousine ...
Source: The Guardian

Cabbie dies in company’s office due to heart attack
SHARJAH — A 35-year-old Pakistani driver of Sharjah Taxi ... he paid off Dh 2,000 against an engine trouble in the cab he ... UAE, UK renew friendship treaty : Taking stress and shaking ...
Source: Khaleej Times

Kent crackdown on taxis and mini-cabs flouting rules
A crackdown on private hire and taxi drivers flouting rules ... "Black cab" taxis, or Hackney carriages, could only pick ... 8: Fresh snowfalls predicted for UK; 9: US-South Korea ...
Source: BBC

Cape Town “last place in world” that Brit-Indian honeymooner ...
Beyonce Knowles Perfume Faces Setback In UK; Jake Gyllenhaal ... Taxi driver Zola Tongo, 25-year-old suspect Mziwamadoda Qwabe ... Cab driver named suspect in Indian-origin woman's murder ...
Source: Thaindian.com

How Holden fought back to resurrect broken dream
UK. Home News; UK Politics; Crime; This Britain; World. Europe ... on the night he was attacked so brutally in a Newcastle taxi ... on that spring evening in 2005 when he was queuing for a cab ...
Source: The Independent

Jobcentre worker halts cruise ship entertainer's gravy train
Gallery (6 pictures): London cab driver guilty of rape ... guilty of drugging a dozen women he picked up in his taxi ... guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Source: The Guardian

Haggis hurler admits cab attack
A TAXI driver, sitting in his cab outside a takeaway, was shocked when a haggis supper came flying through an open window and then a man began kicking the door. At Edinburgh ...
Source: Scotsman

Ashes diary (From The Northern Echo)
Michael Vaughan was bombarded with abuse from Australia fans as he waited for a taxi back to his hotel. ‘‘Can’t get a cab...Getting plenty of st from Aussies...Poor day for ...
Source: The Northern Echo

Cops follow clues in hit-and-run murder
... that among the witnesses to come forward was a taxi driver who may have had the driver and occupants of the SUV in his cab ... 'Kate' expected to be top UK girls' name; Christie's ...
Source: Toronto Sun

Doormen arrested for extortion
... police investigation,” said Benoit Jugand, head of the city’s taxi and towing office. A number of cab ... 'Kate' expected to be top UK girls' name; Study confirms what a healthy ...
Source: Toronto Sun

Ivana Lowell: So, who was my father?
"In the cab on the way back from the shrink," remembers ... 12, Lowell died of a heart attack in the back of a taxi ... guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Source: The Guardian

Peter Hayter's Ashes diary: James Anderson and the ...
Indeed, I am assured by Australian contacts that there isn’t a single yellow coloured taxi in the whole of the lucky country. So why are Australian ‘Yellow cabs’ called yellow
Source: Daily Mail

Argentina's former rail towns serve up first-class fare
... to Luján (1½ to 2 hours), then take a bus or taxi to ... We had been warned not to flag cabs down in the street ... guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Source: The Guardian

Progress Continues on Fuel Cell-Hybrid Black Taxi
Cab is capable of reaching 80 mph, refuels in less than five ... IMPORTANT NOTICE: To read this The Engineer/UK news story ... Better Place Taxi Experiment in Tokyo Enters Next Phase-- 11 ...
Source: EV World

The Black Cab Sessions Come to Nashville; Showcases Tomorrow at ...
... don't be the person who doesn't know about The Black Cab ... most recent addition to Nashville's somewhat meager taxi ... The Ettes, PUJOL, Cheap Time, We Were the States, UK ...
Source: Nashville Scene

Grit expectations! Adam Wakelin spends a freezing night with the ...
It feels at least a couple of degrees colder as we climb back into Mick's cab and head ... Taxi drivers are the worst, he says. Being stuck behind a lumbering gritter lorry is not ...
Source: Leicester Mercury

Vampire Weekend are winter's hot sound
From the current record, Diplomat’s Son and Taxi Cab were more experimental, but Chris ... X Factor stars at the Very.co.uk Christmas Catwalk Show
Source: Evening Standard

Coward gets four years for stabbing friend in the back
He said: "I told him I didn't have enough money to pay for a cab. "He was also a bit rowdy and I didn't want to go in a taxi with him. "He was extremely displeased and there is no ...
Source: This is Gloucestershire

Passenger helped train driver after track death
“The driver came out of the cab and was clearly in shock. The first five rows of the train ... First published at 13:09, Friday, 10 December 2010 Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
Source: North West Evening Mail

New Year's Eve: from rip-off taxis to munching ...
... at 2am, there would be the long search for a bus or taxi ... can go to some party or other, and spend £586 on a cab ... guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010
Source: The Guardian

South Africa honeymoon murder: Workmate denies ...
Mr Dewani said he was dragged from the cab and dumped on the road. Swedish-born Anni’s body was found in the taxi the next ... two months later. kate.mansey@sundaymirror.co.uk
Source: Daily Mirror

