WELL, WE SAID THIS ISSUE WOULD BE MEATY...
The industry’s Bonfire Night firecracker went off with a bang all right... actually it hap- pened last month, but it was received after our press deadline for the October issue. But we knew it was coming. What we’re on about is the now- infamous Stockton judgment about using hackney carriages outside their licensing area on private hire circuits. You’ve already seen the intro on Page One; Opinion as per usual goes into the nitty-grit- ty of the implications of this particular case for the whole of the industry.
And such
implications! As indi- cated throughout, if ever there was a time to swing into action, this is it folks...
Meanwhile back in our usual departments, it’s been a bit active round the country on
various fronts; the placard-wavers and court-attenders have emerged victorious in areas where it was thought this would not be possible. Nice one; read on.
Our profiles this month are both from Northward directions: the company profilee is Southside Radio Cars of Glasgow, and the driver hails more from the North East really: Kevin Drinkeld of Newcastle-upon- Tyne. And now you’ll be telling me my sense of direction has Gone West!
Never
mind about that... What else is happen- ing round the place: oh yes, there are some corking Job- sworths about at present. Like the sea- sonal note from Walsall, where resi- dents have been banned from gather- ing up autumnal dead
leaves and depositing them in their brown recycling bins where they might contami- nate garden waste. Excuse me – I ain’t no Alan Titchmarsh, but aren’t leaves wot fall from th’trees garden waste??! Just check- ing... Evidently Walsall Council has now imposed a leaf- sweeping ban on residents, warning that persistent offend- ers who place the wrong material in bins could face a fine of up to £1,000. The offend- ing leaves would be those swept up ‘out front’ that didn’t actu- ally come from the resident’s own gar- den.
Are they
serious??! So what happens if someone slips on wet leaves outside your house – and you’ve been banned from remov- ing those leaves? Who’s gonna be
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Then there was the eighth annual charity cycle ride organised for Cancer Research UK in Milton Keynes, which was geared up to be a great day – until an environmental health officer arrived at the event, demand- ing that the PA system be switched off; evi- dently a couple of complaints had been made about the noise coming from the pub- lic address system.
The environmental guy spent most of the race lurking about, monitoring the decibel levels from nearby bushes, upsetting so many people that most left early.
The organiser claimed that the council work- er’s attitude was “unpleasant, uncalled for and unprofession- al.”
(Never!) His
demeanour put off sufficient numbers of participants that they sloped off and did not stay around the for the
after-race party, which was cancelled. The council is evidently investigating... We’ll finish with an item from the Scottish Herald whose editor got a note from a reader from Ontario who says he pulled up behind a taxi at a traf- fic light recently and was bemused by the slogan on the back: “Don’t drink and drive – Let us do it for you!” On that sobering thought, have a good read...
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