The claims against an unnamed Royal Cars driver were circulated on a Facebook page for students at Oxford University's St Anne's College last week.
A post, which appears to have been subsequently deleted, said there had been 'multiple allegations' of an individual driving women to 'isolated areas to rape them'.
St Anne's briefly stopped using Royal Cars while police investigated, but it is understood neither Oxford City Council nor the police have received any formal allegations.
The taxi company's human resources manager, Abdullah Banaras, said 'two or three' concerned colleges had contacted Royal Cars, but the firm had received no official complaints.
He said: "The colleges have been in contact quite a lot and said there's some hearsay going around.
"We've obviously spoken to police and the council and they said nothing has been reported."
He added: "No colleges have turned around and said they wouldn't use us.
"We work closely with many colleges and safety is our main priority."
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YORK
ACTING like a taxi driver will cost a former hotel manager more than £1,600 and may lead to him losing his licence to carry fares, York Magistrates Court heard.
David Jones, 51, has a private hire licence which only allows him to carry passengers who have pre-booked his services.
It does not allow him to take fares from people who flag him down in the street.
York magistrates decided, he had picked up an unbooked fare in Low Petergate on October 27 after watching CCTV of the incident and hearing prosecution and defence evidence.
Jones did not give evidence at the trial.
They convicted Jones, of Langholme Drive, York, of plying for hire as a taxi driver without a hackney carriage licence and driving without insurance. He had denied both charges.
They fined him £375 with £1,250 prosecution costs for City of York Council and a £37 statutory surcharge.
They also put six penalty points on his licence, but decided not to disqualify him from driving on the grounds of exceptional hardship.
He now has 12 points on his licence, three of which he got before the offence and three afterwards.
Antony Schiller, for Jones, said the city council will now review whether he should keep his private hire licence.
His car was insured for private hire use, but not for picking up unbooked fares.
Jones had been a Hilton Hotel manager who had had to leave his job after he had a heart attack brought about by work pressure.
He had only been a private hire driver for a matter of months and since the offence had not reoffended. He was self-employed.
Magistrates saw CCTV of a passenger leave Jones’ car immediately before two people approached it and after a conversation got in. The car then drove off.
They also heard there was no record of anyone booking Jones’ car for the time when the two people got in.
“We conclude and are sure the defendant agreed to hire his vehicle to them and therefore find him guilty,” they said.
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Daimler AG-backed Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, just re-entered the UK market two years after its operating license was revoked
Even though Bolt has raised around $190 million to $280 million in funding so far, Morgan Stanley analysts say that Ola remains the main potential threat to Uber Technologies Inc.'s dominance in the London ride-sharing market, despite this month's return of the rival Bolt service to the UK capital,
Ola, owned by ANI Technologies Pvt, has said it will take on Uber in London before the end of the year, while Daimler AG-backed Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, just re-entered the UK market two years after its operating license was revoked for not being fit and proper company and operating without a licence.
Amazing what a company like this can achieve with TfL once they’ve raised a few bob.
In the two weeks since Bolt resumed London operations, evidence suggests it is not having a material impact on Uber, according to Morgan Stanley analysts led by Brian Nowak.
Uber's share of app downloads fell a little after Bolt entered, but has since recovered, they wrote in a report.
The greater threat is likely to come from Ola, the analysts say. If reports are accurate, Bolt has only raised around $190 million to $280 million in funding so far, small fry compared with the $3.8 billion Ola is said to have racked up, according to Morgan Stanley. TfL bosses must be frothing at the thought!
"We believe Ola is arguably a greater threat if media reports of Ola's entry into London at the end of the year prove accurate," the analysts said.
Morgan Stanley remains bullish on Uber as the strong growth rates it continues to achieve demonstrate the potential for faster ride bookings and more revenue growth through the course of 2019.
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