Drink-drive blitz nets hundreds
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A teenager who crashed his parents' car is among almost 200 people caught drink driving in a festive crackdown.
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Tens of thousands of motorists have signed up to have their cars and trucks wrapped in advertisements in exchange for a stipend up to $800 a month.
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The UK's roads are expected to be as busy as last summer's bank holiday, with 18 million drivers setting out.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Had a heavy weekend's drinking? Been to some wild parties?
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The price of a licence to operate a New York taxi cab hit a record $600,000 (303,000 pounds) in May, according to a lending company which financed the purchase.
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Some 22 people are held as police raids target a Â£100m cocaine and cannabis trafficking gang.
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The number of motorists caught drink driving in last December's campaign fell by nearly a fifth, figures show.
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Saturday night and thrill-seekers from around the world crowd the streets of Amsterdam's red-light district ready to binge on sex, drugs and alcohol.
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More than 14,000 people and vehicles have been searched by British Transport Police in Scotland since July.
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A bus driver who was 13 times over the  legal alcohol limit while driving a bus load of schoolchildren  had a simple request for police who arrested him for drunken  driving, an Australian court heard on Wednesday.
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YOUNG girls are being lured into the binge drinking culture sweeping Welsh towns and cities by glamorous television and billboard adverts.
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POLICE in Northern Ireland were stoned by angry crowds yesterday when they raided Republican areas looking for the proceeds of the $55 million heist at the Australian-owned Northern Bank.
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BSA gives its definition of 'success' The BSA claims its month-long campaign to clamp down on software piracy in Glasgow is a âmajor successâ â despite uncovering just 41 potential pirates after haranguing thousands of businesses by letter.â¦
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Figures reveal that more than 7,000 motorists have been fined for driving while using a mobile phone in Scotland.
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Tens of thousands of revellers are at the Reading, Leeds and Creamfields music festivals at the weekend.
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Some 6,500 pints of alcohol were confiscated from under-18s during a police crackdown, the Home Office says.
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Police charged 19 people with a variety of drugs and money-laundering offences Thursday after a huge set of dawn raids a day earlier broke up a suspected 100-million-pound (200-million-dollar, 135-million-euro) cocaine network.