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Britain’s ‘edgelands poet’ has a particular affinity with off-the-map London, where people live on the fringes in places that aren’t supposed to matter.

Spot the taxi.

Westminster Council trials fixed rate fares to get you home in a Black Cab this weekend.

London’s long retreat from its Big Smoke epithet moved a step further yesterday, as Deputy Mayor Kit Malthouse unveiled a hydrogen-powered taxi. On the streets, the green machine releases nothing more noisome than water vapour, running off a tank of hydrogen coupled to a fuel …

Might be best to avoid using the roads around Aldwych from 3pm today – black cab drivers are blocking the streets in protest at illegal minicab drivers. Cabbies claim police and local authorities aren’t doing enough to clamp down on unlicensed drivers, who they say …

Christ, this one’s grim. A black cab driver apparently killed himself via the novel expedient of a motorised noose in Southwark today. The unnamed cabbie, believed to be in his thirties, tied one end of a rope around his neck and the other around a …

Image / ChrisGoldNY Rather spoiling his image as the cycling Mayor, Boris Johnson’s taxi bill for his time thus far in office is over £4,500, according to the BBC. This includes one ride that cost £237 alone as Boris kept the cab waiting outside his …

Bright green neon reflects on top of row of London Black (and Silver) Cabs like they have met up in the night to party. You can almost imagine the music inside the taxis is also in sync. Blues, Jazz or the soundtrack to Wicked, perhaps? …

A 19 year old boy has become the youngest ever candidate to pass The Knowledge. Good news for the Public Carriage Office who need to attract younger drivers to the trade. The taxing test, which takes normal people about 30 months to study for and …