AFTER reading that Asda plan to fine people who park in disabled/mother and baby bays, I wish to say that while I have every sympathy with disabled people being unable to get into the special parking spaces at supermarkets, I do not feel there is any need for mother and baby spaces.

Having a child does not mean you are unable to walk. I managed to do my weekly shop with a baby/toddler in tow before these spaces were introduced.

I now take my mother to the supermarket. She is 83 and, due to breaking her hip while in hospital more than a year ago, she still has difficulty walking.

I did enquire about getting a temporary disabled badge to use while taking her shopping and so forth, but City of York Council said we were not entitled as she did not have a permanent disability.

So we have to struggle from the more distant car spaces while we watch fit young mums park almost at the door. As we are a mother/child combination, I have often wondered if we would be entitled to use the spaces, but have never tried it.

Ann Devine, Grange Farm Cottages, Moor Lane, Copmanthorpe, York.