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Parking fine campaigner Neil Herron has lost his High Court battle in opposition to what he said were unlawful penalty charges.
Herron, 47, parked within an area of single yellow lines and received 39 penalty charge notices that he requested to be ruled unenforceable. He disputed that the Sunderland city centre controlled parking area was unlawful due to its large size and the confusion it caused to drivers.
Herron is now faced with expenses of up to £20,000 after London’s High Court ruled against the test case challenge. He said the court’s verdict would permit local authorities to continue making money from [...]

Yesterday in Shreveport, the last Hummer H3 rolled off the Louisiana production line as part of an exclusive order for Avis Car Rental Company.
General Motors is cutting down the brand after a drawn out and eventually failed attempt to sell off the classic maker of sport-utility motor vehicles to a Chinese company. A month ago, General Motors hosted a sale of remaining Hummer vehicles and offered discounts of up to $6,000 for certain models.
The company’s campaign ‘Last Chance to Buy a HUMMER’ featured deals including $4,000 to $6,000 deducted off numerous H2 and H3 models, along with 72 months of [...]

Air accident investigators have announced that they are calling off the latest search for an Air France jet which went down in the Atlantic, killing all 228 crew and passengers. Following three-weeks of searching, French officials have ordered a specially equipped Norwegian exploration vessel to return to the Brazilian port of Recife.
The decision has angered a group which represents the families of those who died in the crash. President of Entraide et Solidarité AF447, Jean-Baptist Audousset, said that it was imperative that the wreckage of the jet, as well as its black-box flight recorders, be found. He added that this [...]

A campaigner has lost his battle at the High Court to have 39 penalty charges, received for parking his car on single yellow lines in a controlled parking zone, overturned. 47-year-old Neil Herron claims that the parking zone in Sunderland in which he received the notices, was too large and too confusing for the charges [...]

As British Airways cabin crew enter a third day of industrial action, the airline says that it is considering returning to the courts to put an end to the disruption. Last week, BA had an injunction granted to block the strike overturned by the Court of Appeals. The strike by members of the union Unite began on Monday.
Weekend talks aimed at preventing the latest walkouts ended abruptly, when protestors invaded the meeting at Acas. Although no further negotiations have been planned, Unite claims that the only way to prevent further action is to come to an agreement over pay, working conditions and [...]