A Tory activist who claimed to have been bullied by Conservative supporters before his death committed suicide, a coroner ruled today.
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A Tory activist who claimed to have been bullied by Conservative supporters before his death committed suicide, a coroner ruled today.
Youths from Luton who embroiled themselves in carnival day rioting have been slammed for “letting their town down”.
A Tory activist who claimed to have been bullied by Conservative supporters before his death committed suicide, a coroner ruled today.
Dunstable Downs was a sea of pink recently as more than 1,900 mums, grans, daughters, sisters, aunts, workmates and friends united for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Mitalee Youth Association are celebrating after being awarded a grant of £7,650 by BBC Children in Need.
Luton Library Theatre didn’t know what hit it when MonologueSlam Luton powered into town.
An animal charity is calling for tougher laws on air guns after new figures showed a huge rise in the number of pets being killed with the weapons.
Tommee Tippee is recalling items from its Sippee Cup range following reports of children falling ill after drinking from them.
Nine ladies are preparing to jump 13,000 foot out of a plane at 120 miles per hour on Saturday, June 4, to raise money for Aoife’s Type 1 Diabetes Charity Fund.
Armed police were called to an address in Luton this morning after a firearm was used to shoot at a home.
A Luton dad is planning a double whammy tandem skydive next month dressed as Darth Varder. He’ll be accompanied by his friend Jamie Desmond who’ll be sporting a Storm Trooper outfit.
Luton Sixth Form College student Connor Auchterlonie – who just happens to be Scottish and a member of the SNP – scooped the prestigious politics prize by delving into his party’s recent success.
A 26-year-old woman from Luton has been arrested in connection with the murder of Saima Khan.
Police investigating a double stabbing in Luton on Sunday are treating it as an isolated incident and are appealing for witnesses.
Five people have been arrested and investigations are continuing following disorder in Luton town centre on Sunday evening.
Former Bedford hero Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, Del Boy and the current Leicester City squad are among Britain’s best-loved underdogs of all time.
For anyone who spends much time behind the wheel it might seem obvious but now government statistics have proved that Britain’s roads are getting busier.
High-street retailer Argos has urged customers to stop using one of its products amid fears they could catch fire.
Two roads in Luton are currently closed following a double stabbing this morning (Sunday).
Major public health bodies are colluding with the food industry and promoting policies that are having “disastrous health consequences”, a damning health charity report says.
More than four in five parents with children taking exams this year are offering rewards to their offspring such as cash, holidays and gadgets, a survey has found.
Teens who divide their attention between watching the TV and texting on the their mobiles score low marks in their exams.
The new Police and Crime Commissioner, Kathryn Holloway has revealed a £400,000 funding cake to support victims of the most traumatic crimes.
The new Police and Crime Commissioner, Kathryn Holloway has revealed a £400,000 funding cake to support victims of the most traumatic crimes.
Serving up a ready meal at a dinner party is no longer considered a social faux-pas, suggests new research.
Doctors are at odds with the UK’s Chief Medical Officers over the amount of alcohol it is safe to drink, a new poll of GPs has revealed.
Summer is on its way and that means one thing to music lovers: festival time.
Summer is on its way and that means one thing to music lovers: festival time.
Dunstable’s oldest resident Olive Ashley passed away yesterday at the age of 109, it has been confirmed.
A fraudster from Luton who cheated his dying aunt out of her savings has been jailed for four years.
People using social media have been mounting patrols in Luton following of a mother of four on her doorstep.
A fraudster from Luton who cheated his dying aunt out of her savings has been jailed for four years.
The sights, the noise, the smells and the excitement – it’s all coming to Luton on Sunday with the 40th annual Luton Carnival.
This aerial picture shows the extent of damage caused following a serious fire which broke out at an industrial estate in Clophill last night (May 26).
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously assaulted in Luton in the early hours of Saturday morning (21 May).
An energy-efficient village school is now generating more power than it uses thanks to solar panels on its roof.
Get your summer off to a flying start, come along to Helifest’16!
More than 80 firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate near Clophill.
Uber UK accepts PHV Bookings acting as disclosed agent for the Transportation Provider (as principal). Such acceptance by Uber UK as agent for the Transportation Provider gives rise to a contract for the provision to you of transportation services between you and the Transportation Provider (the "Transportation Contract"). For the avoidance of doubt: Uber UK does not itself provide transportation services, and is not a Transportation Provider. Uber UK acts as intermediary between you and the Transportation Provider. You acknowledge and agree that the provision to you of transportation services by the Transportation Provider is pursuant to the Transportation Contract and that Uber UK accepts your booking as agent for the Transportation Provider, but is not a party to that contract.
