AA calls for confiscation of drink-driver's cars

11:12am Tuesday 6th January 2009

A motoring organisation today called for the cars of repeat drink-drivers to be confiscated.

Petty crooks face jail threat as Glasgow strike begins

9:55am Tuesday 6th January 2009

Community service supervisors in Glasgow started an indefinite strike today that could result in minor offenders having to be handed jail sentences.

Air travellers face US flights ban over new border controls

2:01am Tuesday 6th January 2009

Tens of thousands of British travellers face being turned away from their flights to the US because they are not aware of a new piece of border control technology.

	440 artists and writers call on MSPs to kill off Creative Scotland
	12:01am Tue 6 Jan 09
	More than 400 artists, writers, and producers have signed a letter to MSPs urging them to vote down the next attempt to establish Creative Scotland, the merger between the nation’s main cultural bodies, the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen.

	Coal ship stranded on Clyde as crew mutiny
	2:01am Tue 6 Jan 09
	AGENTS for a Pacific- registered shipping company were last night trying to break the deadlock which has left a 146,000-tonne bulk carrier stranded off Hunterston on the Clyde for two months after its Filipino crew mutinied over unpaid wages.

Tories accuse SNP in row over prison overcrowding

3:58pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

Tories today angrily rounded on the SNP in a row over prison overcrowding.

Glasgow house fire reveals cannabis plantation

11:16am Tuesday 6th January 2009

Police uncovered a cannabis plantation after being called to a flat fire, it was revealed today.

Church of England issues 'Prayer On Being Made Redundant'

11:14am Tuesday 6th January 2009

The Church of England today attempted to respond to the anguish prompted by a wave of job losses by issuing prayers for those made redundant and colleagues who remain behind in the workplace.

Think pink: the iguana that got away from Darwin

2:01am Tuesday 6th January 2009

Charles Darwin would have been tickled pink by a new species of Galapagos Iguana identified by scientists yesterday which the great naturalist missed during his travels.

Scottish ambulance driver arrested for drink driving

9:47am Tuesday 6th January 2009

An ambulance driver in Scotland was arrested for drink-driving shortly before starting his shift, it emerged today.

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