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Wandsworth Council has collected £2,400 in fines from 20 truck drivers caught flouting 'rat-run' bans.

On 16 October, staff from the council's technical services department and officers from the Graveney Ward safer neighbourhoods team collected £120 from each of the drivers caught  ignoring the 7.5t lorry ban on Rectory Lane.

All drivers fined during the five-hour operation were British, the council tells RoadTransport.com.

Unless actually making a delivery on the road, HGVs are not allowed to use it. Residents, however, have complained of trucks using the street as a rat run.

Councillor Guy Senior, executive member for transportation at Wandsworth Council, says: "We will be going back and conducting repeat operations in the coming weeks and months until the message gets through that this is a quiet residential road and big lorries have no place here."