I AM increasingly alarmed at the number of drivers with "orange disabled badges" abusing this permit to park, at the expense of genuine persons who are limited in movement.

Regularly, I see drivers leap out of cars and vans and return with bags of shopping, etc., taking up a valuable parking space and leaving a genuinely disabled person with a long and tiring walk.

This is purely lazy and cruel and I hope any such person with the orange badge will consider others in real difficulty who would benefit from the parking place that they have used up.

DINO CHRISTODOULOU, Yates Fold, Rockcliffe Street, Blackburn.

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