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If you want to know the most convenient way to get around Edinburgh city centre, then it helps to understand the two main types of taxi available to hire.
As the capital of Scotland, the city of Edinburgh is extremely busy, and there are hundreds of taxis available to take you where you need to go. [...]
If you’re travelling in and out of Edinburgh by rail then the two main stations are Edinburgh Waverly and Edinburgh Haymarket. To make your journey as smooth as possible, here’s a quick guide to making that connecting journey between your home/ hotel and the station.
Edinburgh Waverley
This station is conveniently located in the centre of the [...]
If you’re new to the Edinburgh area and just visiting for a short period of time then there are a few places you should go if you really want to make the best of the city.
The Old Town: This part of Edinburgh is full of history, spanning between Edinburgh Castle and the Scottish Parliament building. [...]
East Dunbartonshire taxi drivers are claiming that higher running costs are the underlying reason for demanding higher fares for journeys.
The East Dunbartonshire Taxi Owners Association wants fares to be increased by 6.5 percent. This means that a three mile journey would cost £5.61 rather than the previous £5.25.
Fares are set by the local council, and [...]
If you’ve had a long day out in Edinburgh and want to catch a taxi home then there are a number of taxi ranks situated throughout the city centre. You can find taxis waiting there at just about any hour of the day, though it’ll be harder to catch a taxi as the bars close [...]
There has been a request made for the 400 taxis in Calderdale to undergo fewer MoTs. This is in spite of the passing rate of just one in three vehicles among first-time test takers.
Back in 1990, regular testing of once every four months was introduced; today, operators are suggesting that the rules should be [...]
A cyclist who is claiming that he was strangled until he was unconscious by a taxi cab driver after getting in a road crash on Oxford Street is appealing to any witnesses who have seen the incident in order to clear his name.
39-year-old Jared Kelly, a screenwriter, said that he has been a whirlwind [...]
A 34-year-old taxi cab driver who has been accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl in the back of his car burst into tears, saying that he was only trying to comfort the girl after he snubbed her advances.
Ali Hassan, a private hire taxi driver from Bertrand Road in Bolton explained to the Bolton [...]
A 61-year-old taxi driver who had been convicted of killing a teenager because of his careless driving was spared jail.
18-year-old Aaron Todd suffered from fatal head injuries when taxi driver Paul Stephenson accelerated away from the curb on the 29th of March in 2009.
Todd was an apprentice joiner and a popular and talented [...]
A 41-year-old man, locally known as David, was killed by a taxi collision as he was cycling along Liverpool Road in Huyton on May 29. The cyclist was heading towards Liverpool near Liverpool Road’s junction with Kingsway when he was thrown off his bike after colliding with a hackney cab that Saturday morning. The cab [...]
