Anger at Swift gig parking lottery

Taylor Swift fans are gearing up for The Great War of parking spaces as they wait to find out if they have been allocated a disabled bay outside the singer’s Scottish tour venue.

Fans who require disabled parking had to enter a ballot due to there being only a limited number of disabled spaces available on show days at Murrayfield, Scotland’s biggest outdoor stadium.

Clarisse Comer, who was driving up from Essex with her partner and friends to see the singer, has ME and fibromyalgia and find sit difficult to walk far.

She said: “I’ve been to concerts in other venues and I’ve been to places where accessible parking is so easy to organise but I’ve found trying to organise all that for Murrayfield, getting through to their customer service team is a nightmare.

“It took me three emails to different addresses and a few different phone calls to be told I had to contact Ticketmaster, but when I got through, they said it was nothing to do with them, I had to contact the stadium.

“I tried the stadium again and was told, ‘We do have some parking but it’s on like a survey-basis’.

“They said ,‘ Fill out a form and we’ll get back to you close to the time and then we’ll draw from a hat to see who gets the disabled parking.’”

Alison Kerry, head of communications at disability equality charity Scope, said: “This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but this totally unacceptable policy could block disabled Swifties from being able to attend.

“Accessibility shouldn’t be down to a lottery. Blue badge parking is not a perk, it’s an essential.”

A Scottish Rugby spokesperson said: “We do have a limited number of Blue Badge accessible parking spaces for our events at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. We manage the allocation of spaces via a ballot for all internationals and major events in the interest of fairness.”