I've applied for the course but it's really getting to me about it ......I think that area has been deliberately set up to catch out folk who don't know that road or area..... I'm tempted to take the sodding points.

Yes Dave 'Speed Awareness Courses' are a fair sized cottage industry and the set up dynamic inevitably leads to essentially a one way 'dialogue' where the basic message is bend over and take your punishment whilst repeatedly proclaiming your (former) erroneous ways...

No Shaggy grit your teeth and do the penance - it'll make a for a couple of good stories at future MBC nights and you'll be able to instruct the rest of us on our bad driving habits.

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/faq/speeding-defences-1/
Maybe a bit of help to you shaggy just some info on obstructed signs.
Rich.

Commiserations Shaggy.  Yes I got snapped on exactly the same 30 mph stretch going to Ragley. Had I lived closer I would have gone back to check none of the signs were obscured because I thought I was still in the 40 mph section. Mine was 37 in a 30. Did my speed awareness course a couple of weeks ago.

The signs are there and visible but the camera is now hidden the south bound one a 100m on is visible.

The signs are there and visible but the camera is now hidden the south bound one a 100m on is visible.

Sounds like a picture is needed that includes a newspaper front page to indicate the day it was taken

If the camera is obscured, that may be enough to challenge it under a technicality   

as far as i'm aware regardless of the amount of speed limit and camera in operation signs, the camera "must" be seen from something like 60 yards, hence why they painted them in highway yellow, on h&s grounds there is more chance of a camera causing an acident if it is obscured untill the last few meters, people have a tendancy to twitch upon spotting one hit the breaks thus causing an incident.
you could use the your word against mine and say "there was a car right up your backside and you didnt want to tap your brakes and cause an accident"

Slightly off topic but made me chuckle

Average speed cameras over Orwell bridge, limit is 60, watched a bloke slow down behind me for a camera set, passed me at at least 80, slammed his brakes on at the next camera then accelerated away again, obviously English isn't his first language

Misses got a pull on the M74 towards Glasgow by a patrol car sitting on a Munro , many miles away. Automatic fine and points .No courses in Scotland 

Yay.....guess who got a speeding fine come through the post on their way home from news.....

Hey Shaggy,  Paul ,  you must be in a minority,  been caught speeding in a buggy!  Anybody else willing to admit?