A MAN has been banned from the road after he was convicted of drink driving.

Lewis Elliot Taylor, 27, pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before the bench at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

The court heard the defendant had driving his Fiat Panda on Abbey Road in Barrow on December 4 with 68 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, over the limit of 35.

Taylor, of Lightburn Avenue in Ulverston, was banned for 18 months and fined £125.