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GLASGOW TAXI DRIVER SAVED COUPLE FROM MISSING THEIR WEDDING RECEPTION
A taxi driver came to the rescue of a Glasgow couple who almost missed their own wedding due to the TRNSMT festival. Liam McDermott and his new bride Kirsty got married on Saturday 8 July, the same day thousands of music fans headed to Glasgow Green for the festival. The pair had booked ten non- wedding taxis to take them and their guests to their reception in Charing Cross. But the traffic caused by TRNSMT meant availa- bility was low and Liam and Kirsty became stranded in the Southside. The bride and groom issued an SOS call and they were rescued by Glasgow Taxis driver Jim Smith.
Kirsty said: “We booked a taxi convoy but because of TRNSMT they were struggling to arrive. A call was put out that there was a wedding party needing to get to Cubatas. “Jim, just finishing up at another wedding, turned towards the Southside to help.” Almost as if it was written in the
stars, Jim happened to be in a cab that is used for the company’s popular wedding services. Kirsty added: “My husband and I let all the guests go ahead. Jim turned up in a wedding cab and we were both beside ourselves! He even got the ribbons and the flowers out!” Jim said: “It was an absolute pleasure to help make Kirsty and Liam’s day that little more special on Saturday. As soon as I arrived and saw it was the bride and groom who were the last pick-up, I offered to put my wedding ribbons back on the car and they loved it. “They were an absolutely delightful couple, it was clearly meant to be..”
BRAVE ACTIONS OF A PASSING WORCESTER CABBIE SAVES FAMILY FROM CAR FIRE
A mother has told of the terrifying moment she saw her car on fire in the middle of the night - with flames lapping at her two-year-old son’s bedroom window. Kirsty Howard’s car was set on fire outside her house in Ronkswood, Worcester, in the early hours of Saturday morning 15 July. And she says the brave actions of a passing taxi driver saved her family’s lives. “I woke up to a taxi driver banging on my door at 3.50am,” said Kirsty. “I ran through into my son’s room, looked out the window and saw flames - loads of flames. “I picked him up out of bed, ran downstairs and opened the front door to see if we could get out, but the heat sent me back. So we ran into the back garden with the baby
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and called 999.” Kirsty said firefighters at the scene told her if the fire had burned for another five minutes, it could have spread to her partner’s van on the drive which contained cans of petrol for his work as a tree surgeon. “This could all have been a very different story,” she said. “I keep
playing it over in my mind - we could’ve ended up in the hospital or worse. “That taxi driver has saved our lives. He must have come past the fire to get to the house - what he did was really brave and I would like to thank him in person.” Kirsty has a suspicion she knows who started the fire. “They have put petrol at the front and at the back of the car, so they would’ve seen a child’s car seat in the back - who does that?” A West Mercia Police spokes- woman said: “Police were called to a vehicle fire on Ripon Road, Worcester on July 15 at around 4am. No one was injured. It is currently being treated as arson. Investigations are still ongoing.”
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