A 35-year-old Aylburton man who was caught in charge of a car while over the legal alcohol limit has been spared a driving ban because it would cost him his job and, probably, his house.

Magistrates sitting at Cirencester ordered Daniel Tremayne of High Sreet, Aylburton, to pay almost £2,000 in fines, costs and surcharges and endorsed his licence with ten points.

The magistrates decided not to ban him from driving under totting up regulations because of the detrimental effect it would have on his wife and three children.

He had admitted that on September 25 last year in Camborne Place, Lydney, he was in charge of a Kia Sportage car when he had 76 microgrammes of alcohol on his breath – more than twice the legal limit of 35mcgs.

He was fined £826, and ordered to pay costs of £775 and a victim services surcharge of £330, making a total of £1,931