Police were called to Abbott Road in Mansfield at around 8pm on 5th May after receiving reports that a car had collided with a lamppost.

Mansfield magistrates were told that officers found substantial damage to the lamppost and to the front of the vehicle.

They discovered that Valerie Webster (65), of Slant Lane, had been driving the vehicle at the time of the collision.

Webster failed a road-side breath test and also a blood test at the police station.

Addressing the court on Friday, Webster apologised for her actions and said she had consumed two lagers and a glass of wine before driving home from Sutton.

Magistrates ordered her to pay an £86 fine, £60 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

THE trial of a Sutton sub-postmaster who is accused of stealing more than £200,000 has been put back to 22nd September.

Harjinder Singh Butoy (31) had been due to stand trial at Nottingham Crown Court on 11th August, but it has been delayed for legal reasons.
Butoy denies 11 counts of theft from Post Office Limited between August 2006 and April last year.

He is accused of stealing a total of £208,000 from the Forest Side sub post office on Mansfield Road.

SUTTON'S Daniel Harrison (18), of Penn Street, who is accused of damaging a car and possessing an offensive weapon on 22nd February, was given unconditional bail until 3rd October by Mansfield magistrates on Friday.