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• Computer Game Pulled After Taxi Driver Stabbed to Death

COPIES of Grand Theft Auto IV have been pulled from Thailand stores after a teenager addicted to the violent video game stabbed a taxi driver to death in a botched robbery. Police said Polwat Chino had been acting out a scene from the game, created by Edinburgh-based Rockstar North, when he launched the attack.

• The Scotsman
• August 05, 2008

• Bay Pair Win Pounds 100k in National Tv Quiz

A COUPLE from Torquay say their lives have been changed forever after winning Pounds 100,000 on a Channel 4 game show. Taxi driver Karl Dooley, 30, and his fiancee Shabnam Roughani, 21, (pictured left) walked away from The Million Pound Drop Live thousands of pounds richer.

• Herald Express; Torquay (UK)
• May 02, 2011

• We Need You ; Magpies Manager Recalls His Non-League Days and Urges Football-Mad Kids All Over Tyneside to Follow Their Dreams

ALWAYS TIME Alan Pardew started late at Crystal Palace - as did Ian Wright (right top). United have young Geordies such as Adam Campbell coming through For a bloke who once balanced jobs as a glazier and a taxi driver while playing for the likes of Corinthian Casuals, the nonleague game will always hold a special place in the heart of Alan Pardew. And his visit to Blyth Town of the Pin Point Recruitment Northern Alliance Premier League brought memories of the grassroots game flooding back ALAN PARDEW today had a simple message for all aspiring young Geordie footballers: "We need you." The Magpies have made it clear that they aren't prepared to pay inflated fees for English talent and have a full scouting network headed by chief talent spotter Graham Carr in operation across the Continen...

• Evening Chronicle
• March 30, 2013

• Heads Up ; Post Reporter Gareth Vincent On the Week in Football

NO offence like," said the Geordie taxi driver, "but you're going to get smashed. This was the night before Swansea City's game at Newcastle United last December.

• South Wales Evening Post
• November 16, 2012

• Dad Beaten Up in Pub in Front of Teenage Son

SINGLE dad Neil Taylor has been left with these nasty injuries after he was beaten up in a Cheltenham pub - in front of his 14- year-old son. The taxi-driver, from Up Hatherley, had taken his son Jack for a game of pool at The Umbrella 2009 in Orchard Way, Hester's Way, when an argument broke out over money left on the pool table.

• Gloucestershire Echo, The
• November 29, 2011

• A Masterpiece to Make the Spirit Soar ; with His Film of Two Jewish Musicians Travelling to Poland to Play Mozart, Douglas Gordon has Created an Artwork That Is Moving, Beguiling and Utterly Exhilarating

OVER the past two decades, Douglas Gordon has created numerous unforgettable film installations. He slowed down Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho so it evolved mesmerisingly over 24 hours, each frame suspended in time. He doubled Robert De Niro's seminal "You talking to me?" mirror scene in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, so it appears that De Niro's Travis Bickle confronts himself, sparking a game of endless reflection. And, together with French artist Philippe Parreno, Gordon captured Zinedine Zidane's every move over the course of a football match. These tense, compelling creations have produced a big reputation. At 44, Gordon has won the Turner Prize and the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize. He has displayed major solo exhibitions at the National Gallery in his native Scotland and at the Hayward...

• Evening Standard - London
• February 15, 2011

• I'm Terrified ; These Are the Words of Leslie Ann Horgan, Whose Friend Is Fighting for His Life After Being Shot Outside This Pub. He has No Connection to Crime. He's a Taxi Driver Who Likes a Pint After a Game. So, Why Is She Terrified? Because She Drinks in the Pub? No, She Fears His Name Will Be Forgotten When It Ought to Be a Clarion Call for the Gardai to Smash the Gangs [Eire Region]

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• Daily Mail
• July 27, 2010

• She Had a Great Idea in the Back of the Cab ; Driving Board Game Is Set to Make Thousands for Taxi Driver

A FORMER taxi driver has used her experience of driving in the capital to create a board game which has outsold the likes of Monopoly in the Christmas toy market. Rachel Lowe, 27, produced Destination London in which players assume the role of black cab drivers trying to avoid various road hazards.

• Evening Standard - London
• December 22, 2004

• Shock As Taxi Man Mows Down Eight ; Dan O'neill's Review of the Year Continues with Carnage in Cardiff City Centre and the Jailing of a Welsh Footballer

MARCH LOCAL ShocKed onlooKers see 28-year-old taxi driver Majid Rehman drive into eight men on the pavement following an argument, leaving them sprawled on the road. He is later jailed for 15 years. Costa Rica beat Wales 1-0 but the game is incidental as thousands turn out to pay tribute to Gary Speed. His teenage sons, Ed and Tommy, stand with Craig Bellamy and their grandfather Roger. It is a night of huge emotion, says new Wales manager, Chris Coleman.

• South Wales Echo
• December 26, 2012

• Crewe Alex: Carlisle Hope to Raise Glass to Jimmy

Carlisle will take inspiration from one of the most famous escapes in English football when they try to avoid relegation at Crewe's expense on Saturday. Former goalkeeper Jimmy Glass, who is now a taxi driver in Dorset, will be guest of honour at Brunton Park for the home game with Millwall.

• Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK)
• May 01, 2009