A MAN was more than three times the legal drink drive limit when he drove through Tynedale.
At South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, Lee Johnstone Leyland (35), of Locomotive Street, Blyth. pleaded guilty to driving on the A695 Broomhaugh Roundabout at Riding Mill with 115 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath on July 14. The legal limit is 35mg.
He will be sentenced next Tuesday.
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