THE first day of a controversial new system of car parking charges at Blackburn hospitals ended with claims of chaos.
Visitors faced a 50p charge at Queen's Park Hospital and the Royal Infirmary and it was thought some senior doctors were simply refusing to pay up, using hospital transport rather than their own cars to travel between the hospitals.
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