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‘Foolish’ player over limit
2:15pm Friday 7th December 2007
A CLITHEROE FC footballer caught out almost twice the limit told a court he knew he had been foolish.
Student and part-time window cleaner Gary Stopforth, 21, gave a breath test showing 67 micro-grammes of alcohol in 100 mililitres of breath, Burnley magistrates heard.
The legal limit is 35 Magistrates were told the defendant was seen parked by the side of the road by police in the early hours in Burnley. He told officers he had had three pints.
Stopforth, of Burnley Road, Briercliffe, admitted drink driving.
He was fined £100, with £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.
He was also banned for 16 months. He had no previous convictions.
Stopforth told the bench he knew he had been foolish and he would never do it again.
He said he was taking a foundation degree in sports coaching.
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buttercup, blackburn says...
3:07pm Fri 7 Dec 07
Stopforth told the bench he knew he had been foolish and he would never do it again.
There's nothing foolish about drink driving, would we be calling him foolish if he'd killed someone! No excuses for drink driving at all.
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We seek them there and here, Here and there says...
7:42pm Fri 7 Dec 07
Still, could have been worse, they could have been a mad letter bomber threatening to shut down Tescos.
The rest of Lancs has a MASSIVE shock thinking Clitheroe was one of those 'nice, idyllic, tranquil; little places to live and visit.
What the eye doesn't see etc. Most of them live around the streets and council houses near Ribblesdale.
Breeding criminals like no ones business that town!