RESIDENTS have slammed the council after their cars parked outside their homes were slapped with parking tickets - six years after double yellow lines were removed from their street.

Families had successfully won their fight to get the double yellow lines removed from Wareing Street in Tyldelsey in 1999.

Council contractors were called to burn the lines off the road but the lines were not completely removed and remained faded. A "no stopping" road sign has also remained on the street.

Residents have been left fuming after parking attendants issued them with a number of £30 fixed penalty notices.

Now they have called on the council to sort out its act and remove the double yellow lines and road sign immediately from their street.

Resident Rob Pollitt compiled video evidence on the parking fiasco.

He said: "There have been lots of parking attendants coming down this street and booking drivers illegally. My step daughter was done a couple of weeks ago and since then I have been booked by them. I confronted one of the parking attendants and told him that these lines were removed six years ago, but he still said it was ok to book me.

"The sign has been up there for no reason at all for six years. The council have said that all we have to do is object to the ticket, but that's not the point. What about all those innocent people who have paid the £30 fine immediately because they did not want to pay £60 to contest the ticket? We are all absolutely livid."

A spokesman for Wigan Council, said: "We are aware of Mr Pollitt and other residents concerns. It's correct that double yellow lines were removed a time long ago. We have had engineers out there to remove double yellow lines, but it can be a difficult process. We have been instructed again to remove any signs or double yellow lines which are actually there on the street, but could not remove the lines because cars were parked on the double yellow lines.

"We will ask engineers to remove the lines and instruct parking services not to issue any more tickets.

"People who have been issued tickets can write a letter and appeal against the ticket. We are trying to do as much as we can to remedy the situation."