EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD motorist Gladys Burrows said she will go to jail before she pays a £60 parking fine.

The sprightly pensioner (pictured) was stung with the fee when she parked in a disabled bay in the Longfield Centre car park: even though she was displaying a disabled badge on her dashboard.

The ticket states she was "parked in a disabled persons bay without clearly displaying a valid disabled persons badge". But Gladys claims the badge was clearly displayed and refuses to pay up.

Gladys believes the badge may have been showing her photograph instead of the registration details on the dashboard but argues that it is no reason at all to book her.

Gladys said: "I wouldn't care but you don't even have to pay on that car park. I was parked in the designated bay and had both badges on the dashboard. You couldn't miss them! I have no intention of paying it, I'll go to jail first."

Gladys, who lives off Whittaker Lane, in Prestwich, parked up at the Longfield Centre last Thursday afternoon to visit the dentist on Bury New Road. She came back and noticed the parking ticket stuck to the windscreen of her Nissan.

"I couldn't believe it," she said, "I wondered what on earth it was. I thought I had done everything correctly, but now I am not sure if the badge was the right way

up. "

The ticket stated that if she paid the fine within 14 days it would be reduced to £30.

Gladys contacted NCP Ltd in Parsons Lane, Bury but said she lost her temper on the telephone.

She said: "They basically told me I would have to pay £30 or the fine would go up to £60. If I didn't pay that it would go up further. It was obvious I was a disabled driver so I was blazing mad."

A spokesman for Bury Council, who employs NCP Ltd to enforce parking regulations, said Mrs Burrows was entitled to appeal against the fine within 14 days.