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DARK SECRETS: Clean air zone - The Real Truth

‘I was fined more than 120 times after criminals cloned my number plate’

Heather Caddick received up to 12 penalty notices a day for driving in bus lanes, speeding offences and unpaid clean air zone charges for her Saab

The Independent UK

Birmingham City Council fines itself £470,000 for breaking Clean Air Zone rules

The majority of the vehicles that were hit with the daily charges were from the waste department, despite a bin strike in the city since January 2025

The Independent UK

More Clean Air Zone delays as it's revealed 1,000-plus buses made green at cost of £15m might not comply

Retrofitting buses might not be bringing emissions down enough

Manchester Evening News

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'Mad' Bristol Clean Air Zone fine blasted by drivers who pay no road tax

If it has £0 road tax, the emissions must be low

Bristol Post

Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Van drivers urged to prepare for tolls as report reveals grant funding latest

Latest figures show that no van drivers have yet been successful in getting funding to upgrade to newer, cleaner vehicles that will avoid the city's anti-pollution tolls

Chronicle Live

Complaint against Bristol City Council over CAZ fines is upheld

'I am very sorry for the obvious frustration and inconvenience caused to you. This is not the standard of service Bristol City Council aims to provide'

Bristol Post

Newcastle Clean Air Zone text scam warning after drivers get hoax message asking for toll payment

Council bosses have urged people to be vigilant after reports of a scam text message requesting a £3 payment

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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Accusation of 'secret plan' to put new toll on car drivers branded 'scaremongering'

A Labour transport chief insisted on Wednesday that private cars "are not in the CAZ and they will not be in the CAZ", accusing opposition parties of "scaremongering"

Chronicle Live

Couple slapped with more than £1,400 in driving fines despite living 130 miles away

Bristol City Council have been repeatedly sending a couple 130 miles away in Sussex fines for breaching the city's Clean Air Zone due to a number plate mix up

Daily Mirror

Bristol Clean Air Zone fines still being sent to couple in Sussex due to mix-up

The fines total £1,419

Bristol Post

Man fined for driving to Bristol Airport through Clean Air Zone he knew nothing about

Frustrated drivers have called for signage advising alternative routes to Bristol Airport

Wales Online

Holidaymakers driving to airport are being hit with clean air fines

People are being directed off the motorway and into the clean air zone. National Highways has refused to put up warning signs

Wales Online

Bristol Airport driver fined for Clean Air Zone breach complains about M5 signage

"If there are signs, I didn’t spot them"

Bristol Post

No council review of Bristol's Clean Air Zone signs despite complaints

"I feel I have been mugged here as the signage is at fault"

Bristol Post

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Newcastle Clean Air Zone: Coach firm's anger over 'crazy' restrictions on vehicle upgrade grants

Phoenix Coaches provides home to school transport for special needs children in Newcastle, but cannot get financial help to upgrade its high-polluting minibuses

Bristol Post

ASDA shopper complains about Bristol CAZ after receiving multiple fines

"I have used that exit virtually from the day Asda opened"

Bristol Post

Bristol's Clean Air Zone: The recurring complaints drivers keep making

Report on number of CAZ fines expected at the end of the year

Bristol Post

Revealing number of Bristol Clean Air Zone fines would be ‘too confusing’ says council

It says the figures would be 'too confusing' at this stage, almost six months on

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Bristol Clean Air Zone driver hit with fine claims key area has no ‘advanced warning signs’

He deemed the signage to be not as obvious as it should be

Bristol Post

Driver racks up almost £1,000 in Clean Air Zone fines in friend's car without realising

"What’s going on in Bristol is to my mind not about clean air - it’s about making money"

Bristol Post

New Highway Code rules coming into force this year including if drivers run out of fuel

Changes will impact electric car parking fines and clean air zones

Bristol Post

Bristol visitor given CAZ fine totalling £120 says he had 'absolutely no idea' it existed

“I felt as if I had been punched in the stomach, I felt sick for the rest of the week”

Bristol Post

Bristol's Clean Air Zone branded 'outrageous' because it can't tell drivers if they should pay or not

"You will not be notified if you have driven in the zone and it's your responsibility to pay any charges"

Chronicle Live

Only 52 vehicle upgrade grants issued through Newcastle Clean Air Zone — despite almost 3,000 applications

Five months after applications for funding to help purchase less-polluting vehicles that will not be subject to the city's new road tolls, only 52 drivers have been successful

Bristol Post

New Bristol Clean Air Zone exemptions for Bristol hospital patients

Bristol City Council has agreed to a three-month trial following a request from BRI bosses

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