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Monday, 14 January 2013
The One Show - Carstoppers car park at Howarth
BBC One Show's Dan Donnelly confronts a Carstoppers parking attendant in Yorkshire, who drivers claim is unfairly targeting them.
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Friday, 11 January 2013
Folkestone parking officer on £150k theft charges
A MAN accused of stealing money from the parking meters he was responsible for repairing will face trial at crown court.
Matthew Donovan, a former technical officer at Shepway District Council, is accused of stealing more than £150,000 from the machines in council-owned car parks in Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh, between January 2009 and March 2012.
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Barry’s parking ticket bid caught on camera
A PARKING campaigner was seen on a TV documentary deliberately getting a parking ticket in Bury.
Parking Mad aired on BBC 1 on Tuesday night and featured Barry Moss, a pensioner from Westhoughton, who had waged an unsuccessful High Court case against Bolton Council’s auditors KPMG in 2010.
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Soldier is hit by hotel car park drop-off fine
A SOLDIER was shocked to be handed a £100 parking fine despite only being on a hotel car park for a matter of seconds.
Staff sergeant Rick Boys, of St John’s, Worcester, had driven into the Fownes Hotel car park on City Walls Road, Worcester, to drop off his wife Karen for a training day and returned later to pick her up.
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Bournemouth drivers "not legally required" to display parking ticket
But it appears Bournemouth council forgot one little thing in its haste to start making money from on-street parking – making it a legal requirement for motorists to display a ticket.
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Exeter parking charges could rise as income hits £3.1m
Exeter City Council said it planned to raise charges in some car parks in a bid to make the system "simpler"
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Car clamper ordered to pay back £3 million - or face ten years in jail
A fraudster who ran a notorious Birmingham car clamping company has been ordered to pay back almost £3million – or face ten years in jail.
Steven Ryan, 56, was given six months to find the money after a judge ruled he had benefited by £2,837,349 from his business, Car Clamping Securities.
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