Davy Morris stays the night with York taxi-driver after hotel chaos in the city

Ireland's Davy Morris takes on Stephen Maguire in the last 16 of the UK Championship this evening, but the Kilkenny man almost found himself without a bed to sleep in on Saturday night, but for the help of a York taxi-driver.

Morris told the York Press that after beating World Champion Mark Selby on Saturday he was unable to find a hotel or bed and breakfast for the night, and was potentially facing the prospect of having to pay over the odds for a bed well outside York. But after driving him from hotel to hotel to no avail, a local taxi driver, who didn't wish to be named, proved to be a good samaritan, offering the spare room in his house to Morris, for no charge at all. The recently dubbed "Wolf of Walkin Street", said: "I couldn’t find anywhere - basically the whole of York was booked out. "The closest place was about 13 or 14 miles away and it was still £200 a night. I didn’t want to pay that so I just asked a taxi man to take me to a few different places and we’d try and do it by word of mouth. "We didn’t find anywhere so he offered, if I hadn’t found anywhere by the night-time, to give him a ring and stay with him - he would more than happily accommodate me. "He was brilliant. He put me up for the night and cooked breakfast in the morning," he said