A MAN found asleep in his car at 5.45 am had only gone out to move the vehicle before he went to bed, a court heard.

But his impromptu snooze cost Malcolm Ian Fee a two-year driving ban and £300 in fines and costs.

Fee, 44, of Cornelian Street, pleaded guilty at Blackburn Magistrates Court to failing to provide a specimen.

Claire Fanning, prosecuting, said police called to a report of a drunken male in a car in Cornelian Street found Fee asleep in the car with the engine still running.

"They removed the keys and after waking the sleeping driver he had to be helped to the police van," said Miss Fanning.

Graham Tindall, defending, said there was a problem with parking on Cornelian Street and when Fee had returned home from work that evening he had to park away from his own house.

"He had a relaxing evening, watching TV and having a few drinks," said Mr Tindall. "Just before retiring to bed he looked out and saw there was a space outside his house and decided to move his car the short distance from where it was parked.

"Having moved the car he fell asleep and that is where the police found him."