NEWCASTLE City Council has recouped more than £85,000 in unpaid parking fines following court hearings this week.
The amount has been collected the council decided two months ago to clamp down on overdue parking fines, with the magistrates' courts setting aside one day a week to deal with them.
More than 3,000 of the 33,000 outstanding tickets have been settled, with one offender alone paying £1,500 for 25 unpaid tickets.
Unpaid parking fines amounted to more than £1m until the council solved problems with its collection processes. Improvements to the parking control service are also in the pipeline.
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