2012
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to Blighty. January page 12. Picture two shows our Tyneside lottery win- ners who just missed out on a life-changing winning amount. November p 28. Caught on camera was driver Leslie Seswick on his mobile whilst
fulfilling a
school contract. November p 17. Whilst last month a blimp went missing over Manchester caus- ing consternation. December p 36. In April we learned of possibly the youngest taxi operator in the country. April page 12. And in June the record breaking round the world trip by three intrepid
travellers
came to its end. June page 30.
T h e quirkiest story of the year concerned the resident par- rot of a Glasgow taxi base. A parrot which used to live in a taxi firm office has left neighbours spitting feathers by squawking out cab booking details. According to Glasgow News, residents in a street in the Govan area of Glasgow called police to complain about
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behaviour from the bird. Officers visited the owner in his Uist Street home on a recent Tuesday to dis- cuss the problem and found the parrot on its perch chirping “Taxi
PICTURE GALLERY 1 John Judd 2 Newcastle Lottery winners 3 Leslie Seswick on his mobile 4 Our blimp has gone missing!
for Govan Road.” August page 50. July saw the rare event of a taxi recording its one millionth mile. It is owned by Brian Holmes, better known as Bernie of Bernie’s
Airport Service, has been taking holiday- makers to and from Manchester Airport in his red Ford Mondeo since he bought the vehicle for £14,000 on December 16, 1996.
5 Paul Anderson 6 Our intrepid globe trotters 7 Who’s a pretty boy then! 8 The million mile car 9 Dung! dung!
Now, 16 years later, he has completed the 120-mile return jour- ney from his home in Preesall around 8,330 times. July page 36. And finally in October
we learned of the
problems of Blackpool Council having its hands full, quite literal- ly, with horse dung from their seaside ponies. October page 19.
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JANUARY 2013 PHTM PAGE 67
MINICAB DRIVER BUYS SADDAM’S FIGHTER JET
A Maida Vale minicab driver has treated him- self to one of the most unlikely pieces of memorabilia – one of Saddam Hussein’s old fighter jets. Shamsu Miah, 39, of Sutherland Avenue, spent £7,000 on the Russian MiG 15 jet which last flew eight years ago. Unsurprisingly the jet – built during the Cold War – is too big for Westminster’s streets and is stored in a hangar
at RAF
Manston in Kent. The aircraft is in full working order but Mr Miah, who has never flown a plane, has no intention of taking to
the skies. “I’m too scared to start the thing in case it does go up and I don’t know how to get it back down,” he said. “Some people may have bought a plane but I don’t know many people who have bought a fighter jet. “These things don’t come along every day.” Mr Miah, who has been a taxi driver since 2001, is a director of Imperial Air Salvage which scraps and recycles old passen- ger and cargo planes. But there will be no scrapping of this fight- er jet, which he says is for keeps.
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