Was Blondie Almost Abducted By Bundy?
"I was trying to get a cab on the lower east side of the Village in New York ... UPDATE: WikiLeaker Assange Arrested, Denied Bail in UK (63) Taxi Union Urges Racial ...
Source: Gothamist.com

Study: Over 13% of motorists drove drunk last year ...
Autoblog UK; Autoblog Español; Autoblog Auf Deutsch ... of the driving population should have taken a cab. ... Versus paying $10.00 for a taxi It just doesn't compute.
Source: Autoblog

Nobel silence enforced in China
Russian 'spy' challenges UK deportation. Lawyers for a ... Man hailed cab with wife then asked for her to die, court ... taxi near Cape Town last month and she was found in a taxi ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Trial tests Russian balance of power
Russian 'spy' challenges UK deportation. Lawyers for a ... Man hailed cab with wife then asked for her to die, court ... taxi near Cape Town last month and she was found in a taxi ...
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Dewani's ‘cabbie meeting on CCTV’
... 0207 782 4100 - Email: talkback@the-sun.co.uk ... show honeymoon murder suspect Shrien Dewani meeting the cab ... She was found dead in the back of an abandoned taxi in a Cape ...
Source: The Sun

Delhi police move to protect women workers after rapes
Errant taxi drivers can be sent to jail and an employer can ... room vans will conduct surprise checks and tail the cabs to ... seats of a hatchback and a woman cannot be alone in the cab ...
Source: BBC

Iran frees woman sentenced to death by stoning, campaign group says
Russian 'spy' challenges UK deportation. Lawyers for a ... Man hailed cab with wife then asked for her to die, court ... taxi near Cape Town last month and she was found in a taxi ...
Source: Brisbane Times

Sian cops find another body buried in a Gloucestershire field
Halliwell was arrested as police swooped on a taxi rank at an Asda supermarket on Thursday and a green Toyota Avensis cab was also taken. Yesterday, police were granted a further extension by magistrates in Swindon to hold Halliwell, who remains in custody ...
Source: Daily Record

Katy Guest: The markings on a taxi don't mean a thing
"Ten sexual assaults are committed by illegal cab drivers in London every month," say the TV ads so scary that they have a 15 certificate. We've all seen the campaigns, which are sponsored by the police. We know not to get into a cab that we didn't pre-book.
Source: The Independent

Sian O'Callaghan murder: Detectives find remains of second murdered woman
Neil, 48, said: “It is a cab drivers get-together once a week. That day there were three of us already there, then Chris arrived and ordered a full English. We must have stayed about an hour. “We started talking about Sian – I saw Chris’s taxi ...
Source: Daily Mirror

Sian O'Callaghan police find human remains of 'second victim'
He was arrested on Thursday after police swooped on a taxi rank at an Asda supermarket in Swindon . A green Toyota Avensis with taxi markings was also taken from the scene. Police have been digging on Baxter's Farm, in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds 17 ...
Source: Daily Mirror

Wenger issues Wilshere a sobering warning
One was a melee outside a West London nightclub and the other more recent episode came when he clashed with a taxi driver who refused to let him in his cab because he believed Wilshere was drunk. That sparked Wenger into action. Before Wilshere reported ...
Source: Mirror Football

Myleene Klass's holiday heaven and hell
I've had a few hairy moments including having to make a very quick exit from an underground gambling club in Bangkok, and jumping out of the back of a cab from a suspicious taxi driver in Spain, but the worst experience was when I was travelling with my ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

French tourist assaulted by teenage girls
Several members of the public broke up the fight before the attackers left in a taxi. Police stopped the cab a short time later and charged six girls with robbery in company. Two girls, aged 15 and 17, have been refused bail to appear at Parramatta ...
Source: Age

The 40 best Android apps for business users
RideCharge's free Taxi Magic app helps you find a nearby cab, book a ride, and track your cab's location. Sadly, it only works in the US at the moment. If your travels take you to a foreign land, Google's free Google Translate app could come in incredibly handy.
Source: PC Advisor

Run started with Butler in 2000
"I used to stay up past my bed time and watch all of their games,'' Mack said, of growing up a UK fan. "I was one of those fans, when they lost one game, I felt like the season was over.'' Shawn Vanzant, a graduate of Tampa Wharton and a senior starting ...
Source: Florida Today

Field of secrets
They told how he moved home twice during his ten years as a late-night taxi driver - and how each time he dug a hole to fill with concrete for a building project. Last night detectives were deciding whether to excavate the sites and officers were seen ...
Source: The Sun

Talks on taxi fare increase
A BID to increase black cab fares by 20p per mile will be formally considered by Sheffield Council’s licensing board next week. Councillors will decide whether to approve a request by Hafeas Rehman, chairman of Sheffield Taxi Trade Association ...
Source: The Star

Samuel Williams Sculpture Exhibition
April 1, 2011 at Inova/Kenilworth- 2155 N. Prospect Ave. In this unique show, UK-based sculptor Samuel Williams will send instructions for one sculpture to be made on site by volunteers each day the gallery is open, including on opening night. By the end ...
Source: On Milwaukee

