A BANK employee has been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £2,000 after police caught him racing in an Audi 5 cabriolet he had hired for a family wedding.

Car enthusiast Nakash Hussain, 25, was stopped by the police on Manchester Road, Bradford, at around 11pm on February 13.

Officers told Bradford Crown Court they were alerted by the noise of engines revving and saw two white cars "travelling in tandem" out of the city centre.

Hussain, of Burnett Avenue, Marshfields, Bradford, was accused of speeding, undertaking, and narrowly missing a cyclist crossing the road.

He was today convicted by a jury of dangerous driving and fined £500. He was ordered to pay £1,500 prosecution costs and banned from driving for 12 months.

Hussain, who works for Santander, had no previous convictions, his barrister Nadim Bashir said.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told Hussain: "You got yourself a flash car and you set about driving it in a flash way.