Drivers paid out more than £1.3billion to councils in parking charges last year, it was revealed yesterday. The record takings from local authority car parks were made public just days after a Downing Street report partly blamed high parking fees for the decline of the High Street. Some councils made at least £1million from individual car parks in the most popular locations close to shopping districts, figures show....Read more here--: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/c...d-takings.html