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SPEEDING FINES RICHARDS CASTLE SOAP BOX

Few subjects seem to get people’s tempers up as DERBY IS BACK
much as the matter of speeding tickets and the
fines that normally accompany them. The
alternative of course is a Speeding Awareness
Course, which will also cost you money. There’s
no arguing these days, it seems; the camera clocks
you and unless you can afford a good lawyer you
pay up and watch the signs more closely.
The Petrol Prices website issued some
interesting details recently, showing the police
force that issues the most tickets. In truth it’s the
one reporting the most, because not every force
responded to a request for details. It was
Yorkshire who topped the poll, with 142,610
tickets issued in 2017, more than double second
placed Surrey with 62,623. The City of London
force had the lowest figure with just 3107, but the
chances to put your foot down are a bit limited in
that small, congested patch. Yorkshire’s M18 is
much more inviting. The spectacle of Richards Castle Soap Box Derby
North Wales, which had a reputation a few years will be back this summer, with soap box carts
back for hitting drivers with a fine for the slightest racing down Hanway Common on Sunday July
misdemeanour, was in a modest fifth place with 8th. Having raised over £100,000.00 for local
57,224 tickets. So why was Yorkshire so ready to charities, the event is back to raise even more!
issue those little bits of paper that help to swell the If you are a budding racer and fancy having a go,
constabulary’s coffers? There might be a hint in a entries forms are now online for senior and junior
conversation I overheard some years ago, when a teams (£30 to enter) and this year if your team
friend was negotiating with a well known raises over £100.00 we will refund your entry!
Yorkshire motorcycle racer over how much he’d Take a look at the website for video footage and a
pay him to ride his machine in the Isle of Man TT. copy of the rules and regs to guide you in building
“Do you know what they say a Yorkshireman is?” your soapbox (www.richardscastlesoapbox.co.uk).
he asked. “It’s a Scotsman with the generosity “Our event has always been about money going to
taken out!” My apologies to all my Yorkshire and local causes. Since we started back in 2004 funds
Scottish friends; I know that’s not true and hope have been distributed to over 50 different charities
you’ll renew my visa next time I drive north. and local causes, taking the grand total of
What I will not do is not hurry through Yorkshire, donations to £103,770.00” commented Arabella
it sounds too much like an expensive way of Salwey, Soap Box Treasurer.
travelling.
www.richardscastlesoapbox.co.uk.

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