SCOTLAND has been battered by stormy winds of up to 165mph which have closed schools, disrupted transport and prompted police warnings for drivers to stay off the roads.

Now, I believe in religious freedom as long as you don't shove it down my throat. I'm pagan. Funny how people just shrink away from that title. I'm a druid. I'm Irish and German. Irish are Celtic. Druids are Celtic. (Not all Celtics are Druid.) Now, I may get persecuted constantly on my religion, but guess what? Apparently another Druid has enough of someone else's religion shoved down his/her throat. MPG tagged me in a note, and I loved it so much I had to share it! Thanks MPG!

I received an email from one of my drivers. It was a forward, but I absolutely loved it! The Australian prime minister has firmly put her foot down. This is what was said in the email. Maybe we can learn something and adopt the same beliefs for our own country!

A man has been airlifted to hospital after being flung from a truck cab in a motorway crash in North Lanarkshire.

A tough job meets a tough truck in the deep north west of Scotland as Loch Clash Fish put another Volvo on the road, an FH-540 6x2 tractor unit.

A lorry driver has been arrested after a crash with a van in Selby that left the van driver seriously injured.

The Department for Regional Development (DRD) plans to shelve a road dualling project for at least four years even though it has already spent £16m on it.

The A2 road runs along the northern shore of Belfast Lough.

The men were hit on the northbound carriageway at 1115 BST

Two men died when they were hit by a lorry on the M6 motorway in Cheshire.

They were struck on the northbound carriageway just after junction 17, Sandbach, at 1115 BST.

Police said the lorry's 60-year-old driver, from Selby, North Yorkshire, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

A young fox found trapped inside a discarded lorry wheel is recovering well, the Scottish SPCA have said.

A lorry driver at a gas depot in Grangemouth found the 10-week-old fox after hearing yelping coming from a pile of tyres stored at the site.