Cabbie hailed as boy, 7, is found.A RUGBY boy aged seven, whose disappearance sparked a massive three-hour search, was found wandering a mile from his home by a taxi driver taxi driver n → taxista m/f taxi driver taxi n → chauffeur m de taxi taxi driver taxi n → . Twenty police officers, the police helicopter and tracker dogs were called in when the youngster wandered off from outside his grandmother's house in Stephen Street Stephen Patrick Street is a music producer best known for his work with The Smiths in the 1980s and Blur (often regarded as the "Fifth Blur") and The Cranberries in the 1990s. , New Bilton New Bilton is a place in Warwickshire, in England. It is a suburb of Rugby, situated to the west of the town centre. The nearby village of Bilton has also been absorbed into Rugby. New Bilton comprises mostly Victorian terraced housing. . The drama began at about 6.30pm on Thursday. A police appeal was put out to all taxi-drivers working in the area to join the hunt for the boy. Eventually the eagle-eyed Crest cabbie cab·by or cab·bie n. pl. cab·bies A cabdriver. [cab1 + -y3. spotted him looking upset and confused near the disused disused Adjective no longer used Adj. 1. disused - no longer in use; "obsolete words" obsolete noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time disused adj railway line in Hillmorton Road. Today Insp Mick Slater praised the unnamed cabbie, who called them over his radio. He said officers had become increasingly worried for the child's safety as the hours ticked by. "We took the lad in a police car back to his parents," said Insp Slater. "As you can imagine both they and his grandmother were delighted to see him and very relieved the whole ordeal was over." |
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