The week in cartoons

AS EVER, our cartoonists have been busy scribbling away as a raft of new stories have made the headlines this week.

The week began with Eric Joyce regretting his day in the sun as the disgraced MP was expelled from Labour and banned from the boozer.

On Sunday Nick Clegg was under pressure over his calls for a mansion tax - a proposal that didn’t go down too well with his Tory coalition colleagues.

There was also the SNP’s party conference in Glasgow, Donald Tump’s latest wind(power)-induced tirade at First Minister Alex Salmond, and the arrest of horse-loving former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.

The week drew to a close with scepticism on renewables jobs, and in Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai told Nato troops to keep calm and carry on as tensions grow in his country.