Pensioner banned from driving
A pensioner has been disqualified from driving for a year after pleading guilty to drink driving at Skipton Magistrates Court.
Sixty-nine-year-old musician Ramon Lewis Hardcastle was stopped on Swadford Street, Skipton, just after midnight on Sunday, March 30.
Hardcastle, of Rectory Lane, Prestwich, was taken to Skipton Police Station after giving a positive roadside breath test.
He was later found to have 84 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80.
Hardcastle told the court that normally when he did a show he only drank two pints of shandy, but on this instance a member of the audience had asked to have a drink with him.
"And like a fool I did," he said.
Magistrates disqualified Hardcastle from driving for 12 months and fined him £200.
He was also ordered to pay £43 costs and £15 victims surcharge.
6:32pm Friday 9th May 2008
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