A 25-YEAR-OLD man who set off in his car to pick his sister up from a nightclub failed a breathalyser after being stopped by police.

Mthabisi Agreement Dube, of Ailsa Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court to driving with excess alcohol. He was fined £110, with £105 costs, and banned from driving for 12 months. He gave a reading of 56 against the legal limit of.

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Jonathan Taylor, defending, said Dube had drunk four bottles of lager at home and had gone to bed when his sister rang saying she couldn’t getwas having difficulty getting a taxi.

“He wasn’t feeling the effects of the lager and agreed to pick her up.”