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Re. letter 'Hello Moto' in your Telegraph column, 25 September 2010. I've had a similar experience at the Royal Hotel car park, Weston Super Mare, with Parking Eye Ltd. I've been fined £90 for overstaying...
You often publicise issues that seem unfair to road users: speed humps, road repairs, inappropriate speed enforcement and unfair parking charges, for example. Motorists are a huge proportion of the (voting)...
I recently took your advice to another reader regarding his fine for overstaying the permitted two hours at Aldi. In my case I incurred an £80 parking fine (reduced to £50 if I pay early) for staying too...
I called into Norton Canes services on the M6 Toll/Expressway services in the morning en route to a meeting in Northampton, staying just long enough to makes a phone call and use the toilets and then carried...
Approaching Luton airport in the early hours, there was a tailback of slow-moving traffic some 1000 yards from the terminal. My son, who I was dropping off, decided to alight and walk. Only when I turned...
Is a local authority extorting money by false pretences when its pay-and-display machine takes your money and issues a ticket for a time when parking is actually not permitted? I was recently issued with...
I received a PCN for parking on private land from Civil Enforcement Limited. After reading all the various online comments about private parking and the legitimacy of the fees, I chose to write back telling...
My son stopped at a motorway service station and fell asleep for three hours because of tiredness. He has just received a parking charge letter, with registration details and stating that the time stayed...
My wife has just received a demand for £70 from a car parking enforcement company for being in Morrison's car park for more than two hours. The letter gives the arrival and departure times (three hours)...
Some friends and I left our cars for a day parked in marked bays in a local village square. There were no limitations on time. On our return at 4pm we found a fairground had set up in the interim, and...
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