A 22-year-old Clitheroe man banned from his home town under the terms of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order was found drunk outside his new home in Blackburn.

The town's magistrates heard that Robert Edward Bibby was abusive to a police officer who stopped him in Preston New Road after seeing him punching a concrete lamp-post.

And the magistrates decided their powers of punishment were insufficient after hearing it was Bibby's fourth breach of the ASBO which also banned him from being drunk in public since it was made in April.

Bibby, of Preston New Road, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and breach of an ASBO and was committed on bail for sentence at Preston Crown Court.

Jonathan Taylor, defending, said Bibby was due to start work for the Prince's Trust in April on a voluntary basis.

"He has been drifting somewhat rudderless since the ASBO was imposed but now, with the help of the probation service, he is trying to get his life back in order," said Mr Taylor.

Directing the case to the Crown Court the chairman said Bibby had shown a total disregard for the order.