Every seventh taxi driver in the UK is a Pakistani. Many of them are overqualified for their jobs and hold university degrees. Does the UK need to reform its immigrant policies? Umar Gul came to the UK in 2004, after graduating ...
Read More »Author Archives: Tina Marshall
Feed SubscriptionBath taxi drivers facing sat-nav ban
Taxi drivers in Bath look set to become the first in the country to be banned from using sat-navs for local journeys. Bath and North East Somerset Council said it wanted to stop their use because drivers have to pass a ...
Read More »Taxi driver racially insulted and abused by violent person
A MAN who racially insulted a taxi driver before headbutting the vehicle is being sought by police. The incident took place at 2am on Saturday, November 16 when the suspicious man entered a taxi in Newbury town centre and refused to pay ...
Read More »Norfolk taxi crashes through Bean cafe window
Woman travelling in the taxi sustained minor injuries. A woman was injured after the taxi she was travelling in ploughed into a bakery shop in Norfolk. The vehicle smashed into the window of the Flour and Bean café on ...
Read More »Court hears heavily armed taxi driver who was to kill David Cameron
A 34 years old person was stopped in London with a 950,000-volt stun gun, a Samurai sword and masking tape in his Vauxhall Astra. Police found a cache of weapons as well as a 950,000-volt weapon within the cab of ...
Read More »Taxi driver who drove into family left suicide note
The revelation came as the heartbroken Irish family said they are still dealing with the effects of the crash in Devon on July 6, 2012. A Devon inquest yesterday into the death of a baby boy heard details of father-of-two ...
Read More »Taxi drivers necessitate modern warnings to alert London drivers: Signs of things to come?
These road signs might soon be coming back to the capital to warn against the urban hazards drivers face. Black cab drivers nowadays involved an overhaul of the “outdated” Highway Code notices to alert motorists to pedestrians oblivious to traffic ...
Read More »