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AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after some taxi drivers say that tens of thousands of pounds in payments made to cab firms during the coronavirus lockdown have not been passed to them.

The row centres on council contracts handed out to taxi firms to provide school transport for pupils.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/18717367.probe-launched-lockdown-taxi-payouts-blackburn/ 

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A Burton taxi driver has been left feeling "sour and angry" over problems at Burton Railway Station.

Nabil Razzak says has been left out of pocket and lost customers after problems with parking at the train station in town.

He told Burton Live he pays £525 to East Midlands Railway, which runs the station, for a permit to operate there.

Last year, when train operator Network Rail undertook a major revamp of the forecourt, Mr Razzak says he was told it would take five weeks.

But it ended taking for six months, which caused a "drastic reduction" in drivers' income as he had to away from the station.

Mr Razzak, who has been operating in Burton for nine years, says drivers were told to park in Borough Road while the work was being carried out.

But parking wardens warned them they faced fines if they continued to park there..

They were then moved onto the bridge outside the station at the bus stop, but there there was only space for five vehicles when 29 drivers have permits.

Mr Razzak, of Envoy Taxis, says he was given no compensation or refund for the loss of trade he experienced, but the price of the permits have been frozen for two years.

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/angry-taxi-driver-demands-compensation-4520791