If, over the next few weeks, you’re venturing south into Lancashire, here’s a timely warning about what has become Britain’s greediest speed camera. Located on the A56 — where it has been sited to enforce a temporary 50mph speed limit — the temporary speed camera has coined in £72,000 in fines in just three weeks; that’s seven times the average amount a camera usually takes in the same period.

In place for a total of 16 weeks while a programme of roadworks is undertaken, its positioning has attracted criticism from locals, including Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans. “They really are raking the cash in on this camera,” Evans said, “I think for those motorists doing under 70mph a warning letter would have sufficed. Why did they not put an electronic warning sign in place to slow the traffic down rather than a camera that is hitting the already hard-pressed motorist further?” You have been warned.