Having served half of a 14-day sentence for violating probation from a previous drink-driving conviction, he was then fined for possessing 28 grams of marijuana, speeding and driving with no licence or proof of insurance.
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Iran has put a travel ban on a Saudi diplomat who was allegedly involved in a deadly drink-driving accident in the capital Tehran.
These included a 20-year-old drunk-driver stopped in Glasgow who already had three cases pending for drink-driving and a 28-year-old woman stopped in Ayr who was found to be almost four times the legal limit.
Should the Wales skipper be ruled out youngster Sam Warburton is also an option to step in against Ireland, while there is speculation that Andy Powell could receive a recall after his drink-driving golf-buggy disgrace.
The Scottish Executive's criminal justice statistical bulletin shows a national incremental growth in drink-driving offences prosecuted in Scottish courts since 1997.
Liberal Democrat transport spokesman John Thurso said drink-driving remained a "major killer", with figures showing a worrying rise in the number of accidents involving drivers who had been drinking.
"And obviously it's a lot better than losing your licence for drink-driving, " said Mr Hubbard.
For the Conservatives, Alex Johnstone said "a case may exist" for cutting the limit to deal with the "scourge" of drink-driving, but argued the focus of the police may change as a result.
The parents of a boy who killed himself after being arrested for drink-driving arrest are calling for 17-year-olds to be treated as children in custody.
Powell has been dropped from the Wales squad for disciplinary reasons, after the Blues player was charged with drink-driving following an incident with a golf buggy on the morning after the win against Scotland.
Jonathan Thomas switches from lock to back-row to fill the gap vacated by Powell's banishment from the squad after being charged with drink-driving following an incident with a golf buggy on the morning after the win against Scotland.
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However, North Wales Police deliberately targeted routes with a high volume of people, and asked drivers if they would mind taking a test as part of the force's anti-drink-driving campaign.
Indeed, all kinds of insurance would be much cheaper if companies had a reliable way of discovering, for example, that a man applying for car insurance in Mumbai had been convicted of drink-driving in Delhi.
At the sentencing hearing at the court, it emerged Dhesi was fined for drink-driving 12 years ago after falling asleep and crashing a bus into another vehicle.
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But a test carried out a police station two hours after the crash gave a reading just below the legal limit and Dhesi was not charged with drink-driving.
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The new menace is texting, which is not yet banned. (Talking on the phone is, though enforcement is weak.) Since 2004 the city has denied bail to those arrested for drink-driving or hit-and-run accidents, following a case in which an American banker escaped jail despite drunkenly mowing down five policemen.
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The terms of Lown's release mean he must stay at a hostel, keep to a curfew and, critically, stick to an alcohol limit similar to that for drink-driving.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said it would also include a clampdown on drug-driving and the closing of loopholes that allow people to escape drink-driving charges.
Even before this incident, the actor was a controversial choice because of anti-semitic remarks he made when he was arrested for drink driving in 2006 - for which he subsequently apologised.
But, in practice, since new drink-driving laws came into force in Japan last June, courts are taking a tougher line with passengers as well as drivers.
The father-of-two, whose last brush with the law was when he was 19 after he was convicted of drink-driving, was arrested on suspicion of affray and had to spend 48 hours in a police cell.
Dealing with Ranger's previous convictions for drink-driving, battery and being drunk and disorderly, Mr Forrester said they happened within a six-week period in autumn 2011, and that the battery offences for which he was given 12-month conditional discharge happened when he struggled with police having been racially abused in the street by others.
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The Scottish government's consultation on drink-driving runs until the end of November, although Labour justice spokesman Lewis Macdonald said there was a "strong case" for early legislation to cut the limit.
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