Fines worth more than £110,000 have been issued to drivers parked on pavements across Midlothian since the council introduced a county-wide ban. A report on parking penalties has revealed pavement parking has become the biggest cause of charges being handed out over the last year. He said: “Midlothian Council took the approach that we would apply the pavement parking ban, as it is known, across the board. In the first three months of the financial year – April to the end of June – this year 1,429 parking fines were issued across the county. The third highest offence was parking in a car park without a valid parking ticket on display which saw 164 penalty notices handed out.