A GROUP of residents who are not allowed to park outside their homes in the evening are up in arms because they keep getting parking tickets and have nowhere else to park.

The residents, in Manley Terrace, Astley Bridge, say they are being targeted by wardens who keep slapping parking tickets on their cars.

The parking regulations mean there are double yellow lines outside their houses and a sign indicating no parking between 7pm and midnight.

The measure was introduced several years ago because the nearby Astley Bridge Conservative Club's car park kept filling up and members were parking on the road outside the residents' homes.

Resident Julie Morgan said: "I've had five parking tickets between those hours, but there's no-where else to park. Do they expect us to move our cars back in front of our houses at midnight?

"My daughter's car is in my backyard and I've just had an operation, I so can't go moving my car all the time. The traffic wardens seem to be targeting us and don't tell us where we can park."

She said one solution would be to introduce resident parking permits to deter members of the Conservative Club parking in the road.

A Bolton Council spokesman said an experimental residential parking scheme is taking place in Dorset Street and, if successful, would be introduced elsewhere, although there is no guarantee Manley Street would be included.

Astley Bridge Conservative Club officials said, as far as they knew, the parking restrictions on the road have always been there.