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First of all apologies for the agro sounding title! Highly annoyed with Brighton Council at the moment. A bit of background - brighton has a ridiculous parking permit scheme where you have to prove your a resident via council tax, tenancy agreement, etc and then pay extra to park outside your front door. Tax on car ownership or what?! Despite paying this ridiculous fee I parked the car roughly two months ago one street away in a space against a wall. As a result of the narrow space and the close proximity to the wall my passenger was unable to exit the car so I reparked to allow enough space for her to alight the vehicle. I came back the next day to find a ticket on the car as we were parked incorrectly. I had a measuring tape on me and noted I was 14 inches over the lines but was clearly leaving 4.7 metres for cars to pass. Seeing as how the average car is 1.9 metres wide and this is a one way street this doesn't seem to be particularly fair so I wrote to them to appeal. Their advice is that I should have allowed my passenger to alight before parking. Is this correct? Surely this breaches some part of the highway code as it potentially could put my passenger and other road users in danger? Any help would be greatly appreciated. All the best, Dan

Car had been there 5 minutes as I was collecting paperwork from the office: The ticket was not in the envelope and was practically thrown onto the windscreen. The photograph they took had me in the car Is this a valid ticket?

cheers for the advice mate, i sent a letter on thursday and recieved a reply today. they will not pay the remaining 190.90 that they owe me and i have no marks against my credit rating. i have sent a further letter explaining the legal contraventions and have threatened them with court.

Hello Early last year I started using Paypal to buy stuff online. At the time i did not know about unpaid direct debit fees and went overdrawn. The charge incurred caused me to go overdrawn many more times as i was not informed of these charges. In december i wrote to them and recieved under half back as a partial refund however i was just reading the info about bank charges on the moneysavingexpert website and noticed the legality of the situation and that i should not have declined their offer. i never replied to their letter that i recieved. do you believe it would be possible to dispute the matter further?