Under the code, drivers would have to cover up tattoos and would not be able to grow a beard while working.. Those sporting a stubble, would be sent home.
If that was not enough, Great North Eastern Railways, which runs York station, also wants to raise the cost of an annual permit by 30 per cent from pounds 365 to pounds 500.More than 100 drivers have boycotted the station. A manager at one firm said: “Some of the lads have just gone on strike. I usually have 60 cabs, now I have just 17.”GNER now appears to be backing down. However, a strict new dress code issued by a private rail company to the city’s cab drivers backfired when the irate cabbies refused to use the station taxi rank in protest. Under the new arrangement, to come into force by 1998, drivers with station permits must wear smart trousers, have a collar and tie and don “dress shoes” when picking up fares.

Clothes may not maketh the man, but they would certainly help driving a taxi in York. He in particular wants to spend more time with his five-year-old son Raphael, who is also HIV positive.He is serving time in Nicosia’s central prison after a court found him guilty of concealing his condition while repeatedly having unprotected sex with Mrs Pink, 45, a divorcee from Essex, after a whirlwind romance on the island.. Pavlos Georgiou, 40, sentenced to 15 months in prison on 31 July, has appealed to the Cyprus president to pardon him on humanitarian grounds.
Georgiou has seen his health deteriorate while in prison and has pleaded for an early release to allow him to spend time with his children. Today that’s down to pounds 600-pounds 650.”Much rests on a meeting in London this afternoon when leaders of the NFU in Wales and the Farmers’ Union of Wales are scheduled to meet the Welsh Secretary. The outcome will undoubtedly influence a gathering of farmers planned for tonight at Gaerwen, Anglesey, 20 miles from Holyhead.. A Cypriot fisherman convicted of knowingly infecting his British girlfriend Janette Pink with the deadly HIV virus is seeking early release from prison.

If it takes demonstrations to do that- so be it.”Keith Morris, who farms at Painscastle, near Hay-on-Wye, said: “Sheep prices are 30 per cent less than a year ago and the money we get for cattle is on the way down.”Terry Court, vice-president of auctioneers Russell, Baldwin and Bright, added: “A year ago a prime beast would fetch pounds 900-pounds 1,000. Black-suited and bowler-hatted pall-bearers later listed their frustrations at falling livestock prices and the perceived lack of government action.Mick Bates, a cattle and sheep farmer from Llanfair Caereinion in mid- Wales, claimed his income was plunging dangerously low “We must make the people in power aware of our plight. “Our primary role is to preserve law and order and maintain public safety,” he said.The “victory” at Fishguard has caused anger in the Irish Republic. However, it was enthusiastically hailed yesterday by crowds at Builth Wells where the National Farmers’ Union launched a petition addressed to the Agriculture Secretary, Jack Cunningham, and the Welsh Secretary, Ron Davies, urging all possible measures “to stabilise the rural economy”.Hugh Richards, NFU vice-president in Wales, said: “The green pound compensation package should be implemented swiftly and we call on the Government to set an example by buying British agricultural products.”To the applause of a large crowd attending the auction of prime Welsh cattle, a coffin draped with the Welsh flag and surmounted by a sirloin of beef was paraded round the show ring. The Irish vehicles were corralled when they disembarked from Stena Line’s Coningin Beatrix, and after a meeting with police the drivers decided to re-embark.Keith Turner, assistant chief constable of the Dyfed-Powys force, issued a statement declaring that his officers were not going to take sides and become involved in a political dispute.