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first Saturday in December saw the 35th annual Taxi
Driver of the Year Ball, as last year held at the Britannia
Hotel in Docklands. With a full house enjoying good food and excellent dancing to Band of Gold, the charity’s Chairman Russell Poluck MBE (T55), explained that the committee were doing everything they could to find a sponsor for next year’s show and that the current absence of a Taxi Driver of the Year was totally out of their control – even though they had tried incessantly to resurrect the yearly event. However, they were still hopeful for next year. He ended his speech by thanking the sponsors of the evening, Dial-a-Cab, KPM, Doug Sherry MBE and the Royal Oak and of course presenting cheques to the trade charities. But the evening wasn’t just about speeches and presentations, it was about letting your hair down and having a great time – something most seemed to achieve. However, there was one part that wasn’t quite so much fun – and that involved the utter humiliation of Call Sign! Ok, it wasn’t quite that bad, but Editor Alan Fisher had to wipe some egg off of his face following the ‘cock-up’ involving the crossword in the December issue of the magazine. Having advertised it on driver’s terminals and with a prize of £100, it would have made a handy little Xmas win for someone – except that it had one number in the wrong place and one black square similarly placed incorrectly! There was only one thing he could do, eat humble pie and cancel the competition knowing that he was going to face some warped humour via driver’s emails. He wasn’t disappointed! However, he decided that the £100 shouldn’t be wasted and instead presented it to Russell, knowing that the TDoY make presentations to all the trade charities, so they’d all get something out of Alan’s misput black square! Russell told Call Sign: "The
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THE TAXI DRIVER OF THE YEAR BALL And the Call Sign ‘cock-up’ of the year! |
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 Feeling silly, Alan presents Russell Poluck with what should have been £100 crossword prize! |
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 Taxicab News State of the Trade columnist John Pace! |
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 Brian Rice has a chat with Grace Tyzack - wife of DaC's Bill (C06) |
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Charity would like to
thank everyone that supported our annual dinner-dance and helped
raise money for the charities that have supported us." Russell’s wife Barbara added with a smile: "On behalf of the Charity, I would like to thank Call Sign for its kind donation |
and hopefully, the more cock- up's the better!" They both added their greetings for a Merry Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year. Then the evening of fun continued along its merry way… Raffle numbers: 1st prize 0860, 2nd 1433, 3rd 2501, 4th 2504, 5th 0085 and 6th 2520. |
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