Freedom is so last century

A New York yellow cabbie is facing $15,000 in fines for ordering two female passengers to stop kissing. It used to be the law not so long ago that London cabbies had to permit smoking in their cabs, a law that went back centuries. Kissing seems very reasonable between people of the opposite sex in London cabs where the driver is partitioned off but this cabbie had a no kissing policy. Meanwhile a cabbie who killed a 9-year-old boy as he held his dad's hand in a Manhattan crosswalk was fined $580.

In Scotland a Rangers fan who was arrested for sectarian singing while on his way to attend a game against Celtic has been jailed for four months.The sheriff described the words to the song as "inflammatory" an said it "could have led to horrendous violence".

Another man, Alexander Blood, from Saltford in Somerset, was given a community payback order after admitting acting in a racially aggravated manner.
Blood swore at police officers and called them "Jock".