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Article: Parking warden tickets Dunkirk veteran with disabled badge.
- Article from:
- Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2008
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AN 85-year-old disabled Dunkirk war veteran who is almost blind has been given a parking ticket - despite clearly displaying a disabled badge on his wife's car.
East Sussex County Council said the badge was facing the wrong way and fined him [pounds sterling]60.
Don Short, a born and bred Lewesian and Commercial Square Bonfire boy for more than 70-years, has refused to pay up and said the fine was an 'insult'.
He lives in Seaford but visits Lewes every week, despite having difficulty walking after a quadruple by-pass operation and suffering from acute angina.
He told the Express: 'My wife parked up in the car parked at the Phoenix ...