Woman fined after stopping to breastfeed her baby

A woman who stopped in a hotel car park to feed her hungry baby has been fined £60 for doing so. Gemma Clark paused in the car park of the Royal Britannia Hotel in Hull to breastfeed her four-month-old baby, Holly, and was shocked when she received a fine through the post a few days later.

Gemma told the Hull Daily Mail that she was on her way back from Lincoln when her baby started crying. Finding nowhere safe to stop in town, she pulled into the car park, sited at the rear of the hotel and operated by Smart Parking limited.