Last Wednesday at lunch time I pulled up outside the newsagents at the top of Harpers Lane.

Two minutes after buying a newspaper I came out of the shop to find a Parkwise traffic warden printing a ticket off with a £60 penalty.

While I admit I was maybe parked a foot into the bus markings, there was 100 yards of free space and 99 per cent of the bus area free.

Add this to the fact that there was no bus due, and nobody waiting for a bus, then you can see that I was pretty annoyed.

What has happened to basic common sense? This is obviously not a requirement of working for Parkwise.

If Chorley Borough Council are taking silly totally unnecessary actions on people like myself, it must mean that they are doing a wonderful job elsewhere that they have plenty of resources available to stick a traffic warden at the top of Harpers Lane on a Wednesday hiding behind walls in the hope they can rip people off.

Rat infested areas are being created because we can't have the resources to empty bins regularly, but that's okay as long as we create plenty of funds to keep our council running

Chorley Borough Council? I wonder if they are related to the Dick Turpin council.

Nigel Warburton

Chorley