No one likes the clampers much and they nearly always quite rightly receive bad press.

What do I dislike more? Actually, people who break and bend the rules to suit no one but themselves.

I am sure we were all supposed to feel sorry for Linda Trollop (Wiltshire Times, March 27), who apparently didn’t notice the very visible parking signs on the walls in the Texaco garage, or who didn’t want to park in the multi-storey car park, does she mean The Shires?

As it would mean crossing a busy road to get to the job centre, because we are told she is deaf?

Or maybe she didn’t want to pay 30p? What busy road, and if her husband is also out of work why could he not accompany her and help her across the road?

If she is so profoundly affected by such matters, should she be driving in the first place, or are we all just expected to feel sorry for her, even though it was her that was after all in the wrong. Spend an honest 30p and save £149.70.

Bet she won’t do it again. If we clamped the cars of all those other lawbreakers who for example still talk and text on mobile phones, and only released them when they paid their fines they may also learn, and a few more fines would be paid.

Mark Griffiths, Melksham town councillor