For the sake of clarity, your PHV Booking will be accepted and allocated to a Transportation Provider by Uber UK as holder of the relevant operator's licence. You should be aware that the Transportation Provider to which your PHV Booking is allocated and who provides the Transportation Services may be licensed in an area other than where the booking is requested or the Transportation Services are provided.
And as I am sure you are aware that the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 Section 56(1) states that;
For the purposes of this Part of this Act every contract for the hire of a private hire vehicle licensed under this Part of this Act shall be deemed to be made with the operator who accepted the booking for that vehicle whether or not he himself provided that vehicle.
After reading the summary of Judge Sean F Dunphy in the Ontario Court of State Justice in 2015 which can be located here http://ift.tt/1TI3suO
It was very clear that a P2P service such as Uber do not actually accept the booking, but the driver does. This has been proven quite easily by myself and a friend who is an Uber driver. We drove to the outskirts of Sheffield to ensure that no other Uber driver was close by and I requested a trip from the Uber App, which I could not make because no Uber cars were available and therefore Uber could not and did not accept my booking.
I then asked my friend to log into his Uber drivers App and make himself available for work, which he did. Sure enough I could now link myself to a driver on the Uber circuit, so I therefore requested a journey, but, I asked my friend to not accept the booking. Because he did not accept the booking the Uber App then told me to try again later, which is quite obvious that the booking was never accepted in the first place by Uber even though a driver and vehicle was in the area.
Again, this simply proves that what Judge Dunphy identified that it is the driver who accepts the booking and not Uber or any of its servers, companies registered under its umbrella or an employee of Uber that accepts the booking as an operator of private hire vehicles is by law required to do. The driver quite clearly accepts the booking and Uber then link the P2P request of the customer with the driver. Even if the driver accepts the booking and then chooses to decline the booking, the customer is then still without a booking being accepted because they have to try and get another driver to accept the booking by repeating the process.
This then means that every driver who accepts a booking by a user of the Uber App is actually plying for hire and as such is doing nothing legally different than the drivers who had their licenses suspended/revoked back in late 2015.
This then therefore leads me to request that Sheffield City Council revoke the Private Hire Operators license issued to Uber on the grounds that every journey that the public think is fully legal and therefore insured is in fact no different than plying for hire which will as you are aware, cancel the Private Hire insurance of the driver who collects them and takes them to the destination unknowingly breaking the law.
Another scenario that would support this action is that if a friend of mine has an operators license and puts his phone on divert to my mobile so that I can take calls and then cover the work I would also, as a driver, be accepting the work and not him himself who is a licensed operator.
I must advise you and the Sheffield City Council that ALPHA see this matter of such a high importance to the safety of the public travelling in Sheffield that if no action is taken by yourselves by the close of business on Friday the 28th of May 2016 then we will have no option other than to take this information both locally and nationally to the the media and other bodies that will find this information relevant.
Please respond to this email as soon as possible and not like previous emails that I have sent to yourself.
Yours
Lee Ward
ALPHA Chairman
Could this be a case for Mulder and Scully? Or for a new eco-friendly female Jeremy Clarkson?
Friends and family of Lewis Snow, who died in 2008, are holding their annual five-a-side tournament to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital children’s charity.
The husband of a mum-of-four murdered in Luton on Monday night has spoken of his heartbreak.
The husband of a mum-of-four murdered in Luton on Monday night has spoken of his heartbreak.
An investigation into dog fighting in Beds has found dogs are being slammed into walls to toughen them up, cats and dogs used as ‘bait’ to train fighting dogs and dead dogs dumped in the countryside.
Two men facing charges over the death of Natalia Doherty in 2003 appeared before magistrates this morning.
In this episode Sean Paul Day interviews friend of the Taxi trade, Francis Wyhowska.
Francis is a big supporter of the London taxi Trade and regularly attends demos and hits and has just returned from the London Taxi Drivers Benevolent Associations trip to Ypres
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Two men facing charges over the death of Natalia Doherty in 2003 appeared before magistrates this morning.
English quirks, Islamic traditions and a walk through Bury Park – life in Luton is explored in a new film which premieres this week.
Police have urged the public to help and not speculate as they hunt for the killer of a Luton mother of four.
Politicians were always going to play fast and loose with the facts in this campaign.
Police have urged the public to help and not speculate as they hunt for the killer of a Luton mother of four.
Carmakers Toyota and Volkswagen have struck separate partnerships with rideshare companies Uber and Gett.
