A MAN who admitted more than 100 motoring offences was disqualified from driving for 12 months yesterday.

Christopher Stuart Weir, of Cheshire Place, Bishop Auckland was before Sedgefield Magistrates, Newton Aycliffe, charged with the offences, from February to August.

He drove without insurance, MoT or licence, and with faulty headlights, brakes, exhaust and an insecure battery.

As there were so many charges, magistrates agreed to withdraw most of them and deal with two specific incidents. These were driving a Rover 216 in Willington on July 5 and Bishop Auckland on July 30 without a drivers licence, MoT or insurance.

Magistrates disqualified Weir from driving for six months for the offences on July 5 and for 12 months for the offences committed on July 30, to run concurrently.

Weir, 28, also admitted burgling Northern Electric in Bishop Auckland on July 29, stealing £1,559.92 worth of goods, and burgling Currys in the town on August 24, stealing £1,171.39 worth of goods.

He admitted four other charges of theft, one of attempted burglary, one of failure to surrender and asked the magistrates to take two other offences of burglary into consideration. The court heard that the burglaries funded his heroin addiction.

The case was adjourned for pre-sentence reports until Monday, October 29.