BRITISH Summer Time provided a breathalyser nightmare for a 51-year-old woman driving to Sunday morning mass.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Mary Martin was marginally over the legal drink drive limit after being stopped at 9.20am.
But defence solicitor Stephen Parker said his client would probably have passed the test an hour later - which would have been when she would have been driving to church if the clocks had not gone on the previous night.
Martin, of Rockliffe Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol after giving a reading in breath of 49 against the legal limit of 35 and a reading in a subsequent blood sample of 88 against the legal limit of 80.
She was banned for 12 months and fined her £50 with £50 costs.
Mr Parker said his client had been driving for over 20 years and had never had an endorsement.
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