A MOTHER has been fined after failing to send her children to school regularly.

Donna Miller, of Adderlane Road, Prudhoe appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on February 14.

She pleaded guilty to two counts of being a parent of a child of compulsory school age, registered at a school, who failed to attend regularly.

She was fined a total of £80 and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £30.