Articles tagged ‘fines’

Congestion charge penalty hike

By Chris | December 4th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

The Evening Standard reports that London Mayor Ken Livingstone wants to increase the fine for people who do not pay the congestion charge for driving their cars into central London. The congestion zone covers a swath of central London from Clerkenwell, the City of London and Borough in the east to South Kensington, Holland Park [...]

 

Heathrow and British Airways in the news

By Chris | August 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »

There are a host of bad stories at the moment surrounding both British Airways and Heathrow Airport. BA have just been fined £125million by the Office of Fair Trading after it admitted price fixing of fuel surcharges on long-haul flights, this was also a joint investigation with the US Department of Justice who are going [...]

 

England to soon be smoke free

By Chris | June 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

If you’re coming to the UK this summer be aware that on 1 July 2007 England joins Scotland, Wales and Ireland in banning smoking in all enclosed public spaces and workplaces. So no more smoking in restaurants, pubs, clubs and other nightspots. The ban also includes any work vehicles used by more than one person [...]