Appealing behaviour

Councils either make it too time consuming and difficult to appeal a parking ticket, so that it is easier just to pay up, or frighten you into thinking the penalty will get much larger if you don't pay....

Taking the bully by the horns

I thought you might be interested in my David v Goliath victory. Last January I inadvertently overstayed my welcome at the Forster Square Retail Park, Bradford, a complex of big-name retail stores, managed...

Emborising moment

In your reply to JS of Stroud on June 24th you allude to London Mayor Boris Johnson's recent near-miss caused by a lorry's back doors opening after cresting a speed bump. I actually live on the street...

Collusion damage waiver

In May 2008 I was on holiday in Florence Italy and hired a motor car from Avis. I picked up the car in Florence and before leaving the depot asked Avis staff for directions to Sienna. Some 6 months later...

Attack of the bumps

My 10-year old Primera (a reliable car that wont be going anywhere near the scrappage scheme) recently suffered from a loud rumbling noise at about 50 mph. My garage diagnosed inner wall damage to the...

Con fine ment

Two weeks ago my husband was issued with a parking ticket in a carpark in Ipswich, Suffolk while visiting our son on father's day. This was on a Sunday when the car park is free, but it was given because...

The spies who came in from the old

In view of the number of suggestions appearing in the press that older drivers should be banned, or made to take a further test, you may be interested to know that Hampshire County Council runs a very...

Slowed rager

The Police spend time trying to stop speeding vehicles, but what about very slow ones ignoring the recommendation of the Highway Code to stop and let following traffic pass? Apart from the lack of consideration...

Limiting factor

I recently received my second speeding ticket for doing 39mph in a thirty zone. Since then I travel at no more than 50 on motorways, 30 on country lanes and 20 in built up areas. I did this recently on...

Pain in Spain

We own a property on Formentera, which is a small Spanish owned Island near to Ibiza. We pay Spanish local property tax (IBI) and for refuse collection in the same way Spanish residents pay their local...