BBC News
Some councils have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds by enforcing unlawful traffic and parking restrictions, the BBC has learned. 
Fines are said to have been levied despite incorrect road markings and on parking bays which are too small. 
The Department of Transport said it expected councils to "seriously consider" repayment of illegal fines.

Islington Gazette
MORE than £1million in parking tickets could be invalid - claims a campaigner who wants Islington Council to give the money back.
Neil Herron, of ParkingAppeals.co.uk, believes that a council blunder created a 22-day window in which no parking tickets were valid.
During that time, he thinks thousands of fines worth up to £1.8million could have been issued.

London Taxi Drivers Association

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
by nick lavigueur
MOTORISTS who received parking fines at two Holmfirth locations should be refunded, a former councillor says.
Ex-Kirklees councillor Jeremy Fisher claims that the parking bay outside Barclays Bank on Victoria Street is incorrectly marked out and the single yellow line by the Methodist Church at School Street has no sign detailing the restrictions, meaning that both zones are “unlawful”.

Camden Gazette
DRIVERS have spoken out about parking practices in the road where last year CCTV cameras were responsible for more than £1million in fines.
As revealed in the Gazette, fixed cameras helped secure more than £9.2million in fines during 2007 - penalising them for straying into bus lanes, performing illegal turns or parking in banned places.

This is Swansea
MARY VANCURA
One Of Carmarthen's new county councillors is calling for the authority to address the issue of £800,000 worth of invalid parking tickets it has issued.
In 2006, Steve Dunn successfully proved the council had been issuing invalid parking contravention notices (PCNs) between May 2004 and September 2006.

Daily Echo
By Melanie Vass
A DISPUTE over a few inches of white paint could leave drivers free to challenge parking tickets across Bournemouth.
Bournemouth council has admitted there are on-street parking bays across the borough where the road markings don't comply with the law.
But it has rejected calls to stop handing out tickets and start refunding affected motorists.

Sunday Mirror
Judge Tread
I received a parking ticket in South London and am very upset. I was taking my 17-year-old son to college when I realised I had left his entry pass at home.
He is registered blind, and therefore I am entitled to use a Blue Badge when driving him around. We came back home and parked on a single yellow line using the Blue Badge, setting the "time clock" as required to show when we'd parked.

Evening Standard
David Williams, Motoring Editor
A London parking chief has become a cult internet star after protesters made a film exposing what they claim are the "illegal" activities of parking attendants in his borough. 
A song set to the tune of A Message To You, Rudy by The Specials is dedicated to Rudy Bright, head of Camden council's parking services, and urges him to "stop your messing around".

nlnews@archant.co.uk
Drivers fined for stopping inside an "illegal" yellow box junction outside Tottenham bus station are no closer to finding out if they will get their money back.
Councillor Alan Stanton (Labour, Tottenham Hale) tackled Haringey Council about 3,746 penalty charge notices issued on a Philip Lane box junction which did not meet Department for Transport regulations.

Ham and High
Tan Parsons
BUILDING firms have hit the roof over Camden's parking policies, with one firm vowing to take the council to the High Court.
Workmen are finding the spiralling cost of builders' permits too expensive and say they are crippling their trade.