Road bans for drink-drivers
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■■Camran Revill, 23, of Priory Close, Kirk Hallam, was fined £320 with £85 costs and a £32 surcharge and banned for three months for drink-driving in Godfrey Drive, Ilkeston, on November 24. He had 62 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.
■■Perrie Stanford, 32, of Moira Road, Woodville, was handed a 12-month community order, told to pay £85 costs, an £85 surcharge and banned for 46 months for drink-driving in Swarkestone Road, Chellaston, on November 25. He had 87 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■Sarbjit Singh Twana, 51, of Catherine Street, Derby, was jailed for 12 weeks, suspended for a year, told to pay £85 costs and a £115 surcharge and banned for three years for drink-driving in Derby’s Borrowash Road on November 26. He had 126 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■Steven Domachowski, 35, of Harvey Road, Derby, was fined £533, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £53 surchage and banned for three years for drink-driving in Morley Road, Derby, on November
29. He had 86 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■Hayley Smith, 37, of Welland Road, Hilton, was fined £120, told to pay £85 costs and a £30 surcharge and banned for 40 months for drink-driving in Trowels Lane, Derby, on July 9. She had 141 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.
■■Liam Smith, 35, of Hazel Grove, Matlock, was fined £350, told to pay £85 costs and a £35 surcharge and banned for 17 months for drink-driving in Matlock Road, Oakerthorpe, on December
2. He had 61 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■ Peter Boyes, 22, of Court Street, Woodville, was fined £500, told to pay £85 costs and a £50 surcharge and banned for 22 months for drink-driving in Court Street, Woodville, on July 8. He had 84 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■James Curtis, 30, of Anglesey Road, Burton, was fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 surcharge and banned for 18 months for drink-driving in Forest Road, Burton, on November 24. He had 63 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
■■James Richardson, 29, of Kinver Road, Burton, was fined £1056, with £85 costs and a £105 surcharge and banned for 25 months for drink-driving in Eastern Avenue, Burton, on December 1. He had 96 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. SINCE the Brexit referendum, I have continued to work and travel within Europe for my job. I work in the arts and have travelled to many European countries, and continue to do so.
Note at this point that I say ‘European countries’ – not necessarily just those that are part of the European Union (EU).
During my travels I have met many people from all walks of life and read many local and national newspapers.
One of my work colleagues said to me only recently, “Well, when you leave the EU, your mobile phones will stop working!”.
I replied, “I’ve been to many nonEU countries within our great continent and they have had no such issues with mobile phone networks or coverage.
“Actually, Switzerland and Norway have performed pretty well regarding non-EU membership and the mobile signal is great, too”.
I was curious as to why he believed our UK phones would simply stop working on March 29. Reminding me of the hogwash news predicted at the turn of the Millennium which ramped up the absolute doom that would follow as St Mary’s Church bells rang out at midnight, he replied, “I heard it on the news”.
These strange paradoxes of the great unknown regarding Brexit are fuelled, and continue to be fuelled, by the possibility of scandal and dread. Not facts, just propaganda.
I was in Berlin last week and, during breakfast at the hotel, I grabbed the New York Times and, sure enough, Brexit was on the front page. It questioned the Prime Minister and the backstop ‘query,’ not the situation.
We don’t have a backstop situation, it’s a question – a question which has been answered appropriately numerous times and yet dismissed by various over-zealous, noise-making MPs – not ours, I