IT is not often that anyone ushers these words: well done, that traffic warden. They might be called parking attendants these days, but they are still the butt of much mockery for carrying out the vital work of keeping York's roads free of selfish parkers.

Whichever attendant was brave enough to slap a ticket on the mayoral limo proved that no one, not even York's number one citizen, is exempt from the rules.

Now the Lord Mayor's office, run by the city council, has paid the fine to the authority's highways department. But was it delivered to Library Square by Coun Greenwood in chauffeur-driven style?

Updated: 10:19 Tuesday, January 31, 2006