POLICE alerted to a traffic incident at The Village Hotel in Bury, arrived to find a drink-driver driving erratically, a court was told.

Tracy Ann Withers, a 34-year-old single mother, of Hunters Hill, Unsworth, appeared before Rochdale magistrates where she admitted driving with two and a half times the legal level of alcohol in her system.

After reading reports the magistrates decided to make Withers subject to a community punishment order for 80 hours, banned her from driving for two years and ordered her to pay £53 court costs.

Miss Nicola Bruce, prosecuting, said a police patrol received a message about an incident on the car park of The Village Hotel.

They spotted a Rover which was on the slip road out of the village complex, roll backwards towards another vehicle before revving up and jerking forward into the roundabout area.

The Rover was stopped and Withers was questioned about her "erratic" driving.

She smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on her feet. A reading showed her to have 93 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath compared with the legal limit of 35mg in 100ml.

Defending solicitor Mr Ian Mann pointed out that Withers was a woman of no previous convictions.