Pay by phone cost me parking ticket

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It’s not often I feel compelled to write a letter of complaint but Horsham District Council offers a pay by phone service and I’ve had the recent misfortune to discover that unless you are fully familiar with how this system operates you can end up with a parking ticket! As I did.

The park by phone system relies on the 

driver/parker to contact the number provided.

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Motorist's ticket fell off windscreen at Changegate car park

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A motorist is celebrating after beating Haworth’s notorious car clampers in court.

Adam Bolam-Peel, from Oxenhope, won back the £90 he had to pay for a clamp to be removed from his vehicle in the Changegate car park.

Mr Bolam-Peel, who appeared last year on TV reality show Come Dine With Me, said he was also awarded his court costs.

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'I'm not paying unfair Purley parking fine'

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COUNCIL parking chiefs have performed a U-turn after a carpenter threatened to take them to court.

John Meliniotis had pledged to "fight tooth and nail", over the Purley High Street tickets which had accumulated a cost of nearly £400 after the council sent them to the wrong address.

Mr Meliniotis first heard of the fines when a summons from a court in Northampton landed on his doormat last month, after the case was escalated to the courts.

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Suspension for security firm boss

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A DIRECTOR of a Cornish security firm has been suspended.

It follows a series of complaints levelled against Armtrac Security Services, which have been revealed by the West Briton.

The firm is also being investigated by the security business regulator, British Parking Association (BPA) and has been brought to the attention of the transport minister.

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Pictured: The moment traffic warden slaps parking tickets on two minibuses carrying disabled children after they sang at charity carol concert

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This is the moment a traffic warden slapped £70 parking tickets on two minibuses carrying disabled children after they raised hundreds of pounds for a homeless charity by singing in a carol concert.

The youngsters, many in wheelchairs, were being lifted into two specially-adapted ambulances in Nottingham when the enforcement officer wrote out two penalty notices before walking away.

The twelve children from Oak Field School and Sports College in Bilborough, Nottinghamshire, were returning from the concert on Monday afternoon which raised £370 when they were hit with the fines.

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We’re taken for £1.3bn park & ride

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MOTORISTS were stung for a record £1.3billion in parking 

charges by town halls last year — £160,000 AN HOUR.

An estimated 10,000 tickets were dished out a day by councils, 

despite warnings from the Government not to treat drivers as “cash 

cows”.

The official figures do not even include charges in privately-run car 

parks — meaning the full toll will be even higher.

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Firm refuses to refund tickets to Hyndburn residents

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A COUNCIL has slammed town centre car park operators for refusing to refund ‘unfair’ tickets.

Hyndburn Council, and the borough’s MP intervened after hundreds of tickets were issued on Accrington’s Eastgate car park.

The tickets were issued when time limits were changed from three hours to ninety minutes.

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