A TRAFFIC warden has been barred from his favourite pub after giving the landlord three parking tickets in five months.

Dave Wilkinson, licensee of The Lettered Board, in Pickering, North Yorkshire, says he only left his car outside to load and unload when he was given the tickets by Bob Ogier. When he got the third, he decided Bob was no longer welcome in the pub.

However, Bob, 39, said: "I was only doing my job, ticketing for illegal parking or obstruction.