No wonder they call this THE SILLY SEASON...
Just where to start? Normally this time of year is noted for noth- ing at all happening... you know, people going on holiday, schools broken up, not being able to get hold of
folk on
th’phone... the usual. But hey, it’s all hap- pening all over the place! We’ve had a flurry of activity in the field of volunteer driv- ers, as detailed (in part) on the front page. We’ve had a lobby of Parliament by unions, associations and user groups con- cerning the future of the industry’s legisla- tion under the Law Commission. We’ve had a resolution of the specification of vehi- cle that will be licensed as hackney carriages by Manches-
ter City Council. And it’s all in this issue... so do read on. Maybe it’s the halfway civilised
As for weather
we’ve been enjoying, but we’ve got a true bumper crop of Chari- ty stories for you this time,
including two
drivers (profiled indi- vidually) who take charity fund raising to the extreme – literally. And our Company Profile swings back up to the North West, to visit Max Cabs in Accrington. Now then: Chief Anorak is back! Can’t you tell? – we’ve got the latest League Tables for you herein, plus yet another pithy Opinion – this one about Mr T and illegal driver licence renewal forms. Oh yes... do have a glance.
the Job-
sworth/’Elf ‘n’ Safety side, there has been a virtual epidemic of nonsense breaking out all over the place. Like for instance, four areas in Notting- hamshire – recently named as Britain’s obesity capital – are the beneficiaries of a proposed £500,000 to repair damaged foot- paths, with the idea that this will encour- age overweight people to do more walking. Evidently this is part of a £2m government grant
to improve
health in the county. Then we have a rather uninteresting bridge over the river Severn at Bridgnorth, which used to be adorned with beautifully set out and planted hanging baskets every sum-
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And last but not least, when the residents of Spennymoor in Coun- ty Durham spotted two fire engines, nine crew and a police car recently converging outside a shop, they were getting really concerned... but not to worry! The kerfuffle was all about rescuing three pigeons that had got stranded on the shop roof. We could fill this whole column with the comments from onlookers as to the waste of taxpayers’
money, disruption to bus
involvement of
timetables, the
RSPCA, et cetera et cetera. This no doubt added considerably to the £3.5m spent by the fire service over the last three years on ani- mal-related callouts, to rescue a total of 17,000 animals includ- ing seven dolphins, two iguanas and a snail.
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