Ban for driver.

DOING a favour cost a Tyneside man a 12-month driving ban.

Eight hours after having a drink, Robert Bell Robert Bell may refer to:

Sir Robert Bell (d. 1577), British politician
Robert Bell (writer) (1800-1867), Irish journalist & editor
Robert Bell (Lanark County politician) (1808-1894), Canadian legislator

gave friends a lift to Newcastle Airport.

But when he was stopped by police at 4.40am on August 2 on Split Crow Road, Deckham, Gateshead, he was over the limit.

Gateshead magistrates heard he had 100mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 80mg.

Bell, 59, of Merganser merganser: see duck.

merganser
or fish duck

Any species of the diving duck genus Mergus. Essentially freshwater birds, they are classified as a sea duck (tribe Mergini). Lodge, Felling, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and was fined pounds 85 with pounds 75 costs.

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Publication:	Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Date:	Sep 7, 2009
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