Top 10 worst wardrobe disasters
TOM CRUISE 's missus KATIE HOLMES smiles innocently as she engages in conversation with a taxi driver, no doubt wondering why he keeps turning his head to face her. Her aide is too occupied with her handbag to notice as Katie sits all innocent and pretty ...
Source: The Sun

Gonzalez 1-0 with Braves after 2-0 win over Nats
WASHINGTON (AP)—Fredi Gonzalez was riding in a taxi a little before 8 a.m., heading from his hotel ... “He goes, ‘Are you getting out of the cab?’ And I go, ‘We’re right around the corner from the stadium.’ So we talked a little bit.”
Source: YAHOO!

Dewani denies involvement in the murder of his NRI wife
The millionaire UK-based husband of an Indian-origin woman who was shot dead ... But after a few minutes the taxi stopped and "I suddenly became conscious of a loud banging noise - then looked up and saw an African man furiously hammering an automatic ...
Source: Deccan Herald

World Cup final set to create taxi crisis in Australia
The India-Sri Lanka cricket World Cup final is all set to create a taxi crisis -- not in Mumbai which will host the match, but far away in Australia. With the Indian and Sri Lankan cab drivers planning ... who are driving cabs in the night, as part of ...
Source: Deccan Herald

World Cup cricket to keep taxis off Australia's roads
Getting a cab 'will be next to impossible because I think that a lot of Indian students who are driving cabs in the night as a part-time job will be having a day off,' he told the national broadcaster ABC. Almost half of Melbourne's taxi drivers are Indian ...
Source: Monsters and Critics

Belfast man (100) died after being hit by reversing taxi
A lawyer for Peter Bradford, the driver of the silver Mercedes Value Cab taxi involved, said his client denied hitting Mr McIldoon or his stroller. Noting the pensioner had a medical history of falls, the solicitor speculated he had fallen over and hit his ...
Source: Belfast Telegraph

Should Metro switch to zones? (No.)
It's frequently suggested that Metro should switch to a system of zones to simplify its complex system of fares. What would such a zone system look like, and would it be better for riders? As it turns out, zones wouldn't simplify things much, and the ...
Source: Greater Greater Washington

What makes a good expat?
In any city, if you want an insight into what locals think, it’s always worth asking a taxi driver. So I asked Kang Hak Khiam, who happened to have me in his cab recently ... 1,000 words to weeklyt@telegraph.co.uk
Source: Daily Telegraph

Is someone using a hair dryer? No, it's Smokey the cat, purring away at 73 decibels
LONDON - No need to bell this cat: A grey-and-white tabby by the name of Smokey has cat-apulted to fame with purring so loud it has been recorded at a potentially record-setting 73 decibels. The British community college that measured the sound said it ...
Source: Winnipeg Free Press

Brit-Indian honeymooner's brother tried to get Shrien's CCTV footage with convicted taxi driver
She was shot after the apparent hijacking of their taxi in a township in Cape Town ... Goa police arrests Brit-Indian fugitive 'most wanted' in UK by chance . Brit-Indian industrialists hand over Gandhi memorabilia to President Patil
Source: Newstrack India

If Loose Women ran a taxi firm it would be Candy Cabs
BBC1 has answered the question that no one was asking: “What would it be like if the cast of Loose Women ran a taxi firm?” Well, with Candy Cabs we found out. This is an empowering story for WOMEN about some WOMEN who are obviously much better than ...
Source: Daily Mirror

Brother ‘asked hotel for CCTV footage of bride murder suspect talking to taxi driver’
She was shot after the apparent hijacking of their taxi in a township in Cape Town ... of an application by South African authorities to have Shrien extradited from the UK to stand trial. In the dossier, police captain Paul Hendrikse says Preyen asked ...
Source: Daily Mail

'Pol called my name... then she was gone'
A HUSBAND who saw his wife hit and killed by a taxi has told of his heartbreak. Martin Spilsbury was with his wife Pauline , known as Pol, when she was knocked down by the cab as she crossed a road near their Radford home. She had always warned her ...
Source: Nottingham Evening Post

Letters: Switch the engine off if you want to save on fuel
A REPORT from the John Muir Trust showed the UK's subsidised wind farms were working at just 21 per cent of maximum capacity in 2010 and 24 per cent between November 2008 and December 2010. The wind industry and their mouthpieces chant the mantra that ...
Source: Edinburgh News

Letters: Switch the engine off if you want to save on fuel
Everyone else is having to tighten their belts, I'm sure taxi drivers would welcome the savings too. IAIN Gray accuses the SNP on Edinburgh City Council of mismanaging the Edinburgh trams project (News, April 6). This is the same Iain Gray who as Transport ...
Source: Scotsman

