Young drivers are to be given help with training in efforts cut the number of road deaths in Scotland.

The Scottish Executive is to provide funding towards the cost of advanced driver training.

The north east has the highest fatal accident rates in Scotland for drivers aged 17 to 25 and in total 62 people died on the region's roads last year.

The executive is funding a six-month pilot in the Moray, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire areas.

It will provide half the cost of advanced driver training.

When this is added to local authority funding already on offer that means a £150 course could cost as little as £15.

The executive said it was obvious that road safety messages, particularly among young people, still needed to be heard.

Good idea, considering my little bro is paying €60 a go for 2hr lesson

Sorry can you repeat that in proper money

1 goat, a piece of tin foil, a hat and a fence white wash................ €60 = £39.94