thank you again!! I did copy and paste part of your previous message to the council, and i think they actually started taking me seriously and replying to me. rather than saying "computer says we cant help you". They have just told the bailiff morons to pay me back £300!! am well pleased! Am still complaining about them though to the bailiff regulator people and the local government ombudsman. xx

im very greatful for your advice tomtubby!

HI thanks so much for your reply. all this mess has really made me feel ill. the bailiff company was Equita, and the local authority is colchester borough council. i will contact my bank to see if they will do this. i have spoken to the council and they said they did not give me that information about putting a note in my windscreen or getting them appealed as that is incorrect info. i wouldnt make something like that up though but i suppose its my word against theirs. I have just requested the pcn numbers from council as i dont know them. and have asked for a out of time application from the traffic centre. they didnt issue a notice of seizure inventory.

I got two parking tickets for parking at my old address which was permits only. mine had been sent off for and paid for but hadnt arrived. council told me to put note in windscreen explaining which i did. still was given tickets, council told me they would be appealed as id spoke to them and lived at that address. didnt hear anything else, until this week when my car was clamped. i phoned the number and was told i had to pay £392 in half an hour or my car would be taken and sold. i paid him over the phone. when he arrived he said hed be charging another £342 later on that day. i said i didnt have the money. but he used my account details and took it anyway. i did not get a recept for the money he took. i had had no prior letters or visits from anyone about this. I am a one parent family and work 20 hours looking after elderly people. i get housing benefit and working /child tax credits. i couldnt get to work that day or my son to school. and if my car had been taken would have had to give up my job and take my son out of school. i only had the money in my account saved to buy furniture for our new flat and pay the rent and food which we cant do now. could anyone give any advice on if i have any rights here. thank you.