The driver of a bin lorry which crashed killing six people has appeared in court charged with road traffic offences in a separate case.

Harry Clarke, 59, from Baillieston, Glasgow appeared in private at the city’s Sheriff Court on Thursday afternoon charged with a number of offences.

The charges relate to alleged offences between May 12 and September 22 last year, months after the fatal collision in Glasgow’s George Square which killed six people.

Clarke was behind the wheel of a council refuse truck when he blacked out and it careered out of control on the city's Queen Street in December 2014, killing six people.

Erin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and Lorraine Sweeney, 69, from Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, were struck and killed by the lorry.

Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow, and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, also died in the crash on December 22 2014.

He is charged with two offences under the Road Traffic Act 1988, one relating to allegedly making a false statetment or withholding material information to obtain insurance and the other alleging he drove after his licence had been revoked or refused.

He is also charged with fraud and dangerous driving, or alternatively culpable and reckless conduct.

He entered no plea or declaration and was granted bail.