There have been complaints in previous years about cars being driven at high speed in some areas of the town.

Last year the Run to the Sun festival attracted a record 100,000 revellers, which caused some congestion on approach roads into Newquay.

The event started in 1989 as a meet for Volkswagen enthusiasts and has grown in popularity over recent years. It is now one of the UK's largest custom car festivals.

On Saturday and Sunday the cameras will be focused in and around the town and on bank holiday Monday camera units will track cars leaving the county.

The Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership says speed restrictions were enforced at last year's event which was virtually accident-free.

Organisers say its location in Newquay, which is classed as the "surf capital of the UK" is one of the many elements which contribute to its success.

Source: BBC News, Devon and Cornwall Safety Camera Partnership

Camera vans were sited at road works on the Wrexham bypass
Hundreds of motorists are to be repaid their £60 speeding fines after a clerk realised temporary speed limit warning signs had been put in the wrong place.

The blunder means more than £68,000 will be given back to 1,100 drivers.

Speed cameras were placed at road works on the A483 Wrexham bypass, where the limit had been cut from 70mph to 40mph.

It is the latest controversy for North Wales Police area whose Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom is unapologetic over his hard-line stance against speeding.

Any points put on drivers' licences will also be removed.

The anti-speed scheme, Arrive Alive, which coordinates speeding clampdowns in north Wales, will send out letters in the next few days to 1,136 motorists, telling them that their fines will be reimbursed.

Mobile camera vans were positioned at the road works after contractors had requested them last October.

But the temporary speed limit signs were put in the wrong place and the mistake was not noticed until after prosecutions were brought.

A spokeswoman for Arrive Alive, which operates the cameras, said the traffic control was put in place under Welsh Assembly Government guidelines.

'Notices cancelled'

She said: "An officer working for the North Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership recently identified an error in the location of temporary signage on the A483 northbound road works.

"In consequence, the partnership has immediately effected the cancellation of all 1,136 notices issued at this location during the relevant time period from 6-28 October."

A solicitor firm acting for North Wales Police is dealing with the matter.

Last month, figures showed the numbers of motorists caught speeding on roads in north Wales had risen by 70% compared to the previous year.

Nearly 6,000 drivers were hit with £60 fines in March 2005 compared to 3,466 in March 2004.

Source: BBC News, North Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership

Five new Community Speed Watch programmes have been launched in Mole Valley District, Surrey as part of an initiative to cut speeding traffic through villages in the Dorking Rural Box.

Five villages are participating in the scheme including Boxhill, Brockham, Leigh, Newdigate, Westcott.

Source: Surrey Police

North Wiltshire Tory candidate James Gray attacked plans for speed cameras along the M4 as being for Labour's "politically correct, money-making reasons".

But a Labour party spokesman said they were there to help save lives.

"I fail to see how a speed camera can be politically correct," he said. "Speed cameras are used as one of many means to help improve road safety in communities across the country."

But Mr Gray said that if the Tories were voted into power, they would raise the speed limit on motorways to 80mph. He said: "If speed cameras are designed to reduce accidents, then I support them. However if they are designed to raise revenues for the government or to be politically correct - saying 'Aren't we being good, putting up speed cameras?' - then I don't."

Speed cameras will be used to enforce the speed limit on the M4

The first speed cameras targeting drivers exceeding the 70mph speed limit on a British motorway are due to be switched on along the M4. Speeding motorists on the Wiltshire section of the motorway now face £60 fines and three penalty points.

The Wiltshire Safety Camera Partnership marked vans at fixed, permanent sites, along a 40-mile stretch between Bath and Hungerford. It says it hopes they will reduce the high number of deaths on the route.