2009-03-01 Professional Security
Park award
In Grimsby the car park at Freshney Place Shopping Centre has gained the Park Mark safer parking award from the British Parking Association. Almost 14m people visited the centre last year, and none of them reported any problems with their cars whilst they...
2009-03-01 Professional Security
Approved operators
It is essential for any organisation to provide secure facilities for customers. Management is responsible for maintaining each area of their business, including parking facilities, and ensuring that users are welcomed into a safe, trustworthy...
2008-12-31 Hartlepool Today
Free parking at Scottish hospitals
Patients in Scotland will no longer have to pay hospital car parking...
2008-12-27 The Mail On Sunday
Council hires 'blue badge' fraud spies... at £33,000 a year
Undercover investigators on salaries of nearly £33,000 are being recruited to spy on motorists suspected of abusing disabled parking badges. Using powers originally intended to combat terrorism and serious crime, they will undertake covert missions, making use of video and digital cameras or other...
2008-12-22 24Dash.com
Hammersmith & Fulham Council: Beware of blue badge vigilantes
Hammersmith & Fulham: beware of blue badge vigilantes Disabled drivers are being warned that some disgruntled people are taking the law into their own hands to stop them from parking on the...
2008-12-17 The London Free Press
Santa gets parking ticket while delivering toys
NEW YORK Santa Claus has added a New York City traffic agent to his naughty list after she gave him a ticket while delivering gifts to children. Chip Cafiero says he ll fight the $115 ticket he received in Brooklyn last month when he was dressed as...
2008-12-17 North Devon Gazette
North Devon motorists being warned in latest safety initiative
MOTORISTS who leave valuables on display in parked cars could receive a warning letter in the post as part of a safety initiative being carried out by police and local...
2008-12-16 Phone Content
RingGo Bells, RingGo Sales, RingGo All the Way
Car park operators who have seen RingGo star in their offering this year include: The London Boroughs: Barnet, Brent and Southwark Local Authorities: Bristol, Cherwell, Hartlepool, Havant, Middlesbrough, North Cornwall, Oxford, Poole, Reading, Stockton and Test Valley Network Rail, South West...
2008-12-16 Wigantoday.net
Streets face parking chaos
Norfolk may face parking chaos next year with the prospect of no traffic wardens operating until 2010. Police in the county are set to scrap traffic wardens from next April and the county council will then take over responsibility in for street...
2008-12-16 Blackpool Gazette
Queen of cakes
Former traffic warden Brenda Dwyer's career change is just the ticket! Brenda is making a name for herself in the world of cakes - with creative designs for every event from Asian weddings to traditional English...
2008-12-13 StreathamGuardian.co.uk
Does even Batman get parking fines in Lambeth?
At first glance it seems even the caped crusader himself could not escape the beady eye of Lambeths parking wardens when a parking ticket was slapped on to the windscreen of none other than the...
2008-12-08 This is Gloucestershire
Pictures of dodgy parking go online
PARKING offenders in Cheltenham will be able to see their dodgy parking online, thanks to an initiative by Cheltenham Borough Council. From April 2009, anyone hit with a fine will be able to visit the new site to see traffic wardens photographs of their...
2008-12-07 This is Gloucestershire
Council to launch online parking tickets
PARKING offenders in Cheltenham will be pictured online thanks to a new initiative by Cheltenham Borough Council. From April 2009, anyone hit with a fine will be able to visit the new site to see traffic wardens photographs of their...
2008-12-07 Bedfordshire on Sunday
Text alert could be your vehicle's guardian Angel
BY SIMON HUTCHINSON An innovative text-messaging scheme is being launched to cut car crime and thwart would-be thieves. Bedford Borough Council has teamed up with Park Angel to launch the sophisticated warning system that alerts motorists instantly by text if there is a problem with their...
2008-12-04 This is Derbyshire.co.uk
Firefighters make school parking plea
FIREFIGHTERS will be speaking to parents to ask them to think about how they park when they collect their children from school. They will be outside Derby High School in Pastures Hill, Littleover tomorrow from 3pm to...
2008-11-27 Info 4 Security
BPA demands Parking Summit
As the largest independent professional association in Europe for parking and traffic management, the BPA is now actively lobbying the Department for Transport to bring together political parties, motoring organisations which represent the motorist and consumer, the police and industry experts so that they...