Hay Festival 2011: the town of Hay is a place like no other
You could maybe take a taxi?” Which is how I know that it costs £360 in a black cab from London. There are no traffic lights in Hay. You’re deep in the country here, beyond any metropolitan beltway. The media myth that Hay is full of north Londoners ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Treme: season one, episode eight
I liked them blessing each other for Ash Wednesday and I liked their chaste kiss on the cheek when they parted at the cab. She even laughed at his awful joke "Beignet – been yea, done that", for Christ's sake. Despite my feelings about Davis, I found ...
Source: The Guardian

Record prices fuel tradesmen's fears
The AA said many tradesmen and taxi drivers had told it they are operating their business ... charged 140p for diesel. Black cab drivers are now estimated to be paying £20-£25 per week more to fill up their tank that they did last year, and double ...
Source: Scotsman

Dunedin, New Zealand: Rugby World Cup 2011 city guide
A taxi costs about ... should hire a car. Cabs are plentiful in downtown Dunedin; expect to pay £5.40 for a standard trip. Limousine hire also available. Gullivers Sports Travel (01684 293175; www.gulliverstravel.co.uk ) offers a 49-day trip (Red Rose ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

The Dish: Judge approves 4 test cases against UK tabloid
Cage started hitting vehicles and tried to get into a taxi, police said. An officer saw that Cage was drunk and told him to get out of the cab. Cage then started yelling at the officer. The actor has been booked on charges of domestic abuse battery ...
Source: Kankakee Daily Journal

Woo Your Organization Client With the Femme Charisma
He can help you with your luggage and escorts you to the taxi. Drivers who function for non-public transport ... United Kingdom in terms of passenger site visitors. It is also the UK's quickest developing airport, with the complete amount of passengers ...
Source: Gather.com

Zero Emission Taxis to be Tested for Olympics 2012
Image: The Fuel Cell taxi in central London with the London Eye in the background. A consortium of innovative companies have created a pair of prototype zero emission fuel cell London taxis - the famous 'Black Cabs' that ... from the UK Government s ...
Source: Earthtimes

Shrien Dewani 'threatened to punch hospital worker'
Taxi driver jailed Mr Dewani remains subject to £250,000 bail and the requirement he reports daily to a local police station. Mrs Dewani, from Sweden, was shot when a cab the couple were travelling in was hijacked in the Gugulethu township in Cape Town.
Source: BBC

Lauren Booth’s spiritual journey to Islam
She noted that the sale of the Quran had shot up in the USA and UK after 9/11. People were curious ... From the airport she took a taxi to Ramallah, still gripped by fear. Next day, as she rode the elevator to Abbas’ office with fierce-looking, bearded ...
Source: Tehran Times

This week in history: April 11-April 17
France—which had itself bombed a Libyan airport in Chad months earlier—refused US aircraft permission to use its airspace, forcing a considerable extension of the route for jets flying from the UK ... Pamplona and Jerez, taxi cab drivers struck ...
Source: World Socialist Web Site

Mouse to tag banks, count cab fare
The firm is into software outsourcing for the clients, mainly in the UK. “The website doesn’t generate ... it also gives fares of more than 10 private cab operators including Cel Cabs, Easy Cabs, Hello Taxi, Mega Cabs, Meru Cabs, Metro Cabs, Quick ...
Source: Daily News and Analysis

Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern
Kodak cameras, the silhouette for the Intercity 125 train, Kenwood food mixers, Parker pens, and the re-design of the London Taxi Cab are just some of his well-known designs. This exhibition is Kenneth Grange's first UK retrospective and it will celebrate ...
Source: Dexigner

Geely channels London's iconic taxi with Englong SC7-RV for Shanghai
Chinese automaker Geely is part owner of Manganese Bronze, which makes the famous black taxi cabs for the UK and Chinese markets. But while a pricey cab makes sense for the UK, a high-dollar cab in China isn't always profitable. For that reason ...
Source: Autoblog

Drivers spend 71 hours a year in Southampton traffic jams
The situation is so bad that the car insurers have branded Southampton one of the UK’s roadwork hotspots ... 45 minutes to travel just three miles. And taxi driver Perry McMillan, who heads the Southampton cab section of Unite, said drivers have even ...
Source: Andover Advertiser

Steve Wynn ready to tie knot again
I got e-mail from the UK ... a cab Wednesday and the cabby gets you there in record time, say thank you to NASCAR star Tony Stewart. He's going to drive a street-legal No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala stock car that will serve as a taxi for ...
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal

Newcastle Bar Get – Overeat Drinking Headache or Stag Do Ecs
Not too long ago, the city has already established some awful touch becoming called “Binge Ingesting Funds of your UK ... taxi to have there from your city center (£5.00 each human being each one way concerning several people spreading a taxi cab ...
Source: Salon

In a taxi with... The Choir's Gareth Malone
A young fogey – wearing royal blue socks, green gilet, tan brogues and a Jarvis Cocker coiffure – awaits our cab outside his Victorian home in Northwest London. In 2006, Gareth (who can more than equal his style with substance) burst on to our screens ...
Source: Daily Mail

