But many drivers feel that they are being unfairly targeted for minor transgressions.

Motoring organisations say councils run the risk of adding to the feeling among some drivers that they are being unfairly penalised by local authorities for relatively minor transgressions.

But firms are becoming increasingly wary of lending to those who have minor transgressions on their records, and are demanding more detailed information from credit reference agencies.

It would have made sense to instruct stewards of an adjustment period of a month in which jockeys need only be warned for such minor transgressions?

But the imposition of difficult-to-understand charges for minor transgressions heaps an oversized burden on the less well-off.