Parking tickets

Cowboy wheel clampers who will soon be outlawed could turn their attention to illegal parking ticket rackets, the AA is warning.

Britons are now spending nearly £8 billion a year to park their cars.

Local councils handed out an increased number of parking tickets last year, despite cutting back on traffic wardens, according to figures out today.

Over half of motorists who appealed against parking tickets last year won their case according to new findings released today.