Lawyers say many people fail to realise the offence can result in a charge of perverting the course of justice and a prison sentence or large fine
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London is being "held to ransom" over pay increases to tube drivers, critics claimed, after it emerged the capital's best paid operator earned more than £61,000.
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Telegraph on 25th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Look at all those forrin’ trucks, coming over here, using our roads. Using them for free, too! Foreign trucks don’t pay to use our roads we British drivers pay an annual fee to licence our vehicles to use them where as over in Europe they have a system of tolls. The British have a contract,
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High-risk road users such as bikers and young drivers are to be targeted in a bid to halve the number of people killed or seriously hurt on Welsh roads.
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BBCPolitics on 23rd Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
As drivers earn £60 a day, a parking fine incurred while waiting to pick up a customer leads to the loss of a full day's pay which members cannot risk so the West End abandoned to the illegal touts says the GMB trade union. The GMB is complaining that Westminster City Council's increased parking restrictions are deterring licensed private hire drivers from accepting jobs in the Wes...
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LabourMatters on 13th Jan 2012 (via labourmatters.com)
The Labour minister faces fresh calls to resign following her tweet that taxi drivers don't pick up black passengers.
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Telegraph on 6th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Diane Abbott is facing fresh calls to resign after enraging London's taxi drivers with a claim that they routinely refuse to pick up passengers who are black.
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Telegraph on 6th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
The problems caused when lorry and car drivers are misdirected by out-of-date directions from their sat-navs are to be tackled at a government summit.
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BBCPolitics on 6th Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
New figures show that local authorities in Scotland have paid out more than £1.7m to drivers whose cars were damaged by potholes.
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BBCPolitics on 3rd Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)