A drug-driver has been banned from getting behind the wheel for three years.

Mark Petre, 45, was driving a Vauxhall Antara on Trinity Drive in Workington on February 7.

He had 341mcg of Benzoylecgonine – a metabolite of cocaine - per litre of breath.

Petre, of Jackson Road, Salterbeck, Workington, pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

He appeared at Workington Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Petre was banned from driving for three years. He was fined £120 and must pay £85 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.