Editor,

On 30 October I took my husband to Bronglais Hospital in great pain and having difficulties in walking.

There were no parking spaces in the hospital car park and, having gone around the streets a number of times looking for parking spots, I could find none.

I had no alternative therefore but to park wherever I could manage.

I made quite sure that I was not causing any obstruction whatsoever to other vehicles before leaving my car.

It is not our fault that there are insufficient parking spaces at the hospital.

On returning to my car about an hour or so later, I was disappointed to see that a traffic warden had already slapped a parking ticket on my windscreen. It is so sad to think that they could pounce at 9.35am outside a hospital for the sick and ailing when there are so many vehicles parked illegally in the town and in the surrounding villages and get away with it.

Cars don’t park in the vicinity of the hospital so that people can go shopping or eat out.

They are there because unfortunately they or a member of their family are extremely unwell.

So why not have more compassion and leave sick people alone; they have enough to cope with as it is.

E Metcalfe, 9 Heol Alun, Waun Fawr, Aberystwyth.

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