A DRINK driver caught by the police in Twyford has been banned from the road for 12 months.

Thomas David Coleborn, 20, was stopped on the High Street on January 9 whilst driving a 04-reg Honda Civic.

His alcohol reading was 53 micrograms in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35.

Coleborn, of Elmhurst Road, Fareham, was present in court at Basingstoke Magistrates Court to be disqualified, fined £166 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge with £85 costs.

The disqualification will be reduced by 13 weeks if he passes an approved course by September 25 this year.