A DRUG driver on the A272 near Winchester has been banned from the road for a year.

Annabelle Jane Jennings, 28, of Tunworth Court, Tadley, near Basingstoke, was in a 65-reg white Audi A1 when stopped by police on Spitfire Link on January 16 this year, a court heard.

Her reading of BZE, a breakdown product of cocaine was more than 200 uh/l when the legal limit is 50. She pleaded guilty.

Magistrates imposed the ban as well as a £200 fine, £34 victim surcharge and £85 costs.