ONCE again we have spent a miserable Saturday afternoon in the multi-storey car park by the Wyvern Theatre.

Having had a busy day at the Roundabout Cafe in the Pilgrim Centre, we were looking forward to an afternoon of leisure.

However, when we arrived at the car park at 2.20pm we found it choked with cars from the fourth floor downwards, so, as we had experienced long delays before and still had an hour of parking left, we went back into town for a cup of tea.

Back on the fourth floor at 3.15pm we found the queue still solid. We sat in our car until just before 4pm when the traffic moved temporarily and someone let us in to the queue.

Just after 4pm the queue started to move steadily and we proceeded slowly from floor to floor with windows closed tightly to avoid the fumes, and, just over 10 minutes later reached the exit. It was then a slow progress to Fleming Way until we were in free-flowing traffic, enabling us to get home by 4.40pm.

Understandably, once the queue had built up it then slowed to a halt as more and more returning drivers were let out into it by considerate drivers, but we felt sorry for those people who had children with them.

Nevertheless one felt that there would have been some sort of official help to avoid the initial traffic jam, especially as signs advised us that surveillance cameras were in use in the car park.

DAVID & SHEILA POPE

Purton