A young mum was was trapped in a Tesco car park for 90 minutes during a sweltering heatwave has been handed a £70 fine.
Ellie Brierley, 21, was stuck trying to leave the supermarket in Stretford due to traffic building up from the Manchester United versus Brighton football match at nearby Old Trafford on Sunday, August 7. The mum and her two boys, aged 20 months and nine months, were in the car with her at the time.
Manchester Evening News report that the air conditioning in the vehicle wasn't working and temperatures inside her car reached 32 degrees. Ellie and her boys eventually exited the car park and made it home, but the fuming mum says she received a car parking fine from Horizon Parking a few days later of £70 - reduced to £30 if paid in 14 days.
