A House of Lords debate on the Crime and Policing Bill has highlighted concerns that taxi drivers and other transport workers could be left without the same legal protections being proposed for retail staff. During the debate on 4 March , peers discussed an amendment that sought to extend a new offence of assaulting a retail worker to cover all public-facing workers, including transport staff such as taxi drivers. Baroness Stowell of Beeston introduced Amendment 359, which pr

A campaign to reinstate a charity-linked lift service run by a Kent pub landlord has gained political backing after Katie Lam wrote to the leader of Ashford Borough Council urging the authority to reconsider its position. The dispute centres on The Flying Horse, where the landlord had been offering customers lifts home in exchange for an optional donation to the Motor Neurone Disease Association. The service was stopped after council licensing officers determined it fell with

Throughput at the taxi rank at Heathrow Airport fell slightly in January compared with the same month last year, with industry representatives warning that ongoing delays to a long-planned technology upgrade are continuing to affect operations. According to the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association (LTDA), taxi throughput at Heathrow was 2.3% lower in January 2026 than in January 2025. While the year-on-year drop is modest, driver representatives say volumes are well below the l