I HAVE been following the correspondence regarding parking charges in Mitcheldean with interest.  I shop there, but often just pop down for a newspaper, and clearly adding 20p to its cost means I go elsewhere where I don't have to pay to park.

 There are a few precious free parking places outside the shops, but I wonder how fair it is when one of these places is taken up by the enforcement officer when visiting Mitchel­dean?

If these places are full, then the officer uses one of the library parking spaces. As the library is no longer run by the council, again I wonder whether this is correct procedure? 

Surely council employees should practise what the council preaches, and pay their 20p like the rest of us.

– Penny Trebilcock, Longhope.