Btw, the pcn is printed off a machine, so I presume there's not much room for error but of course I would love to be proved wrong(all the info on the ticket, that I'm aware of, is correct). Cheers

Right, It is in a tcz - the 2 hour band. Your correct, I don't know the correct wording and I'm also unsure of what a 'tro' (traffic regulation order?) does? Thanks for sticking this out, and of course I would rather not pay if at all possible.

Having checked through everything, it looks pretty water-tight unfortunately. It's not a cpz, as far as I'm aware. Looks like I'm going to have to pay:( Is it an urban myth but I thought you are generally given 5-10 minutes over your time before you get a ticket?

Hi Lamma, I'm not sure what you mean? The parking lines are clear, otherwise it's double yellows. It's in the city centre so I can only guess that all appropriate markings are correct. What else am I looking for? Cheers

Thanks for weighing everyone. After searching through MCC 's site, I can't find anything that looks like giving me the information about observation times etc. Anyone any pointers? Thanks again

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Hi all, 1st post but I have been getting advice from the various threads for a while now. Very helpful site. My family did some shopping in Mcr yesterday. After giving the meter over £4 (and all the change we had), I could only get to 17.51. So I duly legged it back to the car in time, leaving family and most of the shopping with them. After hanging round until 17.56 I went back to collect my family and the rest of the shopping. Upon returning to the car we had a ticket. Got the ticket at 17.58 - free parking from 18.00 of course, but the tickets states that the car was being observed from 17.53. I don't believe this, as I was there also and I saw no warden. Is this contestable, or should I just bite the bullet and hand over the £25 (which I really don't want to do)? Regards