Gate closed for drinker

A WEALTHY widow has begged magistrates not to ban her from driving … because the driveway to her £6 million home is too long to walk.

Barbara Woodward, 56, was three times the drink-drive limit when police stopped her at the wheel of her £79,000 ($140,000) Mercedes G-Class 4x4. Her arrest, at 9am on November 17 last year, came two days after her husband’s funeral. She had makeup smudged across her face and was slurring her words.

Woodward, from Cheshire, denied drink-driving but was found guilty. She was banned from the road for two years.