Parents with “selfish and dangerous” parking habits have received a visit from the Aberdeen Evening Express – and been named and shamed in the paper.

The newspaper has been campaigning against parents parking on zig-zag markings outside primary schools.

Its Protect Our Kids campaign highlighted how parking in these zones made it unsafe for schoolchildren to cross the road and increased the chances of an accident.

In November, reporters confronted the guilty parents outside local schools to let them know they were acting illegally.

And now the campaign has successfully cut down on the practice – but when concerned parent Janet Hosie contacted the newsdesk to tell them it had begun again outside her son’s school, the Express was quick to act.

The newspaper dispatched a photographer to the school who took pictures of cars parked on the zig-zags.

The pictures were then published in the next edition of the Express with the licence plates clearly visible.

Now Aberdeenshire’s head of roads, Ken Morrison, has warned parents that a rule change means that police and traffic wardens can now slap £20 fines on errant drivers.

And he also promised that signs would be put up warning parents not to park there.

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