A wheelchair user has urged officials to take licences off taxi drivers who refuse to transport disabled people.

Prof Duncan Cameron, of Sheffield University’s School of Biosciences, said he was turned away by drivers three times last month. “It is not like I have another option in getting home,” Prof Cameron said.

The city council said all its hackney carriage vehicles were wheelchair accessible and urged anyone turned away to report it.

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