Taxi drivers given parking tickets for 'over-ranking'

TAXI drivers have been picking up more than fares in a city centre rank - after police dished out 30 parking fines to them.

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Fuel boost device 'does not work'

A conversion kit claiming to allow vehicles to run more efficiently using water does not work, a BBC investigation has discovered.

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Killer removed from taxi course

A paranoid schizophrenic killer will not be allowed to study to become a black-cab driver following protests from taxi drivers.

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Taxi drivers fear fuel price hike will lead to longer hours

CABBIES say they will have to work longer hours to break even when fuel prices go up next week.

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Motorists suffer 2p rise in fuel duty as first of five tax increases

Motorists face more pain from tomorrow when fuel duty is increased by 2p, the first stage in the removal of government assistance to help families and businesses through the recession.

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Aldi's move may bring cheap petrol to Britain

Discount supermarkets chain Aldi has launched the company's first petrol stations in Austria with astonishingly cheap fuel, triggering hopes that it may do the same in Britain.

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Petrol price-wars at the pumps

Company responses.

We asked all the major petrol companies to comments on the issues raised in tonight's programme (3 November 2008)

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Calls for further fuel price cuts

MOTORISTS across Cambridgeshire were delighted when prices for unleaded petrol finally dipped below the £1 a litre mark.

Led by the supermarket giants Morrisons and Tesco, other petrol stations followed suit to cut prices to levels not seen since October last year.

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Brown demands petrol price cuts

Gordon Brown has called for the recent falls in the price of oil to be passed on to UK consumers.

The price of oil has plummeted - from a high of $147 a barrel for US light crude this summer to $82.24 at midday on Friday.

The prime minister said: "I want these price cuts passed onto the consumer, and passed on as quickly as possible."

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