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Thank you for printing my email captioned ' 'Weston Super Snare'. I am sure it, and your reply, will benefit many folk suffering the same dilemma. I have heard nothing more from Parking Eye since I last...
I live in Hampshire. Is it illegal to park on a speed hump? In particular one that stretches right across the road with white triangles on it and a painted, straight white line parallel to the kerb before,...
My wife, who is 79, regularly takes our neighbour, who is 93, to Tesco. Recently he forgot to display his blue badge and in spite of his showing it to the warden on return to the car, I have received a...
Your correspondent who was fined in a car park owned by a Tesco store for apparently not displaying a 'blue badge' should perhaps refer to the main branch of the one of the three Tesco stores in Dumfries,...
An idiot living in an adjoining street has decided to park his car in the lane behind our street blocking access to my garage. He knows I use my garage regularly and moves his car when asked but it's infuriating...
Regarding the letter about a Penalty Charge Notice for a vehicle not parking according to the required order. What is not mentioned is that selfishly parking over another bay removes that bay from use...
Having had a few near misses when reversing out of a parking space in a crowded car park, I thought it would improve safety by arranging the parking slots in a herringbone pattern instead of the usual...
Last Friday afternoon I did my usual weekly shop at the local ASDA. I returned home without noticing any damage but when using the car in the evening I saw a note under the windscreen wiper. This was from...
Further to your reader's letter regarding a £50 penalty at MacDonalds near Heathrow, I too suffered in the same way, this time because my order was forgotten and by the time I had received and eaten it,...
Your correspondent who was fined for overstaying at McDonalds is quite justifiably angry. I parked in my local Tesco in a handicapped bay and was fined £50. I was distracted by an incident in the car park...
 

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