Porsche driver who has spent £10,000 waging one-man war against parking fines by contesting scores of tickets is finally forced to pay up

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A Porsche driver who has avoided paying a staggering 35 parking fines over the last two years has been slapped with an £800 penalty after failing to buy a 60p parking ticket.

Jason MacLeod, 34, has avoided £2,000 of fines by appealing every parking ticket he has been issued with since 2010, at a cost of £10,000.

The software developer says he disagrees with the 'principle' of the fines, claiming they are 'disproportionate.' 

Instead of just 'rolling over' like most drivers, he has researched legal technicalities, written extensive letters of explanation and contested his fines at tribunals.

He has even brawled on the floor with a burly parking boss he confronted over his car being clamped.

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Arundel parking plan is driven out of town

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“Ludicrous” plans to introduce a residents’ parking scheme in Arundel look set to be abandoned by West Sussex County Council later this month.

Following the overwhelming results of a public consultation on the proposals for on-street parking, which saw around 75 per cent of people oppose the changes, county council officers have recommended that the plans be scrapped.

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Spot the sign for pay and display: Picture that helped driver win David and Goliath legal battle with council over a £1 parking charge

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A motorist has won a six-month legal battle after he was fined over a £1 parking fee.

John Samuels, 56, parked by a Tesco Metro store but was unaware he was liable to pay the £1 charge because the sign was obscured by a pillar.

After returning to his vehicle to find a £50 penalty notice, he scoured the car park and eventually saw a blue sign on a wall at ground level, reading: ‘This is a pay and display car park.’

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Penny inchers: Traffic wardens given tape measures to check how far cars are parked from kerb

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Disgruntled motorists have hit out as traffic wardens are dishing out £70 fines for those more than 19 inches away

Traffic wardens are going to new lengths to nab drivers, by using tape measures to see how far from the kerb they are parked.

And they are dishing out £70 fines for those more than 19 inches away.

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Couple with disabled boy slapped with £70 parking ticket as they carried him to their car outside their home

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Parents who parked outside their home as they carried their seriously disabled boy to their car were shocked to see they had been given a ticket.

Karl Wade, 37, briefly left his Nissan Note people carrier in front of his house as he and his partner Rebecca Harbourne, 28, strapped splints to the legs of four-year-old Devon, who has cerebral palsy and cannot walk.

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Private parking companies suspended for misleading motorists

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More than a fifth of private parking enforcement companies have been suspended as fears grow over powers to allow them to dish out fines of up to £100.

The suspensions, by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, have taken place within weeks of the Government banning clamping on private land.

Motoring organisations fear at least another 500,000 private tickets will be issued on top of the current two million fines already handed out a year by enforcement companies, as they seek to fill in the void created by the clamping ban.

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£7k overpaid by motorists into North Lincolnshire parking meters

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MOTORISTS at ticket machines handed the taxpayers in North Lincolnshire a £7,000-plus windfall last year because they had no change, it has been revealed.

The Scunthorpe Telegraph has learned that over-payments made in council-owned pay and display machines in car parks during 2011-12 amounted to £7,148.07.

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