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Credit CrunchYou are in: Northamptonshire > Credit Crunch > How is the Credit Crunch affecting Alan Cottle ![]() Alan Cottle - a Taxi driver How is the Credit Crunch affecting Alan CottleAlan Cottle is a Taxi driver, he's thinking about starting his very own Taxi company November24/11/08: Alan said that the amount of work has been falling: "In the last four or five months, the amount of jobs that I'm doing has slowly declined. My takings must be down about 20%. " He added: "Six weeks before Christmas always used to be bustling [in Northampton town centre] but yesterday there were about 12 cabs on the rank and we were doing about one job every 50 minutes to an hour." Help playing audio/video January08/01/09: Starting Monday Alan is opening his own Taxi company: "It's the way to go in the current financial situation." Help playing audio/video last updated: 08/01/2009 at 09:18 SEE ALSOYou are in: Northamptonshire > Credit Crunch > How is the Credit Crunch affecting Alan Cottle |
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