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  • Parking bailiffs may enter homes... 11 Apr 2007 (Forum)
    Don't pay your parking fines and they'll take your tv http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/10/npark10.xml
  • Foot-wrath 3 Jan 2009 (Ask HJ)
    Can you tell me whether it is legal to park with nearside wheels on the footpath or verge? I have always understood it was a No-No based on a fine to member...
  • Fined for parking even though I paid already 27 May 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I recently paid for parking for a full weekend in Blackpool. I put £14 in the machine, which neither gave me a ticket or a refund. I spent an hour trying...
  • We got a parking fine because our disabled blue badge showed the wrong year - what can we do? 15 Nov 2017 (Ask HJ)
    I have just had my second appeal dismissed by Independent Appeal Service. I’m in my 70s, disabled and have a seriously ill husband who is also disabled....
  • I've been fined for overstaying at a motorway services - must I pay? 15 Jul 2010 (Ask HJ)
    Myself and a colleague today received parking charge notices for exceeding a two hour limit at a motorway service station. We feel disgruntled on several...
  • Parking fine whilst on holiday in Jersey 23 Jul 2017 (Forum)
    Car Parked in disabled bay in St Helier today, correctly displaying Mrs 72 dudes' blue badge (or so we thought!). Came back within the time limit to find a parking penalty notice (proper one issued by town council not a private firm). Reason given: "Failure to display". Hot
  • Big Mac and Large Fines 10 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
    Further to your reader's letter regarding a £50 penalty at MacDonalds near Heathrow, I too suffered in the same way, this time because my order was forgotten...
  • Chrysler Grand Voyager 2004 limited XS - Reverse lights 2004 chrysler grand voyager 25 Nov 2011 (Forum)
    I have had problems with my park assist, it never worked when i got the car ( 3.3 Grand Voyager RHD ) Now i have also noticed my reverse lights do not work either. So i have put two and two together... I checked the bulbs, and they work fine, i have checked and swapped the relay
  • Parking fine from Asda - what do I do? 19 May 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I parked in Asda to do my weekly shop, the car park is managed by Town & City parking. I paid £1 to park for 1 hour. I only shopped in Asda and didn't...
  • Parking Fine - This Can't Be Right? 19 Jun 2006 (Forum)
    that afternoon. My car remained parked there overnight (I didn't return to it) and on Friday early afternoon, another ticket was issued. On Friday evening, my car was removed to a car pound. I paid the fine for the second ticket when collecting my vehicle (along with removal and storage charges*). I knew
  • My wife is disabled but received a fine for parking on the pavement - can she appeal? 17 Apr 2024 (Ask HJ)
    My wife is disabled and parked her car fully on the footpath, the footpath was wide enough for prams wheelchair users to pass safely however my wife has...
  • Mercedes Benz E class E220 DIESEL AUTO (2002) - Transmission 12 Aug 2017 (Forum)
    Same car, further development! ! When engine is cold, it revs fine and goes into gear forward or reverse, though I still have it parked because when the engine has been running for 10 to 15 mins and warmed up sufficiently, it still revs? Good power etc but only in Neutral or Park,  put
  • Advice please. Fined for upsidedown parking ticket 18 Mar 2013 (Forum)
    I've just been issued with a fixed fee penalty of £20 because my parking ticket was upside down. I want to contest this because the parking tickets are so flimsy that when i opened my door the wind must have flipped it over, and i didn't notice, as i'd put it in correctly. i know its not much
  • parking fine- car not ticketed 18 Apr 2007 (Forum)
    that I did not have a PCN? I agree that I was parked on a yellow line, 5 mins before I was allowed to. The back of the letter has 'grounds for representations to the council' of which the only one vaguely descriptive of my position is: 'you disagree that the Parking Attendant was prevented from issuing
  • Parking fine for using our own bay...!! 1 Mar 2007 (Forum)
    Last year we had a disabled parking bay painted outside our house, my wife being a blue badge holder. At the time, the council advised us never to leave the badge in the car when on our own bay because a) so many blue badges get stolen and b) apparantly the personal disabled bays outside a badge
  • Overstaying car park duration. 5 Sep 2008 (Forum)
    One of my employees parked in B&Q car park at 8o'clock the other evening, three hours free parking, left just after midnight according to the letter I had this morning. Lovely colour picture of his car taken entering the car park, timed, and a black and white photo of him leaving. £95 fine or £75
  • Airport fines and disability 14 Nov 2024 (Forum)
    What would happen if a driver  was "fined" for non payment of parking fee - if they were picking up a disabled passenger - in a wheelchair who, obviously could not use a free bus to get to a picking up zone ?
  • A car park has wrongly fined me for parking overnight - should I just pay up? 26 Jun 2017 (Ask HJ)
    My husband dropped me off in my car one evening to purchase do some shopping. He left the car parked to collect another purchase from nearby, then returned...
  • How can I contest a parking fine I've received from Parking Eye received after parking in a hotel? 16 Jun 2012 (Ask HJ)
    I know you have covered this before a few times but would be grateful if you could let me know what you think about the following: On 2 March I had a meeting...
  • disabled parking 19 Jul 2013 (Forum)
    i have got a parking ticket from UKCPS as i was in a disabled space and my blue badge had slipped off the dash and i hadnt noticed it i was on a private car park which is a shopping mall and free parking Iappealed the fine off £60 and now UKCPS have sent me a letter saying i have to pay
 

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