Ok thanks, I tried to edit afterwards and it didn't work. thanks agin for advice though, I guess I was just carried away on the keyboard!

Bucketfloozy, I sympathise and don't know how to advise you; myself and partner are in the middle of appealing (although no official appeal system I note) and fighting a string of fines currently. This all down to partner being ill for past year and only getting penalty notification from 2011 sent THIS month ! (March 2013) as DVLA kept sending notifications to SORN his bike to our OLD address (moved to new since 2007!) and bike locked up in the back of our house ever since, never ridden. Apart from his illness, my appeal to them is that he thought once he had sent first SORN 'that was that' for the lifetime of the bike being off the road, would make sense to me and most I guess, although (sigh) we know ignorance of the law is no excuse so they say. But I bet it only says you have to do it yearly in the very small print! Plus DVLA don't go out of their way to contact you, yet the Collection company also seem to find you, don't they? There IS such a thing as a local electoral list! These penalties to me seem to be a particularly unjust tax on the forgetful and the ill especially and almost designed for entrapment! DVLA are also maintaining they will NOT take a change of address unless it's on original LOG, how convenient ! My partner had a) passed his test at our new address and b) SORNed his vehicle for the first time from our new address - therefore they had the information right in front of them, albeit not the official form, but just chose not to use it ! I wonder if a legal case can be made of that as it's so pedantic. I will be writing to my MP and suggest you do the same. Good luck !