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it seems Pete is right about York Station Taxi's, since asking a few questions I have found alegations of drivers being refused entry because they were verbally abusive to company officials, yet these same officials have "grabbed people by the throat" an ex chairman/secretary punched another driver but escaped punishment because the company did not receive a written complaint.It is now being voiced that the two drivers who were fighting with crow bars are to be let off because it was a private dispute between two officials, how long can this be allowed to carry on it is also talked that the man in charge is awaiting a heart transplant and is running the company whilst receiving disability allowances I think the ice is getting thinner . Alll will be revealed on January 2nd when the kangaroo court, sorry disciplinary committee meet.

If the situations that occur are as serious as you say, why does'nt someone call the Police or the BTP when they're happening?

If drivers were to do witness statements about two blokes fighting with iron bars, I would say there would be enough evidence to convict for a public order offence.

If someone grabs someone by the throat, then that's assault, why no complaint to the Police? Why no complaint to the licensing department? These pratts are'nt immune from prosecution because they are 'high' up in the local Taxi trade.

me thinks you will find that its panic time , believe its an emergency meeting by the taxi company comittee to respond to the ongoing GMB legal re not allowing a certain permit holder to ply for hire.

The problem is Mr Apathy again, and the fact that many drivers don't want to lose their station passes.

At a guess.

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You have hit it in one Sussex, its all down to permits.

Yes you was right it was a discipline hearing, 17 drivers or so up in front of the taxi firm committee today

asked about but no one seems to know what punishment the drivers were given, do these drivers take a legal rep or do they just accept the punishment as given, more than likely 7 days removal from the rank, so they just take that week off and have a holiday

at least 10 of those drivers will not be having stn permits renewed, the rumour was true then

I heard tonight that we have 3 millionaires plate owner drivers working in the stn rank, why on earth do they need to work,is their business that bad, the mulitple restaurant owner, the holiday site owner, oh I forgot, he's still on his world cruise, and the other one who's off sick who owns numerous rented out property's inside the city walls, come to think of it that figure should be 4 millionares, how about the driver who owns all the icecream businesses and half a dozen plates,

how about that York taxi driver who died recently of ill health, did you read about it, 60 grand in cash gone missing from a safe/stolen from one of his houses, why on earth was it left there even after he died

I think I am doing something wrong here, punters seem to think there's money in taxi driving, and so do business people.

Widow’s despair as £60k is stolen from dead husband’s safe
Exclusive By Matthew Woodcock
A GRIEVING widow told today how cruel thieves stole £60,000 from her dead husband's safe.

Susan Baker said she was devastated to discover that the cash had been taken from the empty house in Parker Avenue, Chapelfields, where her spouse, David, lived before his death last month.

It is believed the thieves took out a side window at the property and ripped out the safe before escaping with it using a "sack barrow".

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The safe was later found in the grounds of nearby Westfield Primary School along with a computer hard drive which was also taken from the house.

Mrs Baker, of Upper Poppleton, who married her husband in a ceremony conducted by his beside just three days before he died, said the money was intended to be used towards the college education of their six-year-old daughter, Rhiannah, and Mrs Baker's other daughter, Charlotte Lalowski, aged 15, and a family holiday.

Mr Baker, 62, ran his successful bus and taxi firm Fairway Travel from the house at Parker Avenue, before succumbing to cancer.

"How can they rob a dead man?" Mrs Baker said.

"That was money David had saved for the future to pay for his daughters' college fees and for us all to go on a luxury family holiday.

"My daughter, Rhiannah, is still trying to get over her daddy's death. She is only six. Whoever did this has deprived the children's chance of a good education.

"I haven't even grieved over David's death yet. I can't believe someone can be so callous to do this."

Family friend Steve Harris, who discovered the break-in while picking up a bus from the house at lunchtime on Friday, said it appeared the thieves had wheeled the safe away.

"I knew David for four years and we did a lot of business together," he said.

"I don't think this was just an opportune break-in. The fact they did it just after he passed away I find astonishing."

Inspector Steve Burns, of York police, said they received an initial report of a safe being found at Westfield school at 8.30am on Friday, and later that it was taken from Parker Avenue along with other items.

"We believe the safe contained about £60,000 but we still have checks to make," he said.

"We are very anxious to speak to the persons concerned who carried out this offence and any witnesses."

Anyone with information about the theft should contact York CID on 0845 60 60 247.

I'd better bank mine quick.