Fred: My £200m is Tote’s best bet
BRITAIN'S biggest black cab maker claims taxi drivers are putting the brakes on spending. UK sales at MANGANESE BRONZE are down by eight to nine per cent since March as cabbies shelve plans to order new motors. Chief executive John Russell said ...
Source: The Sun

TV Insider
Prime Time Investigates (Monday, RTÉ One) What is it about taxi drivers? No one seems to like them and they ... be on the way . . . NBC's version of the UK hit Prime Suspect starring Maria Bello in the Helen Mirren role looks a certainty, as does Smash ...
Source: RTE Online

Playboy Saif Gaddafi, the Tory donor and girls in bikinis – how the Libyan dictator's son does business
After the tour Mr Gaddafi and his minders clambered into a helicopter taxi and were flown to the coast where they ... Mr Salloum, one of the firm's UK directors and a close relative of the owners, was named in the judgement as having signed a set of ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Cumbria Massacre First Anniversary: Survivor Emma Relives Horror
At about 10.45am, the taxi, with Emma in the front passenger seat and Terry driving, entered Coach Road in Whitehaven town centre when she noticed a car approaching, pursued by police cars with flashing lights. Bird had just shot dead fellow cab driver Darren Rewcastle.
Source: Sunday People

Vodafone lets Londoners pay for a cab ride via text message
U.K. wireless carrier Vodafone earlier this month launched a service that allows consumers to pa y fares on the Heathrow Express airport shuttle and designated taxi cabs by sending a text message. The offering is only available if a consumer is in one of ...
Source: InternetRetailer.com

Peterborough brand premieres in London
THE name of Peterborough is now emblazoned on black cabs and billboards in London after a £52,000 year-long advertising campaign was launched. A vista of Cathedral Square now adorns the underside of “flip-down” taxi seats and billboards at London’s ...
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

FA chairman leads calls for Sepp Blatter to halt election and start Fifa reform
"I am not judging this by mathematics; it is a good result already with the support we have from within the UK," he said ... of Zurich Taxi Drivers, who benefited from the non event to the tune of CH60 (£43) for each journalist cab fare.
Source: The Guardian

Fighting back against hate crime
badges and cuddly bears to spread the message that hate crime cannot be tolerated.Peterborough City Council is also perpetuating that message by placing stickers in taxi cabs and fast food restaurants, carrying warnings and a number to ring if drivers or ...
Source: Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Nigeria : Transportation - Lagos Intensifies Efforts to Rebuild Infrastructure
To change the state of taxi cab operation in the State form a large system of rickety, under-repaired duty and dinghy cabs, run by rude, unprofessional and societies very dishonest drivers to a system of very neat, brand new, on conducted cabs with highly ...
Source: AllAfrica.com

Howard Davies: The MT Diary
Just hop in a taxi and ask 'how's tricks?' You will find that tricks are not too hot: with diesel 30p a litre dearer than in London, it is tough to make money on Greek taxi fares, which don't have the 'tearing up twenties' feel of a London cab ride.
Source: Management Today

Journey to the Land of Two Rivers
The airline sent a bus with insufficient seats for the 16 people in our group, so they dispatched a taxi for the rest of us ... URL: http://www.nwnet.co.uk/zafer-cheadle/karbala.htm (Accessed 25 March 2011) 16. Holy Shrines in Salah ad-Din, Republic ...
Source: Tehran Times

London Cabbies: Keep your Important Documents Secure and Visible
If you are a current or soon-to-be London taxi driver, you will know that there are several things which separate yourself from mini cab drivers operating in the ... Visit http://www.taxi-mart.co.uk/ for more information.
Source: AboutMyArea

Taxi Accessory Shop Owner Warns New Drivers to be Prepared
PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 10, 2011 – There is a lot more to taxi driving than just hopping into a cab and picking up fares ... driver accessory shop Taxi-Mart ( http://www.taxi- mart.co.uk/shop2 ), has seen from experience that far too many drivers ...
Source: PRLog (free press release)

Fancy a Walk?
After grabbing some sandwiches near the station in Lewes (pronounced like Lewis), a 9th-century Saxon town along the Ouse ("ooze") River, we took a cab to Barcombe ("bark-em ... Visit ruralways.org.uk to pick a hike and nationalrail.co.uk to find a ...
Source: Memphis Flyer

The Mosel: A green day in a very pleasant land
Frankfurt Hahn airport – which despite its name lies 75 miles west of Frankfurt, and is served from the UK by Ryanair – is not the most ... to Frankfurt Hahn from Edinburgh and Stansted. A taxi for the 20-minute journey from Hahn to Traben-Trarbach ...
Source: The Independent

A model of discretion
As the government’s information commissioner, Christopher Graham is the man who, for the past two years has policed data protection in the UK and punishes those who ... a USB stick left in a taxi; an over-helpful employee at the end of the phone, who ...
Source: InsideHousing

