Black hackney cabs are meant to be the only cars you can hail on the street, but the app technology and smartphones changed that and meant people started "e-hailing" minicabs.

Someone showing a miniature pinscher wants to showcase the high-stepping hackney gait that is a hallmark of the breed.

“Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the Barnet road.”

Council chiefs in all 10 boroughs have signed up to minimum standards for private hire and hackney carriage drivers in the licensing process.

She moved to Paris just in time to witness King Louis XVI “in a hackney coach going to meet his death,” she wrote.