A company director with a record of drink driving has been banned for 40 months after admitting her third offence.

Susan Graham, 59, was denied the opportunity of taking a drink drivers rehabilitation course, which would have reduced her ban by a quarter, when she appeared before Skipton Magistrates on Friday.

The court was told that Graham was followed in her Nissan Qashqai by police officers in the early evening of April 28, after they had received information she had been drinking.

She pulled into a car park off the A65 between Skipton and Gargrave and when asked by officers, denied she had been drinking.

A roadside test was positive and she was taken to the police station where she was found to have 67 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit is 35.

The court heard Graham had previously been banned from driving for drink driving in 2009 and in 2006.

Graham, of Eshton Hall, Gargrave, who admitted drink driving, had drunk three glasses of wine before driving, the court was told.

A director of a business supplying plants for companies across the country, she would suffer with the loss of her driving licence, the court heard in mitigation.

Following her last ban, she had initially stopped drinking entirely when driving then increased it to just one drink.

On the day she was stopped she had meant to get a taxi. She was disgusted with herself and very sorry.

She was banned from driving for 40 months and fined £646 with a surcharge of £64 and costs of £85.

Magistrates turned down her request to take a drink drivers rehabilitation course on the grounds she had done one previously.