50 h. ago I was hit with a £100 fine after stopping in a car park for five minutes but leaving because I had to pay in coins

Sue Hirst, 53, was charged £100 for a five minute stay in a car park, in which her partner did not even leave their vehicle, while on a holiday weekend.

Economics

3 d. ago Falkirk Council set to introduce £100 fines for pavement parking in August

Falkirk currently issues warnings rather than penalties but that will change if councillors agree

Economics

4 d. ago TikTok star fined after ‘parking for six minutes with the wrong ticket’ launches battle against council

Zoe 'staked out' the area

Events

1 week ago Family fined £100 for parking over this white line to help disabled gran

Francesca Roberts decided to park over the line to allow grandmother-of-six Maureen to get her walker out and move around safely but the decision almost proved very costly

Economics

1 week ago Drivers risking £130 fine for common parking move with 1.5million making mistake

Motoring experts say there is a smarter way to avoid the problem and avoid fines

Economics

1 week ago Lanarkshire pavement parking fines: MP raises enforcement concerns

Michael Shanks says "people who have genuine issues parking outside their home may be penalised" and is asking about exemption zones

Events

1 week ago Driver, 21, fined massive £11,000 by parking firm over the 'pay in five minutes' rule

Hannah Robinson (pictured), of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, was slapped with the £11,390 bill by Excel Parking after amassing nearly 70 fines in a car park in nearby Darlington.

Economics

2 w. ago I'm 'the most ticketed man in town' after being slapped with more than 300 parking fines and I haven't paid a single penny

Jeweller Richard Johnson, 77, said he had been dealt 'indescribable stress' by the endless slew of penalties while running his city centre shop for more than 40 years.

Politics

2 w. ago Motorists hit with over 200 fines as South Lanarkshire Council wardens crack down on pavement parkers

In the first two weeks of enforcing the new legislation parking attendants have issued 248 PCNs for pavement parking.

Events

2 w. ago I've been hit with a £250 fine after a row over a £2.70 hospital parking ticket... I won't back down

Gordon Clark, from Medburn near Newcastle, has been 'driven mad' by the ordeal but insists he won't pay a £252 court letter 'as a matter of principle'.

Economics

2 w. ago Having your car stolen is bad, but it’s nothing compared to trying to report the crime | Séamas O’Reilly

I use every bit of phone-jitsu I possess to reach a human so we can explain this situationMy son hates swimming and is protesting against being driven to yet another lesson when we realise our car is gone. Searching proves fruitless, so we check the Trace system for impounded cars. Shortly after we bought it, three years ago, our car was impounded because we didn’t realise we couldn’t park across the street. This was not our finest moment, but one we now find ourselves desperately hoping we’ve repeated. There is nothing on the system except for a reference to the original impounding, complete with date stamps of when it was returned to us for a small fee.We call the police non-emergency line, sitting through dozens of automated messages telling us all the reasons we should not be calling, before giving up and reporting it online. Within an hour, I’ve received an email saying the car has been impounded after all. Embarrassed but delighted, we call the impound who tells us they do not...

Events

3 w. ago Full list of 30 'free' car parks in Greater Manchester town where three hour limit to be enforced

For years, Bolton council chose not to enforce any time restrictions on several district car parks - but from next month overstayers face fines

Politics

3 w. ago Roads bosses throw out appeals over fines at 'faulty' Ayr parking machines

Ayrshire Roads Alliance chiefs claim they had fixed their problems months before scores of drivers were hit with fines.

Politics

3 w. ago I was fined £400 in parking tickets for a car I didn't even own and keep being dragged to court... I'm determined to get my money back

Last January, Merrick Clarke, 69, (pictured) was shocked to see parking fines on his doorstep for a vehicle that didn't even belong to him.

Economics

last month More than 2000 warning notices issued to pavement parkers in South Lanarkshire as council begins enforcing fines

As of Monday, March 17, warning notices are being upgraded to Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) for parking on pavements, drop kerbs or double parking.

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