Roger Gambba-Jones

For little persons read little men, but I thought I'd better be a bit PC for a change!   

I was going to give this piece the title 'The police state moves one or two steps closer'.  However, given that what's happening doesn't involve anything close to proper policing, that wouldn't be accurate!  

It's become standard practice to deal with the increasing mis-behaviour of the public by introducing more rules, regulations and laws.  Of course we then need to have these new rules applied with vigour, but as cheaply as possible.  It started with the introduction of the well meaning but ineffective and it would appear increasing misused police community support officers. 

Have you ever wondered who the support bit of this title is supposed to refer to?  Is it the police bit or the community bit?  Personally, I thought these lads and lasses were recruited for the benefit of the community in the first instance, but that doesn't seem to be the case these days.

It would now appear that government is going to widen the scope of the non-police policing of citizens by giving councils the ability to introduce local byelaws without seeking approval from higher authority.  See the link  http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/942845

I understand there are also plans afoot to give a range of public officials and private operators the ability to dole out penalty tickets and levy fines.  Heaven help us!  As well as running the risk of completely alienating local taxpayers, by making them see anybody who works for their local council as a jumped up little Hitler or potential snopper, we could also see an army of private sector snoopers created.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2628415/Civilians-given-power-to-issue-on-the-spot-fines.html

This is policing on the cheap gone mad.  Like it or not the 'real' police are the ones who are supposed to have the right type of training and the right atttitude to policing the public to the high standards we expect.  Society is becoming less willing to comply with the rules just because they exist, even the police find this a challenge.  Introducing pretend policeman with minimum training and a potential power complex is just asking for trouble and is very likely to see an increase in violent confrontations.

If we are going to have all these non-police-persons (there goes that PC thingy again) going around policing us, then it should be done in the same way it's done in places like Germany or even the USA.  These people should be properly trained and uniformed and not just given a certificate for a few hundred pounds and a little badge that they may or may not choose to wear. 

We are spending lots of time and not a little money on consulting and listening to the public and telling them we're there to help.  So, I don't want my council turned in to the bad guys because the government wants to police the public on the cheap.    

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary, said the scheme was the latest example of the unjustified extension of surveillance powers under Labour.

He said: "The public will be angered that the Home Office is seeking to take serious powers that should be appropriately applied by the police and encouraging them to be given not just to local councils, but also to private firms.

"The public want to see real police on the streets discharging these responsibilities, not private firms who may use them inappropriately - including unnecessarily snooping on the lives of ordinary citizens."

Apparently this letter was sent to David Miliband MP. It makes very interesting reading. Pity I don't know if there was any reply!

Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),

Dear Secretary of State,

My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs. I would now like to join the "not rearing pigs" business.

In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? I want to be sure I approach this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the EU under the Common Agricultural Policy. I would prefer not to rear bacon pigs, but if this is not the type you want not rearing, I will just as gladly not rear porkeis. Are there any advantages in not rearing rare breeds such as Saddlebacks or Gloucester Old Spots, or are there too many people already not rearing these?

As I see it, the hardest part of this programme will be keeping an accurate record of how many pigs I haven't reared. Are there any Government or Local Authority courses on this?  My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is until this year, when he received a cheque for not rearing any.

If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised. which will mean about £240,000 for the first year? As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department. Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon credits for all these pigs not producing harmful and polluting methane gases.

Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs I don't rear? I am also considering the "not milking cows" business, so please send any information you have on that too.

Please could you also include the current Defra advice on set aside fields? Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I seem to have several thousand hectares)?

In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed, and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits.  I shall of course be voting for your party at the next general election.

Yours faithfully,

A very interesting development in the fight to get our relatives, neighbours and friends to slow down when driving around our local roads, is the latest info from the Lincs Road Safety Partnership.  See the latest letter from the casualty reduction officer.

07_1_.05.08_reply_AT_various_roads-_Wygate-_Spalding.doc

Just in case you don't have time to read the letter, it would appear that those drivers using Monks House Lane (in one direction anyway) are some of the worst offenders, as the look of the road seems to make them think they're on the A16 instead of a local residential road!  One section of Wygate Park is also cause for concern and therefore a suitable case for treatment as they say.

