The Lancashire Telegraph can now reveal a total of 390 private hire drivers living and operating in Blackburn and Darwen have been licenced by the West Midlands authority, which is 80 miles away.
Concerns were raised by local cabbies, who said they had seen garages in Blackburn advertising MOTs for drivers licensed in the City of Wolverhampton.
There is no law restricting where private hire drivers can operate, and seeing…