LITTLE-known fact - parking has been decriminalised in Warrington for around nine years now.

Which is just as well when you consider Podium's handy pictoral guide to how not to arrange your staff spaces (see above).

Because who are among the worst offenders when it comes to double parking in the town centre?

Our picture of the Arpley Street police station probably illustrates quite succinctly why Cheshire Constabulary were glad to offload parking offences in 2007.

Not content with grabbing half a dozen undeserved spaces at the top of Museum Street (a column golden oldie), just because they occupy buildings either side of the road, this surely takes the Brass Neck Award 2016.

The very next time you fancy blocking someone in on the highway, never fear about that old chesnut of 'causing an obstruction', these folks know all about dodgy manouvering, it would appear.

Your careless correspondent didn't notice whether there were any double-yellow lines beside the cop shop's parking bays - it would be one of the few corners of Bank Quay to escape otherwise.

  •  I'm more than a little confused by this whole parking charges nonsense in Lymm and Stockton Heath.

Enough grey matter could be expended fulminating on why WBC would want to decimate trade in two of our most popular village centres, for ostenibly negligible returns.

And that's before you ponder the merits of allowing a 15-minute breather for those whose personal shoppers would give Usain Bolt a run for his money.

The discussion has partly centred on how this could help alleviate nearby school parking issues.

But seeing as though the aforementioned charging regime would only kick in from 9am to 3pm, the situation remains a bafflement.

Maybe instead of taking up all the spaces in the new Academy Way multi-storey WBC could take up the inevitable slack at The Forge or Lymm village and operate a park and ride for town hall wallahs?

  •  All ill-advised social media foray may already have shown Podium's hand when it comes to the new Super League fixtures list.

No home games on a Sunday all season? An outing to Catalan in the chill winds of February? Even more life-sapping Thursday night contests?

For the travelling or working fan, Thursday nights remain a heretical abomination. Schlep across town in rush hour, or the north west even, and then face a desolate late night return leg.

For the annual pittance which Uncle Rupert and Sky Sports offer the sport, rugby league would seriously consider putting its proverbial grandmother on the game though.

An insider at the Guardian reckons that, despite the understandable chagrin felt by supporters, Warrington Wolves have never been too vocal when it comes to challenging this kind of fiasco.

This would be more than a little disheartening, given the ongoing efforts to invoke a community feel in and around the HJ, and various fan-related endeavours, spurred on the departed Roger Draper.

Maybe only a dip in 'Hardwired' memberships will ram home the message that the much-maligned live punters deserve a break every once in a while.

  •  Rail travel is an avoidable madness - but a quick stopover at Bank Quay made me grateful for small mercies.

The first being that I didn't have to fork out £12 to leave my car on Parker Street or £9 off Slutchers Lane.

That's Manchester city centre rated banditry in the parking stakes, enough to deter even the most hardened of commuters.

And the other blessing? Not being remotely nerdy enough to have to heed the safety warnings about the perils of playing Pokemon Go on a crowded platform.