Rather than any need to get the community actively involved in actually monitoring traffic speeds, it seems the Probation Service will do this for us!  A request has been placed with the service to carry out speed monitoring in Monks House Lane and on Wygate Park near Law Court.

I'm not sure how they will measure the effectiveness of the temporary road signs after they've been in place, so I will be seeking some info on this from the road safety experts.

In the meantime, don't forget we can all keep up the pressure by monitoring and recording the vehicles we believe are making our streets unsafe.  Take down the details and report them to the police.

Despite what many people think, the council has no choice as to who can buy a copy of the electoral roll.  Some bright spark in the government thought it would be a good idea, back in 2002, to allow anybody with a couple of quid to spare to buy a copy and we've all been suffering the consequences ever since. 

However, pressure is building for this rule to be changed and for councils and therefore the taxpayer, to be relieved of the admin burden of providing this loss making service to the junk mailers.  See the story link below for full details. 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4608326.ece

In the meantime and remembering the government seldom does anything just because the majority of the public want it, you can do something to cut this flow of wasted paper and other resources by registering your address with the Mailing Preference Service.  Once your details are on the register, it is an offence in law to send you unsolicited mail.  I think it can actually cost the offending company £20,000 for doing it!  See the link below to register.

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/mps_choosetype.html

Incidentally, there's also a Telephone Preference Service to prevent telephone cold calling and the fine is the same!

 http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

Having just suggested that we shouldn't blieve anything we read in the newspapers, I've just read an item in the same Sunday Telegraph Money & Jobs section that I suspect is all too true, because it's about more government interferance and the potential loss of yet another highly valued local service!

The government has decided to invent something called Community Legal Advice Centres (Clacs for short) I hope Clacs doesn't turn into something else that it already sounds like!

Anyway, the existing CABs have all been told that they have to put in a bid to run one of these things or face loosing 70% of the funding they currently get.  There will also be pressure put on local authorites, who provide a lot of the existing funding, to transfer this funding to the local Clac, even if it isn't the existing CAB. 

Given all the stick the local CAB supporters gave South Holland District Council when we said we just could not afford to increase their funding last year, I'm surprised they're not jumping up and down already.  Incidentally, SHDC provide one of the largest grants per head of population in Lincolnshire, a fact conveniently overlooked by the critics at the time.  Come CAB committee, the Clacs are coming!!!!!   

The CAB in Hull is already under threat of closure in the Autumn, because somebody else has won the contract to run a Clac.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/jul/20/consumeraffairs.law

A petition in support of the Hull CAB is being run at:  www.gcs-limited.com/cab/ 

One could argue that it doesn't matter who is running it as long as it runs.  However, according to the article, these Clacs will be specialising in legal advice, leaving many people without the debt advice they need, which is the major part of the CABs work.

It doesn't appear that the CAB in Spalding is under threat yet, but just like the tax office, the driver test centre and some of our local post offices, waiting until the announcement is made, will almost certainly be far too late.  

Well, certainly don't believe anything written by somebody sat in an office a hundred odd miles away from the place they're writing about.  In this case, somebody called Caroline McGhie has put her name to an article in today's Sunday Telegraph claiming to help people find the fifty best places to retire to in Britain.  Under the heading, best for bargain hunters, she lists Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Now I don't have any great issue with the bargain hunter tag, but you start to realise that this lady has written her article by trawling through some out of date publications or even websites, when she puts fields of tulips under the 'good for' heading. 

She then goes to write that Spalding is 'bad for' the middle of nowhere feeling and that the average price for a semi-detached house is £112,333.  I surpose the house price can be fiddled with to come up with just about any number, but the closest I can get to an average price is £133,000.  I wonder if the tens of thousands of people that visit the Springfields outlet centre every year feel like they're in the middle of nowhere? 

As for fields of tulips, well!

