Regardless of your personal circumstances ZebUK, your input is not helpful. There are many other forums out there on the internet for you to debate all of this.
Janny, you can get speed camera updates for free, and for nearly-free.
Firstly there is this site
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name =Cameras&referer=SideBar and they provide databases of a number of countries and new releases are made available very frequently. One useful aspect (depending on how you look at it) is that users can inform them of new speed cameras they see and as long as they are verified then they will be added in reasonably good time. This costs �19 a year.
You can get these database for free off torrent sites, how have a hunt around there. the only thing is that they may not be that recent.