A taxi driver who made a drunken phone call to council officers after an all-night party has lost his private hire licence.

The unnamed motorist "sounded intoxicated" in calls with licensing officers, councillors heard. He faced Stockton Council's licensing committee after the private hire licence he held since 2015 was suspended.

The committee considered his fitness as a taxi driver "due to concerns raised over his alcohol consumption", say minutes of a meeting from May this year. It heard of one call to the licensing team where he was described as "not making sense and was slurring his words" on February 19.

The cabbie, who was not working that day, "sounded very intoxicated" and was "changing topics frequently". When interviewed about the call, he said he had been to a party the ni

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