A SHOPLIFTER was caught trying to steal an electric meter heat device from a shop.

Robert Benjamin Carroll, 32, of Schooner Street, tried to steal the product from B&Q and place it in a foil-lined rucksack on April 20.

He pleaded guilty to theft and going equipped for theft when he appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on May 8.

Carroll was served with an order of 20 hours unpaid work.

He was also given a curfew keeping him inside from 7pm to 7pm.

The court also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the defendant’s foil rucksack.

A MAN who was found to have been driving with drugs in his system has been banned and fined by a court.

Ryan Peter Herbert, 22, appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on May 8 and pleaded guilty to charges of possession of cannabis and driving while over the limit with a cannabinoid drug in his body.

The court heard he was stopped by police on Grange Fell Road in Grange on December 10, originally for a defective light on his car.

Herbert, of Fell Drive, Grange, was banned from the road for 12 months.

South Cumbria magistrates also order him to pay a fine of £290. The drugs are set to be destroyed.

A DRINK driver who was more than twice the limit has been banned from the road after appearing in court.

Matthew Wilson, 31, was said to have been caught by police after being seen fleeing from an accident in Lindale, near Grange, April 23.

He pleaded guilty to driving above the alcohol limit when appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on May 8.

Wilson, of Holme near Carnforth, was found to have 87 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

The legal limit is 35.

Magistrates disqualified Wilson from driving for 22 months and told him to pay a fine of £410.

A WOMAN appeared in court charged with failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis.

Carol Stevens, 56, of Cloisters Avenue in Barrow, was said to have twice been unable to provide a breath sample after being taken to Barrow Police Station by officers.

Officers followed her home and she was said to have admitted drinking a pint of beer and a bottle of wine.

She was sentenced to 40 hours unpaid work in the community and disqualified from driving for 17 months at South Cumbria Magistrates Court.

Stevens, a chef and cleaner at a bar, was also told pay £85 in court costs and an £85 victim surcharge.