Council in major city forced to pay back £88k to over 1,000 drivers who were ‘incorrectly’ fined – are you due a refund?

A MAJOR traffic error has cost a local authority more than £88,000 to fix after it incorrectly fined thousands of drivers.

Edinburgh City Council issued over 1,000 penalties to drivers, with 884 tickets already paid, for using a bus lane during the summer.

GettyLanark Road in Edinburgh was the sight of the erroneous fines[/caption] AlamyEdinburgh City Council raked in more than £88,000 from unsuspecting drivers[/caption]

114 tickets are still open while only eight have been cancelled and six were written off...