The discretionary use of the blue disability badges within car parks remains a popular topic for all motorists.

All too frequently the provision of disability bays is questioned or badges viewed with scepticism, tokens of the parking privileged minority.

To correctly display the badge in the windscreen permits free parking anywhere in a car park, even on double yellow lines.

But disability drivers beware. The Octagon surface car park, adjacent to the Lever Chambers Health Centre, contradicts this practice. Those who are the most immobile are obliged to secure a place in a designated bay.

Anything less incurs a £60 fine, irrelevant of circumstances. Such pecuniary contradictions within BMC parking policy serve to disadvantage the most needy yet further. So, just when you think things could not get any worse, they do.

Dr M C Middleton Blackburn Road Egerton