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A pensioner received a ticket for parking in a spot he had used for the last 30 years and then wrongly had it overturned. Mick Carter bought his house in Plains Avenue, Maidstone, 35 years ago. Five years later a speed ramp was constructed outside his home – one of four in the road. Ever since, he has parked on the speed ramp without issue – until last week. He received a letter through the post advising him that he had been issued with a £70 penalty for parking in a “special enforcement area on part of a carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge.” He said: “I cou…

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