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    • 12mph (beyond any UK limit) will certainly qualify for a Fixed Penalty. So you should received an offer of a FP for each of the remaining two offences. Be sure to submit your licence details as instructed when you accept the offer. If you don't your £100 will be returned to you and the police will prosecute you in court.
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    • @dx100ukThanks for this! I'm still not clear if I'm facing more than 6 points on my license though. Can you explain any further please? When I accept the 2nd speeding ticket, will they just charge me £100 and 3 points, or will they be more severe consequences since that offense took place the following day of the 1st offense? Similarly, when I accept the 3rd offense, will they look at my record or just charge me with the £100 fine and 3 points? @Man in the middleI've been searching the forum and you seem very knowledgeable. Would you mind giving a look at my query please? Thanks in advance!!
    • Yes of course. That's why it says cc:: BIg Motoring World at the bottom. Don't imagine that this solves the issue. It doesn't. He not have to force the finance company and big motoring world to accept the rejection to give your money back. I suggest that you get the letter off tomorrow. And let us know what you hear but on Friday you should then send a threat to the finance company.   Have a look what I have said here about your options and read the whole thread as well.  
    • Been perusing the actual figures on the polls above wondering where the '16% claimed for deform comes from? I understand that there are 'weighted' end results based on secret calculations ...   Probably going to repeat this later, but remember that the ukip/brexit/reform/deform party has ALWAYS had poll speculation FAR better than their actual  performance at elections - by large margins. SO: The labor and Tory votes come largely from simply the people who say they will vote for them - sorted Lab 43% Tory 20%, with maybe another small 1-2% coming from the weightings of the 'not sures' Greens largely get what is declared from 'other' , although with another declared green bit from the 'pressed' question   So as the share of the voting displayed in 'other' granted to reform/deform is around 11%, where does the '16% too often being reported come from? Seems that reform has been granted as beneficiary of effectively ALL the don't knows and wont says, who when pressed didn't actually declare for someone else ... effectively adding 40%+ to their reported polling % - rather strange given their consistent under-performance compared to polling - or perhaps that is the cause of the higher rating eh?   Now I admit the possibility (probability?) of wingers being ashamed of declaring their support for the yuckey lemon end of the spectrum ... but surely  that should affect the 'Torys as well? Maybe the statisticians have simply weighted in that deform wingers are simply more likely to lie?   But - without 'weightings' and assumptions that faragits will get everything that isnt declared as a definite and unequivocal 'not that Piers Morgan' - reform is on around 11% it seems.   Add to that the history of polling a lot less than the hype - and the simple fact that faragit wingers seem to be spread across the country (presumably skulking in their moms spare room despite being 45+) and greens and lib dems seem to be community minded - I think two seats will be an epic result for farage. Hardly the opposition - far more raving wingnut party.   and importantly - Has farage got a home in clacton yet?
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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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I gave my daughter 14 enough money for her fare to go from school to a friends

intending to pick her up afterwards

 

local bus co driver insisted she was "adult" despite being in middle school uniform

then to really hack me off she gave the £10 she keeps in the back of her school ID card as emergency money

to driver for full fare some 60p more

 

he took it and gave her no change but a receipt she could "redeem" at a bus station for her change.

 

Any idea if this is legal as I dont think a minor could agree to accepting what I can only call a prommissory note.

 

He didnt tell her he was going to do so as she said she would have got off

and either caught the next bus or gone to shop and bought a packet of crisps or some small value item.

 

Any legal eagles out there got an opinion before I write to company?

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I was a bus driver in Central London. If we have run out of change and the person is Insistent they wish to board Instead of seeking change we issue those notices to collect from the bus garage. As the driver would be able to cash in at the end of their shift and the remainder would be set aside.

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Thats my point my daughter was not told before she handed the money over if she had agreed then while i am not sure a bus co can act as a "bank" and issue its own money then i might be more sympathetic

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Thats my point my daughter was not told before she handed the money over if she had agreed then while i am not sure a bus co can act as a "bank" and issue its own money then i might be more sympathetic

 

From memory this procedure was imposed by tfl I think. To stop people with only notes being refused travel.

 

With regards to the driver charging in the first place. He should have issued her a slip that allows her to pay later at any train or bus station. An not taken the money as that's also an option.

Further. If she is young she could have been classed as vulnerable.

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One day one of these bus drivers will get in gigantic trouble.

I lost count of how many times I witnessed drivers refusing to carry minors because they were short a few pence on the fare.

I usually pay the missing pennies myself and tell the driver that he cannot leave minors on the street, especially at night.The unswer is always the same: if they can't prove they're minors, then they must be adults.

Unfortunately one day a youngster will be denied boarding and will be mugged/raped.

The driver will end up in a lot of sh@t and also get the sack.

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Yep not TFL though local first bus I could understand if not in school uniform getting on at a bus stop nearest to school Common sense would have said take the child fare and advise that she would require proof of age in future and advise local schools that however young a child must somehow have proof of age..probably dont want to do that as they are heavily subsidised and the locals might kick up better just to keep making young people vunerable or as now use dads taxi. Many yp dont have proof of age the pass approved cards are not accepted in lots of places do you want you 14 year old lugging a passport around if they have one just the cost if lost frightens me. These companies make uprules as they go along only able to make profits because we subsidise them. Sadly king 12345 the driver in the event you are suggesting would be sacked if they did use common sense and supported if they were "following orders" an excuse thats been around a bit though no doubt there would be a full review of procedures etc.

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You mention school ID card... wouldn't this been suffice proof that your daughter was entitled to travel for child/half fare?

 

In any event, there are a few points to note here. Speaking as an ex-bus driver myself, you would be amazed at what the bus driver sees every day. "Children" attempting to board the bus after putting a fag out and then attempting to pay half fare, boarding with an open tin of lager and attempting to pay half fare, attempting to pay half fare even though they have tattoo's and my favorite; "single moms" trying to pay half fare then expecting their baby to travel for free!

 

Having said the above, I agree that while wearing school uniform should be sufficient proof for the driver to allow the young person to travel as half fare, believe it or not up until 2006, full fare was charged at 14 on the Isle of Wight buses.

 

But lets no forget, we don't know the driver's side of this particular case... it can differ dramatically from what the child's version is.

 

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Unfortunately one day a youngster will be denied boarding and will be mugged/raped.

The driver will end up in a lot of sh@t and also get the sack.

 

 

I can't see why the bus driver would be at fault or get in trouble for that.

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What is vulnerable, thats the problem.

The bus driver has to make the decision based on his experience.

 

Also, driver let's passenger on making decision as vulnerable. Revenue get on an say they don't agree - book the driver an then driver gets pulled in by garage mgt. YES this does happen.

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Also, driver let's passenger on making decision as vulnerable. Revenue get on an say they don't agree - book the driver an then driver gets pulled in by garage mgt. YES this does happen.

 

Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't.................

All I ask is to be treated fairly and lawfully.

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