MOTORISTS enjoying their outings in Lancashire over the Easter weekend were warned to watch out for mobile speed cameras at 70 sites across the county.

Seventy! Why so many?

This boosts the number of roadside spy cameras by 40 per cent when they are added to Lancashire's existing glut of 179 fixed cameras.

What's the reason for this mobile camera overkill? It can't really be to make our roads safer when they're already among the safest in the world, can it?

Could it be, then, that as more drivers get wise to the locations of the permanent cameras, fines revenue -- a staggering £7.6million last year -- is dropping and the mobile 'sneaks' are being called on to speed up the cash flow?

There is, after all, plenty of call on that money in terms of the jobs alone that this overdone crusade against 35 mph speedsters is creating -- not just the £17-per-hour ones for the speed awareness courses presenters who are being recruited, but lots of others at Lancashire Constabulary's central ticket office which only recently was advertising new posts costing around £70,000 a year.

Sounds to me that rather than being for road safety, it's more like the revenue and the job security that this over-zealous drive is mainly about.