PARKING tickets usually infuriate motorists who return to find a costly slip slapped on their windscreen.

PARKING tickets usually infuriate motorists who return to find a costly slip slapped on their windscreen.

However when it comes to double yellow lines there are good reasons associated with road safety and congestion for obeying the law.

Which is why it is incredible that those paid to uphold the law have been snapped breaking it themselves while ticketing others.

Parking on double yellows, even for a few minutes, is dangerous and for enforcement officers to do so displays an arrogant disregard for the law.

Those responsible need to be reprimanded by their bosses and re-educated if they are to be fit to hold a position of trust.

First glimpse of cycling track

IT is only the beginning, but the first step in creating venues for the Commonwealth Games has been taken.

The mountain bike course overlooking the city at Cathkin Braes has hosted its first event as we start to see tangible evidence of new facilities.

The trail will remain long after the Games and will form part of the legacy of new sporting venues for the people of Glasgow to benefit from.

Over the next few years, the city can look forward to a range of new world-class facilities.

The key job of Games planners will be to ensure delivery in plenty of time for 2014.