Motorists are being fined for parking in their own drives - because their cars are nudging out on to the path by inches.

Dozens of tickets have already been dished out and some drivers' cars are being hit with two or three fines a day.

They are suddenly being targeted because a new enforcement officer has been told to patrol wartime Roll Gardens in Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex.

And the warden's getting tough because bigger motors just creep out on to the pavement as the drives were built in the 1940s and aren't long enough.

Irshad Nabee, Roll Gardens Neighbourhood Association chairman, told the Ilford Recorder: "It's just stupid.

"Common sense should dictate that these tickets should not be given out.

"It seems like one new enforcement officer has decided to just walk up and down twice a day and ticket cars parked on their owners' drives."