£170,000 fed into unenforced parking meters

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MOTORISTS have fed more than £170,000 into Bournemouth parking meters in the last three months, even though they had no chance of receiving a fine.

Bournemouth traffic wardens stopped handing out tickets to motorists in parts of the town on September 7 because of a problem with legal documentation regarding enforcement, which has still not been sorted out.

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Yarm Mayor wins appeal after deliberately landing himself with parking fine

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A MAYOR who deliberately landed himself with a fine to test the legality of parking charges in his home town has secured a partial victory.

Jason Hadlow, chairman of Yarm Town Council, parked without a disc on Yarm High Street in March and received a £60 fine.

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Firms leave Nottingham 'over Workplace Parking Levy'

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Nottingham is losing businesses to other cities over its         workplace parking tax, the Chamber of Commerce has warned.

In April, Nottingham City Council introduced the Workplace Parking Levy (WPL), which charges companies with 11 spaces or more, £288 a year per bay.

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£6,000 owed to ‘illegal’ parkers

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A crusading retired policeman claimed this week that motorists may have been wrongly fined a total of up to £6,000 over four years for parking in an Exmouth town centre street.

Mr Percy Prowse, the Conservative county councillor for Duryard and Pennsylvania in Exeter, told the Journal that legal documents drafted for Victoria Road in 2008 had been botched by county traffic officers.

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South Lakeland car parking machines will no longer need registration numbers

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DRIVERS will no longer have to key in their car registration numbers into new South Lakeland District Council parking machines come the new year.

The pay and display machines have been controversial since they were introduced at 38 car parks in the area earlier this year at a cost of £340,000.

There was an outcry from residents, visitors and traders because motorists were forced to enter their registration details to get a ticket.

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Anger over parking tickets in Tewkesbury during floods

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TRAFFIC wardens in Tewkesbury have been accused of lacking compassion after ticketing cars stranded due to flood water.

While some residents and businesses in the town have battled to prevent their premises from flooding, they have had to park their vehicles where they can.

But that has, at times, meant leaving them in areas not normally allowed.

Borough council traffic wardens have handed out a number of parking tickets as a result.

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Latest scam spam ploy: Bogus pay-by-phone London parking receipts

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Mundane cloak hides malware dagger

Bogus "pay by phone parking receipts" doing the rounds by email and targeted at UK users are actually designed to spread malware, security watchers warn.

The spam campaign is designed to trick recipients into viewing a fictitious list of parking transactions, contained in a malicious attachment. "Upon executing the malicious attachment, the malware opens a backdoor on the affected host," Dancho Danchev, a security researcher at Webroot explains.

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