Gag man
It was in 2004 that Associated Newspapers head of legal Harvey Kass attempted to mobilise the UK media back into unified lobbying ... in the limelight will not last long. “Under the taxi cab rule I’m available for hire,” he says.
Source: Lawyer Online

ECHO Investigation: Liverpool’s multi-million pound trade in illegal cigarettes from China
“The UK’s high tobacco tax policy leads many smokers to seek ... fast food outlets including mobile burger vans and on one occasion even from the boot of a taxi cab. “In recent months we have seized nearly 10,000 illegal cigarettes from local shops ...
Source: Liverpool Echo

Yobs’ rifle attack on hero’s taxi
A former soldier, who survived deadly war zones, today told how he feared for his life after he was shot at in his taxi. Darren Storey ... or email southern_southribblecid@lancashire.pnn.police.uk.
Source: Lancashire Evening Post

Erdem and his fashion harem
"I was in a black cab going down Great Eastern Street and I saw a girl wearing a skirt of mine - I was thrilled. I got the taxi driver to slow down as I ... in almost 40 countries with the US - not the UK - his biggest market. His clothes are cut for ...
Source: Evening Standard

Website to calculate local taxi, auto fare
The site helps users calculate the taxi and auto fare to local destinations and displays a Google Map with the detailed route and distance. The service covers the regular black and yellow taxi and auto services as well as over 10 private cab operators.
Source: Hindustan Times

Taxi Operation in the UK - Industry Market Research Report - new market report published
2011-10-04 11:24:00 - Taxi Operation in the UK ... companiesandmarkets.com Taxi Operation in the UK The industry provides for-hire vehicle transport on British roads. This includes the use of hackney carriages (black cabs) and private hire vehicles ...
Source: PR Inside

Charlotte Olympia arrives in style
The coveted designer has chosen London Taxi Advertising to showcase her glamorous pin-up styles on iconic London Black Cabs. The image of the sultry model ... (Source: theretailcoach.co.uk) London Taxi Advertising is confident this tried and tested method ...
Source: PRLog (free press release)

Taxi firm comes to Sunderland students’ aid
STRANDED students have been thrown a transport lifeline after a taxi company agreed to help get them home safely. Sunderland’s biggest cab firm, Station Taxis ... is the only one if its kind in the UK. Trevor Hines, of Station Taxis, said: “The ...
Source: Sunderland Echo

Dewani lodges extradition appeal
Suspicion fell on Dewani after Mrs Dewani, 28, was shot dead when the couple's cab was hijacked in the dangerous Gugulethu township. Taxi driver Zola Tongo, who has admitted his part in the crime, claimed in a plea agreement with prosecutors that Dewani ...
Source: Sunday Sun

Six men and a woman held as police 'smash terror plot to bomb Britain'
Acting on intelligence from MI5, counter-terrorism police in Birmingham arrested six men and a woman, who were all born in Britain and hold UK passports ... five-bedroom detached home occupied by a taxi driver and his five sons. A neighbour said two ...
Source: Daily Mail

Travel advice: Car rental insurance you can do without
Anatolian Sky (08445 719111; www.anatoliansky.co.uk) features a choice of hotels in ... which is paid by direct debit. No taxi to Newark On a trip to New York, I had problems finding a cab to take me to Newark Airport around 4.30pm. Six drivers refused ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Disabled Kendal woman hopes to champion issues for wheelchair users
“Taxis often are not an option - the numbers of accessible cabs in Cumbria ... at Tourism for All UK in Kendal -a charity supporting leisure and tourism opportunities for all - is keen to hear disabled people’s thoughts on taxi provisions at ...
Source: Westmorland Gazette

At large candidates: Kramer driven to improve city
Kramer did not graduate from UK, but he said the ... do not have open access to taxi records. "Any other community I know of, including Newburgh and including Princeton, allows local regulators to pull over a cab and inspect its driver."
Source: Evansville Courier-Press

Hire a car in advance and visit the city of Manchester without any hassle
Tourists have always faced some or other kind of hurdles in their journey with a taxi or a cab. To put an end to these kinds of problems ... In Manchester in England in the UK, Car Hire Manchester and Van Hire Manchester are available for the tourists.
Source: Zimbio

Little one Amenities at Heathrow Airport
The sights and sounds of London are not total without having a ride in a London taxi cab. Odds are your very first encounter ... and will take you to any UK city. They accommodate both modest and significant groups. All taxi services have large fleets ...
Source: Zimbio

UK Premier League footballer Bramble busted for sexual assault, drug possession
Bramble, 30, was held over an alleged sex attack on a woman in the back of a taxi. He was held by officers after the cab driver became concerned by the player’s behaviour towards his fellow passenger. Instead of driving Bramble home, the driver took the ...
Source: New Kerala

Overseas sales help Manganese Bronze overcome fall in UK demand
International sales have helped taxi-cab maker Manganese Bronze to overcome a fall in demand from the UK. Coventry-based Manganese Bronze (MNGS) has reported international sales for the quarter ended September 30 of 217 vehicles, compared to 78 vehicles in ...
Source: Birmingham Post.net

