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Police have released an image of two women they would like to speak to regarding an ongoing investigation.

Anees Arif, 52, of Lees, Oldham, pleaded guilty to multiple offences, including illegally waiting in a hackney carriage rank and accepting an uninsured fare.

This drastic measure comes after numerous attempts by the local authority to get drivers to agree to register for the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) update service.

First introduced in 1865, the 90-minute Knowledge test requires drivers to learn thousands of routes across the city but a report states that just eight of the 133 people who took the test this year had passed.

Thames Valley Police said the inebraiated two were dumped in a refuge bay on the M4 near Reading in the early hours of Sunday after a night out.

The decision to revoke his licence stems from what councillors deemed "abusive and threatening" messages, including a "serious threat of sexual violence," exchanged with a female passenger.

The deal, confirmed by Uber in a statement, will integrate Dantaxi's 3,500 drivers across 75 municipalities into the Uber app, significantly expanding the platform's reach beyond Copenhagen.

Vertical Aerospace, a Bristol-based pioneer in electric flying taxis, has made European aviation history with the successful piloted "wingborne" flight of its VX4 prototype across the UK countryside.

Sikandar Hayat, chairman of the Reading PH Association, emphasised that any approval for Uber should be contingent on their compliance with the same rules that other private hire companies follow.