Taxi drivers in Slough face tough new rules about acceptable behaviour following complaints to the council's licensing committee and police about inappropriate comments.

Slough Borough Council's licensing committee members agreed on Thursday night to introduce a total ban on drivers engaging in sexual conversations with passengers or having sexual contact on duty, even if it was with consent.

The council's licensing officer Mick Sims said: "There have been a number of complaints made by female passengers to the Licensing Team and to the police that drivers have been telephoning them on their mobile phones making unwarranted verbal sexual advances and inappropriate comments.”

Since 2012 at least four of Slough's taxi drivers have been at the centre of sex offence allegations, including rape and indecent assault.

Outside the town there were indecent assaults on female passenger in Egham and Staines.

But councillors also agreed to make life a little easier for drivers by easing the rules about tinted windows.

Drivers have complained that newer cars have tinted windows that are five per cent short in terms of the amount of light insisted on by the borough - forcing them to spend thousands of pounds to get them changed.

Councillors agreed to allow cars that came with tinted glass already fitted to remain as they were.