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Fact: London has somewhere close to 23,000 black cabs. Question: Why is there never an empty one around when you need it? Enter Hailo, a brand new free app for iPhone and Android, built to link needy travellers with lonely cabbies (of which, we’re told, there are loads). Released [...]

Mitch Winehouse goes back to work for the first time since his daughter’s death.

It’s been three months since his daughter’s death at the age of just 27.
But today Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch bravely swallowed his grief and went back to work.
The 60-year-old looked pained as he drove his black cab in central London, but still [...]

Boris Johnson promised a ‘Hydrogen Highway’ for London in time for the 2012 Olympics, and we hear the first 15 hydrogen fuel cell London Black Cabs have hit the roads.

Over two years ago London Mayor, Boris Johnson, promised we would have a ‘Hydrogen Highway’ in London in time for the 2012 Olympics, with a small [...]

The management of the bbc have decided to slash budgets under the banner of ‘Delivering Quality First’ due to the coalition freezing the licence fee for the term of this parliament which is in effect a cut in real terms due to inflation.
The saddest proposed cuts are the ones that will decimate bbc Local radio [...]

The United Cabbies Group are organising a
MASS TRADE DRIVE-IN DEMONSTRATION
As voted for by our members, to be held on…
4PM – WEDS 9TH NOVEMBER at TRAFALAGAR SQUARE.
Everyone is invited to attend no matter what representative group you belong to.
This is in protest at the illegal practices of Private Hire which continue unabated EVERY day & night [...]

London taxi drivers are planning demonstrations they say will “bring London to a standstill” in an ongoing row over Olympic traffic.

Cabbies are angry that the Games Lanes, which will be for the exclusive use of Olympic officials, athletes, sponsors and media, will be closed to public transport during the Games.
Jonathan Myers, of the United Cabbies [...]

Hi everyone, It’s nice to be back, I was flagged down while driving up Queens Gate in Kensington, this guy jumped in the back an said, Just drive straight up Queens Gate and I’ll tell you where to go, at which point the lights turned Red, he grunted something, I ignored him.
When I reached the [...]

Hi everyone, I thought I would share some past memories with you.
I met an old work colleague the other day his name is Tony aka @taxitony on Twitter, while ranking up on (padders bri,) thats the feeder rank for Paddington Station on Bishops Bridge Rd, he recognized me, I’ve seen him only once in the [...]

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In a survey carried out by Hotels.Com, London cabs have beaten their rivals my quite a sufficient margin again.

Year after year London cab drivers have come top in a survey carried out by Hotels.com and have proven to be the best in the World, why is it then that London cabbies are treated with contempt [...]