A DRIVER was found in possession of cannabis on the A590.

Imran Khan, 45, appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court in Barrow yesterday charged with possessing the class B drug.

Prosecutor Lee Dacre told the court the defendant, of Lydian Close in Wolverhampton, was stopped by police near Kendal on July 8.

Officers were said to have found a container of the drug in the passenger door.

Khan was fined £80 for the offence and told to pay a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs to the prosecution.