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Smoking in cab costs taxi driver John £200 in fines  

Jump to full article: icWales, 2008-04-23
Author: Nathan Bevan, South Wales Echo

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A SOUTH Wales taxi driver fined after council officials spotted him smoking in his cab has criticised their "Big Brother" attitude.

John Colcomb of Henllys, Trebanog, Rhondda, received two fixed-penalty notices for smoking in a work vehicle and throwing the cigarette butt onto the highway. He is believed to be one of the first cabbies in Wales to be prosecuted under the new smoking ban law introduced last year.

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