Mr. Willder booked a night-time taxi from Veezu and described the driver’s initial reaction: "He refused and said, 'I'm not allowing any dogs into my car'." 

Paul Sheward, 38, has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison at Worcester Crown Court for a knifepoint robbery and assault on a taxi driver.

A recent public survey on Darlington Borough Council's updated taxi policy found that "64% of respondents backed installing cameras."

The largest proposed increase is 9.5%, which "could see the cost of a Tariff 3 journey of 10 miles rise by more than £4 over the Christmas and New Year holidays."

Taxi drivers in Witney are "furious" about the Oxfordshire County Council's proposed Witney "highway improvements" scheme, specifically the plan to drastically reduce the main taxi rank in Market Square.

The incident began around 11pm when officers attempted to stop a Kia Niro taxi that drove through a road closure at the junction of Bold Lane and Broad Lane.

The operation, part of the upcoming 'Dark Nights' initiative to improve road safety, focused on targeted checks of taxis and PHVs travelling to and from the city.

Edwin Youll, a 63-year-old unlicensed taxi driver from Normanby, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison at Teesside Crown Court on monday 13 October, for a string of violent sexual offences.