Local Authorities
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Drivers get 10 minutes' grace: Traffic wardens will have to wait
If you overstay your allotted time in a parking space by ten minutes, you should get away with it in future. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that traffic wardens are now instructed to wait until ten minutes after a parking
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Councils enjoy soaring profits from parking fines
Motorists are being treated like cash-cows, drivers' groups are claiming, following the announcement that local authority profits from parking fines have shot up 11 per cent in two
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Motorists hit with £150k in CCTV fines every day
Drivers are being fined a whopping £150,000 every day after being caught on council CCTV cameras, a new report has
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Pothole bill for England and Wales 'now £12billion'
The cost of fixing all the potholes in England and Wales has now shot up to an estimated £12bn, according to a report out
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Councils blow millions on benefit lie detector tests
Lie detector tests haven't performed well in reliability tests. In fact they performed so poorly the Department for Work and Pensions gave up on them in 2010. Yet many UK councils in England still intend to plough millions into voice risk
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Pothole claims soar but average payouts drop
The worsening condition of Britain's roads has seen the number of compensation claims filed by motorists against local authorities soar, according to research conducted by The
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Councils urged to cut double-yellow line use
Local authorities across the country are being urged to reduce their use of double-yellow lines, in a bid to reduce clutter from Britain's