Drivers get 10 minutes' grace: Traffic wardens will have to wait

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Parking meter on white
Parking meter on white

If you overstay your allotted time in a parking space by ten minutes, you should get away with it in future. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has announced that traffic wardens are now instructed to wait until ten minutes after a parking ticket has expired before slapping the car with a ticket.

It's part of a package of reforms to make parking fairer. But does it go far enough to stop the war on motorists?

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