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• WELL DONE TO THIS CAMBRIDGE CABBIE FOR HELPING AN ELDERLY LADY WITH DEMENTIA

  You see an elderly woman in a taxi at 1.50am, having totted up an £80 fare. The taxi driver is confused. Something doesn’t feel right.

• LEEDS TAXI DRIVERS COLLABORATE TO FUND EXTRA TAXI RANK MARSHALS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS

  Taxi drivers in the city say they fear customers and pedestrians are at risk from traffic, anti-social behaviour and unmarked cars at taxi ranks as they try to make their way home.

• UBER REWRITES CONTRACTS WITH DRIVERS OUTSIDE LONDON TO AVOID PAYING MILLIONS OF POUNDS TO EXCHEQUER

  The move came as the rule announced in November’s budget, that PHV operators, such as Uber, will no longer be able to use TOMS to significantly reduce the VAT they pay on fares, came into effect.

• CABBIES: SNOW AND ICE REMINDER

  When it comes to defrosting The Highway Code has Rule 229, you must abide by.

• 565 MILLION STILL TO FILE AS THE SELF ASSESSMEMT DEADLINE LOOMS

  Thousands of people celebrated the New Year by filing their Self Assessment tax return.

• CABBIE ARRESTED IN LIVERPOOL AFTER SMASHING INTO PARKED VAN AND REVERSING INTO DRIVER

  A private hire vehicle reportedly smashed into a parked van on Fincham Road in Huyton on New Year's Eve.

• DUDLEY COUNCIL TAXI COMMITTEE MINUTES REVEAL ASTONISHING PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER LICENCE APPLICATIONS

  Minutes from Dudley Council’s Taxi Committee meetings have shed light on some of the more astonishing private hire driver applications considered this year.

• YOUNG WOMAN ADMITS CAUSING DEATH OF TAXI DRIVER AND HIS PASSENGER IN FATAL CRASH

  Octavian Codreanu and his passenger Moyra Whelan, 35, were tragically killed and three others were seriously injured in the four-vehicle crash on the B4425 in Gloucestershire on 2 December 2022.

• PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER REFUSED LICENCE AFTER HARASSING AND TEXTING FEMALE PASSENGER

  The driver continued to message and harass the passenger after the initial complaint, and was found by Bolton Council’s licensing committee to have “acted in an inappropriate way”.

• WAKEFIELD PRIVATE HIRE DRIVER HAS LICENCE REINSTATED AFTER LOCAL COUNCILLORS INTERVENED

  Wakefield City Council licensing has agreed to reinstate a private hire driver's licence after intervention by elected members.

• 'CALCULATING' SEXUAL PREDATORS JAILED FOR BRISTOL GUEST HOUSE RAPE OF VULNERABLE WOMAN

  Cabbie, Riaz Muhammed, 51, and Muhammed Zahid, 46, were both found guilty of rape following an eight-day trial at Bristol Crown Court.

• BRIGHTON CABBIES DEMAND PROTECTION FROM HUGE INFLUX OF OUT-OF-TOWN DRIVERS

  GMB union representatives Kevin Thomas and Fazlul Haque recently led a deputation to Hove Town Hall, warning that the number of locally licensed drivers has plummeted by 40% since the pandemic.

• PETERBOROUGH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE MAYOR DEMANDS END TO BROKEN TAXI LICENSING SYSTEM

  In a move that aligns him with Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, Bristow is lobbying the Government to strip city/borough councils of licensing powers and hand them to regional Mayoral Authorities.

• PUBLIC SAFETY FIRST: COUNCIL REJECTS MOVE TO PRIVATE TAXI MOTS

  A new report to the Executive Board on January 8 recommends all local taxis must continue to use the council’s own Motor Vehicle Service Station for their MOTs, rather than private garages.

• STORM WARNINGS AND SYSTEM FAILURES: WAYMO FLEET GROUNDED AGAIN

  Just days after a citywide power outage left its fleet paralysed, the company was forced to suspend all Bay Area operations as a severe storm approached.

• OVER FORTY OUT OF TOWN VEHICLES STOPPED IN LATE NIGHT CHECKS IN BARNSLEY

  Licensing officers inspected 55 drivers and vehicles during the operation last month alongside South Yorks Police and enforcement from Sheffield, Leeds, Kirklees and Wolverhampton councils.

• FACTS ABOUT WAYMO - AND WHAT CAN DRIVERS AND OPERATORS DO?

  Rachel Dale from Swanlands Consultancy shares her thoughts:

• FORTY FIVE MONTHS' JAIL FOR WARRINGTON CABBIE CAUGHT WITH DRUGS WORTH OVER £250K

  Cabbie Alex Verdin, 29, turned drug courier to pay off a cocaine debt has been jailed after leading police on a dangerous late-night chase and dumping packages of drugs in residential gardens.

• COURT BACKS COUNCIL'S DECISION TO REVOKE SCUNTHORPE CABBIE'S LICENCE

  A Scunthorpe cabbie who was caught speeding and watching videos while driving with a passenger has lost his appeal against the revocation of his licence.

• UBER DRIVER BANNED AFTER DRINK DRIVING CRASH WITH PASSENGERS ONBOARD

  An Uber driver who crashed his car while carrying passengers was more than double the legal drink-drive limit, a court has heard.