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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Charlie Duffield

New rules in full as speed limit rule secretly dropped by 1mph and more people are fined

Drivers in London are receiving more speeding fines, because the Metropolitan Police did not make an official announcement when lowering it's 'enforcement threshold'.

It's been called a so-called 'stealth' move and triggered a triggering a reported 259 per cent increase in the number of drivers who will be punished for breaking the speed limit.

But the force stressed that the 259% increase is a result of ‘capacity and is not related to the enforcement threshold change’.

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