A woman who visited a hotel to give blood ended up receiving a £100 parking fine for her trouble.
Caroline McKee, from Greater Manchester, spent an hour donating her blood at a Novotel in Salford on May 23 but received a £60 penalty notice in the post a few days later.
The blood donor had been through the process at the hotel on four previous occasions and had always been allowed to leave her vehicle at the Novotel Manchester West car park for free.