Once again, it will be easier to get a speeding ticket this Christmas.

A police officer has told how he picked up the phone of a driver killed in a road crash and found a half-written text message on it.

The Government has been accused of being a Christmas Scrooge and increasing petrol prices in order to protect its promise to get back into surplus in 2014-15.

The first drink-drivers sentenced under new legislation will be eligible to install an alcohol interlock system for their vehicles from today.