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Pub owner who was dropping merry punters home in his taxi for donations and raising money for charity is banned from offering lifts by 'jobsworth' council

Pub owner who was dropping merry punters home in his taxi for donations and raising money for charity is banned from offering lifts by 'jobsworth' council

A pub landlord who offered punters lifts home in his black cab has been banned by the local council from providing the service. 

Paul Hartfield, who owns the Flying Horse in Smarden in Ashford, Kent, has raised hundreds of pounds for charity by asking customers to make small donations to the Motor Neurone Disease Association for using his cab. 

Sydney's house from hell: We rented a beachside unit - but what happened there left us traumatised for life

Sydney's house from hell: We rented a beachside unit - but what happened there left us traumatised for life

Several families say their dream of beachside living quickly soured after a Sydney apartment block left them dealing with persistent bedbug infestations. 

Former tenants of two apartments at 2-4 Kidman Street in Coogee claim they experienced recurring infestations between 2019 and 2023, describing sleepless nights, anxiety, and thousands of dollars' worth of belongings thrown away in desperate attempts to escape the pests.

Meet the bitter dumped lovers using ICE to get exes kicked out of the country

Meet the bitter dumped lovers using ICE to get exes kicked out of the country

Annie Martinez's life changed in an instant in 2018 after she was arrested by ICE at a custody hearing and deported from her home in Kearns, Utah, back to Mexico just ten days later.

The ICE arrest was not an unlucky coincidence; instead, it was deliberately orchestrated by the father of two of her five children, her partner of two years, during a bitter custody battle following their breakup. The hearing was to terminate his parental right on the basis of abandonment.

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