Swindon becomes first town to ban speed cameras / The Times, 24 October 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article4998031.ece
"The black burn marks on the yellow box in Queen’s Drive will tell you all you need to know about what they think of speed cameras in Swindon. The Wiltshire borough’s Tory-run council has become the first in Britain to abolish the cameras after it refused to pay the £320,000-a-year cost of maintaining them."