Sign up to the free MyBury newsletter to get the best stories direct to your inbox A man from Bury has been banned from the roads after he was found to be 'considerably over' the legal limit for driving.
David James Hughes, 67, of Fourth Avenue, was stopped by police on the evening of August 21, 2021, while driving a Jaguar Sovereign on Peel Way in Bury.
Manchester Magistrates Court heard how Hughes ‘smelt of alcohol, was unsteady on his feet and slurring his speech’ when pulled over by police. Read more: Police at scene after Mercedes crashed into parked cars He was found to have 115 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - ‘considerably above’ the legal limit of 35 microgrammes.