The published photograph is of St Andrews Street – the same area the council designated suitable for parking while the bus station was being constructed.

What has changed to make this area unsafe and why is it legal to park in the same street on a Sunday, when it is just as busy as weekdays.

The problem has actually been caused by the council and the bus station it created. Most people I speak to consider the bus station a white elephant that fails to attract more people to the town.

The old town car park is now a taxi rank and on a Friday parking is very difficult and a simple visit to the bank a major exercise.

Why can the council not make these areas legal for 15 minutes use rather than penalising motorists?

On a separate issue, I have actually seen dangerous parking in the town that is often ignored. On numerous occasions, vehicles have parked on a pedestrian crossing outside the Tiger's Head pub to load and unload, causing extreme congestion at an already busy time.

This has been ignored by the police – even though I have reported it twice – and causes many more problems than a few cars parked in St Andrews Street.

The parking situation may well be resolved when the new Sainsbury's store is opened, but that is a subject for another day.

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THE Journal headline (Mildenhall edition, May 22) "Police crack down on illegal parking", is strong stuff indeed.

On Saturday morning outside Sainsbury's, I witnessed four police officers surrounding a motorist who dared to park on a double yellow line.

The next morning, I saw two officers in the same place writing tickets, presumably on double wages.

It may have something to do with all those cctv cameras installed recently – they surely don't catch crooks and I understand they don't even work at night.

Next month, ministers are going to propose a community safety levy charged by directly-elected local police boards and the cash will be spent on making the streets safer.

Safer is the key word used by the police bodies to collect money from motorists (evidence to prove safer doesn't need to be provided).

My OAP friend, who has been driving "safely" like most of us for 55 years, was given a £60 fine even though he has never hurt a soul in his live.

The fine was half his weekly pension. How was he supposed to pay his bills and feed himself and his dog?

"Safer" should not mean to keep on bashing the poor motorist, but to put away and keep away real criminals – that's what the police should be doing.

Roll on the end of this rotten government and the start of the revolution.

Mr R LIVERMORE
Church Lane Close
Barton Mills