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1... 2... 3... SMASH AND GRABS! As three cabs are broken into in the same area... |
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If you have been
driving a taxi for more years than you perhaps care to remember,
you may well have found yourself in the position of finding that
a "chancer" has broken into your cab and taken anything he could
find. But it becomes more worrying when several are reported all
with shouting distance of each other. Dial-a-Cab driver Steve Wright (B36), lives in Selsdon (South Croydon) and was one of at least three drivers that he knew of who were robbed at the same time. It could well have been more. Steve takes up the story... "I had finished work around 2am and went to bed about an hour later. I normally wake up at 11am but my wife called me soon after 8 saying that someone had smashed my nearside luggage door window. The door itself had been left open as was the consul lid inside. However, I don’t leave anything in the cab overnight so there was nothing they could take - well almost nothing. I keep a pair of old glasses in there because I’m |
 slightly short sighted and they took those! I’ve been meaning to replace them for some time, so even that wasn’t terrible!" Steve went on to say that soon after he awoke, a woman who lived nearby was walking past his house and noticed his taxi with the smashed window. She rang Steve’s doorbell and explained that her husband – a local Croydon yellow badge – had also had his taxi broken into, but unlike Steve he’d left his satnav and wallet with all his credit cards still inside and was at the bank at |
the time trying to sort things
out. She went on to tell Steve that a third cab – also just around the corner – had been broken into and that driver was in the habit of leaving his badge in the cab overnight! Needless to say that was taken - although later found in the street. This third driver, however, heard the miscreants at around 3am and was going to go out to tackle them but his wife wouldn’t let him. The second cab was probably broken into first and because they found the credit cards and satnav inside, assumed that all taxi drivers leave valuable stuff inside overnight. Steve added that he has now spent a large sum having an alarm fitted, but wanted Call Sign to warn drivers not to leave anything in their cabs overnight. These people who think they can make a living out of robbing others will, if they find something of value in one taxi, assume that we all leave stuff overnight – even in leafy Selsdon. So take it in with you... |
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ELGAR £20 BANKNOTE TO BE WITHDRAWN |
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The £20 banknote carrying the portrait of composer Sir Edward
Elgar is to be withdrawn from circulation from 30 June this
year. This note has been gradually replaced by the Adam Smith
£20 which was introduced in 2007. Announcing the withdrawal, the
Bank of England assured holders of the Elgar £20 banknote that
they could certainly use the notes up to, and including, 30
June. After that date the note will no longer have ‘legal
tender’ status. The note will not have to be accepted in
payment, or in change, in retail outlets after this date.For several months from the end of June banks, building societies and Post Offices will accept Elgar £20 notes for deposit to customer accounts and for other customer transactions. Agreeing to exchange the notes for non-customers is at the discretion of the individual institution. The Bank of England will always give value for these notes (and all other banknotes the Bank has issued). Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England’s Chief Cashier, said, "The Elgar £20 banknotes were first introduced in 1999 and we introduced the Adam Smith £20 banknotes three years ago. We said at the time that the two designs would circulate in tandem, with the Elgar notes gradually being withdrawn over the next few years. It is time now to withdraw the Elgar £20 notes completely, with the Adam Smith £20 banknotes to be the only £20 note design continuing in circulation." Details of the Elgar £20 withdrawal are also included on leaflets and posters highlighting the 30 June final withdrawal date. Copies of these are available free of charge by calling 020 7601 4878. Further information is also available on the banknote pages of the Bank’s website at www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes. |
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