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A Northamptonshire mother has criticised the police for not doing enough to deal with drivers who park illegally on zebra crossings. A campaign has been launched in the village of Broughton near Kettering with claims that an incrasing number of vehicles including delivery vans are parking on the zig-zag lines of a crossing in the village.

Reporter Tom Percival talks to the mum -
Tara Caudell - while Stuart talks to Sergeant Richard Bailey from Northamptonshire Police.

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