Yellow peril

A motorist claims workmen lifted up her car and moved it on to repainted double yellow lines so they could mark the road under her vehicle.

Lisa Williams, 32, from Bewdley, Worcestershire, narrowly missed getting a parking ticket after office workers who spotted the roadmen intervened.

She claims £200 of damage was caused to her car, which was parked in Frederick Street, Wolverhampton.

The city council said the claim was being investigated.

Ms Williams had parked her blue Vauxhall Corsa car on a stretch of city centre street with no yellow lines, between two sets of double yellow lines, on Friday morning.

She said: "I was just gobsmacked. I came back to the car and thought, I didn't park there, there wasn't a yellow line there before."

She claims the car had been moved about 20ft (4m).

Nearby office workers said the workman lifted up the rear of the car and rolled it forward on its front wheels. They added they had to persuade a parking attendant not to put a ticket on the car after she later spotted it on the yellow lines.

The office workers who had seen the chain of events had left a note on the car and were able to tell Ms Williams what had happened. She added: "I'm very angry, it's an amazing thing to do, they could've come back another day or gone out the night before and coned it off."

She said the rear of the car had been dented and she wanted the council to pay the £200 repair bill.

A spokesman for Wolverhampton City Council said the allegation was being investigated. The spokesman added: "Under no circumstances would the council instruct its contractors to move people's vehicles without the owner's consent."