If you can't get your facts right then don't write it Ms McGhie.  Also, we don't want too many people to realise what a great place this is to live, so if you promise to forget we exist, we'll do the same for you!

Remember that advertising campaign from a lot of years ago?  Back when The Post Office, or rather the Royal Mail, was a cherised institution along with the BBC, many people wouldn't of heard a bad word said about it - how times have changed!

I think most us still appreciate the good job our postmen and women do on the front line.  What with the British weather, the biting dogs and some of the appaling letter boxes they have to fight with - who'd be a postie!!  I learnt about the trials and tribulations of being a 'postie' by delivering leaflets and newsletters around the ward. 

I can't believe what some people do with their front doors and letter boxes - overgrown bushes and trees, flower pots and planters blocking the footpath.  Then there's the letter boxes themselves - ground level or narrow and vertical, springs that would do credit to a bear trap, or even blocked or taped up and don't get me started on the evil little dogs.  It's bad enough when they bark and then throw themselves at the letter box just as you're poking your leaflet with fingers attached through, but then you have the ones that make no noise at all and just lunge at your unsuspecting fingers!

When I take over the country (I will of course be a very benevolent dictator!) first I'll get the government off of peoples' backs by repealling all the nanny state and nosey parker rules.  Then I'll bring in a law requiring all letter boxes to be a sensible size, a sensible height and close to the footpath (that'll sort out the dogs!).  How's that for double standards?  Get rid of everybody else's big brother laws and then introduce my own!  

Anyway, back to the point of this particular rant!  A long time ago I wrote to our local postmaster asking him (or even her maybe, I never found out as he or she didn't even have the decency to reply) about the possibility of having Wygate Park included officially as part of local addresses.  

The reason for doing this was because a number of local people had complained about their mail going adrift, because of similarities between Wygate Park road names and other roads in Spalding and beyond.  Now I know we are all supposed to use the post code and that this is supposed to be the thing that makes sure we always get our mail and not somebody elses. 

Unfortunately, and this is where I can offer some personal experience, even our post-persons seem to have a problem with post codes.  I live in Claudette Way, Claudette Way is off of Claudette Avenue - that was a good idea by Allison Homes wasn't it!  Both roads have a number 14 and even with a post code on the letter you can guess what sometime happens can't you? 

Because of this we started using our house name and leaving off the house number, to see if this reduced the problem.  Unfortunately, the posties at the sorting office didn't like this and for a long time insisted on scrawling a large number 14, complete with exclamation mark (no doubt to demonstrate their annoyance) on the front of all of our letters! 

Now I know putting Wygate Park in the address wouldn't help in my case, but it does show that the post code is not the answer in all cases, even for the professionals!  It now appears that some other residents are having their mail go to other locations with similar names, but not the same postcode in Spalding, so I'm going to try again on their behalf.

So what is the problem with including Wygate Park as part of the registered address?  I don't actually know, as I said he/she never answered my original letter - hence my title for this piece - It's Good To Write!  So I'm going to write again making sure I include the post code of course - watch this space (but don't hold your breath)!  

Still on the subject of that article in Saturday's Telegraph about improving driver behaviour.  A Dutchman, Hans Monderman (who died in Jan this year) came up with the theory that instead of filling our streets up with loads of street signs, we should actually remove the signs and make drivers think twice about where the road ends and where the pedestrian bit begins!

There was a fair bit of jargon used to describe the psychology of it all, but the evidence appears to be there. the idea is, that if a driver is uncertain about where 'his' or 'her' bit of the road actually is i.e. no kerbs, no white lines, no raised footpaths, no cycle lanes, I think you get the picture, then they are likely to drive with more caution, in other words, slower!

The challenge for us as residents of the Spalding Wygate ward is, how do we apply such ideas to making our roads safer?  Answers on a postcard to......................................        

