Tag: mobile phones

Police crackdown reveals van driver using laptop behind the wheel

Christine Lavelle - March 1, 2011

ASTONISHED police officers pulled over a van driver after spotting him using a laptop computer behind the wheel. The mad motorist was one of 282...

Scots Police slam mobile phone drivers with £1.2m fines during 2009

Deadline News Journalist - December 31, 2009

By Oliver Farrimond CHATTY drivers in Scotland have had to pay up almost £1.2 million this year for using their mobiles while driving. Scotland’s police forces...

Sheriff’s postal strike plan to text criminals: “C U in crt”

Deadline News Journalist - October 22, 2009

By Michael MacLeod A SHERIFF told social workers to send text messages to cons during the “inevitable chaos” of the postal strike. Thousands of Scots postal...