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MEIR PARK: Staffordshire University student Luke Rushton has been banned from the roads for 20 months at North Staffordshire Magistrates Court.

The 18-year-old, of Charminster Road, Meir Park, was more than twice the drink-drive limit when he was caught.

The defendant gave a reading of 79 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath against a legal limit of 35 micrograms.

A well as the ban, Rushton was fined £110 with £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

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BIRCHES HEAD: James Ross, of Turner Street, Birches Head, is to be committed to Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court charged with assault.

The 30-year-old is accused of assaulting licensee Leigh Roberts occasioning him actual bodily harm at Birches Head on June 3.

North Staffordshire magistrates declined jurisdiction and he will be committed to crown court on October 23.

The defendant was unconditionally bailed.

BIDDULPH: Sean Vincent, aged 24, of Castle View, Biddulph, has pleaded not guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour on June 16 and racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent at Biddulph on the same date.

A trial has now been fixed at North Staffordshire Magistrates Court for October 23.

He was bailed until the next hearing.

COBRIDGE: Damian Hassell, aged 28, of Rutland Street, Cobridge, has pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour on August 22; abstracting electricity between March 1 and August 22 and two matters of resisting a police officer also on August 22.

North Staffordshire magistrates adjourned sentence for reports.

The defendant was unconditionally bailed until October 3.