Former pub gets a new lease of life in the digital world
A TEENAGER has been banned from the road after getting behind the wheel while under the influence of ecstasy.
Jake Whitworth, 19, pleaded guilty to driving with a proportion of a controlled drug above the prescribed limit on January 22 on Low Lane in Birstall. Police saw a vehicle pulled over by the side of the road with a male speaking to the three occupants inside. As they found this to be suspicious the officers followed the car and stopped it.
They approached the driver’s door and noticed a strong smell of cannabis. Whitworth failed a roadside test and was arrested.
Two blood samples taken at Huddersfield Police Station tested positive for the MDMA or ecstasy compound. Whitworth had three times the legal limit of the drug in his system. The teenager, of Bream Avenue in Cleckheaton, said he’d taken it the night before.
He promised magistrates: “Since then I’ve cleaned up my act. I’ve not touched drugs since – I’m sorry about it.” Magistrates banned him from driving for 12 months. He must pay £100 fine, £30 victim surcharge and £85 costs. From left, Digital Media Systems MD Avtar Singh; Mayor of Calderdale Clr Howard Blagbrough; Mayoress of Calderdale Mrs Catherine Kirk and office support Carol French Deol where we now have a showroom. We have replastered, fitted new ceilings and taken out the perimeter seating – but we have kept a dartboard where the old one used to be!”
Mr Singh said it was hoped to rent out the five first-floor rooms at the newly-named Presser House to other “tech” businesses to create a technology hub in the town. “By the end of April, those rooms will be ready to go,” he said.
To mark the official opening of Presser House, the company presented a £1,020 cheque to the Mayor and Mayoress of Calderdale, Clr Howard Blagborough and Catherine Kirk, for the mayor’s appeal which is raising funds for the charities Together for Looked-after Children, The Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice at Bradley and The Brighouse Rest Centre.
Digital Media Systems, formed in 2005, has seen strong demand for its products, which include digital menu boards, signs, posters and outdoor screens.
It supplies locations, including schools, colleges and universities; fast food outlets and restaurants; factories; airports, ferry ports and heritage sites.
Clients have included York Theatre Royal, the Festival Theatre at Edinburgh, Raglan Castle, Pembroke Power Station, the Wales Millennium Centre, Fountains Abbey, Western Ferries and a US air base.