A WOMAN has been banned from getting behind the wheel for 18 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving.

Magistrates heard how Gemma Ashurst, 26, was nearly two times over the legal limit when she was stopped by police in an Audi A3 Burnley Road, Hapton, on February 24.

The court heard how she had 68 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when she was breathalysed. The legal limit is 35.

Ashurst, of Lawrence Street in Padiham, also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance.

She was banned from driving for 18 months, fined £440, with £85 costs and a £44 victim surcharge.

Ashurst faced no separate for failing to surrender to custody in Burnley on March 14 having been released on bail from Blackburn Police Station at an earlier date.

That was because magistrates took the defendant’s guilty plea into account when sentencing.