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• CHAOS IN GRAVESEND AS TAXI IS STUCK AFTER PLOUGHING THROUGH WALLS AND GARDENS

  Residents in a Gravesend street were left in disbelief this morning after a taxi veered off the road, tearing through several front gardens and demolishing two walls.

• POLICE AND TAXI FIRM APPEAL FOR WITNESSES FOLLOWING MACCLESFIELD HIT AND RUN

  A Macclesfield taxi firm and Cheshire Police are calling for public assistance after a hit-and-run left a passenger hospitalised and a driver "extremely shaken."

• DRAMATIC WATER RESCUE IN ABERDEENSHIRE AS STORMS LASH SCOTLAND

  Emergency crews launched a specialist operation to save two people on Thursday morning, 22 January, after their taxi became submerged in deep floodwater near Kintore.

• SOUTH OXON AND VALE OF WHITE HORSE CONSULTATION ON TAXI POLICY UPDATES

  South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse DCs are inviting residents, businesses and the taxi and PH trade to share their views on proposed updates to their Joint Taxi Licensing Policy.  

• LEWES TAXI TRADE HITS OUT AT "KICK IN THE TEETH" FEE HIKES AS PETITION DEMANDS FARE REVIEW

  Taxi campaigners have launched a formal petition urging Lewes District Council to overhaul its fare structures and freeze licensing costs

• JUSTICE QUEST CONTINUES 47 YEARS AFTER BRUTAL MURDER OF CARDIFF CABBIE JOHN ARMSTRONG

  Nearly 50 years after the father and "family man" disappeared during a shift, the South Wales Police Specialist Crime Review Unit has confirmed the case is still an active investigation.

• POTTERIES CABBIE AND ACCOMPLICE JAILED AFTER USING PHV AS FRONT FOR COUNTY LINES DRUG OPERATION

  Tahir Darr, of Burslem, and Saeed Malik, of Middleport, were key members of a county lines gang that funneled crack cocaine and heroin from the Potteries into Crewe.

• REDDITCH BOROUGH COUNCIL PROPOSES NEW TAXI AND PRIVATE HIRE LICENCE FEES

  The proposed fee to obtain or renew a hackney carriage or private hire vehicle licence has been set at £318.

• POLICE SEEK WITNESS CABBIE WHO MAY HAVE NEARLY HIT MAN BEFORE FATAL ARDWICK CRASH

  Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has released CCTV images of a black cab which may have narrowly avoided hitting a pedestrian moments before a fatal crash in Ardwick.

• PH DRIVER'S LICENCE SUSPENDED FOR 3 MONTHS FOLLOWING BREACH OF VEHICLE LICENCE CONDITIONS

  The 46 year old driver had failed to comply with essential vehicle testing requirements, had poor record keeping practices, and had continued to breach conditions despite several written warnings.

• CONSULTATION TO BE LAUNCHED IN ABERDEEN ON SCRAPPING THE KNOWLEDGE TEST

  Under current rules anyone seeking a licence as a taxi or private hire driver in the city has to sit the test.

• CAN YOU HELP - DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS THUG?

  Nottinghamshire police is investigating a racially aggravated assault on a taxi driver and have issued an image of a man we are looking to trace.

• LPHCA DEFENDS WOLVERHAMPTON COUNCIL FOR PROCESSING LARGER NUMBERS OF PHV LICENCES FROM ACROSS UK

  In the last five years, Wolverhampton has tripled the number of private hire vehicles it has licensed to over 30,000.

• TFL LICENSED CHAUFFEUR FINED £2,268 AFTER ILLEGAL PLYING FOR HIRE AT HENLEY REGATTA

  Shafqat Ali, 36, pleaded guilty to: unlawfully plying for hire; driving without the required insurance; failing to wear his Transport for London-issued driver’s badge.

• MANDATORY RETRAINING FOR NOTTINGHAM CABBIES AFTER GROOMING SCANDAL PROBE

  Taxi and private hire drivers licensed by Nottingham City Council will be required to undergo safeguarding training every three years following a damning national report that found current licensing arrangements are "not

• DEVON CABBIE JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS AFTER SEXUALLY ABUSING CHILD IN EXCHANGE FOR FARE

  Terence Round, of St Giles on the Heath, appeared at Truro Crown Court on 19 January, following guilty pleas to engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a girl who was aged under 16.

• NO SECOND CHANCES: STOCKTON CABBIE DENIED LICENCE OVER CCTV CHAIN BRAWL

  The driver, who served the borough for 16 years without a criminal record, applied for a new private hire licence after his previous one was revoked in August 2024.

• CABBIE FACING CAREER RUIN AFTER AMASSING £85K DURING DISHONEST BENEFIT CLAIM

  Gergely Tomasovszky, 43, appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false statement to obtain benefit payments.

• GRIDLOCK IN LICHFIELD: TAXI DRIVERS STAGE 'GO-SLOW' PROTESTS OVER CITY PEDESTRIANISATION

  Members of the RMT union are set to blockade key routes between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm today, January 21, 2026.

• 'MIRACLE' £50K DEPOSIT: UBER DRIVER LOSES LICENCE APPEAL AFTER MYSTERY MONEY CLAIM

  Amar Rangzab, 33, appeared at Bradford Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 16 January, to appeal the council’s decision to revoke his licence following fraud charges brought by The Insolvency Service.