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Many private parking firms to spare drivers hefty fines for number-plate errors
Motorists who enter the wrong number-plate details when paying for private parking tickets will in many cases no longer be 'fined' the full amount
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Almost six and a half million private parking tickets could be handed to UK drivers this financial year
20 August 2018
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Local authorities are not doing enough to highlight the appeals process to those slapped with parking fines
7 February 2017
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23 July 2015
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