A number of people from Bolton have recently been before the courts. Magistrates have penalised people from the town for a variety of offences including including motoring ones and breaching a football banning order. Michael Cotterill drove a Volkswagen on Seddon Street, Little Hulton, with excess alcohol in his system in January this year.

The 41-year-old was breathalysed and found to have 43 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. Cotterill, of Green Lane, Great Lever, admitted the offence at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court.

He was banned from the roads for three years and fined £120. Andrew Bruce drove a Vauxhall on the M62 at Wakefield while disqualified and with no insurance. The 34-year-old carried out the two offences in January this year.

He admitted both matters at Leeds Magistrates' Court. Bruce, of Church Street, Little Lever, was placed on a community order to last for a year . He was ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work and banned from the roads for six months.

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Andrew Goodram interfer.