Derek O'Reilly is about as close as you can get to a bonafide Black Cab Celebrity. A true Londoner born in Hackney at the Old Mothers Hospital and resident of Islington for over 20 years he recently transplanted to Wapping. Not only has he been Training Manager at the Knowledge Point School for over 10 years overseeing the training material and plans for aspirant cab drivers starting the Knowledge but he's a media starlet......

Ever been in a position of directing your Black Cab driver to your destination? Now's your change to test your true knowledge tonight at the London Transport Museum's Knowledge Quiz. Quizmaster Derek O'Reilly from the Knowledge Point School will pose four sets of six questions with the themes of curiosities and history, famous Londoners, capital culture and city routes to challenge your A-Z acquaintance and London geekery good and proper. Kicking off at 18.45......

Next time you turn down a proffered tête-à-tête with a chirpie cabbie, you could be missing out on a satisfying cultural exchange. Who knows whether your driver is a painter, origami champion or candle-stick maker? Black cab driver Dominic Shannon has spent nine years of his career taking pictures of city life, warts and all. While other cab drivers pass the time by attempting to splash foolhardy tourists standing in close proximity to puddles......

We don't want to get burned again by a false rumour, like the sadly inaccurate story that Madonna was buying a London pub so take the following with a shtickl of salt: Kate Moss has apparently solved her transport woes by snapping up a black cab. The shy, retiring supermodel and occasional moral crusadee has parted company with £45,000 to get her hands on one of LTI's taxi cabs - a LTI-TX4, for those......

We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we're biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin' out in the back seat: it's exactly how we'd like to spend a lazy afternoon. Since we generally are unable to scrape together enough coins to even steal sideways glances......

It’s not really news that hailing a cab in the middle of the night is getting harder. We can remember the days when you could step out of a bar at midnight or tumble out of a club rather later and still expect to find a magical proliferation of roomy, comfy Hackney Carriages to spirit you home. Alright, you might dent your overdraft but at least you didn’t have to hunt down a smelly,......

If you could release a spoken word album of cabbie stories you would have to advertise it in a K-Tel Hit Parade LP style. It would sound something like this: New from K-Tel, it’s the 100 best Cabbie stories coming to all good record stores! Who could forget such classics as; “You’ll never guess who I had in the back of my cab the other day…” Or the mercurial: “The trouble with Blair is......

Magnus Magnusson died. What a great name he had. If only he'd been born in the 10th century his starter for ten would have been a Viking axe to the face. As it was the Reykjavik born Magnusson became the UK's grand inquisitor on the original run of the Beeb's Mastermind (as well as an expert on old Icelandic literature hence the pic). Arguably the most famous winner of Mastermind was a London cabbie......

… The Knowledge, that is, the essential - even in this age of satnav - mental map that allows London taxi drivers to get around. Considering that this Londonista tends to think of the map of our great city as being covered by the "fog of war", as used in games such as Command and Conquer or Zelda, with clear patches in bits we're familiar with but the rest concealed by a thick black......

The situation in the Middle East has settled down for a minute, terrorist attacks in Britain are 'highly likely' rather than 'imminent', the Premiership season is yet to start, and we're still in August. Must be time for more silly season filler. Today, Reuters has come up with today's 'No Shit, Sherlock' story telling us that London cabbies are better at getting around London than satellite navigation systems. We've got experience of a couple......

While the other Londonistas are loafing around, reading their papers, nursing their hangovers, I like to do everything that Sundays were not designed for. Going out in the rain, CHECK; miles of lonesome hiking, CHECK; ne’er a whiff of a Sunday roast, CHECK. But this is not some countryside ramble. Oh no. My ideal Sunday is a focussed wander around the streets and alleys of London. What do I mean by a ‘focussed wander’?......

Conversations with cabbies may soon be a thing of the past, the BBC reports, thanks to an innovation by an Australian company. TouchTaxi allows you to surf the information superhighway while stuck in traffic on London’s not-so-super highways. And it sounds like a terrible idea. It consists of a touch-screen interface by the passenger seat and a PC in the boot. The Melbourne-based company that is promoting it over here touts a range of benefits......