IT WAS on the 7th December 1681 that King Charles II issued a Royal Warrant for the foundation of a hospital for the soldiers who had become infirm and old in the service of the Crown. In 1682 work started on the 66 acre site, which had been purchased by the King, the...

Jailed: Paul Causer (Picture: Surrey Police) A woman who was raped by an illegal minicab driver has said the "horror" of her ordeal will haunt her for the rest of her life, as her attacker was jailed for 11 years. The 31-year-old victim, who does not want to be named,...

Drivers in London are being warned of likely traffic disruption from a protest by taxi drivers on Wednesday, June 11. The protest is due to start at Trafalgar Square at 2pm and end before the evening peak. Transport for London (TFL) says with several thousand vehicles...

Black cabs – long a quintessential feature of London's identity – are under threat from an American app that wants to change the way we order taxis in the UK and across the globe. So what do the drivers make of it? Cabbies are concerned that TfL has 'given the nod' to...

Angry taxi drivers vented their frustration on a London office of e-hailing app Hailo, part of a wave of discontent surrounding apps such as Uber. Taxi app Hailo's cabbies-turned-co-founders Terry Runham, Gary Jackson and Russell Hall.Hailo Angry cab drivers...

Although 'no cab was available', each time I tried to call one I was charged £20 Road to ruin? Suddenly finding money had been taken from a bank account after tryinhg to call a black cab. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I used Hailo, the black cab app, to call...

Hailo, London’s largest app-based taxi network, is launching a partnership with Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity. The partnership was developed after a number of London cabbies felt passionately that they wanted to help transport seriously ill children to important...

Two of the biggest taxi service startups are preparing to go head-to-head as San Francisco’s Uber and London’s Hailo gear up for launch in New York. Who will win? Evidence so far suggests it’s a tough game, but the British company may just have the edge It looks like...

  There many taxis in London in which you’ll see the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) sign and if you’ve ever wondered why such a system is installed in cabs, you can now get a potential answer from Ireland. Taxi drivers in Derry, Northern Ireland are installing...