A WOMAN has been banned from the roads after she was caught drug-driving in a Herefordshire town.

Julie Taylor entered a guilty plea when she appeared before magistrates.

Police had been in Leominster's South Street when they saw a Ford Fiesta being driven on the wrong side of the road at 8.30pm on December 19, prosecutor Melanie Winterflood said.

Officers stopped it to speak to the driver, and Taylor was drug-tested, which returned a positive result after they noticed a smell of cannabis. An evidential blood test in custody revealed she had 492 microgrammes of amphetamines and 3.2 microgrammes of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood. The respective legal limits are 250 and two.

George Cousins, for Taylor, said the 38-year-old disagreed with the police account that she had been on the wrong side of the road and that she believed she had been pulled over after mistaking her indicator stalk for the car's wiper stalk.

"She says she has little idea where the amphetamines come from and that she has not smoked cannabis for some days," Mr Cousins said.

Taylor, of Portna Way, Leominster, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and find £120. She must also pay costs of £65 and a £34 victim surcharge.