January, 2009

NZ TAXI NEWS: Hitch-hiker wanted in taxi kidnap case

Police are searching for a hitch-hiker seen in the Urenui area early yesterday morning in connection with the kidnapping and serious assault on a Taranaki taxi driver. Tony Brosnan, 49, was found in the locked boot of his cab at Urenui …
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NZ TAXI NEWS: Taxi driver found hurt in boot

A badly hurt kidnapped taxi driver “looked like he had been in a desert” when he was found locked in his own car boot. Tony Brosnan, 49, was in a critical condition with a severe head injury and on life support in Taranaki Base Hospital …
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Association welcomes decrease in taxi fare flag fall – Fiji Times

Association welcomes decrease in taxi fare flag fall. Sunday, February 01, 2009. Update: 11:45AM THE Fiji Consumers Association has welcomed the decrease to the taxi fare flag fall from $1.50 to $1 during the day. …
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NZ TAXI NEWS: Beaten taxi driver wakes from coma

About NZ Taxi News. This is a New Zealand bulletin which publishes selected news items from Transport Industry Participants. It encoura g es g eneral discussion, comments and feed back from individuals, g roups and or g anizations in …
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The Jamaica Star :: News :: Taxi driver escapes death :: January

The Jamaica Star On-Line :: A St Elizabeth taxi driver is lucky to be alive today after he was kidnapped by two men who took his taxi on Monday. The taxi driver, 50, of Cuffies Pen in Lacovia in the parish, is now resting at home after …
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Taxi driver charged with murder of Boyo’s owner – Stabroek News

A taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of murdering a storeowner in 2006 when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
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Elko Daily Free Press

Vance Gordon Curtis, 64, was pulling up to the taxi barn at 1104 W. Main St. when he apparently suffered a stroke or cerebral aneurism and his car struck the building, according to Elko police Lt. Will Lehmann. … MORE Local News…
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Virtual Lancaster News Blog: Taxi driver's licensing appeal rejected

Lancaster News Feeds. Morecambe Today – Morecambe News· Banned cabbie let down police car tyres – A “RECKLESS”taxi driver from Morecambe who deflated a police car’s tyres after he was fined for driving in a bus lane has had his …
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Taxi driver 'forced pill down woman's throat' – Melton Times

Taxi driver ‘forced pill down woman’s throat’ – An alleged victim of a south-east London taxi driver accused of preying on young women has told a court that after he forced a pill down her throat she could remember nothing more until …
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NZ TAXI NEWS: Police examine footage of men leaving taxi after killing

Police are working to enhance dark and distant images from crime camera footage that appears to show two people leaving the scene where taxi driver Abdulrahman Ikhtiari was stabbed to death in Christchurch early on Saturday morning. …
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