Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

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Interesting statistic, if its true, Last year 214 women were sexually assaulted by unlicensed taxi drivers in the capital(London). A new service is been promoted to allow you to phone the cab direct by this outfit ZingoTaxi although at £1.60 a call its sounds a tad expensive. Full story here. The number to call is 08700 700 700 and apparently it is set up by the makers of the London Cabs an interesting example of vertical integration! I think I need to check those assault figures though!

Crikey just read Zingo is a 50 strong team who are burning their way through £8million pounds. Thats a lot of calls at £1.60 a pop!

Now Easyjet get in the neck from a passenger who has set up a Easyjet sucks website here and also a blog here. Interestingly the problem seems to have occured on one of the old Go routes. As previously expounded on my blogs I am sure that Go will be the death of Easyjet.

Today added a rather nice bizarre page to my website were I can add pictures of the all loo locks that I encounter in my travels. I am always amazed just how diverse such a simple object can be,

and the sunday times today gives the real risks of living in UK today:

The real risks are:-

Currently in the UK there are around 250,000 smokingrelated deaths each year (source here)

190,000 Cancer deaths a year

132,000 Heart disease deaths a year

60,000 Stroke deaths a year

4,000 Flu deathe a year on average

3,400 Road accident deaths a year

1,200 MRSA (hospital infection) deaths a year

1,050 Murders a year

155 HIV deaths a year

0 Sars deaths recorded

Interesting about the flu killing more than road accidents.