Find-a-parking space app could be helping traffic wardens target your car

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Metereye technology beams signal from sensor under road just before space becomes free

A parking sensor promoted as tool to help drivers find free spaces could also enable traffic wardens to dish out more fines. 

Motoring organisations have warned the Metereye system could help wardens make a beeline to vehicles which have overstayed a parking space.

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NHS hospitals charge patients up to £3 an hour for parking

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One in three NHS hospitals has increased car parking charges for patients and visitors, official figures have disclosed.

Some hospitals tripled fees for patients and their friends and relations, with a handful now charging £3 an hour for parking.

Parking charges are feared to affect elderly people and their families in particular because they are among the most likely to need to drive to hospital, either as patients or visitors.

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Father to fight daughter's late night parking ticket

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A FATHER is challenging a parking ticket issued in a deserted car park at midnight.

Paignton student Rebecca Moody parked at the Bridge retail car park at Lowes Bridge, Torquay, while she walked to the neighbouring McDonalds.

Her father, Anthony Moody, (pictured) was stunned when she told him of a £60 fine issued, photos supposedly showing the car parked breaking the rules.

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Croydon Council making £12 per minute from parking fines

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DRIVERS in Croydon are being fined £12 every minute for parking offences, the Advertiser can reveal.

A total of £6.3 million was collected by Croydon Council in parking tickets – Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) – between April 1 2011 and March 31 this year.

This is up around £500,000 on the figure for the previous year.

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Man wins appeal against parking ticket as signs were unclear in chippenham

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The blue sign hidden by the pillar in a picture
Mr Samuels, took at the time of his ticket

Motorist John Samuels has won an appeal against a parking ticket he received at Emery Gate Car Park, Chippenham, after an independent adjudicator ruled the signage was inadequate.

Mr Samuels said his battle to get the ticket overturned cost him more than the £50 fine but he wanted to prove Wiltshire Council was wrong.

Mr Samuels, a freelance cameraman who lives near Glastonbury, got the parking ticket when he parked in Emery Gate car park on April 18.

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Good Samaritan gets parking ticket for helping disabled man

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THIS is the moment a Poole man was slapped with a £75 fine as he helped an elderly disabled gent on his mobility scooter.

His kind actions were snapped by a Borough of Poole camera car, but despite them clearly showing him struggling to help a man in trouble – the fine was issued and the council refused to budge.

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Council parkers brought to book at Trowbridge library

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USERS at Trowbridge’s newly revamped library have found themselves unable to park as Wiltshire Council staff take up spaces reserved for the public.

The new library was unveiled by the council in September as part of the £24m refurbishment of County Hall, which had its official opening today, but staff based at the new HQ have been using the 42 spaces reserved for the public, to the frustration of visitors.

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Driver’s £80 fine for accepting valid car park ticket

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An angry shopper is warning others not to fall into the trap of sharing car park tickets or it could end up ruining their Christmas.

Lynda Double was faced with an £80 fine after she fell foul of the small print when she took up a stranger’s kind offer of a ticket that was still valid for an hour and a half.

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CCTV cars net Sutton Council £1m since March 2011

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More than £1m has been taken off motorists by CCTV cars since they were rolled out in the Sutton last year.

The remit of the CCTV cars, initially brought in to enforce parking rules outside schools, was extended in March 2011 to include patrols across the borough looking for cars flouting parking rules.

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Parking ticket adds to handbrake horror for Stortford worker

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WHEN a Stortford worker returned to her parked car and found a runaway vehicle had careered into the motor, there was worse to come.

An East Herts District Council parking enforcement officer had ticketed both cars for being outside a marked bay on Friday, October 19.



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