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Charity volunteer, 77, lands £170 fine after taking 10 minutes to drop off patient at Manchester hospital

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A hospital parking fine given to a charity volunteer as he took a disabled man to an appointment has been cancelled after the M.E.N.

took up the case. John Ling, 77, was initially slapped with a £70 for a 10 minute stay outside Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.

The retired teacher, a volunteer driver who takes children, disabled and elderly people to medical appointments, says he was forced to park outside the main entrance because no other spaces were available.

He says he took the wheelchair-bound man to his appointment on the first floor and returned to his car within 10 minutes, only to find he'd got a ticket - despite displaying an NHS patient transport sign on his windscreen.

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