Highways bosses had hoped to draw a line under parking problems in Lonan.

And they would go to any length to achieve this, as our picture shows.

When the team painting the double yellow lines on Church Road reached an obstacle in the form of an apparently abandoned car, their solution was a simple, if somewhat, bizarre one.

They stopped the lines at the Honda Civic’s rear bumper and then continued it again, for another foot and a half at the front.

The owner of the offending vehicle faces having it towed away if they don’t move it within seven days - and has not escaped a fixed penalty notice.