I AGREE with S Unsworth (Letters, June 2) that people with children do need extra space, but if this person thinks disabled people are selfish for using these spaces, what about the needs of disabled people?

Most parents are able to park a little further away and still find a space with room to one side and then walk themselves with their children. Disabled people cannot do this.

I have a disabled daughter -- she has average days, some good days and days we would prefer she didn't have to cope with. But she has to. She managed to stay in mainstream high school (St Bedes RC High) go on to sixth form college (St Mary's) and is now at university.

She has to shop for herself and often arrives at a supermarket only to find some inconsiderate person has parked in an orange badge-holders' bay.

If she has to park in a parent and child bay it is because she has no choice. Able-bodied people have a choice.

Some supermarkets broadcast the car registration numbers of non-orange badge holders who park where they shouldn't in the hope that the owners will own up to their wrongdoing and move their cars.

But these ignorant people simply carry on with their shopping. Supermarkets will not, in the main, clamp such cars -- they are more interested in putting money in the tills.

S Unsworth should count the number of disabled bays as a percentage of the total number of spaces available. The result is pathetic. I hope that at no time in the future the writer has need of a special parking bay.

JEAN LEWIS, Ernlouen Close, Blackburn.