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Last updated 15 Mar 2026 · 221 storiesUK city set to compare taxi licence requirements to Wolverhampton Council following safety concerns
Express & Star
Portsmouth councillors are set to review how the city’s taxi and private hire licensing rules compare with Wolverhampton plated taxis following concerns about safety.
Read more →Taxi drivers smuggled hundreds of illegal migrants from UK to France
The Standard
‘Top boss’ Madjid Belabes, 54, made nearly £290,000 running cross-Channel migrant gang
Read more →'You covering taxi fares?': Fans stunned after being told actual location for 'new Manchester festival'
Manchester Evening News
No Art festival organisers had said the event heralded the arrival of a "new festival for Manchester" but the location reveal has upset some ticket-holders
Read more →Taxi driver jailed for operating cannabis growhouses nationwide
RTE
A taxi driver who operated cannabis growhouses all over the country for over ten years and whom gardaí say was linked to the Kinahan organised crime group has been jailed for six years at the Dublin…
Read more →Aberdeen taxi levels revealed as locals could now help scrap controversial knowledge test
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6971247/aberdeen-taxi-consultation/
Aberdeen residents now have the chance to tell the council what they think of taxi levels in the city - and to potentially change rules on entering the trade... Here's all you need to know about it.
Read more →Warning of fake barber shops and taxi drivers in Goring
Oxford Mail
A Conservative peer has hit out at "fake barber shops and taxi drivers" in a south Oxfordshire village.
Read more →Men who firebombed taxi office and cars during gang war jailed for 25 years
STV News
Three men who played roles in a “gangland war” against a gangland boss have been jailed for a total of 25 years.
Read more →Fuel price rise makes profit 'tricky' for taxis
BBC News
A taxi driver from Shrewsbury has said increased costs in fuel make his industry "a very tricky way to make a living."
Read more →Taxi driver sexually assaulted woman in Hastings
The Argus
A self-employed taxi driver picked a woman up and sexually assaulted her in a secluded place in Hastings.
Read more →Taxi driver hit with restraining order after delivering three love letters to a Hebburn woman
The Shields Gazette
A taxi driver who hand delivered three love letters to a South Tyneside woman he dumped one day but regretted the next has been ordered to keep away from her by a court.
Read more →Edinburgh Airport taxi fares may increase under new plans
STV News
Black cab fares from Edinburgh Airport may increase under plans going before Edinburgh councillors.
Read more →Weald of Kent MP Katie Lam urges Ashford Borough Council to rethink ban on Flying Horse landlord’s free taxi service in Smarden
Kent Online
A Kent MP has demanded a council rethink its decision to ban a pub landlord from offering his own free taxi service.
Read more →Uber granted an operator's licence in Lincoln
BBC News
Ride-hailing service Uber has been granted a licence by City of Lincoln Council.
Read more →'Predatory' taxi driver sexually assaulted customer
BBC News
A taxi driver has been found guilty of sex offences after taking a woman to a secluded location and assaulting her instead of driving her home.
Read more →Wolverhampton Misinformation and facts
Professional Driver
Many years in the private hire industry have taught me a couple of important things.
Read more →Crucial vote puts futures of hundreds of Derby taxi drivers at stake
Derby Telegraph
A crucial vote affecting the future of hundreds of Derby taxi drivers is to decide whether a controversial rule stays or goes.
Read more →Warning of 'taxi wars' in Cornwall
Cornwall Live
There is cross-party concern about the possibility of taxis operating across one licensed zone in Cornwall rather than six separate zones as is currently the case.
Read more →Taxi driver killed on M4 was over eight times above drink driving limit, inquest hears
BreakingNews.ie
A taxi driver killed in a collision on the M4 near Kilcock, Co Kildare, two years ago was over eight times above the legal drink driving limit, an inquest has heard.
Read more →Cornwall taxi fares could be same across whole county
Falmouth Packet
A Cornwall Council committee could recommend scrapping the six taxi zones which operate throughout the Duchy and currently charge different tariffs.
Read more →Uber driver stripped of taxi licence after failing to pick up woman with assistance dog
The Yorkshire Post
A court was told of the “frustrations” of a disabled woman who has repeatedly been denied service because of her assistance dog.
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