Unemployment continues to rise in Scotland with 188,000 now out of work - an increase of 75,000 on last year.

The most striking feature of this week’s government announcement of new ways to tackle problem families was the figure work. Apparently the 120,000 worst problem families in the country cost taxpayers on average £75,000 a year. That is the cost of benefits, housing, social work, police time and the rest, as a small army of

Republic of Ireland drivers who park illegally in Northern Ireland chalked up nearly 20,000 unpaid fines, says the government.

Dutch drivers will be first in Europe to start paying according to the kilometres they drive rather than for owning a car, if a legislative proposal submitted to the lower house of the country's parliament on Friday (14 November) goes through.

Almost 8,000 drink drivers have been handed back their driving licences without proper checks including two who went on to kill in subsequent motoring accidents.

Council rakes in another £80,000 in parking fines. Over 1,400 drivers received parking tickets in May, June and July this year for entering a yellow box at the Piccadilly/Lower Berkeley Street junction as a result of the £14 million Piccadilly road works, raising over £80,000 for Westminster Council in parking fines. Even though the Piccadilly road works left drivers unsighted so...

Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer, is proposing a new authoritarian policy - cutting the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers aged 17-20 to zero. That is a stupid idea for various reasons: Young/new drivers are rarely the ones who drink and drive. They tend to have far more respect for the road and other drivers than older

There's a lot of attention at the moment on the vexed question of gay priests - following on from a host of advance for homosexuals such as the equal age of consent, civil partnerships, gay adoption rights and so on. Today's it's gay drivers.A gay Italian man, Danilo Giufrrida, has won £80,000 in compensation for being told to retake his driving test because of his sexuality. I know Italians like ...

Thousands of London bus drivers are demanding the introduction of an equal pay rate across the network. The Unite union said 28,000 of its members voted overwhelmingly in support of the action which would bring all of London's operators in line.

The focus of the Cameron v Miliband this week exchange was the new figure of one million unemployed young people. It started with a battle between the government’s Work Programme versus Labour’s Future Jobs Fund. Miliband blamed the Work Programme for increasing Youth Unemployment: …in June, when the Work programme was introduced, 85,000 young people