A NURSE has won an appeal against a parking ticket she was given as she stepped from her car to protest over a lorry blocking a road.

Valerie Whitmore, 58, lodged her complaint against the ticket to the National Parking Adjudication Service who helped her case.

Mrs Whitmore, of Lonsdale Drive, Rainham, insists the ticket that she received in August this year was unfair as she had just left her car to ask a driver to move his lorry.

On return to her car a traffic warden was writing her a ticket for being parked illegally.

Medway Council has now reimbursed the cost of her fine. Mrs Whitmore said: "I was very relieved to get the money back but I should have not been charged in the first place.

"The road was blocked and I just wanted to ask why the lorry was blocking the road, and before I knew it I was getting a ticket.

"This has caused a great deal of stress to me because I always knew I was write but feared that I would not get my money back.

"And if I had have lost the case I would have had to pay an extra fee."

A spokesperson for Medway Council said: "The ticket was issued for parking in a resident's parking bay without displaying a valid permit. The ticket was cancelled as information concerning the area of the fine was incorrect. We have written to Mrs Whitmore explaining the error."