CROSBY
'Taxi driver' and man filmed punching and biting each other in street fight
The men were captured rolling around on the road as traffic had to swerve to avoid them
A man and another who appears to be a taxi driver have been caught on camera fighting in the middle of a busy Merseyside street.
Mobile phone footage has emerged showing the two men punching, kicking and biting each other.
The fight is believed to have took place yesterday (Monday) evening on Crosby Road North in Crosby, and was filmed by a passing driver who stopped at the scene.
At one point both men fell in the middle of the road as cars passed by. The two men then tried to wrestle as a woman attempted to separate the pair.
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PETERBOROUGH
Angry hackney carriage drivers descended on the council’s offices at Fletton Quays to protest against an application from Gujjar Investments Limited, to set up a minicab office in Westgate, at the site of the former Maplin store, opposite Beales, which had been recommended for approval by planning officers.
But after a dramatic day, which saw dozens of hackney carriages outside the authority’s Sand Martin House offices given parking tickets, councillors on the planning committee voted to turn down the plans.
The proposed new development would be a booking office and waiting area for people booking a private hire vehicle through the Autocab app.
The application had been recommended for approval despite 41 objections being received and the council’s own licensing team highlighting its opposition.
But councilors at the meeting refused the application by majority vote.
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BILBOROUGH
Taxi drivers warn that they are ‘always very vulnerable’, after a driver was threatened with metal pole in an attempted robbery.
A 41-year-old man was intimidated by a group of men with a metal pole on Bracebridge Drive, Bilborough in the early hours of June 29, after he refused to let them into his taxi.
The group demanded money from the driver after he suggested that they should call for a bigger taxi to take them to Long Eaton.
Fearing for his safety the man drove off just before the group threw the metal pole, which missed his vehicle.
Azeem Hanuf, chairman of Nottingham United Private Hire Drivers, said: “Unfortunately, we are always very vulnerable as taxi and mini cab drivers.
“I’m sure it’s been a very traumatic experience for the driver.
“It could have been worse; it could have been a knife or something so my heart goes out to him.”
A survey conducted by Nottingham United Private Hire Driver found that 80 per cent of drivers had suffered abuse or threats of some kind.
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/cabbies-always-feel-vulnerable-after-5593784
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NUNEATON
New taxi drivers will be forced to take an English and safeguarding test to work in Nuneaton and Bedworth.
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council wants to introduce the tests for those who are want a taxi drivers' licence.
It will cost £35 and all new applicants will have to undertake training and testing to get their licence to operate across the borough.
Councillor Kyle Evans, cabinet member for public services, explained why they were bringing in the tests.
"We want to ensure that residents in this borough, who use taxi drivers, are safe," he said.
"We have had nunerous incidents in other local authorities, particularly councils like Rotherham where we have had some really bad cases of child sexual exploitation and I am not going to accuse taxi drivers in Nuneaton and Bedworth of anything like that, we have some great taxi drivers and I know that as a member of the licensing committee,
"But I do think it is really important that we have those safeguards in place within the system to make sure that our tax drivers are fit to serve the pubic and that is going out to a public consultation."
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/new-taxi-drivers-forced-take-20945193
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