WHEN postman David Adams took his elderly parents to do their weekly shopping at Sainsbury’s he was horrified to find he faced a £2.20 minimum charge.

Mr Adams usually cycles into the city but his father, John, has recently been in hospital with renal failure and was unable to walk so he wanted to drive them in.

“My parents were shopping for less than 45 minutes and yet the charge was £2.20,” he said. “I think it’s a blooming rip-off.

“My parents have always shopped in Sainsbury’s. They and I have been Salisbury council taxpayers for many, many years.

“We think it’s absolutely disgusting and feel that, along with many other Salisbury residents, we are being made to pay for past failures and bad management of Salisbury’s transport policy.”

Mr Adams added: “At the parking machine in the central car park I spoke to a woman who was beside herself with rage.

“She had only popped in for a pint of milk, loaf of bread and a paper and had to put more in the ticket machine than she spent in the store.”