The town of Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany, is going to scrap parking charges in order to get more shoppers into the town.
A test run over four weeks before Christmas proved a massive success and retailers reported an increase in sales by 30 per cent. Now there's a thought.
Wolfgang Meinholz Links Road Harwood
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