The London Evening Standard appears to have ruffled a few feathers among the London cabbie community. A handful of black cabs expressed their displeasure outside the paper's Northcliffe House headquarters on Wednesday lunchtime, honking their horns in unison before deciding to move on. Monkey hears that the protest was over this article in Friday's Standard which claimed cabbies were holding London mayor Boris Johnson to "ransom" in asking to increase fares by 20% during next year's Olympics and Paralympics. The article carried a smattering of vox pops slamming the cabbies' demands as "absolutely outrageous", "shocking" and "profiteering". Standard hacks might have a long wait for a taxi after work tonight.
