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TV show sees Essex life through eyes of a cabbie
It features shouting, drinking, tears, arrests and rather a lot of amorous behaviour

28 January 2011

A new Channel 4 documentary is to reveal what life in Essex is really like - from a cabbie's view. First Cut: Welcome to Romford follows A1 Taxis, its drivers and customers.

For eight months director Simon Smith, 26, spent Friday and Saturday nights filming. "I'm from Romford and I really like the people," he said. "In recent times Essex has been made a caricature, with everyone wanting to be celebrities. I wanted to show people being normal."

The programme employs split screen footage, with one camera on the driver and another on the passengers. Soon after they were installed, a customer was arrested after a row erupted between police and a drunken passenger caught playing with traffic cones.

"We've got hundreds of stories, it would be great to make a series," said Smith.

The cameras follow passengers who find a man in the road and take him to hospital; a couple using the cab as a wedding car; and a couple who have met for the first time after chatting on the internet.

A1 Taxis manager Julie Thomspon said: "We had no problems getting customers to go on. Every night is eventful." Welcome to Romford is on next Friday at 7.30pm.

Source; http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... -cabbie.do

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How come these programmes call them "taxi firms" their minicabs.

Because the word taxi is a generic term in English law.
You drive a Hackney Carraige according to the licence.

Under Scottish law, the word is defined in the CGSA.
Perhaps a change in the law down south is required.

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