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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emma Munbodh

Food bank users sent £170 penalty fines for using free community car park

Food bank users have been issued penalty parking fines and threats of court action after an enforcement company took over a community centre car park in Sunderland.

Clients and volunteers at the Youth Almighty Project (Yap), which runs a community centre, were issued parking charge notices after the car park came under new management.

The free car park was taken over by an Australian multinational called Smart Parking in 2020.

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