Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Tragedy lingers behind the winning smile of Ashton taxi driver-cum-author Simon Whiskey.
The 57-year-old dad has battled back from his own serious bout of Covid to publish a collection of amusing anecdotes in his book 'Ave Yer Bin Busy?' His book is evidence that the characters taxi drivers encounter as they go about their business - day and night - are indeed a rich seam of comedy, first mined by Bolton's master of observational of humour, Peter Kay.
That he got the book - now available on Amazon, boasting 16 five-star reviews - published at all is a feat in itself. In 2020 he had to take six months off work as his mother went into a nursing home before
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