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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Tristan Cork & Patrick Edrich

Man threatened with Bristol driving fine despite never visiting city

A Merseyside man has demanded compensation from Bristol City Council after he was threatened with a driving fine despite never visiting the city.

Ian Hughes said he was "disgusted" with Bristol City Council after he received a letter warning he'd receive a fine if he made the "same journey" in the city after the scheme starts on November 28. The letters warned them that, while they weren’t being fined for that trip, they would be if they make the same journey into the Clean Air Zone.

But Mr Hughes, from Prescot, said he had never visited Bristol before - and "naturally assumed" the only reason he could have been contacted was because his car number plate had been cloned.

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