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Private companies are extracting fines from unsuspecting citizens – and making huge profits.

Private companies operating as ‘litter police’ and often paid commission are being used by councils to raise millions of pounds

Stories abound of individuals being targeted simply for putting out their recycling early; for dropping a tissue by accident; or for feeding food to the birds.

Staff at the car giants plant in Solihull near Birmingham (pictured) will now have to use the word surrogates when referring to parts used in their vehicles.

Cops in Wiltshire stepped in after the child, who was also called a leprechaun was called names in the street in a non-hate crime incident.

Ministers say issing fines to make money is ‘unacceptable’, and promise crackdown on authorities using private enforcement companies

Organisers are ditching plans to celebrate the Queen after councils force them to fill in mountains of paperwork

Infringement notices being used as cash cows by local authorities, which are using private enforcement companies to issue fines

On Monday, Home Secretary Priti Patel backed an amendment from the House of Lords to the Police, Crime, ...

Vaccine passports "a citizenship test for a morally and politically vacuous age."