2008-09-08 Wales Online
Hospitals to stop abuse of free parking
HOSPITALS are introducing a series of tough measures in a bid to prevent people abusing free car parking. The moves come as nurses have raised concerns that patients are struggling to park at some Welsh hospitals, just five months after parking charges were scrapped at most of...
2008-09-03 Surrey Herald
Borough car parks are 'benchmarks'
TWO Runnymede car parks have been given the Park Mark status award, which now means all 16 of the borough's car parks have the award. Truss's Island free car park, in Chertsey Lane, Chertsey, and Waspe Farm car park, in Egham, were awarded the Park Mark this week after improvements to their lighting and...
2008-09-03 Yeovil Express
Top marks for Yeovil car parks!
NINE of Yeovils busiest car parks - run by South Somerset District Council - have been re-awarded the Park Mark Safer Parking Award. The accreditations were confirmed after independent checks carried out by police crime prevention officers gave the car parks an official seal of approval for another three.
2008-08-21 Easier
BAA called on to sell three airports
The UK Competition Commission has recommended that BAA sell three of its UK airports, Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, following concerns over a monopoly on the operation of...
2008-08-15 Female First
Where is the cheapest petrol this summer?
Keepmoving.co.uk, the UK s premier motoring and traffic website, will be helping consumers ease their credit crunch worries by letting them know where the cheapest petrol is, anywhere in the UK, as fears rise that petrol could cost as much as...
2008-08-13 Interactive Investor International
Eurazeo Q2 sales jump 56.4 pct, spurred by Apcoa, Elis acquisitions
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Eurazeo said sales jumped 56.4 percent to 1.090 billion euros in the second quarter from 696.9 million a year earlier, spurred by the acquisition of car park operator Apcoa and workwear rental business...
2008-07-23 Yorkshire Today
City centre car park to open shortly
THE company behind the re-development of The Moor in Sheffield has announced that the first phase of the project should be up and running by the end of next...
2008-04-16 The Bolton News
Electronic signs to tell drivers of free parking spaces
ELECTRONIC signs are to be introduced to tell drivers how many parking spaces are free in Bolton town centre. Council bosses have announced NCP will be responsible for building three new multi-storey car parks, providing more than 2,000...
2008-03-18 London Evening Standard
£20 charge to drop off passengers at Heathrow airport
Drivers taking passengers to Heathrow face a £40 charge under secret plans being drawn up by the airport operator, the Standard can reveal. BAA wants to charge a £20 fee for dropping off passengers by car - on top of a daily parking fee of £20. The airport operator is also looking at a £3 congestion charge fee for lorries using roads around the airport, including the M4.
2008-01-19 East London and West Essex Guardian
WALTHAMSTOW: 'Parked cars can block your drive'
RESIDENTS were shocked to find new pavement parking bays blocking their driveways. Council workers were re-marking the parking bays in The Risings and Salters Road,...
2007-12-21 Preston Citizen
Traffic wardens playing Santa to shoppers
SHOPPERS in Lancashire are to get a Christmas present from a very unlikely source - traffic wardens. Goody bags are to be handed out by parking attendants to the public at car parks and shopping centres after three transport-related teams, the Road Safety Group, TravelWise, and ParkWise joined.
2007-11-11 London Evening Standard
Can't remember where you parked at the airport? Meet the gadget that will find your car for you
Heathrow is to become the world's first airport to install technology that allows you to find your vehicle simply by inserting your parking ticket into a machine that has a 32in screen displaying a 3-D map.
2007-10-31 Constructionmall.com
Simons Developments - St Catherine's Walk
Invista Real Estate has exchanged contracts with Simons Developments & Carmarthenshire County Council's town centre redevelopment project in Carmarthen, giving the green light to a scheme with a gross development value of 73,150,000 and reflecting an initial yield of...
2007-10-11 EveningTimes.online
Sturgeon vows fair deal on hospital parking fees
HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has promised a fairer deal at hospital car parks - but played down hopes of scrapping controversial charges. She told Glasgow hospital staff protesting outside a health board meeting yesterday her review of parking charges would also apply to private facilities, such as the...