'I got trapped in a Manchester city centre NCP car park with 200 drivers'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

My car got trapped in a city centre car park again. Although this time, I was trapped inside with it. I seem to be spectacularly unlucky when it comes to Manchester city centre parking.

A year or so ago I wrote about an incident when I managed to unwittingly park my car in one of the only city centre car parks that gets locked up at midnight - leaving me stranded in the early hours on my own without access to my car (and my house keys in the boot).

So I suppose at least this time I was trapped WITH my car and with all my keys and possessions with me. Not that any of this was much help when I realised I was pretty much stuck in the NCP Palace multi-storey on Whitworth Street earlier this month. READ MORE: Shoppers say "it's a joke" as Trafford Centre reveals prices of first pay-for car park Thankfully, it wasn't just me trapped with my car.

Oh no, there was a whole queue of around 200 of us locked inside this NCP, desperately trying to work out how to get out. We had all been at the neighbouring Palace Theatre you see, to watch a very good production of Chicago the musical, before all dashing, en masse, back to the NCP car park to drive home.