Local authorities are profiting from ‘busybody fines’ while more serious criminal behaviour goes unpunished
Local authorities are profiting from ‘busybody fines’ while more serious criminal behaviour goes unpunished
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Robert Jenrick said Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which eventually withdrew the penalty, was acting like the ‘Stasi’
A £1,000 fine for putting the bins out early symbolises the jobsworth overreach of local government
Bungling staff have threatened a mother who left furniture outside her property to go to a good home with prison and fined a man…
Lack of enforcement is allowing people to drop rubbish with complete impunity, says Clean Up Britain
Judge ruled that primary motivation of Croydon’s traffic-calming schemes was to generate money
Haringey council’s penalty seems extortionate – especially when other authorities charge lower amounts
