Taxi drivers claim victory in market cab rank wrangle

After more than a year of navigating legal red tape, Chorley's taxi drivers are celebrating a major victory in a wrangle over a taxi rank.

- by Catherine Musgrove

The win comes after campaigning by the Chorley Taxi Association, who pushed to reverse a 2017 decision that had handed over the bottom taxi rank on the town's High Street to Tuesday market traders.

For nearly eight years, the change forced taxis to relocate further up the road leaving shoppers to make an inconvenient uphill trek just to find a ride home.

Association spokesman Shaz Malik said: "It simply wasn't practical.