Chester cab driver wins Swinton Taxi’s grand prize
The competition encourages taxi drivers to place a sticker requested from www.mysterytipper.co.uk in the rear window of their cab. The mystery tipper then chooses a cab displaying the sticker at random and rewards the driver with a £1,000 tip. Matthew had ...
Source: Chester Chronicle

Kingfisher chief Ian Cheshire has built the DIY chain back up again
But there in front of us is a cheap screen-print of a red telephone box/black taxi cab/Big Ben montage ... "It says we're 60pc not in the UK. If you look at all the retailers in the UK we are by far and away the most international. It also demonstrates ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

City will keep a cap on cabs (From Oxford Mail)
He said: “The need is very close to the numbers we have at the moment and that provides a reasonable living for the taxi drivers ... Do you find it easy to hail a cab? Have your say online at oxfordmail.co.uk, email letters@oxfordmail.co.uk or ...
Source: Oxford Mail

Disabled benefit seekers banned from using lifts at Croydon assessment centre
Mrs Peakin was stunned by the lack of accessibility, including no disabled parking nearby and the taxi ... CAB, who have had a string of complaints about the way WCAs are carried out. The test is provided by Atos, who out of 141 run 29 centres across the ...
Source: Croydon Guardian

Nokia taps into NFC
Besides Singapore, the UK and Malaysia are currently the only ... enabled phones at any of 400 locations islandwide to book a taxi. This initiates a text message, which is sent to the central cab booking system with the user's authorization.
Source: CNET Asia

Taxi Operation in the UK: New research report available at Fast Market Research
The industry provides for-hire vehicle transport on British roads. This includes the use of hackney carriages (black cabs) and private hire vehicles, limousines and wedding cars. The industry also includes companies that exclusively provide related ...
Source: PR Inside

Electronic Arts Inc. : COMBATTING THE COMMUTE
A team of armoured tanks known as Tanksi's took London by storm this week as they invaded traditional taxi ranks and carried lucky commuters to work. The new kings of the road dwarfed black cabs and made ... is www.eagames.co.uk. More information about ...
Source: 4-traders (press release)

Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange at Alexandra Palace
It is worth checking the last train times for your event date at www.tfl.gov.uk PRE-BOOK TAXIS We also strongly recommend that you pre-book a taxi if you want to travel home by cab. See below a few numbers you can call: Metro Express Taxis you can pre-book ...
Source: Resident Advisor

Future jetliners could provide door-to-door taxi service
so it’s with some delight that we bring you news of the commercial jetliner taxi. Image: Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Sound bizarre? Well, according to a report by the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers, we could all soon enjoy air travel ...
Source: Thetech Herald

A drive for knowledge
Cab drivers rely a lot on 'The Knowledge', a deep-seated memory of the names and layout of streets which means they can get you and I from A to B in as short a time as possible. While such geographical nous is a boon for taxi ... of the UK and how much ...
Source: Belfast Telegraph

Will Dean's Ideas Factory: Big Food gets lost in the supermarket fresh aisles
It's a fascinating battle – and a reverse of the UK where the ... "Hearing black cabs and private hire in the same sentence does rankle," he admits. Will it transform the trade? Best to watch this space. Or just tweet "@Taxi!" How Princeton University ...
Source: The Independent

Cuts To BBC London Radio: A Cabbie’s View
The saddest proposed cuts are the ones that will decimate BBC local radio services across the UK, but especially here in London ... infirm and those of us who are working late at night in taxi-cabs, hospitals, emergency services or simply stacking shelves.
Source: Londonist

Digital Media - New Update to Creative Design
Anyone can watch videos through mobile gadgets anywhere from shopping centres, taxi cabs, and even train stations ... is owned by Google records more than 2 BILLION views per day. The UK is recorded to share 35% of this number. The rising rate of video ...
Source: Zimbio

Even supermodels run errands! Miranda Kerr looks leggy in maxi dress as its back to reality in New York
The busy 28-year-old was spotted taking an iconic yellow taxi to the doctor's office before taking her ... They have also been spotted in other parts of Europe, the UK and Miranda's native Australia, But she looked happy to be back home in the U.S. yesterday.
Source: Daily Mail

What Are My Options For Airport Transfer?
Taxis supplied can be up to a seven seater pickup truck's cab. Travellers can hail ... cheaper option than using black cabs or taxi ranks according to how far away from the airport you are. o Airport coach or bus - All UK airports can have a local bus ...
Source: Zimbio

Human Rights Groups Denounce Civilian Claims Process as
In one particularly disturbing account, after U.S. troops (reacting to an attack as they traveled along a Baghdad highway) mistakenly killed a pharmaceutical salesman waiting for a taxi, the unit ... report in the Guardian, UK, such payments often require ...
Source: Trinicenter.com

