ABLE-bodied motorists parking in bays for the disabled could find themselves in a sticky situation thanks to a Newport-based disabled group.

Roseanne Savross, 59, and Bernard Allen, 50, both founding members of the support group Doors, are planting stickers on rogue cars with witty put-downs to get the message across.

Thousands of the stickers have been printed, with messages such as "It's your lucky day - you've parked in a disabled bay without a sticker - have this one on me" and "You've taken my parking space, do you want my disability?".

"It's been a problem in Newport for years," said Mrs Savross, who has been a wheelchair user since 1991 when, while working as a nurse in London she was left paralysed after being attacked with an oxygen cylinder by a stranger high on drugs.

"We've tried to reason with the people who don't have blue badges but still insist on taking our spaces, but all we get is abuse in return.

"The supermarkets aren't doing enough to monitor the use of the spaces and they're just not interested, so we felt we had to do something."

Mr Allen is a Ringland resident who suffers from a fused vertebrae and uses sticks to get around.

He said: "Able-bodied people don't seem to realise that disabled bays are wider than normal bays, and we need that extra space to get in and out of our cars."