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19/11/2014
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Belfast Taxi Driver Fined
A Belfast taxi driver has been fined a total of £300 at Belfast Magistrates’ Court for four taxi licensing offences.
Mr Damien Patrick Canavan of Laurelbank, Belfast, pleaded guilty and was fined £75 on each of two counts of using an unlicenced taxi and £75 on each of two counts of not having a taxi driver’s licence.
The charges came after Mr Canavan was stopped on 30 March 2014 and 4 April 2014 by Driver & Vehicle Agency Enforcement Officers.
Further checks revealed that the vehicle used by Mr Canavan was an unlicensed taxi and that he did not hold a taxi driver’s licence.
Four Arrested Over £150k Cannabis Seizure
Police have arrested four people and seized cannabis plants believed to worth more than £150,000 in Castlewellan, County Down.
The move follows searches at properties in the Circular Road and Corrywood Park areas yesterday, during which two cannabis factories were uncovered.
Three individuals, two 33-year-old males and a 22-year-old woman, were detained in the Circular Road area. A 30-year-old man was arrested in Corrywood Park.
All four remain in custody on Wednesday morning.
Elderly Woman 'Critical' After Traffic Accident
Police have reiterated an appeal for information after an elderly woman was knocked down by a car in east Belfast last week.
The woman remains in a critical condition in hospital following the incident, which involved a red Kia Sportage and occurred at around 16:50 on Friday.
Police have appealed for anyone who was in the Castlehill Road area at the time of the collision or who might have information to contact police at Strandtown on 101.
(IT/MH)
A Belfast taxi driver has been fined a total of £300 at Belfast Magistrates’ Court for four taxi licensing offences.
Mr Damien Patrick Canavan of Laurelbank, Belfast, pleaded guilty and was fined £75 on each of two counts of using an unlicenced taxi and £75 on each of two counts of not having a taxi driver’s licence.
The charges came after Mr Canavan was stopped on 30 March 2014 and 4 April 2014 by Driver & Vehicle Agency Enforcement Officers.
Further checks revealed that the vehicle used by Mr Canavan was an unlicensed taxi and that he did not hold a taxi driver’s licence.
Four Arrested Over £150k Cannabis Seizure
Police have arrested four people and seized cannabis plants believed to worth more than £150,000 in Castlewellan, County Down.
The move follows searches at properties in the Circular Road and Corrywood Park areas yesterday, during which two cannabis factories were uncovered.
Three individuals, two 33-year-old males and a 22-year-old woman, were detained in the Circular Road area. A 30-year-old man was arrested in Corrywood Park.
All four remain in custody on Wednesday morning.
Elderly Woman 'Critical' After Traffic Accident
Police have reiterated an appeal for information after an elderly woman was knocked down by a car in east Belfast last week.
The woman remains in a critical condition in hospital following the incident, which involved a red Kia Sportage and occurred at around 16:50 on Friday.
Police have appealed for anyone who was in the Castlehill Road area at the time of the collision or who might have information to contact police at Strandtown on 101.
(IT/MH)
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