PORRIDGE, HAGGIS,
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Yes, this issue of PHTM has a distinctly Scottish flavour, as it’s all happening north of the Border. More on that shortly... but first we must pay tribute to Stuart Lud- lam. As you’ve seen on page one, he is the 51st driver to be mur- dered in our trade since we started hav- ing to keep such grim statistics. Who would have believed that taxi and private hire driv- ing would end up being as hazardous a job as being in the emergency services, especially the police force. A sobering thought.
Now then, back up North. As mentioned above, we won’t even attempt to capture the regional accents that proliferate in this most attractive and
welcoming of areas. There’s nothing worse than a badly imitated Scots accent in print, or a wrongly utilised Scotticism anywhere... we’ll leave that to the sports commentators. Back to this issue: Firstly we stop off in Glasgow to visit Thornliebank Cars; then we swing over to West Lothian to chat to Glenn Waters. Then we step back for a wider overview as Opinion brings you the latest legislation to affect our trade, the Scottish Statutory Instrument bringing in operator licensing to booking offices. You will note that we use the term ‘booking offices’ as opposed to ‘private hire booking offices’... this legisla- tion also includes
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