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News: Driver receives parking ticket while observing two-minute silence on Armistice Day

Published 13 November 2014
By Will Dron
Rules are rules. That was the view of the parking warden who issued a ticket on November 11 to a driver who had pulled over to observe the Armistice Day two-minute silence.
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Letters of the week, October 19

This week: Guy Martin's impossibly fast Volvo, refuelling mishaps and the lawlessness of Welwyn Garden City
Published 21 October 2014
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News: Council paints double yellow lines on 3ft wide...

It’s barely 3ft wide and far too small for even the tiny Smart city car but a stretch of tarmac in one north London street has still been painted...
Published 20 October 2014
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News: Vicar turns tables on wardens as she snaps their...

A vicar who claims that traffic wardens are preying on her congregation has photographed them parked on double yellow lines, reports The Times.
Published 06 May 2014
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Double trouble for Kingston council

KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES can, today, boast a further claim to fame: the location of one of the UK’s shortest double-yellow lines.
Published 02 April 2014
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Council admits it looks “absurd”

A council has apologised after contractors painted double-yellow lines in a gap just 9in wide.
Published 02 September 2013
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Not the best way to avoid a ticket

This driver seems to have taken the government’s proposal to permit parking on double yellow lines for a limited period, to the next level...
Published 02 July 2013
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Squeeze in if you want a ticket

NO, YOU'RE not suffering from déjà vu; another council really has painted double-yellow lines on a lane barely wide enough to drive a car down.
Published 10 May 2013
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Yellow line U-turn

IN A volte face that does it credit, Swindon Borough Council has covered over the double yellow lines contractors painted along an alleyway four feet...
Published 02 May 2013
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Locals see red over yellow

Perhaps it was a popular rat-run known only to drivers of the Peel P50 and the Renault Twizy -whatever, they certainly won't be parking in it again.
Published 02 April 2013