Dream holiday to Disneyland ends in fine nightmare

A mum from Blackpool has been ordered to pay nearly £800 to bailiffs who came chasing an unpaid school absence fine.

- by Matthew Calderbank

Jasmine Moore wasn't even aware that she had been fined after she took her son Luca out of school last October to join his great-grandmother on a holiday of a lifetime to Disneyland in Paris.

She said she expected a fine but nothing happened. The first she heard about it was when enforcement agents recently got in touch, demanding she cough up £768 to settle the debt, nearly 10 times the original £80 fine.