Card Smart
According to Neil Herron, a 2.6% administration charge for credit card payments demanded by Gloucester city council exceeds the amount prescribed by law, the BBC has disclosed. 
He advised people who have paid the credit card surcharge to contact the council to ask for their money back. 
The comments follow a case earlier this year when London General Transport Services appealed a £120 fine charged by Camden Council, saying that it was unfair to be charged an extra 1.3% credit card fee for a ticket they had no choice but to pay.

BBC News
A two-tier parking scheme introduced in London to target drivers causing the most disruption has led to an 11% fall in parking fines, it has been claimed.
Under the scheme, introduced two years ago, 5,466,219 tickets were issued between April 2008 and March 2009.
London Councils said that was 710,533 fewer tickets than the previous year.

Evening Courier
CALDERDALE Council might be forced to pay back thousands of pounds in parking fines because of a legal loophole.
It has been putting a 2.6 per cent surcharge on credit card payments, which is against Department for Transport guidelines.
Car parking campaigner Neil Herron, director of Parking Appeal Ltd has raised the issue with Calderdale Council

Daily Telegraph
An estimated eight million drivers, around one in four of the total number on the roads, receive a parking ticket every year, paying an estimated £1 billion in fines. 
Millions choose to use a credit card to settle the debt either by paying online or via a telephone service.

BBC News
Camden Council in London has scrapped a policy only introduced in January of levying an extra fee to taxpayers for processing money paid by credit card. 
The move follows a ruling by an appeals body that applying a card surcharge made an entire parking fine unlawful.

Romford Recorder
HUNDREDS of motorists snared by Havering Council's CCTV spy fleet could fight to have their fines quashed, after a significant ruling this week.
Havering is one of 32 councils in the country that uses controversial periscope-mounted camera cars, as well as motorbikes, to catch-out drivers breaking parking rules.

BBC News
Motorists issued with parking fines after being caught out by so-called "spy cars" may now have grounds to appeal after a legal ruling. 
Rachel Johnson, 32, challenged three £60 fines issued by Wirral Council using evidence gathered by Smart Cars fitted with periscope cameras.
A tribunal upheld her claim she was loading and unloading her car when the the Penalty Charge Notices were issued.

Click Liverpool
A Liverpool city region motorist has won a landmark legal ruling that could see thousands of parking tickets scrapped because they have been illegally issued by spy camera cars.
In the last 12 months drivers have been issued with parking penalties on photographic evidence gathered by a new generation of Smart cars with periscope-mounted cameras.

The Sun
THOUSANDS of parking tickets issued by "spy cars" could be deemed invalid after a landmark ruling. 
A tribunal quashed fines against Rachel Johnson because she had no warning about the periscope-mounted cameras on the Smart vehicles.