BBC News
Millions of parking tickets could be invalidated if campaigners win the right to challenge parking laws. 
Neil Herron, from Sunderland, wants the system that allows local councils to issue parking fines to be reviewed.
He said councils often invalidate their own controlled parking zones by including red lines inside them.

Daily Telegraph
By Jessica Salter
A man who led the campaign to stop the prosecution of British shopkeepers still using imperial measurements is launching a legal challenge over the use of parking tickets as a stealth tax.

Daily Mail
By James Slack and Rebecca Camber
'Metric martyr' Neil Herron is launching a landmark legal challenge over the use of parking tickets as a 'stealth tax'. 
If he is successful, drivers could demand the return of hundreds of millions of pounds of penalties for parking on single yellow lines.
Mr Herron - who led the campaign to stop the prosecution of British shopkeepers still using imperial measurements - has remortgaged his home to take on the parking industry.

Laughing Cavalier
September 2008: Mr Neil Herron 
As usual, there are several very worthy suggestions for the monthly award of “Cavalier of the month”. It was a difficult choice. Worms are definitely turning and, having turned, are hitting back at mindless bureaucracy with all the ferocity that a really angry worm can muster. 
However, we eventually decided on presenting the award to a worthy recipient who epitomises the sort of attitude that we wholeheartedly commend: Mr Neil Herron.