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‘Huhne-gate’ prompts resurgence of media interesting in speeding offences

Accusations that a Government minister, Chris Huhne, was guilty of asking someone to take his speeding penalty points on their licence re-ignited the media debate about whether speeding was really a crime, and what should be done about it if it was.

Rik Thomas
03 June 2011
 

Speed cameras are by no means the media hot topic that they were when LTT first began its Media Monitor column some eight years ago, but every now and then the subject of speeding and how (or whether) to deal with it does rear its head. On May 20, for example, Guardian columnist George Monbiot criticised the recent trend for cameras to be turned off en masse in certain areas. “The experiment is over and the results are in,” Monbiot began. “In April, Thames Valley police...

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