A COUNCILLOR has urged people to boycott a pub after a woman was fined £60 for parking there during a ten-minute visit to the doctor.

Dawn Tutt, 30, from Hazlemere, took her children Vicki, three, and Charlie, five, to the doctor's surgery in Roberts Ride, Hazlemere, when the family suffered an outbreak of flu.

But when she returned to her car, which she had left in The Cedars pub car park, Cedar Avenue, she found a £60 parking ticket on her windscreen.

The doctor's surgery had an agreement with previous owners that the car park could be used by patients but since brewers Inn Business took over signs have gone up stating people will be fined £60, rising to £120 if they don't pay up in a fortnight.

At a meeting of Hazlemere Parish Council on Tuesday Cllr Peter Shaw urged people to boycott the pub. He said: "I think we should cut out the pub and I think we should write to the chief executive expressing concern about them taking this attitude."

Husband Steve Tutt, 38,said: "My wife came back in floods of tears. I think it is absolutely disgusting."

Parish and district councillor Les Taylor (Con, Hazlemere West) said: "I think they are the rats of the year."

Cedars tenant Ron Henry said Inn Business offered the doctor's surgery parking for patients but the surgery declined because a 12-month contract could not be agreed.