Just by coincidence, given my previous blog entries on speeding, today's Saturday Telegraph magazine had a very interesting article in it.  The title of it was, How's my driving? and as well as telling us all that we are pretty rubbish drivers (despite most of thinking we're not!) it discusses how to make our roads safer by reducing the number of road signs, including those that show speed limits.  The article is an extract from a book:   http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785

Closer to home, a website run by the Sustainable Transport charity sustrans, http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1207754496160

has a lot of good info on how local people can work to make the roads where they safer.  One booklet looks particularly useful because it explains how local people can actually initiate the actions needed.   Pocket_20Guide_FINAL.pdf . 

The booklets introduction states: This short guide has been written for people who would like to do something to improve the safety, condition and general feel of their street. It gives some suggestions of methods you might like to use, ways in which residents and other users of the street can work together and who you will need to involve.

Still recuperating, I've been watching a lot of Olympic sporting events recently.  I'm no sportsman to be honest, I really don't get it to be honest, all that passion, all that agro, it's only a game after all!

That said, I did enjoy watching the two girl swimmers in the 400m Freestyle final, who were being spoken of as really good swimmers who might give it a good go, but probably no more!  So what did they do?  Gold and Bronze - brilliant!

However, watching the highlights on TV tonight, one of the female commentators just couldn't resist showing her British side.  Having said how wonderful it was to see a 19 year old British woman get an Olympic medal after 24 years - and a gold at that, she then had to go on to say how the American swimmer had actually given it away by making such a poor finish with a bent hand, so that our girl was able to use her finger tips to touch first - they even had to show the underwater pictures to prove it!

Oh how we love a valiant loser, a hearty second or third place, somebody who puts all their heart in to it, but falls at the last hurdle.  Become an out right winner and beat the best of the best and it must be a fluke, something must of gone wrong for the expected winner, it couldn't possibly be that the Brit was actually the best swimmer on the day!

Anyway, despite not having a sporty or competitive bone in my body, I think she did a fantastic job - well done to them both!  Pity Andy Murry couldn't of done a better job - will that boy ever smile?   

British swimmer Rebecca Adlington has won gold in the Olympic 400 metres freestyle final in Beijing.

The teenager beat the USA's Katie Hoff by seven hundredths of a second, pipping her with virtually the last stroke in a thrilling finish. Great Britain team-mate Joanne Jackson took the bronze medal.

Adlington, 19, from Mansfield, Notts, is the first British woman to win a medal since Sarah Hardcastle in Los Angeles in 1984. That was in the 800m freestyle, the event in which Adlington is ranked world number one.

Jackson was third in a time of 4:03.52s as Britain matched their entire medal haul in the pool from Athens in one race.

Below is a link to a website that helps people to find their local elected representatives.  It starts low - that's me and goes on to identify your MEP.  Just enter your postcode and bingo!

http://www.writetothem.com/

I didn't know it existed until I was contacted by a constituent (I'm not sure that's the right term at district council level, but you know what I mean - somebody who might vote for me!).  Looks like a very good site for people to keep in their favourites.  

Some of you (hopefully all of you!) will of heard the flood warning sirens being tested today and just as hopefully realised that it was a test and not the real thing!   (I could add a swipe about realising that it's not the Russians coming either, but I suppose that wouldn't be very PC would it?). 

Just to drift off of the point for a moment (as I like to do).  The Station used the same system for call outs when I was based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire and the things would normally go off anytime between 2 and 4 o'clock in the morning, which was just great when you had a young baby that you had just gotten off to sleep!  Anyway, some times my dear old mum would come and stay with us and having lived through the whole of the London Blitz, the sounding of these sirens was guaranteed to wake her up in a complete panic, even nearly 30 years later!   I hope they don't have the same effect on anybody in South Holland!

So back to the matter in hand.  Having had some brief discussions with our officers about the system, it would appear that, as well as being very expensive to maintain, the system is now far less effective than it used to be.  This is partly due to the increasing spread and extent of development and possibly also due to the increasing levels of everyday noise we all seem to have to put up with even a rural area such as ours.

At some point there is going to be a public consultation (we just love those things in local government don't we!) and then somebody will do what they were going to do anyway!  Sorry, that's the cynic in me showing its ugly face again.   Although we are very confident about flood management and flood monitoring in our area we must never be complacent and reliable warning system will always be needed just in case.  At this moment in time, I don't know what the alternative is going to be, but I hope people take an interest when the time comes and let us know what they feel they need in order to feel safe in their own homes.

