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Traffic wardens have been left appalled after checking blue badges on display in car windscreens, only to find they are in the name of dead people.

The brazen trick is being used increasingly amid an explosion in blue badge rules, as dishonest drivers try to get around parking rules.

Hundreds of cases of blue badge fraud have been identified in Birmingham over the last few years, while there have been thousands more incidents nationally.

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Birmingham City Council released details of blue badge misuse following our freedom of information request.

There were 78 cases of blue badges belonging to dead people being used since 2021, as drivers who weren't dis

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