Bromptonaut is spot on, this can be safely ignored.

Having said that, rtj has a point.

I received a private ticket for parking in a hospital - £15 if paid straight way.

I paid it on the basis it would have cost £3 or £4 to park anyway, and it was worth the extra for parking near to where I wanted to be.

Perhaps wrongly, I hoped some of my money might filter back to hospital funds.

What I will not pay is private tickets issued in shopping centres, motorway service areas and the like.

I have two of those, both more than a year old.

There have been about six or seven threatening letters for each, but they are just that, threats.

But no one likes getting threatening letters - me included - so my policy is to avoid getting one of these tickets if possible.

I parked at Manchester Piccadilly Rail multi-storey car park for 3 days until Sunday. When I returned it was dark wet and blowing a gale. The exit was automatic gate.

This morning I saw my car in light for 1st time and find I have 3 areas of limescale drip damage on my roof and side windows and passenger door. The drips have come from the roof of the car park as I saw many stalagmites already formed from previous water drips in the roof sections.

I realise that there was a standard damage & theft disclaimer at the entrance, but this damage has not been caused by a 3rd party but by the APCOA owned car park building iteself.

I want to have my car's paintwork returned to the same condition it was in before I used and paid APCOA for their car park; could someone advise me how to proceed?