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Cash-hungry councils are crushing the life out of neighbourhoods like mine - with green stealth taxes on drivers: TOM UTLEY

Cash-hungry councils are crushing the life out of neighbourhoods like mine - with green stealth taxes on drivers: TOM UTLEY
TOM UTLEY: One of the chief attractions of my suburb is the free and available on-street parking most of us enjoy - an increasingly rare bonus for a neighbourhood within half an hour of the centre.

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