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Please warn your disabled readers not to let their parking badges fade in sunlight.

Those of us with disabled parking badges should beware of letting them fade through exposure to sunlight. I recently got a replacement badge and was told of a couple who had been fined £60 because a 'jobsworth' Traffic Warden had said that their badge was invalid because it was faded.

Asked on 11 September 2010 by Terry Fowler

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