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FIR after FB video shows horse, hitched to carriage, collapsing on road

The Times of India 25 Apr 2025
The other horse is still harnessed to the carriage ... The court also noted other issues, such as the wide-scale prevalence of unlicenced hackney carriages in the city and the high rate of abandonment of ailing and unfit horses by their owners.
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Business group pushes back on Burnham cleaner greener taxi plans

The Business Desk 22 Apr 2025
The FSB, which was a loud voice against the Clean Air Zone proposals of 2021, has warned that plans to require hackney carriage operators – black cabs – to upgrade to newer vehicles is “not sufficient”.
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Letters: The compassion and humility of Pope Francis won him admirers from all the world’s faiths

The Daily Telegraph 22 Apr 2025
SIR – As a British Muslim, I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis ... Malik Fraz Ahmad ... The mayor should be vocal in supporting the hackney carriage trade, which originated in the mid-17th century, but he is silent ... .
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Vaz warns taxi operators of increasing fares without approval

Jamaica Star 15 Apr 2025
The [Transport] authority has received numerous complaints of this practice among hackney carriage operators and route taxi operators," Vaz said Tuesday ... the hackney carriage operators to transition.
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Minister Vaz warns taxi operators of increasing fares without approval

Jamaica Star 15 Apr 2025
The [Transport] authority has received numerous complaints of this practice among hackney carriage operators and route taxi operators," Vaz said Tuesday ... the hackney carriage operators to transition.
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Mackinac Island draft horses return for 2025 summer season. How many horses are there?

Detroit Free Press 14 Apr 2025
... and hackney breeds. Joanne's Fudge Shop on Mackinac Island this week shared video of a rite of spring on the island, as some of the hundreds of draft horses that pull carriages and haul cargo returned.
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JUTC ditches 23 routes that are being converted for route taxis - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer 11 Apr 2025
... the authority has commenced accepting applications for these routes to allow hackney carriage operators to convert to route taxis and provide legitimate service along these routes,\u201d said Vaz.
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Taxi operators to get car park in Discovery Bay

Jamaica Star 11 Apr 2025
Vaz informed that during the licensing period, the Authority has commenced accepting applications for the routes to allow hackney carriage operators to convert to route taxis and provide legitimate service along these routes.
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Bradford Council scraps knowledge test for new taxi drivers

BBC News 11 Apr 2025
Lal, who represents the City ward, added ... In response, the council's Hackney carriage and private hire licensing manager said not all operators had the technology to provide passengers with such details by phone ... .
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‘People have stood next to my cab and ordered an Uber’: The Black cabbies fighting to survive

The Daily Telegraph 09 Apr 2025
The name “hackney carriage”, incidentally, has nothing to do with the now trendy borough to the east, but instead the Norman French word hacquenée, which refers to a horse suitable for hiring.
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