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£20m in Essex speeding fines may be refunded due to blunder
 It's been a bad week for Speed/Safety Camera Partnerships. On Sunday we wrote that Dorset may have to refund £1.5m in fines due to errors in a traffic order for a Chideock speed camera.
Now comes news that Essex may have to return £20m in speeding fines following a blunder that meant tickets issues by the enforcement department were not legal.
The situation arose after it was discovered that a civilian employee responsible for sending the penalty letters to drivers may not have had the authorisation necessary in law as required by the 1988 Road Traffic Offenders Act.
The error in authorisation stretches back four years and estimates calculate that means nearly 300,000 motorists could be affected.
Essex Police are now discussing the matter with the Crown prosecution Service to establish their position.
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 Posted by mostdom on Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:42 am |
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Something is not working with the Read more link on the news article.
'Page not found'
Dom
HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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| Posted by mostdom on Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:45 am |
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There will probably be a wriggle out of it policy that they'll magically produce. Something to do with not having the funds or something! But £20Million. 
Dom
HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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| Posted by Darren on Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:46 am |
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| mostdom Wrote: | Something is not working with the Read more link on the news article.
'Page not found' |
Thanks Dom, now fixed. The perils of posting stories at 5am!
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| Posted by M8TJT on Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:42 am |
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| Darren Wrote: | | mostdom Wrote: | Something is not working with the Read more link on the news article.
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Thanks Dom, now fixed. The perils of posting stories at 5am! |
What 'read more' link?? 
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| Posted by Darren on Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:11 am |
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| M8TJT Wrote: | | What 'read more' link?? |
The front page News item has a read more link which takes you to the article page. Same can be achieved by clicking the image in the lead post here.
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| Posted by M8TJT on Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:17 am |
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Thanks for that Darren I'll have to find the newsletter article because the image in the lead post takes you to a PGPSW page as indicated by the alt text
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| Posted by mikealder on Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:25 am |
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The link from the image icon in this thread throws me to an index page as it cannot find the article so somethings not quite right somewhere? - Mike
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| Posted by Darren on Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:32 am |
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Fixed. The front page news item creates a web page and forum post auto-magically.
But it is not intelligent enough to realise that '£' signs and similar are not valid characters for a web page and so the error as seen here occurs.
I then have to re-visit the posts, edit the links to remove the illegal character in the page name and then edit the page name.
I'd forgotten to do that to the forum post.
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| Posted by Darren on Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:38 am |
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| M8TJT Wrote: | | Thanks for that Darren I'll have to find the newsletter article because the image in the lead post takes you to a PGPSW page as indicated by the alt text |
That's correct, it isn't in the Newsletter as that was sent out yesterday?
In this case the 'Read More' is a little misleading as all the editorial is contained in the news post. For other news items, the news post is a summary with the full article after the jump.
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| Posted by Snudge on Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:26 pm |
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It's not just about refunding fines though - some people may have lost their licence and consequently lost their job, had their home repossessed and their family break up .
How can Essex police compensate them?
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