Drink-drive roofer was more than twice limit

Ryan Burke, 24, of Marton Drive, Marton, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol.

He was banned from the road for 20 months, fined £200 with £85 costs and ordered to pay £30 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.

Prosecutor, Pam Smith, said police stopped Burke after he drove a Combo van without lights on May 30 about 1am.

A breath test showed 75 micrograms of alcohol in her body – 35 is the limit.

David Charnley, defending, said Burke, who had no previous convictions, had been drinking in the afternoon.

He then went home and had something to eat.

A friend then invited to come round and believing he was fit to drive he went off in his grandfather’s van.