Text: A speed camera firm which has earned £35 million from British taxpayers since 2006 has paid just £12,000 in UK taxes, accounts for the company have revealed. RedSpeed International supplies digital traffic cameras designed to stop motorists speeding or driving through red lights both in Britain and overseas. According to the latest accounts filed with Companies House, the firm, based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, posted a pre-tax profit of £1.09 million but paid no UK corporation tax. Speed camera firm RedSpeed International has earned £35 million from British taxpayers since 2006 but has paid just £12,000 in UK taxes, accounts for the company have revealed. Daniel Zaydman, 37, (left) founded the leading traffic enforcement technology company, a decade ago. Last year the firm won a contract to supply 600 speed and red light cameras to Transport for London. The company, which is behind a device called SpeedCurb which uses road sensors to measure speed, won a contract late last year to supply 600 speed and red light cameras to Transport for London. Although it manufactures and maintains the speed camera equipment, the firm has no involvement in the day to day operation of the cameras. Daniel Zaydman, 37, founded the leading traffic enforcement technology company, a decade ago. Although it manufactures and maintains the speed camera equipment, the firm has no involvement in the day to day operation of the cameras. Official paperwork shows during that time he has taken home more than £760,000 in pay. The managing director lives outside Worcester in a mortgage-free home, which he bought for£975,000 at the age of 29. Since 2006, RedSpeed International has turned over more than £73 million, including £35 million in the UK, but has paid less than £12,000 in taxes here. The most recent accounts show a turnover for 2013 of £9.3 million, with more than £3.3 million coming from the UK. Despite its £1.09 million pre-tax profit, RedSpeed International paid no UK corporation tax - although it did pay nearly £19,000 in foreign corporation tax. The accounts also revealed that it did not pay any UK corporation tax in 2012, while shelling out £72,565 abroad. The accounts for 2011, 2010 and 2009 also show a zero  tax charge, with the bill standing at £262 in 2008, £261 in 2007 and £11,239 for 2006. Campaigner Paul Pearson, of penaltychargenotice.co.uk, said: 'It’s not right these cameras rake in essentially another tax, but the firm behind them does not pay much.' When initially approached, a member of staff at RedSpeed replied: 'No comment.' RedSpeed are yet to respond to MailOnline's further request for comment.
Highlights: RedSpeed International supplies  traffic cameras in both the UK and abroad. Firm won a contract to supply 600 cameras to TfL last year. Recent accounts at Companies House show 2013 turnover of £9.3 million. It also made a 1.09 million pre-tax profit, but paid no UK corporation tax. However, it did pay nearly £19,000 in foreign corporation tax.

Text: The latest prediction for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season agrees with three previous ones, forecasting a season that will be at least a bit milder than last year's. Last year's most destructive hurricane, Ike, tossed boats onto the shore in Bayton, Texas, in September. AccuWeather is the most recent organization to release its outlook, predicting Wednesday that the season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, will bring 13 named storms and eight hurricanes. In 2008, there were 16 named storms and eight hurricanes, five of which were major -- that is, classified as Category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of storm intensity -- with winds of 111 mph or higher. The three previous forecasts were released in December by Colorado State University (14 named storms, seven hurricanes), WSI Corp. (13 named storms, seven hurricanes) and Weather Research Center (seven named storms, four hurricanes). Storms acquire a name when they are designated tropical storms, with sustained maximum winds of at least 39 mph. Though they foresee fewer storms than last year, all the forecasts except the one from the Weather Research Center would translate into an above-average season. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a "normal" Atlantic season has 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. NOAA won't release its predictions until closer to the start of the season. And the forecasts already made are likely to be updated as June draws near. AccuWeather projected that four of the hurricanes in 2009 will hit the U.S. East Coast or Gulf Coast, and one of those will be a Category 3. Joe Bastardi, AccuWeather's chief long-range forecaster, wrote on the company's Web site that this year's "storms may be more likely to form in the Atlantic Basin closer to the coast, and the possibility of a major hurricane making landfall in the U.S. cannot be ruled out." WSI, on its Web site, said its predictions for 2009 stemmed from the expected continuation of "warmer-than-normal Atlantic Ocean temperature anomalies into next summer and fall, and the likelihood of a favorable or neutral wind shear environment associated with the lack of an El Niño event." El Niño is a fluctuation in the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific that can impact global weather. Last year was considered the fourth busiest Atlantic hurricane year since 1944. The National Climatic Data Center said 2008 was "the only year on record in which a major hurricane existed in every month from July through November in the north Atlantic." The most destructive was Hurricane Ike, which wiped out neighborhoods in parts of Texas. Even a week later, its remnants were still having an impact on the Great Lakes region. Two other hurricanes made landfall in the United States last year -- Dolly and Gustav. Neither was a major hurricane at the time it came ashore.
Highlights:
AccuWeather forecast joins three others predicting milder hurricane season. Latest forecast: 13 named storms, 8 hurricanes in 2009 Atlantic season. Predictions likely to be tweaked closer to the season, June 1 to November 30. Last year was fourth busiest Atlantic hurricane season since 1944.