YOUR recent page three article on Search for taxi Boss raises a number of interesting questions some of which are covered by the enclosed letter to Lancashire Trading Standards officer.

In your case you refer to the VSG scam implying that you support the allegation of the private hire monthly magazine that taxi boss took prepaid airport money with no intention of honouring the obligation.

The private hire magazine says that in the Lancaster area he netted tens of thousands of pounds by this process.

Your article says dozens of local people were left out of pocket and the local authority has used a figure of five dozen approximately. It becomes immediately obvious that sixty people at £49 each is nominally £3000 so to talk in terms of tens of thousands is gross exaggeration.

At the time Mr Wildbore's own resignation on the 16th of June 1999 not a single airport had been lost.

The Lancaster authorities for private hire oversaw the change over to new directors and are well versed in the events that followed.

Mr Wildbore was himself the biggest creditor sustaining losses of approx £190,000.

Are you beginning to get the feeling that you, Mr Rowland of the private hire magazine, have perhaps been taken for a ride on someone else's hobby horse which has nothing to do with public spiritedness.

Who are these private individuals who are so keen to trace him give me their names and I will offer to help them.

W A Wildbore,

Haverbreaks,

Lancaster

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