Usually you go to the stories…

…but sometmes the stories come to you.

I was heading out for a walk on Wednesday evening when a fire appliance went past with its lights and siren on, and stopped a few hundred yards away, at a junction where an articulated lorry was parked. So naturally I grabbed my camera bag and went along to see what was happening.

It turned out that the lorry's brakes had frozen on, causing a build-up of heat. Not an amazingly dramatic incident but a pictorial example of another way in which Scotland's freezing weather is affecting people's lives.

And last night while I was shopping in Tesco, a girl slipped on a wet floor and hit her head. What made this potentially newsworthy was that there were loads of trolleys lined-up in the car park with "caution wet floor" signs in each of them, to prevent people from parking near the store — so there weren't enough signs left to adequately mark the areas of wet floor in the store.

I talked to the girl and her mother immediately, and did a picture of them outside the store when they'd finished their shopping, with all the mis-used caution signs in the background. I think the story is in tomorrow's Press & Journal.