Two-year fight for disability parking over for hero soldier

Breaking news... The Advertiser understands that hero amputee soldier Lance-corporal Johno Lee has been granted a disability parking badge after a two-year fight.

The move comes just three days after the Advertiser took up Lance-corporal Lee's case with the issuing authority, Nottinghamshire County Council.

The blue badge is expected to be delivered to the 27-year-old's Coddington home next week.

Lance-corporal Lee had his right leg amputated below the knee in 2008, three weeks after he was blown up in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

Since then he has accrued £800 in fines for parking in disabled bays in Newark on days when he finds it difficult to walk on his prosthetic leg.

Lance-corporal Lee today reacted with delight to being told and thanked the Advertiser for making it happen.

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