The brothers who co-founded fashion giant PrettyLittleThing have announced they are teaming up on a new business venture together.
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A nurse who was taken to court after refusing to pay an £300 parking ticket for two years has 'won' with the company ordered her to pay her back. Mum Jamie Rock believed she purchased a ticket near a hospital for a medical appointment and also received a text message as confirmation.
The parking machine was broken and she later discovered her phone payment hadn't been processed. The 47-year-old was later handed a £60 parking fine. Despite lots of letters from Civil Enforcement Limited demanding she pay the charge notice, she held firm - even when it rose to £300 due to non payment.
She was ordered to attend country court where the judge struck out the claim in a matter of minutes - and ruled the firm pay Jamie's £26 travel expenses, the Mirror reports.
Nearly three weeks on, Jamie is still waiting for the parking ticket company to pay her. The mum-of-two from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, said: "I lost count of the letters I got. They did not entertain looking at my evidence. They just called me a liar. I was annoyed because it was not my fault. It was their machine. How can they say I have not paid? I put it all through!
"I did everything I was supposed to do. I did everything correctly. It seemed a bit fishy. How many people did they catch out with this faulty system? Hundreds of people have paid this fine." Speaking of her 'win' she added: "I was quite happy. I felt vindicated."
Jamie parked near a hospital in Liverpool in September 2021 for a personal medical appointment, but found the machine was broken. She instead bought a ticket over the phone and received a "parking accepted for two hours" text message. But when Jamie came out of the hospital, she was told her parking had not been "validated" because she didn't put in
The brothers who co-founded fashion giant PrettyLittleThing have announced they are teaming up on a new business venture together.
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