Power to the people!  - remember that phrase from the TV programme?  Well it would appear that the government want to promote that idea by giving people the chance to raise an issue with their local council.  You can see details of the government's reponse here:  Local_call_for_action.pdf 

The only problem I have with this idea, is the low start point for the issues that can be raised, especially at district level. 

Given the limited scope we have for actually doing things that aren't already prescribed by the government in some way, means that we are in danger of appearing to always respond to petitions and calls for action by saying 'sorry there's nothing we can do about it, we've got no money'. 

I hope I'm wrong and I hope that local people do use the idea of a local petition as a means of letting us know about issues of real concern.  It doesn't have to be a really big issue like, 'Why isn't the new A1073 a duel carriageway?'  No don't take that one seriously please!  It can be a very local issue, even down to a one street issue such as a grot spot that we keep ignoring.

The document also give details of the councillor's call for action scheme.  So even if you can't get enough support for a petition, you could possibly recruit your local ward councillor(s) to fight an issue on your behalf.  Don't tell any of my fellow councillors I told you about this though will you!  

Anyway, these things are due to come in at the end of the year and I really hope that local people use them and use them well!  Give us stick folks!    

The annual test of the flood siren system in Lincolnshire will take place on Wednesday 13 August 2008 between 9.00am and 3.00pm.

Clear advance warnings combined with effective flood protection schemes can reduce the impact of flooding and this siren system is a testament to the ongoing commitment of Lincolnshire County Council to community safety in Lincolnshire.  It is important to note that when a flood warning is received the Emergency Planning Unit work closely with the Environment Agency, Emergency Services, the District, City and Borough Councils and the local media who will be broadcasting up to date information.  The flood siren system is part of this wider warning network.

Lincolnshire's flood warning system comprises 40 flood warning sirens situated along the coastline and six at inland areas most at risk from river flooding, backed up by an emergency plan which gives valuable assistance in the event of flooding.  It is important to test the sirens annually to ensure that they operate correctly and to carry out any necessary maintenance or repairs before the winter.

A full test of sirens situated along the Lincolnshire Coast from North Somercotes to Sutton Bridge, including Mablethorpe, Skegness, Boston and Spalding together with inland sirens in Louth, Horncastle, Market Rasen and Gainsborough will be carried out.

After this date, if the sirens are sounded it will indicate that a severe flood warning is in force and the public should listen to their local radio station for further information and advice.

Despite not having a parish council, we can still take local action to combat the inconsiderate or outright dangerous people who use our local estate roads as racetracks.  The link below is to a leaflet issued by the Road Safety Partnership and it gives details of interactive signs which can be put in place temporarialy as a way of reminding drivers of their responsibilities.  I will be raising this issue with the Spalding Town Forum in September so that I can get their backing for taking this forward as an initative for our area.  I imagine a high level of community involvement is required to ensure this is done successfully and in the abscence of a parish council, I will be seeking help residents should this needed.  If you would be interested in helping in some way when the time comes, please let me know.  You can send me your details via the email address and phone number on the SHDC website   http://www.sholland.gov.uk/council/democratic/councillors/Gambba-JonesRoger.htm

Parish_Calm_Leaflet.pdf

Residents are justifiably expressing their concerns about the number of HGVs using Wygate Park as a route to the Bourne Road. 

Unfortunately, this appears to have been the intention of county highways when the development was being designed in the early 90's.  This despite the complete unsuitabilty of the junction in Pinchbeck Road and the level crossing in Woolram Wygate.  Only the intervention of myself and Paul Walls, when he was my fellow ward councillor, that prevented the final part of the link road from looking like the first part of the road - a wide, straight and unhindered bypass!  Likewise, our intervention saw the installation of the buildouts on this road.  Love em or hate em, they're better than nothing!

Whether we like it or not, HGVs are a necessary evil in South Holland.  They provide the essential transport links that keep our local food producing and processing businesses going, which in turn provide many thousands of local jobs for local people.

