A MOTORIST who drove a horsebox while nearly twice the legal drink-drive limit lost his licence yesterday.
Dean Shields, 36, of Black Hamilton Farm, Ferryhill, County Durham, received a 16-month driving ban and was fined £100 at South Durham Magistrates' Court.
He was found to have 68 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.
Shields, who pleaded guilty to drink-driving and having no insurance, said he had been drinking the night before.
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