1. The thin end of a very big wedge
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e replaced by "fairer" versions which measure drivers' average speed. He told the Sunday Times he understood why cameras which measure speed at just one point were not popular. He sugg...

2. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

... The most targeted was in Northumberland on the A1 at Hebron Road Ends, which has been vandalised three times in the past year and a half. Another favourite for the anti-camera brigade is one on the ...

3. I am a nice, normal guy... but these cameras have to go
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...he only thing drivers should worry about is whether they are doing a safe and appropriate speed for the time and conditions they are driving in. “They should be looking ahead and observing and ...

4. Dustbin 'Stazi' are a sign of the times
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

I've said before that giving local authorities extra powers is the road to ruin. These people will ALWAYS exploit any means at their disposal. For crying out loud - anti-terror laws to watch peop

5. Support this petition to prevent average speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...eed to find new revenue. A driver will, if the Average Speed Camera systems rolls out, will spend their time obsessed with the speedometer and won't be looking at the road - this will increase dan...

6. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...h more, cameras caused accidents as people over-reacted to seeing a camera in front of them. Now is the time for other councils to follow Swindon's lead. I congratulate the councillors for recogni...

7. Passport needed to buy mobile phones
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...ld days of the 'Poll Tax Riots' you can sense it coming and it won't be pretty! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969312.ece       ...

8. Is it only women Labour MPs who have balls?
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...Labour Party from our mission of building a fairer Britain and helping people through these challenging times." They've had 10 years to build a fairer Britain and after sinking billions into ...

9. Captain Gatso: Time for a coup?
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...r not you are of an age or have a good English recent-history background but I understand that the last time the Labour Government was in charge when these sort of stunts were being pulled, Harold Wil...

10. Council forced to pay back £300,000 in motoring fines
(News/Police and The Law)

...are right. It stinks - it's outrageous that what are effectively public servants get away with this time and time again. They should be publicly humiliated and whoever instigated the path of objec...

11. Captain Gatso: The end is nigh (for speed cameras!)
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...in their enforcement area by 'angry drivers' we all know some of them dont we! It will then be time for me to put away my Angle Grinder, tyres and Petrol, at last! Your thoughts please? Capt...

12. Captain Gatso: Cyclists must obey the law
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

There's talk of allowing some law changes for cyclists. This is what I told The Times: The same rules should apply to every road user. You cannot make exceptions just because someone happens to b

13. Captain Gatso: SAS on standby
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...ol, the CIA and FBI and the UK's security services. It was one of the biggest raids of its kind and timed to perfection with the raid commencing at m,ultiple addresses within split seconds of each...

14. Nearly 100 new speed cameras for Sussex
(News/Police and The Law)

...it can be now for people who might think "have I got a ticket?", it will be a dead cert every time." Read more of the Brighton Argus story  ...

15. Fuel demo adds to road taxes row
(News/General)

...n-out but it was held on the wrong day in London. If you really want to make an impact then stage it in time for Prime Minsiter's Questions in Parliament on a Wednesday. And why exactly were you ...

16. Poorer drivers 'hit hard' by tax
(News/General)

...el the 2p rise. "It's a tough one for the environmentalists, but unfortunately people at this time can't afford it." UK road haulier companies are also warning of dire consequences...

17. Captain Gatso: NATIONAL NO NUMBER PLATES DAY!
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

Has it come to that time folks when we need to show these muppets in charge and their henchmen just how cheesed off we are with all of their camera enforcement technologies now? We have to demonstrat

18. Captain Gatso: Harry Redknapp and our increasingly inept police force
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...the agent Willie McKay. Papers and a computer had already been handed back to Mr Redknapp. Source: The Times  Captain Gatso only at Speedaholics: speed cameras, car and motoring news   ...

19. Captain Gatso: Upcoming fuel protest
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...ir gold plated pensions. This nonsense has to stop. Will the Fuel Protest Leader please stand up - your time has come.  Captain Gatso only at Speedaholics: speed cameras, car and motoring news &...

20. Captain Gatso: Crewe result is good for us all
(News/General)

...ans' then he could reduce fuel dutyTODAY to stop ordinary, hard working people being punished every time they tank up. On that note: well done to Paul Thorogood who stood as a candidate on a ticke...

21. Captain Gatso: New Labour con us once again
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e have to pay it back! This lot really must be up for the high jump. I predict Brown will be out by the time of the Labour party conference in September. Watch this space.  Captain Gatso only at ...

22. Captain Gatso: Chelsea shooting - the TRUTH!
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...oaming the capital? Is the state of danger we are in very much higher than we are led to believe? * In time I will publish details of the non-police personnel - including their names! I'm waiting...

23. Permanent Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras in Manchester
(News/Police and The Law)

...t terrorism.” This constant increasing use of technology is not going to stop, there will come a time when these systems have become so cost effective that they will be everywhere and nobody wi...

24. Captain Gatso: We will become rogue drivers by default
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

Just a thought - in the last couple of days we've seen some good pieces, especially in The Times, about the possibility of negative equity in the value of your car. If we take Joe Public with his

25. Captain Gatso: Lollipop ladies get cameras in their sticks
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...low your rubbish bin? We, the motorist, just cannot breath with all these cameras. It's genuinely time to have James Bond style revolving number plate on your vehicle for all sorts of different ...

26. Secret pact allows the US to spy on UK motorists
(News/Police and The Law)

...ecretively signed a "special certificate" last year that gives foreign security agencies real-time access to traffic camera images and related data monitoring British motorists on highways t...

27. £5 a gallon 'just around the corner'
(News/General)

... past three years, being just over 25 pence per litre in January 2005 and 49.6 now. Compared with this time last year, when petrol cost 92.68 pence per litre, the average price is now 15.38 pence per...

28. Congestion charge has not cut jams, admits TfL chief
(News/General)

...pace created by the 21 per cent drop in traffic had been taken up by other road users. It is the first time TfL has publicly admitted to such a sharp rise in congestion in central London. The conges...

29. Male drivers crash more because they are still cavemen, claims psychologist
(News/General)

...cause deep down they are still cavemen, a psychologist claims. The brain has failed to evolve from the time of aggressive hunter-gatherers who thought only of finding food and mating, says Professor ...

30. UK vigilantes take out three speed cameras in one day
(News/General)

... tickets issued by the now burned out camera on B653 Lower Luton Road near Batford. At around the same time, vigilantes torched a speed camera in Huddersfield using burning tyres. The Dalton camera l...