OXFORDSHIRE County Council has today won its fight over the legality of Oxford's High Street bus gate.

The Court of Appeal overturned a ruling by the traffic Penalty Tribunal that the council's traffic regulation and signage for the scheme were not legal.

If the ruling had stood it would have meant the council was unable to fine motorists who drove through the area.

But Mr Justice Beatson said today that the tribunal's chief bus lane adjudicator Caroline Sheppard was wrong when applying the law.

He said the signage was adequate to warn drivers that they should not be using that section of the High.