Naive? Certainly. Dishonest? Possibly. But is Shrien Dewani guilty of murdering his wife?
Their driver was Zola Tongo, 30, who was moonlighting from his taxi firm to earn some extra money ... and solve a case that has transfixed South Africa and the UK in equal measure, his answer will need to be convincing.
Source: Daily Mail

No woman is safe in a minicab, says rape judge
Jailing an asylum seeker for eight years for raping a secretary, Recorder Michael Sayers, QC, said those hiring a private taxi simply had no way of knowing the driver's background. He called for compulsory licensing of all cab drivers after police checks ...
Source: Daily Mail

Travel in comfort with a London City Airport Taxi
Or you have just retired and you want to take a London City Airport Taxi direct to your home after your holiday of a lifetime. Why would you want to wait up to 2 hours for a black cab when you could ... you to anywhere in the UK – not just London destinations.
Source: Zimbio

Rampant Police Brutality in England
A few days after the UFFC march, police officials in London announced that six officers involved in smashing a taxi cab with baseball bats while ... Director of Black Mental Health UK during a public meeting on black deaths in custody that ...
Source: Counter Punch

Buenos Aires: city of passion
Tailor Made Travel (0845 456 8050; www.tailor-made.co.uk) can arrange a trip to Buenos Aires from ... It is safer to ask your hotel or restaurant to phone for a radio-taxi or remise (private cab), or to pick up a taxi from an official rank, than it is ...
Source: Daily Telegraph

Phone app steers customers to UK’s black cabs
A smartphone app, dubbed the Facebook for cabbies, has been created for London’s black taxi community ... this for black cabs using Hailo. However, the business has bigger ambitions, aiming to be a more flexible alternative to radio cab services, which ...
Source: Financial Times

Barcelona's pool with a view
"Every morning I look forward to going to work," he says, as we take a cab from the city along a picturesque route up to Montjuïc hill. "How many people can say that?" This is a seriously special commute, with our taxi whizzing past Gaudi's ...
Source: The Guardian

Nissan Begins Leaf Taxi Testing in New York City
It has also created a huge gap in taxi fleets and police manucipalities across the country, as the Crown Vic served as the core of their fleet. So can an electric vehicle fill those mighty big wheelwells? Nissan thinks so, and is beginning a ...
Source: Reuters UK

'Taxi-sharing – it's a good idea in theory, but realistically it is awful'
PLANS to replace night buses with a taxi-sharing scheme could cause a risk to passenger safety and damage the cab industry, a former Hackney carriage driver has claimed. The six-month trial that will see taxis pick up from the city centre late on Friday ...
Source: Bristol Evening Post

Drunk naked taxi driver smashes into 17 cars in Moscow
The taxi driver told police he was unhappy and had decided to get into his cab following an argument with his girlfriend. Footage shown on Russian TV shows the driver's smashed up cab The bizarre incident was captured on camera and the footage shows that ...
Source: Metro.co.uk

Taxi sharing to replace city's night buses
A PILOT taxi-sharing scheme will be introduced to replace Bristol's night buses, despite concerns about the safety of sharing vehicles with strangers. Bristol City Council announced it would axe the night buses in June, because it needs to make £2 million ...
Source: Bristol Evening Post

London 2012 Olympics: capital's taxi fares could increase by 20 per cent during Games
The Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association, the largest cab association in the capital with approximately one third of the city’s 25,000 taxi drivers on its books, has suggested the increase is necessary to prevent mass walkouts during the Games.
Source: Daily Telegraph

Springwise: A London Taxi Ride In Exchange For Ideas
Where Chicago-based Lab42 has turned to social networks as a more natural place to reach consumers, UK-based Hall & Partners have begun offering a service from within a branded taxi cab. Rather than trying to gauge popular opinions in the ...
Source: PSFK

Taxi drivers angry about new disciplinary rules
Angry taxi drivers opposed to disciplinary rules which would see them given penalty points have put together a petition with nearly 600 signatures. Drivers complain they have not been consulted about the changes, which would see them accrue points for ...
Source: Cambridge News

Family pay tribute to taxi driver crash victim Mohammed Latif
THE family of a taxi driver who died in a crash have paid tribute to the “caring, devoted” father. Popular Mohammed Latif, known as Latty, suffered serious head injuries when his Vauxhall Vectra private hire cab hit a tree and parked cars on Park Vale ...
Source: GazetteLive

Cocaine horror for tot who bit into bag during taxi ride
A TODDLER needed hospital treatment after biting into a bag of cocaine she allegedly found in a taxi. Two-year-old Scarlett Whiston put the small blue packet of white powder into her mouth after apparently picking it up from the floor of a car operated by ...
Source: This is Sentinel

Taxi driver attack left passenger with brain damage after he refused to chip in for fare, court hears
A CABBIE punched and kicked a passenger leaving him with brain damage after he refused to chip in for the taxi fare, a court heard. Chester Crown Court was told today that Gary Whelan, of Laburnum Grove, Runcorn, punched Mark Clare on April 8 this year ...
Source: Liverpool Echo

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