HAPPY ST VALENTINE’S DAY... AND WHAT ELSE?
Traditionally February is considered by many to be a bit of a yawn... but did you know that you could take part in the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, which this year starts at 12.30pm on Tuesday, 21 February at Dray Walk, the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 6QL. This day is of course also Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, or Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And the date for this year’s Brit Awards as well. We also have Collop Monday (20th), named after the traditional dish of the day, col- lops of bacon served with eggs. In days gone by we had Kiss- ing Friday (24th this time round) when Eng- lish schoolboys were entitled to kiss girls without fear of punish-
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ment or rejection – a custom that
lasted
until at least the 1940s. And of course this year is a Leap Year, and its extra day the 29th February is Leap Day, when traditionally the woman proposes marriage to the man. Anyone being chased out there? Back to reality for a minute, you’ll see from the front page that we have finally got a decision from ministers:
that ALL
licensed drivers will be entitled to have enhanced
CRB
checks. Thankfully a large number of licensing authorities had been continuing with this practice in the interim; now at least it will be given its proper legal sanction. As soon as the rele- vant legislation comes out, you shall be
availed of its content on the NPHA website,
www.npha.org.uk Opinion is taking a closer look at
the
enhanced CRB sce- nario, along with a couple of other trade developments that we were made aware of just before press deadline. Then we have the Company Profile, which this month flits over to Northern Ireland and visits with Value Cabs of Belfast. Travelling even further afield, World Wide Taxi Focus takes you literally all over
the place...
always fun to read, and to realise that our industry isn’t the only one that suffers the slings and arrows of officialdom. What is special about our various news and specialist departments this month is that they
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provide quite a few fol- low-up
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features from
PHTM. This is always a rewarding thing to happen for journalist- type folk, as we spend a lot of time trying to trace follow-up infor- mation and it’s not always there. But it was this month – so check out the areas that interest you most, and see
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“dropped the other shoe”. As has become some- what of a tradition, we
finish this intro with a rather amazing Job- sworth style item... this one courtesy of Surrey County Council. In the peaceful village of Mytchett in Surrey, a couple moved in last April
and
months (and several hundred pounds of their own money) clearing weeds, dead plants, broken bottles, old car parts and other scrap metal from the verge next to their home, and then plant- ing new shrubs. Subsequently
they spent
were totally baffled when they received a solicitor’s letter telling them to “put everything back”: to return the verge to its former state or face legal action. They were even told they had to pay £78 for a “retroactive licence” to carry out the work. A council
spokeman
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