Gary Cooke, deputy cabinet member for education at the council, said most fixed penalty fines were for people who had taken their child away on holiday.

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While many Member States have their own taping requirements, which can apply to fixed lines as well as mobile phones, regimes differ significantly across the European Union (EU).

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Swindon's council, a member of the partnership, was the first local authority in England to abandon fixed speed cameras the year before.

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