Have a look at the Eastbourne review report, in my opinion a well thought out one at that.

http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/reports/do ... ort~03.htm

Does anything sum up the local trade better than these comments?

The Study was considered by Planning and Licensing Committee on 4th April 2000, who decided not to issue any additional hackney carriage licences at that stage. Committee were told by a hackney carriage representative that two more wheelchair accessible vehicles would be brought into the trade. This would have brought the total to 11. However it did not happen. The number of wheelchair accessible vehicles has declined to 4, the reverse of the intention at that time and of the purpose of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and a failure by the trade to take the opportunity to advance through provision of purpose made taxis.

Don't count your chickens Suspect, 5 days and counting

Well let's hope that you make a better fist of it this time. But then it would be nigh on impossible to make a worse one.

I sense a little hostility here

Captain cab