The Japanese company will invest an unspecified amount in Uber and offer new leasing options for its drivers.
Toyota said the two companies would share also knowledge and speed up their research efforts in areas such as driverless cars.
Toyota said that as patterns of car usage continued to change, it wanted the collaboration to be about more than simply providing vehicles but to also collaborate on technology such as in-car apps.
Gett chief executive Shahar Waiser also stressed that the partnership with VW would involve technology and innovation.
VW said: "The ride-hailing market represents the greatest market potential in on-demand mobility, while creating the technological platform for developing tomorrow's mobility business models."
Uber's deal with Toyota follows Apple's $1bn investment in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing. That has been regarded in some quarters as a political move by the US technology giant to bolster its presence in the crucial Chinese market.
Apple is also believed to be developing a car.
In March, General Motors invested $500m in US Uber rival Lyft to help develop an on-demand network of self-driving cars.
The partnership will also create a joint car rental service for drivers to increase the number of vehicles available through Lyft
A suspected thief died after he attempted to run across three lanes of the M1 in Northamptonshire to try to avoid police capture and was struck by several vehicles, an inquest heard.
A suspected thief died after he attempted to run across three lanes of the M1 in Northamptonshire to try to avoid police capture and was struck by several vehicles, an inquest heard.
Volkswagen is making a $300 million strategic investment into taxi app Gett, the startup announced on Tuesday.
The auto giant’s minority investment comes as it attempts to move beyond a huge corporate crisis over emissions, and launches a new mobility unit focused on new technology.
VW “want to go beyond vehicle ownership,” Gett CEO Shahar Waiser told Business Insider in a telephone interview.
Gett, an Israeli startup that launched in 2010, works in a similar way to rival Uber: Users can use an app to simply hail a taxi.
The company is not profitable overall, Waiser said — although it is in some early markets. It has annual revenues of $500 million. It has previously raised $220 million in venture capital — with VW’s $300 million taking the total up to $520 million. Waiser declined to comment on Gett’s valuation.
It currently operates in 60 European cities, as well as New York. The new funding will help accelerate expansion on the continent, Gett says.
Waiser also said that Gett’s technology — big data, predictive algorithms, and so on — could prove useful in the development of self-driving vehicles, but stressed that neither Gett is not currently developing autonomous vehicle technology.
Drivers who use Gett can stand to benefit from the deal: They will be offered terms on Volkswagen vehicles that are better than market rates, Waiser says. This, in turn, could make the platform more attractive to potential drivers looking to get into the ride-hailing business.
The investment is also likely to some extent a necessity, as ride-hailing companies raise increasingly huge war chests in their battle for dominance. Uber has raised billions. And Didi Chuxing, a Chinese ride-hailing company, recently received a rare $1 billion investment from Apple.
VW isn’t the first legacy auto company to invest in the ride-hailing business. Back in January, General Motors sank half a billion dollars into Lyft, at a valuation of $5.5 billion (and as part of a larger $1 billion Series F funding round).
Source : Business Insider.
Investigators looking into the death of a woman believed to have been murdered in Luton say “the level of violence was high”.
Investigators looking into the death of a woman believed to have been murdered in Luton say “the level of violence was high”.
Bedfordshire Police’s float for this years Luton Carnival received a £500 grant from the Police Mutual’s national community sponsorship programme, Force for Good.
It was the big sporting showdown of the weekend, but unless you subscribe to extra kids TV channels you may have missed Luton Town’s Happy Harry mascot take on Spongebob Squarepants!
The woman believed to have been murdered in Luton yesterday has yet to be formally identified, police have said.
The woman believed to have been murdered in Luton yesterday has yet to be formally identified, police have said.
A Luton mum-of-three who’s shed four stone in four months is taking part in an ultra marathon in memory of her much-loved nan.
Police have confirmed that the death of a woman in Luton last night is being treated as murder.
A mother-of-four is believed to have been fatally stabbed in the neck on her own doorstep in a bungled late night robbery.
A mother-of-four is believed to have been fatally stabbed in the neck on her own doorstep in a bungled late night robbery.
A Luton law firm has encouraged its staff to take free training to become Dementia Friends.
Way back in 1998, Keech Hospice Care was nominated as the permanent charity for Toddington’s Chalgrave Manor Golf Club captains.
Pupils at local secondary schools will benefit from an education initiative being launched by Luton Airport.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was injured when a substance was thrown in his face last week.
Police are investigating after a woman died at a crime scene in Luton last night.
Police are investigating after a woman died at a crime scene in Luton last night.