The incident occurred on January 20 last year in Lincoln Road, Millfield, when 36-year-old Omar Afzal spotted the victim in a taxi.

The driver said the "hooligans" ultimately smashed the rear window of his car while he was driving two passengers, whom he described as being "in their sixties."

Cabbies and residents speak ahead of a Hartlepool council committee meeting that will consider a proposal to change the long-standing yellow colour requirement for the borough's taxis.

A recent Barnsley Council consultation showed a majority of respondents backed proposals to expand the use of CCTV to private hire vehicles used for home-to-school transport.

A 49-year-old woman has been arrested and charged following an alleged incident where a taxi driver was 'threatened with a glass bottle' in Clydebank.

Effective this month, taxi and private hire drivers will be allowed to have their mid-year vehicle tests conducted at any DVSA-approved test centre, instead of being restricted solely to the council's facility.

The BP pulse and TfL network encompasses over 150 chargers, located across London boroughs and extending out as far as Watford and Epping Forest.

An operation involving West Yorkshire Police's Bradford East NPT and the Bradford Council Taxi Enforcement Team last Friday, October 17, resulted in the suspension of a majority of inspected vehicles.