Write off.

Mr Smith reads that "Highland Liberal Democrat MSP John Farquhar Munro is celebrating his escape from a road accident, but mourning the loss of his trusted car.He and his wife Celia were rescued unhurt when their car skidded off the road near Fort William then careered down an embankment into two feet of water.But the crash left the MSP's 20-year-old Mercedes Benz, which had completed more than 578,000 miles, in "a bit of a mess", resulting in it being written off by insurers."

578,000 miles. But how many of those were run up using the Scottish Parliamentary mileage rate?