MOTORISTS have accused the Town Hall of operating a scam after it emerged that big brother-style cameras have been used to issue fines worth a quarter of a million pounds in just 50 days at a poorly-signed Holborn junction.
The New Journal has learned that nearly 2,500 motorists have been given £100 fines since December 1 for making illegal U-turns in Southampton Row near the junction with Vernon Place.
But the sign banning U-turns is almost completely hidden behind traffic lights and CCTV poles, making it all but impossible for passing drivers to spot.
The London Taxi Drivers Association – whose members have been hit severely – has demanded that all of the fines be refunded.

Britain’s culture of binge drinking is incurable and the government should be restricting opening hours, the former health secretary and MP for Holborn and St Pancras Frank Dobson has said. He added that the price of alcohol should go up.

A SHOPKEEPER desperate to visit his tsunami-devastated family in Sri Lanka has been sent a letter telling him he is to be deported by Home Office immigration bosses.
Mohammed Sajahaan Athambawa, 31 – popularly known as Saj – lost 36 members of his family in the tragedy, including his younger sister and his fiancée.

IT should have been the last stop for the 168 bus. The long-running row over the siting of the route’s bus stand – currently in South End Green, Hampstead – was due to be finally resolved by Town Hall environment chiefs at a packed meeting on Tuesday night.

MICHAEL Brough, the plastic surgeon who treated survivors of the King’s Cross Tube fire, was commemorated at a memorial service in St Clement Danes Church in the Strand on Saturday.