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Fury after shopper fined £70 for returning to Hull retail…

Customers at a Hull retail park have been warned about parking fines after several shoppers were charged upwards of £70 for breaching "unfair" rules. The rules of the Mount Pleasant car park, operated by Parkingeye, state that customers can stay for up to three hours, with no return within one hour which they say is "to prevent long-stay parking abuse"....

35 drivers caught with no seatbelt and five on their…

Over 60 vehicles were stopped last week by Humberside Police's Roads Policing Unit as part of a national initiative, Operation Tramline, to identify dangerous drivers committing road-related offences. Working in partnership with National Highways, officers have been busy travelling across the region in an unmarked Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) monitoring other drivers in a bid to keep roads safe across...

French ban on some domestic flights comes into effect, if…

France has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives taking under two and a half hours exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.  Connecting flights are unaffected.  Services, linking Paris Orly airport with Nantes, Bordeaux and Lyons, had already been stopped by Air France under a 2020 agreement.  However, they are allowed to continue to use Charles de Gaulle...

100 climate activists block private jets at biggest business aviation…

In Geneva, 100 climate activists supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate movement groups from 17 countries have disrupted Europe’s biggest private jet sales fair, the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), demanding a ban on private jets. The action follows a series of protests against private jets, including at Amsterdam Schiphol airport and...