A RETIRED villager has attacked a car-parking move which, he says, stings the pockets of cash-strapped pensioners.

Seventy-nine-year old Harry Shenton, of Kinverdale Park, Wolverley, is angry he can no longer buy a "restricted" ticket as a senior citizen at £22 for a year.

Drivers can now only obtain six-monthly tickets at £14 from Wyre Forest District Council and Mr Shenton said: "They keep grinding away at us and it all mounts up. If they are trying to keep senior citizens out of the town centres this is the way to do it."

District head of cultural, leisure and commercial services Andrew Dickens said it had been decided to make "temporary" changes in the issue of all "restricted" season tickets which could now only be for a maximum six months during the redevelopment of the town centre.

"This is a pragmatic solution to uncertainty about when parking room will be lost in Kidderminster while the development work takes place. We don't want people to be paying for tickets and then not being able to use them."