Free parking for disabled badge holders in council car parks has been scrapped alongside a concessionary parking scheme for residents in South East Cornwall.

The new Off Street Parking Order for all Cornwall Council's car parks, which came into force yesterday, means an average five per cent increase in parking tariffs, including season tickets, although charges will be frozen at 2009/2010 levels for the first hour or half hour.

Read more in this week's Cornish Times.