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“Motorists have felt that cameras have been used as cash cows and the evidence is out that they have been right.

“This is the next stage in stopping the war against the motorist.”

The MP said he was aware of one camera at Queensway in Hemel Hempstead that had caused rather than prevented accidents. “I’ve seen accidents where people pull out of Allandale and collide with cars accelerating away from the camera,” he said.

- ‘Most speed cameras are cash cows’ says MP, HemelToday.co.uk, September 3, 2011.

2. Retailers braced for the possibility of yet another rise in business rates have urged the Government to stop using crumbling High Streets as a ‘cash cow’.

Business rates have shot up by a total of more than ten per cent over the past two years and another decision is looming this autumn over the next likely increase.

Groups representing the retail sector and their suppliers are rallying to Financial Mail’s campaign calling on Ministers to cap or freeze the rate rise.

They argue that the increases so far have contributed to the decline of the High Street as more people shop online. About 15 per cent of shops are now empty.

The Government’s review of the situation, under television shopping guru Mary Portas, has been heavily criticised as inadequate.

A spokesman for the British Independent Retailers Association said: ‘Shops are suffering badly from the inequalities that the Government has built into the tax system.