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From Sunday, cameras in England and Wales will no longer be funded from the fines raised from those caught by the devices.

Instead, camera schemes will be integrated into wider local authority road safety activity, with English local authorities getting an additional £110 million a year for road safety for the four years from 2007/08.

This exceeds the £93 million a year currently spent by the local authority camera partnerships with police and the Government.

There will also be new requirements to improve the signposting of cameras and a requirement for all local authorities to review the speed limits on their A and B roads by 2011.

Speed cameras in Wales will become the responsibility of the Welsh National Assembly from the end of 2007-08.

The announcement was made in December 2005 by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling when he published an independent four-year report that showed cameras continue to have an important part to play in road safety.

Road safety charities welcomed the changes, saying it would improve road safety.

Jools Townsend, head of education at Brake, said: "We are delighted that the archaic rule where local communities had to wait for death or injury before their roads could be made safer has been ditched.

"Speed cameras are a proven and effective enforcement tool, deterring drivers from breaking an important safety law and rightly leading to their punishment if they do drive too fast and risk lives."