Comedian fined £500 for driving illegally

Apr 27 2008 By Jim Lawson

AN award-winning comic has been fined for driving without insurance.

Phil Kay, 38, drove his girlfriend Nicola Clark's car while uninsured last year on the A9 between Forres and Grantown-on-Spey in Morayshire.

He was fined £500 and given six points on his licence last week while Nicola, 47, was fined £300 and also got six points at Nairn District Court.

Kay, who won the best stand-up gong at the British Comedy Awards in 1994, was caught by police after an accident. Procurator fiscal Gary Aitken said: "It was Nicola Clark's car and she knew he was not insured."

The comedian, who hosted his own Channel 4 show Phil Kay Feels, is living in the Forres village of Findhorn, after a spell at the Findhorn Foundation spiritual retreat and eco-village.