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Aha, just had a second successful PCN appeal in nine months. Two out of two :thumb: Both tickets were issued for "parking outside the bay markings" in St John's multi-storey car park in Northampton town centre. As a town centre resident, I park there daily (and pay an annual fee). Now...

Right so I was driving along a dual carriageway today with a grass verge in the middle, approaching two council workers who are strimming the grass. I thought to myself I hope that a stone does not fly and hit my car. Right enough just as I am passing them a stone was flicked up and has...

...and Elvis is alive and well and working at the local chip shop :mad: I've often thought that those responsible for roads in Oxfordshire were smoking something they probably shouldn't be, but anyone who feels that "the repairs team was coping well as ice, floods and snow combined to open up...

Today at 9 30 it was 6 celsius and i passed my first gritter of the year. A complete waste of money i think. Ive just checked and it is now +9 outside and a beautiful sunny day.Every year without fail there is a cockup here with the gritting teams getting it wrong. Last winter they got caught...

I know we have discussed it before here it is for those who have missed it: excerpt: Cheap MOTs: Beat repair costs using council test centres...

What's the rule for parking on a yellow line in a side street in Southall on a sunday? With no signs anywhere about restrictions. My appeal had been rejected due to "parking on single yellow is NOT permitted at anytime unless otherwise stated" Are we looking at sillybuggers here?

The level of warranty claims against vehicles could rise ‘dramatically’ over the next decade, as a result of corrosion caused by a widely-used pre-wet gritting technique. Research by car manufacturer Volkswagen has shown that liability cases against its cars in Austria, where pre-wetting is...

Cars are trapped on 'illegal' driveways after council fits bollards in the middle of the night. Homowners woke to find their cars had been blocked in overnight by bollards. They say council workmen erected the barriers at the end of their driveways without warning. This left them no time to...

http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/article3228483.ece "One in four town halls now get more income from charges such as parking than they do from council tax, the spending watchdog says today. The rise in charging comes as local authorities try to avoid service cuts. "...

My car was parked on a residential street in Dollis hill in Brent, as it has been on and off over the last year. Towards the end of last year Nov/Dec the council added temporary single yellow lines to the street as they extended a nearby residential parking zone, with a notice that these were...