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Sep 3 2003

Teacher's tears after band taxi mix-up

By Emma Britton

A SHOCKED teacher was branded a criminal by hit band Coldplay's lawyers after she mistakenly took a taxi they had ordered.

The solicitors even labelled Jacqueline Hall, 31, a ``nuisance'' because she put an apology through the letterbox of her next-door neighbour, banddrummer Will Champion.

Yesterday, Jacqueline said she was ``badly distressed'' after getting a legal letter from the band's lawyers.

The mix-up came when a minicab pulled up outside her home in Kennington, south London.

The Aussie-born teacher assumed it was hers, unaware that Will and his girlfriend had booked a cab for exactly the same time.

But minutes later, the driver got a call from his boss saying he had picked up the wrong person.

Jacqueline said: ``He started yelling at me. He said, `I bet you use the Coldplay name all the time to get free rides.' I was so upset I was in tears and it ruined my night.''

Worse was to come the next day with the solicitors' letter.

It said: ``This taxi was wrongfully taken by yourself claiming to be authorised by Coldplay, which deception was subsequently discovered.Your actions last night in combination with written correspondence that you have hand delivered is tantamount to nuisance which affords our client the right to a civil action against you.

``Furthermore, your deception last night is a criminal act.''

Coldplay dropped the issue when Jacqueline produced a record of her taxi booking.

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