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  This parking penalty is extremely unfair - what are your views? 6 Sep 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I recently parked in a hotel for a meeting and, in the absence of seeing any signage (albeit it was going dark and I was a few minutes late) went straight...
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  Parking charges at motorway services 3 Oct 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I have just recieved an £80 parking fine for overnight parking at the Moto Services at M5 Services Exeter. I parked from 02.54am to 06.48am. I am a Courier...
• Parking tickets-valid or not 2 Apr 2006 (Forum)
  was obviously welcome not just parked up and wandered off and chance them saying 'tough, pay up' or should I ignore it, with the incorrect reg number they can't trace the car to me but would they check through all the photos by which time the fine would have doubled because not paid within the 14 days
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  At Welcome Break we take road safety seriously, in terms of the 2-hour maximum free stay at our motorway services. 14 Jul 2012 (Ask HJ)
  In reference to the letter on14 April regarding a parking fine complaint from JS of Tamworth, when he visited the Oxford Welcome Break service area on...
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  Separate featurette: 3 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
  On July 25 2009, you answered a letter by P.M. of Kineton who had received a "penalty" for overstaying while parking to eat at McDonalds. You advised the...
• Two parking space hog 28 Jul 2003 (Forum)
  a bag of fresh manure in the boot!) I wonder if a parking warden could have been 'summoned' (how?) to impose a fine?
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  Parking "Fine" for broken down car 12 Sep 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I have been issued with a charge of £80 by CP Plus for overstaying my welcome at Forton services on the M6 (3 hous 8 mins). In fact, we had broken...
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  Ealing comedy 5 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I live in the London Borough Of Ealing and received a parking ticket for parking my motorbike on the pavement against a big U shaped bracket for locking...
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  Should I go to court over a parking ticket? 18 Aug 2014 (Ask HJ)
  I parked in a car park that had machine that you needed to enter your full registration. I had never used these machines before but I entered my full reg,...
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  Unwelcome Breakdown 29 Dec 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I had a meeting with a colleague at Hamilton services that ran over the 2 hr parking allowance. We were in the Costa Coffee area and purchased coffees...
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  Parking penalty issued when we were overseas 31 Oct 2011 (Ask HJ)
  We are yearly overseas visitors. We have just received here in Mexico a fine for 180 pounds from Parking Eye for the 16th Sept for Crown Wharf shopping...
• Focus wont go in to 5th gear or reverse 7 Aug 2006 (Forum)
  Hi I have a 1.8 ford focus T reg that has done 78,000 miles or there abouts. A few days ago I stalled i accidently went to put it in reverse withiout the clutch down which stalled it as could be expected. It has reversed fine since then and gone in to 5th fine since then....until yesterday
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  UKPC fined me for parking at my place of work 21 Nov 2012 (Ask HJ)
  I have just received a letter from UKPC 'inviting' me to pay a Parking Charge for £90.00, stating that "if after a period of 28 days, the amount requested...
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  Ticket machine not working in car park - am I entitled to a cash refund? 18 Nov 2021 (Ask HJ)
  The ticket machine wasn't working at my local car park and when I phoned the car park operator's helpline I could barely understand the instructions. I...
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  Can I dispute a parking penalty from a supermarket car park because the attendant has lied on the notice? 13 Nov 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I received a parking penalty at my local Morrisons supermarket the other week. I went to the machine and a customer was having problems so, as I only needed...
• Protection of Freedoms Bill: a weasel clause 26 Feb 2011 (Forum)
  . Britain is full of private parking companies that levy enormous "fines" on people who stop too long in shopping car parks, enter private roads (usually unwittingly) and commit various other very minor mischiefs on private land.  The companies get agreement of the land owner to police
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  Overheating Peugeot 207 4 Sep 2015 (Ask HJ)
  My Peugeot 207CC has an intermittent fault of overheating. After about 20 mins of running, on comes the fan and up goes the temp gauge, heading to boiling....
• PCN - no work done at suspended bays 12 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  Dear Honest John. Unusual one here I think. My wife was issued a parking ticket at 8:07am on the first morning of a five day suspension of a row of parking bays. The suspension was for pavement repairs. The suspension was taken down by 8am the next morning and no work was done on the pavement
• Cloned plates 30 Apr 2003 (Forum)
  How about this. Guy's plate gets cloned and over 6 weeks the cloner (is that a word) racks up £2,000 in speeding tickets/parking fines/bus lane fines. The guy contacts the Council, not interested just pay up, contacts the Police who call him a liar. He tracks the cloned plate and provides
• Leyland Roadrunner - Leyland Roadrunner Parking Brakes 29 Jun 2010 (Forum)
  Hi all. I have a leyland roadrunner, 1990, which has just failed the MOT. The main failure is the parking brakes are only 7%. When you first start up, until there is enough air in the system, the lorry will not move, so they are working. The foot brakes are fine. The lorry has been