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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362519/One-parking-ticket-FOUR-seconds-Councils-raked-270-million-fines-million-tickets-handed-year.html
A parking ticket was issued to motorists every four seconds last year, it emerged today.

There were eight million handed out with councils raking in £270 million in fines.

The figures, revealed under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the most number of tickets were slapped on car windscreens in Greater London.

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  • Kite2010
    Kite2010 Posts: 4,308 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Home Insurance Hacker! Car Insurance Carver!
    Time for all motoring 'fines' to be paid into a Central pot.

    Then it will drop to 1 every never as the councils won't get the money raised by charging people
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