A businessman repeatedly caught speeding in his Range Rover escaped a lengthy driving ban after insisting it would ruin his son’s dreams of playing Premier League football. Philip Davies, 50, had been facing a ban of at least six months after a speed camera captured him driving at 37mph and then 39mph in a 30mph
Divorces could be streamed live from the courtroom for the first time, the Ministry of Justice announced. Judges will decide which family cases should be live-streamed from the court of appeal although the couples will be able to object and potentially veto it if they do not want their case to be broadcast. While the
A driver was caught doing double the speed limit when police carried out checks in the west of Edinburgh. One driver was recorded doing 60mph on a road which has a limit of 30mph. Another motorist was reported to the procurator fiscal for letting a child sit in a passenger’s lap. Police Scotland’s roads unit urged
A woman has been jailed after she hit a 14-year-old boy with her car, causing him “catastrophic and lifelong” injuries. Megan Anderson, 25, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving in Glengormley in October 2017. The court heard it was estimated she was travelling at nearly twice the speed limit when she
An 11-year-old boy was found to be driving a car after being given a driving lesson by his family as they were “fed up” of him playing Grand Theft Auto video game on PlayStation. The car was pulled over by police after the child had been taken to a car park in Blackpool to
A driver has been jailed after he was found to be using the identities of two dead children to avoid speeding fines. Vehicles registered to Chinedu Ebili were caught speeding on seven occasions between January 2016 and 1 January 2018. Ebili gave details of five different individuals, including two children who had died 20 years
A lorry driver has been jailed for six months after taking the wrong exit and doing a U-turn on the M6 during the morning rush hour, The driver took the wrong M6 exit and went onto do a U-turn on a slip road bringing him back onto the motorway. CCTV footage showed the HGV
An uninsured driver drove down a duel carriageway towards oncoming traffic in Northumbria at speeds of up to 70mph to shake off police. The driver went on to drive the wrong way round a roundabout. He ignored red lights and subsequently collided with another car. Lewis Nesbitt, 25, however, abandoned his car and was caught
Court of Appeal judges have ruled a marriage is only legally valid if a “qualifying ceremony” takes place. A panel of three judges rejected a “more flexible view of marriage as a process rather than a single ceremony,” which was taken by a High Court judge in an earlier ruling on a case involving an
A driver was stopped by police who was travelling at speeds of 119mph during Storm Ciara. The driver was pulled over by officers on the M6 in the early hours of the morning. Posting on Twitter, the North West Motorway Police team said: “This vehicle was spotted on the M6 Thelwall – Speed