With regards to peoples' concerns about HGVs using Wygate Park as a through route, the reality is that it this is probably the lesser of two other evils as far as the highway authority is concerned.  When this first became an issue, I asked myself where these wagons went before the link road existed? 

Answer: Down Woolram Wygate, and Penny Gate, through the town centre, or along Knight Street in Pinchbeck. 

When the last part of the road was in the planning stage, I asked county highways if the would put a weight restriction on it from the day it opened.  Their response was, that they did not put restrictions on roads that did not yet exist!  As soon as the road was completed and ready for opening, I again asked highways to a weight restriction on the road.  Their response this time was that they didn't put restrictions on roads without there being a proven problem!  

As such, it would be extremely difficult to convince county highways that a weight restriction should be placed on Wygate Park, before any of these other roads.  If we can't get rid of the HGVs from Wygate Park, we can at least do what we can to get them to stick to the speed limit for a residential road - 30 mph.

We have already asked the Lincs Road Safety Partnership to carry out speed monitoring (speed traps as some call them) on the road (see my earlier blog entry).  Any resident's who witness what they believe to be a speeding HGV, should try to make a note of the following:

• The registration number if at all possible
• The company name
• The actual location of the speeding
• What the estimated speed of the vehicle was
• The date
• The time
This information should be passed to the police as a routine report and a reference number obtained.  For Spalding Police Station contact details see: http://www.lincs.police.uk/index.asp?locID=405&docID=-1

For our local beat police and PCO officers see: http://lincs.police.uk/index.asp?docID=1103

Both myself and Christine would also be interested to hear from you if you do report any speeding incidents, so that we can build up a case with the highways department for the provision of increased speed signage.

Below is response to a request made to the Lincs Road Safety Partnership to look at the problem of speeding on Wygate Park.

'I am pleased to inform you that the investigations into speeding traffic on both Wygate Park East & West, Spalding, which you requested in May 2008 are now complete.

The surveys commenced on 2^nd July 2008 using technical data recording equipment.  The equipment was positioned near the junction with Law Court on Wygate Park East where it recorded traffic speeds and flows.  A daily average of 2308 vehicles travelled through the survey area with a fairly even flow in each direction.  The area holds a 30 speed limit, however, this is well adhered to, with the average speed showing 29.8mph and 3.1% of drivers exceeded the speed limit by 10%.  Due to this I have notified the relevant police section requiring speed enforcement during commuter hours.

Survey equipment was positioned near the junction with Wintergold Avenue, Wygate Park West.  A daily average of 3293 vehicles travelled through the survey area with a fairly even flow in each direction.  The area holds a 30 speed limit, however, this is very well adhered to, with the average speed showing 27.5mph and 0.8% of drivers exceeded the speed limit by 10%. 

Analysis of the collision data over the last three years revealed 3 personal injury collisions at this Wygate Park East, and 2 personal injury collisions at the Wygate Park West.  These collisions were not speed related.  Accident Investigators within the Road Safety Partnership have assessed the areas and concluded that there have been insufficient serious collisions to justify a local safety scheme.

Safety cameras can only be deployed at sites that meet strict government criteria.  Unfortunately this site does not meet the current guidelines.

The parish calm and parish link initiatives are accessible to all Parish Councils and specifically aimed at reducing speed and making road users aware of the speed limit.   If you are interested in taking part in these schemes, I suggest that you contact your Parish Council.'  As Spalding doesn't have a parish council, I have asked for details of these schemes, so that they can be discussed at the next meeting of the Spalding Town Forum.

Detailed figures of vehicle numbers and number of speeding offences are listed here: 

 Spalding_Wygate_Park__East_.xls  Spalding_Wygate_Park__West_.xls

For those of you who don't have Excel here are the files in another format

Spalding_Wygate_Park__East_.htm  Spalding_Wygate_Park__West_.htm

For contact details to report non-emergency incidents to the police, including speeding, go to:

http://www.lincs.police.uk/index.asp?DocID=1103