Erm. I've lived here for five years and don't know where Wyle Cop is.

I will. Why didn't I think of that? I must be getting really old and feeble. lol

It seems to say that I can't in the bumph I've received but all their bumph seems to assume that I use the Somerset branch and will continue to do so after the move. I don't fancy traveling 200 miles to see an advisor when there are five branches of LloydsTSB in Shrewsbury. lol

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes. I've had no problems using the local branch BUT when my (Somerset) branch becomes LloydsTSB Scotland, I will no longer be able to use the Shrewsbury branches of LloydsTSB and there will not be a LloydsTSB Scotland branch available to me locally.

I'm wondering if anyone has a number for LLoydsTSB where I can contact them about my account being transferred to LLoydsTSB Scotland. Briefly, my account is held at my previous branch in Somerset. When I moved to Shropshire, I asked to transfer my account to the local branch but LLoydsTSB refused saying it was not necessary. I have used the local branch in Shrewsbury for the past five years with no problems. However, my branch in Somerset is being transferred to LLoydsTSB Scotland along with my account. None of the local branches in Shrewsbury are being transferred which leaves me without a local branch. I really want to find out where this leaves me. I've banked with LLoyds for 45 years and I'm feeling a bit miffed about this.

RIP Martin. Condolences to his family and friends.

This is just one more tactic in the government's "Divide and Rule" plan. Divide the disabled into smaller groups, thus taking away the impact that any lobbying by the now smaller disabled group might have had. The same is happening with pensioners receiving different rates of pension and different tax thresholds. The child benefit anomaly is another ruse by the government. All designed to Divide and Rule by breaking protest groups down to smaller and less effective groups.

Is this it? "We do not wish to prevent the continued use of such technology as a means of parking enforcement, accordingly the amendments provide for the service of an enforcement notice by post as an alternative to a notice being affixed to the car at the time of the contravention (see new paragraph 6C of Schedule 4)." So Parking Eye can continue to send parking charge notices to anyone who is unable to find a parking space and drives straight out of the car park?

Really? How was it amended? I'm reading from the link in post #10 on the Clamping Ban thread in this forum.

I hope you're right DBC. I don't want these cowboys to be given the appearance of being legal. They will always be cowboys as far as I'm concerned. Any company that gives a driver a Parking Charge Notice several weeks after they drove into a car park and drove straight out because there were no free spaces - and then refused an "appeal" is a cowboy as far as I'm concerned. I didn't pay, but how many do - especially after the time lapse.

I notice that Parking Eye will have to change their mode of operation because a parking charge ticket has to be attached to the vehicle or handed to the driver. They won't be able to rely on their current method with cameras.

But we're now talking about prospective changes in legislation. That's what's worrying me.

The legislation (if that's what it is) refers to parking charge as: (a)in the case of a relevant obligation arising under the terms of a relevant contract, means a sum in the nature of a fee or charge, and (b)in the case of a relevant obligation arising as a result of a trespass or other tort, means a sum in the nature of damages, As I said - it's very vague.

That's how I see it militant ... until I read it again and see it the other way. It's all very vague.

I suppose we'll have to wait until there is a test case to find out what it all means. It's ridiculous. I would ask my MP but he doesn't reply to letters or emails.