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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

No, City Cabs don't have the airport

But they do have the contract for MANAGING the airport rank. It'll be more than just City Cabs working the airport as of Monday

Rivals say tycoon’s airport deal breaks strict taxi rules


Big bucks ... Stevie Malcolm owns £9million home


A TYCOON dubbed the Fat Controller is locked in a legal war over a goldmine taxi contract.

Mega-rich Stevie Malcolm — a pal of dead gangster Tam ‘The Licensee’ McGraw — will net a reported £30MILLION over five years to pick up passengers at Edinburgh Airport.

Rivals claim the set-up flouts strict taxi rules because Malcolm’s fleet — which the public are NOT allowed to hail — will be queuing up at a rank outside the terminal as if they are black cabs.

But his firm has hatched a plan where a “marshal” with an iPad stands next to the rank to key in passengers’ names and destinations before pointing them to a cab.

A source said: “They think this satisfies the law for private hire customers booking in advance.

“But Malcolm’s rivals say they are having none of it and have launched a legal fight to argue the set-up is contrary to the Civic Government (Scotland) Act.

“They say that however you couch it, passengers will still be coming out of the airport terminal, seeing a queue of private hire cars, and jumping in to one, as if they were taxis.”

Malcolm’s firm, Edinburgh City Private Hire, starts the contract tomorrow. But it has only been granted a TEMPORARY licence while Edinburgh Council considers an objection by the city’s largest black cab firm, Central Taxis.

The local authority will rule on the objection later this month.


Edinburgh Airport
Hail storm ... rank at Edinburgh Airport


Edinburgh’s lucrative airport deal was awarded to a partnership between ECPH and black cab firm City Cabs.

The consortium will get exclusive access to a lane outside the terminal — with City Cabs’ black cabs queuing on one side, and ECPH private hires on the other.

Airport bosses say marshals will offer passengers a choice between the two, and key their name and destination into the iPad, or similar gadget, regardless of what kind of vehicle they want to take.

But critics warn that visitors might be unsure of the difference between the two.

They say they could be unaware that private hire cars are NOT allowed to use Edinburgh’s bus and taxi lanes.

Drivers also do NOT have to take a test about street and place names — unlike black cab drivers.Malcolm, 49, is squeaky clean and pals say he is a shrewd businessman who has built up a fortune from taxis and tanning salons. But the tycoon — who has a £9MILLION home — has murky links in his background.

Malcolm is known to have been a pal of late Glasgow crimelord McGraw. He’s also a business partner of the dead gangster’s widow Margaret, 61, in another of his firms — Glasgow Private Hire.

And Malcolm’s co-director in ECPH, Allan Gibson, 52, was a director of controversial Glasgow firm Network Private Hire between 1999 and 2007.

That company was feared to have links to hoods and was raided by cops before being given a clean bill of health.

Last night, Central Taxis declined to comment.

An airport spokesman said the idea was to give passengers choice, and said they were sure the set-up was “entirely lawful”.

A lawyer for Malcolm’s firm last night said: “ECPH are not in contravention of any legislation governing private hire vehicles at Edinburgh Airport.”


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... z2QQNWbzfe

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6voHeEa3ig

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

jasbar did you see my response to your original post?
As a simple courtesy to me as you obviously created the post in response to my pm to you, could you at least answer my direct points to you?
Namely why the topic title masons and casuals and what if any disrespect did I show you in my pm?
Thank you

No incentive to buy the sunday comic.

Anyone who reads that dross, well it says all you need to know about them, doesn't it?

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

It's a rag Jasbar but no one is saying buy it. You just have state how up your own arse you are!

Now Jasbar......would a King Socialist such as yourself really sell free plates on?

You're not practising what you preach Jazzy!

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"I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork."

Private property.

The council have previous in rolling over to airport management.

Most customers won't give a toss what vehicle they get into, they just want to continue their journey as quick as.

Didn't we say that jobs will be filtered? ECPH controlling the filtering, City's boys will be heading for the Norton House Hotel.

Who cares who Malcolm knows. He is deemed fit and proper by base licensing to own the company. End of.

More tripe about Gibson. He too is deemed fit and proper by the regulatory authority, end of.

And by the way boys. MaGraw is deid. Get over it. It is wrong to speak ill of the dead (apart from Thatcher of course).

The council has no power to interfere with a commercial company's business. Any customer has a right to get into a cab, and one has been provided for them.

I've long wanted the airport reined in for their commercial greed. But I suspect this aint gonna be it.

The contract has gone boys. Get over it. And next time, it will be lost to the trade forever. And City and Central's committees will have achieved it.

Well done!

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

His only interest in the black cab trade is to get free plates and sell them on hssc

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"I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork."

Yet again you avoid the chance to not only debate an issue but you respond with entirely predictable and inappropriate vulgar language.
Is there no way you can get over this rather tiresome behaviour and help myself and others to take you seriously by entering into an intelligent debate without being childish and abusive?
I have not nor will not in the future be so affected by your imature personal jibes that I will respond in the same fashion. So why not desist and show yourself in a decent light by actually debating with me and others in a civilised tone.
Over to you......

Sorry to tell you this - and I don't mean to be harsh - do you actually think he gives a t*ss? has any post he made given that impression? Has any post actually told you that he lives in a world that doesn't revolve around him? You're talking to a brick wall - he isn't interested in what you have to say or any argument you offer - he's an narcissist.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Oh I do like to work out at the airport
Oh I do like to work out at the port
With my City Cabs permit in my hand
Waiting for all the planes to land
At the airport every day

Oh I do like to work out at the airport
Oh I do like to work out at the port
There'll be waves and kisses blown
As central leave the drop off zone
At the airport every day

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I bet coldplay are sh*tting themselves.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Captain cab this is your second best post after voting for the Artur!

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"I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork."