'It's Ironic. I've Spent My Life Campaigning Against Speeding'
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Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was banned from driving for six months yesterday after admitting two separate speeding charges on the M4. The former European Union Transport Commissioner said it was ironic that he had been banned after 'spending all my life campaigning against speeding'. The 64-year-old politician broke a temporary speed limit of 40mph in June last year, when he was caught travelling at 57mph in his MEP wife Glenys's Audi A4. Then in November 2005 he was caught travelling at 63mph in a 50mph speed limit near a Second Severn Crossing tollbooth. He was fined pounds 400 for each offence and ordered to pay pounds 43 prosecution costs. He was sentenced at Abergavenny Magistrates Court. Lord Kinnock had already accumulated nine penalty points for three previous speeding offences and yesterday he was given a further six penalty points, bringing the total to 15. Outside the court, Lord Kinnock said that although the sentence was 'massively inconvenient', it was nevertheless fair. He told reporters, 'Speeding is a killer and I have campaigned all my life against speeding. If you break the speed limit you expect to take the consequences.'
He said thousands of people were killed on the roads every year and 'everything that can be done to reduce that figure should be done'.See the full content of this document
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'It's Ironic. I've Spent My Life Campaigning Against Speeding'
He said he would manage with difficulty without a car.
Earlier, in mitigation, Kerry Gwyther, told the court that the politician had sh...See the full content of this document
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