Pensioner ‘too fit to qualify for blue disabled parking badge’ even though he has NO feet
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Pensioner ‘too fit to qualify for blue disabled parking badge’ even though he has NO feet
‘A Scots pensioner who has had both feet amputated has been refused a blue disabled parking badge – because he is able to walk ‘more than 20 yards’.
Tom Hannah, 73, had the lower part of both legs removed in operations last year after doctors discovered that his irregular heartbeat was causing circulation problems in his legs.
He was granted a provisional blue badge to let him park in disabled spaces but when he tried recently to renew it, he was told that because he could walk 20 yards he was not eligible.’
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