SIR – Some while ago on a dark and dismal night I parked at the bottom of Piccadilly, not noticing the somewhat obscure disabled signs.

Fortunately a fellow motorist came up and said: “Don’t park there, I did last week and got done. It is so confusing that all the parking attendant has to do is go off for a coffee and by coming round every half hour he can get enough fines from this short stretch to justify his job”.

I parked somewhere else, but when I came back after a meeting, noticed that another car which had parked in the place that I had moved from, was carrying a penalty notice.

What the fellow motorist told me may lack some truth, but nothing like as much as Councillor Thornton’s assertion: “We are not using these charges as a cash cow”. Councillor – pull the other one, it’s got bells on!

John Pashley, Westcliffe Avenue, Baildon