A senior army doctor on £120,000 who was so aghast at being asked to move from Scotland to England he tried to use military funds to book flights back home has been fined £3,000.
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Baird-Clarke, 46, was unhappy after he was moved hundreds of miles from his job in Scotland to a role in England assisting new recruits.
A court martial heard that he booked travel back home through the Army as he would be continuing to work at the weekends but failed to tell the superior officers at his new base.
During the trial, he said he was distraught to discover he would either have to move his family to England or fly home every weekend to see them.