I would like to ask your readers whether they could get in touch with me if they have received a parking fine or if they noticed something strange about the parking ticket machines at the Rye lido. The date I’m particularly interested in is 30/05/14.

I paid 40p to park in the car park, I entered my full reg in the machine and my ticket was printed. I left the car park with four minutes to spare but I received a parking fine (through my door weeks later). The fine was for ‘maximum parking allowance exceeded’.

I still had my ticket so I appealed. I lost the appeal as they said my full reg wasn’t entered (on the ticket it only had the last four characters of my reg but I didn’t realise it should have printed the full reg as I’d never used the machines before). They want me to paid £100 for a ticket I did purchase!

They are not even disputing the fact I paid for a ticket, they are disputing the fact my full reg wasn’t entered!

I just wanted to know if other drivers had had similar or the same problem there or if they were there that day and noticed that one of the machines was out of action. I would be grateful if people could get in touch. — Karen Maguire, Stokenchurch Contact Karen via victoria.birch@ london.newsquest.co.uk