All news on the topic: Car parks

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'Spiteful' council fences off residents' gates in 'row over car park sale'
Derbyshire Council fenced off the garden gates of two family homes in a 'row over the sale of a car park' as angry residents hit out at a move they claim is malicious
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McDonald's customer fuming and 'prepared to go to court' over car parking fines
Shapour Meftah was given two fines after parking at a McDonald's branch in Cambridge - and following several unsuccessful appeals, he said he is willing to go to court to fight the tickets
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Texas mall shooting victims pictured including young sisters, parents and son
Eight victims of the second deadliest shooting in the US this year have been identified including two young sisters and a couple and their three-year-old son who were killed at the Allen Premium Outlets in Texas
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'Big hearted’ mum’s fatal cliff fall after row with boyfriend 'wasn't suicide'
Mum-of-one Danyell Sinckler died after falling near a lighthouse shortly after an argument with her boyfriend and texting her mum saying she was "thinking about ending it all"
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Furious pensioner, 75, would 'rather go to jail’ than pay £100 parking fine
Jamie Jamieson parked in Hull for a scan at Hull Royal Infirmary to find out if he has Parkinson’s disease. He couldn’t find a parking spot at the main entrance of the hospital so he drove around to the Fountain Street Car Park nearby
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Man shot dead in car park after heated fight breaks out over electric charger
A man has died after being shot in a car park in Colorado yesterday, police have said. The suspect fled the scene but then called 911 to report what happened.
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Travel experts say you can get free parking at 16 UK airports this summer
Airports including Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Heathrow, Luton, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Stansted and Birmingham all offer some form of free car parking for holidaymakers
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'A rude driver blocked my car in - but my costly revenge made him regret it'
One car owner's inventive revenge after a bad driver blocked their vehicle in a car park at a beauty spot has been dubbed a brilliant example of 'karma' or 'car-ma'
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Teacher 'had sex with pupil in Travelodge' after 'kissing teen in his classroom'
Dr Iain David Bryant is accused of starting an affair with a school pupil which developed into a relationship where they met at a local Travelodge for sex after she turned 18
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Mum 'has absolute nightmare' in woods with son until kind stranger saves the day
Leanne Pate and her son Theo from Wigan had been at the beach and headed to Formby Pine woods but became lost for hours with no water or phone reception
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Elderly driver smashes through wall of Aldi car park as shoppers watch in horror
Gobsmacked witnesses saw the blue car ploughed through the boundary wall at the Aldi branch in Irvine - luckily no one was injured
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Vandals 'destroy 20 cars', pour oil over seats and slash tyres in town attacks
Residents have been left completely fed up after a strange spate of vandalism has seen a number of cars completely destroyed, with some victims reporting oil being poured over driving seats and excessive graffiti on the cars' paint
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'Castles, coast, countryside and a cathedral - County Durham has got it all'
County Durham has plenty to explore on a staycation including waterfalls, beautiful country walks, a cathedral and historic ruins - the picturesque market town of Middleton-in-Teesdale is a great base
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Mercedes undriveable after rats in basement car park chew through its electrics
Alanis Shakespeare, who lives in a flat at Fletton Quays, Cambridge, said there have been rats in the car park since it opened in 2019 due to its close proximity to a river
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Man on stag do prompts huge police emergency response after jumping into river
A stag do reveller had to be rescued from the River Taff in Cardiff, with police officers throwing a rescue line before the fire service helped to remove him from the water
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Brit's £105,000 Range Rover stolen from official airport car park
Alan Powell, 51, dropped his Range Rover Sport SVR, at Luton Airport Priority Parking on April 10 before jetting off to Spain with his wife and mother-in-law - he was horrified to learn through an app it has been stolen
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Mum using clothes horse as makeshift defence from teens 'taking drugs' outside
Veronica Williams says she pushes the clothes horse against the door to alert her if someone breaks into her home in a housing estate in Birmingham near where a man was stabbed last week
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Britain's 'most dangerous' tourist hotspot torn down by council
A tourist attraction nicknamed "the bridge of death" in Snowdonia, North Wales, has been torn down by council chiefs, but visitors are still flocking to the site
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Drunk drives through traffic cones and pulls into McDonald's drive-thru for food
Craig Menzies' late night food run cost him £1,000 when he was fined and banned for a year after admitting failing to provide two specimens of breath in Perth
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Goat gang terrorises quiet seaside town's residents by chewing through fences
Conwy Council ruled the goats cannot legally be contained despite their unruly behaviour chewing through bedded plants and fences in the village of Llandudno, North Wales
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Dragons' Den star ordered to tear down 'anti-vaxxer sanctuary’ in Peak District
Former Dragons' Den investor Rachel Elnaugh has angered locals after building on ancient woodland in the Peak District National Park without planning permission
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One dead and five injured after parking garage collapses on top of cars
A parking garage in lower Manhattan's Financial District has at least 'partially collapsed' - killing one and injuring several others - and nearby buildings have been evacuated
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Tesco Express shop 'eyesore' sign row as residents claim it'll 'wreck landscape'
Residents in Darwen, Lancashire, say the Tesco sign will be too bright and "extremely intrusive" after planning approval for the erection of a store and 16 customer parking spaces was granted
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McDonald's delivery drivers 'taking over' street littered with fast food rubbish
Locals in a Stoke-on-Trent neighbourhood are angry about the rising number of fast-food couriers who they say are blocking car parking spaces, leaving loads of litter and making too much noise
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McDonald's guest horrified after seeing rats crawling in and out of bin
The customer vowed never to return to McDonald's in Hull after seeing around seven of the rodents climbing in and out of the bin at the branch on Holderness Road