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LTDFUC TAKE KIDS ON 82ND OUTING TO SOUTHEND
WITHAM CABBIES TIP CANCER CHARITY £900
Taxi drivers raised £900 for Cancer Research UK at a charity golf day in memory of the couple who owned the firm for 30 years.
According to the Colchester Daily Gazette, Sue Pugh and her siblings have taken over the Knights Taxi family business and hope to hold the
event at Benton Hall Golf Club, in Witham, every year.
Her dad Jeff Clark, known as Nobby, and her mum Shirley Clark both died from cancer.
HAIL KINDNESS OF MALDON CABBIES TO LOCAL KIDS
Super Mario and Luigi entertain the children at Southend
A black cab convoy took 300 special needs and under priv- ileged children to Southend-on-Sea for a fun packed day. On their 82nd outing, the 100 decorated taxis set off from Vic-
toria Park last month. Clowns, balloonists and Nintendo’s Mario and Luigi met the chil- dren before waving off the convoy with the deputy mayor of Tower Hamlets, Cllr Anna Lynch.
They stopped for lunch at the Palms Hotel, Upminster and the children spent the afternoon at Adven- ture Island, in Southend followed by a sumptuous tea and disco.
PETERBOROUGH CABBIES SCORE £500 FOR SUE RYDER CHARITY
The England football team may have disap- pointed fans at the recent World Cup, but it did not dampen one city taxi firm’s and all its drivers’ fund-rais- ing efforts. Peterborough Cars made a pledge that for every goal England scored in the tourna- ment it would donate, to Sue Ryder Care, £10 plus £1 from each driver (60), plus anoth- er £50 for reaching the quarter finals, £100 for
the semi finals and £150 for the final. “For England winning the World Cup we would have contributed £500 plus the number of goals scored x 70 and £300 to reach the final,” general manager Shabir Ahmed told the Peterborough evening Telegrgaph. “We were also hoping for a couple of penalty shoot-outs to boost the total. This was a unique and a great idea to raise funds for
Sue Ryder.” Peterborough Cars felt that the England team had a really good chance to progress with Rooney in the team and they would score lots of goals. The lack of goals, only three in the whole finals, meant that the total raised was £210. But Peterborough Cars felt that since the money was going to a really worthwhile cause, it would top this up to £500.
Eighty Maldon cab- bies were ‘off the run’ to ferry scores of excit- ed youngsters to Maldon in Essex for their annual outing. About 80 special needs children, and carers, from Newham were collected at Brampton School in East Ham where they were joined by groups from John F Kennedy and Royal Docks schools.
There they found their gleaming transport bedecked with bal- loons, streamers and cuddly toys. From there the convoy moved on to another collection point, Ravensbourne School in Harold Wood. Now 120 vehicles strong, it headed for Maldon.
The treat was the 58th
Photo courtesy of Paul Bennett (Newham Recorder)
planned and run by the East London Cabbies’ Outing Com- mittee. It was led off by Ken Flemwell whose late father Charlie, a Newham councillor, founded the event in 1952, then with just eight cabs taking part. As always, Maldon people came out in droves to greet the youngsters. The chil- dren enjoyed a day of
activities that included lunch at Plume School. A mounted crystal taxi was presented to the town for their continu- ing kind-heartedness over the decades. Mr Flemwell said: “It is good to see that with the help of committees past and present, and also the good people of Maldon, that the outing has grown into the success it is now.”
SCARBOROUGH CABBIES’ GOOD HEALTH HELPS CHARITY
Last month almost 200 taxi drivers will have gone through a med- ical examination and a Christian charity will benefit from a healthy donation from the doc- tor who carried out the tests.
Sue Ryder’s Helena Waters receives a cheque for £500 from Peterborough Cars
SEPTEMBER 2010 PHTM
Scarborough Council has recently intro- duced stricter medical assessments - mean- ing that the drivers are now tested to the same standard as long distance lorry drivers.
Dr Phil Thornley, the medical director of
Cotswold Medicals, travelled to Scarbor- ough from Bristol to check the drivers at the Crown Spa Hotel. Dr Thornley said that he made a 40 per cent donation from each fee to Caring For Life - a Christian-run charity which has a hands-on approach to helping homeless people. He told the Scar- boroough Evening News: “Our business has supported them for the last few years. We like them because they are a good organ-
isation.”
The medicals were organised by bosses from Atlas and Nippy taxi companies and they invited drivers from other firms along to the sessions. Tracy Fordyce, from Atlas and Nippy, said it took a lot of research to find the right doctor who met the council’s standards.
She said: “We do everything we can to help our drivers out. It is a really thorough medical required by the council.”
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