A 21-year-old driver has been banned for two years after he was over the limit for cocaine and cannabis on the A66.

Owen Hall, of Linden Terrace, Carlisle, pleaded guilty to two charges of driving a vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Hall was driving a Citroen Relay van on the A66 at Cockermouth on February 2 this year.

He had not less than 131mcg of Benzoylecgonine – the main metabolite of cocaine - per litre of blood. The legal limit is 50mcg.

Hall also had greater than 10mcg of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis) per litre of blood. The legal limit is 2mcg.

Magistrates in Workington banned Hall from driving for two years. He was given a 12-month community order with 200 hours of unpaid work.

The defendant must also pay £85 costs and a £95 victim surcharge.