Can you park on single yellow lines on a bank holiday?

[blossomhill]

I did and have received a £40 fine. I seriously thought that you could park on a single yellow line and was so shocked to find a ticket. I am seriously p**d off as well as I could have done without it TBH as have spent a lot on dd's party, presentsthis week etc.:(

our tescos clamp those who wrongly park in disabled bay. £120 fine to get it off. Hurray for them.

I am astounded anyone feels they can justify such an ignorant thing.....

BTW, if you contest your parking fine and do so within the "early payment" time, you still pay the lower fine if your appeal is not upheld.

And Tesco's toddler parking is up to age 5.

I think 5 is a fair age. I stopped using them with ds when he was 4ish.

Shout at him or report him Chandra. He was driving irresponsibly, nothing to do with having a blue badge. It doesn't give you license to run people over.

Again I would say 5. But with Ryanair we didn't go forward (kids 11 and 7) and the staff called US to get on. Maybe there weren't many other kids, can't remember.

I'd say 15 was pushing it a bit!

I'd say people with an under 5 (pre-schoolers) too, although there are some exceptions where it may be necessary.

I once went to park at tesco's in a M+B space. As I got close to it, a car pulled across my lane into the space. I was shocked to see a lady get out, no kids in sight and wearing a tesco uniform. I went straight into customer services and complained about her nicking my space and also the fact that she almost caused me to crash (slight exageration!) I was all pleased with myself when I heard them call her over the tannoy!

I have seen members of staff at the cinema dh used to work at parking in the disabled spaces, as they are right outside the door.

Update!!! I have sent a letter asking that they look into my case. The one thing I have noticed on the ticket is that the TW has put that I was in on the line from 13.47-1351 I always thought you had 5 minutes so surely this is incorrect anyway?

Just thought I would tell you about a henious crime I commited in my youth - parked in a disabled bay to go and buy a loaf of bread in M&S at lakeside (they were all empty so I thought it wouldn't hurt for 2 minutes), went in got bread, got given change for a 20 rather than a 10 and felt very smug and pleased with myself until I got back tot he car to find my windscreen covered by a huge sticker (and I mean corner to corner) saying 'You have our Parking Space would you like our disability??' - AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - never felt so embarrassed in my life and tried to yank it off so no one saw it only to realise that I could yank it off but windscreen was covered in shitty gluey stuff and had to move car to undisabled space and sit and try and scrape the shite off my window foor half an hour using a can of deicer and a CD case!!

Have never ever done it again!!

I would say that M&T spaces are for people with little kids - anyone who has kids of say 4 and over shouldn't use them IMO - well unless you are me and have a 4 year old and a beach ball up their shirt at the moment!!

DP has jumped on the band wagon of giving scathing looks at people who park in M&T spaces although he readily admits he did it when he didn't have any children as he did not understand just how much hassle it was to manouver a small child out of the car and keep them out of imminent danger at the same time.

Unfortunately I wasn't let off and have to pay the £40 fine. Never mind, it just rounds a $h*t week off TBH