A 24-year-old Coleford woman who was caught twice in three months driving with excess cocaine in her bloodstream has been banned from the roads for 18 months and ordered to pay £253 fines, costs and surcharges.

Holly Lewis of Astridge Close, Coleford, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court to driving a Peugeot 207 on Staunton Road, Coleford, on June 18 last year with cocaine and its metabolte, Benzoylecgonine, in her system at above levels.

She admitted identical offences in the same car and on the same road on September 9.