A TAKEAWAY owner avoided a driving ban because he would have been unable to pick up the shop's supplies.

Kalid Amin, of Park Street in Rossendale, appeared in Bradford Magistrates Court last week.

The 32-year-old's mitigating circumstances saved him from getting a totting disqualified after gaining eight penalty points for driving a car without third-party insurance. 

The court heard how Amin runs a takeaway and does most of the driving for its supplies himself.

Half of his employees do not drive and those that do have their own day jobs and work in the shop in the evenings.

Without the supplies, the business will not be able to run and therefore his employees will lose their jobs.

Amin's offence was committed on Huddersfield Road in Halifax on April 30, 2020.

On Monday, October 3, he was fined £230 and had to pay £85 court costs and a victim surcharge of £34.